Basically I plan to stay in place or get out early if the emergency is known in advance.
Everything is a choke point off the island.
I do have one advantage to most people here. I used to drive the Island and the tri-state area a lot so I know a lot of back ways around on and off the Island. No matter what, getting off the island during a true emergency will be next to impossible.
Unless I get a boat, which would basically pull out of the driveway and drive straight less than a mile to the water.
If I can get a good deal on a boat my wife will definitely be all for it.
Or get a helicopter or plane, which would be almost impossible to get to due to the airports being where they are.
The boat would be the way to go.
If it's a nuclear attack, I'll go out and watch the fireworks for a split second. I'm around 20 miles from Manhattan and to the East is
Brookhaven laboratories. I'll basically be radioactive slag. If I'm at work should it happen I think it would be something along the lines of
"What was....."
I am on the Northshore and up from the water a good height, between me and the water is the village of Sea Cliff which says it all.
When the big storms hit we are pretty sheltered from the sea water. I'd only have to worry about local flooding from rains and overflowing sewers.
We do usually get the brunt of blizzards and snow events while the south shore is usually a little less affected by those, so there is a little bit of a trade off.
I'd rather deal with the snow then the flooding.
We have had a couple of tornadoes and one very small earthquake in the past but they are not common at all.
But hey, you never know.
