Here's an article from today's NYT showing the "Love" being showered on NYC residents fleeing the city to their second homes. Think just about everyone up here want's Claymores and Concertina Wire set up on the I-95 bridge to NH...
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On Long Island, private plane and jet traffic increased at East Hampton Airport, with everything from single-engine Cessnas and Piper Cubs to Gulf Streams and Falcon jets landing.
“We’ve had helicopters, seaplanes, corporate planes,” said Jim Brundige, the airport director. “A little bit of everything.”
Stores there have also been stripped. Some people are even buying extra freezers, residents said.
“They want to make sure they have enough for a year,” said Jonathan Amaral, the house manager and chef at a gated estate on Southampton’s Main Street. “The shelves were bare. For us locals and middle class people, that hurts.”
Long before the virus struck, many full-time residents of towns that flood with seasonal visitors already had a healthy distrust of their part-time neighbors and the crowds that follow in their wake.
“Some people have bitter feelings toward weekenders,” said Honora Trimbell, of Bovina, N.Y., in the Catskills. “They’re just taking this opportunity to elaborate.”