Originally Posted by AdkMtnMonster

My family lives in the Adirondacks of northern NY state. 80% of the houses in our part of the county are non-year 'round residents. Ski homes, vacation homes, many just summer homes... and they're nearly all occupied right now. These properties are owned by people who do not reside in the area, and many of them are from NYC and CT/NJ. This is still a VERY sparsely populated area (with fewer than 11 people/sq mile) and few of these properties are occupied for more than a vacation week here and there, lots of ski weekends in the winter, some summer weeks. Right now, with so many people cramming themselves into these places, groceries at our little grocery store are non-existent. There is still no toilet paper, no cleaning supplies, no meat, very little in the way of fruits/vegetables, and even bread/milk/eggs is frighteningly scarce. Forget finding things like canned veggies or flour/sugar. We have to drive a half hour or more to get to the nearest grocery stores that have any food, and even there it's slim pickin's. This hoarding has got to stop. It's excessive, and in my opinion, is endangering more elderly people as they, too, must drive much further and shop at much larger grocery stores with lots more interpersonal contact. Not a rant, not a complaint, just factual observations from April 8th, 2020.