This.
Among other truisms is that any mention of Hurricane Sandy will pop a New Yorker out of the woodwork who was surprised that a coastal city with massively deficient management skills and minimal (no?) long-term preparation was pounded by a coastal hurricane. Many of them will tell stories of deprivation that makes it sound like the siege of Leningrad. It was admittedly awful, but the city's lack of preparation and planning dialed the misery up massively.
A few years back there was someone on a car forum who fired up a "you think that was bad, why, back in Superstorm Sandy, we ..." comment in response to someone who couldn't find the octane rating of gasoline he wanted. Terrible tale of woe, how they couldn't get gas for his mom's emergency generator, food going bad, etc. Lines at gas stations were huge, with people waiting at empty gas stations for deliveries to arrive.
I responded that it wasn't as though gas was particularly scarce at that time, and there was plenty of gas an hour away in CT and other places in driving range. I also said a few of us were joking that we should have just run down to Benny's, bought up every 5 gallon gas can, filled them, packed them into the back of the pickup, and driven down to NYC to sell them for $100 a pop to people who didn't want to wait in line.
He was incensed. As near as I can remember the exact quote, it was "If any *******s from Massachusetts had tried that, we'd have beaten them and taken the gas!" To which I responded "And everyone up here knew that, so no one brought you gas when you needed it. How did that work out for you and your mom?" I recall that his answer wasn't quite civil.
He was unable to realize that it would have made everyone's situation better, even people who didn't buy it. No one would have been forced to buy at that price, only people who wanted to. He could have kept his mother's generator running if it was important enough to him, and downstream from him someone would have been able to buy the gas from the station that would have gone to him once the delivery showed up. However, because he was so lit up at the thought that someone would have made money that he didn't think was justified, he created and vigorously supported a system that made everyone go without.