“Catastrophic calamities are coming upon the earth, not one of these days in the distant future, but soon—now! Torrential rains, unsettling weather patterns, violent storms, floods, famines, droughts, earthquakes increasing in frequency and intensity, volcanic eruptions, and a host of other signs of the times Jesus told us to watch for are happening now.”

-Jim Bakker in “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse”

Tensions have reached boiling points at the few open gas stations in the northeastern U.S. resulting in State Police and National Guard being called out to protect them and keep the peace.

In New Jersey, the governor ordered State Police to be deployed to all gas stations along the NJ Turnpike and Garden State Parkway. Area residents said that they needed gasoline for generators because they had no electricity.

Officials said more than half of all gas stations in the New York City area and in the state of New Jersey are shut down either because they don’t have power or have run out of gasoline supplies.

D-size batteries are so scarce in the New York/New Jersey area that individual batteries are selling for as much as $5 each. Officials say virtually every store in the state of New Jersey is sold out of batteries. Also, most grocery stores were completely out of the “staples” like bread and milk.

Looting is also reported through the region with at least 13 people arrested for storm related looting. A CNN affiliate in New York reported that people were rummaging through storm damaged stores and taking “anything that wasn’t nailed down.”

One pharmacy in Coney Island came in to survey the damage and they found that over 10,000 different drug-related items were taken including most prescription medication.