Out here on Long Island, you'd be hard pressed to find one in four who HAVE taken the basic steps in being prepared. People seemed pretty gung-ho after 9-11, and we were uncharacteristically civil, even polite, to each other for awhile. But it seems we've slipped back to the stereotypical New Yorker crassness that we're famous for, as evidenced by our custom of "flipping the bird" to each other on the L.I.E. All that I can do is fight my own apathy.