In preparation for any emergencies, including widespread social unrest following election results on Tuesday night, the National Guard has been deployed in several states.
Fears of election night chaos have gripped state governments for the last month, forcing Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts on Monday to "activate" 1,000 Massachusetts National Guard members.
And in Oregon, Gov. Kate Brown, for the second time in two months, declared a state of emergency for the Portland metro area, citing potential social unrest surrounding the election.
Governors have also mobilized Guard forces in Texas, Alabama, and Arizona to major cities in their respective states in anticipation of violence.
Last week, the Pennsylvania National Guard was deployed to the Philadelphia metro area amid a couple of nights of social unrest following the police killing of a black man. Guard troops have been since positioned to handle potential unrest come Tuesday night.
According to NBC sources, at the White House, beginning tomorrow, a "non-scalable" fence will be erected around the complex with 250 Guard troops on standby.
As of Monday afternoon, Guard troops have been spotted in several cities, preparing for Tuesday night.
Guard troops were spotted at a Best Buy in South Philadelphia.
With US new coronavirus cases steadily rising since mid-September, ushering in what some call the second wave of the virus pandemic, private jet traffic has soared as wealthy folks are leaving metro areas for rural communities, according to CNBC.
Data from Tivoli, an online payments platform for jets, collected by
Private Jet Card Comparisons, showed private jet flights at Francis S.
Gabreski Airport in Westhampton, New York, jumped 172% in October.
Flights at Aspen Airport in Aspen, Colorado, surged 135%, and Vail
flights were up 95% over the month.
Inversely, private jet traffic at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport plummeted 52% in October. Teterboro is used by wealthy people to fly into New York City. Private flights at Westchester County Airport, another airport used by elites to fly into New York City, also registered a decline for the month, down 36%.
Chicago's Midway Airport saw private jet flights decrease by as much as 47%, while flights at Dulles International Airport, the second-busiest private jet airport in the country - saw flights nearly halved for the month.
"The coronavirus pandemic is redrawing the flight patterns of
America's private jets, as airports in resort towns see big jumps in
traffic while flights near cities decline," CNBC noted. The reason is
that wealthy folks panic bought homes in rural areas earlier this year
to escape the pandemic. Now, as the second virus wave arrives, these
folks are "bugging out."
Doug Gollan, the founder of Private Jet Card Comparisons, told CNBC this is "further proof that instead of being at their Park Avenue apartments, the wealthy are in the Hamptons or Aspen."
Gollan said corporate America is conducting business meetings at their homes, which has disrupted the typical flight patterns for business jets.
"Instead of having a meeting in their office, a CEO will have a team fly to their home in the Hamptons or Aspen and have the meeting there," he said.
In Nantucket, Massachusetts, airports observed a 28% rise in October, along with a 19% increase in Martha's Vineyard.
Gollan was uncertain if remote working would permanently change private jet flight routes, though, in the short run, there's a noticeable change, he said.
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