Divies are good plays...at least you have some downside protection with them. A funny story...i have been paying metlife disability insurance for years! i recieved a letter from some holding company (Mellon Investor) that i have a crap load of shares + DIVIDEND for the last 5 years or so, but that they couldn't find me...it turns out the policy i had was one of those insurance policy where your payments were actually re-invested....anyway, a while back, some sort of merger or acquisation (i really am confused bout' the whole thing) occurred, and all policy holders had recieved shares in MET. well, it was a nice suprise...cause MET has done really well over the years...but i kind of wish they didn't find me until 10 years down the road. I'm trying to forget i now own MET shares...so that i am not tempted to cash out :)
on a different topic...it's a bit morbid, but a good ST play might be stocks that may benefit from the hurricane. bought some cheap ones today to gamble on for a few days...check out MTRX, GLBL, HYRF, FUEL, ZENX, etc...all stocks i wouldn't normall buy, but may be worth a gamble for the next 2 to 3 days i think...