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out of contact for a while
Will be out of contact for a while due to recent storms in DC area. Might last as long as a week. No power or water. Will be ok.
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All kidding aside... Stay safe and well My $0.02 Mike |
I hope all goes well.
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Stay safe and try to think of this as your own little T2K-esque moment.
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Happy birthday Jason!
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Lost my juice in Columbus Friday night to Sunday night, and again for 4 hours yesterday evening. I don't enjoy my T2k moments like this, but at least I had plenty to read. Trying to convince my sons to just sit still and read, and no, there is no way to play Minecraft today again, now that was tough.
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Have not heard from Jason in a while. Hope you are ok out there!
But his story did bring a question to my mind. We joked with Jason about a generator. I have thought about one for some time, but I am of two minds. (at least :D) Argument one: If I lose power, having a generator could keep my fridge and freezer going, at least in the short term. It would depend on how much gasoline I had squrrelled away. Argument two: If I lose power, do I want others who did NOT prepare to know I have a generator, gasoline, and that I am using said generator to insure longer shelf life of my cold goods. I am curious to know what you all think. Do you have generators? Would you use them? OR be wary of using them due to various and sundry mis-begotten souls who might target you BECAUSE you have an operating generator? My $0.02 Mike |
I had that very conversation with my wife last night, Mike. I fear she's a bit more of a believer in humanity's essential goodness than I am and doesn't really think that being the only prepared household in the neighborhood would make us a target. Right now, I think the benefits of being able to run refrigeration, comms, and a trickle of hot water and hot food may be outweighed by the potential for locusts to descend. If we weren't in suburbia, I'd see the issue differently, though I'd still want to build some sort of sound-dampening enclosure for the equipment (maybe a buried pit, too, providing I could arrange adequate drainage).
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My birthday is at the end of August, my sister's is the end of September. Somehow hurricanes always wait until this time frame to hit the Gulf Coast. Katrina hit New Orleans on the weekend of my birthday, Rita hit Houston a month later on my sister's. Ike tore up the gulf coast between mine and my sister's birthday.
And, and.... When I got my @$$ tore up by a pack of rottweillers, it was on my sister's birthday. End of summer has some major suckage in my life :) |
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I don't actually know how to use a civilian generator. I would assume that you unhook the appliances you're trying to power from the wall and plug them into the generator?
BTW, I just got a dehumidifier for the front of the house, and it's strong enough to remove some of the humidity from the rear as well. Reduces humidity in the front of the house from 30-50%, and 10-20% in the rear. Really makes it more comfortable! |
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I'm a fan of The Walking Dead comic/graphic novel series (the TV series is just above average, IMHO) and have been since well before the zombie bubble. One of its themes is how, even after a zombie apocalypse, the biggest threat to those who survive is other survivors. The zombies just kind of become set dressing- it's the other folks out there that make the world a living nightmare. |
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For the most part, my interpretation of the neighbors is that they are decent human beings, but grasshoppers for the most part. I think I would scare the bejezus out of them if I opened up with full discussion on prepairedness. Small comments here and there have led me to my conclusions. So the voices in my head have the on going debate.... My $0.02 Mike |
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This makes Mike a VERY happy man. An extra $10.00 here or $20.00 there makes a huge difference in the food/water/ammo/pharmacy departments. My $0.02 Mike |
Depends on the kind of generator you get. Small portable ones that run on gasoline, you unplug the appliance you're going to use from the wall and plug it into the generator. You can also wire it directly into the breakers, but you need to be sure to turn off the main breaker. If the power comes back on while your genny is running and the main breaker is on, you can blow the transformer, or cause a fire in your house.
There's also larger permanently mounted ones that run on natural gas or propane. These are hardwired into your breakerbox and have a sensor that automatically starts them, usually about 10 seconds after the power goes out. When the sensor sense power coming from the grid, it shuts the genny off and reverts to grid power. They run around $8k to 10k and can run the whole house. The neighbors around my house are the band together in an emergency type. We've gone 3 weeks without power after hurricane Ike. No gunfights or anything. One neighbor even cleared the fallen branches from my yard, knowing I was working 16 hour days getting the grid back up. |
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I have a problem amassing ammo. Every time I buy a box, I shoot it.
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I try to buy some every 3-4 months. I'll go to the local Wal-Mart and buy SOMETHING to help keep the wolves (two and four legged) at bay. My $0.02 Mike |
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I will paraphrase from Heinlen's immortal Starship Troopers. In one of Juan Rico's H&MP classes (high school or OCS, detail escapes me right now), the instructor states that "Humans are wild animals that so far, have had the ability to survive". (that quote is the paraphrase. I do not have a copy right now, mine finally fell apart at the seams.) Yep, that just about sums it up. Yes there are humans that do wonderful, kind things for their fellow human. But when the chips are down, I think it is a safe assumption that man will turn into a beast. A T2K or TMP type of situation, and the veneer of civilzation peals off. My $0.02 Mike |
We seem to have wandered from the thread topic. Anybody hear from Jason the last couple days?
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Talked on the phone today: his lights are back on, and thus his A/C. It's actualy cooled off in D.C., and is more...seasonable, he says.
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