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10/26/2007 11:53:16 AM · #26 |
With my backpacking gear (cold weather sleeping bags, camp stove, dehydrated meals, water filter and purification tablets...), my leatherman and a roll of duct tape I'm fine for just about anything.
Recently we had a storm knock out power for 6 hours. We couldn't go without watching survivor so I hooked up a converter I have to the truck battery and ran an extension chord to the TV! |
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10/26/2007 12:07:44 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by LoudDog:
With my backpacking gear (cold weather sleeping bags, camp stove, dehydrated meals, water filter and purification tablets...), my leatherman and a roll of duct tape I'm fine for just about anything.
Recently we had a storm knock out power for 6 hours. We couldn't go without watching survivor so I hooked up a converter I have to the truck battery and ran an extension chord to the TV! |
Gotta love Survivor! :-)
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10/26/2007 12:16:14 PM · #28 |
I have recently moved from Massachusetts to coastal North Carolina. I was totally fine with whatever the weather threw at me back North. I have been through numerous blizzards and ice storms.
When my partner (a born and raised Floridian) and I moved down here, I told her that I got her through 10 winters, it's her turn to get us through whatever the weather throws us here!
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10/26/2007 12:56:31 PM · #29 |
I live in San Diego and work in Rancho Bernardo. A few weeks ago, my company had a emergency preparedness fair. It was quite a good fair, and I took home several pamphlets on preparing for a disaster. On the first day of the fires, when I couldn't go to work, I sat down, read the pamphlets, and made a shopping list of supplies. My family was lucky, and never really had to think about evacuating. I think we'll be doing some shopping when things die down a little.
When we got back to work yesterday, one of my coworkers made the comment, "I now know what I'd take if I had to leave in a hurry...It's all in the back of my car right now."
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10/26/2007 01:31:56 PM · #30 |
I've taken the same basic approach here. There's not really a whole lot we could prepare for here, other than a prolonged power outage. And for that, we have cars to drive to where the food is :)
We live waaaaay up at the top of a hill. I always tell people that if we ever have to worry about flooding, the only real question we should be asking is how many cubits we should build the ark, and what the heck is a cubit?
Originally posted by mark_u_U:
I am totally unprepared. Let's face it, a disaster should be just that, a disaster. I am not gonna spoil that by any preparation. |
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10/26/2007 01:48:39 PM · #31 |
I know I am not ready for a disaster, living here in NYC not use to things happening here. Most NYer's are not ready for a natural disaster anyway. Maybe six months ago or more their was a freakish tornado that spawn and came through brooklyn and Queens here. And this happened right after I moved in to new house in queens. Scared the crap out of us but luckily it did not hit our part of queens. It just missed my dads part of brooklyn also.
Non of us was ready for something like that, we had no flashlights batteries, lol no food either cause we just moved in.
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10/26/2007 02:13:31 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by papagei:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by ajdelaware:
I live in Delaware, bad things don't happen to us. Not like those hedonistic non-believers in the south and west! /sarcasm |
That's because it already happened to you. Like you say, you live in Delaware. What worse could happen ? :O |
Living in New Jersey, of course :-) (drumroll)
R. |
Hey hey hey! Watch them fightin' words! :)
And this from someone in Taxachusetts? Ha! |
Well at least we got through this whole exchange without someone quoting Waynes World, like every other "DURR I REMEMEBER A MOVIE LINE DURRR" goofball does. |
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10/26/2007 03:01:26 PM · #33 |
| I dont know what I would do if we lost power, I'd have to watch TV in the dark or something.. scary.. |
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10/26/2007 03:25:24 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by eac:
I have recently moved from Massachusetts to coastal North Carolina. I was totally fine with whatever the weather threw at me back North. I have been through numerous blizzards and ice storms.
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I grew up in North Carolina about 8 miles from the town of Oriental. Most of the inhabitants are from somewhere else now. Hurricanes will be your biggest problem in E. NC. Although I remember in the early 70's Elizabeth City, NC received more snowfall than Buffalo, NY. 96 inches in 3 nor'easters. It snowed 40 inches in heavy wind where I lived and there were drifts 20 feet high. Nice thing about snow in E NC is that the snow is usually gone in a few days. If you don't have kayak you might want one to travel the swamps and wetlands of E NC. They're the best way of getting around some areas. Assuming you enjoy wildlife photography. And Water Moccosins. ;)
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10/26/2007 03:26:34 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by Simms:
I dont know what I would do if we lost power, I'd have to watch TV in the dark or something.. scary.. |
or worse... having to take your laptop looking for a WiFi spot to hit that damned update button! |
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10/26/2007 03:32:44 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by fir3bird:
Originally posted by eac:
I have recently moved from Massachusetts to coastal North Carolina. I was totally fine with whatever the weather threw at me back North. I have been through numerous blizzards and ice storms.
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I grew up in North Carolina about 8 miles from the town of Oriental. Most of the inhabitants are from somewhere else now. Hurricanes will be your biggest problem in E. NC. Although I remember in the early 70's Elizabeth City, NC received more snowfall than Buffalo, NY. 96 inches in 3 nor'easters. It snowed 40 inches in heavy wind where I lived and there were drifts 20 feet high. Nice thing about snow in E NC is that the snow is usually gone in a few days. If you don't have kayak you might want one to travel the swamps and wetlands of E NC. They're the best way of getting around some areas. Assuming you enjoy wildlife photography. And Water Moccosins. ;) |
And hurricanes are absolutely my biggest fear right now! All I know about them is what I see and read in the news! I mean I know that we should get enough warning to evacuate if it's a big one, and I have a lot of confidence in the construction of my home. We are in the process of looking to buy a generator...
As for the kayaking... absolutely! We have 2 kayaks up in NH and are definitely planning on bringing them down and take them out on the Intercoastal and through those wetlands! |
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10/26/2007 03:44:01 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by eac:
Originally posted by Simms:
I dont know what I would do if we lost power, I'd have to watch TV in the dark or something.. scary.. |
or worse... having to take your laptop looking for a WiFi spot to hit that damned update button! |
I tell you the future right now, and I truly believe this is going to happen. Every home or apartment complex will have its own power source. There will be still satellites, but also antenna network from one house to another, from one receiver to another.
We used to have a network in our office runs through from one end to the other, and computers hooked up to that same network, like the power grids today. If accidentally one person hit the wire under the desk, and disconnects the wire, all the computers were off line. Just like the power grid right now. We now use hubs, although not exactly the same example, concept is the same. You knock one computer, others still stay online.
They will invent better batteries, smaller, longer lasting, and also there will be better solar panels, smaller and create more electricity in the future. If night, there will be water used to create electricity. How? I donno just yet, but that's what's gonna happen.
In NY City, there was a power outage; actually it was in whole north east, a few years ago. One of the buildings in Manhattan uses hydrogen generators creates electricity as backup, and that building never affected by the power outage, people were not aware there was a problem for a while and kept working.
Future should not be and must not be running on "grid". |
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10/26/2007 04:03:50 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by FocusPoint:
If night, there will be water used to create electricity. How? I donno just yet, but that's what's gonna happen. |
But that's the most likely "killer disaster" scenario of all: we are going to run out of water! The whole world, basically, will be reduced to the subsistence level of current, drought-stricken third-world nations.
Read about in the current NY Times Magazine.
Very scary.
R.
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10/26/2007 04:26:22 PM · #39 |
Living in Florida, it's pretty much second nature to put up a couple of weeks food and water because of the pesky hurricanes. Let me tell ya, the month after the hurricane is a WHOLE LOT worse than the storm itself.
If that isn't enough, I have a thirty foot sailboat tied up at the dock fully provisioned.
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10/26/2007 04:33:38 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by FocusPoint:
If night, there will be water used to create electricity. How? I donno just yet, but that's what's gonna happen. |
But that's the most likely "killer disaster" scenario of all: we are going to run out of water! The whole world, basically, will be reduced to the subsistence level of current, drought-stricken third-world nations.
Read about in the current NY Times Magazine.
Very scary.
R. |
but...but...i thought the polar ice caps are melting and we're all supposed to be under water by the year 2015? i'm so confused!
lol...don't mind me. and don't start a debate! i'm just being a smart ass. :) |
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10/26/2007 04:40:00 PM · #41 |
Originally posted by sher:
but...but...i thought the polar ice caps are melting and we're all supposed to be under water by the year 2015? i'm so confused!
lol...don't mind me. and don't start a debate! i'm just being a smart ass. :) |
Right... But it's actually a serious issue, and many people misinformed in exactly that way. If the ice caps melt, that's more water in the oceans but we can't drink sea water. Meanwhile the warmer climate = less snow cap in the mountains, for example, so in the USA, for example, the Colorado River Basin (basically all the Rocky Mountain states) will not be feeding anywhere near as much snowmelt into the river (this is already happening) and the American West will turn back into a desert.
Meaning (again, in America) a whole lot less food being grown (California farms are watered by the Colorado) and disaster scenarios for Southern Cal, Arizona, and Las Vegas (all dependent on Colorado River water for urban survival) and... You get the idea...
It's scary.
R.
Hrmmm... is this 'starting a debate'? I just think people ought to be aware of this, though I'M aware *you* were being a smartazz... :-)
Message edited by author 2007-10-26 16:41:03.
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10/26/2007 06:43:00 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by JopperTom:
The most important thing is that we have security in our salvation through Jesus.
I really didn't mean this to be a sermon, but it is important. |
Amen bro!
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10/26/2007 07:01:30 PM · #43 |
I've been snowed in for up to four days before, not such a big deal if you know it's coming. The water still flows from the tap, the internet and cable TV still work, and I don't tend to use the staples that the stores run out of like milk and bread. I stock up on noodles, frozen pizza, and hot tea, and make sure the snow shovel is next to the front door.
But in the event of a real emergency, my big plan is to grab the cat and some bottled water and head for the interstate.
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10/26/2007 07:24:47 PM · #44 |
Fallout shelter, bottled water, canned food, Bible, HUGE weapons cache, booby traps, the entire Seinfeld collection on DVD, my camera and a laptop with Photoshop (Armageddon version).
Ohhh yea, I'm ready - bring it on! |
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10/26/2007 07:25:51 PM · #45 |
Originally posted by Rebecca:
But in the event of a real emergency, my big plan is to grab the cat and some bottled water and head for the interstate. |
Great plan! I heard cats taste like chicken. ;-P |
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10/26/2007 07:32:15 PM · #46 |
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10/26/2007 07:33:03 PM · #47 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by Rebecca:
But in the event of a real emergency, my big plan is to grab the cat and some bottled water and head for the interstate. |
Great plan! I heard cats taste like chicken. ;-P |
YOUR BAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL AND I HAVE 6000 ROUNDS OR 9 MM AND 5000 ROUNDS OF 22 AMO |
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10/26/2007 07:33:13 PM · #48 |
You forgot your comando version of woody...
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Fallout shelter, bottled water, canned food, Bible, HUGE weapons cache, booby traps, the entire Seinfeld collection on DVD, my camera and a laptop with Photoshop (Armageddon version).
Ohhh yea, I'm ready - bring it on! |
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10/26/2007 07:33:35 PM · #49 |
Originally posted by Rebecca:
I stock up on noodles, frozen pizza, and hot tea... |
How do you "stock up" on "hot" tea? Enquiring minds need to now...
R.
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10/26/2007 07:38:13 PM · #50 |
Originally posted by Agaricus:
You forgot your comando version of woody... |
Got that covered. Just didn't want to mention it for fear of people thinking I'm some kind of nutcase.
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