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Storm report:
yeah, it was a bit breezy. Lost fencing and a window, lost power until ??????
What we did right:
have several months of food, ditch bags, wet weather gear, lights, candle lanterns, cooking stoves, plenty of iodine, water, etc. In fact, for staying put, ditching by car, bike, or on foot, we're prepared with a few tiny exceptions.
not enough diapers! We regularly use cloth, and the whole laundry thing is a bit rough right now.
propane supplies! need to triple what we keep on hand, we could be out by sunday night- so we'll "cheat" on the exercise and use our house gas stove, since the gas is still on.
Ham radio batteries. Got 2 generator sw sets, lots of AA transistors radios and methods for charging phones and batteries in the cars, but not enough battery packs for the ham radios. Need to get a couple more sets.
Everything else is running perfectly. including the social network- lots of gentle candlelit parties and people out in the neighborhood doing safety walks and looking for downed lines and etc. (including "snakes", but honestly, the worst we've dealt with is a homeless dude who couldn't figure out why the walk signal wouldn't work)
yeah, it was a bit breezy. Lost fencing and a window, lost power until ??????
What we did right:
have several months of food, ditch bags, wet weather gear, lights, candle lanterns, cooking stoves, plenty of iodine, water, etc. In fact, for staying put, ditching by car, bike, or on foot, we're prepared with a few tiny exceptions.
not enough diapers! We regularly use cloth, and the whole laundry thing is a bit rough right now.
propane supplies! need to triple what we keep on hand, we could be out by sunday night- so we'll "cheat" on the exercise and use our house gas stove, since the gas is still on.
Ham radio batteries. Got 2 generator sw sets, lots of AA transistors radios and methods for charging phones and batteries in the cars, but not enough battery packs for the ham radios. Need to get a couple more sets.
Everything else is running perfectly. including the social network- lots of gentle candlelit parties and people out in the neighborhood doing safety walks and looking for downed lines and etc. (including "snakes", but honestly, the worst we've dealt with is a homeless dude who couldn't figure out why the walk signal wouldn't work)
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