Being ready is a good feeling

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beckerhead

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Here we sit in Texarkana getting the leftovers from Ike, and although we have had a few temporary outages, and some trees down in the wind, we are A-OK. Not just because we aren't in the brunt of the storm, (thank goodness) but rather because we stay as a matter of lifestyle, ready for various calamities. All the lemmings running to the gas station, grocery store, and such, while the beckerhead crew just has another day. Spare water, food, gas, batteries, oil lamps, coleman stoves & lanterns, etc., etc. sittin' on ready 24/7. Preparedness pays for itself every time.

Prayers and good thoughts for those who have lost so much in this, in spite of well planned efforts.:):)
And shame, shame on the sheep who sit and wait for the "gubment" to save their butts.:(:(
 
a good point! it is a comforting feeling, if only in your head! but I agree and feel better having things I "may" need.

smoke and prayers to those who need it now.
 
Best to you Becker, and smart planning. Through some remarkable twist, my girlfriend likes being prepared for emergencies as much as I do. Not bad!
 
Good to hear all is well with the Becker-crew:thumbup: Even though we were far enough west and felt no effects of Ike, it was still a good opportunity to practice our "battle drills" both at work and at home. The only issue was that my wife usaully runs her Pathfinder on empty:mad: and I constantly have to remind her to get gas (she teaches only about 5-6 miles from the house)...I knew prices would go up temporarily and I already had several 5 gallon cans that I use to rotate fuel in but I still made my wife run down and fuel in case chaos hits. Fortunately all is well and I hope everybody in the path makes a full recovery. Severe weather and storms are good reminder as to why we stay prepared:thumbup:

We are currently fielding new communications equipment at work and will eventually pick up a piece of the homeland defense/security mission to provide communications in times of crisis. We have done a lot of planning for the past few hurricanes which is really good to develop your "mission analysis" skills and identify all aspects of preparation.

ROCK6
 
Wow, about an hour after this was posted we lost power and had a tree top fall and block the driveway. We had no juice until about 3pm today. I've been outside chainsawing, limb gathering, etc. Other than sleeping a bit stuffy with no a/c or fans, and of course being cut off from bladeforums, the night and the morning were just fine. Grilled a load of pepper jack cheeseburgers for lunch, walked in the house and power was back on. Even more so, being set up and ready is good!

Beckerhead
 
I live in southern Missouri, an hour east of Springfield and drove around my town this morn and It surprised me how many trees blew over last night. And it was funny how gas jumped up 20 to 40 cents because faloks paniced, nothing like getting screwed by the gas man for a different reason. Pat
 
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