Are You Personally Prepared For a Natural Disaster?

To whom did you address that remark, B?

 

A bicentennial baby.

Congratulations(even if you are Canadian).

 

I had nothing to do with it.

 

The EPA now considers water vapor a pollutant!
Ain't that a kick?

Remember the Cracker motto, "It ain't the heat; It's the humidity".

 

Fell off chair laughing at your avatar!

 

Seriously though, that's how my eye looked when the retina tore. I'll keep an eye out for your response.

 

Glad you liked it....20 seconds on paint.
Hope retinal healed fine.

Anyways,go freeze dried if you can.
MREs are OK for emergencies while there is an emergency,but they are usually full of salt and fat and processed food.

Go on ebay and look for "freeze dried" and you will find all sorts of emergency kits.
They are good for what they are,but expensive and often processed food.Their advantage is all they need is boiling water added and to sit for 10 minutes.
Go for the freeze dried veg,meat and basics.

A 20 litre bucket of rice,chick peas,pinto & kidney beans,and lentils in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers will last for 10-20 years.
A 10 litre bucket of freeze dried mixed veggies and one of mixed fruit will last for 30 years and keep you fed for over a year.
And sun dried tomatoes,jerky,pasta,etc etc.

Buy the mylar bags with a heat sealer, maybe nitrogen,and oxygen absorbers

Supplement whatever you grow/scavenge with this stuff,not the other way around.

It always amuses/saddens me to see when a storm warning is announced in the south US...we see on the news people rushing grocery stores and filling up shopping carts with chips,pop,and Chef Boyardee/ Kraft macaroni.

 

It's worse than you think. WalMart has excellent inventory tracking, and knows exactly what to stock when there's a storm warning -- the first thing to go is strawberry Pop-Tarts.

 

I thought " Ok I don't doubt Sheet but this sounds ridiculous"

From a hurricane readiness site:

"Wal-Mart's analysis of their database... revealed that its customers prefer to buy beer and pop-tarts when a hurricane approaches. Wal-Mart was able to determine that the sales in Strawberry Pop-Tarts rose seven times more than normal.....meanwhile, beer was actually the top selling item"

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I believe you, but that's not the point.

In inflation adjusted terms, is the plywood quoted here dearer or cheaper than it originally was? That was the point I was trying to make.

I wouldn't be surprised either way because on the one hand, uncut forests are a lot more scarce and the timber correspondingly expensive; OTOH a number of plantations have matured to harvest. So I'm curious as to the relative cost. Except for 2 sheets of AS2272 grade (equiv of BS 1088) I've all the ply I need so it's idle curiosity.

BTW in inflation adjusted terms, and after tax terms, I'd say we're worse off than 20 years ago too but not by as much, and we have a much superior public medical system & social support system. Our terms of trade & dollar are strong ATM but there's no guarantee this will last. When I was living in the USA a bit over 10 years ago, the AUD bought less than 50c USD. Now it's about $1.02 USD.

PDW

 

Probably me. I consider the source; no point doing more than taking the piss IMO, he's a troll and....

http://www.carefactorzero.net/

PDW

 

I often wonder why factoids like that stick in my brain ...

 

same here, I can remember all kindsa a useless stuff but can't spell for ****
drives me nuts but oh well. makes for some humorous reading I'm sure

oh and Diddly
simply because your wrong about something doesn't make the person who pointed it out a troll. It just means your not able to learn from your errors.

Cheers
B

 

I like this essay, It seems that certain industry is competitive back in USA for the old hands who got leaner and kept up with technology - (plastic injection moulding is one case identified)

http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/co...ring-mean-china-has-lost-its-edge/2012/05/07/ "Could The Revival of U.S. Manufacturing Mean China Has Lost its Edge?"

Now if the nasty banksters would fall on their swords . . . and take their massive debt burdens with them, to be burned and dumped . . - - All in the world may be good again? - - well slightly better and with a good dollop of hope....

 

EPA and Forestry has made it harder to timber a forest but that allows overgrowth which in turn leads to devastating fires, some lit by forest service itself and runs out of control. What a waste of resources!
And they(the powers that be) want to run our healthcare.