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Watch my old hometown news from last night. Power out, getting cold. People are leaving their homes to go to a motel.... how is a motel gonna stay warm with no power? Shows people lined-up, filling small suv’s and cars with firewood! I’m guessing they have someplace to burn the firewood! I can’t believe the lack of preparation!!!  If you have a fireplace, it’s winter time.....wouldn’t it be wise to have a small stack of firewood?  It would be like going to the grocery store daily, and buying just enough food for one frigging meal! I’m dumbfounded! memtb
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You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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A friend of my brothers called him worried about a power outage with the cold weather. His biggest concern was the food in the fridge going bad with no electricity.... you can’t make this stuff up...
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A friend of my brothers called him worried about a power outage with the cold weather. His biggest concern was the food in the fridge going bad with no electricity.... you can’t make this stuff up... I wonder if he's ever locked the keys in his convertible with the top down?????
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no worse than in Florida, where every year, we get a hurricane, or several, and every year, most of the folks are clueless, and don't even have a bottle of water set aside. It's human nature I guess these days, to totally depend on someone else for your basic safety.
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A friend of my brothers called him worried about a power outage with the cold weather. His biggest concern was the food in the fridge going bad with no electricity.... you can’t make this stuff up... I can't begin to count the number of people who've expressed to me that they thought that a 'fridge would not only keep food cold, but also keep it from freezing, as if it also had a heat function.
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You wouldn't believe how many city people who live in apartments and condos only have food on hand for a couple meals. Many of them eat out at least once a day. They have no storage for food.
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A friend of my brothers called him worried about a power outage with the cold weather. His biggest concern was the food in the fridge going bad with no electricity.... you can’t make this stuff up... I bet he’s accidentally locked his family in the car.
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Best thing to happen is for our grid to go down for 6 weeks. Kill off the bottom 40% of the gene pool and start over.
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The way people depend on someone else is how the commies are grabbing them by the round things! Be Well, RZ.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill.
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I remember a few ice storms, while living down there, in the ‘60’s/‘70’s, maybe not quite this magnitude.....but, ice covered roads, ect, and it didn’t get much attention! Hell, I was working 3-11 shift at a local paper mill, when we had a little ice storm. It barely made the news! Ice covered roadways, for my 18 mile home...... on my motorcycle! A bit challenging....glad it was a 1973 Honda XL 250 and not a 600+ pound “Hog”!  memtb
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You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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Best thing to happen is for our grid to go down for 6 weeks. Kill off the bottom 40% of the gene pool and start over. I told my wife almost exactly that same thing yesterday. Her sister lives in Dallas and they've been without power for a day and we are pretty sure they are dead by now. The BIL is a worthless stream of pussy juice.
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Best thing to happen is for our grid to go down for 6 weeks. Kill off the bottom 40% of the gene pool and start over. I read this to my wife, she said, “It sounds like you wrote it”! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
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We have a good stack of wood, burned a bunch yesterday. Had enough for several more days.
Have plenty of food, brought generator up to run freezer and ice box.
It’s like a cold hurricane, we had no power for two weeks during Ike
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Best thing to happen is for our grid to go down for 6 weeks. Kill off the bottom 40% of the gene pool and start over. I told my wife almost exactly that same thing yesterday. Her sister lives in Dallas and they've been without power for a day and we are pretty sure they are dead by now. The BIL is a worthless stream of pussy juice. One can only dream, within a week we'd control the country and make sure Trump was in the Whitehouse.
Life is good live it while you can.
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I posted a thread two days ago where I went to the meadow, and cut a truck load of black walnut. That wood is for 2 years from now.
I have enough dry wood on hand for the rest of this winter, and for the next winter.
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Watch my old hometown news from last night. Power out, getting cold. People are leaving their homes to go to a motel.... how is a motel gonna stay warm with no power? Shows people lined-up, filling small suv’s and cars with firewood! I’m guessing they have someplace to burn the firewood! I can’t believe the lack of preparation!!! If you have a fireplace, it’s winter time.....wouldn’t it be wise to have a small stack of firewood? It would be like going to the grocery store daily, and buying just enough food for one frigging meal! I’m dumbfounded! memtb Lots and lots of apartments there now,,,like beau coup plenty. Still good here with most electric utilities underground and a Hays Towne fireplace going. Have gone through ~30 lbs of Black Oil Sunflower seeds in the past couple of days. A balmy 18 degrees , presently.
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Hard to make electricity when the windmills are frozen. The fact that Texas can't produce enough electricity to heat homes is inexcusable.
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Hard to make electricity when the windmills are frozen. The fact that Texas can't produce enough electricity to heat homes is inexcusable. A first world country setting on all that energy and they can stay warm. At least the halls of Congress ain’t gettin cold
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Hard to make electricity when the windmills are frozen. The fact that Texas can't produce enough electricity to heat homes is inexcusable. New Normal, remember "Shared Malaise?" Hitch them britches up, some of the pipeline welders will now be smoke spotters, wood stoves being illegal and all...
To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.-Richard Henry Lee
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Im electic heat. But i have propane camping and grill tanks and space heater if need be.
Bad was tornado that knocked power out 10 days, in summer. No AC.
Lost power so emptied freezer/loaded 4x4 and gave to relatives w power.
Gas water heater so decent shower daily.
Storm they call it here. Maybe 8" snow. Uh, sounds like fuggin reg winter to me.
People in ditches, businesses closed.....for fuggin snow.
Less than a foot.
Whole damn placd turned puzzy.
That chit night have got you a 2 hr school delay back when I was a kid. You know, enough time to shovel the drive and get your sweaty azz to school.
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