I run a business flipping houses and remodeling rental properties. I was talking to the owner of the electrical supply house in our county yesterday and he told me they sold the last 200 amp meter base they had in stock the day before. They were probably one of the last stores in Tennessee that had any in stock. You can't build a house without one.
He also told me our power company has been removing transformers that are feeding barns or workshops. They don't have any spares to fix broken transformers in residential areas so they are stealing them from places that affect the fewest people. They haven't received any new transformers in several months.
The areas affected by the tornados last week are calling utility companies everywhere trying to find transformers and poles to repair the damage but there are very many spares left. He said if that storm had hit our county, he didn't think we would have the parts to get the power turned back on any time soon.
Crazy times ahead.
It’s threads like these that make me feel somewhat better about many of the choices I have made over the past 5 years. Some of them include stockpiling candles, installing wood cook stove for heating and cooking, long-term packaging tons of flour/sugar/yeast/salt/dry grains, buying years and years worth of seeds and hydroponic gardening nutrients and supplies, spending my free time collecting thousands of mason jars/lids/canning supplies, having a well drilled with emergency hand pump capability, building coops and brooders and raising my own chickens for meat and eggs, planting a 60 tree orchard, and prebuying all building materials for several other upcoming projects as I watched farm/feed store inventories declining and not being replenished. Are the lights/electricity going out..? I sure hope not, but I have become more and more skeptical of relying on others over the years and I’d like to have some way to take care of my family and NOT have to rely on others or the government to take care of me.......after they will have likely caused the crisis requiring care.
I can’t predict what is coming, but I can surely take some educated guesses and prepare. That little prick Fauci talks about more viruses and variants and I buy more hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Gates starts mentioning smallpox pandemic and then suddenly strange vials are found in Philadelphia that are either smallpox vaccines or cultures and I order some bottles of sarracenia purpurea. I’m just doing what I can.
Other than some of things I have mentioned above does anyone have some other good ideas for prep items? I’m always about 1 year ahead on toilet paper/toothbrushes/soap and other hygiene supplies as well. Other ideas welcome!
And it's posts like yours that make me feel like a slacker when I thought I was doing good 😟 Great job!!!
Never enough time especially when traveling for work. Going into 16 straight days home now will have a 4 acre pasture fenced in for the pigs and turkeys coming this Spring. Smokehouse/dehydrator next. Ima be dug in here like an Alabama tick come what may. God speed anons!
If you or your family (pets) are dependent on any meds you may want to stock up on what every you can now.