I know I am regardless of what Q told us. You should of been prepping the last few months if you haven't been already.
Go get yourself a generator today if you don't have one. You don't need one that runs the entire house, just get one that's strong enough to power your essentials like your fridge and deep freezer.
Stock up on firewood.
Get cast iron skillets if you don't, you can cook over an open fire if need be.
Obviously, stock up on food and water. Get a survival water filter, or print off the "how to disinfect water for consumption using regular household bleach" chart and keep it handy. A tiny bit of bleach goes a LONG way.
Have a fallback/rendezvous location picked out just in case you and your family need to get the hell outta dodge. Have a go bag ready.
You will sleep MUCH better at night knowing you can take care of yourself without outside help. It'll ease the stress/tension levels ten fold as well. If you are panic buying, you are too late.
That's a timely πΈποΈ. This is the kind of level-headed common sense info we need more of around here. If you felt like expanding this comment into a sort of "how to survive the next three months just in case" post (and let the mods know), I'd be happy to sticky it, fren.
Agree! Our electricity, phones and internet went out for 13 days because of the ice storm. ( creepy AF because all the limbs on the north side of every tree broke off and made a loud cracking/crashing sound that was constant-15 acres worth)
But the lesson was what to do if I loose all that. Much more prepared now.
Luckily we have a pool we used for all the animals in the neighborhood. Lots! We do have a generator now as well as batteries and an inverter.
Since our ice strom we have all new power equipment that doesn't go out very much anymore. I kinda miss the outages. We had two low end wind events that usually make our lights flicker a lot but now it doesn't do that anymore. :(
Only a few spotty outages according to the outage tracker despite 40-45mph winds where usually a lot of rural outages occur in the usual spots but not this year! I think Pacific Power took extra care as we saw them out in enforcing tree distancing this summer.
I know I am regardless of what Q told us. You should of been prepping the last few months if you haven't been already.
Go get yourself a generator today if you don't have one. You don't need one that runs the entire house, just get one that's strong enough to power your essentials like your fridge and deep freezer.
Stock up on firewood.
Get cast iron skillets if you don't, you can cook over an open fire if need be.
Obviously, stock up on food and water. Get a survival water filter, or print off the "how to disinfect water for consumption using regular household bleach" chart and keep it handy. A tiny bit of bleach goes a LONG way.
Have a fallback/rendezvous location picked out just in case you and your family need to get the hell outta dodge. Have a go bag ready.
You will sleep MUCH better at night knowing you can take care of yourself without outside help. It'll ease the stress/tension levels ten fold as well. If you are panic buying, you are too late.
That's a timely πΈποΈ. This is the kind of level-headed common sense info we need more of around here. If you felt like expanding this comment into a sort of "how to survive the next three months just in case" post (and let the mods know), I'd be happy to sticky it, fren.
Sounds good Cats, i'll put a little tidbit together and flair it as discussion so if anyone else wants to add to the list, I'd be more than happy to.
Thanks!
Agree! Our electricity, phones and internet went out for 13 days because of the ice storm. ( creepy AF because all the limbs on the north side of every tree broke off and made a loud cracking/crashing sound that was constant-15 acres worth)
But the lesson was what to do if I loose all that. Much more prepared now. Luckily we have a pool we used for all the animals in the neighborhood. Lots! We do have a generator now as well as batteries and an inverter.
Since our ice strom we have all new power equipment that doesn't go out very much anymore. I kinda miss the outages. We had two low end wind events that usually make our lights flicker a lot but now it doesn't do that anymore. :(
Only a few spotty outages according to the outage tracker despite 40-45mph winds where usually a lot of rural outages occur in the usual spots but not this year! I think Pacific Power took extra care as we saw them out in enforcing tree distancing this summer.
Well put! We need more common sense posts then people will take this more seriously then always this 'Sky is falling' shit.
Already all there fren!
Great to hear! I've had family members call me crazy for this...we'll see who they call first if we get to this point :)
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Gross! I diddle my wife only, not kids lol.
Cast iron is the BEST... we cook on them all the time ;)