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Friday Emergency Prep Open Comments

Found this website, with its ideas for handling emergencies. For example:

    Strap a light to a water filled jug to create a larger lighted area.
    Use shortening or olive oil to make candles.
    Keep matches in a jar with a strikeable lid.
    Keep a list of phone numbers that you might need.
    Store a lot of water in the bathtub.
    Learn how to refrigerate – and what to refrigerate – without power.

But a lot depends upon how long this emergency lasts. I would add the following:

    Have a stockpile of food, at least enough for several days, if not longer.
    Have a gun and ammunition for the inevitable decline of civil society.
    Know what plants are edible, learn to forage.
    Do you have a way to collect rain water?
    Have a solar cooker and know how to use it, to extend the life of your fuel.
    Keep up good relations with your neighbors – you may need them.

And if you really want to prepare for possible tough times – register to vote, and then do it!

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  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    First!

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    TGIF and dang I didn’t think that it would ever get here.
    Mornin Gang’

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The Associated Gerneral Contractors of Houston (AGC) is having their annual cook off this weekend starting tonight. They moved it to the horse track this year from the Farm and Ranch Club at Bear Creek, which should be better- for parking convenience anyway. We are part sponsors of 3 booths this year instead of one. Lots of crawfish, BBQ and drinks, looking forward to it.

  4. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Has been an extra long week for some reason SD.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #4 Dittos to that. 😉

  6. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Read my lips!

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #6 That is too cute. I think that the little guy was reading cue cards.

  8. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Tedtam maybe you can raise your monthly rent down in Sweeny. This project is still moving forward the last I heard and should create a couple hundred new jobs.

  9. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    TGIF Yall!

    In Montana, for example, Hoey’s pharmacists group found that generic Lipitor, generic Plavix, diovan and Nexium together cost $359.38 per month through UnitedHealth’s AARP Medicare Rx Preferred plan at a Walgreen preferred pharmacy in Helena. The same drugs cost $327.73 at the independent Anderson Family Pharmacy in Great Falls. Hoey said his group relied on data from Medicare’s website.
    Just wait until you see what’s going to be disclosed soon…..
    Specifically, wait until you see what other first-world nation citizens pay for these same drugs.
    Soon, you will be able to.
    Easily.
    And once you do then you will understand why we do not need this “coverage” at all and that the only reason it is “needed” is that you were raped by the medical industry in the setting of these prices in the first place and then those prices were protected by laws prohibiting the cross-border operation of the market which would otherwise instantly result in you being able to buy these drugs for dramatically less — in fact, so much less that you could almost-certainly pay cash.
    You are likely to be rather angry, I suspect, and you should be.
    Stay tuned.

    The Medical Scam Will Soon Be Laid Bare

  10. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Mebbe that is where Hammy went, something about Contracts for Crackers…

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #8 Texmo

    Tedtam maybe you can raise your monthly rent down in Sweeny.

    Yep, we had one guy say the rent was cheap. Out of the swarm of about six people who said they’d be there last night, one person showed up that I wasn’t expecting, and two of the list showed. One gave me the app fee and filled out an application.
    I had several that were going to come tonight – I need to let them know the situation and see if they still want to come and look at it, just in case this tenant backs out. There’s a local teacher who is desperate for a place to stay (he’s the surprise guest last night).
    From what we’ve been told, it’s hard to find rental units in that area. If we invest, we’re looking at doing some more stuff down there.

  12. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yesterday I posted a story about a bakery trying to figure out what to do about Obamacare taking a $108,000 bite out of their $200,000 annual profits.
    Today, a story about insurers expecting to raise premiums 50% next year…

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    But…but…but…I thought it was the AFFORDABLE Health Care Plan?!

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Feds weren’t counting on so many states refusing to expand Medicaid. The Federal bureaucracy is not ready to implement the exchanges, as required by law.
    The resulting chaos will probably cause system collapse.

  15. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The Senate, on a bipartisan basis, passed a continuing resolution on government spending for the remainder of the year which will preclude the possibility of a government shutdown. Of course, there was no effort what so ever to attempt to defund Obamacare which remains fully funded in the CR. One of our Senators voted with the majority to pass this CR, and his last name is not Cruz. Anyway, I have concluded that both R’s and D’s realize that if they were to allow the government to shut down for any extended period of time the people would realize just how worthless it is to begin with and would begin to insist that it remain shut down. I know I would feel better if it were shut down.

  16. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #12 Shannon
    In your link:

    People whose incomes are around the poverty level could see almost all of the cost of their insurance subsidized…

    Really? What a surprise.

  17. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Well a dampish 63 started the day off at 6:30, partly cloudy and breezy now. Liklely to be one of those unsettled days in prelude to a weather change arriving sometime tonight into tomorrow. Just hope it isn’t full of hail and gusts that make a mess. How about full of rain for a change? We can dream.
    Shannon #12 and mharper #16
    Can we just nod and say we told you so while the low/no-information voters recoil in shock as they run to the Federal trough? At least maybe in Texas there will not be a Federal trough. Could that start an exodus to some other state foolish enough to establish an exchange? Folks addicted to the handout have been known to migrate to greener pastures when things like that happen. Might there be a business opportunity in bon voyage gift bags for those on the way over the state line? 🙂 Accompanied of course by a purple finger mark to discourage double dipping–and return.

  18. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    DHS has bought up 1.6 BILLION rounds of ammo last year and has huge orders for more. This is enough ammo to supply the military at current levels for 20 years. Now the ammo companies can not keep up with the demand and even police departments are being hit by the squeeze. To date no one at DHS has any explanation as to why they are purchasing so much ammo, including non-response to Congress.

  19. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    via Drudge: Joe “the Dip$#!T” Biden has no concept about the value of money either, just like his boss, JugEars.

    HEADLINE: Biden’s One-Night Paris Hotel Tab: $585,000.50

    Over 1/2 Million tax dollars down the rat hole for one night’s stay at a 5 star hotel in queer Paris?!?

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #19 Boney
    You forget – it wasn’t HIS money, so order the champagne and caviar for everyone on the floor!

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    19 Bones
    I’m in the hi-fidelity
    First class traveling set
    And I think I need a Lear jet..

  22. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    From the comments of Shannon’s #12. This guy’s facetiousness is great. If we take the line of thinking to its logical conclusion, then we should implement all of his suggestions.

    eah, Todd. I agree. And what’s with homelessness? Building homes should never have been made a business either. Having a home is something every human being on this planet should be able to attain. And hunger? C’mon. Food is something every human being on this planet should be able to attain. Same goes for cable TV and PS3 dammit!
    I think we should identify people with the highest aptitude for the medical practice and force them to attend medical school (and of course they should pay for it.) Then we should force them to dispense healthcare for free, or maybe just a small, living wage. Because we both know they won’t do it on their own if they can’t get paid well enough.
    And then we should do the same with athletes and entertainers. Why should they make a bunch of money for doing something they love, right? I say we force Tom Hanks to make 10 movies per year for 10 grand a pop.
    And then we should make the owners of sports franchises charge the same amount for front-row seats (or those good, 20-row-up-50-yard-line seats those fat-cat NFL guys are always keeping from the poor) as the nose-bleeders!! And then we should give the people with bleeding noses free medical care for those bleeding noses!
    WHO’S WITH ME?!?!?

  23. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #18 Bonecrusher
    I am not a big conspiracy theorist, but I have thought for quite some time that DHS did this on purpose. I believe they have already met their objective to cause shortages and to drive up prices. I know and understand that the governments at all levels are these supplier’s largest customers, but come on. These suppliers should grow a back bone and just say NO! If govt purchases consume 65% (for example) of production and now it is 98%, the suppliers should realize that they are hurting and wissing off the other 35% of its customer base.

  24. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    HEADLINE: Biden’s One-Night Paris Hotel Tab: $585,000.50

    Yeah and I got a slap on the wrist because I stayed at the Sheraton inside CDG airport. I was told to find a cheaper place around the corner and take the shuttle bus.

  25. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I see a headline on Drudge: Strange sonic boom shakes homes in FLA…
    Have we located Hammy yet?

  26. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    If more people were humble and gracious like the new Pope, the world would indeed be a better place. The Pope had to call the kiosk back in the old country that delivered his daily paper to cancel the subscription.

    Among the “thousands of anecdotes” the elder Del Regno remembers is one involving the rubber bands that he put around the newspapers to keep them from being blown away when they were delivered to the cardinal.
    “At the end of the month, he always brought them back to me. All 30 of them!”
    He said he gets goose bumps whenever he thinks about Pope Francis’ simplicity.
    “In June he baptized my grandson, it was an amazing feeling,” Del Regno said. “I know what he’s like. He’s one of a kind.”

  27. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Mharper, I do not think Hammie caused that, but he might have disappeared to answer this call.

    Huffington Post seeks people who have had sex with aliens (15 have responded)

    – Via Drudge

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Jesse Jackass the first, wants us all to be darned sure to NEVER CONSULT HIM regarding financial matters:

    HEALDINE: Jesse Jackson calls for mass protest against Detroit’s emergency financial manager

    He is a buffoon and desperately wants to keep his name in the papers so he has more power to extort money from those who bow to the PC nonsense and are afraid of being called racist.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You mean hammie’s been doin’ The Martian Boogie??

  30. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Seems like many of the emergency preparedness tips above are things we already do to prepare for hurricane season. Err, umm that is Hamsters do. Can’t guess how much of the Houston metro area population does before the season begins so everything is ready other than a few items. Just mention in June it’s time to get your hurricane box organized and many folks stare at you as if you are suddenly speaking early Mandarin.

  31. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Heard a radio news tidbit this morning that some very unhappy Pennsylvanians want to sue the groundhog over not only no early Spring but downright cold Winter weather currently, more suited to January. Just checked the Madison, WI weather. Yikes. Still in the deepfreeze as earlier in the week, just apparently in between snowstorms.

  32. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Shannon, what’s that funny round machine in that video you linked to?

  33. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Up from my nap, to find the vet called and is holding our 15-yr-old cat at the clinic for a 2nd overnight. She did not snap back so well from the tooth extractions. She’s not a great cat, but we are missing her and hope we can bring her home in the morning.
    Me, I have one more week of “knowledge transfer”, but only 2 days that I’ll have to swim upstream on the West Loop to get there by 9 a.m. I heard Texmo’s advice to look beyond the last work day to what to do then. Well, the short answer is: all this other stuff I haven’t been able to get to for the last 5 years. Hard to believe now that through 2008, I was often working 60 hrs a week.

  34. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    My 10-yr-old live oak tree was noticed today to be making audible popping noises up in its foliage, and also a sound when whatever popped lands on the grass below. When I first heard it, I thought it was scattered raindrops hitting leaves. If it’s still doing this tomorrow, I may spread an old sheet on the grass and see what we catch. Anyone have a clue what that is all about? Is it popping bud covers off of new leaves?

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Shabbat Shalom,Y’all. Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread starts next week so y’all get all the yeast out of your house :>)

  36. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is an ugly fish, but I hear they taste good.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #36 Bones, Yup they taste great! They use those sharp teeth to crunch shellfish, especially barnicles and such, that is why you find them around piers and docks. I love oysters and almost nothing tastes like them except Sheepsheads. Their diet makes them taste a little like an oyster. The down-side is that it takes a chain saw and a log splitter to filet the dang thang! Also they’re all head, a 3 pounder only gives you a couple of medium filets. They’re fun to catch though, pull like a freight train. 😉

  38. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #37 SD: I would bet that 1/2 or 1/4 of a crab would make a real good bait

  39. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Some great ideas and advice on being prepared here. Not a bunch of weirdos, just self sufficient folks. I get great ideas for the farm here.
    http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/

  40. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #38 Since they don’t discriminate they really love live shrimp. 😉

  41. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Bitter sweet justice. Visiting with three lib/dem friends – and I use the term loosely. They are all over 65. I just turned that age, guess what their complaints were. One, the doctor is retiring and taking medicare/medicade patients, she has to find a new doctor. One doctor is taking cash only and the newly turned retirey, “I’ve had this doctor for thirty years, what am I going to do?”
    My response, “Elections have consequences.” And then I left.

  42. phil Avatar
    phil

    My response, “Elections have consequences.” And then I left.

    Especially when you elect OBeelzebuboma.

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