Posted on 03/10/2015 3:32:34 PM PDT by Kartographer
Awareness comes in many forms. Awareness of one’s surroundings, including physical, situational, and political, is perhaps what is taught most in many survivalist courses and books. These are critical to dealing with threats, both minor and major. What is often missed in teaching awareness is how we will emotionally react to these threats. We are so lucky in 2015 in the U.S. to have relatively significant means by which to live and prosper. Compared to most countries, our ability to eat, sleep, find resources, and thrive is very easy, even for people at lower income levels. So, I ask these questions to you: What part of your life will be most affected if the power grid fails? What will you miss most about your life should a nuclear accident occur? Is it the Internet? Is it your favorite burger? These are small questions, and they may not seem important relative to whether you have sufficient iodine tablets for water purification, but this leads me to the most important aspect of awareness– self-awareness.
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Excellent post - I guess I’ve done the same thing. Prepping as defiance, LOL! Especially when prepping is bashed and we are vilified for it because we refuse to expect FEMA to save us - then I just go get MORE!
“I’m a professional civil engineer...”
How many amateur civil engineers are there?
On FR there are many ‘Amateur’ what ever you want to name and all have far more knowledge and expertise than most ‘Professionals’, don’t believe me just ask them. ;-)
No offense to you, my old man was a civil engneer at Guantanomo Bay under Adm. Bulkley. Back when I was a tot, he used to tell me how order was maintained in Cuba...
“We could have ended this shit ASAP - we designed the desalinisation plants. We had the water. They behaved, they got water.”
Politicking even back then. And they’re still getting the water.
I still have the old man’s GTMO licence plates. Fidel could have been finshed off sooner, if not for useful idiots in fedgov.
I don’t know, what percentage? My license is for Florida only. You sound like you’ve got a good handle on all the chlorination methods and percentages used throughout the US.
I designed the potable distribution systems, not the plants themselves. The several WTP I’ve toured used straight chlorine gas. One of my senior design class projects was to design a 10 MGD WTP, but that was over 15 years ago and don’t recall which method I used. Actually the only thing I remember well from the project was that our raw water was from a surface lake, which of course made treatment more involved than a “normal” plant in Florida since most potable water here comes from the Floridan aquifer. Which is kind of ironic that chlorine is even necessary because if you’ve got a private well on property that takes from the aquifer you don’t need to chlorinate; it’s really the distribution lines where contamination is most likely to be introduced.
Florida law has some odd (to me) allowances for who can and cannot call themselves engineers, and what kind of work can be done by an “engineer” versus a professional engineer. I passed the state exam and can call myself a professional engineer.
Yeah, there’s this kind of quiet “rivalry” between private practice engineers and public sector “engineers” here in Florida. Most public engineers have at least gotten their engineering degrees, but my observation is that they land themselves a government job and never bother to sit for (or maybe they sit for it and just can’t pass) the PE exam. Only the supervisor of the division has his PE license and so all the worker bees under him can call themselves engineers. The worker bees do all the plan reviews prior to recommending a permit be issued. And they always seem to be able to find some insignificant little thing to delay issuing the permit, usually by asking for information that is already included in the plans that they didn’t review thoroughly.
“Having real books to get me through whatever disaster comes my way is one reason I’m not getting too tied to my kindle.”
I also have a Kindle and I think like you do, be sure to have physical books should an emergency happen. I just bought a physical book at Amazon and a note popped up since I bought the book, I could also get it on Kindle for a price of $2.00, so I did that. That is the first time I’ve seen that offer.
It’s always good to have a physical copy rather than rely on battery life. That said, Kindle (amazon) and Nook (bdalton) have a $0 books section. I’ve downloaded some old cookbooks and how to books for free.
All those great info sites we’ve bookmarked could be printed out and put into a folder so we’ll have them if/when the internet goes down.
I use BookBub.com to keep up on free or low cost E-Books.
I get an E-Mail every day and have discovered some great bargains for my Kindle.
You probably all know about this but I just found out about it 6 months ago
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Many thanks for that information. Just signed up.
You’re welcome.
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Have they started the free kindle books again? I had found quite a few at first, and then very few when they added the kindle prime thing, orcwhatwver it was called.
What a neat idea! There are actually 2 in a town 45 min away. how do they work? I suppose i should call first and have some books to exchange?
Now, I like that idea. Of getting a kindle edition for a few bucks more. I’ve usually chosen the hardcopy, even if it would be nice to have a book on the kindle, in case electronics bite the dust. I’m having worsening vision issues and the backlit screen helps, plus being able to make the font larger is great.
I just never wanted to pay twice. Hope it’s something they continue. I think I’ll go ‘test’ it now!
“I think I’ll go ‘test’ it now!”
Let me know if that offer pops up for another book. If they do that for every book, I’ll take it every time.
I put two Mark Levin books in my cart and wasn’t offered any deal then. I went to checkout - still no offer ;(
“still no offer ;(”
Darn. I was hoping you could get that on all books.
The little free libraries are boxes out on the curb to for a free exchange. No need to call.
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