Posted on 04/26/2013 1:17:09 PM PDT by Kartographer
we've slowly accumulated a stock of pretty much everything one buys at a store from dry and canned food stuffs, to other goods like storage bags, wrapping paper, soap, laundry detergent, cleaners, tooth brushes, paper products, and so on and on. We've really gone out of our way to identify everything that might be applicable, even if they are items we use only irregularly. When we run out of something, we check storage, pull out another one if we have it, and add it to the shopping list - so that when we go shopping, we are mostly replenishing storage and not stuff in current use.
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So I've been through two cooking schools. One for the military, where you learn volume.
One on the civilian side where 3 star chefs yell at you if the carrots aren't cut in exactly 1/8" dice and perfectly square.
It gave me an interesting perspective.
Never do anything by half measures, I always say, and double down when things get harsh.
/johnny
No. We didn’t. We NEVER have anything to do with that upstart institution. We met in a park near a hospital near UABIRMINGHAM. That Birmingham makes a HUGE difference. War Eagle!
We’re more than feetball. We’re family.
Ya’ pulled ma chain. LOL!
Sounds like you’ve had training and training and training on cooking.
That is something I would love to do. But with my hands and arms messed up as they are, I would never be able to cook for a living. I had a friend recently try to ‘order’ bread, to get me to start baking bread to sell. I had to explain that I couldn’t cook or bake just any old time, only when I am physically up to it. Same with any other potential career option I have thought of and had to eventually discard. Most people don’t get it. God has something in mind for me, I’m sure. He’s just being extremely secretive about it, for now.
Those were good days.
To friends not present.
/johnny
Amen and Amen!
This is truly the time to keep the happy dance to back channels and avoid public displays.
/johnny
We appreciate you, Kartographer.
I made a mistake after Ike came through. Our water pressure didn't go down so I assumed the water was safe to use - hadn't been compromised. Every day the local newspaper had a paper delivered to everyone to tell us the state of utilities, the water and power. The water remained pure, but afterward I thought about it and if the water had become polluted between the time I got one newspaper and the next day when the next paper came out, I would have been using polluted water during that time.
I won't make that mistake next time - I will assume the water is polluted and use the Ozarka water. However, even before the Ozarka water, I would fill up my WaterBob that goes inside a tub, before the hurricane comes through and it holds 100 gallons. I would use that first, then go to the Ozarka.
You see, Houston water was polluted immediately after Ike came through. Just because the water in my town north of Houston, about 40 miles, didn't lose pressure, didn't mean it wasn't polluted. Water in Cleveland, about 15 miles northeast of me, which is that much farther away from Houston, had polluted water for weeks and water had to be trucked in.
There is no way to tell what a hurricane is going to do in your area. I go back to if you depend on people or machines to provide you life sustaining necessities, be prepared to provide them for yourself as people and machines can fail.
I don’t consider myself a prepper either. To me it’s just a way of life we’ve always had. Grand Parents had a small dairy farm to supplement their income. They had no running water or indoor plumbing. Neither did the neighbors. Even the people who lived in town, still had outhouses.
Mom and Dad ran a bar and grill and we had an indoor bathroom, washer and dryer etc. However, Dad liked to hunt and fish, so we always had camping equipment.
Since we always have electrical outages and tornadoes, every one stayed prepared to deal with emergencies, and help the neighbors too.
When veggies go on sale, I buy several cases. If meat goes on sale, I buy 25 lbs and can it in my pressure cooker. I grow my own veggies to avoid pesticides and e-coli as well as save on the food budget. That gives me a well stocked pantry, but that’s just sound money management and good nutrition.
We have had a generator for a long time, because Hubby needed it for some of the construction projects in the winter. That’s tied in with making money.
When the electric went off for about a week in the summer. We had enough electricity to run the refrigerator, freezer, and microwave. Saves money if you avoid all your refrigerated and frozen foods from spoiling.
Also my Dad was on oxygen 24/7, so we were able to keep his oxygen compressor going, a small room airconditioner, and a tv going. That’s saving your Dad’s life with a little entertainment to boot-That’s PRICELESS.
I have lots of reasons for my way of life, and it just so happens that it also leaves me pretty well prepared for most scenarios, but it’s the way my family has always lived, so I have never thought of myself as a prepper.
I think of myself as being independent, able to help others, and far from being a doom and gloom, I am optomistic - Give me lemons, and I’ll make lemonade - not only that, I’ll probably plant the seeds and be overly optomistic that I’ll grow some great lemons.LOL
Yeh, and he also said he when people communicate with him he responds, but that’s not true. I specifically asked him the same questions more than once - he never responded.
Is it me or is there a hint of Brimstone and napalm in the air?
(Kartogrpaher breaths deeply)
I love the smell of Zot in the morning!
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Schadenfreude without a doubt.
Morning sir...long time...I saw the ping and said got to say hi to John. Miss the old gang.
/johnny
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