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Ferfal's Blogspot ^ | 5/29/13 | Ferfal

Posted on 05/30/2013 1:54:16 PM PDT by Kartographer

My edc bag was valuable. It had phone numbers of all of my family, a comb to fix my kids' soaking hair, mints to bribe the kids, keys, knife, etc. I didn't have to spend minutes looking for all my pocket stuff. My bug out bag, on the other hand, needs work. It was so heavy, and soaking wet, I thought my elderly neighbor was going to hurt himself as I handed it down the ladder. In the future, I will break it into two bags, with the heavier stuff like food spread out. Also, I'll work to make it more waterproof. I suspect that many disasters come with rain. Hopefully, the small lessons I learned are valuable

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To: nascarnation

wow...


21 posted on 05/30/2013 2:48:48 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: nascarnation
this is what a lot of people buy around here. Put them in the garage and bolt them down to the concrete. I wanna be underground myself.


22 posted on 05/30/2013 2:55:43 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: F15Eagle

Did they get tore up?


24 posted on 05/30/2013 3:01:29 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: kjam22

I don’t blame you for wanting to be underground in your area. Where I’m at, storm runoff could quickly flood an underground shelter. Something like the shelter you pictured may be the only option.


26 posted on 05/30/2013 3:03:54 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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To: Sarajevo

Yep.... flooding isn’t an issue for me, so I’m good there. You know... Moore is 4 miles east of me. At the hospital over there, it’s 3 stories tall. There was a car on top of it that had been down the street a ways. Can you imagine being in one of those above ground safe rooms and having it hit by a flying Toyota? LOL


27 posted on 05/30/2013 3:06:13 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: kjam22

I’m sure it’s far better than being only in a wood frame building but no substitute for being below grade level.

Hopefully some folks will look closely at the aftermath of the Moore event and study what worked and what didn’t. I see on my local tv you guys are back in the potential risk area so be safe. We get it here in Indiana tomorrow.


28 posted on 05/30/2013 3:16:12 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: nascarnation

You be safe too....


29 posted on 05/30/2013 3:17:36 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: Kartographer

Not considering wet weather is an easy mistake to make. As we learned in the Corps, if it ain’t raining, you ain’t training.


30 posted on 05/30/2013 3:33:18 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: kjam22

We drove thru the devastation last Thursday and again yesterday. That area looked like a war zone. Some cars looked like they had been in a junkyard for years and dropped next to IH 35. All the paint was gone and there was no way to ID the make or model.


31 posted on 05/30/2013 3:38:10 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: kjam22
If a f5 hits that house would it survive?

Give me something underground,

32 posted on 05/30/2013 3:39:54 PM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Arrowhead1952

Yeah.... it’s crazy ain’t it?


33 posted on 05/30/2013 3:41:22 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: painter

They are rated to survive an F5.... so they say. I think you’d want to take your hearin’ aids out while it blew threw.. :)


34 posted on 05/30/2013 3:50:20 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: nascarnation

FYI tornados actually cannot “suck” doors open. They can only reduce the pressure on the outside, so the force of the air pressure cannot exceed the differential between the air in the shelter and the lower air pressure in the funnel. In reality the shelter is forcing the doer open by its air pressure.

Just the engineer in me ...

Enjoy your day.


35 posted on 05/30/2013 3:58:24 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Kartographer

You never know whats really important. This is my family after my Grandmothers death from the F5 in Tuscaloosa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hXTGmK4XxY
By the way, we got it back! FREEPERS! They don’t know what we’re made of.


36 posted on 05/30/2013 3:58:57 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: kjam22

Out at the old family place, the cellar was away from the house and trees. Here, I want one but the water table is too high.


37 posted on 05/30/2013 4:00:26 PM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: Blueflag

Wasn’t that the calculation I showed?

The 100 mb differential pressure between the inside of the vortex and the shelter chamber?

Of course we totally neglected any pressure equalization that would occur because the door is likely poorly sealed.

But it does give a bit of insight into the forces acting.

Or what we call in Indiana “farmer math”


38 posted on 05/30/2013 4:08:38 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: nascarnation

The door seals pretty good actually. I mean it won’t rain in and water won’t run in it. But it has two 4 inch air vents in the cellar. PVC pipe inside those tin vent covers.


39 posted on 05/30/2013 4:13:44 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: Grams A

I think I have one neighbor who is preparing. His bug out plan includes a rebuilt moped he plans to use to ride out of dodge.

I’m pretty sure Im on my own.


40 posted on 05/30/2013 5:13:40 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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