Posted on 09/10/2017 2:02:02 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The entire Florida Peninsula has begun to experience Hurricane Irma following landfall at Marco Island. Thousands of Floridians who evacuated the Atlantic cost to Gulf Coast areas found their safe shelter under direct threat from Hurricane Irma as the forecast shifted W Friday night and Saturday. Prayers for all in the storm path.
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There is a Zello Hurricane Irma Rescue and Recovery channel.
Floridians like Texans have guns and are not afraid to shoot.
Friends in Venice Praying for them now, will add you and yours.
Lots of shortwavers on Zello on the Hurricane Irma channel.
Scavenger - a person who searches for and collects discarded items.
Loot - spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
anything taken by dishonesty, force, stealth, etc.:
a burglar’s loot.
I’m sure short-wavers still exist but nothing like it was pre-Internet.
PB Blaster is far superior. Kroil may be even better yet but it's harder to find. Use the straw if there is one. Heat can help. Get a little wiggle in either direction, add a little more oil (and heat, if using that).
If the shutters have hinges, and you can get some taps on the ENDS of the hinges (where the frick'n pin is -- that every_thing turns on) that could be all the difference.
Without damaging the hinge, hammer blows can help loosen things. Provided the hinges are heavily enough made, if you can get to the hinges, oil them with whatever you have, then to spread the impact out perhaps use a wide (and hopefully -blunt-) chisel set with widest width along one side of a hinge. Give it some 'love taps'. Hit it from the other side too, if you can get to it. Go back to the head of the pin and tap-tap-tap that some more -- without hitting the shutters (with a wild hammer blow) or ripping out the hinges, or bending the hinges, etc.
Using short (forearm and wrist) strokes, deliver sharp blows ---but not enough to distort metal, or else rip the hinges out. You'll have to use your own judgment. Are the hinges thin? Or are they comparable to what's on a regular household door -- and in good shape? Look at the head of any screws. Are they small, and rusted? If so, then the blows may need be lighter. If big screws, well sunk into the material of the shutters -- and the material of the shutters is strong, then a bit more force -- a more solid, and sharper blow could be delivered.
Without panicking -- if you had the tools, a hammer, a selection of chisels, and maybe a 'punch' (to focus the blow on the head of the pin -- or even the opposite end of the pin as long as you do NOT round off the pin, or else the shutters could be all that more difficult to remove at some later date) and have enough experience with those type of things to be able to well enough guess how much force you can use without harming anything --- it could be all the difference. A hammer alone -- if used judiciously -- could make all the difference, provided you could get a clear, short but solid "tap" on the hinge's pin. Even a nearby blow on the flat parts of the hinges might help, although more directly concentrated on pin and coupling area is better. The shock of the impact(s) can serve to break things (like rust?) loose, perhaps enough to get things to move a little -- in which case using more oil and rocking things back and forth (increasing the range of swing a little at a time) can free up stuck parts with minimal to no damages.
So even if behind a garage door, it would still be quite dangerous, right?
Lights seriously flickering now. It won’t be long...
Thanks for the threads. Lights flickering quite a bit in our corner of Melbourne, but FPL has kept up so far. Tornado warnings still popping up around us. Long night ahead.
The BBC stopped their worldwide broadcasts years back. Almost everything is on line and podcast stuff.
They still have a ton of short range stations in Africa broadcasting in the local dialect.
Lights flickering usually means unequal voltage to compressors. I always shut the main and wait for my neighbors lights to come on. From north of Houston, good luck
I think Florida may have been the first state to implement the 'Castle Law/Doctrine'.
"A person may have a duty to retreat to avoid violence if one can reasonably do so. Castle doctrines negate the duty to retreat when an individual is assaulted in a place where that individual has a right to be, such as within one's own home. Deadly force may be justified and a defense of justifiable homicide applicable, in cases "when the actor reasonably fears imminent peril of death or serious bodily harm to him or herself or another".[1] The castle doctrine is not a defined law that can be invoked, but a set of principles which may be incorporated in some form in the law of many jurisdictions.
Are you serious?? We're not talking about a simple rain storm here. Do you honestly have no concept of the power and scale of a hurricane?
I think very few would even know their Morse code, never mind shortwave. Surprising because shortwave is something a FReeper would do. I never hear it mentioned.
Hang in there!
My problem is the collar that determines how long the telescoping arm is. The screw that tightens the collar won’t budge. I broke off the thumb-grip on one screw trying to turn it. All hinges are fine.
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