Posted on 09/12/2018 11:44:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
“There is not a storm that Satan can throw at this nation our righteous leader cannot prepare for”
The supply chains the government buys into are far less capable than those used by grocery store chains, Wal-Mart and Home Depot.
In Florida, for a Florida hurricane, I plan on the stores being out for a week, the power out for two and the debris being out for a month.
It took two months for the federal government contractors to remove the tree debris. The contractors used Bobcats to compress the debris and place it into trucks.
It's got electrolytes, It's what the body craves
Most natural events are just too random and some are just overwhelming. You CAN do a lot as an individual to prepare for those extended outages. Hard for the government or the electrical company to have thousands of trucks on hand to fix downed power lines until after they can assess the damage.
It is one thing to evacuate and return to your undamaged home. Quite another to have a thousand electrical repair crews waiting just outside the zone and then realize the storm wasn’t as bad as predicted.
Heck - with Katrina you could have had 1,000 of crews available, and they would have needed to wait days/weeks for the water to go down anyway.
Think of any repair project around the home - you can be as prepared as possible for your Saturday project. Pipe, glue, new drain, wall board, etc. It still all takes time to replace that leaking pipe. And then of course when you see that the leak has been around for much longer than you thought, and the 2x4’s are rotted, and the 8”x12” beam has damage to it.
Correct. And the overwhelming majority always, always wait until the last minute. Small amounts of prep, over time, can help.
This has potential to be a lot worse than just a coastal damage event because of the slow-moving nature of this approaching hurricane and the possibility of Harvey-style rains in more inland portions of NC and even SC. Two or three days of relentless hurricane intensity rainfall could add up to several feet and that is mostly flat country that will take weeks to drain. I think this is the main fear, the coastal damage is almost inevitable with the combination of wind and surge expected.
“Hard to prepare for an earthquake..................”
Yeah, it would be a logistical shutdown.
Put your survival stuff in your car and at home and hope for the best.
Caches................buried in out of the way places.................
Those people were warned weeks ahead of the storm and yet they ....
It’ll be a tough challenge to top the utterly ridiculous “Snowmageddon” of “Snowpocalyse” (or whatever it was called). It was a complete flop.
Nudge...plural of “battery” is “batteries.”
I think. I’ve seen so much mangled grammar, spelling and punctuation that I have to now stop and question myself.
In California a year ago, people couldn’t move out fire debris without government approval and permits. If you did, you risked huge fines. Government wanted to keep hazardous stuff out of the landfill, but everything had been nicely incinerated.
On Tuesday, my sister was headed east into Knoxville on I-40 and passed a convoy of (her estimate) about 100 varied emergency vehicles headed that way. Mobile housing units, medical, etc.
Hillary sent them, of course.
Man, I love the Japanese... they are so civilized. And they haven’t at all gone down the cultural gutter like the West has. No coincidence that they also hang together in a crisis.
We used to be like that here. When we got bombed in the WTC in 1993 there were thousands of people packed in a hundred-story smoky stairwell three abreast, and everyone hung together to get out in an orderly manner without panic. When someone freaked out the people next to them calmed them and prevented the panic from spreading.
Most folks here in South Carolina are pretty civilized, so aside from isolated sketchy areas we should do well.
wasn’t my post
quite a few people read that site it is pretty well known
Panic-buying water is just the most bizarre thing. You’d think they didn’t have perfectly good potable water running out of multiple faucets in their homes or something. Fill the bathtub, fill empty jugs at home. For goodness sake, the bottled waters still wiped out here in northwestern NC from a previous forecast.
Well good for you!
And it’s all Trumps fault/s
“Hard to prepare for an earthquake....................”
You don’t have to board up the windows and stuff, but you do have to rotate the stock in your food, water and fuel stashes
“People never heard of water containers one fills up with the hose on the side of your house”
Growing up on the Gulf Coast it was just common practice filling everything you could when you first got any warning. Freeze containers also because ice will be scarce. It’s not rocket science to prepare when you have this much warning
Looks like they want to cause a lot of damage - even if the storm doesn't.
When they were predicting it being Cat 4 as it hit, the storm surge predictions were half 9or less) than the 20 feet in the article.
Not to mention that when the article was published, the predictions were for it to hit as Cat 3 or Cat 2 and the latest show pure Cat 2 when it reaches land.
Maybe they want Florence to become NOLA....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.