Posted on 03/04/2023 6:47:40 PM PST by CFW
Have mercy how much trash are you putting out? Our weekly bins are only about a quarter full every week. We could go a month without any trouble. More if we were burning paper. The kids produce a LOT of paper waste.
Also, it's hard to live in a constant state of preparedness for for something that happens only once in a lifetime.
Not really.
It is just basic organization. You start by making sure you can go a week without leaving your house and then you expand it bit by bit.
After the last three years I would have thought everyone would have caught on to the concept but apparently not.
Even as a child, I had an immense amount of respect for my ancestors who lived through winters here with no electricity, no running water, no vehicles and no insulation other than newspaper & horse hair.
I met an older lady recently who was the eldest daughter of my mother’s grade school teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and my first grade teacher as well. She told me during the depression all they ate for lunch & dinner was potatoes - and they were thankful for that. People don’t know what difficult is yet.
You have to understand, most of these people lived their whole lives in LA, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, or Sacramento and places like that.
They bought a “Mountain Cabin” during the spring or summer because it was so beautiful and quiet “up there”, the birds singing, bambi on the front lawn, etc.
They don’t keep any stocked food, they refuse to cut and stack at least 4 cords of firewood, they don’t have any oil fired storm lamps in the house.
They think they can just run to the grocery store or the pharmacy any time they get short on something, or just go out for supper.
Then when the rare winter storm hits they are stuck without electricity (their home was probably all electric), snows 4 to 6 foot deep outside, they couldn’t get out even if they knew how to put chains (if they even have them) on their 2 wheel drive car or van.
Right now there is just about 6 foot of snow outside my front porch (still snowing), haven’t left the house (except to get more wood) in going on 10 days, got a fully stocked pantry, generator if the power goes out, plenty of fire wood, dogs are happy to go out 4 times a day and we probably won’t get out of here for about another 20 day, DON’T CARE!
And just as a matter of interest I live in the Trinity Alps in Trinity County, California.
Don’t care, they know it snows there, they were told this would be a big one.
If they didn’t prepare as far as I’m concerned they can die in the cold and the dark.
TELL THEM TO ENJOY THEIR “GLOBAL WARMING”!
PS: I lived just below the Islip Saddle in the Angeles National Forest in 1973, we got over 10 feet in back to back storms, remember, we were going into another “ICE AGE”.
People who don’t have the common sense to prepare for the worst get no sympathy from me.
10 bucks says the CA gov't will let all that water drain into the Pacific.
Right. When we moved to Utah in the late ‘70s, the elementary school staff actually laughed
at the idea when I asked if school would be cancelled because of snow.
And what EXACTLY DOES THAT SAY ABOUT OUR GOVERNMENT HERE, they knew this was coming, all they had to do was check the NOAA website, just WHY does Cal Trans not have enough snow removal equipment?
They closed I-5, an INTERSTATE FREEWAY because they cant get 10 INCHES of snow off the roadway?
Do the IDIOTS in Sacramento think California is nothing but SUNSHINE, RAIBOWS, and UNICORN FARTS, except when it’s BURNING TO THE GROUND of course.
I just prefer to call this CRIMINAL INCOMPETANCE AT THE STATE & COUNTY GOVERNMENT LEVEL!
A lot of (not all) those things you described are Spring, Summer, and Fall work that needs doing before the foul weather sets in.
I’m 73 years old and still do those things for myself, it just takes me a little longer, what used to be a 3 or 4 hour job may take me a day or more now.
But it still needs to be done; yes I am a Native Californian and live at 4000 feet, there is about 6 foot of snow outside right now and it’s still coming down, figure I’ll be stuck for about 2 or 3 weeks—DON’T CARE.
No it won’t, governor NEWSCUM will make sure it all gets flushed out to the Pacific.
Most new big city transplants up here leave after the first good winter, what you hear in the only saloon up here is “THERE’S NOTHING TO DO”.
Why would you keep the trash, it just attracts vermin (even in winter).
Take it outside to an area away from the house and add a little dash of diesel fuel, one match and the trash just disappears, even in a full blown blizzard!
PS: Of course my nearest neighbor is about 3 miles away around the shoulder of the mountain.
#41 The democrats have banned the sale of gas-powered generators starting on January 1, 2028 in California.
When it snows like this they open the passes in the spring with a D8 going up on the snow pack and pushing it down to monster blowers shooting out over the side.
There’s more snow than I’ve ever seen since I purchased my property in the Shoshone range south of Battle Mountain in 2013. My fish are gonna be happy, but I’m sweating the drive road through it remaining passable. The top looks like Nepal or Tibet in the winter...
https://www.alertwildfire.org/region/blmnv/?camera=Axis-Lewis
That’s ~9700 feet and the view is from before this latest wave took the cameras out...
score the bottle just below the top with a knife or handy rock edge, strike it off and pour it through a clean, nested pair of socks...
My maternal grandfather built chutes to the basement and upstairs living room that are filled with wood from the garage stack which holds about 2 cords over the chutes. The upstairs one is accessed by pushing on a wall bookcase behind his recliner that has a strong latch that releases it to swing open on finely balanced hinges. this is for the living room fireplace.
If the electric went out and the oil furnace wouldn’t activate the downstairs stove (double walled and with divert-able hot water pipes through it) could be fired up, and a shunt activated that drew through the double wall feature for subsequent pumping through the house via a washing machine motor powered fan run off a generator.
I helped him building that place from when I was about 11-14. Its amazing. He built it in his late 50’searly 60’s to retire and literally grow old in and designed as such. He missed 101 by 38 days, passing away at home with all of us there. My grandmother stayed there up until she was about 97/98 before moving down to parents and shuttling between their house and hers up until she passed away last September, she would have been 105 on December 17...
No Victor Davis Hanson said that the resiovior floodgates will continue to be left open to send the h2o directly to the ocean. Leftists plan on decimating the state
Genocide is coming.
Starvation.
Another example of California government’s criminal incompetence is that almost a decade ago they funded the construction of reservoirs with a multi-billion dollar bonds. Nothing has been built. All the runoff from these storms won’t be getting stored in new reservoirs in this perpetually drought-stricken state.
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