Just need someone to show you how to do it. Half the time it is more difficult to find the jack as they tend to be hidden in the vehicle than it is to remove the old and mount the new wheel.
Posted on 11/01/2012 6:13:53 PM PDT by Kartographer
In darkened neighborhoods, people walked around with miner's lamps on their foreheads and bicycle lights clipped to shoulder bags and, in at least one case, to a dog's collar. A Manhattan handyman opened a fire hydrant so people could collect water to flush toilets. "You can clearly tell at the office, or even walking down the street, who has power and who doesn't," said Jordan Spiro, who lives in the blackout zone. "New Yorkers may not be known as the friendliest bunch, but take away their ability to shower and communicate and you'll see how disgruntled they can get."
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Just need someone to show you how to do it. Half the time it is more difficult to find the jack as they tend to be hidden in the vehicle than it is to remove the old and mount the new wheel.
We were without power for over two weeks, after Ike. Not fun! I left town, with the kids, while hubby held down the fort with the (small) generator we had, at the time.
At the end of the green sapling, I'd cut a small space, really a small split, to fit the arrowhead type cutting edge. Then, I'd take green vine and wrap the edge in there and get pine sap and melt it in the fire and slather that around the vine everywhere so it would shrink and get hard so the arrowhead would be solid in there. After it was cool so it would be hardened, give it to the stupid kid you mentioned to stick it in a feral pig. Then, you would cook it.
Face it. It's different in NYC. Those guys get the attention, they get to whine, and mostly, out here in fly over country, no-one spends too much time whining because they are busy.
No flame, but compare and contrast to a disaster that the president wouldn't give a disaster declaration on, because he didn't like the state.
/johnny
Perhaps they’re waiting for the cannibalism to begin.”
I used to think that was funny!!
Dried and smashed rabbit backstrap works better for binding material (it's sorta like nylon and epoxy), and you don't need the sap, just water and fire, but I did say field expedient.
There's more than one way to skin a cat. As I said, it's more about attitude and skillsets than stuff.
I did notice that you didn't do much but supervise in that scenario. And I still get stuck cooking...
/johnny
“I did notice that you didn’t do much but supervise in that scenario. And I still get stuck cooking...”
I made the spear, the kid stuck the pig, you cooked it. That’s the Little Red Hen story actually working.
“Half the time it is more difficult to find the jack as they tend to be hidden in the vehicle than it is to remove the old and mount the new wheel.”
Hmm, this is a fairly new car and I don’t know where any of that is in the trunk. The tire is sitting in a well made for it with a cover over it. The husband of my sister-in-law will be here Thanksgiving and I’ll have him take that area apart so we can find those things. Better for him to lift the tire than me to lift it. In an emergency, I’d lift it, of course.
The owner's manual should have instructions and location pictures in it. You can grab the book out of the glovebox and read it tonight.
You have a piece of equipment. Read the Tech Order. Even if you never have to use the info.
Hands on to see where it is in real life is good, too.
/johnny
OH! The Owner’s Manual - imagine that - what a break-through! I’ll look at that tomorrow.
/johnny
http://abcnewsradioonline.com/health-news/sewage-bacteria-gasoline-found-in-nyc-floodwater.html
Yeah, gotta wonder what the Super Freepers would do if they had to splash through that putrid muck and had a cut or cracked skin anywhere to allow the muck to "work". Start culturing moldy bread to make their own penicillin?
Penicillin was actually eventually derived from mold on a cantaloupe.
Some of us old freepers have actually slogged around in putrid muck. It's not happy making time, but if you have a brain, and keep your wits about you, you can come out the other side.
/johnny
As a big city plumber, do you think that I have been in muck and city sewers with open cuts in my time? It isn't exactly the end of the world, wading through water tainted with some of it, sure isn't the end of the world.
You mean WALK?! Are you crazy??!!
The three days thing is a bit dated - here in Seattle they push for 7 days due to the high risk of a devastating earthquake. I told the head emergency guy in our local fire department that was good - but 3-4 weeks is more like it for us suburbs. All of the energy will be focused on Seattle (basically landlocked as you can only get in/out over bridges which will be destroyed).
Even getting to the suburbs will be tough, but Seattle will be the focus.
He gave me an understanding nod, and said “Well, some folks think we are overdoing it with 7 days - and they would just not do anything if it was more”.
No, I’m talking about replacing the tire and rim with the spare and rim.
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