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i figure that id find out which direction tornadoes come from.and the direction they normally go in..then simply add ply-wood that/those wall(s).then redo the shelve that we'll be sitting under.and of course,use the proper screws when doing all of that..
I'd at least do the entire room in plywood.
 
Brent keep them damn beets away from Texas. I dislike beet very much, my home town had a Comstock plant, they canned everything from Kraut to Beets....guess what I had to inhale during football season. You got it. Beets. I think even if I were half crazed starving during a SHTF, I'd rather eat worms, then beets.
 
Brent keep them damn beets away from Texas. I dislike beet very much, my home town had a Comstock plant, they canned everything from Kraut to Beets....guess what I had to inhale during football season. You got it. Beets. I think even if I were half crazed starving during a SHTF, I'd rather eat worms, then beets.
Sorry, I like em even raw. I dice them in little cubes and sprinkle over a salad, kind of nutty and sweet. My favorite is sliced and pickeled though. I must admit though, we all have our likes and dislikes, but eating a worm is really, really low down on my list! I will grant you one thing, they do look like some animal shat them out in the dirt, then I go digging it up to eat it?:confused:
 
Warm beer is a southern UK thing, if you gave warm beer to a Northerner or Midlander you would get beaten up badly, I'll take you to a northern curry house next time your here.

Coors and Bud is what we clean our glasses with as its not fit to drink.
Never did like Bud. When I was growing up Bud was what the Mexican fruit pickers drank.
 
I don't know how much this applies to prepping, but I thought I'd share a real world lesson I learned this week. I recently got a tilt trailer to haul a scissor lift that we got for the business. The lift has a hard time driving up the steep incline on the trailer so I bought a 3500lb winch to load it on and off. The lift weighs 2400 lbs, so I figured that's well below the winches rating. On the third or fourth time we used it the winch toasted. Piece of junk, called traveler and from tractor supply. Anyways I returned it and got an 8000lb winch this time. The problem is it's got a much larger footprint, so I had to fabricate a heavy duty bracket on the front of the trailer for it. Hopefully this one will last a while, but I bought the warranty just in case. So, the moral here is if you're thinking of getting a winch for a vehicle, don't believe the rating on it! The down side of the new one is its about 100 lbs. and it's a lot bigger and heavier than the first one, and of course more expensive.
 
I don't know how much this applies to prepping, but I thought I'd share a real world lesson I learned this week. I recently got a tilt trailer to haul a scissor lift that we got for the business. The lift has a hard time driving up the steep incline on the trailer so I bought a 3500lb winch to load it on and off. The lift weighs 2400 lbs, so I figured that's well below the winches rating. On the third or fourth time we used it the winch toasted. Piece of junk, called traveler and from tractor supply. Anyways I returned it and got an 8000lb winch this time. The problem is it's got a much larger footprint, so I had to fabricate a heavy duty bracket on the front of the trailer for it. Hopefully this one will last a while, but I bought the warranty just in case. So, the moral here is if you're thinking of getting a winch for a vehicle, don't believe the rating on it! The down side of the new one is its about 100 lbs. and it's a lot bigger and heavier than the first one, and of course more expensive.
You have to be careful on winches. Sometimes the factory rating is based on a double line pull, not single line, which is half the rating of a double line pull. Its always best to buy a quality name brand American made winch that is rated for much more than your intended load. I have a Mile Marker 12,000 lb hydraulic winch on my Jeep Wrangler. It will pull the Jeep up a tree.
 
I'll finish bolting the bigger winch down today. Not sure if the cables from the battery are big enough, may mount a secondary battery on the trailer to not loose current. Hopefully this is the last time I mess with this.
 
Researching emergency food supplies & analyzing our available storage.
I keep mine pretty simple. Every time I add something I put it in the back, rotating product towards the front. A couple times a year I look at expiration dates, and if something is close, and I can't figure it into meals quickly then it gets donated to the local food bank.
 
Not sure where to post this, but this seemed as good as the rest. Today is my last day at the place I've worked for the last nine plus years! I am excited about the business doing well, and hope it continues. It will be a little bittersweet leaving some of the people I've known for so long, but I've been on autopilot for a long time now with no real challenges. It's a little unnerving to leave the so called security of a steady paycheck ( in retail there is no security, sales go down and they loose people), but at this age I'm a little less adventurous than I was most of my life. Either way, here's to jumping in with both two feet!
 
Good luck with your new venture, what is it you intend to do??
I was intending to just help my son get an electrical company started. We opened it Jan 1st, and it got so busy that I need to go full time. I just hope that it keeps going like this. We are mostly doing commercial lighting, using a bucket truck and scissor lift to relamp lighting in parking lots and large commercial buildings. So far we are busier than we really wanted, but that's a better problem than looking for work.
 
Looking into water purification and storage. Bought some tablets at Walmart and going to explore effectiveness/taste. (Though tast is usually irrelevant )

Also, since we live in an apartment I'm thinking of getting one of those tub/bladder things to store water in.
 
i've been thinking of the tub bladder lately my self..we'll be going to wal-mart for our primary shopping for month,next week..so my looking into one,is a good idea..
 
Does walmart sell that sort of thing or do you have something comparable in mind?
 

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