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We didn't get much I've 1.25 inches here but at least it was slow and soaked in. The next three days are calling for 1/4", 1/4", and 1". I'll take whatever comes our way at this point.
Im feeling a little guilty here. I'm worried about filling a pond and the death toll is at thirteen now in N.Carolina. It's good to keep things in perspective.
We had a total of 1/2" of rain for October and 3/4" rain total for November. We've had some snow but not nearly as much as we should have by now. A storm is supposed to blow in tonight. Hopefully it will bring a lot of snow.
 
We had a total of 1/2" of rain for October and 3/4" rain total for November. We've had some snow but not nearly as much as we should have by now. A storm is supposed to blow in tonight. Hopefully it will bring a lot of snow.
Good luck. The weather is definately changing. I never thought I'd see a drought where I am. I live near the only tropical rain forest in the contenintal US, or at least used to.....
 
i got 3-4LB bags of pinto beans.8 cans of pork n beans,12 cans of vienna sausage.plus i stocked up a few diff cans of veggies.and to top it off.i got whats needed for turkey stew,once i get the turkey cooked.i think,i'll do that friday.seeing how it'll be in the 20's at the start of the day..

p.s. edit..one case of regular mouth of one pint jars as well..
 
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I made a list and went shopping today. I basically restocked the pantrys. I just finished dating, rotating and putting everything away. I must be part squirrel as stocking up supplies for the winter is so satisfying.....
I did luck out at Walmart today's. They had pork rib roasts and a boneless ribeye roast on clearance. I got four of the pork rib roasts and the last one of the ribeye roasts, 42.00 marked down to 30.00. Seared in a pan with seasonings and slow roasted in the oven, that ribeye roast may be as close to heaven as I can get while still alive!
 
I have been pretty much horrible at prepping these past two months. Money was tight with both kids out of work (they both are employed now at least)....and we just do so much around this time....Conventions, theme parks, even Orlando's first Ren Fest...all kinds of things that fill a weekend. You have to live a little, after all. At least THIS weekend, should get something done.
 
I have been pretty much horrible at prepping these past two months. Money was tight with both kids out of work (they both are employed now at least)....and we just do so much around this time....Conventions, theme parks, even Orlando's first Ren Fest...all kinds of things that fill a weekend. You have to live a little, after all. At least THIS weekend, should get something done.

I've been a bad prepper too. All spare cash is going into my son's house fund so there is little to spare at the moment.
 
I got the hole dug for the underground service on the kids house were building. It needed to be three ft + deep. Digging in Ga is a mother! Anyways, the power company is supposed to be here at 8am to start putting in the transformer and underground lines. It's going to be in the low 20's in the morning, by far the coldest night so far. Not looking forwards to working on it, although I'm mostly watching this part.
 
I went to town after lunch today to check on my parents and get some fuel for the generators. It started snowing about an hour before I left home and snowed all the way to town and back, and it's still snowing. Anyway, as I was returning home I realized just how important a grab and go bag is, and that It's geared for the expected conditions. It's a 36 mile round trip when I go to town. It's not unusual to drive both ways and not see another vehicle on the road, especially in bad weather. On this trip it was snowing hard, 10 degs and visibility was poor. The visibility was so bad I ran off the road as I was coming around a corner. Fortunately I was able to get back on the road without much problem and continue on home.
The moral of this story is that my grab and go bag had my summer gear. I had neglected to swap my summer gear for my winter gear. Even though I had a heavy coat, hat and gloves with me, I never could have made it home in this weather on foot the way I was equipped.
I won't make that mistake again.
 
I went to town after lunch today to check on my parents and get some fuel for the generators. It started snowing about an hour before I left home and snowed all the way to town and back, and it's still snowing. Anyway, as I was returning home I realized just how important a grab and go bag is, and that It's geared for the expected conditions. It's a 36 mile round trip when I go to town. It's not unusual to drive both ways and not see another vehicle on the road, especially in bad weather. On this trip it was snowing hard, 10 degs and visibility was poor. The visibility was so bad I ran off the road as I was coming around a corner. Fortunately I was able to get back on the road without much problem and continue on home.
The moral of this story is that my grab and go bag had my summer gear. I had neglected to swap my summer gear for my winter gear. Even though I had a heavy coat, hat and gloves with me, I never could have made it home in this weather on foot the way I was equipped.
I won't make that mistake again.
Glad you brought this up. I've been meaning to go thru my bob for a while now, and The cars supplies are under a plywood piece and down in a spare tire well. It's packed, but needs to be gone thru. I know there's some mre's that are probably bad after the summer heat, and the 9mm ammo will get changed out for target practice.
Glad you avoided a really tough situation there! Even with the right supplies having to hike it in 10 deg weather would be rough.
 
Picked up some more vegetable seeds to store in the freezer.

Not so much a prep but picked up some more volquartsen exact edge extractors, auto bolt release, firing pin and power custom firing pin spring for the rest of my ruger 10/22(s). Something I'll be working on over the weekend.
 
Glad you brought this up. I've been meaning to go thru my bob for a while now, and The cars supplies are under a plywood piece and down in a spare tire well. It's packed, but needs to be gone thru. I know there's some mre's that are probably bad after the summer heat, and the 9mm ammo will get changed out for target practice.
Glad you avoided a really tough situation there! Even with the right supplies having to hike it in 10 deg weather would be rough.
I keep some basic supplies in all my vehicles; MRE's, small canned foods, fire making kits, etc. Then I also carry my grab and go bag everywhere I go, which now has my winter gear in it.
I carry a few basic items on the tractor when I'm plowing too; canned food, extra gloves, fur hat and a fire making kit with a metal cup to melt snow.
My driveway is narrow with steep drop offs that would be easy to slide off and roll over. If something happened to me no one would know until I failed to show up at the airport when the wife comes home in mid January.
 
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Glad you brought this up. I've been meaning to go thru my bob for a while now, and The cars supplies are under a plywood piece and down in a spare tire well. It's packed, but needs to be gone thru. I know there's some mre's that are probably bad after the summer heat, and the 9mm ammo will get changed out for target practice.
Glad you avoided a really tough situation there! Even with the right supplies having to hike it in 10 deg weather would be rough.

Which duly reminded me to put my Fleece, hat and gloves in my GHB, cheers guys especially as tonight at 11 PM I have to drive far up Weardale to pick up my son, a 70 mile round trip on unlit twisting rural roads where a young man died only last night at the same time on the same road.

THIS is my route tonight taken last winter.
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We got the new power line put in yesterday, all underground and safe from ice storms and trees falling. Had to drop a carport I had just put up this summer to park equipment under, so still have that to clean up and rebuild later. The trencher cut the water line in two places so we had to dig 120' of new line to repair it before it froze last night. Other than that it went pretty smooth. The local power company was awesome. They sent out about eight vehicles and two crews to finish the job in one day. They cut trees, set a pole, set a ground transformer, went under a creek, buried the new lines and connected everything all in one day. really impressive job. The kids new place has its own protected power line now. I will install a new service on the front of my house before long and run from the new ground transformer to it too. I want both places on protected power. Now let's hope the grid dosent go down....
 
Oh, also ordered a hard copy of 'one second after' from Amazon. Was really suprised the hard copy was six dollars and the kindle version was ten. I commented to my son that it was stupid for a real printed book to be less and he simply said its because no one wants them anymore. The world is changing.
 
My most treasured paperbacks are 1 Alas Babylon, 2 Earth Abides 3 Down to a sunless Sea, 4 Patriots 5 One Second After, 6 Day By Day Armageddon.
 

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