This is it folks. There is sooooooooooooo much going on, you just gotta bite the bullet and have a fire drill this weekend. Turn the power off at the box and find out what it's going to be like if the electric grid goes down and to ensure you have non-electric substitutes.
Check the expirations on your food storage, your prescription/OTC meds, fire extinguishers. Replace as needed. USE YOUR FOOD STORAGE. It's great to have a ton of beans and rice, but whatcha gonna flavor it with. Can you eat it plain? Find out what ingredients you lack and get them now, while you still can.
Are your batteries still good? Does equipment still work. (Did you forget and leave a battery in your shortwave radio for a year and it no longer works?)
Top off all your tanks and containers, not just gasoline but water too.
How long has your Clorox been sitting under the kitchen sink? It loses its punch after a while, ya know. Have enough water filters or replacement parts?
You get the idea. Look at everything you're going to rely on. My Country Living grain mail was jostled in storage and became exposed and the big, metal fly wheel got rusted. Look inside all your food storage buckets even if it means repackaging them with new dry ice or new O2 absorbers. Better to find out now if weevils spawned and ate everything. I had a bucket full of ziploc bags of oatmeal. The lid, for whatever reason, was missing and something gawdawfulgross spilled on it and seeped into the top couple of bags. That's why it's important to get a visual on your buckets. To make sure rats and mice didn't gnaw into them, inspect and make sure you leave room for the cat to be able to get around all of them. Got equipment that has wiring? Hot dang, they can and do chew through wiring. Happened to a neighbor. Those critters gnawed through the wiring on his tractor. You get the picture.
Leave comments on things you discovered you needed or went awry and help your neighbors.
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I'm gonna have to find me an oldtimer around here to learn how.
I thought you had the old type with a wick sorry. You can't trim a mantel. The picture on the box is the kind I was talking about.
How do you trim this:
and trim it evenly
Roll the wick up and trim the black portion off that is usually what causes that I have had many and Rayo lamps too almost the same. Old wicks also burn funny.
I was given a solar charger with no instructions. Uh-oh.
I have an Aladdin lamp. It has a part called a mantle. It is grid-like and covered in wax. It burns with the brilliance of a 60-watt light bulb. Two problems. I can't stand the smell of kerosene and I can't get the mantle to burn without burning up, as in charcoal useless. Anyone have experience with these tempermental things?
YEP
Got beer?
Mmmmmm. Choc...late. {Visual: Homer Simpson drooling.}
I refuse to go through TEOTWAWKI without chocolate! I have standards. ;-)
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