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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“Can you identify the rocks that will make a suitable cutting edge?”
Rocks that have a fracture point.
Knowledge about changing a tire is damned useful. Tried it unsuccesfully the first time in 2000. Did it successfully in 2006, thank goodness, since it was July 4 and I was invited to a cookout.
Where did you come up with this nonsense?
“I expected the surge because that storm looked like Ike that came into Texas. :(”
Yes, it was like Ike in that it was so large. I thought the blowing high winds of Ike would never stop and I’ve been in hurricanes before. Ike blew water through a very solid locked window. Didn’t know it until I saw water on the stone floor under that window in the kitchen.
You’re talking about changing the tire on a rim right? Same rim, new tire. My Mexican neighbors do it all the time, don’t even have a tire machine, just long tire levers. Have to do the flash-pop trick to get the bead to seat on large tires sometimes.
Well, some happy news and some not so happy news. Let’s pray that new storm fizzles.
“The only positive here is that this is a big, in-your-face teachable moment. Millions, and not just in the Northeast, will take prepping more seriously and actually store a few days or couple weeks of food and water, plus have more batteries, camp stoves with propane, gas, tarps, blankets, etc.”
But I thought that made us terrorist threats per nappy head and Homeland Security. I grew up in the Midwest. I remember losing power multiple times and a grandmother with a root cellar because she grew up without supermarkets. I’ve always had a well stocked pantry before I qualified as a “prepper.”
Oh, the wolfpacks are on the march. It’s not going to be reported by the buttboy media...
Watch Glenn Beck if you want to know the extent of the pillaging, rape, looting and burglary. This is Obama’s Katrina.
How about this one. Given a green sapling, 1.5 inches in diameter, 5 ft long, your sharp rock and a fire... how do you make a hasty, field expedient spear out of it that will bring down a feral pig?
Assume we will give it to a brawny young man that isn't too bright and will poke a feral pig with a spear and maybe live through it.
/johnny
can you go back and ask them if they got food, blankets and flashlights now? Im interested in their response.
The safety NCO in me just has to say 'that isn't very safe'. But yes, ether, or hairspray works to seat the bead.
If you have a running vehicle that can move, breaking the bead off the rim can be done by carefully driving over the old tire (not the rim), without the use of the tire tools. Also, not very safe, but it does work.
/johnny
As I walked to the hardware store (the clerks were using flashlights to go and find stuff for you and the cash register was running on a noisy gasoline generator), I saw gigantic trees fallen across streets, a car completely pancaked under a giant tree, a giant tree which pulled up the whole sidewalk when it fell, etc. A doctor a block down from the hardware store was frantically asking the florist shop next door if he could run an extension cord to their electricity because he had to access a patient's records.
Whereas it is true that we were not flooded nor had widespread electricity outages, people WERE affected. The buses are pretty much back, but the subways have only partial service. It's still horrible to try and get around. I hope things return swiftly to normal for everyone's sake.
Around here, we don't have deposits of obsidian or flint near the surface to make knives. We don't have deer in the woods that we don't have either. You wouldn't want to eat the fish caught locally. I am very good at scrounging, inventing, and making do. Please don't ridicule the folks who don't have that kind of background or talent. They were never educated in survival skills because this kind of circumstance never happened here before in their lifetime. A lot of people around here (especially in the hard-hit Staten Island and Far Rockaway areas) are really suffering, without food, heat, potable water, and many lost everything they had in floods and fires. I am sure that with the things they CAN do, they are making a contribution to humanity somewhere.
City water pressure will not push water above about the sith floor. So high rise buildings use electric pump to pump water up to a reservoir on the roof that feeds water to the whole build. With the pumps off because there’s no power once the reservoir empties there no water in the building.
“Knowledge about changing a tire is damned useful.”
I can’t do work like that and I’m not strong like a man and that is a deficit in my preps. Maybe I need to look at single websites and put on an “ad” for a male who is strong and can change a tire and do other work like that including having electronic knowledge and has good weapons and knows how to use them. I have a fine Remington shotgun and rifle and they are too heavy for me to use. I don’t even have ammo for either one and I should have.
This would be a paid job for this fellow, not a singles thingy because he needs to be single so he doesn’t have a family to help in an emergency as that is when I would need him. How else am I going to fix this deficit problem as I can’t order one from a survival store.
“Hummm. I’m sure a lot of them laughed at doomsday preppers.”
Ahh yes, those pesky, yet ubiquitous “bitter clingers.”
They are now all looking for their nerdy friends who plan and can fend for themselves....
Best not say more.
Putting a jack base on the tire and then jacking up the vehicle to break bead? I haven’t used either of these methods.
“Not that I believe it but Achilles had one weakness that lead to his downfall.”
Yes, but Achilles’ weakness was not being unable to get from here to there or provide for his basis sustenance.
When I think of the storm victims I’m seeing in such desperation, without water, batteries, gas, etc, Achilles does not come to mind.
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