I hope you all stay safe and warm. Get those groceries early before the stores sell out.
To my Southern Brothers
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I hope you all stay safe and warm. Get those groceries early before the stores sell out.
yessir... it's coming. I have gravity fed spring water here and so always a threat to freeze when it gets crazy cold here. Fingers crossed!! Was good to go on the last cold spell, so hopeful!
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It will make my 5 year old grandson near Charlotte happy if they get some snow. I have lived in SC since 1999 and never seen a snow storm that amounts to anything. They can be dangerous because the cities are not prepared and some of the drivers are almost comically bad. But an inch or two that melts no more than a few days later is a big storm here. The news likes to scare people.
I have two Milwaukee power supplies and a generator. My water comes from a water tower and my hot water and some of my heat is from propane. I went without power for 4.5 days after Helene and was fine. But you are right about grocery stores. Walmart didn't have milk Monday.
I have two Milwaukee power supplies and a generator. My water comes from a water tower and my hot water and some of my heat is from propane. I went without power for 4.5 days after Helene and was fine. But you are right about grocery stores. Walmart didn't have milk Monday.
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Dang! that's not what you folks are used to for sure. I pray that all goes well. If you have to drive in the snow, fill up gas tank, put some weight in the back, and grab a shovel. make sure the outside animals are fed and watered. Keep safe and stay warm.
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I'm in Cincinnati. We got 2 feet of snow. Roads were cleared in 3 days or less. They do a great job but still our grocery stores were empty like it was going to last a month.
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Will be cold for sure, but at least in my area, there are still those displaced by Helene who are having a rough go of it and the cold wont make things better
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Be careful and prepare. As for the missing milk at Walmart, that could just be the lazy employees not stocking it!
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Covid really messed people up. Everyone hordes now.
I saw a lady with 8 friggin gallons of milk in her cart. Who the hell needs that much milk over a 3 day period? Can't freeze it, and you might die if you drink that much before it expires!
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What I love about my community is that we have members in their 80s and 90s that can direct us in times where we don’t know what to do. Then there are younger members that can hunt, slaughter, and butcher animals if and when needed. So this ol’ airgun hunter is content with his airguns and generator. Medicine is the number one priority in a natural disaster. We don’t have a substitute for that. Sure we still get remedies from “out of the woods,” but these new medications keeping people alive longer, have created a dependency.
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What do you think? My town has 418 people in it at last census. When the storm broke, WE were out there with chainsaws and tractors to clear roads so emergency vehicles could get by. Much of the cleanup here post storm has been done by private individuals. Wifes aunt lives half a mile up the road, applied for benefits, her house and bridge going to her house was destroyed. Have to go up the road a little bit to another bridge, take a road and then walk approximately 100 yards to the house. FEMA told her that since they cant get TO her house to check it out, she gets nothing. Wasnt willing to walk 100 yards across the field to go do an assessment. Absolutely a joke.
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@Rob_in_NC Same here when we got hit with tornadoes last summer. I cut trees until I almost passed out in the heat. Cedar trees kicked my ass.
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100% Money isn't in the cure, it's in the medicine. Most people wouldn't even need half those pills if they could put down the cake and pizza, and go walk a few miles and lift some weights.
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Yep... reading your post above mine reminded me of how our little town is. The elders direct and impart knowledge to the younger folks who hopefully carry on for the next generation.
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Hearing this crap makes my blood boil.
Ok, sorry didn't mean to get the thread going that way. Carry on!
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When I lived in Memphis the whole city would shut down over some freezing rain / sleet / snow for days. A quarter inch of snow and a cold spell was like Armageddon in 2014. No school, businesses shut down, pilots stranded, dogs and cats living together, pure mayhem. I was one of the few cars on the road with my all season tires. Cars in ditches and fields everywhere. Pickup trucks with a pile of salt and two guys with shovels in the back for snow removal 
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ha... yep. I come in with gloom and doom and tales of woe! We are recovering here, slowly! It was a wild year. I'd seen hail here 3-4 times in my life. All of it the size of an M&M or smaller. Then in March of last year we got hit with softball sized hail. No one had ever seen anything like that. Truck had over $6800 damage, house had over $16k damage. So builders in my area were busy and still some including me, wasnt able to get their roof fixed due to builders being swamped... then Helene hit and well... so it's been a domino effect here for the past year!Hearing this crap makes my blood boil.
Ok, sorry didn't mean to get the thread going that way. Carry on!
Thankfully, my house and shop were fine from Helene. Many trees down around the property, but all managed to miss my house and shop. No power for over 2 weeks and no internet for a month, but that was just an inconvenience. Ran a generator to keep the freezer alive.
The cold did bring some snow. We got about 3.5 inches. The most we've seen here since 2019. Was nice to see, but now I've seen it and am ready for it to go away and get green going around here!
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@Rob_in_NC I can recall working down in Sabine County after a decent hurricane hit SW Louisianan and SE Texas In 2020. I saw communities devastated by the hurricane and got nothing by way of FEMA while neighboring towns got aid and relief. I watched families rebuild their own properties. And when I say devestated I mean devastated. I actually pulled my chain out and hooked it to a section of a tree or two to help clear a roadway so people can have access to a road that I could easily bypass in a 4x4. I recall taking a generator down to one of my workers’ family that I found about 5 counties away on a return shelf because generators were all bought up in the region. Rural southern communities are built different.
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