I went out yesterday morning to top off the fuel in both cars and to get some additional bottled water. It was quite busy, but not too crazy. For grins I filled up a spare propane cylinder, and business at the hardware store was quite brisk, they were on their second refill of their 2000 gallon tank that day.
The locals, that is, those of us who have been here for a while, are already prepared. The “new” people here are the ones freaking out and getting all crazy, mainly because they either haven’t prepared in advance and/or are whipped into a frenzy by the media, or both. Depending on how close the eye wall gets to us, we could see sustained winds well above 100-120 mph for a period of time. The farther we are from the eye the better. I’ll be putting up storm panels on the windows this morning, then I’m pretty much done. At this point we’ve got a couple weeks of power, food and water, so we’re good as long as the structure survives. I’ve got to get the chainsaw out and check it, and I’ve got a number of tarps in the event there is any roof damage. If we can keep the envelope of the house intact it’s all good. Our utilities are underground and fed off loop feeders, so there will have to be some pretty severe damage to the infrastructure to take us completely offline. Gotta get some breakfast and get to work before the fun begins.. -D > On Sep 26, 2022, at 10:03 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Yeah they all go buy tons of TP, milk, bread, and bottled water. Smart ones > get beer wine and likka too > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Sep 26, 2022, at 9:41 PM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I can well imagine that the vast majority of humanity down there does not >> approach this as calmly as y’all do. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
