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Detroit area suburb Had to drop by CVS today for a prescription and I waited until early afternoon at the slowest time (per Google) to go. There were probably 6-8 customers there at the time and more than half of them were wearing masks and/or gloves. The line for prescriptions had tape on the floor...

I’ve been collecting 18650 batteries and plan on making a huge power bank and running a bunch of small 800-1500w wind turbines, and one larger 3+kw turbine. You might look into old battery packs out of hybrid cars to use for your solar project. You can check around on the web to find info about doi...

A few weeks ago I headed off to my parents' house to help them get ready for a move. Since they were planning to give me a pile of stuff while I was there (including a large saw), I cleared out most of the preps/gear from the back of my Suburban to make room (I came back with it completely full of s...

raptor wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:56 pm

Queen. Don't stop me now...

I can't ever hear this song without thinking about the scene from Shaun of the Dead.

Locally meat prices have shot through the roof, especially beef. Cube Steak at Publix was $17/lb. Other stores were the same. That indicates there might be some kind of issue; but I am not sure what the issue might be. I am not going to pay that much and I don't have to. My guess is that the rate a...

I just placed an order with Amazon. The shipments are delayed a bit (taking 3-10 days rather than 1-2), but nothing saying that they won't ship. I did have the option to delay shipment for part of the order so that it could be bundled with other items. Since none of it is critical, I was fine with t...

Detroit area - Hit up Target for a few items tonight. TONS of toilet paper in stock (to the point where it was hanging about 4 inches off the edge of the shelves). Soap had been hit hard, but there was still quite a bit there, both in bar and liquid form. All of the alcohol wipes, rubbing alcohol, e...

When bringing in some groceries last week, a can of tuna fell and dented rather badly. It wasn't leaking, so I decided to use it for dinner. While spelunking in my pantry, I found an old box of Tuna Helper along with some old cans of tuna. Hmmm... You need two cans of tuna to make it, so this was a ...

Central Michigan area Spent the day helping my parents get ready for a move and we stopped at the local Home Depot for boxes while I was there. As we were checking out I had to laugh - not only did they have antibacterial surface wipes, but they had a whole display of them and they were on sale . Th...

Stercutus wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 03, 2020 5:39 pm

It struck early in the morning and few people got warnings.

THIS ^^^ is why you should have a weather alert radio which is always running in standby mode!

I am not seeing panic buying where I live, but I am seeing impressive numbers here following the request that american citizens have a two to three week supply of food and medicines and 'necessarys'. Pretty similar here in Michigan. I went to Sam's Club on Saturday evening. It was a bit of a mess (...

Stopped at my local Sam's here in Michigan on Saturday evening. Looked pretty normal to me. A few empty spots here and there, but that's par for the course. They still had the big containers of hand sanitizer, an entire end rack of sanitizing wipes, lots of water, etc.. Of course, there haven't been...

I also ordered a Mora Garberg back in December at a similar price. Never showed up and no response from seller, with hundreds of people basically saying the same thing. When I initiated the request for refund from Amazon it took less than 60 seconds to be approved! Amazon must've had them flagged as...

Bought some tote bins to do some organizing. Without even planning to do so, I bought the exact same one that I use in the back of my Suburban. Didn't even realize it until I loaded the new ones in there, at which point I started laughing. It appears that I'm fairly consistent with my likes/dislikes...

I have an Olight I3S EOS on my keychain. I keep it as a backup to my main light (ZebraLight SC600 Mk IV), in case the battery died or I lost it. Sort of a two is one, one is none sort of thing. Not a fan of the light on my phone because it takes too long to get it out and use it. Gotta get the phone...

Used my Suburban for a week's worth of "camping" in northern Michigan this past fall. Nice to just be able to pull in to a campground, plug in a cord to run some lights/laptop (I stayed in RV slots in the campgrounds), put in my window blocks (foil/bubble wrap type of insulation, painted very light ...

NONE of the prices you have listed are showing or even close. They were at the time, as I was able to go out and look at them. Decided against it, since I felt that the number of calories wasn't really enough to justify the purchase, even at that reduced price. I think that the fruit one only had a...

You might check with the folks on either Candlepowerforums or Budgetlightforums. There are lots of people there who mod flashlights and would probably be able to give you some expert advice on how to disassemble/fix/reassemble your light.

Seriously $100 for 2 air filter replacements.:? That would be a bargain for my car, given that it takes about 90 minutes to do the cabin air filter. You have to remove the glove box, half of the trim on the passenger side, the fuse panel (I wish I were joking), and then deal with stacked air filter...

At $71 each, I think I'll have to find something else to use for my Devo costume...

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It slipped in unnoticed but the Chinese have cancelled all tariffs on pork and soy. This is a "good faith" gesture for negotiating with the US over tariffs and has nothing to do with their population starving this winter. When I saw the news about the tariffs being cancelled and the "reason" for it...

New off road tires is on my list for my Jeep. I want to get the Patagonia M/T tires. Doing a tune up and replacing one of the upstream O2 sensors today. Trying to improve my mpg. It's brutal. I'm driving from gas station to gas station. lol. Yeah, there were two options for the Grabber A/Tx tires -...

Just got some new General Grabber A/Tx tires on my Suburban. The old tires (Bridgestone Dueller A/T) still had tread left on them, but they were very old and the previous owner stored the truck outdoors, so I decided to replace them just to be on the safe side. So far I've only driven from the shop ...

There's also the 30 Days 30 Ways preparedness challenge, with daily challenges (and an overall competition which you can enter) relating to preparedness.

Blog at: http://www.30days30ways.com/ and their Facebook page.