That yesterday’s post would be the last one about last week’s storm, but I keep finding stuff that I think you all might find interesting.
First, let me throw some links out there for you:
James Wesley Rawles of SurvivalBlog fame has a book out titled “Retreats and Relocation” . Maybe something good to think about for those who have their small scale disaster plans in order and are ready to plan for the big ones.
Co-worker Paul sent me this link to SurvivalMonkey and a tale which pretty accurately describes what life would be like after a massive EMP blast called “Light’s Out” by someone calling themselves Halffast. Good reading if you have a decent scrolling mouse.
An important notice for folks who may not know this as of yet: SurplusRifle.Com will be going dark in 100 days. Stop by there as soon as you have time and snap up as much info as you need.
As you probably know by now, John from JustSomePoorSchmuck is 911 dispatcher from Oregon. His area was effected by last week’s storm as well. Head on over here to get the take from his end of it.
And back to SurvivalBlog with a first-hand account of the storm from a SeaTacMetro area peace officer posted by JWR.
And as a general announcement, I have found the missing parts of the “By Ourselves, For Ourselves” series and should have it up on the 26th of this month. Think of it as a Christmas Present from me to you.
Lastly, I wanted to wait a couple days to verify all of this before handing it out there, but folks who hand’t brought their Christmas Turkeys before the storm may be out of luck unless the stores in this area get an emergency shipment in soon.
My company is dumping hundreds of tons of tossed frozen food from supermarkets. Apparently, there is a law in Washington State mandating that if a store is without electricity for 18 hours, they have to toss the food, even if it was stored in their main freezer and never got above 28 degrees.
I have been speaking to store managers when they call in for service, and more than a few of them were sending employees out with five and ten gallon fuel cans for diesel to power their generators to try and avoid having to lose their entire frozen food inventory. Some employees drove as far as 30 miles away multiple times to fill up fuel containers.
We have had at least a half dozen six and eight cubic yard containers full of tossed beef, pork, fish and poultry that have been too heavy for the trucks to lift over the top. At least one pitiable sucker has had to climb on/into the box and start tossing the contents over the side into a freshly delivered box. The others we had the available space to hook a cable onto it and tip it over. Then the folks who work at those places have had to shovel the knee deep meat into second boxes.
I did crappy jobs in high school, but none of them involved wading knee deep in dead animal pieces.
The residential drivers are picking up near-record amounts extra cans and bags of trash this week as well from people clearing out the contents of their refrigerators and freezers. Usually it is the week after Christmas that is the heavy one for the resi-guys. Looks as though they’re getting a double shot to close out 2007.
The rats at the dump are going have a very Merry Christmas.
