I bought some bulk rice and beans at Sam's Club.
I had thought to separate them into smaller vacuum sealed bags but I've been reading that this might cause some fungus to grow.
I have 25lb bags of rice, black beans and I plan to get some more.
What do you guys do?
I saw a discussion on Twitter about it. If this guy had a better connection to the generator I'd feel better about it.
I'm probably going obsess about it like I do other things even though I have no place to work on it yet.
This thread reminds me I need to replace some capacitors on an old Zenith Shortwave receiver I have,
The problem as I see it with Faraday cages is that your devices have to be in them when the EMP happens.
If they're inside of the faraday cage you won't be able to use them. If the cage is...
This is a blog written by a guy I know from Twitter. Joe Dolio (@DolioJ) is a retired Marine MP. Pretty interesting guy to talk to.
I also have a copy of his book, "Baseline Training Manual".
Joe's got a theory that society anywhere can collapse within 72 hours.
He's laying out the...
I've been thinking about setting up a YouTube channel for people of a certain demographic who have trouble dealing with technology. I'm 57 and I actually get along fine with it.
I'm going to talk to them this weekend. I will pass along all of comments in this thread. I hope they never have to evacuate for her sake again.
Thanks guys.
I'm not referring to civil unrest types of SHTF although this could be part of the scenario.
I have some friends who live near Seattle.
There is a wild fire up there. To add to the misery, the power went off. They had to go outside and sit in the car with the AC on because the wife is a stage...
I completely forgot about the Folding@Home project.
Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. As of today, the project is using the idle resources of...
This may be a minor thing; I plan to get a backup battery to run my cable modem and router on.
Most of your cell phones these days have a feature called "Wifi Calling".
I tried this out over the weekend. I turned on the Wifi Calling feature on my Samsung S5. I turned off the cellular part of...