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2024-09-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by NN2N1 2024-09-28 08:01|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 Are the Waffle Houses open? Usually a good metric.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-09-28 09:37|| 2024-09-28 09:37|| Front Page Top

#2 The 5 I have checked while looking for gas & ice were all closed 3pm yesterday... NO Power, now WATER, and cooked everything that would go bad.
Right now stinks works is running on turd gas.

Now imagine a No fossil fuel all solar USA running total electric having weather or major interstate.
issue

Posted by NN2N1 2024-09-28 10:04|| 2024-09-28 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 using rubber garden hoses with rope in them

Clever.

Neighborhoods holding community cook offs to use the thawing food.

That's the spirit.

Yeah, suddenly that electric chain saw is a fancy hacksaw.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-28 10:23|| 2024-09-28 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 FILL ANYTHING WE CAN.

Remember your water heater.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-09-28 10:50|| 2024-09-28 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 TIL you can shove a rope through a garden hose.

Posted by KBK 2024-09-28 11:50|| 2024-09-28 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 P2K- good call. That's why tankless water heaters are not a straight value replacement

Posted by Frank G 2024-09-28 12:12|| 2024-09-28 12:12|| Front Page Top

#7 "Who said anything about shove?"
/Kamala

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-28 12:24|| 2024-09-28 12:24|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ yeah, but she’s not there

Posted by KBK 2024-09-28 12:26|| 2024-09-28 12:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Was assisting a fellow wanting to run a CAT5 from his house to separate garage but didn't want stuff hanging, so we trenched about 50 feet for an underground conduit. He didn't want to do it in sections, being underground, so he got the lightest monofilament line he could, tied some fletching to the end, put a vacuum on one end flush and let it run a bit, then put that fletching at the open end, let it get sucked in a bit, then put a leaf blower at that end, and sucked the lead line through the conduit, and used it to pull the CAT5.

If the hose is being used to protect the rope from contact and abrasion, then they just need five or ten foot sections probably, which could be finagled by getting the hose stretched well in vertical and dropping a lead with a small fishing weight, or save a step and go straight to paracord or other rope small enough in diameter to not have to wrestle friction too much.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-28 12:49|| 2024-09-28 12:49|| Front Page Top

#10 dammit
For a minute there I thought I had a millionaire's invention for a miniature PIG for leading a conduit.

Been done.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-28 13:55|| 2024-09-28 13:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Club is down I guess. I wanted to get this out. Schwans the home delivery frozen food company was a family business. Investment group bought the family out and changed the name to Yellow. Now November 3rd a complete shut down in all areas of the United States. Perhaps sooner. I am not really sure I have the closure date or month correct.This is certain to happen in 2024.

Posted by Dale 2024-09-28 18:34|| 2024-09-28 18:34|| Front Page Top

#12
We bailed.
The GA & DC disaster response sucks.

Now 40+ hrs later I have found 3 Gas Station in the Augusta area working. The lines running hours long and lot of vehicles running out in line.

1 was operating 2 pumps using a portable gas generator in a real scary 3rd world setup.

I think I saw maybe 5 intersections with working Stoplights. Dozens of Stoplights on the ground.

Railroad traffic halting gates seem to drop.
despite no train.

Some more late ... we bailed.
Headed to Locust Grove, GA where everything is working. Yep! 158 miles NORTH of the Augusta area.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-09-28 19:20|| 2024-09-28 19:20|| Front Page Top

#13 O-club is shut down between 15 minutes after and 35 minutes after each even numbered hour.

This is done to enable repopulation of the database without interference from updates through the web interface. The o-club resides on the same server as Rantburg's live backups.

If you had waited one more minute, the o-club would not have been down.

Posted by badanov 2024-09-28 19:23|| 2024-09-28 19:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Harrowing tale, NN2N1 - thanks for the first hand reporting. Stay safe!!

Posted by KBK 2024-09-28 19:39|| 2024-09-28 19:39|| Front Page Top

#15 August Ga is mile markers 194 to 199 on I-20.
1st working and accessible gas station on between Augusta and Atlanta was mile marker 114 on I-20 Madison Ga.. There was a station at 138,but the police appear to have shut it down for local residents only. Greensboro was backed up 1/2 mile down the exit into the breakdown lane.

Madison had us in out of the LOVE"s Car/trucker type fuel station 20 mins.

Arby's took over 1 hr to place and get for an inside order and it.

All told it use about 4.5hrs to make the 2.25 trip.

The last update we read on the DISGUSTA GA Facebook site. Indicated power in remote areas like ours would not up til Oct 10th at the earliest.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-09-28 22:14|| 2024-09-28 22:14|| Front Page Top

#16 Glad to hear you found refuge, NN2N1.

Time to research generators and solar panels against future need?

But after reading Skidmark’s link about a flooded EV battery burning down the house in Florida, that’s clearly not something to keep in the garage if one lives in a flood plain or hurricane territory.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-28 22:25|| 2024-09-28 22:25|| Front Page Top

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