Deep Freeze

[Guest]

Haven't a clue...we don't participate......my wife believes our Mormon friends have the right idea: enough food in the pantry/freezer to feed your family for 2 years!

I always thought those folks had the right idea for provisions. I learned me lesson w/ Katrina. Got enough food and water for six months and enough weapons and ammo to last through Armageddon !!!

I heard "balls to the wall" was a railroad saying. The old steam engines had iron balls on the end of the throttle rods that protruded through the wall. Wide open was "balls to the wall". It should be, "balls THROUGH the wall".

 

[DNK]

That's why god invented natural gas. Don't need juice to cook, shower, or if you have gas fireplaces and stoves,heat your house.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, like I've said: Chicken Little was RIGHT: the sky IS falling!

..once again, it's back to chicken...

What would we do w/o this miraculous bird ?!?!?!?!?!

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Interesting how many of these posts turn into discussions about weapons...

 

[tony barnhill]

Interesting how many of these posts turn into discussions about weapons...

Well, I'll move it away....do folks your way stock up on milk, bread, & water before a snow?

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Knee-jerk reaction to the gloom and doom folks on TV! Universal, I suspect.

 

[tony barnhill]

If you'll notice, the problem is eleviated.

 

[swift6]

Colorado started burying power-lines long ago. Western Nebraska also has a lot of buried power-lines. Eastern Nebraska still gets plenty of ice storms too. Something the low humidity areas truly do not miss. :wink: My kin are all Lutheran and believe in well stocked pantries as well.

When visiting my Grandparents in Eastern Nebraska (Columbus/David City), snow was never an issue. Grandfather had plows and tractors and would clear the driveway and roads himself. He had livestock that he had to be able to reach and feed. Grandparents live in Kearney now, still have the well stocked pantry.

The ranch I grew up on in Wyoming was fairly isolated as well. When we lost electricity we used gas lamps, Coleman Lanterns and candles as well as the good old fireplace. The house also had LP for heat, hot water and cooking. It was also fairly common to enter the winter with a full freezer of Deer or Elk meat as well as beef. Rocky Mountain Oysters were a delicacy in the middle of winter when there were six foot drifts outside. One winter my dad had to ride a snowmobile 6 miles to the main house so he could get the D6 Caterpillar. He needed the D6 to dig out the Quonset Hut so he could get the feed for the cattle out. Those were the days... It was nice to have grown up with those experiences. Very glad I don't have to deal with it now.

With deference to Mickey, I' won't get into the firearms cache my dad kept on the ranch. :wink:

 

[Guest]

Knee-jerk reaction to the gloom and doom folks on TV! Universal, I suspect.

Nope, just reliable reports from trusted LE that are know persoanlly that were on the ground there and the ensueing madness that took place here.

Y'all just don't reaslize how fragile society really is. People get freaky when they aint got no food or power. Persoanlly, I don't see what the big deal is. ( I'm not talking about up there in the middle of winter, rather down here in our "bad season".) All I need is water, I can get the rest.

Trust me, you had to be there to understand.

The "problem" had to leave for a while, but I'm back now.

I'll take wet, hot and hungry over cold and hungry ANYDAY !!!!

I really feel for you yankees fellas !!!!

Snow is cool....on a postcard.

Down here, water is the key. I recon heat would be up there. With that, you can make all the water you need.

I guess y'all got it better. You can always burn wood from your house for heat, but you can't drink your shed.

 

[Guest]

On Yahoo's home page it says ND has a wind chill of 52......BELOW ZERO !!!!


Man that's cold !!!! I don't know how yew northren guys do it. I thinks me typin' fangers woulda fell of by -10.

 

[Basil]

I saw an interesting show on Nat Geo channel the other day about the Donner party. They had some guys who were retracing their steps and trying to live as they had to and eat what they had to eat. They were wearing calorie-burn monitors which indicated that, based on the efforts they were exerting and the calories they could intake, they were starving to death. They were burning more calories than they could replace, thus just got weaker and weaker. It was both a disturbing and a fascinating show,

 

[swift6]

That would have been interesting. That is also why so many people in isolated areas, where it snows heavily, have stocked pantries and freezers. Several people also have well stocked kits in their cars if they are travelling any sort of distance during the winter in those areas. Food, water, candles, blankets, extra cell phone batteries or old bag phones that can plug into the car (they will still work to call 911 and they are more powerful) etc...

 

[judow]

13 degrees at 8:35 AM. So much for theorizing. (Think the boss will catch this?)

 

[tony barnhill]

That would have been interesting. That is also why so many people in isolated areas, where it snows heavily, have stocked pantries and freezers. Several people also have well stocked kits in their cars if they are travelling any sort of distance during the winter in those areas. Food, water, candles, blankets, extra cell phone batteries or old bag phones that can plug into the car (they will still work to call 911 and they are more powerful) etc...

When we lived in Alaska, our car contained all sorts of stuff in case we got stuck somewhere.

 

[Basil]

13 degrees at 8:35 AM. So much for theorizing. (Think the boss will catch this?)

yep 13 is what my cars outside temp indicator was reading when I drove to work this AM. It was also snowing when I left the house.

 

[DNK]

You have a job?

 

[BIBBER]

:lol: ....oh never mind...my original reply had MAJOR debate written all over it!!!

 

[Basil]

You have a job?

Not sure. I show up at this place and push piles of paper from one side of my desk to another and every couple of weeks money shows up in my bank account.

 

[GregW]

If you could just get rid of that first part, you'd be set!

 

[bgbassplyr]

quote=GregW]If you could just get rid of that first part, you'd be set! [/quote]


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