Hurricane Advice

[theuglyduckling]

you really do not want to leave there do you

haha leave where?

 

[Ursuline Chick]

yuk Point was that a laundry bag, the netted kind can hold SEALED containers and add shelf life. Tied off to a tree or something. Depending on how wide the stream or creek was you might be able to fashion some kind of spring house using a cooler or something similar. Or you could divert the water with a log or something... dig a trench in a U shape and divert water into the trench and put a cooler over it. then store your sealed containers on the ground inside the cooler. Not great but would probably buy you a few more days of shelf life.

Was thinking the spring house idea would keep food out of water, and work kind of like a ice chest, just not as cool inside. Great idea!!

 

[Ursuline Chick]

People are funny and often don't think of their surroundings. We went without power for two weeks in the dead of winter a few years back. Folks were throwing away their freezer food in 50 gallon bags. Me, I stuck all my coolers into the snow and unloaded the freezers into them. I didn't lose a thing.

Smart man, people are so lost when something happens. It was funny how much different a hurricane in 1965 was from 2005. People used their heads' and helped each other out.

 

[theuglyduckling]

Hey...my dogs totally understand me when I talk to them.
My chickens..not so much.

What do you guys talk about?lol

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Probably tomorrow nights dinner, so the dog knows what he will have as the plate scrappings.

 

[pennyJo1960]

haha leave where?

I do not have a good answer to that ...

 

[Peeps61]

haha leave where?

Puerto Rico

 

[NanaKat]

Home from surgery and doing great.
Had a young couple come by this evening to pick up two duck hens to add to their flock.
Discussion included PR...they have a friend contracted for a year to work in PR on the electric repair.
She had been military posted in New Orleans when she was 19 doing search and rescue. She is in her 30s. Rita hit while she was there and the team she was with had to re-search the area for more survivors among those who had returned to their homes.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Home from surgery and doing great.
Had a young couple come by this evening to pick up two duck hens to add to their flock.
Discussion included PR...they have a friend contracted for a year to work in PR on the electric repair.
She had been military posted in New Orleans when she was 19 doing search and rescue. She is in her 30s. Rita hit while she was there and the team she was with had to re-search the area for more survivors among those who had returned to their homes.

If you see or hear from her again, please thank her from those of us in NOLA, we really could not have made it with out the military and national guard. We will always be greatful to all of them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

think I am going to turn in for the night here been a long day