Cold and clear today, same as yesterday.<\/p>\n
34F when I went to bed, supposed to be LOW of 36F according to the weather liars.<\/p>\n
Did my stuff yesterday, got most of it done.\u00a0 The big disappointment was the sump pump battery backup.\u00a0 No battery.\u00a0 Still, I’ve got batteries and the rest is ok.<\/p>\n
Today the family is driving 3 hours north to look at some property on a lake.\u00a0 I really like the looks of the property, wooded, two lots totaling 11 acres (one on the lake, one behind that lot) right up close to a national forest.\u00a0 The house is really odd, and the lake has some restrictions that my wife doesn’t love.\u00a0 The question is, bug out location or vacation lake house?\u00a0 Which is primary?\u00a0 We’ll see.\u00a0 Events elsewhere may push my wife more toward BOL.<\/p>\n
I don’t know what’s happening in DC but it’s got the whole country nervous as hell.\u00a0 At least the half that pays attention.\u00a0 LOTS of people are paying a whole lot more attention now.\u00a0 Several people on my rounds today were watching carefully and there is a lot of head shaking once you engage with them.<\/p>\n
And that’s just one reason why KNOWING where you can go if you have to go is essential.\u00a0 Currently, I don’t plan to leave, and that’s mostly because I don’t have anywhere to go.\u00a0 It’s also because no matter what happens, Texas is probably a good place to be.\u00a0 I’m thinking Chicago, Baltimore, Philly, DC, all the usual suspects are NOT going to be good places to be.\u00a0 If you live in a sh!thole city, you might want to consider a plan that is just “that Bayfront motel at the intersection of x and y” in a small town 3 hours away, with a storage unit and some minimal sustainment supplies.\u00a0 That would be a huge step in the right direction.\u00a0 It might not hurt to have that storage unit in a company name, prepaid for a while, either.<\/p>\n
In fact, maybe working out a list of what I’d stash in the smallest available storage unit would be a good idea.\u00a0 You can fit a lot in 4 or 8 black tubs.<\/p>\n
Get to thinkin’.\u00a0\u00a0 Get to stackin’.<\/p>\n
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Cold and clear today, same as yesterday.<\/p>\n
34F when I went to bed, supposed to be LOW of 36F according to the weather liars.<\/p>\n
Did my stuff yesterday, got most of it done.\u00a0 The big disappointment was the sump pump battery backup.\u00a0 No battery.\u00a0 Still, I’ve got batteries and the rest is ok.<\/p>\n
Today the family is driving 3 hours north to look at some property on a lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n