Picture A Day – 8 September 2009

By Parrothead Jeff, on 9 September 2009

8 August 2009 - Preparing with the help of Wal Mart

So, I’m starting to get myself prepared for possible nightmare scenarios which I hope never hope come to pass. Hey, don’t laugh – an extended power outage is nothing to sneeze at and what if the water stops flowing? Yeah, not fun.

I ended up at Wal Mart yesterday and picked up some cup of noodles, a gallon of water (there’s more bottles in the cooler), canned food, a flint/magnesium fire starter, a good quality, long lasting spork, a single burner propane stove which attaches directly to a small propane cylinder, and a single mantle, subcompact propane lantern.

I’ve already got a sleeping bag, tent, and a chair, so I should be good for a while. And I’ve also got a few guns

One other thing I just remembered – I also have an inverter For those of you who don’t know what it is, an inverter changes DC current (your car battery produces DC power) to AC current which is what you get from your wall outlets in your home. Mine connects to the cigarette lighter socket in my car and allows me to recharge things like my cellphone, ham radio, rechargeable AA batteries for the GPS and digital camera to name a few. Never a bad idea to have an inverter on hand

Here’s hoping I only use these things for fun and familiarization

Have fun and get prepared

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Kath

September 9th, 2009 at 1758 · Reply

And the food for Ziva, where’s that?

And my little eyes spy a basketball in there, too!!

Parrothead Jeff

September 10th, 2009 at 0024 · Reply

Well, Ziva would likely be just fine – she can go for 2 weeks without food without a real problem The problem would be finding a way to keep her food either alive or frozen – and I only feed frozen/thawed.

That basketball needs a bit of a boost in air pressure, but it’s in my car because I’ve never taken it out after it was given to me by the top sales guy at Ed Bozarth Chevrolet I also figure there may come a time when a bit of a diversion would be welcome