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The Voice of Labor posted:what's the general take on caffeine preparedness? Pills are super cheap. It’s a couple dollars for 2-3 months worth at walmart and it has a shelf-life of years. Definitely easy enough to have a supply capable of tapering off on if that’s your worry.
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Pills are also pre-measured and easy to cut up to get smaller doses. A tub of caffeine isn't as easy to dose.
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Ok, so dumb question time: Texas totally poo poo the bed last week. If this happens again and power and gas and water are out what's the best way to keep 1 room indoors warm? We isolated the master bathroom/bath so we would have a toilet to use without opening up to the cold rest of the house, hung blankets over the window, stayed in it and it was still low 40s in there after 40+ hours of no furnace going. We burned the candles we had, but that barely seemed to help at all with the heat. (Though maybe it did, the rest of the house was 34ish degrees when power came back). Is there something I can buy or could have done better?
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ASAPI posted:Generators for space heaters if your situation allows. A tent can actually help, even indoors. Pile blankets over it to create a sort of “yurt”. The additional layers will help insulate. Cool, we were already planning on generator. Because there's also hurricanes here we were thinking of getting one that ties into our natural gas line and has a backup of propane. Is there anything specific I need to know about storing/stockpiling propane in case the gas goes out?
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Dumb question time: if you're going to rotate your stored water what's the best way to make sure the container is clean before you refill? Soap and water? Bit of bleach and a rinse?
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ASAPI posted:Star san! It's commonly used for brewing, it sanitises and doesn't leave a nasty taste! this is perfect, thanks!
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CopperHound posted:Jesus Christ, can we go back to talking about first aid? Tourniquet, gauze, compression bandage required imo. Gloves, silver sharpie (writes better on more surfaces/skin types than black), hemostatic gauze secondary, but very nice if you need them. In my backpack I keep a small ifak that has tourniquet, 6"compression bandage, hemostatic gause, regular gauze, silver sharpie, strap cutter, shears, tiny window breaker, gloves, and some hand sanitizer (for me if I need to use it). I've needed it one time, person I was with got bit by a dog really badly, blood was spurting everywhere. Slapped the compression bandage on the hand, stopped the bleeding very fast. If you've taken no first aid classes I'd highly recommend checking out stop the bleed before you buy anything https://www.stopthebleed.org/ They put on free classes all over the country. Go there, try the things firsthand, then figure out what you need. You may also want to check out something like the throw kits from NARescue https://www.narescue.com/kit-individual-throw-basic.html They come vacuum sealed with the basics, there's several tiers of them, and you can stash them wherever you need. Edit: also never buy medical poo poo in Amazon, it's rife with fakes. L0cke17 fucked around with this message at 03:37 on May 21, 2022 |
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Owlbear Camus posted:So I am stocking my basement in case a major storm or something would necessitate me and my family to shelter in place for one to two weeks. If you just want phone power a small solar panel plus a couple of small battery packs will likely cost you less than $100 and be fine for phones, but not much more
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