He’s already wearing single shoulder pads and packing a wrist-mounted crossbow. The “juice” is out there in the Wastelands, and it’s all going to be his.
I wouldn’t worry a whole lot about the wind strength on this one. It’s weakened to a cat 2. The biggest issue will be rainfall if it parks itself. As long as you have some elevation and your trees are well rooted, you should be fine. Just get some beans and shotgun shells ready. The issue won’t be stocking up on food now...it will be immediately after the storm when people invade the piggly wiggly and clean it the fuck out. Restocking will take up to a week and restaurants will be limited or completely out of food.
So yeah... ToyToy has his baseball cards, and I have my woodworking tools. Just picked up a couple of barely used, high quality planes, for a crazy good price... like 60+% off. Super excited to get a hold of them... a small rabbet plane, and a medium shoulder plane. Fuck yeah... I'm gonna plane the shit outta that wood... you just wait and see.
Isn't that the point, though? People are stocking up for 3-4 days without power. You're going to have to drink that gallon of milk Day 1 so it doesn't spoil. I would think it'd be better to stock up on things that will actually sustain you through the outage. Nett's point about just blindly buying things that look like they're running out is a good one. I hadn't considered it. I wonder if these stores slow their perishable orders ahead of these storms so they don't have a bunch of stock that goes bad? It seems like they certainly sell enough of it. Projected winds have dropped by about 5-10 mph. Rainfall projections have gone from 10" to 20" to 6" and now back to around 10-12". Nobody knows. I have booze and beer and sufficient food and my girlfriend is baking a cake for my birthday so we'll hunker down and ride this bitch out.
Yeah, definitely not logical, but who knows what people think. The time to prepare is always yesterday. Im not a prepper, but we have a pantry where we keep canned goods that we slowly cycle through every 6 months or so. This is one storm, I shudder to think what people would do if there was a large scale black out or grid collapse from a solar flare or something. Relevant:
Bread and milk are also items with short shelf lives that the stores turnover frequently. Just having everyone get their normal groceries all on the same day would probably clear most stores out.
Yeah, I think they said it was 32 34 miles off shore. Hurricanes generally travel between 10 to 35mph depending on severity, so that might be a 2-3 hour preview of what's coming to shore.
Everyone here is thinking 4pm at the latest. Right now, it’s gotten pretty windy and a lot of thunder, but nothing else so far.
The wind right now is simply breezy, nothing to write home about yet. I give it until about 8pm when power goes out.