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Trip to Seattle was uneventful Zero-wise although there were a few learning experiences. Small Motorola 2-way radios are ideal for those 2am highway rest-stop breaks….while one person stays in the locked vehicle keeping an eye open, the other person can then use the restrooms knowing that they’ll be alerted if someone else shows up….and forewarned is forearmed. Paranoid? I dont think so…highway rest stops are notorious for evil things happening.
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Mount St. Helen’s didnt explode while we were out there, so thats always kinda nice.
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So Im in the bunker last night putting away the parachute flares and its painfully obvious that my storage needs (and organizational needs) are simply not being met. What I need to do, and I know Im gonna hate this, is completely move everything out of the bunker and start over from scratch in terms of shelving and stacking…..Yeah, thats whats gonna have to be done. Its going to be a mondo pain in the ass but things need to be organized in such a manner that I can tell at a glance whats what and where it is.
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The Seattle trip puts me in mind to put together a box of ‘long road trip’ gear that can be added/removed from the vehicle depending on the nature of the lenght of the trip. That is to say, for a trip to Seattle you toss it in the back of the truck, strap it down and go….but for the next six months of around-town driving it can be removed and sit at the house until its needed for the next trip. (There is, of course, a certain amount of gear thats always present in the truck..first aid, sleeping bag, fireextinguisher, etc, etc.)
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Picked up five LEO-marked GLock 19 mags yesterday 🙂 🙂 🙂 $20 ea. The 20 Ruger 10/22 mags and 10 Glock 17 mags should be here soon as well. What an impotent ten years that was, limited to ten-rounds because somehow cops needed 15-rounds but civillians only needed 10. This reminds me of The Great Primer Scare from many years ago…..a rumour was circulating that the .gov was leaning on the manufacturers to produce primers that would go inert after 6 months…this way people couldnt stockpile ammo. Never mind that its kind tough to make a primer that’ll expire in 6 months and not in 5 1/2 months. Anyway, for a few months you could not buy primers no matter where you went. People were stocking up and hoarding them so theyd be ahead of this new ‘expiring’ primer. Well, the rumour eventually fizzled and availability/pricing of primers went back to normal. But just to play it safe I still have about 15,000 primers sitting on my reloading bench as a ‘reserve’. I plan on doing the same thing with these newly-available magazines….no way Im getting caught flat-footed if those weasels in Washington try this sorta crap again.
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A source may have opend up for 26.5mm flares at a decent price. These are needed for my HK flare pistols. Must stay on top of this.
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Hunting season approaches!

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  1. Poindexter is imagining scenarios for playing SWAT with the radios at rest stops at 2am:

    Poindexter: “OK, you’re clear, whip it out.”
    Evelynne: HAHAHAHA
    Poindexter: “INBOUND ASIAN MALE FROM THE SOUTH!!! ABORT! ABORT!”

  3. Hey, I’m not saying that the radios aren’t a good/useful thing to have, just that you can have some fun with ’em when the situation is not a dangerous one. You’re no fun. 😛 What do you do with ’em? Are they emergency use only?

  4. Also, if there are bloodgangs prowling a bombed-out Philadelphia I expect to be dead. I’m deaf and essentially blind. I’m useless.

  5. I’m sure the post apocolyptic bloodgangs of inner Philly would find a reason to keep a hottie like you around. I know *I* would if I were in the aboe mentioned demographic. Rrarrr!

  8. We used them to keep ‘watch.’ We stop at an empty rest stop at 2am, and I stay in the truck with one radio while he goes inside. Then if (a) some crazy person comes over and starts beating on the truck windows or (b) someone looks suspicious (say, pops up from around back of the building) and follows John into the restroom, I can let him know. And vice versa. Restrooms at rest stops are creepy – it would be very easy for someone to hide in a stall and wait.

  11. Oh, I get that part. But what do you do when there is nobody suspicious around? Do you chat? I take it you don’t play SWAT like Poindexter would. 🙂 Maybe you will now. 😉

  13. I am NOT going to play grasshopper to you two ants, but thank you ever so much for the offer. I’ll be sure to visit. I expect I’ll have more time to do that in a post-apocalyptic world.

  14. Oh no. We are private bathroom people. We dont’ talk about what goes on in there. We CERTAINLY don’t communicate via radio unless the situation is a dire emergency! :p

  16. Share and share alike, I’m closer to Philly.

    And you can’t say Kiltman anymore. DJ owns a kilt, and you said “we” meaning you will share…. think about it.

  17. I wouldn’t feel right with you sharing the stores you and John worked so hard to put by! I suppose if the apocalypse happens in the summer, I can work to make my own share of the food as I go, and I’ll always be happy to make or fetch sandwiches. 🙂

  18. Rest Stop Restrooms

    I was in Brewster, NY on I-684 Northbound, and needed to make use of the Rest Stop that’s just south of the I-84/I-684 interchange. I walk in to the men’s rest room to see a line in front of this stall that had two sets of legs sticking out of bottom and noises you generally hear during porno movies.

    I palmed the 16″ ASP Baton I used to carry back in the day, and edged my way back out the door so I could an eye not only on the line in front of the stall, but also on the door in case someone else decided to come in to join the party. Made it back to the car without incident, and went to the much nicer I-84 Eastbound rest stop in Danbury, CT. (That is usually staffed 24/7.)

    I later found out that the NYS DOT closed down the I-684 Northbound rest stop for a while allegedly because the homosexuals were using it instead of a hotel.

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