No lengthy post today. Its my day off and Im in the bunker doing inventory and straightening up.However, feel free to continue the Mormon flamewar a few posts back if youre bored.
Notes From The Bunker
No lengthy post today. Its my day off and Im in the bunker doing inventory and straightening up.However, feel free to continue the Mormon flamewar a few posts back if youre bored.
Too bad you can’t harness those flame wars to help heat the house in the winter 😉
shoot, if that were the case we’d have an abundance of heat, courtesy of usenet. ::snicker::
Ahha! So that’s what’s been causing Global Warming™ 😉
No flamewar here, I meant the following in a recent entry of yours, so I’ll post it here now that my computer is done hiccuping—it’s a temporary solution to the topographic map problem you wrote of.
Montana (and many other states) have geographic data available online, topos exist for the Big Sky state, they’re located here; http://nris.state.mt.us/gis/default.htm
PCI Geomatics makes a viewer for these files, named Geomatica Freeview. It’s available here; http://www.pcigeomatics.com/products/freeview.html
Nothing fancy and certainly under-optioned.
Whatever topo software you settle on, it should read GEOTIFF file format (TIFF), USGS topos are produced in this format (as well as Digital Raster Graphics, or DRG), in fact many rastergeographic products are found as GEOTIFFS—this way you won’t get pigeonholed into some proprietary format.
Getting my Zero on…
I live in Houston, and we are facing the ass-end of Hurricane Rita. I am ready to shelter in place or bug out, but have yet to make the decision, I am waiting to see where the storm goes. I will make the decision as to what I am going to do tomorrow morning.
What’s funny now is the same people who used to giggle about “Mr. Survival” are now at my desk asking me for lists of hurricane supplies and how-to/where-to guides.
One thing that I haven’t seen much of are people discussing what to do with pets in a SHTF situation, I have laid on a supply of dry dog food and dog meds, and purchased pet backpacks so my dogs can hump their own gear. I would not leave my dogs behind, they are a natural alarm/attack system and besides, they are great for spotting Terminators.
Crom
Re: Getting my Zero on…
To my way of thinking, and I know that alot of people dont think this way, pets (especially cats) are expendable. If its a choice between me and my loved ones getting somewhere 100% safely without the pet versus only 80% because compromises had to be made for the pet, well, adios Fluffy.
On the other hand, if youre going to shelter in place or are stocking a retreat, then, sure, make all the allowances for the pet.
Im just thinking of the people who didnt evacuate because they didnt want to leave their cat or dog. Im sure the cat reeeeeeally appreciates the thought.
Sorry: just got a visual on “Mormon flame war”.
“Damn! We’re running low on Mormons! And the last guy we fired out of the catapult didn’t light up well and just kind of smoked his way over the wall!”
(Commander Zero shrugs)
“Try some of those Episcopalians next, then: they look pretty dry!”
Youre trying way too hard.
Re: Getting my Zero on…
We have bugged out of Houston, but our first stop may not be far enough now that the hurricane has shifted direction. We are about 60 miles northwest of the city and are out in the country with some family. The folks here want to risk it on the highways but I think we are going to hunker down and ride out the windstorm. This far in we still will have 75 mph winds but it’s survivable.
I agree that cats are totally expendable, and marginal eatin’ provided you have lots of hot sauce.
The best thing about where we are at right now is that we are way out in the middle of nowhere, and the main currents of traffic won’t bring most of the desperate folks here. There are a few people who live near here, but they all know each other well and are already banding together with generators, supplies, rifles and should be able to repel anyone uninvited.
Personally, I have an AK. I know there are lots of AR fans here but this is a genuine SHTF situation and I need a rifle that’s 100% dependable. I have the synthetic stock so water won’t be a problem. Handgun-wise I am carrying my .357 Model 66, ultrareliable revolver with Hydra-Shoks so again, wind and rain are not a problem. Ammo is not a problem, I have 2500+ rounds in the back of my Expedition – I couldn’t leave behind any ordnance – and we have 3 weeks of food and water ourselves, not counting what our family here has. This is going to suck, and I will not rebuild here again.
Thanks CZ – I might not be as well off as I am now if I hadn’t been a regular reader here. We most likely will not have a house to return to, but thanks to some of the info here we will survive.
Crom