Each box contains a portable two-way radio (think Walkie-Talkie), a light, clipboards with paper forms and mechanical pencils. The city has 74 boxes in total, distributed throughout different sections of the city, which are dubbed “zones” and clustered into 13 “Emergency Preparedness Areas.”

The basic plan goes like this: In the event of a disaster that lays waste to the town and impairs standard communication lines, those who are able will assemble at the boxes. The first person to arrive will be named a “zone leader.”

The residents will use the clipboards and paper to assess the damage at each house in the neighborhood. Their findings will be relayed to the city via the radios. The city can then deploy emergency resources to the places most in need.

I actually kinda like this idea, although, really, any group..family, congregation, tribe, clan, cell, whatever…should already have several rally points assigned and stocked ‘just in case’. If Utah really wanted to go nuts, they’d do like the Japanese and have their parks double as emergency facilities with wells, toilet facilities, cooking areas, etc.

But, I gotta give credit to those fun-lovin’ Mormons…they don’t screw around when it comes to the preparedness stuff.

Every family or other group unit should have at least a couple ‘rally points’ or ‘meetup areas’ designated and stocked as prudently as possible.

To other Second Amendment activists, gun control restrictions marginalize Black Americans and have historically been racist.

“Gun control in this place called America was created to stop melanated beings from having the means to exercise their human right,” political activist Maj Toure told Fox News Digital.

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Geneva Solomon, the co-owner of Black-owned Redstone Firearms in Los Angeles County’s Burbank, agreed with Toure’s comments. She said, “the gun control laws here are set up and intended to disproportionately affect those within the minority communities.”

She pointed to California’s complicated process of getting a concealed carry permit, saying single, Black parents in the state, for example, may have difficulty proving they have “good cause” for gun ownership.

“If the single parent is walking home and can’t prove that they’re ‘important’ by having money or high-value items taken from them, it may be really hard,” Solomon told Fox News Digital. “Which goes back to the ‘just cause’ requirement of the insurance of the CCW. Having ‘just cause’ is too big of a gray area. That means it’s up for interpretation of the person interviewing you and can lead to underlying bias.”

I suppose the more cynical and less-Woke might opine that according to crime statistics, “melanated beings” seem to have plenty of access to guns, thank you very much.

In this current atmosphere of culture war, there is very little in the political world that cant be recast as an identity-political issue. Why should guns be any different? In the past, some municipalities passed ‘gun control’ that would prohibit guns made out of ‘pot metal’ (aka Zamac and similar) in order to prohibit ‘cheap’ guns (aka ‘Saturday Night Specials’). If you’re a person-of-melanation then, according to the woke, youre a victim of ‘entrenched racism’ and ‘white supremacy’ and therefore don’t have the ‘privilege’ of being able to afford a Glock or Sig. So, all thats left to you is the cheap stuff like Rohm, RG, HiPoint, Lorcin, Bryco, Jennings, and the usual suspects you see in evidence lockers across America.

The reality is, any schmuck who can hold down a minimum wage job can afford a HiPoint within a month. Give up the cigarettes and beer and you can pick up a used Ruger or Taurus within six weeks.

But the article wasnt really about the affordability of guns, but rather the difficulty the melanated have in accessing them. But isn’t that what those same Democrat supporters (and, yes, I’m making an assumption that in that particular state most melanated beings are going to vote for the Democrats) wanted all along? A Byzantine government permission system for ‘controlling’ guns? Careful what you ask for.

Ah, California….every time I think you’ve woke yourself into a new depth of stupidity, you one-down me.

The new law will ban the sale of all off-road, gas-powered engines, including generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers, and even golf carts.

California, a state with a history of disaster due to being situated on the terrestrial equivalent of Jell-O, has decided that any new generator you buy can’t run on a gas engine. So, when ‘the big one’ finally hits you’re supposed to haul out your Newsom-approved generator that runs on unicorn flatus and .gov overreach.

As the article says, it bans the sale of new gas powered non-vehicles. Two things to note…’sale’ and ‘new’. So, expect Nevada to add generators to the big box of Pmags they keep by the door at the border gas stations. And, I’d expect that propane-powered generators will find a new market as well.

There’s gonna be a lot of Honda EU2000’s getting UPS’d into California from ‘private parties’ over the next few years, I’d imagine. Can’t wait to read about how the ‘reasonable’ and ‘common sense’ legislation to ban these terrible weapons of war climate change won’t aooly to ‘only ones’ like municipalities and their various agencies.

If I had the money, I’d buy a chunk of dirt right on the border with California and run a general store full of Pmags, generators, gender-specific toys, fireworks, and everything else California bans, and I’d probably make enough to retire in three years.

I wanna go hug my EU2000 right now.

During an everyday errand run, The Atlantic’s staff writer Derek Thompson said he found that snarls in the global supply chain had created an “everything shortage.” Thompson said what should have been a quick errand run for an at-home COVID-19 test, some paper towels, and prescription drugs turned into a sort of multistore scavenger hunt.

The shopper went to a CVS, whose at-home COVID-19 tests and paper towels had sold out. Then, he went to a Walgreens that had run out of everyday prescription medications, as well as a Target, whose ransacked shelves were “alarmingly barren, like the canned-food section of a grocery store one hour before a hurricane makes landfall,” he said.

Pretty much everyone, at being told we were facing a pandemic, figured “Ok..pandemic…so load up on canned goods and avoid other people”. But very few folks seem to have sat down and thought out the downstream consequences…schools close so parents stay home with kids instead of going to their truck driving job, without a driver the materials don’t get to the factories on schedule, production schedules are wrecked, whatever does get manufactured can’t get distributed on schedule, etc, etc.

I guess it’s no surprise that this sort of thing is going on. And, by and large, I’m about as prepared for it as can be, but it’s rather annoying to see the US slide into the sort of stereotpyes we used to have about the Soviets standing in line for toilet paper.

What’s worse is that some idiot somewhere is braying “Government should do something…” about these ‘shortages’ and, Crom help us, .gov might actually do just that. And if you think that having .gov manage a sector of industry is a good idea, you clearly don’t mail a lot of packages or get your paycheck by mail.

‘Tis interesting times we live in. We will all get through it, of course, but they are interesting nonetheless.

Also: Why the Supply Chain Is Tangled Up in Knots

A bow hunter looking for a shortcut on Sept. 17 stumbled upon the remains of a man missing for 53 years.

Raymond Jones, a 39-year-old from Salmon, had been missing since 1968. He was bow hunting for mountain goats in the east fork of Hayden Creek in Lemhi County when he was last seen on Sept. 7, 1968.

A lot of people don’t understand just how big and, in many places, remote it can be out here. There are more than a few planes that took off and never were seen again, cars that left the garage and disappeared, and whole lot of people that walked into the woods and no one ever saw again.

But…it’s the fact that things like that can happen out here that is part of the attraction. Sometimes, you want to disappear.