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maraudinglizard · « **Reply #40 on:** March 17, 2020, 09:25:19 PM »

I did my hunker hoarding as well at wally world, you would think another CAT5 was going to hit here in that store. The paper isle looked like a vacuum cleaner hit it, the pasta and soup section was wiped out. pb&j section almost empty. It is the da--dest thing that I have ever seen in my life. It is what it is.

Blowpipe Sam · « **Reply #41 on:** March 17, 2020, 10:16:02 PM »

Peter, have you ever eaten that stuff that the Walmart deli calls bread? It would have to be a real crisis before I will again. Yuck!

anti-squirrel · « **Reply #42 on:** March 18, 2020, 10:48:42 AM »

Quote from: Blowpipe Sam on March 17, 2020, 10:16:02 PM

Peter, have you ever eaten that stuff that the Walmart deli calls bread? It would have to be a real crisis before I will again. Yuck!

I have- maybe I have a better-than-average WalMart?

I know they have some bottom-feeder employees, but the one I frequent is pretty solid. Good employees. The type who say, "I know the shelf is empty, so let me see if our new shipment has some 9mm..." Disappears for 2 minutes and comes back with a box of +P+ and a brick of .22LR.

Anyway... Yeah. Craziness. I swung by Tractor Supply over the weekend and chatted with a few farmgirls (actually a girl and her mother) and we had a good laugh about preparedness. They were checking out chickens and ducks and I was grabbing birdseed. Funny how people remain friendly as ever in certain places. If anything, it seems everyone I interact with has been courteous and respectful. Almost as if people know something unpleasant is going on so they're modifying behavior to dull the impact of this pandemic. Maybe savoring face-to-face communication?

Mr. Panther · « **Reply #43 on:** March 18, 2020, 04:01:17 PM »

I'm not even worried. I'll just eat my neighbors when the food runs out.

Madd Hatter · « **Reply #44 on:** March 18, 2020, 04:54:23 PM »

Quote from: Yarp on March 16, 2020, 02:13:21 AM

My area's low infection rate will increase dramatically in the next few weeks as spring break revelers continue to congregate shoulder to shoulder in our streets. I'm keeping my head down, having fresh groceries delivered, using an IR lamp to disinfect anything brought into the house, and hoping that the coming bolus of illness is not disruptive enough to necessitate tapping emergency supplies.

Ultra Violet light it what kills germs. Inferred is only heat which will kill the germs but has to get very hot I'd imagine.

Madd Hatter · « **Reply #45 on:** March 18, 2020, 04:59:14 PM »

Quote from: anti-squirrel on March 18, 2020, 10:48:42 AM

Quote from: Blowpipe Sam on March 17, 2020, 10:16:02 PM
Peter, have you ever eaten that stuff that the Walmart deli calls bread? It would have to be a real crisis before I will again. Yuck!
I have- maybe I have a better-than-average WalMart?

I know they have some bottom-feeder employees, but the one I frequent is pretty solid. Good employees. The type who say, "I know the shelf is empty, so let me see if our new shipment has some 9mm..." Disappears for 2 minutes and comes back with a box of +P+ and a brick of .22LR.

Anyway... Yeah. Craziness. I swung by Tractor Supply over the weekend and chatted with a few farmgirls (actually a girl and her mother) and we had a good laugh about preparedness. They were checking out chickens and ducks and I was grabbing birdseed. Funny how people remain friendly as ever in certain places. If anything, it seems everyone I interact with has been courteous and respectful. Almost as if people know something unpleasant is going on so they're modifying behavior to dull the impact of this pandemic. Maybe savoring face-to-face communication?

Remember when the towers fell. Everybody was really nice which lasted what, 2 weeks maybe. I think this will last a little longer. My son is a operations manager for Orr fire suppression. One of his workers wife is a nurse and now he thinks he's got it and of course my son's been exposed to the guy. UGG!!!

Rick67 · « **Reply #46 on:** March 18, 2020, 05:30:48 PM »

Quote from: 1953 Panther on March 18, 2020, 04:01:17 PM

I'm not even worried. I'll just eat my neighbors when the food runs out.

Mine are all plump

Habanero69er · « **Reply #47 on:** March 18, 2020, 07:26:39 PM »

Robert, I hope your son, his co-worker & his nurse wife are going to be okay. 🤞🏼

anti-squirrel · « **Reply #48 on:** March 18, 2020, 10:28:48 PM »

Quote from: Habanero69er on March 18, 2020, 07:26:39 PM

Robert, I hope your son, his co-worker & his nurse wife are going to be okay. 🤞🏼

+1

Bottom line is some of us will contract it. If it means I get sick then I will, and I'll come out the other side a little worse for wear. not gonna worry myself over it, but like others, I have a healthy respect for this disease.

Blowpipe Sam · « **Reply #49 on:** March 18, 2020, 10:34:36 PM »

Peter, You are lucky. You live somewhere civilized. Where people appreciate real bread. Down here in Wilkilya county the local necks don't know what good bread is. We have to drive 40 miles to get good sourdough or even a French baggette. I got another 10 lbs. of flour last week and we have a bread maker so we won't starve. I live for GOOD bread.
Feeling a little better about all this. Our daughter and her fiancé are now laid off from their restaurant jobs in SA. They are prepared (we raised her right). I'm boxing up her youth model 20 gauge and a hundred rounds to ship to her. Wish I had thought to do that a week ago.

mpbby · « **Reply #50 on:** March 18, 2020, 10:48:35 PM »

Good trick spread in South Korea ..

.. when you are away from home, and are going to touch knobs, handrails, supermarket, etc., try to use your non-dominant hand. The probability of bringing it to the face is much less than that of the dominant hand.

uglymike · « **Reply #51 on:** March 19, 2020, 05:17:02 AM »

Rural healthcare in the Nebraska Sandhills (or many parts of USA). It's the norm when you go to the doctor that you plan for being gone for 1/2 day. Drives of 75 miles to see any sort of medical professional are not uncommon. Some parts of Nebraska are really remote. Rural clinics of 1 MD, 1 LPN; maybe on Tuesday and Thursdays. They're an important part of the community. That's the look of rural healthcare here, closest hospital for some might be 100 miles. Reports of medical personnel self isolating, not having access to testing is scary stuff. Let's all say a little prayer for those medical folks on the front line of this new "war". Real heroes, every one of them.
Liquor distillers offering to make alcohol for hand sanitizer? Folks, if ya need some alcohol, call Gov, Ricketts. We got ethanol plants sitting idol. They can make more pure alcohol in 1 day than those distillers can make in a month. We've got so much corn here they pile it up into mountains 'cause they can't haul it off fast enough. Alcohol? Huskers got ya covered!
Hey all you 20 somethings that are ignoring this pandemic. STOP IT! YOU might not get sick, but your burying your head in the sand might kill ME.

Tonykarter · « **Reply #52 on:** March 19, 2020, 08:47:12 AM »

A little late to the crappie party...This'd be a good time to try go back to cooking them whole rather than fileting them. They taste better if you do. I love a crappie filet as much as anyone, but I really love a bone-in crappie. Cooking them on the bone somehow just makes them taste better. My grandma has turned over in her grave many times when I'd filet them. She didn't waste anything, and I never saw her filet anything. I have worn out several sets of filet knife blades fileting crappie over these last forty years, so this is one of the few subjects that I am qualified to expound on. One of the very few subjects...

Yeah, I know, you don't like scaling them, right? And you gotta' do that to cook them whole. Try this: Take them out on your patio, put one down on the slab and step on its tail with your foot. Now take your pressure washer and simply blow its scales off. Flip it and do the other side. Eviscerate and you are done! Maybe thirty second invested in each crappie. I can clean 50 crappie like that quicker than I can filet them. And they taste so much better with the bones in them.

Truth be told, as much as I like crappie, I'd trade you five for just one flounder!

We now return you to the previously scheduled Black Plague programming...

Blowpipe Sam · « **Reply #53 on:** March 19, 2020, 09:41:19 AM »

Ray, love that pressure washer trick! May is flounder time here on the forgotten coast. Maybe this thing will blow over by then. Good Luck!

Frank in Fairfield · « **Reply #54 on:** March 19, 2020, 10:02:37 AM »

Let the bartering begin...
One roll of tp = one roll of paper towels
One jar of tomato sauce = two bags of noodles.
Etc...

FuzzyGrub · « **Reply #55 on:** March 19, 2020, 10:30:12 AM »

I for one, didn't know about the pressure washer trick. Which nozzle should I be using?

Frank, I think right now, the current exchange rate is 1 roll of TP = a case of sauce. But, I have to have sauce on my noodles!

DevilsLuck · « **Reply #56 on:** March 19, 2020, 10:40:13 AM »

Quote from: Frank in Fairfield on March 19, 2020, 10:02:37 AM

Let the bartering begin...
One roll of tp = one roll of paper towels
One jar of tomato sauce = two bags of noodles.
Etc...

Years back I lived in Florida. A hurricane blew through and we were without power for 2 weeks. No stores. No ATMs. By week one and a half I had traded two cartons of cigarettes for a Mini-14. People will not go without their vices...

Tonykarter · « **Reply #57 on:** March 19, 2020, 12:26:23 PM »

I use a 45 degree nozzle, but lately I can't find it so I have been using the 25 degree nozzle. Started doing this on flounder. Found it worked on crappie too. Best part is, they are no longer slimy after the wash. You can handle them safely while gutting/heading. I've gone to a heavy meat cleaver to head/gut. One razor-sharp straight chomp down and the guts come off with the head. Not a bit of mess. Your yard will love you for blowing the slime and scales into it too. Here is where I'd be sheltering in place if I didn't have to care for my 97 year old Dad:

anti-squirrel · « **Reply #58 on:** March 19, 2020, 01:13:08 PM »

Quote from: DevilsLuck on March 19, 2020, 10:40:13 AM

Quote from: Frank in Fairfield on March 19, 2020, 10:02:37 AM
Let the bartering begin...
One roll of tp = one roll of paper towels
One jar of tomato sauce = two bags of noodles.
Etc...
Years back I lived in Florida. A hurricane blew through and we were without power for 2 weeks. No stores. No ATMs. By week one and a half I had traded two cartons of cigarettes for a Mini-14. People will not go without their vices...

This is why I usually stock a few boxes of Kotex/Playtex and vac-sealed coffee. I don't drink coffee. The most hardened prepper alive will barter away near anything to keep his own SWMBO comfortable and coffee'd up.

Sfttailrdr46 · « **Reply #59 on:** March 19, 2020, 01:24:46 PM »

Quote from: anti-squirrel on March 19, 2020, 01:13:08 PM

This is why I usually stock a few boxes of Kotex/Playtex and vac-sealed coffee. I don't drink coffee. The most hardened prepper alive will barter away near anything to keep his own SWMBO comfortable and coffee'd up.
[/quote]LOL Gotta have coffee and cigarettes

Well in my case COFFEE and I am well stocked in that dept.

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