April Showers Bring Lots Of Flooding
It’s that time of year again! The snow has all but gone, the sun brings warmer temperatures, and the sky brings lots and lots of rain. That’s right folks, it’s spring flooding season!
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Brace For Impact!
Atlantic Canadians are expecting hurricane Fiona to make landfall early Saturday. While this will be a post tropical storm by the time it hits, winds and heavy rain will still make an impact…and a mess. Power outages and localized flooding are expected.
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What The Actual…
Feeling like your head is on a swivel these days? You’re not alone! Many preppers just don’t know what to make of teh world right now. Flooding on both the east and west coasts, yet another Covid variant of concern, missile tests on asteroids, it seems like everything is going to pot. What’s a prepper…
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A Mixed Bag Of Topics
As preppers, we always have to be on the lookout for imminent dangers. Some of these are normal and even follow apattern that is predictable and repetitive, while others are unique to the current state of affairs.
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Prepping 101 – Packing An Evacuation Kit
Evacuations can happen without notice and you may have only minutes to get out of Dodge. How can you be prepared to leave your home without notice with the possibility that you may not have a home to come back to? Having an evacuation kit is essential.
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It’s been an interesting week. That’s interesting as in the old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times”. If you have been watching the news lately, there was a devastating series of storms in the southern USA that spawned dozens of tornados and left over 300 dead, the second worst occurrence in US tornado…
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Disaster Mitigation – Storm Related
This is a multi-part post that will cover storm related issues including lightning, wind & power loss mitigation. All of these scenarios are likely during a thunderstorm and there are several things we can do to lessen the effects. Let’s take a look at lightning. There are things you can do to protect your property…