DAC - What Did We Do?

To a post you a fight for the rights I creative, a standup in the United States Constitution. Christine, Hello, everyone out there on internet radio Land is a Dave Jones, the NBC guy, and. I sound better than I feel Monday Night. So I don't know. This thing came on just just instantly, just instantly, no warning signs, no nothing, All of a sudden, I'm throwing up in diarrhea all at the same time. I Am not kidding whatever. This is, man, and it went through the entire family. Maria seems to be the least affected. It it was I. She says, it's influenza A and I've had a lot of flu, but man, none of it's been like this. This has been full. I don't think I've ever thrown up that much. I'm I'm I'm not kidding you. I felt like I was throwing up stuff from my small intestines. But better today, not not one hundred percent. But I thought I'd get on here, and I may be on later tonight if I'm not out of energy. We're running some errands. But I wanted to add some things to Monday Night show. It was actually my idea, my idea do an aar for the storm, get our you know what we did, and all that kind of stuff went went right? What went wrong? And then I got sick Sunday night into Monday morning. And I'm telling you it took all I could do to text James and tell him I can't make it. I was incapacitated, to say the least. So at the Jones Homestead, we have a little more experience than the average person with power failures because we go through it so regularly, and we've had power failures that have lasted, you know, over a week. So when we prepare, I mean, and you got lots of warning for this storm. Lots people were talking. About it, Oh geezh, a week before it even happened. There's a guy on YouTube max Velocity follow him for long range forecast, but he seems a little sensationalized. But I guess that's what you gotta do to get viewers nowadays. I find if you just tell the truth, you get people to tune in. Yeah, hey, and tonight. The reason I say maybe on tonight is we're gonna be talking about Virginia and the unbelievable craziness that Scamberger is putting shoving down Virginia's throat. No debate, no discussion, bring it up for a vote. Bang, it's done. I mean, you don't even get time to hear from your constituents. It's pretty crazy. But you're gonna hear a lot more about this tonight, so I'm not gonna get into that, but it is crazy. They're putting things in place so that Virginia never gets Republican represented representation ever again. And if you think that's not the Democrat goal, it is the Democrat There's no more moderate Democrats. The Democrats that your mom and dads were don't exist anymore. They're all lefty lunatics. Okay, And I what can I say. I wish it wasn't so. But it is. And I don't know what the answer is because logic does not seem to register. Common sense does not seem to register obvious things like boys are boys and girls are girls. That's controversial, so I don't know. I don't know anyway, that's tonight's show. So some of the things we did. First of all, Maria did all the laundry, all the laundry that was backed up and piled up. She got her I mean, we had baskets full of clean clothes, so that was all done. She put on two different one stew and one her version of chili okay, which is amazing. The only resemblance between her chili and regular American chili is they both have kidney beans, because she used she uses smoked pork and dill, and boy is it good. It's amazing. And then she went crazy and baked I don't know, almost twenty loaves of bread. I know she gave twelve of them to me to take the school to give the people. And the teacher almost started crying because she said, I went into the store last night and I couldn't find a loaf of bread, and here there's one waiting for me when I come into work. And I said, well, that's my wife's doing. She's a lot nicer than I am. And yeah, and then we gave the neighbors some and of course we gave them stew and chilly and hot ready to go. You know, this is. Before anything, before one snowflake fell. Well, then before anything happened, we lost power. And I joked in the back channel, we always liked to be first. I mean, the sky was sunny, everything was clear, and we lost power from like I don't know, six o'clock in the morning to about three in the afternoon. And I said to everybody, well, maybe maybe because we lost power. Whatever was going to break during the bad storm is fixed now and we won't lose power again. And I have to say we didn't. We did not lose power during the storm, so that was good. But now the power's off, okay, and. We go rescue the neighbors somewhat. One neighbor needed water and had a big, old five gallon jug of water that you know, one of those blue barrels that you put on top of a water cooler, and we weren't going to use it. I mean, if we needed it, we were going to use it. So I just took that over. I said, there, you go use it whatever you need. And then we took them their loaf of bread and the. Chili, and. They were very appreciative because they didn't think we'd lose power so soon. But you really can't schedule these things. So as soon as we started hearing that things were going to get bad, we leaped into action. We did not wait. So I have a small generator. I may have talked about it and I brought it up and got it ready to go. In case. One of my other neighbors needed it or our main generator broke down. We have a main generator now and I have an auxiliary generator. But the mice got up in there and chewed to harness, so I have to wire the harness back together, one wire at a time, and it's like twelve different wires I got to match up, and I just haven't got up in there and did this splicing and all that kind of stuff. So but it runs like a champ. It just don't produce any electricity. So and that's that's. Really really a great generator. What else did we do? We charged up all our battery powered things. I got the tractor in position, took the battery out, charged the battery, put the battery back in because I covered it over with a tarp. Yes, So, and we fed and watered the animals extra just in case we couldn't get to the pen, you know, in a timely manner. But it didn't snow that much that we couldn't make it, so they were set that we didn't have to worry about them, And we deliberately decreased the amount of animals we had this winter, which I'm liking that, especially when you're feeling sick. Man, what else did we do? I got the solar generator out and charged up the batteries, and it's good I did, because they were completely decharged. I did not know that I charged them up when I first got them and something I don't know. It just slowly. The moral that story is leave the thing plugged in, I guess, and it will stay charged until. The power fails. So yeah, I hadn't done too much with it since I got a zero point energy it was on clearance and before they went out of business, I got the generator unit and two battery packs. So I'm pretty set there for solar generator and then. What else? And of course the wood. You know, we planned to heat with woods, so I started the fire or the wood stove. And we have a wood stove that you can cook on. It's actually made to be a cook stove. It's really nice. Maria found it. I guess it was from a company in Canada. We bought it a few years back, and this was actually the first time we baked anything in it. Now we have heated things up. Has a little oven in the bottom. We've heated things up in the oven before, you know, pieces of pizza and stuff like that, and hot dogs, but this is the first time we're actually baked two loaves of bread in the wood stove, and it worked really good. The heat comes mainly from the top. There's a baffle in there that directs the heat to the oven, which is down below, and the firebox is on top, and then there's two metal plates that you can pull off and put cook pots on. So you can fry. You can cook on this stove, and it has a liner of soapstone, so it when it heats up, it heats up this soapstone and stays hot all night. And it's super super efficient. It burns the wood to nothing but pulverized ash. So it's it's really really And then I find out our governor wants to make wood stoves illegal for anybody that owns less than five acres of land. We'll talk about this later tonight. But what the heck, you know, I'm off the power grid, I'm not using that electricity. You should be thanking me that I'm splitting wood and burning it in my house. It shouldn't be a regulatory thing. Maria said, this is worse than the communists. She said, they taxed and regulated everything, but they let you have fire, she said, they let you. They didn't let you, you know, freeze to death. Oh and last week I made the prediction that people would die in this storm. And I guess officially it was forty nine died in the storm, but I'm sure it's a lot more than that. You know, they don't count the people that died of a heart attack because the ambulance couldn't get to them in time, or you know, they were snowed in and they died off something else. It was forty nine people, you know. Yeah, anyway, there's supposedly another storm coming, actually cold weather, an Arctic blast or bomb or whatever you want to call it. You know, cold happens in the winter. It shouldn't be a shocker to anybody. Now if this happened in July, yeah, there'd be some concerns. Yeah, and paper plates and she she ran the dishwasher. Okay, because that heating coil in their dishwasher takes a lot of juice. So she ran the dishwasher, got all the plates washed clean, put away everything ready to go, and then we brought up. We have a storage bin of paper plates and forks and that kind of stuff, and you know that that helps extend things. And I burn them in the fire, not the plastic forks, but the paper plates. So and something that we didn't do was go through our medications the stuff we like to have on hand when people get sick. And sure enough it came on like gangbusters. Everybody got sick and we didn't have the go to We didn't have enough of the go to items that we like to have on hand. So I guess that's the next step. Do you understand? You prepare for the things you know, and then what don't I know? I don't know that I'm going to get sick? How's my how's my medication? Is that? Do I have enough of that? So that was a that was a lesson learned right there. I guess that would be worst case scenario, winter storm, power outage and everybody's sick with the flu. Boy, that would be. Man, that would be almost apocalyptic right there. The good thing is not everybody went down at the same time. It was kind of like a domino, one at a time, one at a time. And Maria, she she got it the least she did not throw up. Everybody else threw up a lot. She equates her success to activate a charcoal and we did have that. We did have a lot of that, So it's you got to look into it. She swears by it. I think for me, it's kind of come see comes off. It's not the you know, end all be all, but it is something that all preppers should have, is activate a charcoal. For a number of reasons. And when I was sick, I was not able to get to plow on the driveway. But my next door neighbor, Andrew, he has a like a I don't know what would you call it. There is an actual name for this thing, but I don't know what. It is like a poor man's bobcat. You stand on the back of it, and has a bucket in the front. He has multiple different attachments that you can put on the front, and it has four wheels. It's like a skid steer, and then he put these metal tracks on it, so it really goes good in the snow and the ice. And he plowed my driveway and Larry's driveway. So I'm really really appreciative of that, because gosh, even today I didn't feel like getting on the tractor, but I don't have to because he did a really good job and it's all off the driveway, even the ice. Yep. You gotta have salt. We had some salt. We did not have enough, but. Maria used some of our pickling salt, the cheap stuff. She didn't use any expensive. Salt, you know, two dollars a bag, five pound bag, I think it was. We get it at what is it called Max Food the International store. It's sea salt that comes from Japan, so it's a five pound bag. It's pretty inexpensive. But she was gonna use it to pickle. And what else. Can I say? Yeah, just just try and stage things and have things ready. You don't have your gas cans out there ready to go, because you know, if you're gonna run the generator, you're gonna have to use the gas. One thing I did realize that my pro my generator's multi fuel and it can run on propane. But I don't know where the hose is to attach for the propane. I know I have it, I don't know where it is, so I couldn't couldn't change it over until I found that that hose that screws on, so that I got to look. For that, and what else. I guess that's about it. If I think of something else, I'll bring it out tonight. I don't know if it's eight or nine PM, but we're going to talk about our crazy government here in Virginia and what could be coming to a state near you. So take care, Pban family, and prep on