Winter Storm in Richmond - PREPARE w/ The Common Sense Practical Prepper

Well, good evening, PB and family. What is up? We are doing a Wednesday night or man, hearkening back to the old Iron Liberty Show days, Wednesday nights. I've been threatening nights for a while now. I don't know. Maybe I'm not much of a night person anymore, says the man who's just drinking coffee at nine fourteen pm. But you know, it's been one of them days. I'll conk out without issue. So it's been a long time coming. I wanted to have Keith the common sense practical Prepper on for a long time, and we just hadn't touched wires appropriately. Garden Girl over at Instagram, what is up? Don't mess with garden Girl, dude, her kid will smash you. I love seeing the wrestling. Highlights. Garden Girls so cool. But anyway, we are both Richmond Preppers and we got this storm bearing down on us. And know Virginia's in the red whatever that means significant snowfall, potential for freezing rain and sleet, and you know, accumulations that make I think, you know, the Richmond what do they call the Richmond what do we used to call transportation? Their knees are probably a little weak I'm sure going into the weekend thinking about how they're gonna deal with it. I'm praying for no Ice, and you know, I don't want the power to go out. And we'll talk about what happens when the power goes out, because that's important too. But all in all, we want to talk winter storm in Richmond and what we're doing to prepare and what you could be can considering do if you're in the path of this storm. It is incredible. I mean it is basically, I mean it's the width or yeah, the width of the nation largely, it looks like So without further ado, let's bring on Keith the common sense practical prepper. How you're doing, sir, and thanks for joining us tonight on this PBN special. I'm doing fantastic. Thank you so much for having me. I really do appreciate it. Yeah. Man, it's been a long time coming. It has I feel like twenty twenty five. I don't know if you feel this way, but I feel like twenty twenty six is the year of the long time coming. I don't know why. It just feels like one of those years where a lot of deals will be closed finally. And I mean that you know, like metaphorically, but it just right. It feels like one of those years. I hope they're fun years. Oh yeah, So you've been in Richmond a long time, man longer than me. Yeah. I got here and folks moved out here in eighty six and I came after college in eighty eight. So I've been here since nineteen eighty eight. So you've had your share of winter storms and winter Richmond responses to the weather and that kind of thing. Is anything sort of sticking out, you know in your head as this thing approaches in terms of city wide response. Well, I know we were talking, you know, before we started and talking about was it nineteen ninety six, January of nineteen ninety six, and that was only a foot of snow and it again, you know, you know, and any of the folks that might be listening in around Central Virginia, Richmond for the most part, Central Virginia, for the most part, has a very poor response, in my opinion, to any significant snow or ice event. And that's just the way it is. It's just you know, I'm not knocking Dot Virgina Department Transportation, but you know the state is not going to spend tens of millions of day for the state of the art snow plows and trucks and all that, when what they might use it once every couple of years, once every couple winters. So it's you know, we get a little bit of snow, that's one thing, but you get six inches plus and the city's paralyzed. And that's unfortunately, that's just the way it is. That is the way it is, I mean, and in a way it makes sense. Right, I've been here since O nine. We haven't seen I don't think I've ever seen a foot of snow in Richmond since I've been here. I think we've come close ten something like that. But yeah, so that's it's a different beast, for sure. I do wonder about one of the things I've been wondering my brother in law's alignment here in Virginia, and I'm wondering how that's gonna go nationwide, you know, sort of. I don't know if everybody's like in tune with how that works. But a lot of times linemen are get know, they the guys who keep the power polls up in lines running. They spread out all over the nation. When things like this happen and come from different areas and go to different areas, and I'll be interested to see where he's headed and where if he's staying, if he's going, and that kind of stuff, because it's it looks to me like the whole state could get walloped, and that's a that's a deal. And you know, subsequent states up north or maybe even south. I mean, I guess below us could be where the risk of the ice is and that's usually where the risk of the power outages exactly. Well, you like, you know, we've had hurricanes and stuff, and you know, you look on ninety five and it's just just a train of the bucket trucks, you know, several hundred. They come from all over the country, the northeast air by heading down ninety five to Florida, you know, Georgia, Mississippi, wherever the hurricane happens to be. But you look at the size of the storm, it's I mean, you know, our alignment, and God bless your brother, I could I could never do that job, but I can imagine the alignment. They're probably end up staying home. I mean, Virginia's gonna get hammered. Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina at the ice. I mean, yeah, I don't think there's gonna be many many bucket makes anybody's rescue. Yeah, you got to stay. You gotta stay home because the storm's so big. And also, you know, like what will mobility be like for those most important people early on? You know what I mean? Because now you're talking about like alignment getting to work. I don't know. They may go in early, they may go in pre storm. I think that's how they roll. I think they kind of stage, like you know, ems and stuff. Yeah, I've seen like the home depot with Chester. I've seen gosh, twenty thirty forty bucket trucks all just hanging out and they'll do their morning meetings and they'll you know, they'll pass out the assignments and stuff. So you're right, they might shoot. They may put them up in hotels. But yeah, I definitely seen parking lots where the bucket trucks have been staged with the crews before they send them out on us. Simons, one of our listeners in chat. She says that the she's in North Texas prepping for this thing, and she says that they'll drive out from the west coast to give a helping hand. What's up Phoenix over there at Instagram. Okay, Jordan, great show today, by the way, Jordan, guys, definitely check out The Phoenix's winter prep show this morning. Was awesome. So yeah, so you. Know, that's sort of what the wife and I have been talking about. The big concern, of course being and this is what I don't see in a lot of weather reports, and I don't know if they're just trying to not freak people out as much, but it looks like Monday night and this is kind of like one of those perfect storms. Right. We get the winnery mix all through the through the day Sunday on top of the snow on Saturday night into Sunday, and then if we have these power outages, then we go into Monday where the evening is threatening like between five and ten degrees I've seen yep, yep, And that's kind of like the worst case scenario. Yeah, that's what I'm really worried about. I'll take the snow every day, and then the ice ice gets you a little worried, Then you lose power, then you're in single digits, and that just that opens it up to a whole new set of circumstances that we have to prepare for. Yeah, yeah, between five and ten degrees is a kind of cold that I don't think, you know, I don't. I don't even remember a lot of fives growing up in Pennsylvania, you know, I mean, you grew up in Indiana, right, so there's you guys get it pretty cold up there? Oh yeah, yeah, the Midwest, Yeah, it's snowstorms. And then you know, I grew up in Tornado Alley, so a lot of a lot of weather events kept definitely kept you on your toes in the Midwest growing up. So I espoused the you know, twenty thousand BTU Kerosene kerosene heater for winter prep as a not only an effective but of an affordable means of off grid heat because I personally, I haven't experienced anything better in that situation, you know what I mean, outside of having a wood stove, Like if you don't have a legitimate wood stove, which I don't have a legitimate wood stove, I have a fire wood burning fireplace. And for those of you listening, if you haven't depended on a wood burning fireplace for heat, they kind of suck, did you. They're not really what you think they are in terms of heat. But we we we definitely depend have depended on that thing in the past, and it gets the job done. So we'll be we'll be looking to that. My experience with electric heat, I don't know. I don't know if you've you know of a model that's better. But my experience with sort of electric heat, you know, like electric heaters plugged into the wall, plugged into a generator, is that they're a big If you have no other option, fine, but they're a big waste of electricity that don't really do that great a job from my experience. Oh, you're right, I agree. I agree. So what do you guys gain planning over there when the lights go out? Well, I've got I've got gas logs that you know, and that puts out some heat that might be just as efficient as a wood burning fireplace, which isn't much like what eighty percent of the heat you know, goes up the flu and up the chimney. But you know, if you burn it, if you burn the fire long enough, you know, you get the radiant heat coming off the brick. Yeah that you know that that thing does? Hell, I have, it's it's an it's a little heater. It looks like a little mini radiator, and I guess it's it has like oil in it. I guess it's like an oil. Yep, I know. I got one, and it's it does well, you know, once you get it heated up. But once you turn it off, it you know, it's it's metal, you know, and it loses it's it's its radiant heat very very quickly. I got a mister mister buddy is something they're called buddy heater, mister buddy or something. Yeah. Yeah, the propate good, they're great. Yeah, I've got the smaller when not the big buddy or whatever they call. I got the show. Yeah, he's a little buddy. And I got a four foot extension. So I'm gonna hook that up to one of my twenty pounds cylinders from my grill. I'm gonna have three full cylinders, three twenty pounds or twenty gallons. See, I always get that mixed up. I can't. I can never remember if they're gallons. I think they go by gallons, right, not pounds. I don't know. I think it is pounds, isn't it. It's yeah, it's the thing. Your Yeah, the standard grill I think is twenty five pound, all right. So I've got I'm gonna have three of those. I got an extension and because yeah, the little buddy thing gets on high, it'll burn through one of those Colemon propane candisers in about three and a half four hours. Yeah, and it's like what nine thousand btu I think is the is the smaller version. So I'm gonna hook it up to one of the twenty pound cylinders or twenty five gallon cylinders, whatever they are, and that's what I'm going to use as supplemental heat if the power goes out. And now I've got my solar generators. You know, I'll I'll drag one of those inside if I need to and run and run that little electric heater off of that. But that's that's basically all I'm going for. Just you know, put on my pajamas, my hoodie and a hat, and you know, when we lose power, I'm I'm preparing that that we're going to lose power. If we get any ice, we're gonna lose power and it's gonna be out for several days. That's I wish it wasn't like that, but that is That's where my mind is right now. As far as losing. Power, I think that you know, I'd love that take, because number one, it's the reality of the fact that the power is going out, which is most likely a thing if we get like you said, if we get the ice. And the other thing I like about it is reminding people that this is kind of the deal, like when you're talking about emergency heat outside of having an expensive backup generator that clicks on as soon as the power goes off, like what we're talking about are basically the best options. Yep, and that as far and look, I don't know have my finger on the pulse of all emergency prep tech, but I know this stuff pretty well, and I don't know much else you could do in a power outage, you know, outside of that stuff, particularly when it's that cold, you know, dealing with that kind of cold. Yeah, if it wasn't for those single digits coming in you know, Monday and into Tuesday, you know it, you know, it would suck bad enough. But the fact that you know, we're looking at single digits, that's just, like I said, that's just that's just a whole new Ballgame't got to worry about the pipes freezing and you know, so you know you're gonna have to do a few extra things. But but we'll see. They said. The storm apparently in the last what twelve hours has shifted north a little bit, which isn't the best for us because that takes us away from the snow and kind of puts us on that that snow freezing grain ice winers, which is that's that's no bueno at all. I'm not I'm not impressed with that at all. I'm gonna show you and show everyone else what I use this. It's not like revolutionary or anything, but we'll put it up on the Can I share my screen twice? I don't know if I'm allowed to do that or not. Yeah, I can, Okay, So I go to this website, whether underground for all of you out there listening, I don't know. It's I think they do a great job. I think they do a great job far in advance, and they also do a great job at modifying and changing things sort of like I don't know, I don't know how often they update, but it changes all the time, and usually in the right direction. So what we're looking at over here now looks like And the other thing that they do that's amazing is well, they're going to give me an ad probably, but they'll give you an hour by the hour, like way ahead of everybody else. That's nice. I like that. Yeah, it's kind of cool. Now. I don't know why. But when I share my screen and ads pop up, everything gets weird. But they give you a good, good hour by hour. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get down to it or not. If you ever start doing video and stuff, I'll tell you a secret. Just screen shot the website. You want to show your audience because if you try to do anything with ads anymore, like what's happening right here this Palm Beach millionaire ad? Yeah jesus, but yeah, so it looks like could be coming into snow about seven pm or something like that, per these guys, and it rolls right into the next one'll roll right into the next day if it wants to work anyway, it's a good site. It's not going to cooperate because stream Yard doesn't like pop ups and ads and all that kind of stuff, and neither do I. So but yeah, five am, it looks like the turnover into that whatever the wintry mix amounts to be. And I guess that's when you and I'll be holding our breath. Yeah, but I don't see sleet or ice. But is that kind of is a wintery mix? Is that is ice included in a wintery mix? Is that wind remix? Is it's it's can it can be here? In this In this forecast, it says a wintery mix early will evolve to mainly freezing rain for the afternoon high twenty four degrees h and it winds five to ten miles and then watching cloudy with freezing rain expected in the evening, becoming light and tapering off. Yeah, we're in trouble. Yeah, well that you know, this is this is weather Underground on Wednesday. So but it does look like it's cheating up. I don't understand, and maybe I'm just you know, I'm not a meteorologist, but I don't understand how you get freezing rain when it's twenty four degrees out. I don't think, Yeah, I think it'd be snow, right, So yeah, so yeah, it's yeah, it's colder than thirty two. Yeah, falling from the sky should be snow. That I mean, it's very simple, at least for me. That's what I thought. I'm reading this thing. It's looks colder every day, but we're getting freezing rain. So unless the storm is so hot, but where's it coming from? Where it's so warm or something like that, I don't know. Jay Jordan the Phoenix, and Chat says they're gonna get primarily ice in north Kaki Laki. What's up? Jay Pinetto, ain't seen you in a while. I haven't been playing around on Instagram much. That's how that goes, though. But what do you guys got on the menu? You got any kind of like easy meals you whip up when it gets power outage time, that kind of stuff. Pebe and Jay's I mean nothing. You know, we're not looking for Michelin stars, but. No, nothing. It's kind of funny. My fridge, my main fridge, you know, went completely pear shaped on me a couple of weeks ago, and I was supposed to have the new fridge delivered Monday, and now I just got notification that's coming Saturday, which is very interesting. As long as like I'm early Saturday, I'll have a fridge. But I've just used I've been using my little Icico twelve volt fridge, you know for my lunch meat. Oh yeah, I had that a prepper camp. I take that thing. I love that thing. It's just it's it's SIPs elec tristy, like fifty seven watts, and you know it's got a little it can get down to about eighteen degrees, so it could be a little mini freezer if you wanted to. So I've had all of my food just jammed into there, but you know, I really haven't. I haven't thought too much about it. I've got chickens, so I have more eggs than I can than I can count, So you know it, if we lose electricity, it's probably yeah, it's probably a bunch of boloney sandwiches. And I got my little Buttane stove. I got my little Coleman camp stove. I got the black Stone out in the in the garage. So yeah, yeah, hard boil so yeah, oh yeah. No. If I feel froggy, I may cook up a you know, a full meal. Or if I'm lazy like I am, it's you know, like you said, peeb and chay and some ham and cheese and maybe a grilled cheese on the. On the you just you just gave me an idea. I'm gonna hard boil some eggs that didn't pop into my head until just now when you said chickens, And I said, you know what, that's a good call, like a hard boil a bunch of eggs and have them. Yeah, garden girl says she's busting out the can Chilian soups that she's canned. Yep, the kids will eat Ramen freeze dried veggies. Yeah, Ramen's a killer for that. That is an absolute killer for that kind of weather. And another reason to hard boil some eggs or soft boiled them, I guess for Ramen. Yeah. Well, look at the I'm gonna work. We're gonna put this up Heba family. If you're watching via video, I'm gonna buy. Uh. I think I've seen these things before, but they're worth talking at. They're pretty cool, these ice Co freezers. Yeah, I got mine a few years ago. Was like, oh, it was like one of the early birds specials there were, you know, like a crowdfunding thing. You can't, man, look at that one. Holy cow, it. Looks like that silver one's cool. Huh survive a nuclear blast there? It looks like something you would get loot out of in a video game. Well, of course it has an app. I mean, come on, for that price, it needs an app. Oh, it does have an app. That's cool. I think about one of the ones that was probably one of their first ones that came out with you know, but it works fantastic. Like you said, just you know, plug it in you're going down the road, plug it into the cigarette lighter adapter, and you know, she's good to go. That's very cool man. Yeah, these are nice. The good thing is the whole area will be a refrigerator worst case scenario if you really think about it that way, well, merely a freezer. Yeah what Phoenix was she was talking about this morning? Just hey, no, forget you put your stuff out on the deck. Yeah yeah, I mean that's a thing. I keep a spare fridge freezer out back of another house that we have, and it's the problem this time of year is that the stuff you have to be careful because the stuff in the fridge freezes. That's true on stack porch yep. So that's you know, that's one of the these are cool though. Check ab out Pban Family ice Coat Freezer dot com. Pretty cool. I guess they're built for like the overlanding crowd or something like that. Yeah, yeah, a lot of those. Yeah, exactly. The amount of things that people take camping, it blows my mind. Look at that guy set up, Guz, this is. What I'm saying. Are they Amalcans? I think? Yeah, he's well organized. The amount of things, man, it's crazy to me. I don't I'd forget too much. This whole cooking set up my man has right here is astounding. I don't even know what he's doing. He's got a rice cooker over here or something. Hey, I guess you want to live good while you're out there. I don't know, but I like those. They're cool, man. Thanks for the heads up on that. Oh yeah, no, absolutely, I love mine. They're very cool. They're they're probably better than those. Uh doesn't the my Patriots? No, not my pay who's the other one for Patriots? Don't they have something like that out there? Yeah, and that's probably that's probably a knockoff or something like that. Yeah, but I've seen I've seen some of their commercials with little solar generators and little fridges and stuff like that. Yeah, I've never I never really messed with them too much. I had their food years ago and they were a sponsored for a little while. They sent me some food to try, and it wasn't that good. It was like everything was real small, you know, like some survival food. Everything's just a really small bit with it, some sort of a sauce that was like everything. It was like everything was a gravy with bits, gravy and bits. That's a great if you want to have fun with a food storage company, just call it gravy and bits and be honest, because most. Of them are like, oh, these mules are amazing. I do know about you. I mean, I've never really had a survival food outside of like a mountainhouse style that's really good, you know, like I want to eat it. Yeah. It's kind of one of those things where you know, if you're if you've got to break into the freeze dried, you know, the Augustin farms and the my Patriots and the Ready Why's and stuff like that. I mean, that's there's a reason why you're breaking into that and you're having you know, Grandma's oat meal or the big mac and cheese, you know, the twelve pound mac and cheese packet or something but yeah, there's it's it's I've you know, I've sampled several of several of mine, and they're good. I would never say they're great, but again, if you're in a situation where you're having to break that, you know, break that stuff out, there's obviously other stuff going on in the world, and you know you just need to get some get some calories in you. Oh, most definitely. Yeah, these guys are new. They were in our Black Friday catalog the votes preparedness guys. Okay, I haven't tried their stuff yet. I love the owner. He's great. I have kind of no doubt that it's good. But they these are the kind of meals that I like. They also do the meat meat bundles that I think are really cool. But you know, the freeze dried, heat them up in the bag, hot water, that kind of stuff. I don't know something about them. They just always seem to to whip up better. They got more texture, they got more I know, this tater tot hot dish is probably awesome. Well that looks good, right, that. Looks really good. They check them out. Yeah, yeah, vodes prepare and this folks check them out. They're pretty new. I think they really, I think they really got on like right around holiday time, and. I gotta buy some. I gotta check them out. I love that. This is one of my favorite things when I'm camping is to have the biscuits and gravy in the morning. Oh man, especially this time of year. Absolutely. Yeah, that's the thing, Keith. There's all these small guys out there that are just doing amazing stuff, and uh, it's so competitive now you never hear from them, you know, and I feel bad. Well yeah, no, no, you're right. I mean it's I don't know what. I don't know what's been well, I know what's been going on in the world in the last six seven, eight years, but it just seems like it just seems like more people are getting into prepping or just being prepared. I know, prepping is you know, some people don't like that word and stuff like that, but I just I just see me more people being prepared. A lot of people, you know, you know, they think of that kind of a negative connotation. When you think, they immediately think of like doomsday prepper and some of the shows and the movies that are just over the top. And there's there's plenty of stereotypes out there, don't get me wrong, but I think I've been in the last several years, I've just seen people just overall, regardless of political leanings. I just more people have decided just to prepare and just be a little more self reliant. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Oh no way, Yeah, it's it's anti anxiety at this point. It's like antidepressant pills that work better than that, you know what I mean. In my opinion, that's what I see. I see it something just like that. Just with the nature of the news and nature of the world, the nature of things. It's like you can you can combat a lot of your worries just with a base level preparedness, because I think if you I always say if I was, if I didn't make the change years ago, god, I'd be a mess right now, you know what I mean, with kids and wife and all the shit going on, I'd be freaking out. I wouldn't know what to do. No, I'm the same way, because you know, I've been doing this for oh shoot, maybe four years or so. Then I think about, you know, ten or fifteen years ago when I was, I would wasn't prepared at all. For anything. You know, I kind of look back on myself going, oh my gosh, you know, I guess I got lucky. You know that I didn't get myself in a bad situation, a bad storm, or whatever the situation might be. So you're right, I like I talk all the time. It's it's I prepare, just it's for peace of mind more than anything. So if this, if this snowstorm doesn't develop and we don't get a lot of snow, we don't get a lot of ice, no harm, no foul. You know, I've got I've got extra gas in the garage, I've got extra propane, I got my little buddy heater, and I'll just prepare. I'll be prepared next time it happens. Yeah, that's it. That's it. And there's also the quality of life aspect of it that a lot of us, I think we take for granted. You mentioned having just having more chicken eggs than you can handle that are from a source that is exponentially better than probably anything you can buy anywhere. Absolutely is one. Of those things that if you you know, if you pulled a thousand people and said, hey, do you want eggs that are better than any eggs you can buy anywhere, and do you want to have a lot of them for you know, next to no effort. I mean, chickens are so easy that you know, who would say, no, no, I don't want that. Give me those white ones from the mart. The ones that are all bleached. Yeah. Yeah, give me those white ones for the market that go up to ten dollars every so often. Yeah. So it's yeah, there's a lot of that. There's a lot of that sort of quality of life stuff that and you know, of course, you know, come garden season. And all that kind of stuff. It's like, you know, a lot of times preppers are quietly living the dream and people are like scoffing at them, and it's like, okay, I mean go ahead, you know, think about it. Sh kebobs tonight. I don't know about you. Every person that is prepared is one less person that you and I and everybody else out there has to worry about when the poop hits the fan and things start, you know, things start getting little chippy out there, and you know, if there's an extended you know, grid down situation or a supply chain disruption, everybody who's prepared that that's just one less person that you and I have to not worry about, you know, getting all squirrely, you know, coming to your door, Hey do you have any food? Oh? Just one can of beans, and you know one can't terns into ten cans. And then you know, the next day they're back with three of the friends. And then that's just that's just the whole thing. Yeah, that's it. That is a whole thing for sure. Yeah, there's no doubt about that. I mean, it gets you know, there was I think there's always gonna be a certain group or amount of people that just you know what is it, like the grasshopper and the ant or something like that. There's always gonna be some grasshoppers. There's no getting around it, you know what I mean. It's just one of those things. And I think it has a lot to do with like they just don't want to. I don't even think it's necessarily a lazy thing. I think it's like I can't absorb that right now, you know what I mean, Like I can't absorb that. I need to start buying ammunition or something like that, you know, because either it's coming from a place of ignorance. A lot of times, like they don't know. They're not like, well, I have a perfectly written out checklist of the things that I need to purchase to be better prepared. I don't buy any of it. Like a lot of people come from a place of I have no idea what to buy? What am I gonna buy? What do we starting to buy? Soup first? I don't know bottled water? What you know? So? And I think that is kind of what's gotten better over the years to your point, I think like the entry the entry way has gotten bigger. You know, sure, it's gotten easier for people to just hop right in and start prepping. That must be it, and like it's not difficult. You know, you go to Costco, you get an extra case of water, and you go to where you go to Walmart and you get your canned veggies, just grab two extra cans and then grab a gallon of you know, spring water or whatever. And before you know it, you know you've got to sit. You've got a seventy two hour kit, you know, sitting there right in front of it, and you had no idea that you've just you know, you've put something together, and you know, come come a situation. You know you've got food and water for three days and you know you're good to go. Yeah. I think that's huge. I think that, you know, just the difference water can make, the difference that water can make when things go bad. Well, you remember this time last year, Right this time last year, we had the new mayor. The water goes. Out for a week, all writers gone. Remember that it was literally like had to be a year to date almost it was pretty close. It might have been earlier in January. But yeah, just have an extra water, I mean, because we keep extra water like that. It was kind of like, yeah, you know, my to her credit, my wife over the years has become sort of the she's like fills the gaps in the foundation like on like immediately, No, that's nice. Yeah, it's really great. It's really great. She just goes right into I know what we have, but what else you know what I mean, and then goes right into buying it and getting it and making sure we Yeah, it's it's phenomenal, but you know it's been I guess it's been living with me for years and years and years and yeah, great thing though, but yeah, just the difference that that can make, you know, have an extra water and knowing that, well, the water pipes break, the water goes out, whatever the situation is, we have water to drink. And to your point, you know, you add some food and you add some way to cook it, and now you're you're eliminating all kinds of problems and it's just basic. Yep. No, So, like I said, all about peace of mind like this storm, I am. I'm not worried at all about losing power, you know. Like I like I said last time on my podcast, I'm most of us, if not all of us. We're we're prepared to a certain level. So we know what we have, we know what we can how far we can go with our food and water, and it's just a matter of with something like this, the storm that's so big, it's just tweaking what we have so we don't have to, you know, start from you know, the bottom and oh my gosh, I gotta build my preps up for the next week. You already have what you have. You keep a good inventory, so now you just go into your pantry or wherever you have your stuff. You just look at it. You're like, no, I'm pretty set. I'll tell you what. Let me run out and grab this or like, I'm gonna go to Home Deepot tomorrow and get a couple extra pro pane cylinders, and once that's done, I'm good to go. It's gonna be tough on a lot of people, folks out Ninety percent of the folks out there do not have a seventy two hour kit. So if you think about it, I just so, I don't know how many people live in the city of Richmond. I don't know a million and a half. I'm not sure how many people live in the city. For the popularity is like thousands. Oh shoot, okay, you know a lot surrounding. Chesterfield areas when you start getting into the millions. Well, just tink of downtown in the fan, you know, very densely populated. And nine out of ten folks down there do not have food and water for three days. So down there in those narrow streets, when we get six or eight inches of snow and a half inch device and the plows can't get there and the power goes out, you can't walk down to the corner market. I mean, you're your sol. Shoot, you might have if you're not up on steps, you might have trouble opening that front door. That's on the ground level, that's right, you know, if you're not on a port like back behind the museum and everything. Yeah, yeah, that could be interesting. Yeah, I think that one of the things that will do for sure. I mean, we'll be out playing in it's Saturday night, I'm sure, because it's just you know, it'll be fun. But one of the things we'll do once it all stops Sunday is there'll be some house checks, you know what I mean, We'll trudge through and do some house checks on people because especially if powers out, that's when it's gonna get real. Yep. And that's an important thing. That's an important thing to consider because there are gonna be people who have this whole entire situation we're talking about and haven't thought at all what they're gonna do when it becomes ten degrees out. They have no heater yep, you know. And that's we're in the South. I mean, if you're living in an older house down here, they are not at all designed for what's about to happen when the weather gets down to ten degrees. You know, my father in law's house has I don't even think it has insulation. I mean, it's got plaster and wood walls, you know what I mean. But right, so it's yeah, it's one of those things. It's just rare occurrence. There are a lot of people kind of like doing the old. Uh, and I don't appreciate this stuff. They're doing the old like it's just wintertime. Stop making a big deal out of it, you know what I mean, which, like I don't. This is not winter time in Richmond, Virginia from Oh. My gosh, No, no, it's it's winter in Buffalo or Sugar yeah, or Denver. Yeah, we get we get that, but no, this is yeah, this is you know, they're talking on the news. I'll be talking about this for a lifetime or generations to come. And I'm thinking, man, I guess, but Lord trying to get everybody all hyped up. And that was one thing I checked the local you know, channel six, eight and twelve, and those silly meteorologists. It's like it's like pulling teeth. I mean, just say six or eight inches, just well, we got in a possible accumulation. Well no, kid in Sherlock, we know we're going to get an accumulation. Just throw a number at me. I don't you know, bracket it six to ten. But for some reason they see they're really reluctant to actually give a forecast, and I'm not really sure why. Yeah, I mean, if I'm a meteorologist, I think I would if I were in charge of the weather department, I would just always say, look, we're here for public safety, right, Like, isn't that kind of like shouldn't that be number one? So we're always. Gonna say it's gonna be worse, and if you know what that would be my position, get prepared. It's gonna be bad. Well, and then you gotta worry about you know, you say we're gonna get two feet and then we get six inches. Oh, everybody looks. At a bunch of stuff and yeah, well and. Then you know then kind of you know, it may ruin your credibility for the next storm. You're like, no, really, it's two feet this time. You're like, you're the guy that said two feet and ended up, you know, Sonny and eighty we're not listening. And they cried wolf. Yeah, yeah, I could see that. Yeah, that's when it slammed. That's a good point. I guess you got it. That could be part of it, you know, it is a lot up in the air. I mean, I'll tell you this time watching the weather underground, this time yesterday, well maybe not this time yesterday, but midday yesterday we were like twenty inches of snow. Yep. I picked my son up and I was like, dude, we're gonna get twenty inches of stow. It's gonna be awesome. And then and then uh, and then you know, by midday today we were getting per them. It looks like eight inches Saturday in this Sunday of snow and then you know, possible two inches of the wintery mix whatever that is. Right, Well, if you think about it, so here in Richmond, whether it's six inches or sixteen inches, we're gonna prepare the same way because at six inches this city shuts down. Yeah. Six inches a lot. Yeah, So just go ahead and just prepare for the worst. And then when it doesn't happen, then you're like, ooh, we dodged a bullet. But when it does happen, you're like, I got it. You know, I'm prepared, prepared for the worst, and we're good to go. Yeah. I think that's the way to go. I think that's about the best you can hope for we'll be cranking the If the power goes out, I'm sure we'll turn to the old Coleman Titan stove for cooking. That is the Disaster Coffee special during Preppergad. That thing's got some hours underneath it. It works. I mean, the little two burner Coleman stove is it's worth having. It's an easy set up. It's you know with the with the one pound pro pain tanks. It gets everything done you need to get done. Those things cook for hours if you're cooking cooking. You know, and I know that from from boiling water over and over again a prepper camp. They do, you know, the colder it is that they they do struggle. You'll probably get less out of them, but it's a it's a good investment. It's a good investment to be able to bring water to a boil, make hot drinks, make coffee, that kind of stuff. You know. The other thing that I had, even before I started Disaster Coffee, was just one of those metal percolators that you can cook over fire. You coffee drinker, Keith, Yeah, you were a coffee booth. Yeah, that's an essential on days like what are coming? Yeah, you know what I mean, you gotta have that hot coffee. I'll drink hot coffee all day in the summer, so I definitely got to have it, you know, in the winter. But just some things to consider, guys to put on the on the list after this, to be honest, it's what is it, the twenty first going into Thursday. So you know, I don't know how everybody feels about Jeff Bezos, but you got Amazon Prime. You can make some things happen quickly, you know what I mean if you want to, So leave that in your back pocket. If you want to go scrolling around after the show to shore some things up, check and see if you can get overnight shipping on things, because a lot you know, a lot of times it's kind of too late for larger projects. But that's an option, love it or hate it. Yeah, I'm sure if you get an order in tonight or first thing in the morning, you'll can. Because if this storm, if it's if it's half as bad as they're calling for it, you know, the the am of the warehouses, they'll all be shut down. I mean they're not going to put their drivers out on the roads and stuff like that. I mean, it's just not. That's just not going to happen. So if you don't, if you don't kiss your stuff by Saturday afternoon, just expect for it to be delayed. In the end, this all depends on the ice. You know, we lose power. I mean, who knows it's it's really going to s at some of these Well, you look at your grocery stores, you know, so they you know. I haven't been. Oh no, I'm sure they're a mess. Oh my gosh, I can't even imagine. I drove by Kroger on the way home from work this afternoon. It was just an absolute madhouse. Oh wait, I'm telling a complete lie. I was in the publics like three hours ago. My son wanted to get the five dollars sushi that they do at publics. Whoa, oh, I did not know that. Now I get my sushi at Kroger. Man, I've been paying full price at Kroger. Well, it's only Wednesdays. It's five dollars sushi. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. I know where I'm going now, Yeah, they don't. It's not bad. You know, you get a couple of them, it's only ten bucks and you're full Okay, So it looks like I just searched up kerosene heater wicks over here. Oh yeah, you know what, we might as well bring it up real quick, take a peek, give everybody an idea of what's what. Is there any incriminating evidence on your I don't think so. Oh my address flashing up on there. But it looks like there's a lot of two day deliveries still available. Yeah, I just want to. Check ice melt and see. Let's see if anybody got a chance of getting ice melt in a hurry delivered. Oh that's a little different in February tenth. I don't know if they're big on that. I mean, I don't know if if this is a place to get it. You know, I never buy it from here. But it don't look good. January twenty ninth. Yeah, you might be out of luck. You might be heading the lows if you will. Actually, if you've got to get ice melt at this point in Richmond, you're probably out of luck or anywhere that's getting hit by this thing. As I can imagine that stuff probably got bought up already. Oh yeah, I'm sure they got the tractor trailer full of generators and they just they just roll it out there in the parking lot and bring in and bring them in on pallets. People buy them as quick as they bring him in. I'm sure. Yeah, it's a good thing to have, you know. Put the shovels out front on the front porch, don't get them buried, Get the sleds out early. Yep, all that kind of good stuff. Man. Do you do the tarp on the car, Keith? I know I talk about the tarp on the car. Absolutely, do the tarp Yep. It looks it looks terrible. But I just whipped that thing off and start the car and I'm. Off it's great. Huh. Yeah, I've never done it. I probably won't do it. It's one of those things I like, I'll threaten. I'll tell you. What I do need to do is wrap the fig tree up. That's that's probably God. I don't know if the fig tree is gonna make no five degrees wrapped up or not. That's a that'd be sad because those were phenomenal this year. But I think that's about it. Keith. What do you think, man? I mean, we're as good as we're gonna get. Yeah, I mean I don't, like I said, Renda, Low's get my pro Paine cylinders tomorrow. Yeah, I think I think I'm set and just fingers crossed, and I'll be sitting there staring at the ceiling when the lights go out or whenever that is, and we're like, oh, here we go, and then move into keep Keith warm mode. I guess is what that'll start? Hey? Yeah, yeah, if them lights stay on, it could be nice. I'm not gonna lie. I don't know. I don't really mind being snowed in. I don't know about you, if you're the type of person who's like, you know that the blood pressure starts going up the more you realize you can't leave. Oh no, no, I'm no, not at all. I'm the opposite. Yeah, I'm like, what's what do you want to do? You want to do like a Lord of the Rings? You want to do a matrix? What do you? We got hours to burn? Let's do it. Yeah, you know, I don't I don't mind staying home at all. That's good because we'll be going to be staying home one one way or the other. I'm sure about that for sure. Oh yeah, it'll be interesting. It'll be interesting. To see the forecast about about twenty four hours from now, because they'll they'll have it locked in this time tomorrow night, it'll be it'll be locked in. Yeah, I'll tell you what I'd love to do if you want, is maybe next Monday, Wednesday, sometime next week, assuming we're back to normal by next week end of the week. Well, so it won't be next Monday, maybe two Mondays from now or something like that. So sometime once all this blows over, to get together and do sort of like after action report kind of what work. No, yeah, that'll be. No, that would be definitely worthwhile because you know, I'm sure I'm going to make a mistake depending on what happens. I'm sure I'll be like halfway through this thing but like crap, I forgot So No, that'd be. Yeah, we do a little post mortem on it and learn by your mistakes. That's the only way you can get better. Yeah. Those are kind of my favorite shows when it's like, here's all the things that went wrong or things that I should have done better, because I think people like that angle a lot more than they like. You need to do X, Y and Z and do it now. M h. Yeah, I mean, we look, we learn from each other every I mean, that's that's what the prepping community is about. I mean, I you know, I pick up information all the time. I get emails, you know, from the podcast and little tips and no. I just that's that's how we learn. That's how we get better, and that's how we you know, we ended up thriving. Yeah, well, hey man, thanks so much for coming on. I'm glad we made it happen. It's absolutely anytime. No, I'd appreciate it, absolutely anytime. So, folks, the Common Sense Practical Prepper. The link is in the show description down below. You can get all of his episodes. How many episodes you got you've been at it a while, you gotta one hundred. I quit numbering them, but I think Buzz Sprouts is one hundred and eighty or something episodes. I don't I like it. I want to listen to. I'd like the looks of your grandma was sweet, not sterile. I read that sounds like a podcast I would dig. All right, folks, well check them out the Common Sense Practical Prepper. You'll be hearing from him more here on PBN, And like I said, we'll get that you know what went wrong. My dog froze and to death. And. You know I wouldn't be able to live that one down. But all right, folks, until next time, I do appreciate you. Talk to you soon. I might be on tomorrow. I probably will be on tomorrow. I got all kinds of stuff going on, So yeah, look for look to the windward and you might find the intrapid commander. All right, folks, see you tomorrow. 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