Emergency Supplies...
 

are useless if the expiration dates are 2003. :rolleyes: Interesting weather in our neck of the woods today..it's improved alot since this morning. I believed the weather alerts and moved all the lawn & porch furniture into the barn, took down the flag, moved the flower pots and anything else that could "sail". When the sirens went off and the wind picked up and Cassie started to pace and pant, we went down into our spooky old basement.

As I sat there hand cranking that radio so I could listen to Diane Rheam instead of the wind and rain, I thought I should ck out all the supplies that Mr.Alffe had been storing down there for years...an impressive assembly!
First aid kits, flashlights, batteries, blankets, face masks, cases of bottled water, medicine, folding chairs, bathroom supplies...:o

And cans of food, cans of juice, tuna.....all expired years ago. Now that the storm has passed, I'll throw them out and replace them.

And I had to cancel that hair apt..:wink:

Heard from the relatives downstate..everyone fine but their porch chairs ended up in their neighbors back yard. Last I heard, one of my sil's was stuck in a plane, on the tamack in Indianapolis...trying to go to Chicago.

Abbie...everything ok by you??? :hug:

Everything has been clear here since mid morning... we had the normal tornado and thunderstorm warnings... no damage done.

It is still very windy with gusts near 50mph.

I think we got off a lot easier than your neck of the woods.

ROFL! As soon as I saw the title to this thread, I knew who had posted it. We were 'messaging' when you said you had to run to the basement with Cassie and I wondered for quite some time if you had survived...until the next message that is, LOL!

Um...2003, yeah that sounds a bit old. My folks have a lot of canned goods, etc., in their basement. It got me to thinking about the winter about to overcome us. :rolleyes: Gosh, I shudder to think of not having electricity during a snow storm most especially. Been there! Done that! It was awful! The kind of snow storms where you can't even get out of your house type of thing, blizzards.

So, thank you for this reminder. I need to stock up on some things as well.

My problem is if the heat goes out. I'm not quite sure what to do about that. And if the electric goes out too, well...no space heaters.

I remember one of our horrible blizzards that snowed us iin when Cara was younger. I had a waterbed at the time and that was a lifesaver!!! It was heated of course and kept us nice and warm.

Hmmm, well I guess I could use the stove to heat that part of the house.

Well anyway, let's just hope that doesn't happen!

Today started out with very high winds and lots of rain. The winds were awful! When I woke up I thought for sure my alarm was wrong and that it was 2 am. DARK! Stormy! Windy! Wow, it was hard not to call in sick to work and crawl back in bed!

I'm glad you guys are safe. Frank was talking about this as well over on FB.

:hug:

Some of my TV channels come from Detroit... and I must admit I had to look up some of the county names to see where they were... what those winds can do is beyond my experience.

50 miles per hour winds work out to about 80+ kilometers per hour.

Hear on the west coast, we experience those winds too.. because we are aan ocean coast with mountains within a few miles to break some of the force.
The winds aren't as damaging as they can be to your area Alffe and Abbie. They certainly uproot trees, damage property and cut power/heat... but to have an emergency supply hasn't been high on my list - except perhaps for candles... matches and lighters. I think that might change...

I'm rambling...
and happy you're safe and sound with a husband who was prepared! WARM HUGS to you all! :grouphug:

I like the way you ramble..:D

I also love this...http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/im...5&type=profile

Had to borrow it!

Alffe, when you were talking about what happened but didn't say what it was exactly i was sooo confused, thinking... is there a hurricane coming that i must've missed? Then I realized what you meant!

It's so interesting to me, when doody mentioned a blizzard, to think how different we all are in different parts of the country and world. Typhoons, lagoons, blizzards, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados, snowstorms.

For us with hurricanes, its much easier having somewhat advance notice, never any sirens. And instead of having expired emergency kits, we all rush out to the store the day before and buy everything they've got so the grocery stores are always depleted of food, the hardware stores have no more wood left, and then the next stop is the gas stations which then run out of gas.

I always love hearing about snow too, stuff about chains? shoveling? heat gas deliveries? Not too sure about any of that being in the sunshine state!! :cool:

LOL ((Wish)). Actually here in the cold parts, we all make last minute runs as well. You should see the grocery stores the minute the weather service says a snowstorm is a'comin. Good grief, people run to the stores and stock up like they may never see the outdoors again. But then when a blizzard is a'comin, you just never know! That's when I'm right there at the store as well making sure I have the essentials.

Midwest yesterday and today has had extremely high winds and storms. Around Chicago, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio I believe, there were also numerous tornadoes. They said the winds were so furious it was like a category 3 hurricane in the midwest.

For us 'old folks' :rolleyes: maybe it's a hangover from when we were growing up fearing the atom bomb and everyone kept supplies stocked just in case. I'm not sure what 'just in case' as the atom bomb would have pretty much rendered the need for supplies useless, LOL!

I can't believe back then we would have regular tests at school in case of the bomb. They taught us to crawl under our desks and put our hands over our heads. Duck and Roll :rolleyes: We also had the lovely Conelrad emergency broadcast system.

I'll bet Doody remembers color bars and test patterns on tv too. LOLOL
I do too, along with Conelrad warnings. My brother remembers the Duck and Cover drill, but by the time I was in school they must have figured out how stupid that was. LOL.
We had high winds here yesterday and a small tornado just north of us, but no one was hurt. We were lucky.
(ducky slips back into lurk mode, I think)

ROFL! Okay, so I'm old enough to remember the test patterns and color bars on all THREE stations we got back then. And lest you forget, the Oh Say Can you See playing before the test pattern and bars came on, LOL!

Yes, the duck and roll...geesh, they had to know that wasn't gonna do nuttin! And, scared the bewhoosits outta me and the other kids too. :rolleyes:

I'm so glad you are okay Ducky! :hug:

Oh wait, look! All I had to do was say DUCK and you came! :D

I'm here a lot...I just couldn't pass up the chance to make you feel old ;-)
:hug:

ROFL! Duck and roll by Groucho Marx. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h31xJhOP85c

In Canada we didn't have to go under out desks for nuthin'!!! Nowadays I think kids are taught to go under their desks in case of an earthquake.

And our store shelves clear off when they say a rain storm is coming... because here on the weTcoast, it rains for days and days and days...

and God help us if it snows because people here don't all buy snow tires and there aren't enough snow plows ... and its snowing here more and more every year... time to bring out the walking poles! (everyone thinks because we are Canada, that we are used to the rain... but our climate here is much like Seattle and Portland... mild with rain most of the winter... they are warning that this one will be a rough one, tho... so we shall seeeeeeee....

Wish... you're young... and I sense changes are happening in your life so you will perhaps experience snow one day.... :D

Ducky... I love it when you show up! :hug:

You, too... Doody... nice to see you around a bit more :)

:grouphug:

Koala does too! :Blush2:

I remember the test patterns on our only TV station, and I remember TV didn't start until 4pm, and I remember we had the National Anthem at midnight (or was it 11pm?) when it closed down for the night, and I remember all the programs were in black & white, and I remember the TV aerial sat on top of the set, and I remember much more ..... but I'm feeling too old to continue :D

What a fun thread...loved the Duck & roll ducky...and I remember it well.
The worst blizzard in my lifetime was the one in 1978...http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/?n=blizzardof78

Everyone has a story about that one. The road was closed outside of our house and people left their cars and walked down to our old farm house for shelter...we had a kitchen full of strangers and went through pots of coffee and exchanged lot of stories. Their families would show up and cart them off on snowmobiles...several brought skies and it was so strange to see them "striding" off on top of all that snow.

Mr.Alffe was stuck in town and we were getting low on groceries...four kids and me..so Michael took his sled and walked down the road to a neighboring farmer who sold eggs and he carefully came home with about three dozen of them. A day or two later Mr.Alffe was delivered to us on a county snow plow, arms filled with groceries..a very welcome sight to us and some of our neighbors who wanted pkgs of hamburger from the sacks.

We worked on puzzles on the dinning room table and prayed that the furnace wouldn't go out.

Wonderful memories and BMW....lol, I am not now, nor have I ever been high...except on bourbon. :wink:

To Alffe
 

Glad you got tickets!!

You need emergency supplies? I don't.
I haven't been to check out my "Emergency Stuff" (mostly cat food) in the basement, but Monday I started cleaning out the cupboard and storage cabinets here.
I found 6 jars of marachino cherries :eek: Does that tell you how I collect and store?

Speaking of emergency supplies...

I have a friend who decided they weren't going to go to the grocery store, except for milk for the baby, until they truly had NO food left in the house... they call it the Great American Eat Down...

They have been eating 3 meals a day for the last 5 weeks... no going out. My friend told me she thinks they could eat for a couple more months.

I think my family could eat for months with what's in the cabinets and freezer....

I may have to try this Great American Eat Down.

yeah, they used to play the national anthem every night when programming ended ( WAVE 3 has ended it's broadcasting day. ) Then they played it again in the morning ( at four-thirty) before the farm report.
I remember the kids show...but can't remember the name...and Wayne Perky and the morning show.
what I seem not to remember is sleeping. LOL

Oh, and we used to have tornado drills ( everyone in the hall with your hands over your heads), fire drills ( everyone outside in a calm manner) and earthquake drills ( everyone under the nearest desk or table...hand over your head again).'
I got in trouble for asking what to do if there were a fire during a tornado.... ( inside or out????)
some people have no sense of the ridiculous.

ROFL! Okay, ((Wren)) you got me to chuckling there. ((Abbie)) I moved on to chuckling and grinning. ((Duck)) of course I LOL!

Yes, that's what they call that thing...the National Anthem, with a flag waving and the whole 9 yards.. I can't tell you how many nights and mornings I went to sleep and woke up with that. NO television during the night, nada.

Duck, I often wondered the same thing myself. Okay, we're out here in the hall with our hands over our heads. But seriously, I just saw a fire start over there in the corner. What should we do? ROFL! Strange, but we never had earthquake drills here (even though there is that scary Madrid fault goin on.).

Kinda makes you wonder what they thought putting our hands over our heads would do for our safety in the event of crumbling walls, flying debris or that dreaded flash of light before the atom bomb hit. :rolleyes:

In the mornings here, first had to watch the news, then came Captain Kangaroo and our local Magic Window. :o Of course, on our black and white TV. We never did get to have a color TV as a child. I couldn't tell you when we may have gotten one either.

OH, geesh, has nothing to do with drills, but I also remember discovering there were FM stations, not just AM!

(slinking away with my grey hair feeling very old now)

Oh...and every time I go to my pantry cupboard now, I throw away a few more things. Dang, the cupboard is getting bare. Shows how much I cook. :o

T Bar Vee Ranch....that was the morning show. With Randy Atcher. LOL.
THEN Captain Kangaroo...
we had a test pattern that was a round, sort of radar tag looking thing,with a silhouette of an native American in the center...then the color bars...then the anthem.
I have stuff in my pantry that I am never going to eat. I mean, people mean well, but they give me things they hate...hoping I won't hate them. Cream of broccoli soup? I don't think so. Waiting for the next big food drive. They get that and sardines and canned corned beef...shudder. Anything worth eating....I eat.
LOL

I remember Captain Kangaroo Doody.... :) Mr Moose and the falling ping pong balls LOL, Mr Green Jeans. LOL I also remember some show i think called Wagon Train and it's main advertisement was Borax Soap????? My folks watched it in the evenings. :o I also remember waiting for several minutes waiting for the tv to warm up. It seems like it took a while before a picture ever came up.

I think we were the last household on our street to get a tv set. I remember watching Alfred Hitchcock at one of the neighbors and just loving it. I remember my mom watching as the world turns...now off the air...Remember Raw Hide?? Red Skelton...Groucho Marx...Perry Como...
And Borax Soap will always remind me of Scrabble and her snowflake recipe...with pipecleaners.....LOL :D

The gentleman, James Wall, that played Mr. Baxter on Captain Kangaroo died today....he was 92. :(

Does anyone remember Howdy Doody?

I do, I do...I remember Howdy Doody.

It's Howdy Doody Time, It's Howdy Doody Time....

Ok, I admit... It was in reruns... but my older brother has a Howdy Doody puppet.

Buffalo Bob, Clarabell, Princess Summerfallwinterspring, Chief Thunder Thud ...............

Of course I remember Howdy Doody! :D

Yes Ms. Alffe I remember all of those. :o I think Red Skelton is really dating us. LOL! How about Queen for a Day. My mom loved that show and I watched it with her. :rolleyes:

good night David...good night Chet
 

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a very different time...

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