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Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | Author: michaelcox

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Top 10 responses to “Oh, if something bad happens,
I’ll just come to your house!”

10. Not without six months of your own supplies, you won’t.

9. Yeah, your family means so little to you, I’ll be sure to pick up your slack.  Why don’t you bring all your credit card debt while you’re at it.

8. Sweet! We needed a decoy to walk the wire and be the first person shot!

7. Just be sure you show up with a ladder. Not sure how many corpses you’ll have to climb over.

6. I may give you the shirt off my back, but try to take it, and I can only spare half a buck worth of subsonic copper hollow-points.

5. Hey, bring all the barter goods you want - I love to haggle. A roll of TP will get you past the dogs.

4. Be sure to bring some good boots, cuz you’ll be up to your ankles in horse crap earning your keep.

3. Fine by me. I hear people taste like chicken.

2. Make sure you come early - the first five help me shoot the next fifty.

#1 is a tie:

1. “Don’t do that, Mommy will just shoot you and make Daddy bury you in the backyard.” (Are my kids great or what?)

1. “What, you thought I was gonna bunker down somewhere people can find me?” (Note found in my empty house)

What do you guys think?  Time to Get Prepared?

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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | Author: michaelcox

I’ve been in contact with a Registered Instructor for the American Radio Relay League here in Vegas.  He has offered to come to the LDS Church near my house to teach free Ham Radio classes.  The classes will most likely be Wednesday or Thursday night at about 6:30 pm and will last for 6-weeks.  Anyone interested?

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Thursday, March 05th, 2009 | Author: michaelcox

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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 | Author: michaelcox

So, our Emergency Preparedness Fair is over.  Should I redesign the Emergency Preparedness & Family Home Storage page to look more like the Emergency Preparedness Fair Resource CD, keep the page basically as it is, or get rid of it all together?

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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | Author: michaelcox

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 | Author: michaelcox

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Thursday, January 01st, 2009 | Author: michaelcox

“To day arrangements were made to have the ward visited to see that all the brethren had one years supply of grain on hand.”

Journal of Andrew J. Allen
11 October 1863, page 24
(as found on RussPage.net)

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Sunday, December 28th, 2008 | Author: michaelcox

by Wendy DeWitt

10. My neighbors have a TWO year supply! No, they don’t. They don’t have any food. Did you know that 85% of the members of the church don’t have any food storage at all? If your idea of food storage is to eat someone else’s food………..this is a really bad plan.

9. I’ve paid tithing for 20 years…the church can give me a little food. Many members believe that when the times get hard, the church is going to come through like Joseph in Egypt. Absolutely not true. All the church storehouses and welfare farms across the country would only feed 4% of the members of the church. The church has been asking YOU to store food for 75 years. They’re NOT storing food for you. Thus, another bad plan.

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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 | Author: michaelcox

Tonight is my last CERT class.  While on the CERT website, I found a video that I think is a great introduction.

 

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Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | Author: michaelcox

Want a fun, low on space way to grow potatoes?  Grow them in a garbage can!

 

With either a new a garbage can (or a used one that is super-clean), drill several 1/2 drainage holes in the bottom and on the sides close to the bottom. In the bottom of your garbage can, place a layer of shredded newspaper or old junk mail. This helps to keep the soil that you add on top of this moist and also helps to keep the soil from finding its way out of the drain holes to make a mess.  You then fill the can with about 6 inches of good potting soil, and if you like, some fertilizer. I personally would use the “square foot gardening” mix of 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 compost and 1/3 asbestos-free vermiculite.

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