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2024-08-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

50 Things That Everyone Should Be Stockpiling To Prepare For Election Chaos

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-27 00:59|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1763 views ] Top

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Someone in the DC Swamp is not doing their job.

We are in the last stages of an National Election Year. But Shoppers are reporting the shelves in sporting goods stores, and yes, even Wally World, are still well stocked with Ammo?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-08-27 04:24|| 2024-08-27 04:24|| Front Page Top

2 Large urban transportation nodes could indeed be vulnerable. If the Interstate Highway system is not adequately defended, there could be serious consequences.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-08-27 04:30|| 2024-08-27 04:30|| Front Page Top

3 Got your TP, Berserker?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-27 07:23|| 2024-08-27 07:23|| Front Page Top

4 Ammo, willpower; then don't need the rest.

Posted by Glenmore 2024-08-27 09:24|| 2024-08-27 09:24|| Front Page Top

Posted by Jack+Creanter7508 2024-08-27 11:29|| 2024-08-27 11:29|| Front Page Top

6 Probably wouldn't hurt to lay in a supply of spare ballots.

Posted by SteveS 2024-08-27 13:10|| 2024-08-27 13:10|| Front Page Top

7 When the electricity goes out, so does water pressure. I'd add lime to the shopping list.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-27 13:13|| 2024-08-27 13:13|| Front Page Top

8 lay in a supply of spare ballots.

‘Twould double as toilet paper in a pinch, too. Even after having been used for voting.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-27 14:35|| 2024-08-27 14:35|| Front Page Top

9 The list is not bad. They sell plastic bags that fit on bathroom tubs to fill with water. Water will be "the" problem, even with all this stuff.

Posted by 49 Pan 2024-08-27 19:17|| 2024-08-27 19:17|| Front Page Top

10 Yes; Hurricane Preparedness sites are a good start for beginners. The State of Florida checklist makes good points, like a non-electric can opener.

Remember, even the Honest Brokers will be hobbled by an inability to process electronic payments. That includes those who still take checks if the banks can't get online.

"Its the little things, the itty bitty things, which piss you off."

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-08-27 20:06|| 2024-08-27 20:06|| Front Page Top

11 I'd add lime to the shopping list.

Is that lime as in "Magarita with salt" or is that lime as in "This ain't the first hole I dug"?

Posted by SteveS 2024-08-27 21:18|| 2024-08-27 21:18|| Front Page Top

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