and I dislike, look where that purple is pushing toward! I still don't have a shovel or boots!
FRIDAY 11/20 SNOWSTORM
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and I dislike, look where that purple is pushing toward! I still don't have a shovel or boots!
I am thankful for the early warning, I usually hitch the oxen up to my covered wagon and make the 7 mile trek to the nearest trading post sun up on Saturday to get supplies for the upcoming week. Because of this early warning I will now hitch the oxen to the covered wagon around midnight so I can be back by the time the storm hits. But because I am having to leave in the dark there is a strong likelihood my journey will be thwarted by natives or a pack of angry wolves and I will never be able to post on CF again. Thanks for the great forum and wish me safe travels on my journey.
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Still looks very mild tomorrow, as well as a persistent, strong, east wind that typically really hampers snow totals with dry air.
https://www.facebook.com/BrettMcIntyreWeather/
If you are right, you may have to be up there with Metinka in my weathering heart.
I mean, I'm pretty certain 99% of people have enough supplies to survive 7 days if they were stranded at home. You might be running pretty low near the end (OMG WE ARE OUT OF MILK AND BREAD! THE HORROR!!), but you would survive and you're not going to be stranded for 7 days in Iowa. 3 days would be pushing it, even if you lived in the middle of nowhere.
It is one thing to have enough supplies when it is one person or a couple. Throw in a bunch of teenage boys that eat food like there is no tomorrow and it is somewhat more complicated.
Is that Oregon Trail? One of my kids would just hunt until he died from a hunting accident or scurvy or something.
Either way, you would survive 7 days even if you had absolutely zero things to eat. You'd be a little hungry, though. Like I said, you're not going to be stranded for more than 2-3 days, so the hype to rush to the grocery store is unwarranted.
We have a neighbor who is scared of the power going out so they turn the heat to around 85 just in case. They all sit around in their underwear and end up falling asleep around 7:30 due to the heat.
I come through sometimes. Other times I feel like I'm auditioning to be the new yodel guy.
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Yeah - I'm much less worried about it now, even though we live in the country. Our town didn't have a grocery store. Our boys pretty much never STOPPED eating.
Yes, it is...and doesn't that Trail look like a pile of steaming poo??? How appropriate for the manner of death!
Have you ever been locked in with teenage boys as the authority figure? They're ravenous beasts! Carvers is trying to protect herself from being brought up on murder charges!
Well,at least mine needs to drop a few pounds for wwrestling, so chewing on a frozen steak might be good for him.
There's no guarantee the kids won't turn cannibal if they run out of food and I probably move the slowest.
When we lived in DC and maybe six inches of snow paralyzed the city, it was no big deal because it was just me and my husband and we were young. Lived in an apartment so no snow removal. Walked to get groceries for the two of us.
Would rather have a good supply of food and prescription meds for all of us and the elderly neighbor than take my chances I guess.
Still looks very mild tomorrow, as well as a persistent, strong, east wind that typically really hampers snow totals with dry air.
https://www.facebook.com/BrettMcIntyreWeather/
Speak for yourself. Those of us up in Cedar Falls and Waterloo keep getting more and more every time one of these comes out.
