(12-08-2022, 12:44 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(12-08-2022, 11:18 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Yep. I don't wish it on anyone to know sustained cold temps inside their homes. It makes you think about the folks in Ukraine who are in a much colder climate and are dealing with intermittent or complete power outages as it gets colder. I can't imagine. 

Actually, I can from my time in the Army when we would go on field training exercises during winter months. There were no barracks, no heaters, no reprieve from the cold unless you had a medical event and had to visit the medic tent. Hot coffee and a hot meal was it. We slept in tents and went to bed in the cold and woke up in the cold. That was miserable but it was expected and we knew how long it would last. 

Moore county was taken completely off guard and had no real idea of when things would improve. It's mentally draining. 

Now for the second phase. Everyone rescheduling doctor appointments being, pharmacies being restocked, restaurants getting rid of spoiled food and restocking and so much more. 

Freaking Nowhere North Carolina gets hit by a domestic terrorist. Seriously, if it can happen here it can happen anywhere. People need to wake up.

That was exactly my frustration with the first few hurricanes I went through.  If you know it will take 5 days to restore power, you can plan for that.  But if you think there's a good possibility power could be restored in 2 days, you don't commit to those 5 day plans.  You get stuck in this mentally frustrating in between world, not sure what you should do.  Fortunately now I have enough resources that it doesn't bother me if food goes bad or if I'm stuck choosing between nonperishables or restaurant food for 3 meals a day, and I have multiple weeks worth of clean clothes and dishes.  College me didn't have any of those things.  Today I can take a power outages day by day.  Twenty years ago I could not.

Our major weak spot was lack of a generator. That has been rectified. I bought one Tuesday that will support our fridge/freezer, deep freezer, fans, lights and more, but most importantly my husband's CPAP machine. Dude can't sleep without it. 

We can recoup if we lose our freezer and fridge of food. We have plenty of clothes to wear. We have rain barrels of water to flush our toilets, food I prepped and pressure canned, soups from the store, plenty of other stuff we need. But why should we have to recoup anything when we can be better prepared in the first place? Or hope restaurants are open to feed us? Food trucks were the major source of meals because they run on generators so they were perfect for that but they can prep only so much food at a time. 

What is stressful is the things we don't have control of like prescriptions that need to be filled but can't be. My husband has bad asthma and has to have an inhaler. Or elderly parents who aren't prepped at all and it falls on us to make sure they're squared away.

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