Now that it's started...

[Alpine]

In the event electricity goes out long term, and you cannot consum all that beef/elk you have in the freezer fast enough, it can easily be smoked and turned into jerkey.

[battlemidget]

I'm just chillin on the Ham radio and trying to limit my coffee intake as I sit here and window shop on the internet with my anticipated Kung Flu check from Uncle $ugar.

[FoxtArt]

Another tip: Controversy over Ibuprofen, seems to be flip-flop over whether it's helpful or incidentally harmful with Covid. WHO currently recommends that it's OK, but there are some documented institutions alleging associated side effects. The institutions are French, in part, so maybe take with a grain of salt and a baguette.

If you want to play it safe, maybe make sure you have / stick to Tylenol unless it's not successful with a fever.

https://www.sciencealert.com/who-rec...id-19-symptoms

If you or a family member has asthma get a refill on any inhalers, make sure you have extra medicines on hand for any disease that can be a complication.

[FoxtArt]

Another tip for the semi-nerdy: If you have true line of sight to a friends house, you can bridge you network to theirs over many miles. Think of your wifi network, but with a magic tunnel that connects 8 miles away to your brothers/friends/sisters/cousins house. File share, internet share, network gaming, whatever you have in mind, your solution is using the right kind of Ubiquiti radios. They come with an inline POE injector, so they are self powered from the network cable. You need some basic skill in administrative interfaces to set it up, and can't be afraid of your roof.

Nanobeam/Lightbeam: 1-15 miles with true line of sight, recommend 5Ghz, 2.4Ghz for some applications
Nanobridge: If you have to go through A tree (one) 900Mhz may be able to do it. 2-10 mile range.
Shorter range (1 mile or less) : Nanostation

Second tip: Buy used ones from Ebay for cheap.

You have to have actual line of sight though (e.g. if you roof mounted the radios, or on a short pole, they truly can see each other). There's also a little more too it then that, but their are free terrain tools that can estimate if it will work for your specific bridge or not. This is obviously the TLDR version of a real guide.

[theGinsue]

In the event electricity goes out long term, and you cannot consum all that beef/elk you have in the freezer fast enough, it can easily be smoked and turned into jerkey.

I have been thinking about this. I'll be out shopping tomorrow morning an will see if I can pick up a shit ton (industry technical standard) of charcoal. I have an electric smoker and a wood/charcoal offset smoker. I've got enough wood chips to smoke the meat I have.

[Great-Kazoo]

I have been thinking about this. I'll be out shopping tomorrow morning an will see if I can pick up a shit ton (industry technical standard) of charcoal. I have an electric smoker and a wood/charcoal offset smoker. I've got enough wood chips to smoke the meat I have.

We smoke a moderate amount of food over a few days. Vacuum seal, dated with package info, then freeze. This makes it easier for meals when no one feels like cooking. Plus, if the powers out and you're using a pellet or other type that needs power to run. There's no worries about food going bad. AND smoked meats have longer shelf life.

[Hummer]

We smoke a moderate amount of food over a few days. Vacuum seal, dated with package info, then freeze. This makes it easier for meals when no one feels like cooking. Plus, if the powers out and you're using a pellet or other type that needs power to run. There's no worries about food going bad. AND smoked meats have longer shelf life.

That's what we do. Vacuum sealed, double bagged and frozen game meat can be good for 5-10 years. Lean, low fat foods last a long time in a freezer @ 10-20F below zero.

[00tec]

We smoke a moderate amount of food over a few days. Vacuum seal, dated with package info, then freeze. This makes it easier for meals when no one feels like cooking. Plus, if the powers out and you're using a pellet or other type that needs power to run. There's no worries about food going bad. AND smoked meats have longer shelf life.

Most pellet smokers only take a few hundred watts to run. You can usually run them off of a small power inverter.

I have an inverter I keep in the truck, along with a 50ft extension cord.

[Gman]

Most pellet smokers only take a few hundred watts to run. You can usually run them off of a small power inverter.

I have an inverter I keep in the truck, along with a 50ft extension cord.

My truck has an inverter with 2 110 outlets if it came down to that.

[tactical_2012]

I have been thinking about this. I'll be out shopping tomorrow morning an will see if I can pick up a shit ton (industry technical standard) of charcoal. I have an electric smoker and a wood/charcoal offset smoker. I've got enough wood chips to smoke the meat I have.

Saw a guy at Walmart the other day that had a grocery cart full of Charcoal.

Glad I got a 1/4 cord of Hickory this past summer for my smoker