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[hurley842002]

This seems like a great time to move back to Colorado. Currently in a hotel in Hays, KS. Arriving either tomorrow or Saturday depending on weather. Doing an Airbnb until rental house is ready (8 April-ish). Storage unit for non-essential items. Kinda thinking I should have stayed in Oklahoma. Lol. If it weren?t for the Airbnb situation, we would be fine. Kinda hoping there isn?t a lockdown that prevents the current occupants of the rental from leaving. Once we get in there, we can ride out whatever. Sigh.

You are in the exact situation I'm in. Fortunately our hotel went from jam packed with college baseball players to ghost town. Tucson was one of the first ones hit with restaurant/bar/gym closures, going to get old not being able to go and sit down for a meal, and the gym thing just flat out sucks.

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[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.

[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

[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.

[Great-Kazoo]

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

Well charcoal has other uses besides cooking. Such as water purification.

Then there's the UV way for water.

https://www.superprepper.com/sodis/

https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/solardisinfection.html

[CS1983]

Well charcoal has other uses besides cooking. Such as water purification.

Then there's the UV way for water.

https://www.superprepper.com/sodis/

https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/solardisinfection.html

Wouldn?t that have to be pure charcoal though? I thought most grilling charcoal is impregnated with chemicals to help it light more quickly and burn more efficiently.

[Wulf202]

Wouldn?t that have to be pure charcoal though? I thought most grilling charcoal is impregnated with chemicals to help it light more quickly and burn more efficiently.

Pure charcoal is sold as "lump charcoal" or "natural charcoal"

Some brickettes are compressed charcoal dust, some have chemicals all will have a binding agent.

Charcoal is also useful medicinally