Novice here /need assistance

[earthworm]

I'm very new at using this site. Not good at adding links, using icons or any of the common language posting. I'm trying to get my home and family ready for future disasters. All of you have good threads, and useful links. I can only write plain language, not very witty or quick. Would like advice from those struggling like me to get a start on an overwhelming project.

[crossfire]

Holly Deyo has some good information here. (http://standeyo.com/News_Files/Hollys.html)

[Kamalam]

That is a great site... I wish I had the $$ to buy all their recommendations!!

Also, check out the lifeaftertheoilcrash.net (http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net) site... there is a lot of interesting info there (I recently started a thread here on one subscribers experience with relocating and getting his family off the grid and off any kind of outside dependence).

[blackeyes]

Thanks Crossfire for the site. I think it's also mentioned at Matt Savinar's site. If you'd like to listen to a great interview Art Bell had with Mr. Savinar please feel free to click on the link below. Start on 1 and work your way up. I haven't organized the files yet. Enjoy.

http://www.putfile.com/blackeyes2112/media

another great site.

http://fromthewilderness.com/

[Alpha]

I'm very new at using this site. Not good at adding links, using icons or any of the common language posting. I'm trying to get my home and family ready for future disasters. All of you have good threads, and useful links. I can only write plain language, not very witty or quick. Would like advice from those struggling like me to get a start on an overwhelming project.

Hello earthworm and WELCOME!! :)

I hope I'm not misreading your post, however I think you may be asking about the tech aspects of the "how to's of posting here.

If I'm correct, please feel free to PM me or post on the tech part of the board...we all will be more than happy to help!! :)

[earthworm]

:popworm: thanks for the reply. It's true,Tech stuff I'm not good at, but it's more. I'm not sure how to contribute to this or any site. All the info put on the postings by others is great. Working in human service and helping my growing family( grandchildren/chn's spouses) take so much energy it's hard to get to the task at hand. I listen to c2c shows downloaded on my computer, every morning and it is sometimes confusing. I will caution on the side that things are going to happen that will make life much tougher.

[Alpha]

:popworm: thanks for the reply. It's true,Tech stuff I'm not good at, but it's more. I'm not sure how to contribute to this or any site. All the info put on the postings by others is great. Working in human service and helping my growing family( grandchildren/chn's spouses) take so much energy it's hard to get to the task at hand. I listen to c2c shows downloaded on my computer, every morning and it is sometimes confusing. I will caution on the side that things are going to happen that will make life much tougher.

I would suggest you just browse around the board when you get some spare time...I know how difficult that must be with all that's on your plate.

Then just post your thoughts/opinions, anything relating to the topic you may know, find or want to ask, any articles you find that you think others may be interested in etc.

We have an almost live chat during the Coast program in what we call our Temporal Observatory here:
Temporal Observatory (http://www.imaginativeworlds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5)

All the threads are left open to that anyone who isn't around for the show live can post before, during or after the program anytime.

If you have any other specific questions about how to do this or that on the forum, we have the Forum Info - News - Usage Deck (http://www.imaginativeworlds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=129) where you can post specific questions and get some help.

Hope some of the above helps. :)

[Project]

:popworm: thanks for the reply. It's true,Tech stuff I'm not good at, but it's more. I'm not sure how to contribute to this or any site. All the info put on the postings by others is great. Working in human service and helping my growing family( grandchildren/chn's spouses) take so much energy it's hard to get to the task at hand. I listen to c2c shows downloaded on my computer, every morning and it is sometimes confusing. I will caution on the side that things are going to happen that will make life much tougher.

nothing wrong with asking questions... gets the conversations flowing...

If you hear something interesting you want to research, use our search function http://imaginativeworlds.com/forum/search.php - type your interest in the Key Words box, and hit submit,

[earthworm]

:approve: thanks to all that replied. don't get the smile thing well, but the computer insists on one. We were flooded last summer and I'm redoing the basement. I hope it doesn't happen again. I've tried to do some mitigation stuff to make the possible next damage less intense, but still concerned. Wish i could move off the grid. My kids aren't ready for me to leave and they need me around. Bought a new wood furnace to replace the flooded one and I have to find a plumber that can connect it. will cost a bundle. Researched water purification and think I'll buy the Big Berky. Any one know if it's good.

[teresius]

hiya earthworm, and welcome! i hope that you're getting into the swing of things here. i have not used a big berkey. i camp and hike a lot and have the neatest little device for water purification. it's called the msr mioxx "pen." it's great for water purification in an emergency or hiking. it uses a cr123 battery and salt water to create an oxidizing/chlorine type solution that can be used to treat water, and it's the same technology that is used in large water-treatment plants. it's very easy to use and very effective. i've used all kinds of filters and have ditched them all for the mioxx pen. while hiking this year, i found all of the normal 'watering holes' had dried up. i found one stagnant puddle under an overhanging rock about 100 feet below what is usually a bubbling brook. it was RANK. a nice, slimy layer of filth on the top with dead bugs trapped in it. LOVELY. but i was so thirsty that i had no real choice. after filtering the slime out with my camping towel, i treated it with the mioxx. after waiting for it to settle and be fully treated, it tasted like good tap water (which is getting hard to find these days). i highly recommend this product.

[Delphine]

:approve: thanks to all that replied. don't get the smile thing well, but the computer insists on one. We were flooded last summer and I'm redoing the basement. I hope it doesn't happen again. I've tried to do some mitigation stuff to make the possible next damage less intense, but still concerned. Wish i could move off the grid. My kids aren't ready for me to leave and they need me around. Bought a new wood furnace to replace the flooded one and I have to find a plumber that can connect it. will cost a bundle. Researched water purification and think I'll buy the Big Berky. Any one know if it's good.

Hi, earthworm! What a great thread you started. There are bunch of very nice, helpful, and knowledgeable people here. I'm always asking questions and I get very good answers.

I live in a suburb of New Orleans, so I know a little about disasters. I get the feeling from what you've written, that things sometimes feel overwhelming. Wow, do I feel that. And many times, there isn't the money to do what I really think would help. Sounds like you are REALLY needed by your family.

I don't have a basement, because in New Orleans, we would simply have to swim in it. But, when I lived in Michigan, we had a basement that sometimes flooded. Now this may be a dumb question, but when you buy that new furnace, can you build it UP or put it on something so it's not right on the basement floor if you DO flood again?

Don't worry about all the smilies and stuff around here. They confuse me sometimes, too. It would be nice if you could join us when the show is on sometime.

Anyway, WECOME!!! And thanks for the thread. These are the ones that make for good talk. Keep it going.

Delphs

[earthworm]

Have not checked in for a long time. Thanks for the replies, especially from Delphine. You are encouraging. Now I need to get my head out of my ass and do something besides worry. Been a long long winter. After 10 years at social service I want to move on and move out. Been a pack rat most of my life and I started setting odds and ends aside. I don't think gathering can goods from the store will do the trick in a disaster. Maybe the prepackaged dried food is the way to go. I get lots of catalogs. Any ideas on which company has the best food and the best deals?

[Captain Beyond]

Here is one pretty decent one. I have more that I will post later when I can fire my tower up and pull up the links.

http://www.se1.us/

[earthworm]

Thanks, will look forward to the ideas and links

[Captain Beyond]

I think I will definitely get some of the canned butter. The reviews I have read elsewhere say it is very good and many years of shelf life.

I have a few cases of Meals Ready to Eat, canned food, dried beans, rice, flour, meal, yeast and so on.

Also consider some basic hand tools as electricity will not probably be available. Basic things like an axe, handsaw, hand drill, ample supplies of string, rope/twine, as well as some soaps and basic toiletries for basic hygiene.

[Dera]

Don't forget the world's two best tools: Duct tape and WD40! :laughing:

[bridgebuilder]

hiya earthworm, and welcome! i hope that you're getting into the swing of things here. i have not used a big berkey. i camp and hike a lot and have the neatest little device for water purification. it's called the msr mioxx "pen." it's great for water purification in an emergency or hiking. it uses a cr123 battery and salt water to create an oxidizing/chlorine type solution that can be used to treat water, and it's the same technology that is used in large water-treatment plants. it's very easy to use and very effective. i've used all kinds of filters and have ditched them all for the mioxx pen. while hiking this year, i found all of the normal 'watering holes' had dried up. i found one stagnant puddle under an overhanging rock about 100 feet below what is usually a bubbling brook. it was RANK. a nice, slimy layer of filth on the top with dead bugs trapped in it. LOVELY. but i was so thirsty that i had no real choice. after filtering the slime out with my camping towel, i treated it with the mioxx. after waiting for it to settle and be fully treated, it tasted like good tap water (which is getting hard to find these days). i highly recommend this product.

I just wanted to write that i got the Big Berkey (http://www.bigberkeywaterfilters.com) some time ago because of this thread and I love it. Thank You!

[teresius]

Don't forget the world's two best tools: Duct tape and WD40! :laughing:

i recently saw a video where some guy put a tire back onto the rim and resealed it all in one whack by spraying it with wd40 and then lighting it. amazing.

[Dera]

BOOM!

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