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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
hajandrade
knottahooker

HEY CALIFORNIA PEOPLE!

HURRICANE ADVICE FROM A FLORIDIAN!

Make sure you've got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.

Make sure you have enough meds!

Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener. 

Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don't want fried in case of a power surge. 

Don't tape your windows, it doesn't help and you'll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.

Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.

Get everything that's not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).

Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.

Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.

If you start to flood, don't go in your attic. You'll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can't hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.

Be safe, be well <3 

ms-demeanor

What the fuck?

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???? WHAT???

Ngl, "tropical storm in death valley" was not on my 2023 bingo card.

Drainage on our roads is shitty in SoCal, don't attempt to drive through water deep enough to touch your bumpers and don't attempt to walk across moving water, water only as deep as your ankles can knock you down and sweep you away.

Predicted wind speeds are similar to strong Santa Anas, so lock things down like you would for that, though keep in mind that yeah the combination of heavy rain and wind leads to more felled trees than just wind.

Take photos of the inside of your home now; flood insurance fucking sucks here and if you're in a possible flood zone you want as much documentation of your home and belongings as possible in case you need to make a claim.

Freezing water bottles also means you've got a lot of ice in your freezer if power goes out, and safe potable water once it thaws, so freeze bottles of water to have something to keep your fridge and freezer cool and store more water regardless of if you want cold water.

auwa

another important preparation tip is to fill your bathtubs and several buckets with water before the storm as well in case the water lines get fucked up, so you have something you can use for bathing and flushing your toilet

thebibliosphere
thebibliosphere

Continuing this post: it’s time to add COLOR

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Paint is Arsenic by Farrow and Ball but color matched by Ecos Paint.

Let’s see how far I get.

digitaldiscipline

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Ma'am, you're an everything pain affiliate

thebibliosphere

Typo on brand af 😅

thebibliosphere

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And now I gotta wait to do the second coat. It’s already making my brain light up though so good choice me in continuing the Barbie Haunted Dram Home aesthetic in my office into the bedroom.

thebibliosphere

I mentioned in the tags that Ecos Paint always looks a bit patchy when it goes on, but here’s what it looks like about 20 minutes later:

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That’s one coat. It needs a second coat in some areas. But it dries pretty damn good.

Again, this is not a sponsored post and I’m not posting affiliate links. I’m just chasing dopamine and bringing you along for the ride.

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starfoozle
ysabelmystic

Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.

Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.

This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.

bethany-sensei

Flash floods are definitely gonna kill people, so here’s your regularly scheduled PSA:

Desert soil does not absorb a significant amount of water. It reaches maximum saturation very very quickly, and all the rest of the water rushes downhill. Even if you can’t tell that the ground is not perfectly flat, the water can. And it will move. Quickly. No, faster than that. Nope, still faster. If you try to cross moving floodwater, you will get swept downstream and probably die.

Do not try to wade in/cross flood water that is any deeper than the thickness of the sole of an average athletic shoe, no I am not kidding, the water will get deeper literally while you’re standing in it.

This goes for cars, too. I’ve seen entire vehicles getting swept downstream in flash floods because the driver thought they could cross the “puddle” and Found Out.

Stay safe, y’all.

zooophagous

A couple of inches of moving water is more than enough to move a car. Don't fuck with it.

petermorwood
kitten-kin

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Headcanon: This is a healthy single man with a clean, well-secured home and a talent for catching fish. Of course he's going to get baby-trapped by a local. Congratulations, James. You are now the proud papa of five tiny new potatoes.

Part 2 here.

naughtypiggy

James Bond, retired double-oh, becomes a cat-dad. I’m here for it.

@petermorwood Have you seen these?

petermorwood

Mew New to me; amusing, though. :->

lady-luminoth
quasi-normalcy

Every single time I hear people talking about the prospect of Star Trek: Legacy, it's always like "Yeah we have Jack Crusher and the La Forge girls, and we can have Kestra Troi-Riker and Alexander Rozhenko join Starfleet, and, ooh, maybe Miral Paris and Molly O'Brien..." and it's just. Why do you want this? What's the appeal? Like, do you think that "Muppet Babies" is the peak of quality storytelling?

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