Practical Survival Advice

I recently witnessed a large wildfire in my area. Luckly for everyone involved there were no injuries, and very little property damage. The majority of the fire was contained on federal land. It took a week to extinguish due the rugged landscape. On two side of the fire there were some evacuations. These were some of the fastest ones I've ever seen. People had about 10 minutes to leave the area.

With that being said, like many other scenarios across the boards what are some of the ways you…

Quick Evacuations from disasters.

I remember the first aid class I took in 70s taught by a mortuary who also ran an ambulance service. Hydrogen peroxide was preferred as an antiseptic and the bubbles supposedly lifted out contamination. No longer used unless cut by water 50% because it kills normal cells and delays healing.

Trendelenburg position is supine with legs raised to increase blood to head and prevent shock. Isn't actually effective and has caused swelling near airway and blocked breathing.

Burnt toast scrapings…

Medical practices no longer used first aid

Talked with a friend today, just usual chit chat and he was telling me a co worker of his(at a grocery store) just bought a brand new Tesla 3 for $45k and taking on more debt and with bigger insurance and registration costs, co worker says it all make sense because he Uber delivers too! and no doubt taking on more work to pay for his ever increasing bill footprint, this guy is on a hampster wheel and ain’t never getting off

me… I’d rather drive my beater Mazda to work and not have to take…

People’s financial reasonings

I found this on instapundit:

I hope this lady doesn’t pull shifts at some mission critical job.

Raising the question:

is it more likely that ignorance, stupidity or evil will lead to wars, famine, blackouts, fires etc. I used to substitute teach 7th graders. No group of boys have a greater unearned , misplaced confidence about themselves as some middle school boys. Except maybe certain brands of politicians/bureaucrats/newspeople…

Will Evil or Stupidity Kill Us All?

Lots of Altoids based kits, gadgets etc.

Ran across today – thought folks might get a kick

I use a 'bubble gum' roll case for my little single shot 22 – holds 50 with no issue. The case fits into a USGI compass case.

It's early and I have not had too much coffee yet so……those who have a freeze dryer…do you do ground meat/chicken? I'm old and my hands get tired so I was thinking ( always dangerous) that if I have the meat ground then I could toss it in a freeze dryer then have ready to go meat. The idea of cutting up the meat makes my hands hurt at the thought. Where this is going is dog chows. I just spent a lot of time and energy on canning chicken for the hounds. I had the pork ground so that…

Quick freeze dry question…..ground meats