Do you have a contingency plan?

TXgolfer said:
Sure.....You need alot of ventilation though. It would also be a last resort if you can't chain it to something. When you are in the middle of a big emergency leaving those things outside are like leaving a Rolls running in the driveway.
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Everything I've heard or read says never put a gas-powered generator in a garage.

Such as:

Portable Generator Hazards
 
Tousi said:
This radiant barrier stuff....can it be brushed or rolled on? Does Home Depot carry it?
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Paint stores carry it..It is an additive you pour into paint. It is only effective with 100& coverage so it would be real hard to do by roller and brush....but not impossible.
 
TXgolfer said:
Paint stores carry it..It is an additive you pour into paint. It is only effective with 100& coverage so it would be real hard to do by roller and brush....but not impossible.
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will it spray on? I have automotive spray equipment.
 
TXgolfer said:
Paint stores carry it..It is an additive you pour into paint. It is only effective with 100& coverage so it would be real hard to do by roller and brush....but not impossible.
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While I realize this barrier is probably sprayed in the roof from the attic but would it be effective if sprayed on an outside wall (stucco) that the sun beats on during the hottest part of the day?
 
Tousi said:
While I realize this barrier is probably sprayed in the roof from the attic but would it be effective if sprayed on an outside wall (stucco) that the sun beats on during the hottest part of the day?
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Yes they say it will. It works best if it is sprayed on the sheathing during construction. The best part is it is mixed into paint so it can be any color. It's expensive though. The product itself is about $20 per gallon of paint plus the cost of the paint.
 
From survivalist to home improvement. Interesting thread evolution. :hmm:
 
N.J. weekend nor'easter leaves flood waters at near historic highs
The weekend’s relentless rain brought a month’s worth of precipitation in 48 hours, and along with floods, hail, thunder, lightning and howling wind, left much of New Jersey in a state of monumental misery.
Just weeks after breaking a 130-year-old record for snowfall, the Garden State buckled under the mid-March nor’easter. Two Teaneck men were killed Saturday when a tree fell on them. Continued power outages, train delays, closed roads and swollen rivers had police, utility and emergency medical personnel scrambling.
Gov. Chris Christie declared a state of emergency tonight, broadening State Police powers over traffic control, access to hard-hit areas and evacuation orders.
More rain — a quarter- to a half-inch — is expected through Wednesday, but it should not be heavy enough to cause additional flooding, according to the National Weather Service. Winds also are expected to increase through tonight.

Springlike weather is expected for Thursday through Saturday, with temperature reached the upper 50s to lower 60s.
As the Raritan River crested more than nine feet above flood level this afternoon, a local state of emergency was declared in Bound Brook. That forced the mandatory evacuation of more than 400 residents, who took shelter in the high school gymnasium and a Presbyterian church.
Borough residents said they had no reason to suspect a deluge Saturday night, when little rain had fallen. But when they awoke, lakes of water had invaded their homes and submerged their cars.
“They said it was in a flood zone, but that it doesn’t usually flood,” Tricia Russomanno, 26, said as she waited out the storm with her husband and their 19-month-old twins in the lobby of Bound Brook High School.
Morris County officials evacuated some residents in Lincoln Park and Pequannock, and three Middlesex County towns declared states of emergency. In Perth Amboy, tides washed out a chunk of the waterfront walkway, and several roofs could be seen floating in the floodwaters.
“We don’t know what buildings they came from,” emergency management coordinator Larry Cattano said.
As authorities rushed to clear loose electrical wires from the paths of emergency vehicles, one public worker cut his leg with a chainsaw as he extricated a tree from the tangled lines. He returned to work after getting stitches, Cattano said.
The city also added 20 extra police officers, deploying 14 to direct traffic on chaotic streets, and several drove around pitch-black neighborhoods with their lights on to deter criminals.
“No power means no alarms and no streetlights,” Cattano said.
In Manville, which was devastated by Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Main Street was under water and police requested people to stay out of town.
Stores were closed around the state and in Denville, where much of the downtown area was darkened, the Rockaway River was just inches from inundating the Diamond Road Bridge, rebuilt in 2000.
Close to 120,000 PSE&G customers in northern and central New Jersey were still without electricity today, including some 80,000 in Bergen County. Atlantic Electric reported 1,972 outages in its area of South Jersey and JCP&L listed 35,000 outages across its area.
Power to most of its customers will not be restored until Wednesday, said PSE&G officials, with the remaining homes regaining power by Thursday.
The Middlesex Water Co. issued a 48-hour boil water notice, and United Water New Jersey also asked its Teaneck customers to boil water after the Haworth Water Treatment Plant suffered power outages.
Along most of the Shore, flood warnings stayed in effect today as the boundary between water and land began to blur in coastal communities.
In Seaside Park, Linda Boisseau used a blue ocean kayak to travel on Bayview Avenue, which lay under a foot of brackish water this afternoon. Dressed in a purple windbreaker and knee-high rubber boots, she glided over a half-block to help a neighbor who had not been able to leave the house since the storm hit.
“Since November, we’ve been flooded 12 times,” said Boisseau, who called the storm among the five worst she has seen since moving to the borough in 1986.
Statewide, this winter has been the third-wettest in 115 years, dating to when records were first kept, said David Robinson, state climatologist at Rutgers.
A good portion of central New Jersey experienced 4 to 6 inches of rain, and parts of Morris County received as much as 6.8 inches, a one-day total that nearly equals the state’s record of 7.2 inches for the entire month of March, set in 1983, according to the New Jersey Weather and Climate Network.
“This winter’s been relentless in terms of storms, but so has the last decade in the amount of flooding,” Robinson said, citing the 1999 hurricane and a slow-moving storm that dropped 5 to 7 inches on the state over three days in April 2007.
He said his sister, who lives in Bergen County, had a tree fall in front of her. She was frightened, Robinson said, but unharmed.
Authorities identified two men from Teaneck in Bergen County who died Saturday when an maple tree, uprooted by soaking rain, split and toppled in the wind. Ovadia Mussaffi, 54, and Lawrence Krause, 49, had just left a synagogue near their homes when they were killed around 7 p.m.
“Trees falling kill more people in New Jersey than lightning strikes or floods,” the climatologist said. “People shouldn’t have been out on the roads today from noon to midnight, or out walking. People have to know how dangerous it is. We live in a state with a lot of trees.”
After the harrowing winter of cold, snow and rain, there is good news around the corner for New Jerseyans: Spring begins Saturday.
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this town is about 1.5 hrs away from me.
 
Widespread power blackout hits Chile
Much of Chile was in the dark Sunday after a widespread blackout knocked out power to 90 percent of the country, CNN's sister network in the country reported.

The blackout was caused by a failure to the country's central electric system, but it was unclear what led to the failure, CNN Chile reported, citing Chilectra, a power company that provides electricity to the capital, Santiago.

Subway service was also affected, CNN Chile said, but all passengers had been evacuated from stopped trains as of Sunday night.

The blackout comes two weeks after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country, killing more than 500 people. Aftershocks as high as magnitude 7.2 continue to disrupt recovery efforts.
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Fake Russian invasion broadcast sparks Georgian panic
(CNN) -- A television station in Georgia triggered a panic when it broadcast a mock half-hour report about a Russian invasion of the country.

Emotions are still raw in many parts of Georgia after Russian tanks, troops and armored vehicles advanced into the former Soviet Republic in August 2008.

That invasion was triggered after Georgian troops attacked pro-Russian separatists in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia. In the fighting that ensued, each side offered conflicting figures on how many people died.

On Saturday night, the pro-government Imedi TV in Georgia broadcast what it called a "simulation" of what a fresh invasion would look like. And the broadcast ended with a note that the events in it were not real.

However, the show did not run any on-screen notes during the half-hour broadcast to alert viewers that what they were watching was not real. Consequently many were alarmed.

The show used archives sound bites from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, as well as footage of Georgians fleeing the 2008 conflict.

Throughout the show, the anchor provided "updates" that Russian forces had bombed the airport in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, and a military base in the country.

It reported that four Georgians had been killed and six wounded near South Ossetia.

About two hours later, the station began scrolling a text, apologizing for spreading panic among viewers.

Manana Manjgaladze, the spokeswoman for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, also made an unexpected live appearance at Imedi's studio to apologize to viewers for the false alarm.

Patriarch Ilia II, the leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church, condemned the fake report.

"This kind of experiment is a crime to our people and to humanity," he said in a sermon before thousands of worshippers at Sunday Mass in Tbilisi's Holy Trinity Cathedral.

The controversial broadcast spread fear and panic among residents of Akhali Tserovani, a recently constructed colony of cottages for thousands of Georgians who fled their homes during the 2008 war.

"I was afraid. It wasn't right of them to do it," said Tamuna Okhadze, a refugee who held her one-and-a-half-year-old son Lasha, who was born after the war.

"People were in panic," she said. "Some people started getting dressed to flee to Tbilisi. People wondered where they should hide their children."

Lali Tskitashvili, a mother of three, said she couldn't see the broadcast because she didn't have a satellite dish that received Imedi TV. But she says she received panicked phone calls from friends in Tbilisi, asking if she had seen Russian tanks.

"People here ran out into the street and asked each other 'what's happening?'" she said. "It was a provocation."

President Saakashvili was "very concerned and alarmed of what he saw on TV," said Manjgaladze, the spokeswoman.

"I understand the position of the journalists," she said in a statement. "I understand that it is possible to make such projects, but it mustn't impact the population of the country. No one must pour oil on the fire and cause alarm among the people. This is a very sensitive topic."
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yep, catastrophe can strike anywhere and take on numerous forms.

I thought this website was fairly interesting:

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

This morning, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded a halo CME emerging from the vicinity of sunspot 1054: movie. The cloud appears to be heading toward Earth and it could spark geomagnetic storms when it arrives on or about March 17th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.
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translates to = not severe, normal ... may knock out power in isolated areas if at all.


neat video:

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Yes, I sort of understood why you posted those articles. But .... was it to point out that people should NOT be prepared? Your last post confused me a little bit.

As I pointed out earlier, if this solar storm was being predicted by some self propagating psychic, or even a survivalist website, I would have been like ... :roll:

But when NASA, SOHO and the European Space Agency are ALL saying that a massive CME will happen in 2013, that sort of gets my attention.


I will push the panic button if it actually happens though :giggle:
 
I've been told that some people in Georgia (USA) did really thought that they were being invaded by the Russians. EPIC FAIL.
 
Steinhauer said:
Yes, I sort of understood why you posted those articles. But .... was it to point out that people should NOT be prepared? Your last post confused me a little bit.

As I pointed out earlier, if this solar storm was being predicted by some self propagating psychic, or even a survivalist website, I would have been like ... :roll:

But when NASA, SOHO and the European Space Agency are ALL saying that a massive CME will happen in 2013, that sort of gets my attention.


I will push the panic button if it actually happens though :giggle:
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the point is - the disaster that you are more likely to encounter is the Earth-based disaster..... not space-related disaster. I've already showed you several links including NASA's statement about the solar storm that was issued for past several years. nothing happened.
 
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