Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

[1972 Grad]

I think a serious disruption in everyday utilities would see this or any other country devolve into a shitstorm very quickly. We had a major water main break here in September and parts of the city didn’t have water for 2-3 days. You would have thought it was the end times. Things like that are also a painful reminder of how reliant we are on water and power that can go offline in an instant.

The house we are building is on a strong flowing creek. I have a survival water purification system if needed, that will filter out bacteria and radiation.

 

[RikidyBones]

I started stocking up on supplies after reading that book.

is there any threat to a weapon like that being active today?

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Seems like the biggest panic since the Y2K two digit date scare.

 

[RikidyBones]

The house we are building is on a strong flowing creek. I have a survival water purification system if needed, that will filter out bacteria and radiation.

I have Jacksonville city water. I'm used to bacteria and radiation.

 

[1972 Grad]

is there any threat to a weapon like that being active today?

From my understanding, it just requires a nuclear blast in the atmosphere above us.

 

[VolStrom]

This might be the 21st century equivalent to the Spanish flu of 100 years ago. The Chinese seemed to jump all over this very quickly and I have to wonder why? Did they let it out of a lab accidently maybe?

 

[VolStrom]

Seems like the biggest panic since the Y2K two digit date scare.

A year of my life was wasted testing some of the stupidest things for that non-event.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

The world needs to send China cow bells.

 

[Septic]

I think a serious disruption in everyday utilities would see this or any other country devolve into a shitstorm very quickly. We had a major water main break here in September and parts of the city didn’t have water for 2-3 days. You would have thought it was the end times. Things like that are also a painful reminder of how reliant we are on water and power that can go offline in an instant.

We didn't have power for about 10 days after Hurricane Irma hit in '17, my kids thought the world was ending without wifi. I took them out to a rural area (Immokalee, FL) where migrant workers lived in tents because their tin shacks were leveled. We passed out diapers, formula, rice and beans and hundreds of cases of water in the summer heat for about 15 hours to some of the poorest people in Florida - they never complained again. Perspective is a hell of a thing, as a society we've gotten hella soft.

 

[VolStrom]

We didn't have power for about 10 days after Hurricane Irma hit in '17, my kids thought the world was ending without wifi. I took them out to a rural area (Immokalee, FL) where migrant workers lived in tents because their tin shacks were leveled. We passed out diapers, formula, rice and beans and hundreds of cases of water in the summer heat for about 15 hours to some of the poorest people in Florida - they never complained again. Perspective is a hell of a thing, as a society we've gotten hella soft.

Back in the olden days of '93 there was a blizzard that moved through east Tennessee and much of the nation. My father lost his cable TV and my next door neighbors had their flight to an Arizona resort get cancelled when they closed the Knoxville airport.
I swear people thought the world came to an end during that disaster.
You're a good man septic.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Back in the olden days of '93 there was a blizzard that moved through east Tennessee and much of the nation. My father lost his cable TV and my next door neighbors had their flight to an Arizona resort get cancelled when they closed the Knoxville airport.
I swear people thought the world came to an end during that disaster.
You're a good man septic.

It rolled into Knoxville on the night of Allan Houston's last game. KY 101-TN 40 in the SECT. WBIR's weatherman got stranded in Gatlinburg.

 

[RikidyBones]

We didn't have power for about 10 days after Hurricane Irma hit in '17, my kids thought the world was ending without wifi. I took them out to a rural area (Immokalee, FL) where migrant workers lived in tents because their tin shacks were leveled. We passed out diapers, formula, rice and beans and hundreds of cases of water in the summer heat for about 15 hours to some of the poorest people in Florida - they never complained again. Perspective is a hell of a thing, as a society we've gotten hella soft.

When I was 16, my uncle need to borrow my truck to drop donated items off to an elderly woman in Sebastian, FL. I had nothing to do so I of course said yes. We drove out with a new bed, bags of clothes, shoes, water, etc. We get there and theres this old beat up self made house barely holding together. This woman had 4 grandchildren she was taking care of because her two daughters ODd left them behind. She did not have electricity or water hookups. Her father built the house when he was young so they could start a family. We removed the battered clothes for her, the broken and ripped bed and fixed some siding so the rain couldnt get in.

She had a new house built with running water and electricity hook ups shortly after through the nonprofit my uncle worked with. Changed my perspective forever.

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

These were on planes with hundreds and criss crossed thousands at airports.

Flights from Asia are still being pumped in to here.

 

[VolStrom]

It rolled into Knoxville on the night of Allan Houston's last game. KY 101-TN 40 in the SECT. WBIR's weatherman got stranded in Gatlinburg.

Back in those days was it Margie Ison?

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Back in those days was it Margie Ison?

She might gave already retired. It wasn't her, forget his name.

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

She might gave already retired. It wasn't her, forget his name.

Marti Skold?

 

[DancingOutlaw]

Back in the olden days of '93 there was a blizzard that moved through east Tennessee and much of the nation. My father lost his cable TV and my next door neighbors had their flight to an Arizona resort get cancelled when they closed the Knoxville airport.
I swear people thought the world came to an end during that disaster.
You're a good man septic.

I was 11. What a time to be alive. My dad about killed me for using all his WD40 on the runner sleds.

 

[VolStrom]

Marti Skold?

I hadn't heard that name in decades but it was stored away in the dark recesses of my mind.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Marti Skold?

Marti Skold was the chief meteorologist during the March 1993 blizzard. Somebody else that did weather for WBIR was trapped in Gatlinburg. He also did reports for WIVK.

 

[hog88]

The house we are building is on a strong flowing creek. I have a survival water purification system if needed, that will filter out bacteria and radiation.

Good to know

 

[05_never_again]

Seems like the biggest panic since the Y2K two digit date scare.

Radiation from Fukushima was a pretty big one too. Those anti-radiation pills were selling out everywhere. I don't think the panic over this is anything like Y2K, at least not yet, but I wouldn't deny the possibility that it could be. The authorities don't seem to have a handle on this yet.

 

[VolStrom]

Marti Skold was the chief meteorologist during the March 1993 blizzard. Somebody else that did weather for WBIR was trapped in Gatlinburg. He also did reports for WIVK.

TGO your mind is pretty sharp for an old fart.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

TGO your mind is pretty sharp for an old fart.

Not too old to google

 

[Septic]

Radiation from Fukushima was a pretty big one too. Those anti-radiation pills were selling out everywhere. I don't think the panic over this is anything like Y2K, at least not yet, but I wouldn't deny the possibility that it could be. The authorities don't seem to have a handle on this yet.

Those are just iodine pills. Anyone living within about 50 miles of a nuclear power plant should have had those in their medicine cabinet 24/7/365. They help protect the thyroid from absorbing radiation since it's super sensitive to radioactivity.

 

[05_never_again]

Those are just iodine pills. Anyone living within about 50 miles of a nuclear power plant should have had those in their medicine cabinet 24/7/365. They help protect the thyroid from absorbing radiation since it's super sensitive to radioactivity.

Well, whatever they were people in the United States, particularly the West Coast, were buying them en masse. Idiots like Alex Jones were hawking them big time.