Recent content by tc556guy

How many parts of the state are not within one gas tanks worth of driving from one of the bigger cities. Buffalo. Syracuse. Albany. NYC and the entire Long Island.

Its a trade-off. We live in a highly populated part of the country. With lots of resources. You could trade off the highly populated part of that equation for a low populated area with few resources that can just as easily be populated by people leaving the urban and suburban areas trying to...

I think that in any mass outage scenario it's going to be incumbent on authorities and the utilities to communicate information to the public in a timely manner with frequent updates. The public will need to see efforts to restore utilities underway, even if they themselves aren't restored...

Ive seen people acting uncivilized while help was on the ground providing assistance. I've seen people shooting at the people who were rendering help. You're right that most people will behave longer if they believe that help is being mobilized.

You're not framing the issue in terms of geography. We've had power outages such as you describe that covered multiple states and it didn't spin out of control to the extent that you describe. Not saying that local disorder is a good thing, but the problem will be if outside places aren't able...

Except that its happened here, most recently in the mid-90s when the east coast went dark. Also around 2003 in parts of the state

The best way to protect yourself is to avoid a known dangerous area unless absolutely necessary. If you have to go,keep your head on a swivel and get out as fast as possible. That's why I won't go to NYC either

The Finns always seem to have some very functional cold weather gear

She's an idiot. A dangerous idiot if you choose to ignore her and just write her off

I had thought that I'd be able to retire to Wyoming, but it seems like WY is being flooded by Californians

Their goal is all semiauto handguns. Glocks are in such widespread common use that I dont see such a ban holding up to legal challenges

If there are improvements then maybe. The old design is around 60 years old at this point and theres always room for improvement in anything over such a long time. I would hope that they arent simply cutting corners in a way that wouldnt have been accepted when the originals were designed.

Was there really a need to update the old design?

I wouldn't pay more than $5-10 each for them. I cant believe people are paying more than that for nearly expired ones

I just dont see the udefulness of a substandard fake that has a good chance of failing when you need it https://www.rescue-essentials.com/rescue-essentials-blog/beware-fake-cat-tqs/