[quote]apbt55 wrote:
Ok first it is potassium iodide not nitrate
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My bad. I have read that some are eating kelp as this is a natural source of potassium and works just as well.
EDIT: Holly fuck ups batman. How long has it been since chem 101? hahahaha.
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]Wambat wrote:
Plutonium is a hell of an element.[/quote]
Californium is better.[/quote]
Let me guess, It’s born and bred in California.
The amount of radiation released is absolutely minimal at the moment outside of the nuclear plant itself. If you ate several bananas in an hour you would accrue more radiation than is being released from Fukushima
Yes things could get worse but bear in mind we just had the 7th strongest recorded earthquake in history, that shifted the earth off its axis, moved the whole of Japan 2metres to the right and caused a tsunami and we’ve had very little radiation released.
Fukushima CANNOT meltdown like Chernobyl; the Chernobyl reactor would not have passed any western safety standards and was incredibly laxly regulated. The people you should be worried about are those fighting the radiation within the power plant, who by any definition, are heroes right now.
I kind of get this sadistic little amusement whenever someone from California points out that stocking up preps for this kind of thing is stupid, no radiation is coming over, blah blah. You bastard are in the same kinda hot zone as Japan. What happens when LA gets slammed with a massive earthquake and those nuclear plants go wonky and there’s food shortage and water shortage?
Tip: I wouldn’t recommend waiting around for FEMA.
And another note: Y2K actually did some cause some chaos, and it wouldv’e been much, much worse had steps not been taken to prevent the problems. It wasn’t a case of 'haha, those morons were wrong," it was a case of, “whew, we got that one solved in the nick of time.”
To the OP:
Don’t bother buying radiation tablets now. The odds of you needing them are very small, and people are jacking the price up out of this world. When the price goes back down to a reasonable $8 - $10, order a few packs so the next time something like this happens, you won’t have to panic about not having them.
Also, go out and buy a few 6gal. Desert Patrol water canisters from Wal-Mart/Dicks/Wherever, fill them up, make sure you have more than a day’s worth of food in the fridge, fill your gas tank up and put a couple full gas tanks in the trunk of your car. Make a nice bug-out backpack with some clothes, etc.
Not only will this ease your mind for this event/future events, and not only will it be there for when our west coast gets hit with its own Wave from Hell, but it’ll also be there for when people panic the first time someone reports a very slight increase in radiation, ultimately wiping the store shelves clean and clogging the roads up.
After you’ve made preparations, kick back, smoke a cigar and watch some ESPN. Enjoy life.
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
and put a couple full gas tanks in the trunk of your car[/quote]
not only is that a great idea but it is also extremely safe
[quote]Wambat wrote:
Plutonium is a hell of an element.[/quote]
THIS -
this is funny shit~
Made me spit out my soda…
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
I kind of get this sadistic little amusement whenever someone from California points out that stocking up preps for this kind of thing is stupid, no radiation is coming over, blah blah. You bastard are in the same kinda hot zone as Japan. What happens when LA gets slammed with a massive earthquake and those nuclear plants go wonky and there’s food shortage and water shortage?
Tip: I wouldn’t recommend waiting around for FEMA.
And another note: Y2K actually did some cause some chaos, and it wouldv’e been much, much worse had steps not been taken to prevent the problems. It wasn’t a case of 'haha, those morons were wrong," it was a case of, “whew, we got that one solved in the nick of time.”
To the OP:
Don’t bother buying radiation tablets now. The odds of you needing them are very small, and people are jacking the price up out of this world. When the price goes back down to a reasonable $8 - $10, order a few packs so the next time something like this happens, you won’t have to panic about not having them.
Also, go out and buy a few 6gal. Desert Patrol water canisters from Wal-Mart/Dicks/Wherever, fill them up, make sure you have more than a day’s worth of food in the fridge, fill your gas tank up and put a couple full gas tanks in the trunk of your car. Make a nice bug-out backpack with some clothes, etc.
Not only will this ease your mind for this event/future events, and not only will it be there for when our west coast gets hit with its own Wave from Hell, but it’ll also be there for when people panic the first time someone reports a very slight increase in radiation, ultimately wiping the store shelves clean and clogging the roads up.
After you’ve made preparations, kick back, smoke a cigar and watch some ESPN. Enjoy life.[/quote]
Good advice.
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ But you didn’t even correct his misspellings! Your to nice![/quote]
You’re 
[quote]Wambat wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]Wambat wrote:
[quote]postholedigger wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]Wambat wrote:
Oh, so you don’t think Pearl Harbor was a Japanese fuck up? … Your from Scotland right?
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Ahhhhhhh yer trolling. Gotcha.[/quote]
Yeah, he’s doing the same in the Tsunami thread. What a dick.[/quote]
Why would I what to be trolling this. I have asked some legitament questions to which only really Maximus has replied.
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Does it really need to be spelled out for you? Go batshit over the current situation by all means, whatever gets you through it, but commenting on the situation as a “Japanese fuck up” and comparing it to Pearl Harbour is about as sensitive and respectful as shitting on someones head and then asking them how they like their fancy new hat.
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Your a dick. Let me see if I can spell this out to you in grade school English.
Earthquake, tsunami, natural disasters, fucking terrible, catastrophic.
Pearl harbour, Nuclear reactor failure, man made disasters. Fuck-ups. got it.
Got it.
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So nuclear reactors get hit with a 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent explosions/fires and its still not the worst nuclear powerplant disaster, yet this is a man made problem? Right. those silly engineers are so incompetent
[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ But you didn’t even correct his misspellings! Your to nice![/quote]
You’re :)[/quote]
Not only do you suck at picking up on sarcasm, you suck at grammar, TOO.
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
and put a couple full gas tanks in the trunk of your car[/quote]
not only is that a great idea but it is also extremely safe[/quote]
Yeah my suggestion would definitely be to cache the gas somewhere safe on your property.
Also make sure the food you have as a reserve supply does not require any special prep, aside from maybe a can opener.
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
And another note: Y2K actually did some cause some chaos, and it wouldv’e been much, much worse had steps not been taken to prevent the problems. It wasn’t a case of 'haha, those morons were wrong," it was a case of, “whew, we got that one solved in the nick of time.”
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Sorry, it’s not really relevant to this discussion and was originally only brought up sarcastically, but I have to say there was nothing chaotic or “in the nick of time” about it. Some companies didn’t buy into the scare until late in 1999 but Y2K programmers were building redundancy plans and programs as of 1995. Many companies didn’t buy into it at all…and survived.
Now if I’m wrong, please feel free to correct me and point me to this chaos you’re referring to. But I mean real chaos of course - people running around in flames and/or rioting and looting in cities with no electricity. Planes falling out of the sky. That sort of thing. Not just a couple of CEO’s biting their nails over a half bottle of bourbon because they were too cocky to listen to their IT team. Let’s not confuse chaos with financial inconvenience.
But if I’m wrong I will eat a shit-filled humble pie and post a picture of it on this forum.
Edit - oh…and people running around buying gas-masks and stocking up on corned beef doesn’t count. That’s the chaos that comes with scare-mongering which happened before the event, not because of the event… which is exactly what Nards was being sarcastic about.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
I kind of get this sadistic little amusement whenever someone from California points out that stocking up preps for this kind of thing is stupid, no radiation is coming over, blah blah. You bastard are in the same kinda hot zone as Japan. What happens when LA gets slammed with a massive earthquake and those nuclear plants go wonky and there’s food shortage and water shortage?
Tip: I wouldn’t recommend waiting around for FEMA.
And another note: Y2K actually did some cause some chaos, and it wouldv’e been much, much worse had steps not been taken to prevent the problems. It wasn’t a case of 'haha, those morons were wrong," it was a case of, “whew, we got that one solved in the nick of time.”
To the OP:
Don’t bother buying radiation tablets now. The odds of you needing them are very small, and people are jacking the price up out of this world. When the price goes back down to a reasonable $8 - $10, order a few packs so the next time something like this happens, you won’t have to panic about not having them.
Also, go out and buy a few 6gal. Desert Patrol water canisters from Wal-Mart/Dicks/Wherever, fill them up, make sure you have more than a day’s worth of food in the fridge, fill your gas tank up and put a couple full gas tanks in the trunk of your car. Make a nice bug-out backpack with some clothes, etc.
Not only will this ease your mind for this event/future events, and not only will it be there for when our west coast gets hit with its own Wave from Hell, but it’ll also be there for when people panic the first time someone reports a very slight increase in radiation, ultimately wiping the store shelves clean and clogging the roads up.
After you’ve made preparations, kick back, smoke a cigar and watch some ESPN. Enjoy life.[/quote]
Good advice.[/quote]
We have friends who were without power for a week after a Hurricane in Florida. They were happy they at least had a camp stove, batteries, an extra tank for the BBQ, and some big storage containers of water. I don’t think people can expect that the government is just going to show up and help you out. Self-sufficiency is good. Another friend had a similar situation after a hurricane in Houston and they now own a generator.
Here in CA, everybody should at least know how to shut off the gas and water to their home. If there were a big quake, at least you could use the water in your hot water heater, as long as you get the water supply at the street shut off before it gets contaminated when the main lines break.
By the way, you can buy a supplemental power supply at places like Costco. It looks like a big car battery. It’s a nice thing to be able to at least plug in a lamp, or charge your phone. Useful.
I hope I never live to see an evacuation of Southern California. The 405 is bad enough on a good day. It would be one big parking lot.
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
We have friends who were without power for a week after a Hurricane in Florida. They were happy they at least had a camp stove, batteries, an extra tank for the BBQ, and some big storage containers of water. I don’t think people can expect that the government is just going to show up and help you out. Self-sufficiency is good. Another friend had a similar situation after a hurricane in Houston and they now own a generator.
Here in CA, everybody should at least know how to shut off the gas and water to their home. If there were a big quake, at least you could use the water in your hot water heater, as long as you get the water supply at the street shut off before it gets contaminated when the main lines break.
By the way, you can buy a supplemental power supply at places like Costco. It looks like a big car battery. It’s a nice thing to be able to at least plug in a lamp, or charge your phone. Useful.
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Funny, I get flack from certain as hiding in a bunker because I sold my suburban house, bought an old farmhouse with some land to start a small organic produce and beef farm. I still work in the pharma industry, but want to be more self sufficient and make some money doing something I enjoy. Raise my family like this.
I am actually working on a project to make a sufficient wind turbine to supply my property. I get tax brakes on my gas and diesel fuel and huge deductions off of my income tax because of being a commercial farm, technically I make a profit.
But people on this site have called me crazy for this.
The long term goal is to get to a point where I can retire young to just work the farm. I am 31 now, hopefully by 35-36.
[quote]apbt55 wrote:
Funny, I get flack from certain as hiding in a bunker because I sold my suburban house, bought an old farmhouse with some land to start a small organic produce and beef farm. I still work in the pharma industry, but want to be more self sufficient and make some money doing something I enjoy. Raise my family like this.
I am actually working on a project to make a sufficient wind turbine to supply my property. I get tax brakes on my gas and diesel fuel and huge deductions off of my income tax because of being a commercial farm, technically I make a profit.
But people on this site have called me crazy for this.
The long term goal is to get to a point where I can retire young to just work the farm. I am 31 now, hopefully by 35-36.
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That’s a commendable goal, not sure why people would give you stick. Nothing wrong with self-sufficiency!
[quote]apbt55 wrote:
But people on this site have called me crazy for this.
The long term goal is to get to a point where I can retire young to just work the farm. I am 31 now, hopefully by 35-36.
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Let me guess… you’ve been called a hippie commie socialist lefty liberal. lol
Nothing wrong with self-sufficiency.
EDIT: HAHAha! I ended with the exact statement as Stern did and didn’t even know it!
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
EDIT: HAHAha! I ended with the exact statement as Stern did and didn’t even know it![/quote]
Great thinkers my man, great thinkers…
=D
Radiation has already reached Cali.
Look at the effects on the SF area over the last 40 yrs.
Most probably don’t know this, but people are exposed to radiation every single day. Just take a look how cancer rate shot up in the last decades.