Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

[Speaker to Animals]

You mean 75 and 95? Turnpike just goes Miami-Naples....

The Turnpike is I-75. It's just the toll-charging portion that extends the route to Miami.

.... ok.

75 goes all the way into Michigan. It's not a 'Turnpike', and I don't recall Alligator Alley ever being called I-75...

It's the same route. I didn't say the Turnpike goes all the way out of the state. It extends the interstate route to Miami. That's all it was ever designed to do.

[Okeefenokee]

Yeah, but the 'house' will be a wood frame with some shingles hanging on for dear life

No, not really. I was up there this Spring and I saw 70s and 80s well built houses. You should check it out.

The market's a lot softer down south, but I need to stay up by the coast for work. Also, I'm terrified of the home-selling/buying process. Too easy to fuck up.

I won't buy another home without an attorney. Save up.

[SuburbanFarmer]

No, not really. I was up there this Spring and I saw 70s and 80s well built houses. You should check it out.

The market's a lot softer down south, but I need to stay up by the coast for work. Also, I'm terrified of the home-selling/buying process. Too easy to fuck up.

I won't buy another home without an attorney. Save up.

Yeah, that's the hard part. Lifetime is finite, ambition is not.

[Okeefenokee]

Like a champion.



$8,300 in prepping saved his home.

"Who's laughing now" LMFAO That guy is a hero.

Found it, that's awesome!

Damn near should be required in flood zones

[SuburbanFarmer]

Expecting to see northern lights here tomorrow night.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-sun-ju ... n-12-years

The sun has just erupted in an absolutely massive solar flare, so big that it knocked out radio comms here on Earth.

Actually, it spat out two X-class flares, on the morning of 6 September EDT. These are the biggest class of solar flare there is, and the largest explosions in our solar system, with loops of plasma tens of times the size of the Earth.

The first one came in at X2.2 at 5.10am EDT. Then, just a few hours later at 8.03am, it dropped an absolutely monster X9.3 flare, the largest since 2005.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Sustainability becoming illegal.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/tiny-h ... iminalize/

Some of the more recent examples of explicit bans include Etowah, TN and Wasilla, AK, which don’t allow homes less than 600 square feet and 700 square feet, respectively.

[C-Mag]

Good article BroGrump +1

This shit pissed me off. Even though I dont care for tiny homes, I support people exercising their right to do so.

I don't mind the local city ordnances, but I hate how they preach sustainable lives ND alternative energy. ..... but what they really mean is well provide it to you at our price.

[TheReal_ND]

Brick ranchers are cheap to make and last forever. Tiny homes have their advantages but I wouldn't fall for the meme that they are necessarily cheaper than a permanent residence you can pass down to your grand kids. If you're loaded, put a steel roof on it. If you have to use their systems for water and power just hook them up and leave them alone as much as possible.

[Okeefenokee]

I think it's about property taxes.

[C-Mag]

Brick ranchers are cheap to make and last forever. Tiny homes have their advantages but I wouldn't fall for the meme that they are necessarily cheaper than a permanent residence you can pass down to your grand kids. If you're loaded, put a steel roof on it. If you have to use their systems for water and power just hook them up and leave them alone as much as possible.

I agree, they glorified trailer houses. But they have their place.