SARGE

Come on, Flying.... You knew that the minute you named them Coca-Cola Disney Unilever.

I mean can you just imagine the teasing we would have heard on the playground with "cola"? Everyone knows colas are the lowest soft drink.

I like to throw it at them, then sprint away to see if I can make it outside before I get smacked. It's about 50/50.

I take it as more "I am also a vampire with a castle, and understand your pain. I am completely out, so now I'm in line at the store."

I think of a chef as a "preparer of food" not necessarily "food cooker"

So sushi chef is still accurate to their opinion, disclaimer I agree with them so I could always be rationalizing it.

Tldr I'll be good for a week, but after that I've only got about 10-15% of a viable setup for long term survival.

I have a 72 hour bag, and about 10 gallons of water in their own containers, as well as the normal household food (assuming the power goes out immediately I will be good on refrigeration for maybe 5 days, deep freezer gone in 2) and another 25 gallons in two large containers that act as reservoirs for my AC condensers, and as long as I haven't emptied them in a few days I'll be able to filter the water inside pretty effectively. Failing that, I have enough flammable things and a Pyro background to safely boil water over a small fire inside.

So I should be good on food and water, by myself, for maybe two weeks if I don't really ration much and plan meals according to what goes bad first. The first two days will see the most wasted food.

I have my wife and two dogs here, so I can't ration that long and I'm definitely going to make sure they get food and water first. I'd be good for about a week.

We're lucky enough to not need any medication to live, just function pain and dysfunction-free (or at least diminished symptoms) so the pain meds and 3 med kits I have should be enough for small things here and there. Nothing for big stuff. I can sew up a big wound with my cosplay sewing stuff, but if my small stash of alcohol and peroxide can't keep it infection free, someone is going to be dying slowly and painfully.

The real question is can I do anything outside? If so, then since I live next to a stream, I can pump water into the several 500 gallon tanks we've got leftover from the previous owner owning livestock. They're clean and dry, so no worries about mold or mildew inside. I don't currently have a large volume natural filtration system set up, but I have enough 5 gallon buckets, fabric, gravel, dirt, and sand laying around the property that I can make a few filters to get the big stuff, and my inline and tap filters can do the rest.

I'm fucked on food though. Nothing growing, the stream isn't consistent enough to have fish, and the wildlife around here consists of rabbits and squirrel. I could go to a nearby lake depending on how far I can safely travel.

So yeah. Longer lasting food, and more filters.

Definitely made me realize I'm not as prepared for my dogs if anything ever happened...

Ive got the know-how and experience to make basically any melee weapon, and in a (zombie) apocalypse world where ammo is extremely finite, you need a handheld weapon, and you need one with reach to poke brainy bits from a distance.

Technically I can make firearms as well, I've 3d printed the majority of a couple, but without the ability to source high-pressure piping of sufficiently close diameter, barrels and firing chambers aren't as easy.

If we NEED power hookups, I've got solar panels ready but not hooked up due to lack of a charge controller and battery system. So only about 20% of the way to solar power... I COULD hook it up to my dc/dc 48v-12v step down converter and hope the 40v the panels produce is close enough to keep the ONE 12v deep cycle battery I have to charge it.

Pick up that can

Yeah, I'm certain areas with more Irish heritage are going to have a better grasp of things.

I grew up in an area primarily composed of English, Scottish, and French immigrant descendants.

OI YA GIT, YA NEEDZ TA PAINT IT RED, GIVE IT EXTRA SPEED BOOSTIN' AN' FIRE DAMAGE

GOOD FOR KRUMPIN'

Tiocfaidh ár lá

Legitimately, if they're American, the people in HR probably wouldn't even believe you if you told them about what actually happened during the Irish famine, or how England treated them for decades directly leading to "the troubles"

They would assume you're making it up.

I'm not joking

I was more or less taught in school "oh well it was an oopsie-woopsie, all the crops died but England tried to help them! Oh well, such a terrible natural disaster."

I didn't learn about the darker side of things until I read into it outside school.

The US education system is a joke.

I'd much rather have my shirt going all floppy flappy in between the vortices and keeping my back cool than shaving 2 seconds off my relaxation cruises.

I know some people who would jump on this 100% and I should probably send them the article...

Total ecological collapse is a small price to pay to boost shareholders' wealth by 0.1%!

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