Black October? Multiple Warnings On Social Media

Thank you for this.

 

You are so blessed.

 

I truly am, right now in Udine, the land of my Italian ancestors. BTW Udine is the best city in Italy I have visited yet. The city is open, clean, beautiful and not crowded. The people are bright eyed too.

 

I take prepping advice with a grain of salt, even bottled water is pricey. When I see items on sale I pick them up and put them away, I have several mouths to feed anyway. We don't own generators or any expensive survival gadgets and equipment, we have a fireplace and a gas stove. I agree, none of it matters. If we find ourselves in dire circumstances our survival is up to God.

 

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Thanks for the honey reminder, always a good thing to have on hand especially during the winter months.

 

Having a fireplace will be a luxury if the power goes out! We have wood prepared for ours just in case.

 

I have no words.

 

We rarely use it, but we press it into service when we lose power during winter storms. It has saved the day on many occasions.

 

We have most of our winter wood available with some already on the back porch, and are expecting two more delivered loads that will be used toward the end of March. We usually wait until the cold snap at the beginning of November before starting the first fire, though the wood stove and chimney have been cleaned and prepared. Then right on through to mid-April.

Here we go again!

 

Unfortunately someone scammed us on wood. We paid for a cord and got 3/4 of a cord. He’s been over a month saying he will bring it and never shows up. We will have to find another source, my husband is 83 and can’t split or chainsaw anymore. We use it as auxiliary heat and if the power goes out it will heat our main floor. We are in town and not too many people have fireplaces or wood burners.

 

Sorry to hear you were scammed.

 

I don't have a fireplace. That was a deal breaker for me when we were choosing our house, and they lied to us, saying they'd put the fireplace in after they built the house....but they didn't. They completely ghosted us as we tried to contact them over and over to do it. And now we don't have the funds for it anymore.

Thankfully we live in Texas, where I can't see us freezing to death lol.

 

Oh no. It’s awful when that happens! I used a camper stove for many years on our porch for canning. I think you need to worry more about staying cool.

 

We've got ice cold well water for that!

 

I'm presuming and naive at times!