Divemedic

Listen to this genius:

I am sitting here bored while waiting for the arrival of Hurricane Dorian. I still have the 12 hour checklist portion of my preparations to do, but they are on hold because the nearest tropical storm level winds are 135 miles from here and the storm is still stationary.

With that in mind, I am sitting here reading the proposed budget for my school district. The budget calls for $548 million in expenditures. There are a total of 43,000 students in the district. This works out to a cost of $12,700 for each student. Seems pretty high to me.

Dorian has been a huge ball of suck and fail for the National Hurricane service. This storm has been incorrectly handled for the past week. Tuesday the forecast was that Dorian would be a strong tropical storm landfalling near Fort Lauderdale. By Friday, it was to have max winds of 130 mph. Saturday morning they were forecasting winds of 150, and then 155. The actual winds are over 185 mph. 
The forecast was for it to hit the Dominican Republic. It missed by over 200 miles and actually hit the US Virgin Islands. 


Even the NHC admits that they have an average error of 40 miles at 24 hours, and 60 miles 48 hours out. They are currently forecasting the Dorian to be less than 60 miles offshore with 140 mile per hour winds just 48 hours from now.


The forecast they were making 48 hours ago had the center of the storm being 45 miles more to the east than it actually is. A similar error in today’s forecast would put the storm ashore in Florida 48 hours from now. 


Similarly, the forecast 48 hours ago predicted the storm would have winds of 130 miles per hour at 1100 EDT this morning. Winds were actually 180 mph. 


With that in mind, I decided to move on and complete the checklist as if the storm were only 24 hours away. 




Power: 
Portable 10kw generator and 20 gallons of fuel
Batteries charged
Propane and propane stove


Communications checked:
Cell phones
Hardwire Internet
Radios checked and programmed with local authorities frequencies:
HF and VHF HAM radio in house
VHF/UHF System Fusion Mobile in BOV
VHF/UHF portables


Food: 
We have a week’s worth in the pantry before we even have to get into freeze dried food.


Water:
20 gals potable
Full bathtub for toilet flushing


Security:
check. ‘Nuf said.


We also have cards and board games to keep us busy when power goes out.

The 12 hour checklist is next, but I won’t do that until probably Monday night, if at all.


1 Shut down the NAS that I am using as the household file server, take out the mirrored hard drives, and place one in the gun safe, the other in the BOV.
2 Place BOB in BOV.
3 Ensure safe room has flashlights, chem lights, and other items.
4 Take pictures of the inside and outside of the house, to use as “before” pictures, in the event an insurance claim needs to be made.
5. All vehicles in garage

I swear that the antigun people are completely ignorant of history. They want to tax firearms to the point where they are no longer affordable. Is there a tax that Democrats don’t like? This will affect people of color more than it will whites, which is how Democrats define racism. Of course, using taxes to discriminate against minorities is nothing new for them, the Democrats already tried this with poll taxes.

If you look at the rate of mass shootings by population, the US isn’t even in the top 5.

We can’t even require that a person prove that they are a citizen by showing ID when they vote, and CNN thinks it is a good idea to draft anyone who owns a firearm. I bet they would shit a brick if it were to come to fruition, and I picked up a belt fed, a grenade launcher, some antitank missiles, half a dozen MANPADs, and a 155mm howitzer.

If the Second Amendment were read like the rest of the Constitution, gun ownership would be mandatory.