Some of what I've been reading is making me very pissed off, like helicopter pilots being threatened with arrest for helping with rescues and state and federal EMA's telling people not to bring aid to the flood zones all while DHS is announcing they have no more money for hurricane relief. Raptor is right, too many shades of Katrina here.

I assumed once I saw aerial photos of the ILA president's home in NJ, it was clear someone turned up the heat on him. So a short tern kick the can down the road until after November does not surprise me.

This disaster response reminds me of Katrina. Although minus the MSM broadcasting pictures to embarrass the PTB.

See my tag line below.

Interesting posts on FB from mountain mule packers of S Carolina.  Found the posts on citizens free press.  I dont FB.

I saw this and am justing thinking out loud.

You can buy this to connect your earpro to your handheld two way. For around $48.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mN0v54G

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This gives you the ability to hear while firing a gun, increase the volume and clarity of surrounded sound - hear better than with your bare ears, and communicate via two way handheld radio - while shooting with other team members.

Or you can buy this for $14 and a rx/tx Bluetooth adapter for your two way handheld radio for $5(?):

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqtOr60

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This "theoretically" replaces the above $50 unit. It transmits between the ear pro and your two way radios using BT. But the description does not specifically say that.

So I am wondering if others have an opinion?

I have not researched this to see if others are using it the same way. And/or if it performs as well as the $50 wired unit. I would assume the wired unit is much more durable and dependable.

But thought it a worthy conversation. Especially from those that might have personal experience or knowledge of decent reviews of either. These are not the cheapest or best sellers I have posted. But both units routinely get very good reviews on AliExpress. From a number of different sellers. Which does not prove anything. But usually when a product sucks you can see it in reviews if it's being sold by multiple sellers that it sucks in at least some of the sellers reviews. It's hard to find a bad product, sold my multiple users, with good reviews on each sellers sales page. Does that make sense?

Just putting this out there because well it deal with this.

I emailed a client today at work telling them there order we be delayed about a month. There immediate reply was "WoW a month it is because of the port strike".

I replied with what it really was " no anything bigger than this size is special and is a longer lead time. your order was for bigger than stock size" .

Reports are that a tentative agreement has been reached and that normal operations will resume tomorrow. 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/business/port-strike-union-deal/index.html
https://www.wect.com/video/2024/10/03/local-ila-members-say-port-strike-has-ended/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/dockworkers-strike-suspended-sources/story?id=114445386

I imagine it'll take a couple of weeks to get the whole backlog cleared up.

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Quote from: Flmope on October 02, 2024, 09:05:34 PMBy looking at your list the biggest gaps I see are two

Water storage.
We have two to three weeks of water on hand at all time.
Not enough

Power generation.
We have multiple rechargeable battery packs including solar powered.
But nothing big enough to power a refrigerator or furnace.

Recommendations for both are welcome.

If you are trying to run a fridge and an electric furnace you need a 60 amp generator at minimum. If it's a heat pump, 60 would be fine, though if you are running the e-heat tapes you're apt to trip a breaker on the gennie. Those tapes and furnace elements draw a LOT of amps. 100 amp gennie should run anything in your house, though. You'll want to find the information plate on the furnace/heat pump to find out just how many amps it needs.

As far as the water goes, you can pick up some water treatment and filtering options to supplement your water stores. Those things pack and store better than bricks of drinking water, and you can treat a lot more than you can store in water for the same amount of money.

My experience with our all-electric house is that if you rotate your loads you can get by with a smaller generator.  We have a 6800 watt (surge) 30A generator that I used to connect up to branches of the house systems on a rotating basis during outages.  Lighting was always on, as were the LR and office outlets.  That kept the home network running and gave us internet if the cable was okay.  As needed I would connect the branch for the water heater, wall oven, cooktop, even the washer and electric dryer, just being careful to never get two big appliances on at the same time.  I didn't worry about the fridge and freezer as combined they didn't ever exceed 600 watts so I just let them run.  The water heater is well-insulated and oversized for just the two of us, so we had hot/very warm water for bathing and the like with just running it by itself for an hour a day.  For heat we had propane and kerosene heaters and in the summer there's ceiling fans in almost every room.  If needed I also have a portable AC unit that draws very little and can be used to cool say a bedroom.

Quote from: Flmope on October 02, 2024, 09:05:34 PMBy looking at your list the biggest gaps I see are two

Water storage.
We have two to three weeks of water on hand at all time.
Not enough

Power generation.
We have multiple rechargeable battery packs including solar powered.
But nothing big enough to power a refrigerator or furnace.

Recommendations for both are welcome.

If you are trying to run a fridge and an electric furnace you need a 60 amp generator at minimum. If it's a heat pump, 60 would be fine, though if you are running the e-heat tapes you're apt to trip a breaker on the gennie. Those tapes and furnace elements draw a LOT of amps. 100 amp gennie should run anything in your house, though. You'll want to find the information plate on the furnace/heat pump to find out just how many amps it needs.

As far as the water goes, you can pick up some water treatment and filtering options to supplement your water stores. Those things pack and store better than bricks of drinking water, and you can treat a lot more than you can store in water for the same amount of money.

Quote from: Ghost on October 03, 2024, 01:15:19 PMI got the shapeshifter for $28 on Amazon.

That's much better, I was going by the pricing on the review you posted. Must have been the MSRP.