Old Mt Woman – Glad to hear you’re starting to feel better! I’m sorry your minor outpatient surgery turned out to be such an ordeal!
Littlesister – I’m very sorry to hear about your DH’s congestive heart failure diagnosis. I hope he’ll respond well to treatment. I know you’ll take good care of him!
Guess we’re just continuing to post in this thread until Daisy gets back and can set up a May Prep Every Day thread for us 🙂 I haven’t done much hands-on prepping the past couple of weeks – just ordered some products from Thrive Life’s Spring sale to try. The freeze-dried Granny Smith apple slices and freeze-dried red seedless grapes arrived a few day ago. They both taste really good. The FD grapes are particularly yummy – and super sweet! They look a bit funny though. Apparently the grapes puff up and split apart when frozen. So, they don’t stay in their typical globular shape – but they really taste wonderful! Some freeze-dried mangoes arrived yesterday but I haven’t tried them yet. … I’m debating whether to buy one of those stainless steel “4th Burner Pots” to use for small batch water bath canning. Has anyone tried using one for that purpose? If so, do you think it was worth buying? … I watched the first episode of the new mini-series “Chernobyl” this past Monday night on HBO, which was quite good. If what that episode depicted was accurate, the hospital in the town near the nuclear reactors didn’t even have Potassium iodide in stock to give people to help prevent them from developing thyroid cancer after one of the reactor cores exploded! The first episode really pointed out the terrible damage that was done due to the misinformation the nuclear plant manager and his bosses were spreading shortly after the reactor core exploded. Some of the misinformation was unintentional but some was deliberate! It was particularly shocking to me when one of the commissioners ordered that the (if I’m remembering this correctly from the show) phone lines to the outside world be cut so news of the disaster wouldn’t spread and cause panic. Could that happen here? If it did, how could we get accurate information about a dangerous situation in our area? Should we be trying to set up alternative lines of communication now to have in place just in case? Maybe telephone trees? Maybe word-of-mouth? Maybe having trusted contacts working in each major industry/agency in our area who could get word to us as to what was really going on? Maybe having “code phrases” set up ahead of time that they could use to tell us what was happening without getting in trouble with their bosses? Anyone have any other suggestions about how to set up alternative lines of communication?