In Northwest Indiana, people have made it through the week-or-more power outage without needing “Donations” to help them. The residents clean up the storm damage (at least make the roads are passable)  and are grateful when the poser line repair crews show up to fix things. The residents make do, either with generators or other means, and help each other…they have family to stay with or to help them clean up themselves or their laundry.

But not in Gary, Indiana, especially those in Public (Or Publicly Subsidized) housing: nope. those people just sit there and wait for someone else to feed the, wash them, bring them clean clothes….and bitch about it a lot, despite the Free Shit.

Their city government (That they vote in years after year, full of graft and nepotism) refused to clear the trees from the streets so the power line crews could GET TO the damaged power lines (many of which were so old (Because no one wants to invest in a neighborhood with so much crime and other issues), that they could not be repaired with modern materials, requiring a lot of a rebuilding rather than just repair)…and the crews have to have police escorts just so that they can work without fear of being shot at…..

But the residents just bitch about the conditions that they have made for themselves.  They bitch because no one is fixing their ancient infrastructure fast enough and no one is giving them enough Free Shit.

There is something wrong with these people and their culture. Perhaps this is why Africa is a shithole once the europeans leave and let the natives run things….

I do.

We loaded storm damaged Cherry trees for firewood. Lots more available. If you are in NWI and need firewood (or know someone with a sawmill that wants some), email me.

Some dis-assembly required.

Here it is loaded ready for hauling to my house.

This is the third load of cherry I have hauled, I got firewood for the next three years for me and my neighbor.

There are some really massive trees that got uprooted 2 storms ago. These are the medium sized pieces. Easy for me to handle with the tractor with the log tongs. The big ones are about 2500 LBs.

Where else would you have to have police escorts for the crews trying to restore the electrical power in the neighborhoods after the storms we had last week?

Everywhere else, people welcome the restoration and repair crews, But not in Gary.

Something about those folks and their culture is just wrong.

“Your future needs you, your past does not”

“If yer gonna pull a gun, use it. It’s not for threatening or show”

“Live as a dog, or a cat, or a horse, or any animal of the forest. Live well, and fear not the end that is coming.”

“The easiest way your opponents can win over you is to convince you that it isn’t worth fighting over”

“Listen to the silence before making big decisions”

“If they act like they don’t care, believe them”

“Nothing in this world that’s worth having comes easy.”

“Truth is, everyone is going to hurt you….the thing is, you gotta figure out which ones are worth suffering for”

“One day you will wish you had started that task last year”

“No matter how impressive, NEVER compliment a woman on her moustache”

Like him, I thought the sawzall would be the best (and it might still be for vertical pipe, I dunno)

But either way, all of the ways to cut pipe seem to take about a minute more or less.

YMMV, closed course with a professional driver, no Flock cameras were harmed in the making of this video, obey all local laws, etc, etc, etc

So now we can carry in Post Offices

Of course, you gotta be a Lawful owner and all that, but it IS a win.

I expect that other Federal facilities will soon follow.

Cliff Notes version here at ConcealedCarry.com

I’m not

There is a pattern here if only we could see it……

So NW Indiana got smacked pretty hard by Ma Nature on Tuesday. Thunderstorms, high winds, torrential rains, that sort of thing.

Fully 2/3 of Merrillville, Gary, Portage, Valparaiso, Michigan City, Schererville, Laporte, and Chesterton are without power even 36 hours later. Many will be without power until Saturday.

Lots of people have those tiny  “Solar Power Generators” because they don’t want to mess with real gas or propane or diesel power gensets….they have bought these battery banks with a tiny solar panel and think that it will power the Fridge, microwave and other items for days because Solar Panel.

Their fridge might run on one of these for a day, maybe two if it is a big enough battery (But the ones that have a handle and can be picked up easily won’t power your fridge and freezer for all that long).

And the solar panels are great, as long as you have direct sunlight (which we didn’t for most of the day) to get the full wattage from the solar cells….which aren’t enough to fully charge the internal battery in a single day anyway, even on a bright summer day with full sunlight….,

These things aren’t “Generators”: they are batteries with an inverter.

And people are starting to learn that lesson. It’s a hard lesson, and one that will leave you in the dark with spoiling food if you are depending on it for more than a day or two. The batteries will run dry,  as the solar panels can’t keep up long term, even on a long summer sunny day

For the money for one of these (tiny) battery banks “Solar Generators” you can make one by buying several deep cycle batteries and an inverter and have about 4x the capacity of the little handy battery box that you can pick up and carry..

Or you can buy a small inverter generator and have 4x the power for days on 5 gallons of fuel.

The Solar Power Generators are about to be proven a false hope.

You don’t get something for nothing, (despite what the socialists will tell you).

If the power is still off at the end of today, there’s gonna be a lot of unhappy people.

“Speak kindly to yourself, even when you fail”

“We are what we repeatedly do: Excellence, then, becomes not an act, but a habit”

“Cowards die many times, a valiant man tastes death but once”

“Understand that each day isn’t one more, but rather one less”

“Always assume that Murphy’s Law is a fundamental force in this universe”

“Most people judge others based upon the model they have of themselves. If they deem people untrustworthy without cause, they themselves are likely untrustworthy”

“It’s easy to believe in conspiracies and crazy theories `when you are clueless as to how anything works”

“almost always, the kindness you put into the world will come back to you at some point”