Re: OT: Evacuations are not feasable

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:01:42 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>John Larkin wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 03:52:37 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >Anthony Fremont wrote:
>> >> BTW, swamp coolers don't
>> >> work in Houston.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Okay- so it's a humid place- then the next best thing is an LP powered
>> >cooler- these usually use ammonia as a refrigerant, no compressor or
>> >electricity required, just a heat source.
>>
>> One technique is to keep the freezer closed until things start to
>> thaw. Then remove everything and barbeque it on the gas grille. Every
>> day thereafter, barbeque it again.
>>
>> John
>
> I used up almost everything in the freeze a day before I had to leave
>for the hurricane shelter, and gave the last couple items to someone who
>had a generator. That left me a few weeks of non perishables for after
>I got out of the shelter. The county supplied food, mostly from the
>high school's stockpile so it would be used, rather than spoil.

Down the street from my nephew Bobbie's house, in Destrehan just near
the Mississippi levee, there was a big FEMA truck. You'd just drive up
and roll down the window and a bunch of scientologists would fill the
back seat with MREs. They are self-heating and don't taste too bad,
sort of like Swanson's TV dinners. Some had tiny little bottles of
Tabasco inside.

John

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