Make sure you’ve got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.
Make sure you have enough meds!
Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener.
Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don’t want fried in case of a power surge.
Don’t tape your windows, it doesn’t help and you’ll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.
Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.
Get everything that’s not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).
Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.
Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.
If you start to flood, don’t go in your attic. You’ll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can’t hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.
Be safe, be well <3
What the fuck?
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Ngl, “tropical storm in death valley” was not on my 2023 bingo card.
Drainage on our roads is shitty in SoCal, don’t attempt to drive through water deep enough to touch your bumpers and don’t attempt to walk across moving water, water only as deep as your ankles can knock you down and sweep you away.
Predicted wind speeds are similar to strong Santa Anas, so lock things down like you would for that, though keep in mind that yeah the combination of heavy rain and wind leads to more felled trees than just wind.
Take photos of the inside of your home now; flood insurance fucking sucks here and if you’re in a possible flood zone you want as much documentation of your home and belongings as possible in case you need to make a claim.
Freezing water bottles also means you’ve got a lot of ice in your freezer if power goes out, and safe potable water once it thaws, so freeze bottles of water to have something to keep your fridge and freezer cool and store more water regardless of if you want cold water.
5 hours ago | 19 August 2023 - 11:34 PM | Via | 12,375 notes
It must feel incredible to operate one of these machines. Just rip a car apart, casually toss it aside.
this is how i clean the fish head so i can put the meat in the soup
This is harder to watch than the ending of Brave Little Toaster D: I don’t like that the car has eyes at the end and they’re pleading with you to help it!
These are sketches from earlier this year, of characters I created after a dream I had lol. I just call this project “Drat”. :D
The heroine is the ghoul princess Drat, heir to the Kingdom of Osseus, where the undead live. There’s also some other sketches of other ghoul characters; Charlotte and her sword Mathilda, and Snizzard the Dark Wizard and his apprentice Barnabus. I hope you like them. :)
I have a certain soft spot for particular characters like Klonoa because they’re so magically mysterious and out there and I love that about them! This series deserves the love it gets honestly!
Here’s a bunch of sketches I made awhile back and even some bonus old sketches of when I was trying to find my footing drawing these characters.
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Won’t be the last time I draw these guys, but please enjoy for now!
Hi, this is how I wrap presents for people with lower fine motor control; it could be older people, younger people, people with disabilities.
You can use ribbon you already have for wrapping present, and I measured around the item I am about to wrap leaving a little bit of room for the handle.
I taped the beginning end of the ribbon to the box and then loop back the extra ribbon to make a handle, and it should look something like this
You can wrap pretty much like you normally do as long as you make sure that the handle is exposed .
You could even tie something onto the handle for extra support
All done!
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Punctuation and spacing was added for readability but all the text is verbatim.
You don’t know how much effort I went to to find this
12 hours ago | 19 August 2023 - 04:55 PM | Via | 97,949 notes
This is fairly close to the relationship I had with my mom.
i love those little moments where her face lights up because the joy of the joke far outweighs how sick of it she is. like the moment with the star wars music? *chef’s kiss*
They are both clearly having SO much fun, I love this
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