Researching Flood Detectors

             

This is an up close and personal visit with a flood detector.  Wet Switch is thirty five dollars and can be wired to turn on a sump pump automatically.

   One of the great things about doing a blog on preparedness, is that I am always having to learn something.  (It's either that or I am unfortunate enough that plenty goes wrong and that I'll have to learn it anyway) I knew that industrial buildings and computer rooms used flood detectors. When my husband designs a system for a computer room, he does have to consider the flood detectors.  I knew that for industrial purposes, these were expensive.   I did not know until I talked to our homeowner's insurance company, Nationwide, that flood detectors are available relatively inexpensively for home use, and could be very valuable in a circumstance like the one which occurred here last night.
                   When the Serv-Pro professionals arrived to help us strategize our water extraction and clean up, they reiterated what Nationwide had said.  Apparently, although it had never happened to us in twenty-five years, the leakage of pipes or a major appliance is a fairly common household problem.   Dishwashers can malfunction and leak. Hot water heaters can rust, or not rust and simply leak. Washing machines can leak or leak when one of their hoses dry rots or ages and then leaks lots of water in your home.  Pipes can also leak, as can a well tank or a water filtration system. Refrigerators with a cold water or ice feature can also occasionally leak.   Serv-Pro also thought a flood detector could be a good idea as some of the homes they provide service to, have called them for three or more flood situations from household appliances.  The worst damage occurs when no one is home or no one knows a leak has occurred and water continues to flow.
                   Where a flood detector should be placed would vary between the home you are considering.  In my house, locating one in the mechanical room could be a good idea, because there is a tank where the well pumps water, as well as a water filtration system, and the hot water heater. A leak there could be quite a mess.     A flood detector would also be a good idea at the plumbing junction area in the basement closet which was the site for this particular leak.
                   Most units work by detectiing water and then alarming in a manner which is similar yet a different sound compared to a smoke detector or a carbon monoxide detector.
                  These are some of the inexpensive units I have found:

This is a simple flood alarm for $12.96 plus postage from Amazon


This is a three detector flood alarm system on Amazon for twenty-five dollars with free postage.


This is a ten dollar Basement Watchdog flood detector also from Amazon
 This one detects as little as 1/32nd of an inch of water, and notifies you with a 110 decibel alarm.
Early warning is the best chance we have of avoiding what happened to us last night.


The First Alert Three-Pak.
Like most of these, this one is battery operated, so during a power outage your leak detector is still functional.


There are many other types, so take a look and select one that is best for you.     

After we pay for this flood fiasco this next week, along with the repairs to our refrigerator which is still waiting, I will have to get some flood detectors.  I'll let you know which one I try and how we like it in terms of ease of operation.



This post is a follow up to my prior post:

http://rationalpreparedness.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-personal-disaster.html

A Personal Disaster

              

Some areas are underwater and others were not. It's hard to assess the extent of the damage at night, and so quickly.

    
  As my regular readers know, I really do pride myself on being ready for most situations, and it's no wonder.  Again and again over the years, my family has been challenged by one thing after another.  Serious illnesses,  three earthquakes, the latest of which was a 5.8 with the epicenter in a neighboring county, local tornadoes, hurricanes which wiped out power in our region for three weeks, and winter storms have kept us busy.  Since we have a farm and might need to evacuate animals, wildfire is a big concern here.  About the only thing we don't worry too much about here is flooding.  The farm is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  We are miles from a significant river.  The house, and the outbuildings sit above the acreage here.  We have a number of acres cleared around the house, barn, kennel and garage, but then thirsty forest surrounds it all for many acres.  The full basement here, which is finished, has a lifetime B-dry system and so nothing short of a flood of Biblical proportions would afflict us.   Building the house in this manner was smart from a standpoint of avoiding flood, but it wasn't so smart from a standpoint of lightning.  Apparently, we live in an area with quartz, iron, and old goldmines in the region, and when we built structures on hills we became sitting ducks to lightning.   One of my sons was struck by lightning in 2011 inside a solid building here.  He survived, but is still having significant disabling medical problems as a result.  The next step was to have a lightning abatement contractor work on each building as well as the house and tallest trees.
                  I normally go to bed fairly early as I need to be up early to take care of horses, alpacas, dogs, ducks, chickens and cats.  This evening I was unsettled.  Last week I broke a molar and I plan to see the dentist in about a week as I need to hold on to my money to replace the compressor in our refrigerator. We have been without a frij for two weeks while repairmen negotiated who would come all the way out here, and whether we really needed an Electrolux certified repairman or not.  The tooth was fine for a couple of days and now tonight, there is nerve pain.  By midnight, I couldn't shut it out and I was tossing and turning. From the master bedroom, you can hear water as it's being drawn from the spigots outside the house, or from the barn or kennel.  It's a sound rather like heat or air conditioning coming through ductwork.  I don't mind that I can hear it because I have been able to catch when someone has left a hose on, once in a great while.  At midnight I heard that sound.  I assumed that my son who doesn't sleep well post the lightning strike was showering. When the shower went on past twenty minutes, I mentioned it to my husband who was trying to sleep. When it continued past thirty minutes I became convinced that someone had left water on in a barn or perhaps the kennel.  We keep alpaca water in tanks with a separate pump and periodically we fill that too.  Perhaps my husband left it on ?  When my husband woke up, he also listened to the sound, and decided to check out the barn, the kennel and the other buildings.  That took twenty minutes and the sound continued.  When he came back to the house he was concerned.  He decided to check the lower level despite the fact that we believed two of our sons to be asleep in bedrooms on the lower level.  When we got there, he found water quickly filling the lower level.  The finished basement houses many of our most valuable areas.  There is an art studio with projects and paintings. There are several bedrooms, a large bathroom, a homeschooling room we call "the library", a workshop, a mechanical room with house essential systems, a walk in linen closet, two off season clothes closets, a family room, a large hallway,  and a rather well appointed and large disaster supply room.  There was some confusion upon the discovery of about 500 gallons of water on the oak floors. The red metal handle which we were told was a total water shutoff to the entire house when we built it, did not function as such.  Water kept on coming.  It took us about six more minutes to stop the water from pouring into the house, like a ship that had sprung a leak.  "Oh my God !" I thought.  I am standing in water and there are a number of live  electrical cords in contact with that water !
Fortunately, we were able to disable those electrical outlets while preserving the lights above our heads.  This is when you wish to know that your electrical box is correctly marked !
                   In our finished basement there is a closet in which a plumbing junction box of sorts is located. When the barn, the kennel and two other outbuildings were built, this is where the plumbing connection from the house branches off from the house where it is buried underground to each of the buildings.  Inside there is a plastic to plastic connection which somehow came loose and has allowed a substantial amount of water into the house.  My eldest son repaired the plumbing issue by installing a bronze plumbing fixture to the plastic fixture, and it appears to be functioning properly now.   However, there is such significant damage, I just want to sit and cry.   I called Nationwide Insurance at one am, for guidance as much as for encouragement.  They related that we are covered for an immediate pipe malfunction such as this, and their opinion was that we needed to call Servpro or a similar company to suck out as much of this water immediately as possible in order to avoid mold. They are apparently a 24 hour operation.   My husband doesn't want to do this, and so he is sucking up as much water as possible using a large wet vac.  He worries that our already pricey homeowners will go up with a claim or worse, that they will cancel us.   Being allergic to mold this is a chance I am not willing to take.  There is water underneath the oak floors and unquestionably the lining underneath designed to minimize the clacking noise while walking on the wood is saturated.  Nationwide also said that we should have had a flood detector in the closet where the plumbing junction box is located.
                 My greatest sorrows is not only the probably loss of the oak floors in the basement, but a lot of supplies and food in the disaster supply room.  Did you know that fifty pounds of rice absorbs water really well, saving other items ?   Two giant bags of flour waiting to be placed in plastic buckets, and a large carrier bag of sugar also became saturated, and were thrown out.   I was able to rescue a box of photographs in frames in a box.  Some were wet, but they were wiped quickly.   Many things in the disaster supply room were in shelves or were above the water.  The items on those rolling shelves from Sam's Club are fine.
Some homeschooling books in a box on the floor of the library were not so lucky.  The softcover books were destroyed.
                I am most upset however, that my husband is fine taking the chance that mold could grow in this house rendering it impossible for me to live here.  To me, that places money above the people who live here.
I plan to call Servpro in the morning, and find out how much they would charge to assess the situation.  We have also set up a number of large fans that we would normally use for the alpacas in Summer.

               This is what I learned tonight...

  1.  When plumbing modifications are made for an addition, garage or anything else, consider having a flood detector installed in the region where the modifications were made.
  2.   Verify water shut offs in advance of an emergency and make sure everyone who is a teen or adult knows how to find them and use them.
  3.   Try to get all disaster supplies on shelves asap.   The temptation to use floorspace is great, but resist this whenever you can.
 4. Consider calling Servpro or a similar service, without first consulting your husband or wife.  My husband has a history of not seeing potentials in disaster and for minimizing circumstances.  He is a good man who can't see trouble coming. A lot of people are just like this.
5. Do what you need to do to preserve your home and property.
6. Everyone should own a Home Depot or Lowes  wet vac for just such emergencies.  It's too late to think about buying one in the middle of the night.   Everyone should own some good fans for just such emergencies also.
7. Find out how well you are covered with regard to homeowners insurance, for an incident very similar to this one.  Nationwide said this is a common occurence.
8. Friends tell me that they have had similar things happen when dishwashers have failed or when washing machine hoses have leaked.  Perhaps you should check both of those in your home now.

          We were very lucky that this is fresh clean water.  I hope my husband made the right call.

                                                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


  UPDATE:  After two hours of sleep I convinced my husband to allow me to call Serve-Pro for at least an assessment of what they believe will be necessary to prevent mold.  They told us we have already done a substantial amount of work all night.  The technician will be here to check everything and advise us with the wood floors, in fifteen more minutes !  
Many things in the disaster supply room are destroyed, however paintings and watercolors my eldest son did were stored high enough that they are intact.  One small oriental rug is drying outside. 

Dear Mr. Obama

  

Wouldn't you think they would have better things to do ?

 
  Dear Mr. Obama.

                I read today from the UK Examiner, that the NSA on behalf of your administration is collecting phone call information from the cellular customers of Verizon.   This would particularly apply to calls between the US and another nation, or another nation to the US.  Apparently, you believe that the Patriot Act gives you the ability to collect hundreds of thousands of phone calls and look for patterns.
                Of course, the mainstream media in the United States is too incompetent to report this to us. It took a rag from the United Kingdom to bring us the truth, and now, once again, we are a laughing stock as everyone from Deutche Welle to Russia Today are reporting this in horror.  It seems foreigners don't like their personal conversations with length of time spoken recorded when they call here !  They apparently don't trust that you won't get the wrong end of the stick !         
               As  Verizon customer who calls internationally on my cell, I am not thrilled either.  You are wasting the valuable tax money I have given you, to monitor my calls, when in fifty years, I have never had as much as a parking ticket.    Have you heard of probable cause ?      I have decided, so that you might feel comfortable stopping this practice to tell you the nature of my international calls, right here and right now.  This way, you can place your attention on what I see as more important things, such as perhaps the economy,  cutting government down, unfunding Obamacare, relinquishing presidential war powers, cutting the IRS down to size, and that resignation speech for you and Mr. Biden, which is due in just a few weeks.

I don't recall the dates, but these are the phone calls I made on verizon internatiionally so you can cross me off your list of potential terrorists.


All of my international calls on Verizon were to Canada in the last couple of years.


Call #1     Call to plumber to have system flushed in our summer house and turned on for our visit.

Call #2     Call to caretaker to let him know when we are coming.

Call #3      Call made from our Verizon cellphone to home to make sure kids at home are ok while we are there.

Call #4     Call rec'd from Harbor Freight while in Canada.  They wish directions for delivering some farm equipment to maintain our tractors. I referred them to our son at home in the US.

Call #5    Call to our home in US again to check on adult kids and teens and animals.

Call #6     Call to Bank of America to assure them that it is ME trying to use my credit card in Canada
               and telling them that I already notified them that I would be here. They must be friends of yours.

Call #7     (From Canada to Canada, using US Verizon phone) Call to plumber to have water tank in summer house replaced.  Rubber diaphragm inside tank is not used often, and this ages the tank faster than usual.

Call #8     (From back in the US to Canada)   Calling caretaker to see if our house, his family and his home is intact after terrible storm which did significant damage to the area in Canada where our house is located.


       There may be a couple of dropped calls as I began to make the calls as listed above.
Now that you can see I am not any type of threat to anyone, perhaps you can stop monitoring my calls for where and who I am calling.    This will save your recognizing patterns for numbers I am calling and getting some judge to record my conversations only to find out that my greatest crime is leaving a small bag of trash at the house in Canada which was not divided into the six different groups of trash necessary in Canada before turning them in for recycling.   Fortunately, our caretaker took care of it, and so I am not wanted in Canada for a failure to properly recycle in a timely manner.

         I'm glad we had this little conversation.  Don't you feel better ?  By the way, my audit from the IRS last year came up completely clean......Surprize !   Perhaps you can look into that chocolate price fixing the mainstream media mentioned today.







     Sarah Slean                                          Napoleon   (Remind you of anyone ?)
   

As We Roll Toward Being a Banana Republic...

This is Rep. Bridenstine's assessment of the Obama Regime with regard to the present state of American affairs.

       I would add to this, a blatant disregard of basic economics and a spending of money for lobster, travel, vacations, and things like a fully equipped television studio in a Maryland branch of the Internal Revenue Service.  I would also add a bevy of Executive Orders created in an attempt to sidestep Congress.  We have also not yet heard about all of the people who oppose the President and who have been audited by the IRS in an unusual and exceptionally aggressive fashion.  I would also add the misadventure of Obamacare.  Tell me again, how is it legal to force any American to buy any product for any purpose, let alone insurance ?

      So tell me, if Barack Hussein Obama and Joseph Biden are removed through due process, who is next ?
Could Democrats and Republicans ever work together long enough to do such a thing, even for the good of the United States of America ?

       Tell me, which place do you think would be nicer to live, Costa Rica, Belize, or Uruguay ?

Carefully Considering our Freeze Dried Foods

      

Augason Farms has been in business for fifty years.

   Thankfully, there are an abundance of companies who are now selling long lasting freeze dried food designed to be used in short term and long term emergencies or challenges.  However, when purchasing some for emergency use or for long term storage, it's really important to consider the present needs of your family, and to try to anticipate some of the future ones.
              Freeze dried food, company to company is not the same.  Although some of us find a company we like and with whom we can both recall and agree with their shipping charges, we might be better off buying a core of items from one company, and then other items we may need from another.

               I tend to buy Augason Farms freeze dried food here for long term storage.  I like the  easy use website with quick navigation, and I can order something quite quickly.   It can take a week or so to arrive, but when it does, they often call to see that we are satisfied with the product.  They run good specials, and always have dented cans on sale.  They indicate that their dented cans, so long as not dented along the seam, should still be fine. I have only ever received one can dented in transit, and we used that one first, and it was fine.   Sam's Club's website   www.samsclub.com  has started selling a limited line of Augason Farms food, often in multiple packages at a savings, for less postage (because it's already sitting at a Wal-Mart distribution center near you.)    Augasons is good value for a good price, but it does require that you learn a little something about combining such foods into palatable meals.  I don't mind this, and I also like the ability to combine some things with others, and be creative myself.  (As opposed to some other companies where the entire line is add water and your meals are ready.)   Augason Farms also sells the #10 cans of which I, with a large family am so fond, but they also sell an "everyday" sized can for smaller families or couples.  This makes using their line possible for everyone.   I stock up on fruits and vegetables primarily. I do have some of the baking supplies, rice, flour, and other things, but I purchase fewer of the meat and pre-made meals than do most people, simply because we live on a farm and can provide certain things in a pinch.  They also list nutritional content including sodium not only on each label, but on the website.  There is also a recipe section for each food which helps novices especially in how they might use some of these foods.  This was especially helpful to me in the beginning, who had never cooked with dehydrated foods before, and who wanted some skill in this, before an emergency where we were heavily dependent upon this food.  They also have a gluten free line, which is a godsend to those who are truly gluten intolerant, and who also need to prepare. Augason Farms has been in this business for 50 years, and many of their products last packaged, for 25 years. There is a chart on the website which discusses the shelf life of each product.  I like Augason's very much, but I notice as of this date that they do not sell freeze dried cabbage or freeze dried salmon or tuna, which are two items I would like to have.They also have a blended cheese powder, but no freeze dried grated cheddar, monterey jack, or mozzarella.

            Freeze Dry Guy is a veteran owned company.  They have been in business for 42 years.  They not only sell an interesting line, but they also sell something they call "Bug Out Buckets" which are packets designed for families or campers who may need to flee and take their food with them. They have a broad range of supplies, including freeze dried cottage cheese.  Of note, they have starting selling a low sodium line which is very important for many people.  Many people, especially those with a history of congestive heart failure. hypertension, hypothyroidism, and some kidney disorders, could easy get into trouble medically when making the switch from conventional foods to an emergency situation in which they received most or all of their food from canned or dehydrated means. Please take a look at their line. They even have a line of dehydrated for long term storage pet foods which could be especially helpful in an evacuation situation. Please visit their blog. There is an especially good section on the importance of low sodium foods with an eye to emergency planning.

             Those who reside in Canada are now lucky enough to have a company called Briden Solutions.  They not only have a website which takes Canadians through all the aspects of preparation, but they sell freeze dried food sold under the name Thrive, from Shelf Reliance. This benefits Canadians immensely because prior to this, Canadians were buying from US companies and having to hassle with conversion rates, extra postage, and the dreaded customs !  Please take a look.


 

Emergency Essentials has freeze dried food items you won't find elsewhere.

 

              I also buy supplies of a number of kinds from Emergency Essentials.  They have a lot of unusual things I can't get anywhere else. They stock freeze dried salmon for a limited time only. They stock low cinnamon almond granola etc.  Like Augason's, they sell #10 cans, and also super pails of some of the things you need in large quantities. I am fond of their seasonings, spices and particularly their sprout kits.  I have given their sprouting seeds kit with sprouting lid as a gift for family members several times.  They also have a freeze dried yogurt combo that I haven't seen anywhere else. Like most companies, they run regular specials, although sometimes, their specials run as much as 58% off the normal price.  They are presently running an inventory reduction sale.  Once, when I bought a lot of items on sale, I waited weeks for them.  However, I tend to buy things I need for the future and so this was not a particular hardship for me.

             I have also purchased emergency items and freeze dried food from Nitro-Pak Preparedness Center. They have a low price guarantee, and a number of unusual items. Of course they sell 50,000 items and so in terms of food products and preparedness gear, they are likely to have a suggestion for items you might need.
They are a great source for freeze dried ice cream, which is not bad at all.  They sell items as diverse as Kathmandu Curry freeze dried, along with packets of Beef and Broccoli stir-fry.   They are your source for #10 cans of freeze dried peaches, and freeze dried asparagus.   They have freeze dried mozzarella cheese and freeze dried pears.


           There are many other excellent suppliers of emergency food.  Make sure that you sample a few things from several companies, and make some decisions about your families needs and special preferences before you invest a large sum of money in your supplies. If  you have elderly relatives,l for example, give some thought to what types of food they can chew, even when reconstituted.  Stocking freeze dried granola with blueberries might not be ideal for an elderly person from a chewing, or from a choking standpoint, for example.  

           The great benefit to freeze dried food is that it allows families, even large families to relatively inexpensively to stock large amounts of food in a relatively small space. It also allows people to purchase food in a low inflationary period of time, and conceivably hold onto it for as many as 25 or even 30 years depending upon product. Of course rotation and consumption of the oldest supplies always makes sense.  Many of these foods are quite good when reconstituted with water as directed.   A few of them, like the granola in different forms and flavors, and the freeze dried strawberries, and even the freeze dried green beans or corn, are incredibly good snacks.  It also allows families to keep food in relatively large containers safely.  Once opened, the #10 large family sized can should be consumed within one year.  Keeping them for as many as 20-25 years is certainly possible with very little impact if any, to their nutritional value. There is only one item we have not consumed before it spoiled after opening.  We don't use a great deal of chili, other than in chili soup (we mix half chili reconstituted with about the same amount of tomato soup and serve with French bread.)  We were not able to consume the chili fast enough after opening, and some was thrown away.  Again, everyone should try either smaller sized versions or the big cans.  You should know whether you like dehydrated then reconstituted cauliflower with freeze dried reconstituted cheese sauce or not.


             I try to budget one hundred dollars a month for freeze dried food, and then we consume a certain amount of it monthly in order to see which items we like, and which ones are spiced in a manner we don't like or have a strange texture.  Although some websites would push you to acquire all your food supplies quickly, there are still good reasons to sample items and proceed intelligently.  If you need gluten free then Augason Farm's gluten free line is your best choice, but the rest of us need to pay attention to personal preferences also.  For one thing......I don't like Kathmandu Curry at all, but then, there are lots of people who do !

A New Alternative to Conventional Horse and Livestock Fencing

       
 

 

  This week I discovered a new type of fencing which is being sold primarily for horses and cattle.  This type of fencing promises to be less expensive and more durable than conventional plastic fencing, or the ribbon styled electric fence that is being seen more often in many places.  It also should require less maintenance and repair than conventional wood might, as some horses do something called cribbing, where a horse tends to chew and potentially destroy his fencing, stables, etc. while swallowing air.    This fencing is also very positive in terms of the environment.

        

             The owner places posts, wooden or I suppose some types of smooth metallic could be used, and then recycled relatively inexpensive rubber line can be interwoven, providing a sturdy reminder for larger horses.  This particular product is constructed from recycled stock car racing tires.  If it were not recycled in such a fashion, then it would be taking up space in a landfill somewhere.  This fencing is said to be strong and extremely durable.
             I also believe that if you used perhaps four instead of three strands as shown here, that this fencing could be used in grazing pastures for other types of animals.   Llamas, goats, miniature ponies, ostriches and perhaps even emu, and many other animals could have this type of fencing used in their grazing pastures.  I would probably select conventional fencing electrified or with barbed wire affixed to the exterior in places where you wish to protect livestock from wild animals outside the perimeter, particularly overnight.
            The seller of this type of fencing offers a ten year warranty on the product itself which does not apply to the installation itself.

              There is absolutely no maintenance required to the rubberized fencing, which makes it incredibly attractive for grazing areas to me.

              It's present price is:

1 INCH 70 FEET $.10 per foot plus shipping
2 INCH 30 FEET $.20 per foot plus shipping

www.rubberfencing.com

Rubber fencing can look quite good.

Farmowner has used wooden fencing for crucial areas and rubberized fencing in others.  This also offers some flexibility if you have not completed your thinking on design or if more animals are coming or being born.

                  This type of fencing has been used for forty years, and yet I had not seen it in my state.

This is made to weather windspeeds in excess of 200 mph.

   
Information on proper rubber fence installation:

 http://www.rubberfencing.com/directions-and-tools-needed-for-proper-installation.html

 

  Please go to the link above for pictures and additional information:

 These pictures and directions above are the work product and property of Jim Tonseth and his rubber fencing company.     I have included them for informational purposes.
I do not have any financial interest in Jim's company, I simply think this is a good idea for certain applications.

This fencing, even in Virginia's extreme heat, should last 20 years.

   This also has the benefit that your animals will not be injured by the fencing as can happen with wire fencings, and certainly with barbed wire types.

There are other companies that sell a similar product, but this one is the least expensive I have located.

This looks quite attractive when used in large areas.

Prior posts on animal and livestock fencing and related topics include:



http://rationalpreparedness.blogspot.com/2012/02/considering-varieties-of-fencing-for.html



http://rationalpreparedness.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-features-and-benefits-of-corral.html

http://rationalpreparedness.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-value-of-excellent-auger.html

http://rationalpreparedness.blogspot.com/2013/01/some-points-on-large-animal.html

http://rationalpreparedness.blogspot.com/2013/04/consider-wright-farm-gates.html

http://rationalpreparedness.blogspot.com/2012/04/gates.html



Update:  I spoke with Jim today and he relates that this rubberized material is made with both fiberglass and kevlar, as it had originally been used as stock car racing tires and had to be capable of enduring quite a bit of abuse.
             To answer Ian's question below, Jim is not aware that this type of fencing has ever been used in a place which endures 40 degrees below zero. He suspects that it would expand and contract under such conditions, but he does believe it would work.

     For those of you who would like to explore this furthur, Jim Tonseth's contact information is:

Questions or orders, please call:

Jim Tonseth        704-213-3382 (Cell)
                        704-637-7886 (Home)

Andy Hoyle        336-688-6761 (Cell)

Email Address    werecycletires@yahoo.com
           
 or                    jtahrubberfencing@yahoo.com

Upcoming Radio Interview by John Wesley Smith

          

 

   I was interviewed recently by John Wesley Smith regarding, my book Rational Preparedness: A Primer to Preparedness.

 You can hear this interview tomorrow on   Thursday at 1 PM Central Standard Time (That's 2 PM in Eastern Standard Time)  at the
following link:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/doctorprepper/2013/05/30/destiny-survival-radio

 

John discusses this interview in the following article at:

 

A Nurse Talks about Rational Preparedness on Destiny Survival

and

A Nurse Talks about Rational Preparedness which appears in Before It's News

 

 

 

        John is a great interviewer.  He is calm and asks great questions.  Please tune in if you can.

I do believe the show will be archived afterward, and so it should be possible to hear this episode   in its entirety afterward.

 

           Meanwhile,  I have to tell you about a musical group I only recently discovered.

A group of Miami based musicians who have won Grammy awards for other projects got together in order to advance a more conservative, and shall we say, less socialist political agenda.   Their music is not only seamless, and the guitar work is incredible, but the songwriting and performance is very strong.  These are just a couple of the songs from their new album.    This group calls themselves The Voters.

           

This is a wonderful Medley of the songs on this album

      http://www.thevotersmusic.com/

 

    Their album is called Electile Dysfunction.   You can purchase it on Amazon at:

 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+voters++electile+dysfunction

or go to their website:

 

 http://www.thevotersmusic.com/