Some questions for a paper Im writing

[Valkren]

Hey,
So I wasn't sure where to put this or if im allowed to :s .

However I'd much appreciate it if you would take the time to answer these questions I made:
1. Do you know what a solar storm is and what a large solar storm could do to our society?

2. How often do you use an elevator?

3. Do you have some fresh batteries on standby?

4. When you fill your vehicles fuel tank up, do you fill any fuel containers as well?

5. Do you have a non electric cooking option?

6. If you take any prescription medication, do you have enough to last you a couple of months without restocking?

7. Do you keep cash on hand (out of your bank)?

8. Do you own or know anyone close to where you live who owns a battery-powered or hand crank radio?

9. Do you keep several gallons of unscented chlorine bleach in your house?

If yes, then do you know the percentage of chlorine in the bleach?

Would you know how to disinfect the water using the bleach?

10. Do you own a non-electronic can opener?

11. Do you keep sun cream in your house?

12. How much of your food requires refrigeration of some kind?

13. How often do you go shopping?

14. Do you own any buckets?

If this isn't allowed I apologise in advance.

[Ken]

Hey,
So I wasn't sure where to put this or if im allowed to :s .

However I'd much appreciate it if you would take the time to answer these questions I made:
1. Do you know what a solar storm is and what a large solar storm could do to our society?
YES.

2. How often do you use an elevator?
3+ DAYS EACH WEEK

3. Do you have some fresh batteries on standby?
ALWAYS.

4. When you fill your vehicles fuel tank up, do you fill any fuel containers as well?
SOMETIMES.

5. Do you have a non electric cooking option?
SEVERAL.

6. If you take any prescription medication, do you have enough to last you a couple of months without restocking?
YES.

7. Do you keep cash on hand (out of your bank)?
YES. IN THE POCKET OPPOSITE THE ONE I CARRY MY GUN IN.

8. Do you own or know anyone close to where you live who owns a battery-powered or hand crank radio?
SEVERAL. ABOUT 15.

9. Do you keep several gallons of unscented chlorine bleach in your house?
CASES, NOT GALLONS.

If yes, then do you know the percentage of chlorine in the bleach?
YUP.

Would you know how to disinfect the water using the bleach?
YUP.

10. Do you own a non-electronic can opener?
ONCE AGAIN, SEVERAL.

11. Do you keep sun cream in your house?
I REPRESENT 2 DIFFERENT TANNING SALON CHAINS. AT LAST 5 OF EVERY SPF THERE IS.

12. How much of your food requires refrigeration of some kind?
TWO 22 c.f. SIDE-BY-SIDE REFRIGERATORS AND ONE UPRIGHT FREEZER'S WORTH.

13. How often do you go shopping?
FOR WHAT?

14. Do you own any buckets?
DOZENS.

If this isn't allowed I apologise in advance.
ME TOO.

............

[welderguy]

1. Yes

2. hardly ever

3. yes

4. not usually

5. yes

6. yes

7. yes

8. yes and yes

9. yes, yes and yes

10. yes

11. yes

12. less than a 1/3 of my food stores

13. depends

14. yes

[Sarge47]

Hey,
So I wasn't sure where to put this or if im allowed to :s .

However I'd much appreciate it if you would take the time to answer these questions I made:
1. Do you know what a solar storm is and what a large solar storm could do to our society?

I've heard rumors.

2. How often do you use an elevator?

Whenever I can find one.

3. Do you have some fresh batteries on standby?

Not anymore, They used to be fresh, but a few hard slaps discouraged that.

4. When you fill your vehicles fuel tank up, do you fill any fuel containers as well?

If'n I need too.

5. Do you have a non electric cooking option?

Yep, it's called a "campfire."

6. If you take any prescription medication, do you have enough to last you a couple of months without restocking?

Doesn't apply here.

7. Do you keep cash on hand (out of your bank)?

NOYDB!

8. Do you own or know anyone close to where you live who owns a battery-powered or hand crank radio?

Who doesn't?

9. Do you keep several gallons of unscented chlorine bleach in your house?

Our bleach always smells like bleach!

If yes, then do you know the percentage of chlorine in the bleach?

Nope!

Would you know how to disinfect the water using the bleach?

Did you just skip a number?

10. Do you own a non-electronic can opener?

Yep! It's on my SAK!

11. Do you keep sun cream in your house?

Isn't that found floating on top of sun milk?

12. How much of your food requires refrigeration of some kind?

All of the perishable stuff.

13. How often do you go shopping?

Depends on what I'm shopping for.

14. Do you own any buckets?

I used to have an old, wooden one, but it got stolen by this old lady from Nantucket!

If this isn't allowed I apologise in advance.

If it wasn't allowed I'd of already deleted it....

[Ken]

Valkren, don't pay any attention to Sarge. She's our official "mascot troll." We figure that by keeping her around we'll discourage most of the other trolls out there from bothering us. Her profile says she's from Illinois, but her IP address tells us she's logging in from a tiny room in the sub-basement of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. The last time she saw daylight was in 1972. We managed to get our hands on an old photo of Sarge. Here it is:


Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum.

[Valkren]

Haha. Ok, Good to know

[Sarge47]

Valkren, don't pay any attention to Sarge. She's our official "mascot troll." We figure that by keeping her around we'll discourage most of the other trolls out there from bothering us. Her profile says she's from Illinois, but her IP address tells us she's logging in from a tiny room in the sub-basement of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. The last time she saw daylight was in 1972. We managed to get our hands on an old photo of Sarge. Here it is:


Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum.

I thought I'd destroyed all of those photos...damn you Ken!....

[Valkren]

[QUOTE=Ken;401017]

13. How often do you go shopping?

QUOTE]

............

Ah yeh, might help if I specified...

I meant food shopping

Apologies for the confusion

[welderguy]

[QUOTE=Valkren;401039]

Ah yeh, might help if I specified...

I meant food shopping

Apologies for the confusion

usually once a month for bulk , I check the ad's every wednesday for sale items.

[welderguy]

Im going to be nosey , what type of paper are you researching for?

[Ken]

Large food shopping trips to the supermarket or Sam's Club to stock up? The kind that take us almost an hour to unload the truck and put everything away? Every 8 - 10 weeks.

Stops to pick up supermarket sale items or pick up fresh produce, bakery, fish, dairy and meats? Depends on my mood and whether or not we eat out a lot that week/month. Could be once a week or almost every day. I buy fish at least once a week from the wholesalers on the dock, bakery (except for donuts ) from local bakeries, meats (to use fresh or to freeze) from a few local butcher shops, and produce from local farm stands and farmers markets as the season allows. I rarely buy any perishables from a supermarket, except for dairy and vegetables in the dead of winter.

I also LOVE to stop in at a local specialty foods/restaurant supply company at least once a month. http://www.sidwainer.com/today.asp

So I guess the best answer to your question is, "it depends."

[Ken]

Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum.

[LowKey]

1. Do you know what a solar storm is and what a large solar storm could do to our society?
yes

2. How often do you use an elevator?
50/50. ie going up. Stairs are easy going down.

3. Do you have some fresh batteries on standby?
yes

4. When you fill your vehicles fuel tank up, do you fill any fuel containers as well?
If they need filling

5. Do you have a non electric cooking option?
several

6. If you take any prescription medication, do you have enough to last you a couple of months without restocking?
N/A

7. Do you keep cash on hand (out of your bank)?
Depends on if I've spent it all.


8. Do you own or know anyone close to where you live who owns a battery-powered or hand crank radio?
yes, but what good will that do you in a drastic solar event?


9. Do you keep several gallons of unscented chlorine bleach in your house?
yes
If yes, then do you know the percentage of chlorine in the bleach?
yes
Would you know how to disinfect the water using the bleach?
yes, If I had to. Would rather use other methods.

10. Do you own a non-electronic can opener?
several

11. Do you keep sun cream in your house?
Um, you know sun cream isn't going to help you in a solar storm, right?

12. How much of your food requires refrigeration of some kind?
Do you know what to do with yours before it spoils?

13. How often do you go shopping?
every once in a while

14. Do you own any buckets?
Millions. They are what lost coat hangers turn into.


Post your paper when you're done. If you post it before you turn it in, we might correct it for you in advance. LOL.

[Valkren]

Im going to be nosey , what type of paper are you researching for?

It's for an Extended Project I'm working on about the effects of a solar storm on society

[Valkren]

11. Do you keep sun cream in your house?
Um, you know sun cream isn't going to help you in a solar storm, right?


Post your paper when you're done. If you post it before you turn it in, we might correct it for you in advance. LOL.

Well in the event of a Solar Proton event which can co-incide with a solar storm, it can have a depletion effect on the ozone, so more high energy UV rays reach the surface.

Also thanks I think I will

[hunter63]

Hey, Hey back...
So I wasn't sure where to put this or if im allowed to :s .

However I'd much appreciate it if you would take the time to answer these questions I made:
1. Do you know what a solar storm is and what a large solar storm could do to our society?
I watched Relovation....bad Ju Ju

2. How often do you use an elevator?
If I see one...yes

3. Do you have some fresh batteries on standby?
Yes, stashed everywhere.....When all batteries are dead, it will be TEOTWAWKI....Zombies that are talked about will be any one that uses a cell phone standing around trying to text to no body....

4. When you fill your vehicles fuel tank up, do you fill any fuel containers as well?
Yes, I consider it an investment

5. Do you have a non electric cooking option?
We have non electric living options
Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum.

6. If you take any prescription medication, do you have enough to last you a couple of months without restocking?
Yes...but this may be a problem

7. Do you keep cash on hand (out of your bank)?
Of course, you never know when you can get a good deal from some one that need money.

8. Do you own or know anyone close to where you live who owns a battery-powered or hand crank radio?
They are stashed everywhere.

9. Do you keep several gallons of unscented chlorine bleach in your house?
Yes, with measuring scoops.......

If yes, then do you know the percentage of chlorine in the bleach?
http://www.csgnetwork.com/h2oemergencypurifycalc.html

Would you know how to disinfect the water using the bleach?
See above link

10. Do you own a non-electronic can opener?
Ever heard of a Swiss Army Knife, or P-38?

11. Do you keep sun cream in your house?
Don't use them in the house, gets all over the recliner.
Vehicles yes....don't really know what all the magic potions DW keeps, are....keep hoping one of them will work

12. How much of your food requires refrigeration of some kind?
Maybe a third....need the rest of the room for beer.

13. How often do you go shopping?
Well lately Wednesday is "ammo day"

14. Do you own any buckets?
Yes, many....you talking empty or full?

If this isn't allowed I apologise in advance.

Why, did ya poofy or something?

Mail your royalty checks to WSF....In care of the F.A.R.T.S. fund.

[Seniorman]

It's for an Extended Project I'm working on about the effects of a solar storm on society

Sounds more like you might be writing a "catastrophe" novel.

As for your questions, I don't worry about any of that stuff 'cause Dear Leader will take care of me.

S.M.

[welderguy]

Sounds more like you might be writing a "catastrophe" novel.

As for your questions, I don't worry about any of that stuff 'cause Dear Leader will take care of me.

S.M.

LMAO " Im from the Gubbermint and Im here to help" I believe ya S.M.

[Dux]

1. Do you know what a solar storm is and what a large solar storm could do to our society?

Yup.

2. How often do you use an elevator?

Almost never.

3. Do you have some fresh batteries on standby?

Yup.

4. When you fill your vehicles fuel tank up, do you fill any fuel containers as well?

Occasionally.

5. Do you have a non electric cooking option?

Yup, several.

6. If you take any prescription medication, do you have enough to last you a couple of months without restocking?

Not applicable.

7. Do you keep cash on hand (out of your bank)?

Yup.

8. Do you own or know anyone close to where you live who owns a battery-powered or hand crank radio?

Yup.

9. Do you keep several gallons of unscented chlorine bleach in your house?

Yup.

If yes, then do you know the percentage of chlorine in the bleach?

Yup.

Would you know how to disinfect the water using the bleach?

Yup.

10. Do you own a non-electronic can opener?

Yup, at least five.

11. Do you keep sun cream in your house?

Nope, never use it. Gradual acclimation has worked for decades for me.

12. How much of your food requires refrigeration of some kind?

Currently about 1/8, almost all freezer. Have lived for years at a time without refrigeration.

13. How often do you go shopping?

Every 6 weeks or so.

14. Do you own any buckets?

Yup. Many each of various sizes. Almost all have lids.

[finallyME]

It's for an Extended Project I'm working on about the effects of a solar storm on society

Just so you know, our answers won't help much with how a solar storm would effect society, mostly because people who participate in "survival forums" generally don't represent "society" as a whole.