maunder winter
there seems to be a building feeling (based on a japanese study into a decline in sunspots and more besides) that we are entering a little ice age this winter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

so over the last couple of weeks i have started to assemble kit for THE SNOWCOPALYSE! SO! I am plotting how to fit a woodburner into our central heated house (oil shortages are going to be an issue), adjusting my BOBs (bug out bags) for colder weather and working out if we can get the decent tent on a sledge (and building pulling harnesses). Means a lot more food and water too dammit.


man i love stuff like this! :D
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 18:32, 10 replies)

You're a fucking idiot and people will wet themselves with joy when you die.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 18:44, closed)

probably
Tell me, as you obviously are popular, bright and happy, how do you do it?
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 18:49, closed)

I've never really given it much thought.
I assume it's because I'm not a feeble-witted and charmless prick with overpowering body odour. Or sutin.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 18:59, closed)

ah fair enough.
Though, and this might just be me, you do seem to be rather full of anger. So much so that rather than funnel it into something useful you seem to be impotently screaming into the hole that is the internet.

That's what /talk is for.
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 19:04, closed)

It's just you.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 10:18, closed)

If you've got snow...
... you've got water.
(gordonjcp, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 19:37, closed)

aye, takes energy to turn one to the other though
and it can be low in minerals. it's just you can dehydrate really fast if traveling any distance.

good point though, i hadn't factored that.
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 19:45, closed)

In a snowpocalypse, where are you going to get dry firewood from?

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sat 16 Jun 2012, 19:55, closed)

ahhh
if the weather is cold enough most of the moisture turns to ice/snow so wood stays remarkably dry. also dead but standing wood is pretty dry so that can be used. also, pretty much any wood will burn as long as you can get it hot enough, it might burn badly and spit like hell but it'll burn. you can use a bad fire to dry wood for a good one too
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 20:06, closed)

Bring it on.
I'm moving to the UAE this fall. The colder weather will be nice.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 17 Jun 2012, 3:51, closed)