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Where you goin' city boy? - the off topic and chat thread
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If anyone wants a decent EOTWAWKI read then I can recommed 'One Second After' by William R. Forstchen. A novel about a large EMP attack on the USA. Particularly chilling when you look at the map of the US and see how they would be effected and then overlay the same map on Europe and see just how screwed we'd be.
Available through your local library and I presume online too.
Also available online in the "usual" places
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A nice short film about a "hermit" (who actually works for the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory) who has lived alone in a remote and offgrid part of Colorado for 40 years.
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theemigrant wrote: »got a brand new regatta jacket in a charity shop in Edinburgh today for £2.99, dont htink its ever even been worn.
You can never have too many outdoor jackets
Funny thing with the charity shop I get a lot of really good stuff is that they put the same dumb price on every outdoor jacket.
I recently got a €600 gortex The North Face jacket hardly if ever worn for €25 and I noticed that the also have a nice looking Tresspass jacket for €25.
One was too cheap the other way too expensive.
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theemigrant wrote: »How are ye liking the weather?.
Just back in from taking the dogs for a walk - it was a short walk 0 -
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https://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/wilderness-training-helped-young-sisters-survive-44-hours-in-woods-37879515.htmlWilderness training helped young sisters survive 44 hours in woods
Wilderness training may have played a role in the survival of two sisters who were found safe after spending 44 hours in California woods, police say.
Caroline (5) and Leia Carrico (8) were found on Sunday less than 3km from their home in Humboldt County, according to County Sheriff William Honsal.
They were found "safe and sound" on Sunday morning by a fire captain and firefighter who had followed the girls' boot tracks, Mr Honsal said.
"This is an absolute miracle," he said.
Although the girls were dehydrated and cold, they were uninjured and "in good spirits", Mr Honsal said.
He said the first responders provided them with fresh warm clothes and water.
He said the girls were trained in outdoor survival through their local 4-H club (youth organisation) and that authorities believed that helped them.
They also were wearing boots and had eaten granola bars at some point while they were missing, he said.
"To have a positive outcome like this is just absolutely amazing," Mr Honsal said.
Using helicopters and tracking dogs, dozens of police and rescue personnel combed a vast and rugged rural area in the frantic search for the sisters.
The girls had last been seen around 2.30pm on Friday outside their home in Benbow, a small community about 320 kilometres north-west of Sacramento.
The searchers included National Guard members from Fresno and the US Coast Guard, which provided one of its helicopters on top of a Black Hawk helicopter also being used.
Rescuers were hopeful about finding the girls on Saturday after they came across prints from the girls' rubber boots and wrappers from the granola bars, Lieutenant Mike Fridley said.
"The wrappers showed us a direction from where they started to where the wrappers ended up at," Mr Fridley added.
He said that he was the one who got to call the girls' mother to say that her daughters were alive.
"She melted on the phone, we had to hang up because she couldn't talk," he said.
Mr Honsal described the search area as vast, rugged and rural.
He said that the conditions were cold and sporadically rainy.0 -
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