Adventures of Stu – Post Milton

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Just got off the phone with G.A. Stewart (the Age of Desolation site) and he came through the ravages of Milton in the Tampa area last night just fine.

“The new house is 55-feet above sea level and the water didn’t get me this time,” he told me. “I looked out the back and while a big old oak tree in the yard lost some limbs, it wasn’t too bad here. Though the fence with the neighbor that way blew down…”

Where Stu works, (for a government contractor) at the local AFB south of Tampa, things are still closed to all but mission-critical personel and the hurricane teams.  So, Stu’s looking forward to a day of rest tomorrow and slowing down a bit.

“You know, one thing most people don’t think about:  If you live in a flood plain, you can’t really be a prepper. Because when the floods come, they take it all,” he continued.  “I will probably start to reorder some of the prepping stuff now, but I’m glad I hadn’t ordered my dual-fuel genset yet. Because if I had have done that, Helene would have gotten it…”

Most interesting point of all was that his power stayed on during much of the storm.  However, as Universe does with irony, just as he was about to make the first pot of coffee this morning, the power went out again, right around dawn, and it hasn’t been back on since.

Hopefully it will come back soon.  We know someone who could use a few cups and enough power to do an update on his website.  With power out we chatted for a minute about what happens next in the “big timeline” so look for a post on his site as early as this afternoon…

More as warranted,

George@Ure.net

36 thoughts on “Adventures of Stu – Post Milton”

  2. I’m glad to hear things went well for Stu. I was thinking about him and all the other friends down in Florida. I don’t miss trying to reason with hurricane season.

    On a side note, an old school percolator and a propane burner never let you down at coffee time.

  3. ‘With power out we chatted for a minute about what happens next in the “big timeline” so look for a post on his site as early as this afternoon…’

    Great. Can’t wait!

    • You all do realize that the new grain belt is going to be in the Sohel? Yes? Just like the artifacts and glyphs showing wheat being harvested in the middle of the desert from thousands of years ago suggest.

      https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/weather/sahara-desert-green-climate/index.html

      That[ and mineral wealth] is the reason why the world is pivoting to Africa.

      If you were one of the Elites in that lofty air at your villa retreat, you’re buying desert land up in Africa for pennies.

      Having knowledge of the geographic macro climate changes that Earth routinely goes through during It’s trip about the Galactic Meridian and around the Milkyway? And the ability to purchase same using crypto? Priceless…

      One might make reference to trading beads for Manhattan. LOL. NOT the same….

      Got Blockchain?

      https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/ripple-targets-30-trillion-real-estate-market-with-xrpl-tokenization-expansion-93CH-3238289

    • JC, I was in the city of Turin, Italy in the fall of 2000 and witnessed this. I learned where the term “Raging River” came from. Hard to imagine the power of Mother Nature until you experience it. I am sure the people in SE United States know. The pictures and videos are stunningly sad.

    • While there’s usually plenty of good soil, and water sources on and around flood plains, they are called “Flood Plains” for a reason… A properly situated prepper retreat would be a couple hundred feet up on a nearby ridgeline…. not down in the valley, No? My Dual Fuel generator gets loaded into my smaller “trash run” trailer early on in storm preps…. if I have to GTFO it’s a simple matter to hitch up to the truck and head out of town…. and wherever I end up, I think a guy with a generator is usually a pretty welcome guest….?

      • Daughter has friends in Tampa. She asked several days before the excitement if I thought they should leave (or rather, if I would leave, were I there.) My reply: “If I were living in a house I built, ‘no,’ otherwise, ‘yes.’ I would go south a ways, then cut across the State and head north on Route-1 or 1A. Everybody travels the expressway, and by the time your friends get to I-75 it will be a 200-mile-long parking lot. Route-1 may get stopped-up as well, but you have a lot more options at ground level than you do on a slab.”

        BTW my dual-fuel generator is Mil-surplus, and the first thing I did with it was buy a small trailer and mount the generator to it…

  5. …and now, for a brief interlude in all the craziness —

    I can save (some) of you $150 a year with a very simple weird little secret, they don’t wnt you to know about.
    Nothing to klick, nothing to buy — all FREE and, You Get It All.

    A couple of years ago…
    We noticed we were using LOTS of paper towels in the kitchen. Damp, wet, or gloopy fingers? Reach for a paper towel.
    We were buying one o’ them giant bales of “Select-A-Towel” to “save money.” Priced these 24-packs lately?

    My lovely and endlessly patient wife knew about a thing she called “corn towels,” or flour-sack towels. Thin, cotten, simple pieces of fabric — nothing fancy. Sold in packs of many (like 25) for dirt cheap.

    We keep two or three, rolled up; and close & handy to the places we used to have paper towels on a bracket-roll.

    Reduction in paper towel consumptin instantly dropped by a huge margin — easily well over 90%. We just trained ourselves to reach for the corn towels first for things like wet fingers that used to call for a paper towel or two… (Easy.)

    They launder readily, and we now have a shallow drawer in the kitchen stocked up with maybe 20 of them, rolled up. We don’t hang them — we leave them rolled up, just sitting on the countertop. Handy.

    Saved well over $150 a year, we figger.

    There.

    73
    KW1B

      • Yeah my Wife, the way better half, is known around our house as the “Papering Plover” bird.

        Where ever she goes she leaves 1/4, 1/2 and barely used paper towels laying around kitchen..2 or 3 piles everyday, sometimes more.

        So there are actually 3 birds living IN the house right now; a papering plover, a male electus, and orange cheeked cockatiel. Cockatiel been with us since 1998 making him a 26 year OLD bird.

        • Correction…imagine that, I have been corrected – the little bird, Pepe, is 28 going on 29.

          Still an old bird…

          Pepe that is.

        • Oh lord… my green-cheek conure is also named ‘Pepe’. And he talks. He’s 10 years old this year. I’m told this is ‘average’ lifespan because people don’t take care of them well. But he’s human-bonded and seems socially secure with us… his flock, so I expect he could make to his wild lifespan of up to 30 years. I hope I can keep up with him. I’ll be 92 then. I’d hate to have him mourning me!

    • I’ve always had them. Mom kept one hanging over the sink at all times. She explained to (about a 5-6yo) me: “Flower sack towels are tight-wove cotton and they dry dishes, lint free and spotless.”

      My cookware is vintage Revereware (uses 30% less heat.) NOTHING shows water spots like polished stainless steel. I don’t dry my dishes and not usually my “stainlessware.” Revereware and fine glassware always get dried…

      I use (thrice-washed, in hot, bleach water, to “get the red out”) shop towels for random cleaning, and save my flour sack towels for drying dishes. I DO buy the 6-pack of paper towels, but they get used as throwaways (and I rarely make so much of a mess that I need throwaways), so I only buy a new package of them about once every three years. P&G has “cheapened” Bounty towels twice in the past 5-6 years, but they’re still the best (and likely the least-expensive, based on job execution rather than price.)

    • Old gal here; been using my dish/hand towels in the kitchen since a little mite.

      Used to wear cute aprons, too.

      Old Ways Were Good Ways.

    • We’ve been playing this game for years. Keep a bunch of them around, launder, and when they get a bit far gone from usage, out to the shop they go, where they live a whole new life while a new batch comes into the kitchen. :)

  6. Great News that he came through the latest storm OK.

    From the TV last night it looked like the winds were worse, but if you up and away from water the new FL building codes (after Andrew) probably helped a LOT of buildings survive the 100+mph winds that would have torn them apart in days of old.

    Now to do something about allowing buildings being built too low to the water (including Tampa’s main hospital which needed a Water Barrier – sheesh, why didn’t they just raise the ground it was built on 20′ BEFORE it was built since it was being built on sand to begine with?).

    I am reminded about the 1857(?) great California flood after which they raised the entire Capitol City of Sacramento which was totally flooded out 20′, so as to be above the flood plain and so far Sacramento has nothing like that disasterous flood again (the RR’s which were building the RR through the Sierras brought in 10,000+- Chinese laborers to do the work running train after train of fill into the city, as well as the city and state using lots of muck dredged from the Delta, to do that massive Earth Contouring endeavor)

    • Since you mentioned it.

      It is widely circulated and commonly accepted that if one of a handful of levees go bye-bye that Sacramento would be under , at minimum , 20 feet of water. Countless levees here are in extremely poorcondition.

      Back to the posts !

  7. 55 feet above sea level is good. Being at the head end of the neighborhood drainage canal is also helpful in flat wetlands.
    Hopefully Stu gets a decent settlement from insurance.

    I am still in the process of adding batteries to my UPS. The first try went south, and it has turned into a week+ troubleshooting ordeal. I may have it taken care of. I will start the retest later today.

  8. Best of Luck Stew. The Power Co will de energize portions of the grid and leave them down as they are worked on to ensure safety of the linemen working to restore service.
    #islandlife.

  9. Most of Birmingham is about 550 ft above Mean Sea Level, which is of course 6 hours drive south.
    Most of the area around my place is about 750 ft.
    My place is at the end of a drive uphill and the basement floor is at 1050′. That is on purpose.
    A friend in Birmingham had a basement wall cave in during a heavy rain, due to improper drainage made that way by the way the developer contoured the lost.
    There was no standing water anywhere, just ground water pressure. The Insurance company still called it a flood and refused to pay, so he and his wife had to empty savings to rebuild the house.
    The land where the barndominium will go is at 1150, on Strait Mountain where Anna grew up.
    We are looking at land on the next mountain, Chandler Mt, that is even higher.
    Our experience with tornadoes here in Alabama is they tend to follow the contours of the land and go through the valleys.

  10. You heard the rumors, have seen the Qspiracy posts, heard all about the pedo elites, now comes proof in the form of an AI video. Yep – they are alll in there, just as you might have imagined..enjoy.

    -https://twitter.com/_/status/1844099573910065234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

  13. I had a client architect (who design most of the old buildings for MSFC (Marshal Space Flight Center) tell me the secret during a conversation after the last big on that hit New Orleans. I was concerned about the French Quarter and the destruction but he reassured me: ” No those areas are all alright. They are way about the river and the flood plane because they were built a hundred years ago. They knew where the river would get to in bad weather and built above that level. Also, they knew what the wind would do and built to tolerate that exposure. The devastation you are seeing is all stuff that was built in the last 70 to 100 years”. I checked with another architect with offices here and in N’Orleans and he confirmed it.
    “The foolish man built his house upon the sand…. and the rains cam a’tumblin down. OHHHH..
    Thank you Jesus fr showing us the way.

  14. “Our experience with tornadoes here in Alabama is they tend to follow the contours of the land and go through the valleys.”

    Around here they tend to go through the middle of the trailer parks. Must have something to do with aluminum-skinned houses and the static electricity buildup in the funnel.

    • lol lol.. it’s the fact that the wind can get beneath them.. or vacuum…like stacking plywood on a flatbed and driving ..the wind gets beneath them they will flip .. now put the same plywood in a pickup box and drive they will remain.. that’s how earth beamed houses work as well..

  16. I don’t have access to the discussion about weather control but from the comments are you really suggesting that drought conditions are part of this manipulation? And that rain in Texas after a massive water deluge (Milton) is somehow suspicious? Drought – flood – drought has been a pattern in Australia and Europe over the past few years and is an entirely natural cycle.

    For diehard believers is it possible that Milton was “steered” to avoid catastrophic damage to oil and gas production in the GOM – someone had to get hurt but maybe that was the best option from a national security viewpoint when the world is teetering towards war?

    I hope Trump is elected – which is totally bewildering to most of us outside the US. He is the right kind of “crazy” to resonate with whatever the heck has happened to the American psyche. Next year you’ll be living in KAOS in the “not-so-free-world” as Maxwell Smart called it.

    • saddly..I believe that those against Trump will never allow him to sit in the seat of power again.
      they can’t control him and what money they can offer him is but peanuts to him.
      he’s the only president to leave office poorer than when he went in..
      so far there’s been two attacks and both had questionable ties to The beltway..
      after spending billions of dollars and ten years trying to destroy him..I would be shocked if he did get in the seat.
      then there’s the ten years and billions of dollars spent trying to destroy him and two attempts that we know of.. he could harbor a resentment to this..and thoughts of retribution are possible.
      remember columbine and the kids being bullied and those sworn to protect the students and keep them safe refusal to do just that. it would take a very big man to not want to see the ones responsible face their actions..

      • “he could harbor a resentment to this..and thoughts of retribution are possible.”

        When asked, Trump said his “revenge” would be simply to succeed: This stuff will destroy the United States. I will not participate. I will not allow it to continue. (not a direct quote – but close…)

  17. Glad that Stu came through this well enough, considering they’ve had two sledgehammers in a row this fall. Others we know in FL, GA and SC all come out ok for the most part.

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