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Supposedly the blast wiped out 85% of the grain silos in Beirut, which handles a lot of the grain for the country


https://www.foxnews.com/world/beirut-ex ... -destroyed

Just as a side note, if you're looking for ways to preserve cabbage, shredded cabbage dehydrates really well. Not going to make a convincing coleslaw, but for soups and the like, works fine and rehydrated very quickly.

Am I missing something, or is this entirely unrelated to COVID?

Stercutus wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 20, 2020 6:14 pm

One of our local nursing homes is fully involved, practically everyone there has it.

There's a nursing home here in Billings that 12 of the 55 residents have died in the last week and a half or so. Really tears through those places...

Our county has jumped from "moderate" to "very high" on on risk of getting Coronavirus. 50% of the cases that we have had so far have occurred in the last two weeks. Most cases are mild not requiring hospitalization. It seems to be mostly running through our Hispanic community who appear to be most...

Well now that the COIVD has turned bust and we appear to have all been lied to we have a new convenient catastrophe to focus on. Man, the news coverage just disappeared, but give it a week or two after you have thousands of people shoulder to shoulder screaming and wrestling in the streets, I think...

Montana is opening back up, but I suspect we'll probably have an uptick in the nearish future (we avoided a big wave in the first place). Folks really aren't abiding by any sort of distancing, even with the tape on the floor or whatever, just cozying right up in line. Maybe 1/20 are wearing a mask i...

MacWa77ace wrote: ↑

Fri May 08, 2020 8:07 am

That's from Sylvia Browne

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sylvi ... ronavirus/

We got clobbered (along with all our neighbors) by a storm last August. Just barely bought out the roof (class 4 IR), and the siding, along with gutters, both garage doors and a window to the tune of 37k. Truth be told, just about anywhere else, the siding wouldn't have been bought out, but Montana ...

No oil at sub $10 is not TEOWAWKI; this may (or may not) be a short term blip. That said do watch the news for oil refinery closures. That is the time to be concerned. Marathon has shut down a few refineries (Martinez and Gallup so far). Everyone else is at minimum rates. Our plant has quite a bit ...

Related to this, I just discover "sub-irrigated planters" are a thing, and can be made looks like pretty easily out of plastic totes. I think I have a project for this weekend. I figure I'll build tw, get some kitchen herb seeds for one, and put like 1ea tomato and potato plant in another. Just see...

As it happens, I owe Uncle Sam 1200 this year, so pulling the old uno reverse card trick...


The other 1200, idk, either throw it in savings or buy some company stock, it's quite undervalued right now, and once demand returns, could see that netting a few grand...

moab wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:17 am

Do you think we'll get to the point where they ban travel state to state?

If they're seriously considering opening some areas up in the very near future, I feel like it's unavoidable...

Well, 2 week lockdown in Montana...

boskone wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:18 am

flybynight wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:58 am

U.S. now has the third highest number of covid19 infected in the world. Right behind Italy

What is that as a proportion of the population, though? Seems like a more useful metric; the US does have 5 or so times Italy's population.

166/million for the US vs 1144 for Italy

Yeah, it feels the way most places have gone through with "lockdowns" is pretty counterproductive. They should really be enforcing a max occupancy for stores. Folks are getting so stir crazy they're going to the grocery store more often just to get out of the house. Crazy packed even now that most o...

I, ah, gassed up the car again even though it was only down a quarter of a tank. No evidence I can see that any kind of fuel shortage is in the offing. But I'm just anxious in general lately and keeping the car topped off seems to help. It would be a distribution failure if that were to happen, not...

Well... It's in the top ten causes of death for the US...

Threw this together because I was curious about the effects of the lockdown in Italy. Doesn't really seem to have done a whole heck of a lot yet...

FlashDaddy wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:04 am

This is true of Grabagun.comwhich also adds "Firearm Shipments to PA & CA are Paused". Not sure what is going on there.

Both are under lockdown. Would have to look at the specific exemptions, but I'd be surprised if FFLs meet their definition of "life sustaining retail"

Fucking weird time to be living in. My work (an oil refinery) just distributed stickers to put on our badges so we can show police if the city gets quarantined...

About two weeks ago I made a prediction in this thread about how things would look in two weeks. How did I do? ... In the data so far, the lag has been pretty consistent: the number of known outcomes was approximately the total number of cases from two weeks prior. If that trend holds, in about two...

Six cases in Montana. Weird mix of "it's a hoax/flu" and "OMG the world is ending" restaurants and bars are packed, shelves are getting stripped quick.


Every local facebook page is completely intolerable now. Just constant bitching about people hoarding toilet paper.