Warren. 29 / he + him. White. Note: If it makes you uncomfortable that I'm over 18 and following you, let me know and I'll unfollow. I try to read "read-before"s if I can, but yeah.
Okay so, forget the ride $$. My old neighbor is watching the boys and called to let me know that our fridge short circuted i guess and I now have to get another one. My neighbor found some on fb marketplace being sold for mad cheap. i can’t have the food we just got go bad and im so sorry to do this again, i’m trying to get to a good place so i dont keep having to ask for help.
being in your early 20s is crazy bc there’s people who are literally married and people who’ve never even dated and people who are trapped in their childhood bedrooms waiting to get out and people who are trying to live out romanticized dream lives and people who are completely on their own and people with multi tiered support systems and we’re all supposedly peers and none of us think we’re doing it right at all
some ppl get so mad when ppl tell them to not be mean to strangers. you see long posts like ‘its not ableist to correct bad hygine’ ok maybe its not. whatever. but its also not your moral obligation to tell someone you barely know how greasy their hair is. like the likelyhood they know is pretty large, you can just say. nothing.
its fair to point out that a lot of people who have trouble with hygine are disabled. it’s also fair to say that some people aren’t. But like it’s not like you… have to say something. it’s not like you have to point it out in the first place. so like i dont rlly care if its ableist its just also kinda mean to tell someone publically they stink if they aren’t someone who know very well
Make sure you’ve got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.
Make sure you have enough meds!
Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener.
Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don’t want fried in case of a power surge.
Don’t tape your windows, it doesn’t help and you’ll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.
Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.
Get everything that’s not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).
Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.
Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.
If you start to flood, don’t go in your attic. You’ll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can’t hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.
Be safe, be well <3
What the fuck?
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Ngl, “tropical storm in death valley” was not on my 2023 bingo card.
Drainage on our roads is shitty in SoCal, don’t attempt to drive through water deep enough to touch your bumpers and don’t attempt to walk across moving water, water only as deep as your ankles can knock you down and sweep you away.
Predicted wind speeds are similar to strong Santa Anas, so lock things down like you would for that, though keep in mind that yeah the combination of heavy rain and wind leads to more felled trees than just wind.
Take photos of the inside of your home now; flood insurance fucking sucks here and if you’re in a possible flood zone you want as much documentation of your home and belongings as possible in case you need to make a claim.
Freezing water bottles also means you’ve got a lot of ice in your freezer if power goes out, and safe potable water once it thaws, so freeze bottles of water to have something to keep your fridge and freezer cool and store more water regardless of if you want cold water.
google/wikipedia says this man is 95 (and not dead although i think the free download on his music is 2024 so get a move on)
that’s what the record i have looks like. “that was the year that was” from 1965. i have inherited an appreciation because i was told my grandparents would just have people over and play the tom lehrer record. plural?? records?? idk. but my aunt has whatever there was and it’s in argument over whether me or my brother inherits them because both of us are Obsessed with the songs on whatever our aunt has saved.
but i just. god. may have invented jello shots (good for a gay idiot who likes knox gelatine) was a math professor (good for a gay idiot who is obsessed with that 0.9 repeating thing) and was nerd-cute (good for a gay idiot who thinks elvis costello is cute)
dude said he was done with satire when kissinger got the nobel peace price after bombing the everloving fuck out of cambodia and most of the time it’s punk bands saying something about that (dead kennedys or. anthony bourdain had something to say so i recommend that) so you have this leftist punk math professor who was very cute when he was in his 30s so. why tumblr isn’t more obsessed with him is beyond me.
