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Who needs a winter road kit?

Who needs a winter road kit?

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TweetA convoluted story of climate change, melting arctic sea ice, a deranged polar vortex, unexpected Midwestern snowstorms and complacent Midwestern drivers is captured in a single Kentucky highway image and the many stories of stranded motorists going nowhere for a while. Some had been stranded in their cold vehicles for eighteen hours by mid-afternoon March 5, 2015, National Guardsmen on their way. They will help priority cases, first. Others will wait and wait, gasoline going, going, gone, chill compounding. Ask…

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Felco 600 folding saw, a Readiness Kit essential

Felco 600 folding saw, a Readiness Kit essential

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TweetThe Felco 600 folding saw is my choice for a small fuel gathering and shelter construction backup tool. It’s a commercial grade tool used by many professional horticulturists for daily use in arboretums and for landscape maintenance, due to its design and durability. Important features: Felco’s unique patented conical blade design is thickest at the cutting teeth, thinning upward. This design ejects sawdust and reduces binding. The blade metal and tooth geometry hold sharpness and cut deep with ease on…

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Paraffin-dipped wood matches

Paraffin-dipped wood matches

TweetMaking paraffin-dipped wood matches, their utility. This is an old standard. I first made wax-dipped matches while a young boy scout long ago. Wax-dipped wood matches and wax-dipped egg carton section fire-starters were standard equipment for scouts, then. Today, I used a “household paraffin wax for canning, candlemaking and many other uses” to prepare kitchen matches for outdoor use. I purchased the one-pound box inexpensively at my local grocery store, just $4.29. The matches I used, “large kitchen matches”, “extra…

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