A Message to my Followers who are going to be impacted by Hurricane Florence.
This hurricane is dangerous.
Please, take it seriously.
It is not just a thunderstorm.
Take it from someone who went through Katrina and saw the damage a hurricane can do when it sits and builds.
It changes entire landscapes.
It kills.
Get gas now. The gas stations will begin to either run out, or put a limit to how much gas you can get. Get it now while you can, because I remember distinctly the way the abandoned cars looked on the highway while we were evacuating.
Once that storm hits, the gas stations will shut down. There will be no gas for a week, at least.
You will be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. Make sure your car is in good working order. The amount of cars left behind on the highway is astounding.
Bring your pets in case of flooding, don’t leave them behind or in a shelter.
Take a picture of every single thing in your house the way it is. Ever dresser. Everything. If it floods, this will help with the insurance.
Power will be out for a week, possibly more. Take anything that will spoil, eat it now/bring it with you/throw it out. You don’t want to come back to a house that is 80°+ inside with spoiled food. It smells disgusting. I know from first hand experience.
Pack as much clothes + whatever else you need as you can. You don’t know what you will be returning to, if anything at all. I hate to say it, but there were so many homes lost in Katrina in mg area to flooding & I didn’t even live in the Soup Bowl.
From what I’ve seen, the outer bands are strengthening. They’re red at this point. This hurricane is getting stronger, and it’s well built. There are no winds to tear it apart. It’s eye is holding together, and that’s terrifying. A well built storm like this one can ruin lives. It’s not a joke.
Please, please stay safe. Evacuate ASAP if you’re in the direct line.
Don’t wait until it is here. That is how you get killed. Do not evacuate in the middle of it. Don’t wait until last minute.
It is always better to be safe than sorry.
Please stay safe.
Listen to the news. Follow their advice.
Leave while you still can, before the highways get clogged up. Go as far in-land as you can. Leave the state entirely if you have to.
Because montuos wrote up the recipe for tonight’s dinner, I will link to their DW post on it. Morgyn’s Magic Lamb
There were also regular buttermilk biscuits that were the right moisture content to sop up nommy goodness but also be edible with a spot of butter. Also apple biscuits, with chunks of apple doused in cinnamon, wrapped up in a modified recipe of the previous*, and rolled in cinnamon sugar.
*instead of buttermilk, a smidge less of heavy cream and two tablespoons of lemon or lime juice stirred in right before pouring it into the dry ingredients
It was a very nommy dinner pulled together pretty much by the seat of my pants, and there was very little of it left to put away of the lamb dish. I have enough for my breakfast tomorrow, if a light one, and there are plenty of the biscuits left for nomming on tomorrow as well, and there might be enough of the lamb left for someone else to have a light breakfast too.
It has a nice bite to it because ginger and seseme, and a nice sweetness to it because butternut and honey and roasted garlic, while not being overly either spicy or sweet (which is important, because sensory processing issues). And while the lamb was fairly well done, it was still juicy, and also it did not suffer for being well done. Especially with the way the butternut and the garlic cooked down.
*hugs you all* Because today is a day for hugs, and I’m going to run out of spoons if I go putting hugs in everyone’s ask box.
Feel free to reblog this to give a hug to every one of your followers.
*who is comfortable with being hugged. If you do not like hugs or are uncomfortable with physical contact, or even just prefer not a hug from someone not a mutual friend, cookies or other snacks suitable for your dietary needs and restrictions.
A big hug to the one who sent this originally & all who see this repost 😄
Let me(us) know who you are and where I(we) can find your writing. Because don’t know about you all, but I feed off SW fanfiction and I am always on the lookout for more. Also I just want to support all you lovely writers! Where are you? Speak up! 🙂
I write Star Wars fanfic, and here’s a small list of other people around here I know also do:
I certainly forgot people, or was unaware they were on tumblr, or follow them without knowing they write fanfic, so to people out there who should be on here but aren’t: please reblog this, and remember I love you anyway, dear authors :3
Anyway, I hope that gives you a few people to check out! 🙂
Ooh! *makes a note* I keep meaning to look up what vegetables might be safe to add to the gooshy food for Jessamine, since right now it’s chicken thighs + whatever meat that is not beef that I would like some of too. (Or, in the case of the shrimp, the freezer-burnt ones dad forgot existed, and she thinks are still food.) And your post reminds me I still need to do that.
FWIW, the only recipe I’ve ever found that wasn’t featured on what I would consider a pretty wackadoo petcare site was here (scroll to cooked diet). The sweet potato is actually more for fiber than anything; the “Veggie” portion is actually grains/carbs. There’s still a rampaging debate about whether cats need grains or veggies and if so how much, but I will say I do mine with sweet potato and rice and they have the SOFTEST, silkiest coats, omg. (Don’t forget the vitamins tho!)
Can you feed your egg left overs to the Kitties???
Nah, they’ve gone off and I don’t want to feed bad eggs to the babies. Plus they tend to know – I made them a big batch of kitten chow with beef that had gone off without my realizing it, and they refused to eat it (I figured it out the next morning and threw the whole batch out).
Right now, I’m making sure to rotate what meat other than chicken she gets, because cats don’t have a strictly one-kind-of-meat diet outside, and she originally was a neighborhood cat, so she gets very bored if I don’t rotate it every day or couple of days. (Which means there are little ziplocs of gooshy food in the freezer so it doesn’t go off before I feed it to her.)
The hope to add a little bit of fiber/veg to the mix is more to stretch out the meat just a little bit more, as she also gets kibble to supplement the gooshy food – I can’t afford to feed her all gooshy food, even if I stuck to the cheapest meats I can get. (I’m spoiling her as much as I can afford to. She gets catfish and lamb and shrimp to supplement her chicken, and if I can find it again in one of the niche grocery stores, rabbit. Might also get her some salt-water fish at the one with a proper fish market as part of the store. Possibly duck as an occassional treat, because omnomnom duck. No beef, because beef and her do not get along at all.)
I do have taurine supplement for her, and the vet has had her on lysine chews before I swapped out to home-cooked. I haven’t supplemented any vitamins, but I’ll talk with the vet about what I might need to add back in with the change in diet. (Which has in fact helped the reason I was doing this in the first place – her gut and the commercial gooshy food, even as recommended by the vet as it was, don’t get along.)
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