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FCL :: Day in the Life :: Thursday 09/13/18 (Final Hurricane Florence Preps)

Woke up to ominously dark skies, but no heavy rains or winds yet.
Worked with Hooey a bit on her search/seek skills. Always fun to watch her ‘work’ a scent. That dog is a natural born (rodent) killer.
Ground a few more tree stumps down before breakfast.
I heard some reporting about possible water contamination risks associated with all the Hurricane Florence rain water flowing through things you wouldn’t want your drinking water to flow through (e.g. agricultural manure aggregation depots) … so I made a last minute decision to clean and fill two of my 1000 liter IBC totes with well water, as an addition strategic water reserve.
Reconfigured the tractor front and back to do a bit more water drainage excavation work around the property. This video got long enough by noon. 😉
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FCL :: Day in the Life :: Wednesday 09/12/18

Didn’t do all that much today in contrast to the last few days. Made my last (planned, voluntary) trip off prop today to run to Lowes and the local grocery store.

Contrary to a few early AM reports of chaos in the local stores (e.g. Walmart in Durham), I found both stores to be busy, but not chaotic. I heard the other day that Tractor Supply sold out of generators in all local stores about 3 days ago. I was VERY impressed to find that Lowes had just received two semi trucks full of generators. They have them piled to the ceiling in the store on pallets. I saw people buying 2 and 3 units at a time. But, it wasn’t frenzied.

At the grocery store (Food Lion), they had quite a bit of food on the selves, but not much in the way of fruit, veggies, water, drinks, milk, bread and other staples. The cashier said as soon as a new truck load arrives, they stock the shelves and … poof … it all sells out in a few hours. Again, mostly calm.

I heard a few elderly ladies commenting how they hadn’t seen this volume of stockpile buying in MANY years.

Did a few test runs with my new Caravaggi stump grinder implement for the BCS 853 walk-behind tractor. Eats stumps for lunch! That this is BAD ASS. When you watch the video, think about the movie Fargo. LOL!