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  1. I live in hurricane country. I have never bought bottled water, let alone in preparation for a hurricane. I just put out lots of buckets and syrup tubs to catch rain water. I’m crazy enough to drink rain water in a normal situation, since it tastes so much better. I’ve been known to run out with my half gallon jars and funnels and fill about 5 gallons of water in the pouring down rain. So why would I buy bottled water right before a hurricane? There’s LOTS of water falling directly out of the sky! Usually my hurricane preps involve thinking through where the cows are at the moment and moving them to higher ground, perhaps wrapping up some chicken pens, moving some piles of junk so they don’t blow down the road 2 miles, cutting some hedge bushes to haul in for the goats since goats don’t do water, etc. It never involves buying stuff. I don’t have time to run to the store at that kind of time!

      2. Toxic! Really? More than likely you are repeating old lies, biases and tall tales. You could probably drink out of one of those orange 5 gallon buckets for your entire life and have no ill effect.

        But, LOL, what you are flushing out of the toilet is indeed toxic.

        1. “Toxic! Really? More than likely you are repeating old lies, biases and tall tales.”

          just repeating what the manufacturer said. about came through the phone at me when I called and asked about it – “no! don’t do that!” ….

  2. “Pacific Gas & Electric has decided to voluntarily shut off power to tens of thousands of customers due to red-flag wind warnings and the fear of falling trees starting wildfires.”

    prime prepper territory, that region. “hey, let’s go live in the norcal wilderness, we’ll be safe there” ….

  3. Sears management cut their own throats when the farmed out their service to incompetent contractors and let Beneficial Finance take over their loan department.

    Beneficial is the reason I never bought another thing from Sears.

  4. “High priority customers and low hanging fruit”

    Is it me,or is the tone of the article somewhat negative towards the repairs?

    I’ve been thru hurricanes,of course I want the major infrstructure repaired first.Hospitals,sewage and water,major traffic signals,communications,and so on.No,there is a plan,low hanging fruit is a cheap shot.

    1. @cook

      You’re reading way to much into a simple phrase. “low hanging fruit” just means tackling the jobs that give the highest return for the lowest amount of effort. i.e. fixing a downed power pole that feeds a whole neighborhood and brings 200 customers back on line will receive a higher priority than individual customers that need attention. The goal isn’t using the lowest amount of effort, but attaining the highest yield for what effort you do use.
      No it’s not a cheap shot – just a fact of doing business.

  6. My apologies.
    Maybe its culture/semantics/regional/whatever.
    All my life that was a derogatory statement,meaning taking the easiest,laziest way.Grabbing the apples off the low branches,even if they are rotten,unripe,full of bees,etc.,just because you could reach them…..vs. putting your best effort to get the best results.

  7. Kicking the can:

    It turns out the current boss at Sears has been buying up the best assets as Sears sells off. Sounds like what Jack Nasser tried to do at Ford Motor Co. He bought up elite auto brands, Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and Volvo, for FoMoCo then tried to combine those with the Lincoln brand to create his own company, Premier Automotive Group. Then the goal was to destroy FoMoCo. It almost worked, Ford almost went down the tubes under his watch. They should have thrown his butt in jail (or maybe a contract hit would have been more appropriate) for what he did to Ford.

    The guy at Sears (I forget his name) has been in charge since 2005. He seems to have been much more effective at destroying Sears than Nasser was at destroying Ford. He will walk away with prime assets while Sears goes down the toilet.

  8. I’ve been off of Sears for years ever since the last telemarket call that I had gotten from them. Their caller called me trying to sell me storm windows. I informed him that I was on a no call list and that he wasn’t supposed to be calling me trying to sell me anything. His reply was ” I’m not trying to sell you windows, I’m just calling to see if you want to buy any.” I never bought a thing from Sears from that day on.

  9. Had a problem with Kmart. They gave me corporate number which answered Sears. Had forgotten Kmart was part of Sears. My main problem with the calls was that corporate answers from the Philippines. First I had to argue with a computer. When I finally got to one of numerous humans, none of them could speak understandable American English. Though one argued that she could speak English.

    Overall my assessment was, “no wonder they are going out of business.”

    1. Had the same problem with ATT. My internet and phone provider ended service in my area. ATT couldn’t seem to get their act together and provide me with service for both. I’m talking to someone in India or Pakistan not here. Finally gave up and called someone more local, they spoke American English and had my service set up in a couple of days. No more ATT ever, ending Directv (also ATT) soon.

      I live in the united States. I want to deal with people who live in the united States. American English is my first language, I want to do business with people who speak American English as there first language. If that makes me a bigot, so be it.

      As for dealing with Sears, I made the big mistake of having them install a furnace and central air conditioning. The workmanship was absolutely horrible. I could have done the job by myself and with more professionalism. Bye Bye Sears.

  10. Sears should of crushed amazon and the other web retailers like ants but was wholly incompetent. The management should be facing criminal charges for negligence and the CEO for conversion.

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