They aren’t really. They’re much more digestible than the things we give out soldiers and Marines to eat. But they do have a similar heating...

"Waste no more time debating what is a good man: be one."  -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations X Today I moved seven generators and an o...

As the video points out, in an emergency when life or property are at risk, anyone can use a ham radio.

There's still no power, but at least for now some of the cellular towers are running. Coverage is unstable, as towers sometimes go back ...

A ham radio operator caught in the storm in Swannanoa, Buncombe County, NC, has posted reports and photos on his blog. He has solar and a sa...

I was sad to hear, belatedly no doubt, of this great singer songwriter passing. There are tremendous stories about him; I don’t have time to...

Several shots from the same location at dawn, showing how the Smoky Mountains raise a fog with the first solar energy. Before dawn the stars...

 When Kentucky was flooded a while back, the guys at Stocking Mill Coffee put together a 'strike team' of relief, and headed up and...

Operations for the first day focused almost exclusively on clearing local roads enough for emergency access. This does not mean that the roa...

This is the first time I have been able to communicate since the hurricane hit Thursday night. The situation here is catastrophic. The hurri...

The EU enacted a law intended to prevent members from buying all kinds of products without first requiring overseas suppliers to prove they ...

I’m sitting at an airport bar in Dallas, waiting for a flight that will carry me to the outer bands of this hurricane. My fire/rescue distri...

One of the best things about Jackson Hole is the national wildlife art museum. I highly recommend it if you’re ever out there. 

Thank you again for the kind invitation. It turns out that my mother, my sister, and my wife fully planned my weekend for me, and I had no l...

This is the kind of immunity people should be worried about.

Today we visited the extremely scenic town of Dubois, Wyoming. It is located on the western edge of Wyoming’s badlands, so that if you ascen...

I had hoped to post some nice photos for you today, as a complement to Grim's travel pics. However, apparently reserving a rental car in...

Regular commenter Thos. and I met for lunch the last time I was out this way, and he suggested that I go to Mesa Falls. I didn’t have time l...

In my old firm, adding my colleagues' identity as lawyers to their predominantly being Jews and New Yorkers meant a triple whammy for th...

A friend's grandson was just born perilously early, at only 20-21 weeks, as they believed. When early labor commenced a couple of weeks ...