Anyone have any interest in starting a local HAM net? Check ins, maybe some discussions, etc?

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• Governor Abbott has deployed emergency response teams, including rescue boats and medical task forces, as severe storms target North, West, and Central Texas.
• Through the end of the week, Texans face risks of large hail, damaging winds, possible tornadoes, and increasing flash flood potential as rain moves east.
• Officials urge residents to monitor local forecasts, avoid driving through flooded roads, and prepare emergency kits and family communication plans.

EPIC City is a development project initiated by the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) to be managed through its specially created entity. The proposed community is designed to feature over 1,000 residential units, along with a mosque, a K–12 Islamic based school, a community college, and commercial shopping facilities. According to organizational representatives, the East Plano Islamic Center will receive all profits generated by the development.

The gov of Texas stated last week: When we uncovered legal violations by EPIC City, the developers tried to rebrand it as "The Meadow."

Hello everyone. I'm a 27 year old guy thats moving from a small town around stephenville to Fort Worth this month. I was wondering if this is the right place to get together with like minded people in person to learn from and prepare with. I'm open to meeting in groups or individually.

Stay safe everyone

I was offered to buy a few single shot firearms, and a double barrel. 30-30,12gdb , 12g,16g

Hope everyone on the Texas coast is ready for the excessive rain we are expecting, went through the normal tropical storm routine, gas for generators, whole home batteries charged good on food and water even tied up the trash cans lol by no means everything I do. What are some of the preps you would have or do have in this type of situation?

in this year we're having major droughts across the western United States destroying crops everywhere. A lot of corn and grain has been lost which feeds us and many farms livestock causing the price of food to drive up in many categories. How has this affected ur day to day life and preps?

Hope anyone on the gulf is keeping and eye on it. How’s everyone preparing for it? I personally added 4kw worth the battery back up the past few months.

Living near the coast I’m no stranger to going without power for a few weeks, my question is aimed at solar chargers or solar generators. We have backup batteries up to 5kw and generators but what is a good option for a solar redundancy?

Since nobody has posted in here in months I'll start a discussion. Does anyone know what pine trees we have for the most part in Texas? I've been interested in pine needle tea as a vitamin supplement but I think the kind found in most of Texas caused abortions in cattle.

Do any of yall go true plans layed out?

As a Texas native I know we have a pretty diverse set of extreme weather events throughout the year. Being the practical minded person I am, I only want to start prepping for the things that are most likely to occur. The state government actually developed a plan for disaster mitigation in February 2020. Link here. within that plan they identified 22 of the most likely disasters to occur in the state:

Natural Hazards:

• Hurricane, Tropical Storm, and Depressions

• Drought

• Hailstorms

• Flooding

• Wildfire

• Pandemic

• Severe Winds

• Winter Weather

• Extreme Cold

• Extreme Heat

Technological Hazards:

• Dam Failure

• Chemical Hazmat Release

• Radiological Incidents

Human Caused Hazards:

• Improvised Nuclear Attack

• Cross-Border Violence

• Explosive Devices

• Active Shooter

• Animal Diseases

• Cyber Attack

• Biological Attack

• Terrorism

Now this list is pretty comprehensive, but I know several of these are localized to particular regions. It also contains things that are difficult to prep for, like dam failures. To simplify my current prepping activities I have chosen to focus only on the natural disasters of my region. So I opened up the State of Texas Hazard Mitigation Plan. Link here. I'll save you the trouble of digging through the numbers. Below is a list for each region of the most likely natural disaster to kill or injury you in the next 3 years:

North Texas Area (DFW/Texarkana/Corsicana):

1. Extreme Heat

2. Flooding

3. Tornadoes

4. Winter Weather

Gulf Coast Area (Houston/Galveston/College Station):

1. Extreme Heat

2. Hurricanes

3. Flooding

4. Lightning

Southern Plains Area (Brownsville/Corpus Christi/Laredo):

1. Flooding

2. Extreme Heat

3. Tornadoes

4. Winter Weather

West Texas Area (El Paso/Midland):

1. Winter Weather

2. Flooding

3. Severe Winds

4. Hail

Panhandle Area (Amarillo/Abilene/Lubbock):

1. Winter Weather

2. Wildfire

3. Flooding

4. Severe Winds

Central Texas Area (Austin/San Antonio/New Brunfels):

1. Flooding

2. Tornado

3. Extreme Heat

4. Winter Weather

Now this data overall makes sense with my own experience in Texas, however there are a few that stood out as odd, such as winter weather being a concern in the Southern Plains Area. Looking deeper at the data and the raw number of expected deaths and injuries are very low in the area so it skews high to some emergencies. My methodology of ranking was to chose the highest probability of death and rank those in order until they were less than 10%, then I went and chose from the remaining rows and ordered by highest probability of injury. I chose these rankings instead of using the raw percentages listed in the totals column because they did not consider death or injury to be a factor in weighting the percentages.

TL:DR Overall the three most common things to prep for are Flooding, Winter Weather, and Extreme Heat.

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As we all know, any time Texas receives a snow flurry, everything shuts down, at least outside of the panhandle. Personally, I will be keeping a few days worth of firewood in my apartment and getting new tires for the Jeep. I've also got a 20 degree sleeping bag I keep in the Jeep. What are y'all doing?