We’re in one of those weather patterns when we see the “daytime high” before the sun comes up. Thanks to a front sweeping across Ozarkansas from the northwest, 60°F at 4am gave way to 40s by dusk, and our overnight low will dip into the 20s. ‘Tis the season.
We won’t fire-up the woodstove again until later in the week, maybe Thanksgiving Day. Tomorrow or Wednesday I’ll dump our backup fresh-water supply, in anticipation of a stretch of 40s-20s weather — not enough heat built during the day to ward-off the potential of freezeup by the next morning.
I’ve been down this road before.
With that in mind, I thought maybe I should connect the tiny ceramic heater in the camper’s wet bay before tonight’s sub-freezing temperatures. I opened the basement door to find that a mouse (probably) had gnawed through the power cord sometime after I tested the heater the other day.
Well, shit.
An easy enough fix — cut, splice, heat-shrink, tape — though (irrationally) I never completely trust a patched cord. After making the repair, I ran the heater for 15 minutes and it was just fine. The power cord remained cool to the touch.
I ordered a replacement heater anyway. It’ll be here Wednesday.
Beyond that, I busied myself with a string of other winter preps. It has to be done.
I got a chuckle out of this Breitbart headline (pictured) — according to Gallup, 33% of Republican women own guns, compared to 29% of Democrat men.
The jokes write themselves.
For those GOP women, that’s a 14-point jump since 2007-2012). Gun ownership among Democrat men, meanwhile, has dropped 7%.
Other notable findings: Americans adults overall 31% (+1%), Republican men 57% (+3%), Democrat women 12% (-1%), independent women 18% (+2%), independent men 39% (-5%).
Back when I wrote about The Mountain’s physical isolation from toxic mainstream culture and wretched urban areas, I calculated the distance between our Home and America’s open (under the current regime) international borders. The threat posed by the unchecked invasion of illegal immigrants is much closer than that, of course.
Now I have a map (below) to illustrate just how close.
Based on data compiled by the Center for Immigration Studies, it highlights states, counties and municipalities that offer “sanctuary” to illegals. It confirms that we’re still in a pretty good place.
The closest jurisdictions that formally harbor invaders are Memphis (160 statute miles, a four-hour drive), New Orleans (450 miles, ten hours) and Topeka (260 miles, five-plus hours), as well as the entire state of Hellinois (as close as 200 miles, about five hours). There are no expressed “sanctuaries” in Arkansas, nor in adjacent Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi or Missouri.
Ozarkansas is well within what appears to be the largest contiguous anti-illegals territory in the US.
That’s a very good thing.
Take care of yourselves, Patriots. Stay calm. Stay sharp. Stay free.
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