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ROFLMAO - people in CA have massive power outages due to the Santa Ana winds. One couple on the news this morning said that they had two weeks' worth of supplies for emergencies - but the supplies were in their garage and, with the electricity out, they could not open the electric garage door to get to them!
In all of our conversations on here about prepping, food storage, bug-out bags, and off-site storing, it needs to be said - if you can't get to your supplies - for any reason - they are just as useless as if you hadn't prepped at all...
Hopefully they had a way of breaking the garage door. It's funny to think electricity won't go out yet put emergency supplies behind an electric door. That's like putting emergency cash in a BOA savings account. It costs not to practise. One guy was saying how he did a practise and had all sorts of supplies, he didn't know where to immediately grab them and go so it took him several minutes. So he labeled them and practised. But even then who knows.
I also don't like the idea of pressing your thumb on a money safe to open it. I didn't design the safe so how do I know it's always going to open? Just sounds like an expensive risky way to store cash. If I had that much cash to worry about I'd probably spend it while its good.
I've never in my life seen a garage whose only point of access was the garage door itself.
I once lived in an apartment for 12 years which had exactly that - a double car garage under the living quarters but no access from the living quarters. I had to walk around the outside and open the garage door. I never did have an automatic opener though - used a high quality padlock and lifted the door manually. There were five units in the complex, all with the same garage situation. Some of the other people did have automatic openers, but I never thought about the problem of power outages in that regard because it didn't apply to me. I would say it would be an unacceptable situation to have the garage door itself as the only point of access and have an electrically operated opener. The situation I had must be fairly rare and I wonder if modern building codes prohibit it in new construction in most localities?
Sure, we have another trucking firm here next town over, with those electronic keypad locks on all the doors. Power goes out....uh-oh.
Fortunately, the owner does have a walk door around back with a padlock. But sheesh, the guy's over 80 years old. What do the drivers do if he doesn't show up? Oh - I get it! They go on 99 weeks of unemployment!
I also don't like the idea of pressing your thumb on a money safe to open it. I didn't design the safe so how do I know it's always going to open? Just sounds like an expensive risky way to store cash. If I had that much cash to worry about I'd probably spend it while its good.
My father had a lot of books. He kept $2,000 hidden in "The Wall Street Boys."
I've never in my life seen a garage whose only point of access was the garage door itself.
I've seen a lot of older houses like that (pre-1960'ish). I'm not real sure if it's a building code update thing (for emergency egress in case of fire), or if people just finally came to the realization that it probably would be a good idea to put an inside door connecting the house to the garage, or otherwise just a separate door to the outside, that way the occupant doesn't have to lift the heavy car garage door each time they want to go inside.
I don't see apartment dwellers as survivors; they just don't have the proper mindset. But that said, if I were somehow caught in this situation I'd surreptitiously cut a whole in the floor and fashion a disguised trapdoor. Then I'd buy a ladder.
If I couldn't build the trapdoor myself I'd pay someone to do it. I'd bring the ladder into the place about 4:30 A.M.
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