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Storm Spotters activated, Radios charged and ready. Rain is falling and winds are blowing. Storms bypassed the ranch... Praise Yah!!
 
Typhoons hit here last week, terrible flooding with mudslides, and dozens of people missing or dead. People we know lost homes and businesses, bridges are gone and many roads now impassable. Yet through all the destruction God blessed us with His protection for which we are extremely grateful. No damage suffered. Hallelujah.
 
FollowingHim2 said:
What does this mean
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Yes, Storm spotters are a group of volunteers, usually armature radio operators, that are called up to spot and report storm activity when severe thunderstorms/ tornadoes are forecast. We had several north and east of us. I am blessed that I did not see anything to report as the storms bypassed our ranch. Praises to the Most High.
 
FollowingHim2 said:
Tomorrow is the 5th of November which is Guy Fawkes for us. This is a very odd celebration we have where we celebrate that A Mr Guy Fawkes (along with several other men) did not manage to blow up the British parliament building in 1605. I honestly don't know why we celebrate it really, but it's traditionally been a fun day where we let off fireworks, have a bonfire, and throw a 'guy' on the fire (the 'guy' being a fake person like a scarecrow with straw etc).
This is the biggest firework event in NZ. Sometimes there are new years fireworks done by councils etc, but not every year. The last few years there has been more and more talk about how terrible fireworks are. They hurt and scare animals, people use them irresponsibly, people get hurt, they're loud, the world is going to end (oh my!).
Previously we were able to get fireworks in most places. The supermarkets would have them, and shops like The Warehouse, Kmart etc had them (I think these places are similar to your Wallmart?).
Slowly there are more and more restrictions happening.
First they banned rockets. And I understood that, they were dangerous and caused many fires. Our house nearly caught on fire when I was young from a rocket from a neighbour's place that landed on our roof. The fire service said today that they hardly ever get called out now because they banned rockets.
Next they said shops could only sell them for 4 days, the 3 days before Guy Fawkes and the day of, up until a certain time. This has been in place for several years.
Then they were concerned that people were making sparkler bombs (sparklers are the fireworks you can hold onto and the end slowly burns, not sure if you call them this in the USA). So they said you can't buy sparklers on their own, only in a pack, because the big packs would have only one set of sparklers. So companies started selling 'sparkler packs' which consisted of a tonne of sparklers and one other firework lol.
And somewhere along the way they made it illegal to advertise fireworks.
Now many companies are being pressured not to sell fireworks. The only place I could find was Bad Boy Fireworks. Samuel turned up there today and found that they were sold out of most things, and had had a robbery overnight which made them have less stock. The only stock they had was very expensive and not worth buying.
Yesterday a teenager was being reckless with some fireworks and caused a large fire in a forestry block north of Christchurch that was difficult to fight with the strong winds. This had people once again talking about getting rid of public sales of fireworks altogether. They want only the large events to have access to them and no one else.
I suspect that in the next year or two this is exactly what will happen, we will not be able to buy them at all.
So next time you go to one of those awesome firework warehouses that you have, or buy any fireworks at all, remember us here in NZ as we suffer lol.
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Did you just try and school me about Kmart!?!? Dear child, please.
 
FollowingHim2 said:
Wait... you have Kmart?! I thought it was Australian originally. Does yours have the crazy cult following of people obsessed with the place as well?
And does it sell fireworks lol?
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Kmart was the proto Wal-Mart, sort a twisted, consumerist John the Baptist, if John the Baptist was the early symptoms of every thing wrong with America. Much like the Jacobins did the Girondists, Wal-Mart followed Kmart, then supplanted and subsequently destroyed it. At last count there were only three left.
 
I’m currently sitting in the Walmart parking lot, by myself! I got to take a trip to town alone, drink my coffee while it’s hot, and scroll through the threads on the forum. I’m wearing my thrifted overalls turned dress (I did the sewing ♥️) and just enjoying the quiet before I head home and off to church. Praise God for the little moments in life!
 
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