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The situation in Venezuela following double 7.2/7.5 earthquakes is not good, and that may be an understatement of the year. S has HTF for the Bolivar Republic.

Watching the situation play out and hearing 2nd hand accounts really has given me pause, and I feel like a lot of my preps, are just plain silly. I am a high rise dweller like many of those impacted, and granted I am not in earthquake country, but should any similar scale of devastation find me, I think there is really not much you could do in a situation like this.

Best case scenario you live in a single family home and you have a yard you can camp in until you're back on your feet, your you have family somewhere not as impacted.

Worse cast scenario, you're homeless, just like all of your neighbors.

The main things I want you to consider:

- Life will move on. If your food survived the impact, while you are eating bean arepas 7 different ways, you can not "hide in the woods" until your job calls you back that they've opened the office again. I do not think prepping for indefinite survival or off grid living should be the goal. Flexibility and mobility should be the goal, even if you just need to move a couple counties over.

- Wants vs Needs. No one is asking for knives guns and ammo. Sure, there is looting happening, and they will have to answer to God for that, but it's not worth shooting people over at a time like this. Your wife and child are buried in rubble right now, are you really going to shoot the guy who found her purse? especially if he is one of the authorities? What people do need are clothes, toiletries, and PPE. The posts in WhatsApp are asking for shovels, wheel barrows, gloves, masks and goggles, not trinkets and mall ninja shit. The focus is on finding loved ones in the rubble, or taking a chance to get a few more belongings out of your compromised house. I call it out on every BOB brag post I see and this justifies it even more now, - it's going to be the worst day of you and your neighbors life, someone is going to get their period, and no one is going to care you have 7 knives at that point. 7 knives no tampons is a dumb trend in this sub. BOB should focus on food, water, toiletries and clothes.

The point for discussion - presumably if you're in Venezuela you've got enough going on and probably are not on reddit, but for likeminded folks with family back home, first, I hope everyone is accounted for, but are you seeing anything that is impacting your prepping outlook for the future?

With hurricane season starting, I'm going through my go bag and checking my document copies. I know I'm much more likely to apply for FEMA aid than I am to wander into the woods and live off the land.

If you've been washed away, blown away, burned away, and built back up - what paperwork or admin tasks made life in the first few weeks easier, or what would have made your life easier? How long would you say it took before you were back on your feet?

This is what's currently in my Evacuation Documents folder:

Table of Contents:

1. Homeowners Insurance 
2. Vehicle Insurance 
3. Vehicle Registration and Title 
4. Identification - Person A
   1. Birth Certificate 
   2. Passport
   3. DL, Health Insurance, AAA
5. Identification - Person B  
   1. Birth Certificate 
   2. Certificate of Naturalization 
   3. Passport  
   4. DL, Health Insurance

    

6. Marriage License 
7. Professional License 
8. Immunization Records 
9. Contact Sheet (Friends and family Phone and addresses)
10. Radio Frequencies
11. Spare _____________
12. Spare _____________

Looking for some spots in the neighborhood, Struggling to find any. Does anyone have any groups or leads on unofficial trading spots/times? Looking to make some deals this weekend.

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Busco sitios para comerciar en el barrio, pero no encuentro ninguno. ¿Alguien conoce algún grupo o tiene información sobre lugares o horarios para comerciar de forma informal? Quiero hacer algunos tratos este fin de semana.

So I'm working on a slightly silly keyboard to keyboard project.

The program compresses your text message, encodes it to a QR code, and then transmits it via Robot36 SSTV to the receiving station, whose computer reads the QR code and uncompressed the data where the operator reads it and responds. I was inspired by a reel of a man who had two laptops talking to each other via a webcam flashing QR codes. I have always really loved SSTV and QR codes as odd as that sounds, and this seemed like a cool project to combine the two.

Would this project need to live in the voice section of the band, because it's SSTV, or in the data portion of the band because it's technically sending packets?

Also would anyone want to try to make a QSO with me using this?