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Make sure you’ve got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.
Make sure you have enough meds!
Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener.
Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don’t want fried in case of a power surge.
Don’t tape your windows, it doesn’t help and you’ll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.
Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.
Get everything that’s not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).
Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.
Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.
If you start to flood, don’t go in your attic. You’ll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can’t hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.
I am going to say this as gently as possible, but people do not get a warning when your header is seizure- or migraine-inducing. We don’t know that your blog has a flashing gif right at the top until we click on it for whatever reason. There is no way to be aware of that ahead of time, no way to filter or block or hide it, no way to prepare ourselves.
Like when you put something like that in a completely unavoidable part of your blog, the very first thing that people are going to see when they clock your URL, then you are actively choosing to put disabled people in danger. I know that’s not anyone’s intention, but this shit isn’t a joke. I cannot stand up right now. The combination of eye strain and flashing gifs that people cover their blogs and carrds with have fucked me up so badly that I have been thrown into such a bad migraine attack that I am too weak to stand. There is a very good chance that I’m going to throw up.
So just like. Be aware of how those things are affecting people who visit your blog. Please.
“Isn’t there a way to turn gif headers off?” My bud, this is the site where if you input the wrong url, you are redirected to an error page with a giant flashing background. That is a standard feature of this website even after years of complaints. Do you really think there’s a way to hide gif headers?
We all love the “becoming the very thing you sought to destroy,” trope. but I have a growing fondness for “destroying the very thing you sought to become”
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