PasadenaMike
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I’m sure many of you are aware of all the madness happening in Southern California with all the fires. Well we evacuated with a 45 minute warning luckily. What does one pack in 45 minutes? No not your Airguns lol. I packed a single 9mm pistol because coming back to the fire zone to assess the post fire damage to the neighborhood ya never know. Plus it’s small so nobody will freak out when checking in to a hotel.
We evacuated just in time with me driving my work van (Mercedes Sprinter) packed with basically laundry baskets of clothes and essentials. My wife in the SUV with the kids and little dog (sorry fish you had to stay behind) and my mother in law in her little car with her special needs adult son.
Every hotel was booked obviously so we all went to my work shop nearby to figure things out. We met up with my brother in law at the shop. We ended up finding a hotel nearby that was pet friendly so we went. Before we left the shop we watched in shock as the fire consumed my neighbors homes, our yard… on our ring cameras. The wind was so intense that not even a 100000 firefighters could do their job. Power goes out so does the ring WiFi. Let’s just say it was a very emotional night for everybody until morning when our neighbor calls saying our house is fine but unfortunately she lost hers along with several other neighbors. Our home just had a bunch of ugly bushes burn. I had shut our gas off before leaving and left the back yard gate unlocked for our hero’s (firefighters) to have access.
Ok what does all this have to do with guns? Looters. I don’t care if I give my guns away or I sell them whether air or powder but it scares the hell out of me having them in the wrong hands. I ended up renting a storage yesterday with great security, air conditioning, indoor unit and moved all the stuff I don’t want getting into the wrong hands. Sure, I’m running a generator to keep my ADT working and my brother in law has hired private security to watch our homes (we live across the street). Law enforcement has also implemented a 6pm-6am curfew with check points into the neighborhood along with patrol cars. The first night in the fires low life’s burglarized 2 of my neighbors.
This whole thing got me thinking about all this gun stuff I have and that in every disaster it’s always a burden even in a safe. Don’t mention all the ammo.
The next thing I have to do is think about all the guns I have and see what’s important to keep for home defense and hunting and that’s it. The Airguns I have are fine there aren’t that many but i do have compressors, tanks and things like that but it’s not something a thief can do harm with.
At the end of this we all came out ok. Unfortunately a lot of our neighbors didn’t. 5 folks lost their lives in the Eaton Fire. Thank you to all the firefighters, law enforcement, gas company, power company for working so hard.
Family is precious. Nothing else matters but their safety. Everything can be replaced. This is what I learned. But I don’t want guns getting into wrong hands.
My prayers go to all the families that have lost so much.
We evacuated just in time with me driving my work van (Mercedes Sprinter) packed with basically laundry baskets of clothes and essentials. My wife in the SUV with the kids and little dog (sorry fish you had to stay behind) and my mother in law in her little car with her special needs adult son.
Every hotel was booked obviously so we all went to my work shop nearby to figure things out. We met up with my brother in law at the shop. We ended up finding a hotel nearby that was pet friendly so we went. Before we left the shop we watched in shock as the fire consumed my neighbors homes, our yard… on our ring cameras. The wind was so intense that not even a 100000 firefighters could do their job. Power goes out so does the ring WiFi. Let’s just say it was a very emotional night for everybody until morning when our neighbor calls saying our house is fine but unfortunately she lost hers along with several other neighbors. Our home just had a bunch of ugly bushes burn. I had shut our gas off before leaving and left the back yard gate unlocked for our hero’s (firefighters) to have access.
Ok what does all this have to do with guns? Looters. I don’t care if I give my guns away or I sell them whether air or powder but it scares the hell out of me having them in the wrong hands. I ended up renting a storage yesterday with great security, air conditioning, indoor unit and moved all the stuff I don’t want getting into the wrong hands. Sure, I’m running a generator to keep my ADT working and my brother in law has hired private security to watch our homes (we live across the street). Law enforcement has also implemented a 6pm-6am curfew with check points into the neighborhood along with patrol cars. The first night in the fires low life’s burglarized 2 of my neighbors.
This whole thing got me thinking about all this gun stuff I have and that in every disaster it’s always a burden even in a safe. Don’t mention all the ammo.
The next thing I have to do is think about all the guns I have and see what’s important to keep for home defense and hunting and that’s it. The Airguns I have are fine there aren’t that many but i do have compressors, tanks and things like that but it’s not something a thief can do harm with.
At the end of this we all came out ok. Unfortunately a lot of our neighbors didn’t. 5 folks lost their lives in the Eaton Fire. Thank you to all the firefighters, law enforcement, gas company, power company for working so hard.
Family is precious. Nothing else matters but their safety. Everything can be replaced. This is what I learned. But I don’t want guns getting into wrong hands.
My prayers go to all the families that have lost so much.
There always will be those who want what you have. They are just not wanting to work to have the same. Much easier to take yours in times of distress. Even at that time,we COULD shoot them!! Try that now and you would be the one in jail. Hopefully a new leadership in the DOJ will allow prosecution of those that really need it. During the last hurricane in NC the majority of looters were illegals.
