Ah yes, the fake name so that 'Muricans think it’s an US firearm.
Croatian Supremacist 
Tornadoes:
Grew up in Midwest. Remember hearing about the Xenia, Ohio tornado live on the radio while I wasn’t that many miles away…
Shelter in basement (or below if available). Bathroom, in tub if possible, yes cover with something like mattress. If that’s not possible, a utility room, or lower level bathroom at worst. Center lower level, room without windows.
Idaho’s outdoor response in creek bed smart as hell. Low level plus tying off, great move. Tornadoes bounce across over lower spots like that but tying off still smart cause high winds can get your ass blow away and hurt!
Being blown into something I see as worst threat. Having debris blown onto or into one’s person I see as second worse threat in tornado.
Then there’s the aftermath…can lose all your shit real quick. Great reason to have a savings account and insurance, and to treat your neighbors well…your home gets leveled by a tornado, it’s quite a surprise and you’ll need all three of those real bad real soon, and in that order.
Idaho - Lemmeno about your SF bud and the FIME firearms Brother
Tornado gully or ditch. Worth exploring if getting into culvert would be better, idk.
Lightning - get in low spot, flatten out. Do not get under trees or towers, poles, etc.
Have had farm animals killed under trees. Not hit directly, but a bazillion amps stops a heart.
People complain about the long winters here in Maine, but even the worst blizzard is a walk in the park compared to Midwestern natural disasters I grew up with. Tornadoes are crazy. So are golf balls of ice falling from the sky.
Ticks are probably the biggest natural hazard here in Maine, followed by the most dangerous animal in N. America, the mighty moose. You don’t want to hit one of them.
Otherwise if you can manage to avoid freezing to death or succumbing to alcoholism over the winter there is comparatively little that Mother Nature will throw at you.
I sure as hell don’t miss ominous yellow and purple skies that throw ice balls and deadly vortexes at you.
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I don’t know if you drive a truck but if you do, do you have an aftermarket grille guard or bumper on it? I know they work with deer but I wonder about moose.
I do drive a truck but it’s a stock Tundra. I’m not sure how much those bumpers help with moose. Maybe some but the whole problem with moose is their height and weight. You’re basically doing a Sasae Tsurikomi Ashi with your vehicle. Legs give out as the body travels toward you. The lower you are, the more moose body you’re going to have crashing into your windshield.
I love my Tundra. It’s not moose proof and it doesn’t drive itself in the snow, but it’s a lot less worrisome than smaller, lower-riding vehicles for a variety of reasons.
Living in Denver for the past ~4 years I’d had never seen hail like this in my life. I always worry about my car during the cold months because I park outside. First time I was caught in a “big” hail story it just started dumping and I was outside and I had to run as FAST as I humanly could to get some cover. Even then some of the hail was bouncing and hit me. Did not feel good at all haha.
Denver weather is so weird. Things just come out of no where. You can literally get all 4 seasons in 4 hours.
If you travel abroad, the biggest thing I would recommend is a set of sterilised cannulas. Not for using on another person - being repeatedly stabbed in the veins by an amateur while you’re bleeding out is not an especially attractive prospect. Still more attractive than bleeding to death while someone fondles your balls while pretending to be searching for your femural artery, but still, not ideal.
Personally, as I live overseas, I carry a set of cannulas on me at all times. Those are the only needles that are going into my body in any hospital outside the US or Western Europe. Not glamorous, but quite an important consideration.
Thought for the day:
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure,” Thomas Jefferson
Yesterday’s work:
Dumbbells and sand bags.
Incline bench presses
decline bench presses
Single arm presses from incline ( I never use a flat bench)
Half motion fly’s
Overhead presses
Power cleans
Sand bag throws, front, rear, and over the shoulders.
Skills:
Agility drills with traffic cones. In my experience, the only time I ever jogged in a straight or semi straight line was boarding a C-130 or helio. Every real situation, whether entering a room, clearing a structure, or some foot excursion in the hinterlands, movement was always around obstacles, from a mud hut to the jungle, one had to navigate an obstacle.
Mobility is the key to survival in real situations, so, I often use small traffic cones to run the basic serpentine, 4 sided box, and door drills. If you only jog on a track or walk on a treadmill, you are doing yourself no favors in surviving a gun fight. Use your imagination, set the cones to making a door way, line them up as walls, or build yourself your own obstacle course. Learn to move.
Question of the day:
This is not directed to the martial artists on this thread, you always train movement, but, if you a true student of the iron, are you doing any agility work? As much I respect you dedication to big lift numbers, a massive bench press is not going to help you move when you have to.
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Can you get up and down off of the ground, go under low barriers, step up on something higher than your hips without your arms, pull yourself (like through a window), crawl on all fours, squat ass to grass and stay several minutes, load/unload bulky items, actually work for many minutes straight as opposed to only 1 set of 5?
Not a commando here, but these are basic movements that one day you might require to save your or someone’s life. And good to be able to call on any time.
And l am 59, and know joints are nuked by this stage from life itself plus injury.
Love this thread!
Good post, brother. One of the hardest things you have to do ( doesn’t sound like much) is to jump up, catch hold of a window frame, and pull yourself inside in full battle rattle. Requires strength, flexibility and grip strength, plus you will find out very quick if everything on your carrier is in the right place.
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Thought for the day:
Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.
Yesterday’s work:
Completed the “Speed work with Bands” workout posted by Mr. Tumminello on the home page of T-Nation.
Sledge hammer swings on tire.
Skills:
Traditional archery practice.
Question of the Day:
This also came up last week. Do you know how to sharpen a knife? I am not talking about using some gadget from the Cooking Channel, but, using a whetstone? both hard and soft, using crossed diamond sticks , a leather strop, or even a smooth river stone? Do you know how to use a file?
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Love the question of the day 
Ha! Love it. I was raised by Appalachian coal mining people. “Whittling,” and trading pocket knives was a form of recreation, but knives gotta be sharp. Soooo, at a young age, I learned to use a whet stone and oil.
Later on, different grades of stones…
Files much later - don’t like them for a blade except for a repair.
Have NOT used crossed diamond sticks.
A leather strop is a good finisher after a smooth stone in stones sharpening process…
I’d readily bet $100 cash that my 78 year old mother can sharpen a blade using a whet stone better than 95% of American men. Hell, she can probably shoot straighter than at least 70% 
This question of the Day made me smile with memories 
Thx Idaho !
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No problem with that bet, I know she could based on the current state of the American male. Appalachian coal mining people were raised hard and tough, and a day in the mines or a day strip mining would kill most males today. A poor, but, mainly a self sufficient group, with every family having a small garden of potatoes, green beans and tomatoes. Canning was as important as saving money for the winter months.
Thought for the day:
Or, in my little world: You never know someone until they are promoted.
Yesterday’s work:
Conventional deadlifts.
Single arm deadlifts (suitcase lift)
Rope pulls ( heavy rope with a heavy kettle bell tied on the end)
Chin ups
Skills:
Krav Maga training.
Question of the day:
(I am not talking about desert or very arid conditions)
Ok, you suddenly find yourself flashed into the Bob Marshall Wilderness wearing only your ranger panties and suffering from extreme thirst.
Do you know how to find water?
Some suggestions:
Start by finding some high ground and listen for the sounds of running water. Sometimes it really can be just that simple.
Keep your eye out for animal tracks that converge on a trail. That’s a strong sign that the trail itself leads to a ready water source.
Head downhill. Water pools at low points between elevated areas and always flows downhill. If you’re on sloped terrain, follow it downward until you find where water may be collecting.
Use mosquitoes and other insects to guide you. They are almost always more plentiful near bodies of water.
In a jam, dig into muddy ground using a tool or your hands until the hole pools with water. You’ll want to remove as much sediment from the water as possible in your filtration process.
Just about any water source you find in the wild today will require filtration or purification before it’s safe to drink
- read the last one again. Never leave home for the hinterlands without a purification system, they are plentiful and inexpensive in most outdoor retail chains.
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Being an MT native I love that you used the Bob in your example, ha!
Without a doubt, one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. I love Montana and I hope you are still there, it’s just a bitch trying to make a living there, especially in my line of work.
Yup. When I was a boy, at harvest time, we’d gave F’n 3 foot piles of string beans on the back porch and my sister and I would sit out with my mama stringing the damn things hours on end. I had nightmares about those F’n things from picking to stringing even to the whistling of the pressure cooker on the stove when mama was canning them. But by God that winter they sure tasted good with some white onion and sometimes a bit of pork in them.
And FTR, it’s “maters” and “taters” ya all
An aside, there was always a 12 gauge handy for the damn snakes in that garden - mine, from age 12, kept loaded in my bedroom.
Also had instructions from my father who worked nights to kill anyone who broke in while he was at work…wonder how people view teaching a 12 yo boy that nowadays?
I don’t give a shit, I’m just curious.