Mortdooley wrote on Mar 14^th, 2020 at 12:00am:



Passionfruit cheesecake - love it

I shop at a supermarket in a small rural town and even the loo paper shelves there were empty. I asked an assistant how come? He said the shelves were stacked full at 6am and empty by 8.30am. Zombies rush in every morning and grab the lot. I got there at 2.30pm

Everyone shopping after 8.30am and needing loo paper missed out. For me to get some would mean another 160km round trip tomorrow morning and get there when the doors open. Luckily I still have a supply.

We shouldn't laugh at preppers - reckon they'd be laughing at us now

People are morons. Panic buying only confirms it. toilet paper is the LEAST useful commodity in a situation like this.

longweekend58 wrote on Mar 14^th, 2020 at 8:16am:


When the hospitals are overloaded with Corona patients you'll turn up with gastro. Good job.

I found the Zombies, they are in line at Costco! The wife just had to go to buy cheese and potatoes so we had a close up look at the Herd. The real harm is to the small businesses who don't have a financial cushion. We spoke to the Manager of our favorite sandwich shop and he said they may move out some of the tables to give customers a six foot seating distance and just wait this out. There were only six or seven people there during lunch time.

Mortdooley wrote on Mar 14^th, 2020 at 12:00am:

Well, the zombies are still lining up to get into the larger food stores. We are just glad we already have plenty of what they are in line for! I hope the small businesses can survive.

I have dirty water coming from my hot water system. It would probably take a replacement of the hot water system to alleviate the problem. That problem is that the hot water system mixes up with the cold water during showers. In its own way, the kitchen tap water that I have been using to fill my filter jugs have been getting the hot water system water mixing into my drinking water. With double filtering of the jugs, it is still not enough to undo the mild chemicals seeping into the drinking water.

I bought 18 litres of bottled water to dilute and wash out whatever chemicals that could not get filtered by the jugs I was using. I will have to do that for the next 26 weeks, or until the hot water system can flush out the chemicals it is carrying. I would assume that 50 litres worth of showers per day would dilute the system by June.

I guess hurricane victims would have had to put up with the conditions we did in the year 2015 after our cyclone -- The floodwater would have made it difficult to produce clean drinking water, with all the debris floating about. We Rockhamptonites had to rely on bottled water for a few weeks until the treatment plant could clean up the flooding problems.