I've been thinking about it more and more, and I'm going to see if I can make it across the valley to my hometown. I know that my hometown was full of people ready for something like this, between the correctional officers and the ranchers, and some of the hillfolk I know, as long as it wasn't hit directly that it should be safe, but I need to make sure.

I did some more scouting today and I think I found a prospective vehicle to use. It's a stick shift jeep, 4 door and a rag top rather than a hard top and it looks like someone converted it to run on vegetable oil because it has a "I run clean on french fry oil" sticker on the bumper. I found the keys under the front seat. I'm going to keep an eye on it for now. It also has a couple "I Heart Hemp" stickers.... I didn't know we had hippies here. I'll see if I can get it running tomorrow and I'll also see if I can get something setup for a mobile web hotspot. I've got a couple leads on what to do thatnks to some how tos I found on the internet, but I'll need to find a satellite bag phone and a few other things. Like what my dad used in the 90s after we stopped using the radios and the base station.

I did see some of those solar lawn lights, and it looks like they're still working, so I might be able to get some of those from the hardware store and use them for something. I'll need a sauntering iron though, but it shouldn't be too hard to find that.

Picked up that Chinese radio signal again for a few minutes but it faded out before I could write the phonetics down.

So tomorrow, unless the weather gets bad I plan to go looking for stuff to build something silly, like a solar powered satellite modem. If the weather sucks, I'll look at news stories regarding my hometown. Time to sleep I guess.