Spelling doesn;'t count in a storn but SAFETY does. Ensure you have an evacuation plan. Remember that others will be attempting to leave the same route you may have planned and you could get into a gridlock on the highway. LEAVE EARLY. You can always come home if the storm bypasses you. Have your necessary documents and family papers in as water tight box that you can store them in. Leave them in this box year round so that you can pick it up and go. Store family pictures on disk and be ready to pick them up and go. Have sufficient prescription medication on hand to cover you for a week and have written prescritions from your doctor in case we suffer like New Orleans did. HAVE CASH - can not say that often enough Take pictures of your garden so that you can remember it the way it was in case of the worst. Remember, we have warnings with hurricanes and can prepare and leave. With tornadoes we have no warning. GET OUT AND STAY OUT when law enforcement tells you to. YOUR property is not worth your life. We would miss you terribly and would not have you to sommiserate with after the storm. Stay in communication with family and friends. Cell phones may not work after a storm nor phones. You may have to contact the American Red Cross so they can send a ham radio message to the chapter where your family lives to let them know you are okay. DO NO PROCRASTINATE Remember this is a tropical area and after a storm and immediately before one supplies will be hard to come by. KEEP LOTS AND LOTS OF INSECT SPRAY FOR AFTER THE STORM You will need it in the steamy hungle that will be your life for a while. Others, please add your tips.

I've tried many things over the years. Gloves(whether latex or nitrile offer "some" protection, but when you're processing superhots for hours, the capsaicin IS going to penetrate). I've tried butter, milk, oils, vinegar, soap...all with very limited cooling. But last year, I tried something different. I used to just deal with the limited "cooling," but the heat really wouldn't subside until overnight. I still don the nitrile gloves, but now I actually wash my hands with just plain white vinegar. BUT... I don't rinse or dry it off. Instant relief, but there's still "some" warmth. So, I'll do it again about 15 mins later. All pain/heat pretty much dissipates within an hour. My theory is that the capsaicin is not only on the surface of your skin, but has started to penetrate deeper layers. So, wash your hands with all the soap or oil you want...if you rinse it off, you haven't given it time to penetrate those other deeper layers. Kevin

This thread opens with one of the most ludicrous yarns (no pun intended!) I've ever read on the internet. And I've been on the internet for a LONG time. A cup of alcohol, dissolved into even the small volume of water used in a front loader, is going to be reduced in concentration well below the threshold of flammability. EVEN if you just poured a cup of 91% isopropyl onto WET clothing, just before a spin cycle, I doubt the vapor pressure of the alcohol would ever get high enough to ignite if you placed a spark igniter IN the wash basin! This chart is for ethanol but it's probably similar for other simple alcohols. There's no way the concentration is such scenarios as the OPs was above 5% - or anywhere near it, So, the interior of the washing machine would have to have been >> 140F for spark ignition. https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/ethanol-water-d_989.html They are gone now (probably a good thing) but for this scenario to take place as described a MUCH more flammable substance had to be involved, and probably more of it than a cup. Obviously, based on the traits that can cause 'laundry fires', there's always a way to safely remove organic solvents that are flammable. Anything with a high enough vapor pressure to form explosive mixtures with water, can be removed by just letting the clothes air out, outside, for a couple sunny days in summer. If your functioning nose doesn't smell anything anymore and you don't feel any oiliness, there isn't enough there anymore to cause a problem after wet laundering. I myself have spilled 4 cycle gasoline on jeans, probably over 1 cup, and safely laundered them. Letting the gasoline dry out, and then use a hot water wash cycle, standard laundry detergent, and TSP (as described in other threads here) to make sure the oil is emulsified and removed. (Ammonia would probably work almost as well) I smelled them before drying. No hydrocarbon smell left at all. That being said, if I had some completely ridiculous scenario like a pair of jeans that had been soaked in kerosene - a fuel that stinks but is slower to evaporate - I'd probably just throw them out.

Thanks Carol. I may not be as active posting on the group but I think about everyone very often. In fact, hubby said this week (while planting onions) "I hope we can get some more plants from Okiedawn this year". I told him she just might be able to spare an extra plant or two. He loves those Biker Billy's and yummy tomatoes. Lisa, I did the happy dance at the mere thought of your cornbread salad again this year. That just screams spring fling to me. Very happy dance! I also want to thank our gracious hosts. It just wouldn't be the same anywhere else! Please call on me to help with any extra needs before the shindig! Looking forward to seeing everyone again this year.