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Had enough carbonation to fizz your eyeballs out...

I remember the shock you'd get taking a swig off a gas station 10 cent Coke. :tt1:

Better days than now.

Thx :)

Welcome to the forum, fellow vet and prepper! :)

It was a documentary I saw around 2005 that said: "Hey America, the bird flu hasn't went anywhere and could sweep across the continent in two weeks...

Thank you, and thanks to you and hunter63 for participating in the thread! :)

And I do feel some obligation to pass on some experience to help others who are or might one day find themselves...

Here is another one that is short documentary length, but well worth the watch, this one and the last are maybe the two best I've ever seen...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk_iiVgJi6A
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This video is a bit long, but is one of the best vids I've seen on how someone can slip into homelessness... This guy's story is pretty common: a broken home and they use up all their resources...

You can read some of it in my intro thread...

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/forums/showthread.php?24090-Haloo-Haloo!

Basically I was a regular middle-class guy with a good job in high...

Yeah, I have been wondering about things like that myself seeing this turmoil and chaos in Tacloban.

I guess you just have to improvise gear out of the rubble.

(Also, look how many people...

Yes, I am familiar with the Dakota fire method, a hole dug into the ground with an extra "breather hole" next to it and breach between.

And, if you really had to have a fire, that would be the way...

Yeah, that's not a bad looking rig and for the way this person chooses to camp, "right out in the open on private land", the wheels will have to come in handy. :)

Some homeless, a few tend to...

Hello fellow Vet and fellow newbie, welcome to the board and thanks for your service!

Thx :)

Lol, that's a pretty good story and good of you to offer the chili and heck, a whole travel trailer... that was very nice indeed! (Folks, tell us about homeless people you have met! :))

Wisconsin...

First let me say happy Veteran's Day to all my fellow Veterans.... USAF myself, 1980-1984. Of course the Air Force is the least "military" of the services (Air Force Pukes! :cool:) so I can't say...

Yes, a lot of folks swear by their hammocks and use them all the time, others are big on bivys.

I used to make a "poor man's bivy" by putting down a tarp and maybe a little cardboard on the...

Oh, that's fine, that's fine guy, thanks (makes for a dramatic starter, lol) and the next entry can lead right into telling the long story of what led up to that predicament and then all the rest. :)...

Well, how about mercury from any source? I realize any coal-fired power plant produces mercury, not just Chinese ones, but I mention them specifically because they build a new one every Tuesday it...

Sure, I'd be glad to do that, thanks for the suggestion.

I actually belonged to a homeless forum, it was part of the "World Homeless Day Oct" movement.

I was there about three weeks, got to...

Here is a true story of my worst night living "outside". (I posted this at a homeless forum and a film maker guy says he is interested in making this into a movie and said he'd be getting back with...

By filtering it.

There are several that filter out mercury and what do "off-grid" folks normally do, drink untreated rainwater?

Tap water, after learning how many pharmaceuticals are in the...

Well, I don't like the idea of mercury from Chinese coal-fired power plants raining down on my food.

Now, I don't know if I said much about gardening in the first place to be so wrong about...

I have a quarter acre of undeveloped property in Western WA, we get plenty of rain, but my place also has two gigantic cedar trees, I mean the biggest one has about a ten foot girth, I bought the...

I've watched most of the survivor shows, and one thing that occurs to me is many seem to just "suffer through it" and if they had to survive for much longer than their appointed time, on many...

Thanks guys, you know it kind of became a "game" or "hobby" eventually, if you will...

It was Nashville where I really decided I was going to start getting bold enough to pull off camping right...

Thx here, the newest newbie, :)

"Haloo, Haloo!" was the greeting I would use when I came across another homeless person's camp.

Back in the 1980s I had a house, a couple cars, a good job as an...