Hello from Colorado!!
I’m disabled and retired living along the “Front Range” in Colorado. In a previous life I drove semi with my SO across country and absolutely loved the traveling and the people we met along the way. That life came to a screeching halt when I suffered a serious injury to my back/hips. Was on top a flat-bed piled two-high with lumber trying to get it chained down when I lost grip of the chain and over the side I went. I had to find another line of work after learning to walk again. As it turned out the feds were very understanding about my limited walking ability at the time and so I worked for a couple of different agencies in the Fed government.
The only experience I’ve had with survival related issues is the lessons I learned from my great-grandmother and grandmother who both lived through the Great Depression. As my grandmother once said, “I swore I would never go hungry again” and to ensure that fact they both taught me how to have extra food and supplies on hand and how to “hunker down” when circumstances required.
Since I live in the Rocky Mountain region we have definitely had numerous times when “hunkering down” was required. In 1972/73 we had the infamous “Thanksgiving Day” blizzard and the very next year we had the infamous “Christmas” blizzard. Both shut down the city and made travel absolutely impossible for a week or more each time. Believe there were other times as well when weather played havoc on the area knocking out utilities and blocking roads for days on end. More than one time we just shut down the rest of the house and “camped out” in the livingroom, which the kids absolutely loved. We stayed warm with the natural gas stove/oven, had light from two oil lamps, slept in sleeping bags, and as the kids later said “just had a great time”. There is definitely something to be said for not having everything electric as is the case now. Grrr!!
I’m pretty sure that when SRHTF I will have to hunker down in the city yet again, only this time it will be for the long term. Even so I want to have the well-stocked BOB ready for myself and two grandchildren. So I’m determined to know Urban Survival skills as well as the ability to "bug out of town" while helping grandkids as well. I currently have some emergency food and other supplies put back, some firearms for protection, and am trying to learn all the skills I can.
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Hello from a "flatlander."
Originally Posted by Old GI
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