My modest preparations saved me during a routine SHTF. I was out of work for 9 months. We ate almost our entire store of canned goods and I had to sell a rifle but I never had to beg from the state to get welfare or food stamps.
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My modest preparations saved me during a routine SHTF. I was out of work for 9 months. We ate almost our entire store of canned goods and I had to sell a rifle but I never had to beg from the state to get welfare or food stamps.
Ya I hear ya, most SHTF will involve job loss, heath issues and the fire, flood, and tornado scenarios......so that's what I prepare for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winter
Hubert,
I think the key words in your post are "city dweller".
As a "rural dweller" I am equipped to provide my own power needs for an extended period (generator) and after that go to secondary sources (battery bank) with oikl supplies for cooking and most lighting. I have propane for a month of heat at any given time and the food preps will keep me alive until long after the lack of meds has killed me.
Thing is, I did this when I was a "city dweller". After five years and several natural disasters I had converted the entire neighborhood to sensable emergency activities.
Allowing oneself to become completely systems dependant is the temptation we all must avoid.
And keep in mind that 19th century non-petrolium technology was not the "stone age".
Last references I checked outside the global warming or psycho-prepper community said we have oil reserves to meet all needs projected for the next 400 years and more are being discovered daily. America could sustain out own oil needs for the next 200 years without importing a single barrel. We just have to take it out of the ground.
And there is a big difference between supply and production. As long as demand exceeds production they can take only the amount of the supply needed to bleed the world economy.
I did! Whenever i've gone through unemployed spells, I regarded dole simply as getting my money back from the system which i'd been paying into via taxes when i was at work..:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Winter
PS- Electromagnetic Pulse is another Doomsday Event that could plunge us back into the stone age by zapping every piece of electronics on the planet, either by a burst from the sun, or by orbiting EMP bombs.
Kurt Russell showed how to do it in 'Escape from LA"-
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g6...ike/esc-la.gif
VID CLIP- "He shut down the earth!" (1:25) http://youtu.be/Ed6Yr81jZ6g
Methinks someone is yanking our chain.
I think I agree with you Winnie. There is apparently no connection to reality for this one.
I feel like I have mistakenly clicked on the Survivalboards forum!!
We really need some "mall ninja" pictures to round this experience out.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...0Q9QEwDg&dur=0
Wonder if a EMP will put out the wood stove?????
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Originally Posted by Winnie
Oops sorry, am i boring you guys? Maybe i'd better check out some other Survival websites to see if they want my stunning stuff if you don't..;)Quote:
Originally Posted by kyratshooter
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Originally Posted by kyratshooter
I can do better than that! We had our very own Mall Ninja!! If they are still up, his nightime youtube vids are a must see for every city dweller.
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...?3755-Kamiyama
Hunter, you might want to think about putting that stove in one of them there Farady thingies. Can't be too careful eh?
Fear not Hubert. There's always grumpy old guys trying to dampen conversation.
Maybe www.ohhnomypower'sout.com is where some should be.
Borrring....
Yes Winnie, I see the one you linked too lasted almost 6 weeks between first and last posts. We must have been too realistic for him too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winnie
There are definately enough real world problems to survive without worrying about imiganary senerios that can not be survived. Too much wasted time and effort.
Even if you live full time where others intend to bug out too you still have normal tasks that never cross the minds of them that sit at the computer wearing tin foil hats.
The lawn must be mowed, I have a cord of wood to stack from the downed trees after the tornado and there is a leak in a drain pipe under the house. I have to install a new bathtub and replace the floor the old one damaged. My contribution in plague fighting has been done for the day, I cleaned my refregerator. Tomorrow my faraday cage will be expanded to cover the entire structure once I get the aluminum screens on the windows and preasure wash the aluminum siding on the house. I have to build a new chicken house in the next week and prepare for the arrival of the birds. I live two miles from the range and I have not fired a shot in three weeks and the lake, 1/4 mile from the door, has yet to have my fishing line dropped in this year.
There is a lot of work involved with living through about half of what the city survivalists have not thought of yet. I just hope that astroid does not hit the day after I clean the oven. That would really tick me off!
Hubert, I do not wish to be ill mannered but there are precious few websites left on the internet that foster the fantacy minded. Those that have lasted have a constant flow of newbies as the members go on and off their medication and begin googling their paranoia. You will probably find some new friends to play with if you google "zombie attack".
Just learn some primitive skills to build a survival mindset/foundation and then go get some experience. Thats all you can do. Practice practice practice.
There isn't enough tin foil to make the number of hats that would be required for this thread. I may have to sew some soda cans together.
Will soda cans block the alien zombie brain scanners?
Probably just fill them up and make them heavy.
Can I add nuclear radiation creating any one or several of the following; 1) Godzilla; 2) Giant Insects; 3) Humanoid Mutants; 4)Killer Tomatoes
Okay...Humanoid Mutants....That's possible. I mean, I know it's true. How else would you explain Lindsey Lohan?
and Andy Dick
Want to see a prepper go off the deep end? You should have been at my place a couple of hours ago. They issued another tornado warning!!! That does it! I have not even picked up all the wood from three weeks ago!
Hubert, you come to my place tomorrow and we can start on the storm shelter. I have a new shovel and wheelbarrow. We need to move 1,000 cubic feet of dirt, start mixing concrete and stacking cinder blocks. That should take your mind off TEOTWAWKI and doing it in 86 degree temps will teach you why Americans drink their beer cold.
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Originally Posted by Hubert
I feel that at the hunting cabin roughly 8 weeks a year.
I feel that at home roughly two weeks a year.
I feel that somewhere beside of the road roughly 12 weeks a year.
The rest of the year is in anticipation of those moments. Why do I crave the grid?: is my question.