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Posted on 03/24/2010 4:12:18 PM PDT by Noumenon
You have a good point there.
LOL. The same way my grandparents did before electrcity from cisterns or wells. With a weighted water tube and rope. No electricity for pump? No problem. Remove the sanitary seal from the casing and lower a tube to water. My well is 180 ft and cased to 60 plus. Good safe water under almost and circumstance. Not even the heaviest of rains turns it dingie in the least. A good sign of no surface contamination.
In a pinch I also have two good springs and one is safe one would require purification due to neighbors cattle. Also around the house keep bleach. It will do for purification purposes in a pinch. It doesn't take much at all a few drops to a gallon IIRC.
I’m not saying it’s likely. I’m just saying that the rural farm retreat is not a panacea. They are also more subject to brutal home invasions by “commando criminal” gangs. Read Fernando Aguirre’s “The Modern Survival Manual” about life in Argentina after their economic collapse in 2000. Isolated rural properties became targets of the most horrific attacks imaginable. Invaders would stalk, snipe and attack, then stay for days torturing family members into revealing the locacation of hidden valuables, if any.
That’s one way it can work out, among many. I do strongly suggest Fernando Aguirre’s book for a fresh look at post-collapse survival dynamics.
I wonder what the shelf life on them are? For sure they are critical. WIthout them any minor infection could be deadly.
This is the kind of thread that never appears on the liberal sites.
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So Fernando wrote a book! ...not a bad price, either. I read some of his anecdotes and had nearly forgotten about them. ...wondered at the time, if we might be headed in the same kind of economic direction. He was observant and dedicated to telling everyone about what went on.
And come to think of it after opening this noggin a little wider, things can change in a hurry—even governments. ...might think on that a little more.
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Grylls is an idiot.
Listen to Les if you want to live.
Whatever it is under normal circumstances, it's probably extended by storing them in the freezer.
My GPS unit is marginal for navigation in heavily forested areas.
Even if it can get a signal, if I'm not moving at least 2 mph, it provides no directional guidance.
A compass is essential.
Clarifying “no directional guidance” - it tells me what compass heading I need to go, but doesn’t actually tell me where that is.
If I’m moving more than 2 mph, I get a little virtual representation of a compass dial/needle pointing the way.
I think culdesac neighborhoods are a good idea. One way in and out, with the potential to post a guard and use “permits” on cars and so on as the situtation gets worse.
If you live in the ‘burbs on a standard gridded street pattern, it will be much harder to ramp up security. Limiting access to just your neighbors will be almost impossible.
For as long as the freezer is working....
It’s a terrific book too. Badly editied with a lot of english/spanish goofups, but the info and fresh outlook is priceless.
True, but for as long as the freezer is working, the “clock” on shelf-life runs much more slowly.
No doubt. But “post antibiotics” the rules of life and death change radically.
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