Posted on 04/03/2012 11:13:52 AM PDT by blam
And apparently hopes to be standing right there beside the Lord when he "asks them (Preppers) about how they used their resources and time and talent for Him."
And PP apparently can see what is in their hearts, because she posts: "Preppers are prepping for themselves. If they happen to feel magnanimous, maybe some will feed others, but me thinks not so much."
I guess this type "neighbor" is at the opposite end of the scale from the "I'll just shoot them and take all their stuff".
Neither PP, nor the "I'll just shoot them" neighbor apparently wants to take any action, other than post "look at the crazy Preppers" comments on FR Prepper threads.
I would consider PP to be an equivalent thread troll, just using a different justification for trolling Prepper threads.
Both types of posters behave like "moths to a flame" on a Prepper thread, eh?
I must admit though, I would be curious to see how her car drives with her husband "filling in" for a flat tire, since she states she doesn't need a spare because "she has a husband."
LOL, maybe he's already used to going round-n-round with her?
The ‘noise’ is a major concern (and ‘whoever’ would likely know exactly what you are doing)
Although, if they come-a-knockin with evil intentions, they’ll only knock once.
A solar oven will bake bread. Though as JR says, it might attract attention, as will other cooking aromas, so you may want to go with a quicker cooking flat bread such as pita bread.
http://solarcooking.org/recipes/bread.htm
http://solarovenchef.blogspot.com/search/label/bread
bttt
Proper eating will buy time. Study up on the Atkins Diet aka Low Carbohydrates. Simply put - eat strictly meat and restrict carbohydrate intake to those fruits (berries) and vegetables (greens, summer squash and coniferous vegs like broccoli and cauliflower) which are low on the scale.
So, there was this major snowstorm that shutdown DC and much of Virginia and Maryland for about a week. Many folks were without electricity for about that. The newspaper had a grocery store pictured....the shelves were picked bare save for some lemons in the produce section -- the headline was "When Life Gives You Lemons."
My worthless supplies? I had seasoned firewood that heated my house. My neighbors with only the electric furnace did without until they came to my house. I had plenty of dry goods, a generator, and extra water. Water you ask? Water doesn't magically come out of the faucet in a rural area when there is no electricity to run the pump.
Once whatever is in the filter/basin is gone, you're hosed. It is better to allow the water to slowly drip and hope the power comes back before it is empty....rather than use it al up and have the pipes freeze. I was crazy right up until the temperature in the house dropped below comfortable, water wouldn't come out of the faucet, and the bellies started to rumble. It was less than 24 hours that my cell phone rang (that I can charge with a hand crank radio) and I was taken up on my offer.
Aside from SPAM and powdered milk......charcoal is good to store. It helps decontaminate an NBC environment. TECNU for poison ivy is also good too (its original purpose). Having a basic dental kit, manuals, and 1st aid helps too. As does, IV bags, catheters, extra tubing and on and on and on. Preparing doesn't end.
I've also made it through hurricanes and other natural disasters. I'm charitable, but watching the 'too-little and too-lates' show up at Wal Mart can almost be a spectator sport.
A bottle jack and tire tool won't help you if your car bursts into flames either, but that doesn't mean you go without them; you may get lucky and only have a flat.
It is only silly until you need what you don't have. Situations turn desperate really quick.
I guess I'll just have to accept some people didn't learn from the ant and the grasshopper story.....unfortunately those results won't be entertaining.
Always good to be prepared. I’ll be up in the wilderness with a large extended family if STHF. 100 acres far away from the city.
G-d bless the child who’s got his own.
You ever hear of Noah?
That is why I have an advantage IF I can get back home, which would be the first thing we do once I'm on code red.
1. I think most of the citiots are going to either go after the suburbs or going south where its warmer. I'm going north to family property in the woods and planned my route away from the burbs/cities. I'm not worried about the neighbors there. They know us and we'll help each other.
2. Even if they go north, the citiots will have to go 100+ miles into unknown territory and face 20+ people all armed, plus getting past neighbors, cold weather, and bears. Now we're reasonable people and happy to help and trade if needed. No freebies, but everyone has skills of some sort. We aren't going to be nice to those with bad intentions though. They would be bear or coyote food.
Act 2 opens when the zombies start leaving the central cities heading for the suburbs and the rural areas beyond.
(Think of Hurricaner Katrina and New Orleans only no one is coming to bring food and water to the unprepared.)
Act 3 is when they get to our neighborhoods. First a trickle - just a few dozen. But in no tme at all there will be hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands.
They will be like a plague of primate locusts, devouring and stripping everything they encounter. When they move on there will be nothing but remaining but devastation, bodies and bones.
Excerpt from "Foreign Enemies And Traitors" by Matt Bracken:
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"It was terrifying every minute. You couldn't sleep a wink, even after three days. We were hoping and praying that the people outside would just go away and leave us alone! It was raining hard, and the people outside kept yelling and demanding that we let them in. They were banging on the front door and kicking on it, getting madder and madder because we wouldn't let them in. My father yelled back that he had a shotgun and he would shoot if they came in, but it was just a bluff. He didn't believe in guns, remember? Not until he really needed one--and then he only had a make-believe gun. It was quiet for a little while after he said he had a shotgun.We thought his bluff had worked, but then big rocks came crashing through some of our windows, paving stones from our walkway and our garden. Right after that, our front door was smashed in with a metal pole, I think from a street sign. They demolished the door and pushed right over the table we had against it. My father was standing there with his ax raised, and that was the last I saw of him. He never had a chance. A whole gang of men rushed in at once, and they were climbing through the smashed windows too. They all had knives and spears and clubs. I ran for the cellar, praying that nobody saw me. I think they were all focused on my father because he had an ax.
"I ran down the steps and crawled backwards into my spot behind the old oil furnace. The furnace was cold because we didn't use it anymore since we switched to gas heat, and of course the gas stopped during the earthquake. So we had two different furnaces that didn't work. Anyway, I'd found some plywood scraps to cover my little hiding place behind the furnace, like a false wall. I was sitting on the floor in a little ball, not moving an inch. All I could do was pray. Hold onto my carving knife, and pray.
"The worst part of it was I could hear my mother upstairs screaming. The sound came down through the air ducts to the old furnace right next to me. She screamed and cried for at least an hour, until her cries grew weaker and then they stopped. I felt like such a coward, hiding in the cellar. I could hear them stomping around upstairs, knocking things over and raising hell, looking for food. They must have found the liquor cabinet, because when they finally came down to the cellar, they were drunk. I don't think they even realized there was a cellar in the house; they were probably just checking closet doors and found it by accident."
Gaffer, I hear what you’re saying about preppers going on TV and talking about their preps and looking crazy, but the even crazier thing is that people are listening and paying attention!! I’ve been getting more emails from teenagers and young people than ever before. Doomsday Preppers, however overblown, is causing more people to think about being prepared.
Now what do you all think about Dancing With the Stars? I think little Laura Ingles (A.K.A. Melissa Gilbert) is awesome but she won't make it to the end...
BTTT
Oh my! How did civilization make it this far? How did we ever survive without trucks, air conditioning, garbage disposals and prozac? Personally, I find it hard to go a day without a good ole Lady Gaga song. What’s life without Air Jordans and Pay-per-view?! Oh the humanity!/s
Preppers aren’t crazy. They’re the most sane amongst us. Imagine, it’s now crazy to provide yourself with the basics and not rely on anyone else to provide it for you.
One thing to remember is if you live in an area that is only assessable to the outside world by a bridge and if we have major celestial disturbances you could loose all access to the area outside of where you live. How many of use drive to work every day and cross over overpasses and bridges? Just imagine what it would be like if all the bridges were to collapse.
” One thing to remember is if you live in an area that is only assessable to the outside world by a bridge and if we have major celestial disturbances you could loose all access to the area outside of where you live. “
One of our contingency plans in case of a real SHTF/Zombie Migration occurence is to drop the bridges at each end of town...
Isolation can be a real blessing, under some extreme circumstances...
I expect many to collapse at the hand of man in a SHTF scenario.
(ahem)How will the FEMA trucks with all the food get to you?
” ahem)How will the FEMA trucks with all the food get to you? “
Black helicopters, my FRiend - black helicopters...
;)
I knew that!
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