Posted on 06/23/2012 3:55:22 PM PDT by Kartographer
It’s Survival Diva again with some food for thought about societal collapse; what to expect and who to look out for. It’s an important part of the puzzle when you’re one of the few prepared to survive the coming onslaught. Some guesstimate preppers make up only 5% of the populace, but it’s my belief it’s closer to 3% at best, and more likely to be 1-2%. Many give lip service to prepping and claim to be prepared when the truth is they’re still in the “thinking” stage.
They haven’t advanced to in-the-trenches preparedness that many need to do to get prepared faster, where dinners out, budget-draining vacations, and designer anything are put on the back-burner until the storage shelves are full, water has been stored, and must-have preparedness goods are crowding sheds, basements, or in a pinch; closets and under the bed.
To come out on the other side of a wide-spread crisis in one piece, even when you’re prepared, takes getting into the head of the majority of the population who are NOT prepared. If you’re successful, you’ll face, head-on, the darker side of humanity most of us would rather pretend doesn’t exist.
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Adding to the list a special shovel for that guy. Every neighborhood has one of those whether you're in an HOA or not.
It didn’t say but it sounded like most of his herd. They died almost immediately.
Well, I should be ok then....
Form a neighborhood crime watch group and put alarms on everything.
Cyanide in plants is not unusual—but high concentrations are. It’s likely a byproduct of the drought and a passing problem. Not that that is any consolation for those affected.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5201273_natural-source-cyanide-plants.html
I took it to the next level. When my wife and I bought new cars in 2005, we bought Saturns, boring gray in color, with no special stuff.
No one steals Saturns unless nothing else is available.
If someone asked me how much ammo I had (or anything else), I would give a vague answer as well.
Cattle Industry: Who’s Your Girl? Who Loves You?
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - June 19, AD 2012 6:02 PM MST
If you haven’t already read this, you might want to do that now. Just so you buy those chickens and procure more cattle.
Her advice has been rock solid and better than gold.
And the video interview of Karl Denninger, of Market-ticker, is enough to scare the Hell out of me. He states the whole economy will crash before the November electiona. Eek!
Would suspect prussic acid. It is like that.
Also called hydrocyanic acid (HCN)
LIVESTOCK AND PRUSSIC ACID POISONING
http://beef.osu.edu/library/prussic.html
Yes, and it looks like another hot dry summer unless there are more tropcial disturbances like the current Debby heading our way.
Could be. But you’d think they’d have jumped on that. I thought at first they’d gotten into something to cause bloat. Sad either way.
I only ask my FRIENDS questions like that, just as they ask me. That said; I would never ask you, as you're are NOT my friend.
By the way...there is a difference between friends and acquaintances....but, that's a discussion for another day.
The issue in cattle is that you have to feed them if you don't have pasture. We elected not to pore the money into them and sold during the drought. Rainfall is better now, but not great. And it is spotted not general rains.
We have been occupied dealing with illness of family members. That takes priority.
I agree and I blame this socialist Obama administration and the democrats for all the millions who are out of work and of these many have become flat out desperate for money.
My brother has a cattle ranch (also here in Texas) and last August or so, sold his whole herd of over 400 head. He is not going to buy more cattle for the time being.
I’m so sorry to hear about illness among your relatives. My dad has alzheimers, so I know about the worries that accompany that.
We had an inch of rain today. Two inches in the past two days. Too bad we can’t send some of this Pacific Northwest rain in Texas’ direction. Maybe you’ll soon get a break from that storm that formed in the Gulf.
Good luck and God bless.
bflr
After the drought broke in Mid-October 2011 we had a pretty wet winter. Then Spring was hot & dry again. Our wheat crop yield was a little over 1/2 our normal production. Those who planted early trying to get the winter grazing, ran out of moisture as the crop was maturing, yields were terrible. We planted in Mid November 2011 and the seed quality was good.(we are in the planting seed business)
I think the damage from the 100 year drought is more than just moisture. It is ground culture also. We have been no-till for almost 20 years. The soil culture got better during that time and with it the average yield.
Wheat is a crop that shuts down when the temperatures get over 90 degrees F. Some varieties have slightly higher resistance to that mechanism and produce more under hot temperatures.
Now, concerning commodities prices and Ann Barnhardt, She is very bright and knows AG Commodities. Her advice about not hedging them now is good advice. Problem here is that if you own cattle and don't have the grazing you have to supplement with feed and hay. You can rapidly spend more than the cattle are worth, even in a rising market.
We are not big operators, have small pasture acreage. Fortunately one of the pastures is spring fed, water seeps naturally from a shale bed, which multiplies the number of cattle that we can keep. So even in the drought we had some grazing. We could have reduced the stock to 25% of normal and continued but had no hay or winter grazing in place. (the spring fed pasture is in Coastal Bermuda)
Some of the local cattle operators shipped their herd out of state where grazing was available waiting for conditions to improve here. We shall see how that works out.
Are we going to have a total financial collapse? It is possible. Probable? No one has that crystal ball.
Are we being played for suckers by the Globalist Despots? Probably.
Can we do anything about it? Unknown.
BUT, I am not a fatalist. Texas is still different than much of the rest of the nation. Will remain so as long as the people are also different. It has never been “easy” to live here. Harsh environment in much of the state. But it is inhabited by tough resourceful people.
Just make sure you unhook the battery.Could fry the computer.Just sayin.
Well, if this has already happened in AZ, then this new type of wheel/tire theft has probably already spread to many states and probably - will increase everywhere as time goes by.
Again, I have no clue on how to prevent this from happening to any cars/trucks not garaged but left out by your curbs.
(however, the ideas in posts #46 and #48 might help)
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