Posted on 04/23/2014 3:47:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I agree the bottom strata were mired in the Superdome, etc, but Estimates indicate about a quarter million people migrated from greater NOLA to greater Houston after Katrina.
I’m not familiar with the third book you cited, nor does a quick web search illuminate it for me.
The third book is the actual person of that engineer - it’s what he has in his brain.
bttt
Thank you, looks like a great site.
Yup. And, Houston has regretted laying out that welcome mat ever since. A quarter million “Katrina Specials” now living fat on “Lone Star” benefits cards, and driving local crime stats through the roof.
The Foxfire books have some great info. It’s a shame the man who put them together raped some of the children involved in researching and writing the materials: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/13/us/foxfire-book-teacher-admits-child-molestation.html
Going through old books and a newsletter fell out. It was dated September 1999 and the headline read “the Shaking”. Checked to see if the ministry was still going and guess what? “the Shaking” was on the website. In re-reading the newsletter “the Shaking” was a chapter written for a book authored by several pastors. I read the website post last night it in its entirety. . .instead of scripture by scripture the author used a fictional character to take the readers through the tribulation. Whether you are pre-trib, post-trib or don’t know what a trib is, I think it is worth the read.
http://www.lifereachministries.com/theshaking.aspx
I quit reading after he claimed the Hill Country is so desolate. Bunch of horse hooey.
GAME OVER MAN!
http://www.amazon.com/When-There-No-FEMA-Survival/dp/098981940X/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Also available at:
http://nofema.com
...but it's good to see the reader reviews on Amazon (all 5-star ratings so far!)
Thanks for posting. This will go on my wish list.
Depending on the nature of the calamity, my guess is that a sizable percentage of the population would die within the first few days or weeks, of illness, injury, misadventure, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Many of those adults left will be healthier, smarter, tougher and more adept at handling emergencies and adversity.
I, too have often thought how complicated our degree of civilization is, and how much we take for granted. Specialization has made a lot of it possible but also has a steep downside.
If you are interested in this subject from the viewpoint of literature and not a how-to, I always thought that The Stand(long version) by Stephen King was pretty good. Of course the epidemic kills the vast majority of humans( and dogs) but a tiny percentage who are somehow resistant are left. But of those, some die of secondary causes, everything from crime and accidents to not having medicines needed for chronic conditions.
Thanks for the post. I will look for this book.
Reminds me of George R. Stewart’s dystopian novel “Earth Abides.” He posited that the struggling remnants of civilization would re-adopt polygamy and shamanism, would forget forgery and revert to almost Stone-Age toolmaking, and would abandon literacy.
Books to keep: Bible, Foxfire Books, When There Is No Doctor, How Things Work, plus a Webster’s Dictionary.
I have this book and it is a little different from standard prepper tomes. Most prepper books focus on survival.
This book does have suggestions for survival, but its focus is on providing information for rebuilding a society...or another way to look at it would be that its focus is on saving the most essential “basic knowledge” so that the world doesn’t go through another Dark Ages ala Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
So this book shows crop rotations and farming handtools up through stages of useful farm mechanization to eventually get to modern farming, for example.
...and it points out that obtaining crop surplusses frees up labor/people for non-survival activities such as inventing, music, arts, building, etc.
*interestingly enough, its author focuses on annual plantings of civilized basic crops such as rice, wheat, and corn instead of on labor-saving perennial orchards of cherry trees, apple trees, grape vineyards, kiwi plants, etc.
He shows how to make thread from sheep/cotton, and the labor saving devices in using thread for fabric.
How to make and use quicklime, and why.
Bronze Age and Iron Age basics that can be performed from scratch so that a society doesn’t drop back to the Dark Ages once the pre-apocalypse surplusses of goods have been consumed.
Step by step is given, at stage after stage (gunpowder, electricity) with the focus on rebuilding a “modern” society more efficiently than if all knowledge was lost by survivors and the wheel had to be re-invented.
pretty expensive book in today’s market.
I totally agree. I have to think 2 or 3 times before putting out this amount of money for a book.
Unfortunately I could not in good conscience author a book of the marginal quality that is consistent with those low prices. In fact, it was my dissatisfaction with these more modest books that inspired the 3-year writing odyssey that culminated in the publication of "When There is No FEMA".
Among the top-tier books that are available on the subject, however, the price of WTINF compares reasonably well.
The 'nofema.com' web site allows you to download a PDF preview of the first 60 pages of the book. I suggest you have a look at that and you may begin to appreciate the difference. Also, WTINF is the only survival-related book I've seen on Amazon that enjoys a perfect 5-star rating - I recommend a review of that reader feedback.
Sometimes a person really does get what they pay for. :)
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