“Grid Jihad”: What If You Had a Week to Prep for the End of the World?

SHTF Plan ^ | 9/4/14 | Daisy Luther

[driftdiver]

I don’t drink much so a few bottles will do me a while. I planning to get some copper tubing in the near future.

[eyedigress]

Nothing. Why would I want to entertain the end of the world.

[Travis McGee]

The largest army in the world won't be of any use if our grid is taken down. In one week, every store will be looted, and every 18-wheeler will be out of fuel. In two weeks, the USA will descend into a bloodbath. In three weeks, cannibalism will begin in the cities.

Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.

[driftdiver]

I learned in the hurricanes that generators are really loud when all the power is off. You can hear them for a long ways.

[no-to-illegals]

LOL .. yep that is going to require carrying a big generator around just to fill up.

[Kartographer]

I got so much grief over posting this but here goes again:

I don’t know if Ebola, MERS; ISIS or something entirely different will lead to a SHTF event, but with the present ‘Open’ border policy which allows in any number of communicable diseases as well as criminal and terrorist easy access its like leave you front door open in the morning and come home late that night, who knows who or what came in what they did and if they are still lurking about.

There are more than a few FReepers who like to point out how silly they see preparing for a ‘Mad Max’ situation is, but what if it isn’t ‘Mad Max’? What if it is something as simple as being able to shelter in place for 30-60 days while an outbreak runs its course? Could you make it through such a quarantine self imposed or mandator with what you have in your home? If you haven’t thought about it maybe its time. How would you provide for you family if the power was out for a month?

It is your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.

The world is dry tinder just awaiting the right spark.

So listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3

Selco covers this in this article many times people just can not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it? It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.

It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.

A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:

http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/

You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.

Just getting started or an old hand you might find my Preparedness Manual helpful. You can download the manual at:

http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!

For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.

As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”

Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:

http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/

http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/

And More

Also there is Ferfal’s Blog a survivor of Argentina’s first collapse:

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/

And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:

http://shtfschool.com/

“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”

[Travis McGee]

How long will the gasoline for the well generator last, if the grid is down for a year?

[JRandomFreeper]

I have ingot copper. Actually old bus bars from a power project years ago.

What is copper tubing, but ingots painstakingly pounded, annealed and shaped, and cussed?

Yeah, I've got some tubing, and know houses where it will be available if things get all sporty.

I'm good personally with my low octane homebrew. Think beer, but without quality barley and hops.

/johnny

[Travis McGee]

There will not only be dead children in ditches if the grid goes down for a year.

Dead children will be roasting on spits over fires.

[Vermont Lt]

If it’s the end of the world, I will eat chocolate cake and drink beer.

Teotwawki? Gotta get some toilet paper and some peanut butter. Got all the ammo I need. Rice and beans for a while. It’s all good.

[no-to-illegals]

understood ... might be better of with a plastic hand pump and long plastic hollow tube for insert to fuel.

[JRandomFreeper]

Why would I want to entertain the end of the world.

Party of the year warning. Make sure you have plenty of crudites on pass-trays.

/johnny

[eyedigress]

NIV Proverbs .223

Some liberty... :^)

[Travis McGee]

Yep, in a land of silence and darkness, a running generator will be a magnet for marauders.

And if the grid goes down for a year, where is the fuel for it coming from?

[Travis McGee]

“Better figure out how to hot-wire a gas pump at the 7-11 to get more gas for it...”

And you better get there first, with a platoon of Rangers or Marines to guard it.

[Dr. Sivana]

Third option for getting water out of well:

https://www.lehmans.com/p-1384-lehmans-own-galvanized-well-bucket.aspx

[Vermont Lt]

I’ll have the fat kid. Crispy fat is gooooood.

Do I have to put a sarcasm tag?

[no-to-illegals]

reminder ... fuel generator at every opportunity ... better idea ... remain quiet and utilize no generator ... we be hunting wrabbits.

[JRandomFreeper]

In 4 weeks, it will be like waiting in line for the only bathroom in the house with cramping teenage daughters.

Yeah... ugly.

/johnny

[Travis McGee]

Solar panels are vewy vewy qwyet.