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Storm Shows Americans Are Totally Unprepared:
SHTF Plan ^ | 12/12/14 | Mac Slavo

Posted on 12/12/2014 6:21:22 PM PST by Kartographer

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Back in 2006 we had a big storm knock out the electricity (8 days). I had battery invertors off the car to run my laptop, and a kersene lamp. (It was a neat image - pc by the lamp!) Even had dial-up modem back then to get a report out!


41 posted on 12/12/2014 7:04:01 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Kartographer

“I couldn’t get my car out of the garage,”

I guess he doesn’t know why his garage door opener came with a red handle at the end of a rope.


42 posted on 12/12/2014 7:07:51 PM PST by PAR35
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To: driftdiver

My thought has always been the average rounds carried by a soldier on patrol is 210 rounds I have a minumum of 10 times that (seperate from range ammo)I keep at all times for my battle rifle. Ten firefights you have either captured addition ammo or you are dead, Face it in SHTF if you got yourself in ten firefights you are either stupid or have a death wish or both.


43 posted on 12/12/2014 7:08:15 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

That is why belt fed ammo is best....


44 posted on 12/12/2014 7:09:20 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kartographer

Umm. West coast fools are unprepared.


45 posted on 12/12/2014 7:10:57 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Just kike Katrina fools in New Orleans.


46 posted on 12/12/2014 7:15:30 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I survived I-35W through Fort Worth in Rush hour! MILE AND MILES OF CONSTRUCTION!)
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To: WildHighlander57
I have relatives in norCal

NorCal is mostly OK, lots of water and snow, but of course most of us were prepared. The worst damage and flooding was in the Bay Area, as noted in the story, they weren't prepared.

47 posted on 12/12/2014 7:18:11 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Kartographer

The Missouri Ozarks are looking better and better.


48 posted on 12/12/2014 7:18:48 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

OH YEAH!!!


49 posted on 12/12/2014 7:19:17 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Can’t get her car out of the garage?

Good grief lady, just fire it up and ram the damn door until its ripped from the rails.

You’ll be free before you know it.


50 posted on 12/12/2014 7:22:33 PM PST by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)ams./?s)
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To: Regulator

my lil town..here in Marin County was litteredl.....with business with sandbags at every doorway ....

the two local creeks came no where near coming over their banks.

the local NBC affiliate form S.F....had a ViDEO VAN...with sattelite uplink here 24 hours before the storm was supposed to hit

Somebody at channel 4....remembered the flood here in 1982.....and was HOPING to get some BIG COVERAGE of a disaster.


51 posted on 12/12/2014 7:24:14 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Kartographer

Finally! 0bama’s ‘Katrina!’

Oh, wait. He didn’t get blamed for the ‘Snowpocolypse’ in Buffalo. He’ll skate on this one, too!

Besides, no black folks were harmed; and who cares about Whitey and their troubles these days?

That’s so Old School. *SMIRK*


52 posted on 12/12/2014 7:25:14 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: HMS Surprise

Aim small, miss small! :)

Is it a Bad Thing that I’m ready to snipe Zombies from my third floor sniper nest? Think those California Zombies will make it all the way up here to Wisconsin, looking for food, water and shelter? I need some live target practice. ;)

JUST KIDDING. Sort of. Maybe.


53 posted on 12/12/2014 7:30:01 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: AppyPappy

Yea.

And moaning about global warming, the drought (we’re all gonna die!), on and on.

Then it rains and the shrieking goes off on a different tack....

It’s ridiculous.


54 posted on 12/12/2014 7:32:23 PM PST by Regulator
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To: ElkGroveDan

OK I’m glad all y’all are OK.

A lot of the trouble is hype sensationalist newscasters that in previous times have overblown things....
so that when a real hellacious storm comes barreling toward soCal, people don’t believe it.

I nearly got caught in a nor’easter in NYC because somebody didn’t believe the weather guys...


55 posted on 12/12/2014 7:32:49 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Maybe he could send buses from New Orleans to go save them.

Maybe Amtrak could set up free rides to Arizona.

Maybe he could go open that stupid woman’s garage door.

So many options, so little time.


56 posted on 12/12/2014 7:32:53 PM PST by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)ams./?s)
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To: eyedigress

“Maybe he could go open that stupid woman’s garage door.”

Seriously? That’s WAY above his Pay Grade! *SMIRK*


57 posted on 12/12/2014 7:34:42 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Kartographer


58 posted on 12/12/2014 7:35:19 PM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: MeshugeMikey

What I mentioned in #55, the media sensationalist hype designed to

(oh, I don’t know what, Maybe a popularity contest?)

rile people up?

Get better ratings than the other channels?


59 posted on 12/12/2014 7:40:19 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: Kartographer

“Guess nobody told him he could pull the cord and put his garage door up manually.”

Georgia Virgili: “You can do that”?


60 posted on 12/12/2014 7:41:44 PM PST by Rebelbase
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