Posted on 04/14/2015 7:28:54 PM PDT by Kartographer
Bad Strategy #1: “I’ll just hunt and live off the land.”
Bad Strategy #2: “I’ll go into the woods and live there.”
Bad Strategy #3: “I’ll bug out on foot for 73 miles through the mountains, even though I don’t regularly exercise.”
Bad Strategy #4: “I don’t need a group. I’m going to go it alone.”
Bad Strategy #5: “I don’t need to store food, I’ll just take everyone else’s because I’m a bad-ass.”
Bad Strategy #5: “I don’t need to store food, I’ll just take everyone else’s because I’m a bad-ass.”
Bad Strategy #7: “I don’t store food. I store seeds.”
Bad Strategy #8: “I’ll just run a generator and continue on like nothing ever happened.”
Bad Strategy #9: “I’ll just use my fireplace for cooking and heating.”
Bad Strategy #10: “I’m going to hunker down in the city and scavenge what I need.”
Bad Strategy #11: “I’ve got my supplies, and now I don’t need to think about gloom and doom.”
Bad Strategy #12: We’ll set up a perimeter and shoot anyone who breaches it.
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Who wants to live forever? I’ve lived a darned good life and I’m too blessed to be stressed. Heck if I’d want to live post SHTF, scavenging cans of dog food and the like...
Amen! I am doing the same thing. God bless you!
Lektrikity is good.
I’ve been through several hurricanes.
When the main roads are too congested for traffic to move people will take back roads without having the slightest clue where they are going.
The road that leads to my property had a sign that said Dead End but it didn’t make any difference. They still drove down it and had to turn around when they got to the dead end.
Main thing people have to get off the main roads to try and find gas the gas stations on the main roads run out pretty quick when you have a mass evacuation out of a city.
I love the scene in “The Road Warrior” where Max and his dog are wandering through the wasteland and finally sit down to take a break. Max looks over at his dog, shrugs, and finally digs out a can of dog food from his pack. He works the can opener, pops the lid off it — and eats the contents. When he’s done, he tosses the can to the dog, who licks the inside.
Thanks for the ping!
Amen! This Earth is not our permanent HOME!
That's known as prey.
The mid 1800s were relatively civilized and wouldn’t require a specific skill set unless you had the desire to go live out in the mountains.
I got my bulldog—a breed used in pulling contests—a harness backpack. He’s carrying his own food, my accordion and some more stuff, or he’s going on the menu.
I run a tight ship.
Second or third that thought!! I’m just passing thru. Anybody else declare they got right with God as their first prep?
I beg Jesus to come into my heart daily
Me too (bookmarking)
Not bad, and I have heard many of these ‘plans’ discussed here. Such as: “I’ll just go out and shoot me a deer when I get hungry.” The problem is that there is enough wildlife for about 1 to 2 percent of our population. Farms are very, very, efficient.
Same for growing food. Sounds really romantic...until some locals show up some night just prior to harvest to help themselves first, or as they mentioned - disease, bugs, animals, who knows. Not to mention the fact that it takes a LOT OF CROPS to come up with the 2,000 calories per day that a person needs. Try doing the math sometime. Buy canned food - THAT SIMPLE. It lasts for at least a decade before you really notice deterioration...but still edible for another decade. Also, depending on what you buy it can have a very high calorie count. Similar for pasta and rice, very high calorie densities and very low prices (relatively speaking).
There also seems to be an emphasis that everything has to be totally renewable. I’m not sure that’s the case. If one uses gasoline to run a generator - then yes, forget it, you’ll run out in a week. Use the same amount of gasoline cooking food on a stove or running a Coleman lamp, and it can easily last you a year. That may not be forever, but it is very long time.
But my favorite has always been them crank-powered radios. I’ll put up a $1,000 against anyone that thinks their crank-powered radio will outlast the batteries in one large package from Costco. I suspect the cranks on these things will break off in about 45 minutes. It is simply very expensive to design and build moving parts like that capable of lasting more than a short time.
But still a lot of myths debunked. I remember the Argentina guy talking about surviving an economic meltdown over there. Even after the meltdown, someone who strapped an AK and several clips across his chest like Rambo would simply get picked up by the cops and committed to the happy house. It wasn’t that simple.
Insight:
Learn how people lived in colonial times. It worked.
All you electricity and ammo will be stolen or used up. Learn how to make your own ammo and be skilled enough to clean water and be able to exist comfortably without any electricity at all.
Well the idea is you train yourself so you won’t have to do that.
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.
I just wonder how many could accoplish half of what Our great great grand parents did? They managed to tame a continent with far less than the average person has today without prepping.
Thank you. I’m blessed to read your reply.
Thanks for reminding me. I need to dip the jaws of some special pliers in Plasti-dip in case of a toothache that oil of cloves won’t soothe, and add it to my GTHOOD bag.
Johnny even now I would give up half my preps to have you at my side in SHTF!
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