So I ask considering the financial situation and the damage being done by hackers is it really to much to do the following from the article?
Top tips to start prepping
Keep at least a week's worth of food in your house. Tinned foods are best
When it comes to vehicles, anything built pre-1980 is a better choice. It will be easier to repair in the event of an emergency because it's mechanical rather than technological
Get hold of the basics: A good sleeping bag, water filtration tablets and a decent knife
He also suggests limiting your reliance on technology, filling up a couple of spare jerrycans with petrol and learning how to filtrate water. Seasons can also play a part - if it's cold, how are you going to heat your house?
Preppers’ PING!!
Hipsters everywhere:
“Instagram is down, just explain what your lunch looks like!”
‘If the internet goes down, half the planet will have to get out of their chairs...
We got a small taste of internet loss last week.
My fiber optics box took a lightning strike and fried the device that converts to the coax output. We had no internet for 3 days. Had to rely on watching DVDs and locally stored streaming video.
Try using your ATM card during a power or Internet outage. No Starbucks for you.
“Preppers are the ones that’ll survive long after the rest of us have gone”
Nope. It will be the government and the military. They will
confiscate everything and kill anyone who stands in their
way.
Would we have to get Al Gore to reinvent it?
I started off this year with my internet and cable dead. I’ve got DVDs and books. I survived.
I remember the world before the internet (kind of). barely.
The Internet is self-healing. Governments could shut it down by forcing companies that provide the backbone communications and servers to shut down, but no hacker could do it.
P.S. Totally agree that if the Internet were to be shut down that society has become so dependent on it and has removed all other processes that chaos would result. We far fewer paperwork processes, fax processes, phone ordering, etc.
Anyone have some interesting ways of storing things outside of your home because of limited storage space inside the home? I’m talking things that you wouldn’t really want exposed to the elements and also kept at a reasonably stable temperature.
If the internet goes down, slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
If the internet goes, we’ll have to pull up stakes, go west, and get us some internet.
The list has been pinged. "make your time"
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For when the INTERNET goes down and quits working completely (Sorta like Congress only funner)I've created a FRee Republic Emergency Ping list (as suggested by mitch5501 ) called:
The "The INTERNET isn't working" ping list:
IF you would like "ON' or "OFF the list FReep Mail me OR ping me in a thread with your request. This will not be a High Volume Ping list (Well at least we hope the INTERNET doesn't quit working frequently)
"So let it be written. So let it be done." The List: mitch5501; Rocky; Pajamajan; Mad Dawgg; hoosiermama; SE Mom; null and void; BenLurkin; bigheadfred; redhead; berdie; Old Sarge; wyokostur; GeronL; TheOldLady; ducttape45; Gefn; IYellAtMyTV; Redcitizen; LonePalm; garandgal; Fiddlstix; bt_dooftlook; liberalh8ter; Mercier; Truth29; PA Engineer; citizen; bleach; Greetings_Puny_Humans; TangoLimaSierra; Chickensoup; rexiesmom; FourtySeven; RinaseaofDs; RikaStrom; ozarkgirl; Grimmy; Jet Jaguar; silverleaf; tcrlaf; Red Badger; mumblypeg
The biggest problem peppers are going to have, early on, is that it won’t be hard at all for nearby zombies to figure our that the peppers have stuff.
