Posted on 07/31/2011 9:23:53 PM PDT by Kartographer
What you would be looking at would be civil unrest in most mayor US cities and thousands of minor ones as well. Once the images of people looting and getting away with it hit the TV you’re looking at thousands of bums thinking of doing the same thing and rushing out the door to the nearest store. That gets bad pretty fast. You’re talking about looting, fires, closed stores, destruction of vehicles and private property, and given US context some gang related activity taking advantage of the lawless situation as well to settle scores. While invasion of residential properties wont be as common as the looting of commercial property, it can happen in several cases.
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You are way to kind to the dumb blonde. :)
Reading the article one thing jumps out at me again, something I’ve been arguing for a long time.
STAY HOME!!!
I hear references to people talking about bug-out-bags and bug-out-locations and I think well, dude, yur just askin to get yourself killed on the road, probably alone, in some far-distant place you are not familiar with at all.
Far better, far far better to identify and find resources and like-minded people near where you are and have a plan.
Bug-out is crazy. If anything serious was to really start, the roads would be impassable in the first hour!
I'm not going to criticize or be amused by someone who harvests a deer with a crossbow, just because I prefer to do it with a recurve or compound bow. We both got our deer and ethical hunters should support one another. Same goes for preppers.
Being the dumb blonde that I am, I think I finally figured out what old blowhard was trying to convey.
Depends on what you mean by bug-out and why you are inclined to do so. For some, bugging-out may mean grabbing your bag and heading up the hill behind the house to lay low for a few days. It doesn't always involve the roads.
We are blessed to have a place that would allow us to stay here for almost any event ... unless, of course, the government was paying us a visit, trying to 'help'.
It all depends on variables.
Yeah. Ya’ll stay home. It’s easier to find you and your storehouse of stuff.
Bug out could also mean that you just go to another section of the city you live in. A little scouting and you will find that there are usually any number of out of the way non discript place right in town.
“What you have to do is take them out of the boxes and break the plastic seal on the valve and snap it out in operating position to keep them from leaking.”
Wouldn’t that allow contamination of the water?
Very true.
No more so than it is already contaminated.
The valve remains fully closed, but the sleeve gets better seated in the valve.
Without the seal band, the valve could get jostled open but that is just a matter of care when putting them up on the shelf.
Not for nuthin, but if you have livestock upstream, make sure you have plenty of purification supplies.
>> “Not for nuthin, but if you have livestock upstream, make sure you have plenty of purification supplies.” <<
Humans upstream would of more concern than livestock, especially if they are Europeans, since giardia are rampant in Europe.
“I then fill them with water at a temperature just below boiling (mine comes out of the water heater at 200 degrees, so I use that.) This use of hot water causes the seal on the lid to reseal, and as the water cools, it pulls a vacuum and keeps the water even better sealed.”
Reminds me of how the ladies put up fruit and vegetables in mason jars when I was a kid.
“What we need: More people that can shoot like Tennesseans and fight like Texans!”
How about people that shoot like Mr. Magoo and fight like the Pillsbury Dough Boy?
>> “Bug-out is crazy. If anything serious was to really start, the roads would be impassable in the first hour!” <<
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The most likely scenario for urban dwellers is a portable nuke detonation, which requires either a good sealed shelter (hard to come by) or a quick exit to a preplanned, and hopefully somewhat prepared new location.
Safely sitting out a nuke would require at least two weeks worth of supplies and sanitation. That is a fairly tall order in the city.
“No more so than it is already contaminated.”
Thanks for all the information.
The last minute preps that are extremely important are documents. Do you really have those birth certificates, passports, vehicle titles, bank records, shot records, names/addresses/phone numbers/email addresses/frequencies, etc.? Check, check, and re-check. Check them right now and order or replace anything you find missing.
“...diarrhea degrades your aim.”
I had to laugh at that. It can be taken a couple of ways.
I very much suspect that if there was a nuke or dirty bomb event in an urban area, the city would be sealed. No in or out except for essentials.
No es favor, es verdad!
An unknown quantity.
Most likely city offices would have been the target, or close to the target, so much confusion would reign in the early hours.
Sealing not particularly likely; more likely a hearding of the population to shelters.
A hopefully limited martial law would probably be in effect.
I see sealing as a real possibility in the event of nukes or outbreaks (infectious disease) primarily because no sane person would want any of the contamination to get spread out any further than it already is.
Ouch! The truth hurts...
;-)
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