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The same thing happens when a nation collapses. Everything is fine until it isn’t. Look at how quickly the situation deteriorated in Greece. Or Argentina.

I was in Mongolia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Visited one of the former state run farms, these were huge operations. I walked through one large livestock building, it was stripped. My eyes started at the top and worked down and you could just imagine what happened when the phone call came that USSR was broke. Upper Management grabbed all the cash and fancy cars. Middle management grabbed the machinery and livestock. The employees were the last to know and grabbed what they could. Then my eyes looked down and saw that the manure chain was still full. NO ONE RAN THE MANURE CHAIN THE LAST TIME - IT HAPPENED THAT FAST.

The upside is that life went on, it wasn't the same but it went on and that will be true for us also.

That is how it always seems to happen one day everything is normal, then a week or two of gorwing unsettleness and then BAM! SHTF!

What you have discribe what you observed in Mongolia after the collapse of the Soviet Union is so very close to what Ferfal in Argentina and Selco in Bosina discribed when SHTF in those two places.

I find Selco’s posting as being must READ! You can reviewed them here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2798007/posts

Selco;s blog is here: http://shtfschool.com/

FerFal’s blog is here: http://ferfal.blogspot.com/

Black clouds cover the horizon, the lightening is flashing and there is the distant sound of thunder! The storm flags are going up, will you heed them?

I am very aware that if it’s the great end that there is nothing I can do to stop or change it, but history is full of instances and times when man or nature have caused such a calamity that people have cried out and begged God to end it all.

The bible has many verse such as this:

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3

This verse and others are there for a reason and I urge all to take heed of them, because we are clearly on the edge. Everyday there is a new story about the ‘Yutes’ who grow more restless everyday and when you add the fact that because of the economy people are already on edge it won’t take much to set things off.

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:

“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.

Today we have ‘yutes’ who roam our streets who are with out morals, without respect for law or life itself. They will look are you with the same ‘doll eyes’ a shark does before he eats you and they will feel no more compassion than the shark does.

That will be the test of many. Most preppers I know are Christian people and they will hesitate to do what they might have to do to stop the ‘yutes’. On the other hand the ‘yutes’ won’t think twice nor lose a minute of sleep, in fact they will smile and laugh about it.

For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:

http://www.tomeaker.com/kart/preparedness1i.pdf

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, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.

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

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