27 Prepper Precepts Complete

Get Ready Portland ^ | 4/27/12

[Kartographer]

I have my own moral code that is based on what I think is important, and I follow that more than any rule, law, or policy. I take pride that anyone that wants to know how I will react to a situation (speaking of moral situations not tactical) can normally guess my answer if they understand my basic precepts:

[JRandomFreeper]

Pretty much. I had never had my faith tested right up to the door of death. It was good to know that it was strong, and I was ok with going to my heavenly home.

Not that I recommend the experience.

/johnny

[patton]

Never been there, myself. Well, the odd tank wreck or two, getting shot at, running for cover - but those were all accidents, and the best I could think was, “Oh, my - this is going to hurt.”

I was usually right.

[JRandomFreeper]

“Oh, my - this is going to hurt.”

Yep. I've thought the same myself a few times. But the blizzard slip/fall was the worst I have done. Broken ribs, punctured pleural cavity, broken vert, spleen and one kidney turned to puree. Alone, at night on the side of a mountain with snow falling. Wound up with hypothermia and frost-bite. Spent 2 weeks in ICU/trauma care. Docs called the family from Texas to NM and told them to expect to take my body home with them.

As a result, I'm not scared of much anymore. I've been through it once, and though I would like to die in bed, in my sleep, I'll take what comes.

/johnny

[Uncle Ike]

“Oh”, uhhhh, “my”??????

;)

[Pollster1]

Glad you liked it, but someone will complain in...3...2...1...

Re: #2. . . . I want my food storage to hit its shelf life unopened. But I feel better knowing I have food insurance. I store food that I eat regularly. My prepper food will last my family a year in an emergency, even without supplementing from the garden and hunting, but everything gets rotated out before it expires, at most after three years. I like the sentiment behind your post, but at least for my budget and my substantial storage space, buying and storing extras of the usual groceries when things are on sale works well.

Re: #17. . . . I would have a hard time swallowing a meal if I refused to help a hungry child, widow, or a disabled person. God gave us free will; he also was clear about the consequences for bad behavior. I'm with you, and I'll even help a healthy man with limited common sense but the willingness to work. Someone moving through who will chop a day's firewood (even if I don't actually need more wood split) can have food for that day and an extra day's food to take with him. I have enough to share with those who will contribute, and I will share - with appropriate caution.

Re: #25. You have to practice your plan, thinking is not the same as talking, and talking is not the same as doing. One of our family disasters came a week after a walk through of the disaster plan. It was a phenomenally terrible experience, but it would have been even worse without the walk through.

[atomic_dog]

My prepping story for this week.

I keep most of my non-perishable stuff in the garage. As I add stuff I tend to stack it up by the inside door to be put away "someday soon." So spring cleaning was the order of the day and when I got under two stacks of what I thought was freeze dried food I found a bunch of ammo that I did not even know I had. I tend to keep track of my ammo better than my food and I found other ammo I knew I had but I found stuff I was completely unaware of. Have you seen the prices of bulk ammo lately? This really saves me some money.

I know, pics or it didn't happen.

1200 rounds of 5.56mm
600 rounds of 7.62x54R Polish light ball on 5 rd stripper clips for the Vintovka Mosina.
1120 rounds of Yugo M67 7.62x39, also on stripper clips.

[Lurker]

Those Mosins are some great rifles for the money.

[M1903A1]

One that I would add, from the book “Deep Survival”...”Be Here, Now”. Be aware of what’s going on around you.

[Marcella]

Lastly this for the doubters and the scoffers.”
“Glad you liked it, but someone will complain in...3...2...1...”

The list is a healthy mindset.

As for doubters and scoffers, I don’t get any of that as only a few family members know I have “stuff” and they don’t know the extent of it. They don’t worry about me if a hurricane comes my way and takes out power. They don’t live close to me but they know if disaster happened, they would be welcome here.

Prepping gives peace of mind. Doubters and scoffers don’t have that.

I wrote a series of 20+ prepping articles on Survial Podcast. That has helped many people prepare. Send me a Freepmail if you want information about getting there to read those articles.

[Marcella]

My post was to all to Freepmail me if you want to be directed to the articles on Survival Podcast.

[Cold Heart]

Series of 4.0+ earthquakes at both N. end & S. end of the Juan de Fuca plate last couple days. 2 of them today.
Geologist have claimed this is not significant in the past but the number of them seems to have increased since they last said that.

[The Duke]

I also believe that there are conspiracies. In fact, there is a crime called "conspiracy" (and Webster Hubbell was convicted of it back during the Clinton administration).

I don't believe that conspiracies always run flawlessly or achieve the results desired by the conspirators, but I certainly believe they exist.

To not believe in conspiracy is to not believe in the Mafia, for example. I believe in the Mafia.

Honest people don't believe in conspiracy because it's not part of their makeup.

[outofsalt]

Florida seems to have caught Texas’ drought from last summer. Good luck in the garden.
I grew up in Cuba where many folks used cisterns and barrels for rain water catchment and when sailing we use tarps to top off the tanks. I remember as a boy that one of our rain barrels was a frog haven which my dad used for baits. Ribbit!

[ScottinSacto]

That is a very fine list.

[metmom]

I don’t deal in conspiracies, men do evil things on occasion, and groups of evil men do bad things, but the shear amount of people that would have to be quiet to pull off a “shadow” government is impossible for a bureaucrat to manage.

You may want to reconsider that one......

A lot has changed in 6 years.

[avenir]

Thank you for download!

[Kartographer]

Sorry Mom, I won't second guess he who knows all.

"For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open." Luke 8:17

[metmom]

I was thinking the *deep state* that we keep hearing about.

And it is being exposed, I believe as a direct answer to much prayer.