Posted on 04/05/2013 6:46:29 PM PDT by Kartographer
You are soooo right. At least you get some advance notice. We have tornadoes with little or no warning. We have a basement, but I would like to have it reinforced.
That’s a Hubby job, and he isn’t moving very fast on it.
We don't have basements here, wish we did but our water table is so high here, you'd have a swimming pool instead of a basement. My downstairs bathroom is the safest room in the house so that is where the Yorkie and I go with some big cushions to put over us. I keep a survival backpack in that room as well.
I truly admire your grit. I got to have my basement in order to weather the storms during tornado season. I wouldn’t want to hang around during a hurricane either.
Of course, I try to forget all about the New Madrid Fault Line. We had an earthquake around 3.5 or 4 a little while back. I didn’t even realize it at first.
I thought that the helicopter was just flying too low and causing some reverberations. By the time I understood what was happening and jumped up - it was over.
Where we are is better than being in St. Louis or New Madrid, but not nearly as good as where I grew up. If I had it to do over, I probably would not have moved here for a lot of reasons only one of which is the weather.
Why July 1st?
People don’t riot in the winter.
America haters want to permanently ruin, take over, or co-opt the 4th of July.
It takes about 3-4 days for tempers to really flare.
The 1st and 15th are Mil paydays and EBT recharging days...
Good thinking, I hadn’t thought of it like that.
True. Moochers will go lawless, they are already living a jungle morality (taking what they can get). Producers will do most anything to be allowed to keep on producing.
In Before YardStick.
I completely appreciate Matt's exploits post-Sandy. The only quibble I have is the timeline.
I pointed it out a long time ago on another Prepper thread. The veneer of civility will peel away not within days, but within HOURS of the event.
1977 - NYC Blackout - grid goes offline at 9:30, riots/looting start 90 minutes later;
1992 - Miami with Andrew - the looting started even before the winds died down;
1992 - Los Angeles - trial verdict announced, the city burns an hour later;
2005 - NOLA during Katrina - chaos starts hours BEFORE the storm makes landfall;
2011 - London, UK riots - protest starts at 6PM, riots start three hours later;
Folks, the breakdown of civility is only a Molotov cocktail's throw away...
I don’t know how to reply all so you may want to resend this. I completely agree with you. Governor Christie and the power companies made damn sure to get power and gas to the inner cities right away. Newark was down for just a few hours. The only reason we had three days before things got out of hand was because I live in a rural area of NJ (yes, they exist). Once the crowds found out that 2 or 3 stations by us had generators and could dispense gas it was utter chaos. I went to make a quick run to town and it took me 4 hours to get back because the hordes had descended on this one gas station and there was no way to turn around. I learned a lot that day.
Oh, and a new time is open us. The hordes used twitter to broadcast which gas stations had fuel. There was a hash tag #njgas that directed thousands of people to these stations. That power could be used for good or evil
You might want to consider a Tri-fuel kit for your generator. I got mine from US Carborator. I can now run my Generac on gasoline, propane, or natural gas. A 100 lb tank of propane will run my house for about 3-1/2 days and it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than gasoline at 4 bucks a gallon.
Anytime during American History up to 2007 and with the exception of the CW years.
Propane has a better shelf-life, too.
I dont know how to reply all so you may want to resend this. I completely agree with you. Governor Christie and the power companies made damn sure to get power and gas to the inner cities right away. Newark was down for just a few hours. The only reason we had three days before things got out of hand was because I live in a rural area of NJ (yes, they exist). Once the crowds found out that 2 or 3 stations by us had generators and could dispense gas it was utter chaos. I went to make a quick run to town and it took me 4 hours to get back because the hordes had descended on this one gas station and there was no way to turn around. I learned a lot that day.
Oh, and a new time is open us. The hordes used twitter to broadcast which gas stations had fuel. There was a hash tag #njgas that directed thousands of people to these stations. That power could be used for good or evil
To back up what Matt tells us, the rioters and looters in London in 2011 did the exact same thing. They used Blackberry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook to coordinate the riots and warn each other when the police were coming and where.
I think it's about time I post something I wrote about it all...
It sure does. We have 25 gallons of Sta-Bilized premium gas stored which we rotate through annually. But for long term generator fuel, it’ll be propane. We are saving to have a NG feed from the house installed but that needs to be done professionally.
That way we will have 3 possible fuel sources for electrical power for our home.
“Congregating with like minded people is going to be all important.”
I think the American fighting spirit cannot be overcome by any enemy, foreign or domestic, however one of the major weaknesses I’ve observed is that many of the self reliant, self prepared, or heavily armed and trained in our midst tend to be loners.
Finding them will be dangerous once the SHTF, because at that point they will rather shoot you where you stand in order to protect themselves, than to get to know you and see if you prove a reliable ally or a drain on their resources or outright threat.
That said I love you all and when the SHTF, I will at least ask the question, possibly at gun point, “what is a Freeper?”
If you can’t answer that question, it’s strike one.
Thank you.
That’s why,if we can, we should know who to congregate with when TSHTF.
Adaptation shows us that some frogs will be resistant to the higher temperatures and will hop out of the pot. I think of these frogs as the saviors of the Republic. You will find many of them within the confines of this forum.
It may be our only hope.
Thanks Sarge. I hope this reaches as many FReepers as possible.
Ooooo, that is so positively devious, I just might incorporate that...
We had two major outages here in Conn recently—Irene (Sep of 2011) and a freak Oct snowstorm (also in 2011). Many places were without power for 8-10 days each, within a month’s time.
My town was out 8 days with Irene. We never lost power for the snowstorm. Our gas stations were *mobbed* because we were the most northern town in eastern Conn with power. Twitter, Facebook, emails, phone calls, whatever. We had people from all over the state getting gas at our local stations.
It never got out of hand like you describe, but it was eye-opening.
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