Posted on 06/06/2010 11:52:21 PM PDT by Windflier
Here’s The One Hour Meltdown I mentioned yesterday.
Preparedness/Survival ping!
I make a mean one-hour meltdown, with five cheeses, tuna, multigrain pita, and tomatoes.
thanks for putting this up. this scenario is exactly how I have felt for many years on how things will go down. FAST. great article.
Not a chance. The nobles never give up power voluntarily.
Ping.
It is. In another thread, someone mentioned cost-benefit analysis, the implication being that no rational individual would seek this sort of chaos much less engineer it. But here's the problem: we're not dealing with 'rational men'. We're dealing with monsters.
The only 'cost-benefit anaylsis' these monsters care about concerns who is left to rule from atop a heap of rubble and corpses.
A new feudalism (or worse) and a world lit only by fire will suit them just fine as long as they they believe that they will be the ones in the high castle.
Most of us dead. The rest of us in chains. That’s their cost-benefit analysis.
There is no where else for me to go so I am preparing to ride it out where I am for as long as I can. My children will most likely come here, if they can get here.
I tried getting out of here for Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Ike and will not get stuck on the roads again, ever.
Freepmail me if you want to know what I have done to prepare to ride it out here.
Great post - that said - because so many live in a state of denial - it might take a few extra hours. Even criminals want to be sure the mob is with them...
Ping!
Safety deposit box is probably one of the least safe places to keep things.
Start putting some food away: things with long shelf life, batteries, water or water purification, gasoline if you’re able. Health and budget permitting, get yourself a weapon and the training to use it, with a minimum of 250 rounds of ammunition.
If you live in a city, do you have a place to go that would be safe?
Yup. Our debt is exceeding the GDP and these fools keep adding to the tab. This mad dash to spend is unsustainable and what these idiots don’t understand, is that at some point it has to be paid back before it collapses. But they are too busy trying to engineer a socialist state to care.
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2010/06/05/u-s-debt-to-surpass-gdp/
Check my tagline. I bought 5 so that when neighbors come to take my water, they can help make more instead.
I do live in a rural area and have a 20 gauge pump Winchester and a little colt cobra revolver, but I do want to get some more ammo...
My kids laughed when I started to put up canned goods in the basement, and one Christmas one of my daughter in laws got me some MRE;s from the base close to her house, we all got a good laugh at that one...I keep telling them to buy spam and ammo....Spam will outlast a nuclear blast. Another freeper said to not forget twinkies, they have a shelf life of about 100 years....
My kids don't take it too serious, but I do with this nitwit president we have...and the middle east with nukes...
I remember during WW2 everyone had a fruit/canned goods cellar in their basements. Also lots of home canned stuff.
On the other hand, if we get nuked, hope it lands on my head, then there is nothing to worry about...:o)
I kind of think ammo will be the coin of the realm and not money.
That actually sounds pretty good right now. I think I have some freeze dried tuna down in the bunker.
I was fortunate enough to find 10 and some metal ones for other uses.
If you live in a Blue Zone City, that might happen.
Away from the mega centers, it will not be Armageddon
THX THX.
Will likely get to it this evening.
"You don't need to move to the unexplored wilderness in Alaska. You don't need to move into the heart of the Arizona desert. You just need to relocate to an area that is more lightly populated than a big city. The area you select should meet the following minimum criteria:"We definitely did the right thing 11 years ago when we moved to northern Idaho. Work's hard to come by, but not so much if you're willing to work for less - or do something else entirely. Fortunately, we both know how how to garden, fix things, brew beer, reload ammo. Two of our horses are natural drafters. And I can teach any number of subjects from from my extensive hard copy library.1.It is not on a major freeway or interstate. CHECK.
2.It is at least several hundred feet above sea level.CHECK
3.It is surrounded by farm land, dairy cows, and other typical farm livestock such as horses, pigs, sheep, goats, and chickens.CHECK
4.It has a history of good average rainfall (not too much rain or too little rain).CHECK
5.It has a reasonable supply of trees and forest timber land.CHECK
6.It has a few nearby manufacturing facilities of any size.CHECK
7.Its residents still have the right to own firearms to protect themselves.CHECK Do we ever!
8.It has short mild winters.NOPE! Keeps the riffraff and Californians out. But I repeat myself...
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