Don't come knocking on MY door

World Net Daily ^ | May 22, 2010 | Patrice Lewis

[Mtn Pass]

In Glenn Beck’s book “The Overton Window” these people you call grasshoppers are referred to as “eaters”. Probably the same ones in those flash crowds in Philadelphia.

[econjack]

Didn't say it was. All I'm saying is that, given the author's doom-and-gloom forecast, it's unlikely they can put up enough to outlast the future the author is suggesting.

[econjack]

Me. It’s that dictator thingie again...

[ChocChipCookie]

1. When the subject of insurance comes up, talk about preparedness as insurance. It can’t be canceled and the rates never go up.

2. If the subject of the economy comes up, tell them about people you know who stocked up on food and supplies, paid off their debt, paid ahead on their utilities and were able to survive through a time of unemployment without losing their homes. We had to do that one month, so you can refer to me if you need to.

3. Natural disasters and severe weather cause all sorts of problems, and those who prepare in advance and think through the scenarios, what they will need, the decisions they’ll need to make are much better off than those who do not.

4. Give up. In fact, if you talk TOO much about the whole idea, all you’re doing is planting more seeds in their minds about coming to your house. If you can buy enough of everything to support them, great. If not, there’s no point in going on and on about what you’re doing. Just be ready to say “Sorry, we barely have enough for ourselves.”

I sincerely hope things don’t become as difficult as we fear. There’s nothing I would love more than to look back on all this ten years down the road, with house values soaring, unemployment at 4.5%, and say, “Well, I can probably give a lot of this food to the food bank.” I would love it, but that just isn’t the way things appear to be headed.

[Ancesthntr]

CCC - Thanks for this post and for your blog.

Both of you (and all) - I have read “One Second After.” Very sobering book, as is “Lights Out” by Halffast (soon to come out as a book, about an EMP event as experienced in the South Texas area) and numerous other books and articles about the same. One that came out recently is here: http://www.survivalblog.com/2010/07/how_long_can_you_tread_water_b.html

I just saw “The Road” for the first time this weekend. As my wife said, it is a dark, DARK movie - and though the cause of the world being as it was in the movie isn’t entirely clear, my best guess is that it was an EMP strike (all the clocks stopped at 1:17 after a flash) followed by generalized nuke strikes. Very, very sobering.

For everyone out there - an EMP strike or a solar storm on the scale of the 1859 Carrington Event would destroy modern civilization as we know it. We’d be instantly transported back to the pre-electric era (with very, very few exceptions), but without the knowledge or tools to survive. Further, back then (pre-1880 or so), the land simply could not support even close to the number of people we have now. There are not the stocks of food to help people last until the next harvest, nor the stocks of seed (non-genetically modified, so that the seeds of your new veggies will breed true the next planting) to even HAVE the next harvest. People who think that meat comes wrapped in cellophane at the grocery store will tend to have little stored away, and will panic almost instantly (because the water won’t run, nor will their stoves, microwaves or coffee-makers) - and in their panic they WILL turn to looting and cannibalism.

I hope and pray daily that we never witness such an event, but hope is not a plan. Bad things, VERY bad things, happen. You can’t stop them, but you can blunt their effects with a little foresight. I think that the most effective preparations that anyone can possibly make is to convince one or more others to become more self-reliant and to store some food and non-GMO seeds, among many other things. The more people that do this, the more time that the beast of starvation is held at bay, and with it the more time that some sort of semi-civilized and organized society can survive to deal with the crisis at hand.

In the meantime, I continue to learn, to buy more equipment and store more food, water, medical supplies, etc.

[mo]

We need these.....

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html

[PatriotGirl827]

How cool is that?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Make a list :

1. WATER,,,

2. Ammo,,,

3. Food,,,

4. Everything else,,,

The first 3 must be in that order,,,1,,,2,,,3,,,?,,,

Your life depends on this...

[Ellendra]

Smell it first, check to see that it looks ok (a lot of things can effect the color without effecting the safety of the food, that’s a whole ‘nother book), then make sure that in the course of preparing it it gets heated up to at least 180F for at least 10 minutes.

I recommend Jackie Clay’s blog to anyone starting out canning, she’s the one I learned from: http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/JackieClay/

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Make sure any food that is canned at home is well heated,,,

BEFORE YOU EAT IT!!!...