Posted on 05/06/2011 8:20:22 PM PDT by Kartographer
At Red Dawn: Hunting, Survival, Recreation, they specialize in homesteading, emergency preparedness and first-aid.
Owner Gaylon Cornsilk first dreamed up this concept about a year ago.
The doors have been open just six months and business has exploded.
Cornsilk says, "This was kinda born out of a passion to see people prepared for any kind of emergency, natural or man-made. We are growing exponentially everyday. Obviously there's an air of people starting to notice and want to prepare for what's going on around them."
Donna Harper manages the store's long-term storage food section.
Some of the pre-packaged emergency food rations last five to 25 years; the rations sell out so quickly they cannot keep enough on premises.
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Only if I live a few ridges away from yew and yer kin. But if all heck breaks lose, don’t expect an even remotely “democratic” activist government to be the big threat. Anarchists need to get along reasonably well with their neighbors, no getting past that. Otherwise, if endless border wars don’t get you, inbreeding will.
Excellent point! Their are always those who believe that they are special and nothing bad will ever happen to them. Its only common sense to lay a bit aside for times of need just like insurance you buy it an hope like hell you never need it, but you buy it! Several examples of those special people who think they can just muddle through anything with nothing.
Make sure none a yew city folk insult Kartographer’s hound. He’s liable to take offence. He might even take yer fence.
Some people do learn the hard way. My little brother who is just starting to get into prepping learned a valuable lesson this past winter. When a storm left them without electricity for 3 days.
Surely just a minor inconvenience when compared to Katrina and such. But he couldn’t get water from his well for his family or his chickens nor did he have any heat. I had been badgering him to put in some milk jugs of water some extra food, fix his wood stove and possibly buy a small generator. This “minor inconvenience” could have been avoided altogether had he listened.
If he had done those small tasks he would have had water for the initial few hours till they realized this was going to go on for an extended period. Then they could have plugged their well’s jack pump into the small generator and pumped water to refill their jugs. The wood stove would have kept them warm. Needless to say on my last visit I found all these things taken care of.
No, I’m the Culligan man.
Even many of the younger, working class enviro-lefty useful idiots of big corporate-government propaganda are moving more toward old fashioned perspectives of self-sufficiency and getting involved—at least in my area. Some are very genuinely friendly with conservative low-techs and interested in learning. The (socialist) antagonists among them tend to recede and go away. The young hairballs willing to learn and work are welcome, IMO.
Liqudity’s a good thing too. Gold isn’t portable, and not everyone is willing to trade oatmeal for toilet paper :)
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Cool. You may take over half of the known world some day!
I can appreciate your frugal lifestyle although I have seen people in Urban America certainly do likewise when behind a rock and hard place...and that without “a paycheck to go further” as you stated. Nor did they accept any assistance.
They learned thru this what was truly of value in life.
Interesting I just read of N.Koreans fighting off yet another famine there. It was reported foremost in most minds is how to obtain food for the day and everything about the day surrounds that 24/7. In order to expand the very limited rice available they are going to the wooded areas for bark and leaves to mix with the rice...some do so without rice.
I am always reminded of their plight and how very “rich” we are as a nation..still. Even the poorest among us generally have options. N.Koreans have none.
I can relate to downsizing ones lifestyle. It is really quite amazing how we can do without many of the things we see as necessary....and be actually happier. But I don’t think many can adjust to doing this once they’ve lived a comfortable monetary lifestyle. It does require a great deal of re-working ones life.
But doing that in Alaska? I freexe at 70 degrees! Don’t know how you folks handle the long hard winters there. I am certain I would not endure it well at all.
I was in Ohio under a Tornado threat. Having never needed to plan for any such event I asked around from those in the know. It wasn’t long before my bathtub was full of water and most every container I could find for drinking/cooking water. I learned thru that to at least keep ahead a bit just in case.
Insurance against the gov...a good thing!
I don’t give a damn what liberals think about me. And, by the way, if they want to come after my stock, they better be extremely well armed.
Good advise.
“Why should I prepare it will just all get destroyed or I won’t be able to get to it or we will all be dead so it doesn’t matter.” If you wait until the disaster hits, you will not have any options. Most people don’t know that most grocery stores only keep a 3 day supply of food and water. If disaster strikes and you are not prepared, you will stand in line, perhaps turning to violence with concern for your family, to get whatever rations that they sell. I don’t plan on being at the grocery store..Prepare, it is the only smart thing to do.
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