The Twilight Zone The Bomb Shelter (excerpt) - Do you really know your neighbours?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8otNjS4ePQQ
Posted on 12/19/2011 6:55:25 PM PST by Kartographer
Picture the scene: It’s the end of January 2012 and already it is clear the year to come will make that which has just passed seem something of a picnic. The last strains of Auld Lang Syne had barely faded before Greece defaulted on its debts. Over the next few weeks, Italy and Spain will follow. Across Britain and the Continent, bank after bank goes down, a domino effect exacerbated by panicking customers desperately withdrawing their savings. Where three years ago the giants of High Street banking were seen as too big too fail, now they are too big and too many for any Government to save. Panic ensues. Within hours, the cashpoints are empty of money and the supermarket shelves stripped bare.
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I can hear the neighbors now..."But George, you have a whole year's worth of food down there...surely you can spare a box of crackers and a little cheese so my pregnant wife can have something to eat.
They will start out being polite and civil about it but as conditions worsen, they will simply show up in the middle of the night with torches.
The true survivalists do not brag on how much they are storing away. They keep a low profile and when the crap hits the fan, they will pretend to be just as inconvenienced as everybody else. They will also not be firing up a generator at night as they know that will attract looters to their door like a porch light attracts moths.
I keep buying extra food and my teenage son keeps eating it. As much as I buy, he can pack away. And he’s still rail-thin. I hope that we don’t have a SHTF scenario until after he has enlisted and the USMC (that is, the taxpayers) has to start feeding him, so I have a chance to stock up again! :-)
That’s not really George and Karen Shaw silly...
The key is to be surrounded by as many like minded, prepared people as possible.
It won;t be pretty in the cities.
Nice!
I would hope not, for their sakes.
Home Depot has cases of 1/2 liter bottles of water for around 2.99 and 5 gallon bottles for about 5.50. So every time I’m there it’s one or the other into the cart.
My family will NOT suffer because I didn’t do my part.
Younger people whose parents don’t remember WWII won’t comprehend things like home front ration boards which relied on neighborhood busybodies and snitches to report on their neighbors who were hoarding rationed foodstuffs, tires, and gasoline in five gallon cans.
It’s ten times worse in Britain, IMO. Closed circuit TV on every street corner, police with entry warrants in their pockets, a disarmed populace and a culture that disdains gun ownership. And they also have Muslims. Hordes of them.
So glad I’m a `bitter clinger’. In America, future repression entails personal risk on the part of the oppressors unless each one of them is equipped with his own tank.
They will also not be firing up a generator at night as they know that will attract looters to their door like a porch light attracts moths.
Why I want solar panels....no noise.
Keep a low profile and blend in.
That’s what I thought.
Why the heck are some people bragging about their stash is beyond me.
Plus, I hope they have a generator to run that freezer. One that has no emissions and makes no noise. Looters will wander about listening for generators.
I have done the same. Easier to obtain than pre-1965 silver coins.
Easier to obtain than pre-1965 silver coins.
JUST what I was thinking...he better have twin .50 cal machine guns covering his doorway.
I am a long way from qualifying as a “prepper,” but I reckon I am more prepared than most. It is madness to assume that financial and/or social dislocation can’t happen.
I have my own well and my own septic system, living, as I do, out in the sticks beyond the availability of municipal water and sewer. That may turn out to be a blessing in the event of major civil unrest or terrorism: water lines can be cut, municipal water reservoirs can be contaminated, and sanitation plants can be disabled. Of course, both my well and sewer pumps need electricity. So, I have a propane-fired emergency generator (preferable to natural gas in my opinion, because gas utilities can be sabotaged) capable of running the pumps as well as providing power to all appliances as well as to some lighting. My heating system is half electricity, and half propane, so if one goes out, I can still be relatively comfortable.
Obviously, if propane delivery is interrupted, I’m in trouble; but I have a 1000-gallon tank for a relatively modest size house, and I keep it topped up. I could easily last a year even with a total loss of electricity and unavailability of propane delivery.
OK, my food supply may need work. But I have lots of wine, and three corkscrews as a hedge against failures.
The Twilight Zone The Bomb Shelter (excerpt) - Do you really know your neighbours?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8otNjS4ePQQ
Not in that picture they don’t...
Build one of these. I had mice and eliminated them getting into my stuff by keeping one of these operating 24/7. Just empty the bucket when you catch 'em.
It is something I’ve considered. Pretty cheap insurance, really.
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