It’s the End of the World as We Know it

All this late summer I was buying several cans of the one gallon sized Augason Farms dehydrated foods from Walmart.

I mean I would buy on average two cans every other day, I usually did this as I was in the store at 6am every morning to pick up my lunch and juice for the day, and after awhile some employees would start asking me how many I had, one person who rides the floor scrubbing machine I swear would go out of his way to zoom in on me every time just to chat.

And then it was the checkout people, and then people in the checkout line, all asking if the stuff tasted good.

But I could just not shake off the feeling every one never prepped and was trying to establish some sort of comradely just in case, so they knew where to go to mooch for food.

So my count is over 100 cans, but now I just grab on at a time on the most random schedule, call me paranoid, but don’t call me when you think I have to “Redistribute” my food stock.

Could be a nice place, up further north where I am they are getting tons and tons of Japanese debris on the beaches, most of our weather comes from Japan actually.

Funny now that I think about it...we just had like three major storms back to back flooding most of south central Alask, it was quite bad in some places, never this much rain in a short period of time, oh and we never had a decent summer, too cool.

It the location on the pan handle of Alaska would probably be away from the radioactive winds.

Wouldn't you be pretty much downwind of the gobs and gobs of fallout coming from the Chinese and Siberian missile fields? You're in that latitude, more or less ....

As redpoll was saying, that far north, you'd want to be in at least a local rainshadow, like the one on the east coast of the Olympic Peninsula -- like he said, damp mold veddy veddy bad for respiration, food, you name it.

You'd want instead a moderate climate somewhere between 35^o and 40 ^o latitude -- or SOUTH latitude. As in, a sheltered valley in the Chilean Andes or Patagonia with clean water and no unfriendly natives (a tough go in Argentina, google up our friend Ferfal, who now lives in Northern Ireland -- for safety).

If they'd let you keep your weapons (probably not), SW Australia, somewhere on the south shore facing the Archipelago of the Recherche (said he, having researched met atlases ages ago), might be a place to look. Or Tasmania, which is mostly horse country, but I think they grow truck there too.

Of course, they're probably both ass-deep in funnel-webs, and the waters full of blue-rings (they have them over in Victoria at the same latitude) and big hammerheads and great whites cruising offshore and coming up in the surf when they smell Drakkar Noir.

So inquire locally. Fire, as you know, is a big bush hazard in the southeast -- who knows about the southwest?

Some Russian and Danish astrophysicists and climatologists who have been busy debunking Michael Mann's "hockey stick" twaddle, think recent solar activity (lack of sunspot activity) bespeaks a slight reduction of solar output that might put us, they think, back in a cooling episode similar to the Dalton Minimum in the mid-18th century, when (until the early 20th century), canals in Holland and big glacial lakes in northern England froze over solidly for months every winter. (They don't any more.) In 1703 there was a legendary storm that chased Good Queen Anne into the basement of St. James's Palace (at the insistence of her faithful staff) and destroyed hundreds of ships in the English Channel. There were several years that featured summers similar to the infamous summer of (I think it was) 1962, when, the English said dourly, "Summer was on Tuesday." Crops failed, people went hungry, animals went to the knackers.

That all said, significant global cooling would mean famine as crops fail (like Greenland in the 1300's); in the Wisconsinian glacial epoch, the Mato Grosso was a savannah like the Serengeti today, without much rainfall.

Before the gradual cooling that commenced 4500 years ago (the end of the Climatic Optimum), there was no Arctic tundra, and the taiga grew to the (ice-free) water's edge of the (ice-free) Arctic Ocean, and broad rivers watered the Sahara and Arabia Felix (the "land of milk and honey").

Global warming equals higher precip equals food in plenty; global cooling equals global desiccation equals starvation. But people don't know that yet.

what would motivate an agenda to influence widespread expectation of societal collapse?

Maybe you should read up on Agenda 21.

Personally I think that we have a Global elite, and they are unhappy about all these useless food gobblers taking their pristine environment away from the rightful owners. Themselves of course.

“I didn’t realize those numbers. I’ll have to quote them to my mother who doesn’t understand why I don’t have a social life. I don’t consider a social life smiling and listening to morons talk.”

Your statement is typical of smarter people. They tend to select their friends according to their intellect (people who can understand what the they are saying), and don't want to waste their time in frivolous talk that means nothing. As a result, they tend to have less friends than those of lesser intelligence. And, less friends means less social life.

If your IQ is high enough to be in the upper 2% of the population, and Mensa indicates you are, that means 98 out of 100 people is less intelligent than you. That limits your field of smart people to chose from for meaningful conversation.

I've often said I have a character flaw because I have few friends and don't want an active social life because it wastes my time. Every time the opportunity presents itself, I don't do it. That is the same thing you did with the book club - you quit that.

“I’m a prepper because those who don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it...”

That is exactly why I prep. History says chaos will happen - nothing is static, change always happens and sometimes it is for the better and sometimes it's for the worse. It is for that “worse” that preppers prep.

I would say that high intelligence is difficult to manage because such a person doesn't “fit” comfortably with the majority of people.

The husband of my sister-in-law is a genius and he says people he knows have called him “weird”. He is because he doesn't fit.

Thanks for your post.

I appreciate your reply and understanding. I generally try to smile, be nice and compassionate. My older sister is generally just a short tempered, nasty biotch to people because she can’t suffer the less intelligent. It gets really old trying to make small talk, and make a joke or innuendo no one gets. And then, yes, people think I’m weird and don’t understand me. My ex-husband had a genius IQ, my daughter is near genius. Thankfully, she is patient, kind and tries to get along with everyone. The really important things though are that she has common sense and wisdom.

Working in a teaching hospital, I couldn’t believe the number of doctors that were supposedly the best and brightest that had no common sense. The top student of my nursing class tried to ambulate a double amputee. I’ll take common sense over brains any day. The two should go hand in hand, but they don’t. That hits the core of why to prep. Some of us figured out, that gee, if the truck can’t get through because of snow, flooding, etc, (never mind the apocalypse) it might be a good idea to have stuff on hand because the sheeple will be clearing out the stores.

When we entered the first Gulf War, I said to my dad that it might be a good idea to have some extra food on hand. He cocked his head and thought about it as I pointed out that ration cards were issued in WWII, and who knew where the war would lead. I was bowled over he actually took my advice. Maybe growing up next to farm country with the idea of storing food for the long winter gives one a different perspective. It’s just hard to understand how we got away from that idea in such a short time. How many storms, hurricanes, floods, etc. do we have to go through before people wake up? I guess we have to say “Zombies” to get their attention.

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