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Can’t they just use their Y2K leftovers?
Men of all sorts of races and creeds have been surviving for thousands of years, so I would say no.
Raised prepared.
A man who can can is a man who can.
I’ve been a Prepper for a looooong time. Came with being very poor for a number of years and sometimes not having enough to eat. But I also never forget, Jesus feed 5000 MEN, that wasn’t including the woman and children. With a few loaves of bread and a few fish.
For anyone interested in long term storage of food, if kept cool and dry, 30 year shelf life for whole grain hard wheat is easily obtained. Once cracked or milled, it has to be used fairly soon or the released oils will oxidize and turn it rancid.
We don't use it for breads etc. just hot cracked wheat cereal. Easy to prepare the overnight way and love the nutty flavor. We have used both hard red and white wheat, slightly different flavors, but both are great.
We have had our old style SS Vita-Mix for about 20 years, and it is still as good as the day we bought it. But any good similar unit should suffice.
How to make hot cracked wheat cereal-Click here
I live in a place surrounded by 3 [or more] sites destined to be instantly vitrified.
Not much point in “stocking up” if you won’t even live long to see the pretty flashes.
It is somewhat baffling that most people in this country are willing to think that being prepared for disasters is kooky.
Some of this mindset comes from this almost religious faith that “the government” will always take care of us. It wouldn’t just let us starve or be without shelter, or fail to protect us from thieves and looters....and worse.
I hope the authorities will help in the event of disaster. But I’m not a loon for having a plan B. I damn sure don’t have this “faith” that the government is or will always be fair, generous and benevolent. That it will never turn on me. That would require an ignorance of history and a naivete that I am simply not capable of.
Not that many years ago I lived in Lakeland, FL. The eyes of 3 hurricanes passed over Lakeland in about 6 weeks! No power for one of those weeks. I remember what happened in Dade County after Andrew.
This is what our society has come to. Responsible preparedness is viewed with scorn by the elite, our betters. How presumptuous of us. We are ridiculed by by incompetent bureaucrats and politicians. Laughed at by media morons and Hollywood halfwits that couldn’t cook their own meals or change their baby’s diaper.
A person that plans on weathering disaster and protecting his family is a “survivalist”? Just how would we then define the head of a family that would starve in 5 days without the 24 hour grocery store down the street? Who has no means of protecting the lives of his family or the family’s property? A “suicidalist”?
Just who is the ignorant bumpkin here?
For those not inclined to make any effort to prepare for emergencies and lay in some food and water, remind them of the lost souls wandering around in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina beging for water.
How many hundreds or thousands didn’t even have the common sense to fill up a couple of empty bottles or jugs with tap water before the city water went down?
And it’s not as if they didn’t have ample warning the storm was on the way.
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.
I don’t store food, I store lead.
.22, 7mm mags, 30-30, 12ga, 410ga, .22mags, etc.
These little jewels have an unlimited storage time and you can use them to get all the food you need. Furthermore, it does not take up much room to store it.
Simply go to your food-storing neighbor and he will gladly exchange food and not even take the lead in trade. In some cases, if the good neighbor refuses, then......he may have to be forced to take the lead in exchange.
Do these “Preppers” realize that if we were ever to experience what they think may happen, the world will instantly become the worst nightmare anyone could imagine? People with food would instantly become the targets of the other 99.99% who did not store food and who will come to trade with lead, steel (knives) and wood (clubs).
Then, what happens when the food runs out??????????
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Back before 1975 no one (except me) had a survivalist mentality. You almost could not give away assault style rifles (exceept to me). Everyone wanted hunting rifles.
Then people began to learn about the Government’s “MAD” (Mutually assured Destruction) program, and the total failures of the incopetent Jimmy Carter put everyone on edge.
Survivalism began to raise it’s head about 1976 when the late Mel Tappan began his series of articles in GUNS AND AMMO magazine, and his book SURVIVAL GUNS.
Survivalism was then on a roll! No gun show was complete without lots of books on survivalism and many authors made the rounds where they suffered the ridicule of hosts such as Phil Donnahu.
Survivalism took a hit when Reagan brought in stability, but later some endorsed the Y2K debaucle. but those of us with level heads did not fall for it.
Society did not fall as was expected, but now we have Democrats worse than Jimmy Carter in power so be ready!
Morning my FRiend.
No.
I am a survivalist of one.
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I’ll try to remember to ping you to these threads, if you like. Thanks for the pings you sent before.
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