Stocking up for Doomsday: As economists predict meltdown, meet the families ready for the worst

Daily Mail ^ | 12/17/11 | Tom Rawstorne

[southernnorthcarolina]

The key is to be surrounded by as many like minded, prepared people as possible.

It won't be pretty in the cities.

Exactly. For all the preparing and supply-stashing I can do, by far the biggest safeguard is living in a relatively rural area. That's a sad commentary on the human condition, but there you have it: in a time of crisis, the less contact with other people, the better.

[jimfree]

It’s a great TZ episode.

[diamond6]

If I was stockpiling... I wouldn’t let anyone know about it. Too bad my house is too small to really hoard alot.

[Kartographer]

I am thinking packs of Bugle Boy in mason jars and then vaccum packed.

[Lurker]

I am thinking packs of Bugle Boy in mason jars and then vaccum packed.

Not a bad idea, that. Thanks.

[unkus]

But being involved with an adequate number of good people is all important for many reasons.

[metmom]

That doesn’t look anywhere near like enough for a year.

I sure hope they have more squirreled away somewhere safe to live on when everyone else comes for what’s in the photo.

[unkus]

Sounds like you’ll do well...or much better than most.

That wine hedge is funny.

[Cobra64]

It’s a great TZ episode.

Yes it was. We've stocking up on food and emergency items for almost a year now.

[Chuckster]

The key is to be surrounded by as many like minded, prepared people as possible.

Maybe.

I think the key is to get as far as possible from other people, especially major population centers.

The way I live it is easy; on a sailboat with solar panels, fishing gear and a reverse osmosis de-salinator, loaded with a years supply of non-perishable food. I can get away and stay away for as long as is necessary. Bonus: I can go just about anywhere in the world without having to use any fuel except for cooking and heating. Riots in the streets? Just head offshore for a while. Come in close enough to pick up radio broadcasts occasionally or head for some remote island somewhere warm. Been doing it for years anyway.

[LibsRJerks]

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! :-)

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This is my problem also. I stock, but the kids find it and get into it. It’s really exasperating. I keep telling them AND my husband to stop, but they won’t.

[unkus]

Not everyone is on a boat.

[Travis McGee]

What morons, exposing themselves this way. Basically painting targets on their faces.

[Travis McGee]

I'm with you, I prefer "the escape-pod option."

[Gator113]

I hope he knows to rotate those.... ;>)

[unkus]

LOL

[unkus]

The Navigator is a lady, I would hope.

[oust the louse]

I got me one of those teenage eating machines. Can’t keep enough of everything in the house. He just chows....

[Travis McGee]

You bet. Same once since 1980.

[Cold Heart]

Find out what they don’t like. Stock up:)

If they are not cooks stock up on basics that requires some thought. #10 cans of freeze dried grains & vegetables.
Freeze dried sweet potato is a good base. I understand civil war armies lived off the sweet potato.