Posted on 02/12/2012 7:41:15 AM PST by blam
Yup. You don't care.
Well SPORT you showed your yapping, insignificant little ass up on this thread didn't you.
Why is everyone posting the same thing several times?
Sooner or later there will be a hurricane and you will be without power for several weeks.
If you don't have what you need you don't get it because there is nowhere to get it.
Get hungry, get in line and let the govt hand you a case of MRE’s and a case water.
Sooner or later there will be a hurricane and you will be without power for several weeks.
If you don't have what you need you don't get it because there is nowhere to get it.
Get hungry, get in line and let the govt hand you a case of MRE’s and a case water.
FR is having a meltdown this morning:) Need to double click to get it to response this morning. I tried withdrawing all my funds from FR and it just locked up:)
FR is having a meltdown this morning:) Need to double click to get it to response this morning. “Service Temporarily Unavailable” I tried withdrawing all my funds from FR and it just locked up:)
That’s not what this article if focused on. Yeah, a little hurricane or earthquake preparedness only makes common sense, but all of this “end of the world as we know it” garbage is just more of the same old survivalist garbage that goes around about once a decade.
Pat Frank, the author of Alas Babylon, also wrote a survival manual about a post-atomic world. The fallout shelter mania of fifty years back produced much discussion about how to survive but Frank’s manual contained the following advice:
“The day may come when a pound of tobacco is worth more than a pound of gold.”
BTW, sure is a lot of talk on FReepers about zombies and how to eliminate them. The two topics are somehow related /s.
Anyway, check out the Vincent Price horror classic “The Last Man on Earth”. Masses of zombie vampires versus the last uninfected human.
I thought you didn't like this stuff...SPORT!
You're an ill-mannered, low-class punk to address and ridicule fellow Freepers in this manner.
You're old enough to know better.
Just go away, you're dismissed SPORT!
I thought you didn't like this stuff...SPORT!
You're an ill-mannered, low-class punk to address and ridicule fellow Freepers in this manner.
You're old enough to know better.
Just go away, you're dismissed SPORT!
Prepper Ping!
‘The One Hour Meltdown’ is in my Updated Preparedness Manual Rev J:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf
A number of years ago I found a very old can of “powered scrambled eggs” down in the cellar at my grandparents home. It had font like the old “western town” signs, lol. I asked my grandma what it was, and she told me about the depression. How even people that had jobs and small gardens were still short on food. And how many people had really suffered. So the government gave away some things to “help”, like those powdered eggs in a can. She also said how awful it had felt to take any kind of “welfare”.
She said she didn’t even know why she still had it down in the root cellar.
She also had a huge double deep-freeze chest down there. And shelves that were filled with home canned goods. Until they got into their seventies, she always canned a ton of stuff every year from the garden they grew. When she got older, she shopped the specials and sales, and kept her shelves LOADED even though there were only three of them living at the house then.
Her parents had been dairy farmers. It was simply a way of life to have a large pantry.
Over the years she had supplied her grown children, her grown grandchildren, and a great grandchild or two, with stuff from that pantry in the fruit cellar, and spare sheets, towels, pots and pans and dishes. We all shopped in Grammys root cellar. We all came on hard times, and she came to the rescue so we didn’t have to go get the “gubermint cheese”.
She also had a wood/coal cooking stove down there that they kept going in the winters. Things can get very unpredictable here in NY. There was no point in taking chances, and it kept the floors warm - which helped aching elderly joints. Such stoves are rare to find and expensive now.
We have a pantry. We use coupons. We were secure when the second massive flood happened in a four year period this past fall.
I remember how relieved I felt knowing that although all of the stores were closed, many roads closed, etc., we could get along perfectly well for at least several weeks. AND help the neighbors if they needed anything.
So many families here suffered for lack of foresight. They had to wait in lines for water and peanut butter.
It’s best to have a pantry like the old days, :). Sure beats the MRE stuff.
I’m always preaching the sailing lifestyle as the ideal survival platform...but you have to love the ocean. In this economy fixer-upper sailboats can be got really cheap if you’re a patient hunter.
That’s the problem with New Mexico, tons of beach, just NO WATER!
Then why did you show up on this thread?
You know, ours is probably the first generation this planet has seen where being prepared to be on your own is considered abnormal.
We don't live in earthquake, hurricane, or tornado country. We get snow and usually lots of it and some ice to boot.
Anyone who is not prepared to be several days at least without electricity or food is an idiot.
And for the record, if you live as far out in the country as some of us do, you WILL be prepared because it is simply not feasible to drive 20 miles to the nearest grocery store for every little thing.
So go ahead and be a good, little, dependent sheeple. Obama and his minions are counting on you to do your part by coming begging to them for food, water, and protection when TSHTF. You can sell them your soul for that if you want.
The rest of us will remain free.
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