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US Families Prepare For 'Modern Day Apocalypse'
Sky News UK ^ | 12/22/2014 | Dominic Waghorn

Posted on 12/22/2014 5:56:30 PM PST by bkopto

An increasing number of Americans seem to think so, and they're preparing for the end.

They call themselves preppers. Mainstream suburban Americans hoarding supplies and weapons while leading otherwise perfectly normal lives.

It's a national phenomenon and it's supporting a doom boom industry worth many millions.

Braxton Southwick is a typical father-of-six in Salt Lake City, who believes the nice suburban neighbourhood he lives in could soon be swept away by some kind of modern day apocalypse.

Like other preppers, he's afraid of some impending catastrophe but also what that will do to American society.

"I think that is what I'm scared of the most," he told Sky News, "Not the actual events. I've already prepared for that. It's the aftermath, when there are no police, there are no military to protect us, we're going to be protecting ourselves."

The trigger could be a terrorist attack, a monetary collapse, cataclysmic failure in power generation, or a natural disaster. Preppers fear what comes next and have no faith in either their government or human nature.

"Once people use up all their resources, they're going to come after the people that prepared and had more resources. So basically we have to take care of ourselves."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


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To: Kackikat

Who doesn’t enjoy snuggling down with a good book. The best is an old cookbook. The older, the better.

I was half raised by my grandparents. Learned about farm animals from my grandfather and to garden and cook from my grandmother. Too bad those times are lost on the current generation.


161 posted on 12/24/2014 8:53:02 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

Hi;

I love Susan’s knowledge and confidence - it’s inspiring to a scaredy-cat like me. This summer I will try some of the acid things, to get started.

My family came a little later. I picked 1630 to be safe, because I couldn’t recall the exact, earliest date where my genealogist aunt found record of us here. (She took it much further back in England and Wales; and knowing that stuff makes history really come alive!)

I will dig out the records someday soon, and figure out the real date.

JT


162 posted on 12/24/2014 9:13:20 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

I was our family’s genealogist. Granny would say they’re all dead and gone so who cares. One time while visiting granny’s wackadoodle sister, her husband took us out to the horse barn where we found a box of old family photos which he gave to me. The horse barn! Rats, bugs, rain, snow, hay dust and manure! That got me started. Those ancestors became real from photos and letters. Sadly, the kids couldn’t care less. Some of the original documents were donated to the University of Texas but apparently they don’t care either because they were never catalogued and now lost. Some things are ready to be sent to Texas Woman’s Univ but I don’t want them treated the same as UT did. Other items (we never threw anything out) have been sent back to the small towns the family came from and they’re appreciative but those museums seem to be dying out and are being packed up. Anyone know where to send family history where it’s appreciated?


163 posted on 12/24/2014 10:27:17 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

It always amazes me to think that it’s only two steps of acquaintance from me, to my grandma, to Civil War era relations...


164 posted on 12/24/2014 11:13:12 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: bgill

This is an interesting site; though I don’t know much about it:

http://www.usgenweb.org/


165 posted on 12/24/2014 11:17:57 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: MSF BU
My menu varies, I can go from one menu to an entirely different one easily;

When I was a kid the menu was easy, beans, potatoes, cornbread, wild greens(edible weeds)

166 posted on 12/24/2014 12:48:48 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: itsahoot

...and you turned out just fine. There you are. Actually, in my case, I’d probably benefit from a diet like that, at least for a few months. My heels, arches and tendons would be appreciative.


167 posted on 12/24/2014 7:04:26 PM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: MSF BU
...and you turned out just fine.

Some might debate that but in any case I managed to outlive most of those folks.

168 posted on 12/24/2014 8:34:09 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
How are you going to operate your well pump with no electricity? Your water table is probably too,low for a hand pump (not enough suction head) If you have an electric generator, how long is your fuel supply going to last? Do you store 500 gal,of fuel? 1,000 gal? 10,000 gal

How about a 1400 gal cistern that takes a couple of hours to fill with a generator and a couple of gallons of gas. I can go a long time. I also live on a lake and have a number of "Water Straws".

169 posted on 12/24/2014 9:06:00 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: wrench
How will the creek water get to the house? You will get 1 or 2 flushes from a 5 gal bucket. It gets old fast toting those uphill.

Those activities will become part of your life and you won't have a lot of the normal distractions if the SHTF.

170 posted on 12/24/2014 9:10:05 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: bkopto
I'm into canning both my produce and going to the farmers market and orchards for additional canning products. This allows me to both prep and store up canning jars which would be both much needed and in great demand after a SHTF event. Gas prices right now makes for a good time to stock up.

I have about a 100 issues of that old hippie magazine "Mother Earth". Among all my prepper food I have mucho Chili Powder for any critters I may have to harvest to add to rice, beans, corn etc.

171 posted on 12/24/2014 9:30:58 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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