Posted on 10/30/2016 4:35:44 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Sharyl Attkisson's Full Measure News has a feature about how vulnerable the electrical grid is to disruption. It didn't take an EMP over Kansas to convince me, my family was left huddling in sleeping bags during the day time for 4 days by a tree branch shorting out a transformer at the end of my block.
In 2013 some people didn't see the Bosnian War Survivor's list of 101 things you need to survive. #1 on my list is 'anything pertaining to 'How to eat' without electricity--a generator is a white elephant. Somewhere in the top 5 is going to be 'at least $500 in silver coins', $25 coins are too big, I'd get some small coins like dimes. Surely in my top 10 is going to be guns & ammo. The police don't come even now when there's shooting, are you going to be worried about you carry permit when there is no cellular service even to call them? (Gotta go…)
Ping.
Here is the article:
Bosnia War Survivor Warns of Things to Come in Collapse of America
www.thesurvivalistblog.net/bosnia-war-survivor-warns-collapse-america/
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America is not going to collapse.
Will there be disruptions? Of course.
After November 8, 2016? We shall see.
Interesting.
It will be the ‘disruptions’ that will get you killed. And, the closer you are to a highly populated urban area those ‘disruptions’ become more likely - VERY likely.
Don’t live in them, near them, or easily accessible to them in the first place.
I live in the Big Nothing.
Entire population of the county is under 6,000 people.
You’d have to live in the desert to be more remote.
We lost power for 14 hours last week. It’s amazing how unprepared we are. And I can’t convince the head of the household to prepare.
I envy thee. Good shootin' Tex.
" 'Emergency Supply List Bosnian War Survivor'"
(Religious war/ neighbor against neighbor, and necessary survival items, and avoiding dangerous conditions)
I like to hunt. Especially Quail. Have since I was young.
There are more quail now than in any prior time in my life. Same for deer. (we don’t have much pasture land)
I reload and beefed up the supplies for that 2 years ago. That is still developing undertaking.
We have a meat processing building at the farm. With commercial meat processing equipment & walk-in box.
Selco survived the Bosnia conflict and has a lot to say about how he did...
Worth a look...
Every so often, we have ice storms here or that’s what they call them. Rain/mist/snow aka “wintery mix”, temp drops and it freezes, repeat, repeat, repeat. Pretty soon, every surface has 2 inches of ice including branches and power lines. Happens just as a cold front comes in with single digit temps. No electric for two weeks in the cities and longer in rural areas. No driving anywhere. Can barely walk on totally flat ground. No walking on slopes.
I’ve got family in FL and in recent years, they’ve lost electric for two weeks due to hurricanes or mini twisters from T-storms.
Two weeks is a decent length of time for storm prep.
Can’t convince the other half? Do it yourself. A two burner coleman camp stove and propane/fuel for it, canned goods incl meat, pasta/rice, some candles, TP, water, instant coffee. Buy a little at a time and stash them. (or hide in plain site for food items)
Hope that big nothing has water.
My parents were without electricity for six weeks after hurricane Frederick in 1979. I still have the gasoline Generac generator my father bought for that...runs good too. I have my own 13kw propane generator and 800 pounds of gas too.
Soros will be real mad if Trump wins. All his little elves (Democrat/Communists) will set about destroying thinks before Trump has a chance to 'fix' them.
Yes. City water is good local source. I have a well at home in town which is good quality.
At farm the well water has some gypsum but good quantity. And we have a lake driven rural water supply system. We are remodeling home at the farm and plan to put in rainwater recovery system. Have huge barns which could be easily guttered to supply feed. The house itself has a new metal roof that would do the same. (it’s about 2700 sq ft) We may do both for gardening water supply. Well water is not so high in gypsum that it cannot be used, but there is some accumulation in the soil.
Greg Hunter recently interviewed this guy about near-term upcoming changes.
Clif High-Silver the Metal to Own-Huge Demand Coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ULa63HbNA
I didn’t know there were propane generators. I’m going to look into that.
RE:
“We lost power for 14 hours last week. It’s amazing how unprepared we are. And I can’t convince the head of the household to prepare.”
“Can’t convince the other half? Do it yourself. A two burner coleman camp stove and propane/fuel for it, canned goods incl meat, pasta/rice, some candles, TP, water, instant coffee. Buy a little at a time and stash them. (or hide in plain site for food items)”
Very sound advice for a difficult dilemma.
People usually resist accepting the seriousness of future crisis events due to inherent Normalcy Bias, ie:
Things almost always go as normal - until rarely, they don’t.
Make sure you really address having sufficient water per person, per day for food and hygiene, in case city water or electric for your water well pump is out for a prolonged time.
1 gallon to drink and cook with per person per day,
2.5 gallons to wash with and flush with resulting dirty gray waster wash water.
Survival needs rule of thumb:
Nearly three weeks without food
Three days without water
Three hours at thirty degrees exposure without warm dry clothes or shelter
Three minutes without air
I’m not sure what your family’s self defense weapon situation is, ie: any firearms?
That’s right at the top if the SHTF
If spouse is adamantly anti-gun that’s not good.
Options: wrist rocket sling shot, compact compound bow & arrow, crossbow, pellet gun, Orion Flare gun at very close range (with water nearby to extinguish fire ;n)
Communication (for information / SITuation REPort updates)
Small battery powered shortwave radio
So much to consider...there’s good knowledgeable people here.
Prepare for the worst, and hope for the best.
“We lost power for 14 hours last week. It’s amazing how unprepared we are. And I can’t convince the head of the household to prepare.”
The best way to prepare is to pretend you have no electrical power nor any gasoline or diesel available. By simulating a no-energy scenario you’ll find out just how unprepared you are!
I have some. Ingot silver and numismatic silver. And some numismatic gold.
Not a lot, but some.
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