Posted on 09/19/2013 9:14:50 PM PDT by Kartographer
Though the government would like us to believe there is rarely looting or panic in the aftermath of a disaster, the fact of the matter is that within 72 hours of any serious crisis people will lose it.
Case in point: Acapulco, Mexico.
This week flood waters and landslides ravaged the resort town of Acapulco and stranded a reported 40,000 tourists, leaving them without food, water, or any means of escape. Major roadways into and out of Acapulco have been blocked by debris, cutting off recovery efforts for the city’s 680,000 residents.
With the city devoid of law and order, and emergency responders overwhelmed, looters hit the streets in a matter of hours.
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
Preppers’ PING!!
They are so screwed.
From the brief reports I’ve seen on the msm, it looks awful down there. I haven’t heard anything regarding what the State Dept is doing to get U.S. citizens home.
One day that technology trap is going to get us, the threads holding civilization together get thinner and thinner.
The Mexicans need to adopt exceptionalism and embrace personal responsibility.
Rural people are in much better position to cope......When the SHTF in the cities, nobody is going to have a clue.
Mississippi suffered terrible damage, but Louisiana got all of the airplay/attention. Most of the LA folks sat and waited for the government to come "fix" things for them, while the people in MS got busy and started repairing their own homes, (tree limb removal on) roads, etc.
It's sick.
Mexico is an extremely rich third world country. While not a total dictatorship, it’s pretty close being an oligarchy with an old European class social system.
The only reasons we tolerate them is 1) supposed cheap labor which, of course, is really paid for by the tax payers through welfare (suck it corporations and if we need cheap illegal labor then why does the gov’t keep raising the minimum wage?)
2) Oil. Mexico is still our #2 foreign oil supplier. Canada is #1. Venezuala is in the top five I believe. Which begs the question why so much Middle East involvment when, statistically, they are not a large supplier overall.
Hell, one ANWR and we don’t need Mexico on down. Keep Canada as a partner with pipelines and natural gas and nuclear electrical generation and to hell with everyone else.
Sheild Israel and let the rest burn.
I live in small town USA, in a rural county. Most people only travel into town once a week for groceries-some less often.
Most people I know can make it quite a while on their own. We have had lots of power outages, tornadoes, and other natural disasters - many lasting way longer than 72 hrs.
So far, none of those have led to widescale rioting or looting like this. All we ever have is the usual criminal element occasionally engaging in breaking and entering etc.
Could be that generalisations from urban areas don’t translate well to rural areas.
John Effin is right on it........
The first thing Mexico needs to do is adopt the rule of law and end the system and the culture of bribery(’’La Mordida’’). Don’t see why it should be so hard.
Aren’t we told how much Mexicans are hard-working, salt-of-the Earth types with solid family values? Now would be a good time for Mexicans to do what I always say they should do and put the freakin’ effort into fixing their country instead of screwing it up and running away from it and destroying ours.
Don’t ever believe what you heard from MSM.
Prepping on $10 a Week, by S.W. Michigan Fred
http://www.survivalblog.com/2012/03/prepping-on-10-a-week-by-sw-michigan-fred.html
You don’t have to buy the expensive freeze-dried stuff. There’s plenty of stuff you can buy off the store shelves on the cheap that will keep. Rice, spam, oatmeal, can chill, soups....
Take a look at me prep manual for ideals. Start small, slow and stead gets you there.
You can download the whole manual at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
And More
Also there is Ferfal’s Blog a survivor of Argentina’s first collapse:
And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
I don’t ever believe MSM. I avoid MSM.
Per capita it has more billionaires than any Western nation on Earth. But you'd never know from all the bs put out about the ''poor, hungry but hard working Mexicans.''
Odd choice of words.
People in third-world countries fix local problems all the time (without the fancy language).
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