Posted on 03/21/2015 8:37:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The U.S. is seeing a growing number of “preppers” or survivalists who prepare to live for months at a time in the event of a disaster. CCTV America’s Sean Callebs reported this story from Atlanta.
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There are those who believe you have to be prepared now, because the end will come in a flash. A pandemic flue nearly 100 years ago, for example, killed as much as five percent of the global population.
Preppers say they’re ready to survive in the worst scenaro.
“I had a friend who described it very well as — there’s those who prep because they know they need to and there’s those who prep because it’s a hobby. With me it’s a hobby,” James Knight, a decorated military vet, aircraft mechanic, and self-identified prepper said.
Rice, and other grains are frozen – vacuum sealed with oxygen to preserve it.
Catering to “preppers” or “survivalists” is big business that generated at least $600 million a year. There are even prepper conventions.
If it says survivalist on it, people want to buy it.
Some items are cheap while others are expensive. For example one can spend up to $290,000 for a 2,800-square-foot concrete-and-steel-reinforced underground home.
“Our structures have ten foot ceilings and 12 foot ceilings. We have all the amenities and the custom finishes of your traditional home. The only difference is we don’t have windows,” Bobby McLennan, founding partner of Safe Home Structures said.
Take it easy, newbie.
If I can make it 250 miles to the family lands, I'll be alright. I know the land. I know the people. I know the terrain. I'd be over 120 miles from the closest inner city and about 70 miles from the closest city of 20,000 people.
And yes, I have my ammo and can shoot. Gun or crossbow. There's advantages to both.
Oh, you must be an "AppyPappy first-timer" - he seems to enjoy getting a rise out of folks - a grain of salt won't do, you'd need the whole salt-lick....
You have 72 hours after shtf to get there.
Oh so you want to point out where that post is inaccurate?
gltu
I do the same (when a price is too good to pass up); unfortunately that is normally near the end of a product’s life cycle...
It was unnecessarily rude.
All that Protein gone to waste,
dark Humor.
/s
I guess people out there are preppers already; our lesson was mild in comparison. Katrina was another good drill; people who thought they could ride it out ended up appearing in the streets a couple of days later when their Cheetos ran out...
I heard one guy talking on the radio post-Sand, and he said people really had to think of their vehicles as lifeboats; the idea of sheltering in place doesn’t always work. After both Katrina and Sandy, some impacted areas haven’t been re-built to this day...
Sorry, that's not true. What builds society are family and opportunity with limited government. Volunteerism and good will and honesty come from a society with liberty and opportunity. If you don't have opportunity, you are no good in the charity department.
Not in my case, it is merely sales leaders, just as new to the shelf as everything else, but the supermarket is using it for that weeks special.
Another benefit of stocking up at such low prices, is being able to wait for years until the next price reduction that you want.
It has been several years since I bought 120 cans of tuna at 33 cents per can. I waited for years to see that price again, but recently I gave up on that price, and stocked up at 50 cents a can.
That’s a nice price (even at $.50).
DEFINITELY on the plastic. They have short expirations and I’ve thrown out stuff 6 months after that date, as it was so badly disclored it was hopeless. The same food, Mandarin Oranges, in this case, lasted forever in cans.
Not even close and I’m still mad about having to dump the food.
Oh, man - I'm just reading in the Old Testament where Jerusalem is under siege and they are eating anything and everything.
But I digress - I just don't store THAT much salt after all....
Your neighbor is naive or a bad judge of character.
But know his other neighbors of character will leave you to bleed out before you get down the road after such an act, if not head you off. And then head to YOUR house.
Absolutely shameful statement. Justifiable, imho, if your neighbor is a hypocrite prog/lib, but that is NOT what you wrote.
If you can’t defend it, you don’t own it.
It depends on what you give to charity, cash, or time and labor.
One doesn't have to have a good income to be serving his fellow man and practicing altruism and honesty and free good will.
All I am saying is in the latest year tabulated 2014, America set an all-time huge record trade deficit with China:
342 billion dollars. That is (way) up from the year before, and unacceptable.
America needs to buy things, made right here in America.
What business did you start that hires people?
“Internet would be out which will distress many.”
The Twitter/Facebook/texting/email etc withdrawl would be real ugly to see.
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