Posted on 04/28/2015 9:25:27 AM PDT by ClaudeDavis
“Most of us are so used to running out to the supermarket or to Wal-Mart for whatever we need that we never even stop to consider what would happen if suddenly we were not able to do that. Already the U.S. economy is starting to stumble about like a drunken frat boy. All it would take for the entire U.S. to resemble New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina would be for a major war, a terror attack, a deadly pandemic or a massive natural disaster to strike at just the right time and push the teetering U.S. economy over the edge.” - Steve Quayle (Source)
Plus the current debt ($18 Trillion) is nearly as much as the country produces in a whole year. In the short run, the economy and voters benefit from deficit spending. In the long run, a growing Federal debt is like driving with the emergency brake on, further slowing the U.S. economy. At any point, debt holders could demand larger interest payments to compensate for what they perceive as an increasing risk they won't be repaid. When this happens, the United States will have to pay exorbitant amounts just for the interest.
So don’t be totally surprised if one day you hear it on the news, and the next week you’ll lose your job or you can’t sell anything or you go to the store just to find out that bread costs $40 and all your money will go into buying food, preventing you from paying you credits, bills or rent...
(Excerpt) Read more at askaprepper.com ...
Perhaps you misunderstood my writing - I said people COULD prepare by researching and reading about preps that people said worked. Then, I said, experience helps and points out errors and better ways to do things.
I've read every word, I think, that Selco has written. I've also had communication with Selco as he read prepping articles I wrote on another website. He approved of my articles - imagine that, “Selco Approved”. :o)
Through Selco and others who have been in war zones, I learned a great deal on how to behave during war, what to expect and how to deal with it. Selco is a Paramedic and I especially noted how he dealt with illness, wounds, and hygiene caused illnesses, as I was a licensed EMT and know how important to life medical care is.
I hope I, and you, never have to use preps except for weather events like the hurricanes or ice storms, I, and perhaps you, have already been through with many days of lack of power.
I was agreeing with you and using you as a prime example.
NOW you tell mw! ;>)
You know, drift, no one knows the future. Because I don't, I have life insurance and that insurance is a way to have water, running water, COFFEE, food (including seeds), shelter, security, sanitation, medical care, heat, cooling, reading recreation, bit of candy, little adult beverage, tea, and on and on to make life more pleasant should trouble happen.
I just think it is up to me to provide what I need to live if outside sources go away. Some people seem to think we shouldn't do this. They are free to think that, but I don't understand the dumping on us some do, as though we are wrong to be able to live without the power company or water company or every day grocery shopping.
If I flip a light switch and the light doesn't come on and isn't going to come on again for months or years, I won't panic. If the water tap has no water in it, and it isn't going to be there again, I won't panic. I have life insurance that I provided for myself.
Also, the best prepared person in the world has a solid bunker with everything including an operating room and a surgeon, and we paid for that. Since your and my money built and maintains the finest in the world for Obama and family, damn it, I'm worth as much as he is and I used my own money to make my place of refuge.
Good luck to all of us.
lol
About 48 hours is Laz limit.
In fact, I do that a lot. ;)
So go for it, Kart. I appreciate what you do.
/johnny
I’m not prepper either, but I do believe in being ready for emergencies, especially power outages, tornadoes, and earth quakes. I have food storage to save money and also control the content of ingredients that are in my canned foods.
In the winter, a person can only go about 3 hours without shelter and heat. You can only go about 3 days without water. You can go about 3 weeks without food. Course you can only go 3 minutes - maybe less without oxygen.
I have the oxygen covered. Several tanks and an O2 conserver. Oxygen concentrator and a generator for backup electricity. On my wish list is a battery pack for the concentrator.
Our house is shelter, but we also have several tents for back up shelter, and mattresses that can be used in the van as an additional option.
With two fireplaces, and enough wood stacked for two winters, wood is one source of backup heat. There’s also the generator to use with plug in heaters.
We have about 25 gallons of bottled water, a well, and a swimming pool of 4000 gallons of water. Plenty of bleach and water filters. Water comes before food, and we are fortunate in Missouri to have a nice rainy season and we are able to harvest the rain water.
Hubby will rewire the pump, if we have long term electrical outage, so that the generator can be used to run the pump for short period to fill up buckets with water from the well to replenished the empty bottles, five gallon buckets for cooking and brushing teeth etc.
On my wish list is an automatic switch or a switch that I can just flip to switch from the grid to the generator. I feel we need to work on additional ways to get water from the well, but I am satisfied that we will have plenty of water with what we have. Worst case we have to hike to our 22 acre site and get water from the creek.
Rather than buying expensive “emergency food”, We stock up on stuff we eat anyway, when it goes on sale. If there’s a good price on chicken, we buy about 25 lbs. Some is to eat now, some goes to the freezer, and the rest gets canned in our pressure cooker. It can be eaten straight from the jar, heated briefly, or used to make casseroles or soup.
We do this with chicken, turkey, ground beef, beef roast cuts in cubes, pork loins, and pork ribs, and pork roasts.
We also have canned ham, chili dog sauce, tamales, and cheese in jars. The tamales, chili, and cheese are ingredients to make a casserole we like.
We try to keep a case of 12 of each of these. That’s one meal a month from each category(2 meat sources per week). The ham and chili casserole give us a third meat dish every other week.
We have fish once a week. We have one case each of tuna and salmon. Two cases of canned clams. That gives us tuna and salmon once a month and clam chowder twice a month. The salmon will give us two meals, so usually that’s salmon salad of some sort, and freeze the rest to use for salmon cakes two weeks later.
I don’t discuss the ammo and gun situation since that all of what little we had was lost in the river on a canoe trip.
The freezer is full right now. We just bought a side of beef and split it. So we have about 1/4 of a beef in the freezer. We have several boxes of various types of fish such as tilapia, halibut, cod etc. The rest of the space is filled with veggies we grew last summer and some butter and cream cheese, and home made tv dinners.
We are gradually moving from buying canned vegetables to canning, freezing or dehydrating them at home where we can control the ingredients, as well as zero pesticides for the food we eat. Grow your own organic produce it’s cheaper than the non-organic factory produced food that is nutritionally deficient.
As we use stuff from our immediate use shelf, we move a replacement from the oldest long term stock, and write down what we used. Next time that goes on sale, we buy enough to replace what we used.
Anyway. Survival is time is short without water, so definitely get going on it. Sorry for the long post. Just kinda got going like the energizer bunny.
Wow great info thank you for taking the time to post such a big reply i have tons of can goods dry food Dinty Moore stew its a fav from child hood it aint that good as an adult but its pretty hearty stuff again thanks
I live just outside the ghetto by knotts berry farm in the OC
Our reasons are for healthier food at a cheaper price, but it's winds up leaving us pretty prepared in many respects. We don't buy stuff that we don't eat on a regular basis.
I should have mentioned that we grow spinach, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, herbs, and lemons indoors during the winter. Also have a winter garden outdoors. Winter wheat and rye. Lettuce, spinach, and carrots under row covers and the occasional 100 watt bulb which we began stocking a supply several years back.
We also planted a “postage stamp” orchard in 2010, and are hoping to get some apples, peaches, and pears this year. We have wild black berries, persimmons, walnuts, butternuts, hickory nuts, Rosa rugosa(for rose hips)and we planted some additional fruits like blueberries, black berries, and such.
Life is good! The backyard can yield a fully nutritious diet, so if the grocery was not available, we'd be ok.
I am glad you enjoyed my post. Best wishes on your endeavors.
So true. With TV and the Internet, you can see things that happen and what mistakes were made and with planning, perhaps avoid making those same mistakes. Knowledge is useful.
Of course, many of us have had experience with natural disasters/emergencies. However, in the USA we have been blessed with relative peacefulness on our soil for many years.
So learning by examining experiences in other countries can be useful to understand how things could develop here.
As usual, you have nailed it.
Wanna adopt me and my wife we are clean speak english and are hard orkers id so love to get out of the city slash ghetto
Yep, the commies dream in the 1960s to ignite a race war has come to fore once again. Our strength of belief in God and country seemed to sustain us then. It remains to be seen whether the commies and their sympathizers will be successful this time around.
Plenty of useful idiots helping them this time around.
AMEN! Well stated, Marcella.
” Go from the foolish man......”
That’s the best advice for these sorts. Best to let them live in their ignorance than to waste time responding to it. You have good advice, let the advice speak. They can use it or ignore it - their choice and they will reap the consequences of whatever the do or don’t do.
Oh, I should have also said, but you probably already know, that most canned goods are safe beyond the use by dates. However, taste and nutrition might have degraded a bit.
We usually buy only the amount we can use within those parameters. For example, if we use a jar of peanut butter per month, and the use by date is 18 months, then we would buy 18 jars.
This is must have item for our kids, so we have been growing a few, and collected some recipes to try so that when the stash is gone, we can make our own.
Any plans to move?
No, but if you want to move to the eastern side of Missouri and live near a small town, there’s a house in the neighbor that’s for sale, I’m sure you would make a good addition to the talent pool.
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