Posted on 08/25/2015 6:54:50 PM PDT by SkyPilot
If you have not been preparing for what is coming, you need to get off your sofa and you need to start prepping right now. Just remember what happened back in 2008. That crisis took most people totally by surprise. Millions of Americans lost their jobs, and because most of them were living paycheck to paycheck, all of a sudden most of them couldn’t pay the rent or the mortgage either. Large numbers of families that were once living a comfortable middle class lifestyle suddenly found themselves destitute. Well, this coming crisis is going to be even worse by the time it is all said and done, and it is not just going to be economic in nature. Over the past two trading days, the Dow has gone down more than a thousand points. The shaking that so many have warned about has begun. As this shaking plays out, you and your family will need cash, food, supplies and a whole bunch of other things. If you do not already have everything prepared, then you need to kick your prepping into overdrive because we are on a very compressed time frame now.
But don’t just take my word for it. A top adviser to former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown named Damian McBride is saying the same thing…
A former adviser to Gordon Brown has urged people to stock up on canned goods and bottled water as stock markets around the world slide.
And he didn’t just speak in generalities. According to an article in one of the most important newspapers in the UK, McBride is urging his fellow citizens to do some very specific things…
(Excerpt) Read more at endoftheamericandream.com ...
“This taught me the hard way to NOT store plastic water with the toilet paper...the jugs ruptured and soaked everything.”
Good lesson for all of us. We never know what the thing we’ll be prepping for will be.
A long time ago (in a galaxy far far away...) I was on vacation with my family at Cape Hatteras National Seashore near Buxton, camping in 18ft Twilight camper. The Park Rangers came through and told us a tropical storm was on its way and we had to stay in place because the bridge was closed due to the waters already being too rough. That storm barely broke in to Cat One status and just for a bit we even went through the "Eye" and experienced that calm and then the renewed incessant howling of that overpowering wind. I watched a man try to hold his tent against the wind, he failed. I was about nine it is the most scared I have ever been in my entire life (and since then I have been shot at twice with real live ammo and hit once.)
To this day when they report that a Hurricane is about to hit the East Coast the thought runs through my mind that maybe to be safe we should move further inland because Ohio is not all that far from the ocean.
If you try to find studies on the shelf life of foods packed for long-term storage, the only information out there comes from BYU, or somewhere else in Utah.
Since I overdo most everything I start, I’ve been storing lots of things not in the typical lists. And it’s hard to determine the shelf-life of some to add to my spreadsheet!
That's what I'm missing - a cookbook on preparing humans. (Eww.) Like I said, best protection is having support from neighbors. And having walkie-talkies is a good way to communicate, especially when cellphones and the Internet stop functioning. If you don't have a generator or solar cells, use your car battery to recharge the walkie-talkies (mine have rechargeable batteries). I've got a couple vintage cars that will survive an EMP.
The wild swings of momentum, like a schizophrenic, should invoke even more fear. The Dow Jones is as stable as a drunk Kardashian
Not really. People have lost touch with the scale of the market. When the DOW is living over 15,000 600 one way or the other really isn’t that wild a swing. It sounds big, but it’s only 4%, not actually that exciting.
The “scale of the market” is part of the reason it will collapse. The Dow going from 6400 to 18,400 in 6 years, in this Economic Depression (and it is one) has been sheer insanity. The traders and money gamblers cannot keep up the charade. When China devalued its currency, the jig was up. Still, because of greed, people will stay in the market for far too long. All the signs to get out have been given, but greed usually prevails over logic.
There’s been prophecy fulfilled that couldn’t have been back then.
I hear that excuse all the time, but a lot is in place for fulfillment of prophecy from Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation that they didn’t have.
Michael Snyder is an idiot.
Yeah, I just got a CB. My neighbors are working on the jungle communications, I know a couple of Hamsters. This is another lesson I learned from Katrina—without advance communications, you might inadvertently wander from bad to worse.
Re: chargers—
Google Schumacher Power Station. I got mine from Wallyworld for $100, plus $15 extra to the company for a cigarette lighter adapter, used to recharge the device quickly. I love it, have used it to power a small fan, laptop, cell phone. Also to put air in tires, jump start a dead car battery.
Also, Harbor Freight Co has sundry battery chargers. I got a solar charger for $25 that will recharge NiMH and NiCad rechargeables and a solar lantern for $22.
This store also has several other small solar doodads, including panels, inverters, etc. I THINK (need to learn more) by putting together their components with a couple of their panels, for about $500 I MIGHT be able to solar-power a small refrigerator for a few hours. This system definitely won’t power a full house.
I know there are refrigerators that run on natural gas and propane. Too expensive for me, but many people on this forum could easily afford one.
I have a bunch of cheap solar lights, the kind you normally put along your walkway. Great in a power outage. I got these for $2 at Dollar Store.
Dollar Tree and Big Lots are great for preppers. Cheap little battery powered lights, ropes, tarps, food, cheaper coffee.
Look in grocery section for food that’s already packaged in those metallic mylar bags. I found flavored rice, biscuit and cornbread mixes, and soup mixes, many priced 2/ $1.
Neighbor is building a solar dehydrator for our 2 families to share. There are numerous DIY plans for these online.
Also, I’ve heard you can dehydrate veggies by placing the racks in the bed of a pickup truck, on a very hot day. My truck has a black bedliner, which would facilitate the process, but there’s usually too much junk in it.
I have seen all kinds of insults thrown around these last few days against anyone who "talks down" the economy or our insanely (still) inflated markets.
"Moron." "Idiot." "Doom sayer." "Prepper wack job." "Jealous." "Nut."
He makes sense to me. I am going to post this as a separate thread.
Look at his point-by-point rebuttal of what CNN says - it is completely sane and logical. It is CNN that is propagandizing for Obama.
Apparently my post struck a nerve, which is OK.
With regards to prepping, we are way ahead of city folks as we live in the woods in a very conservative area where the nearest town of 100,000 or more is over 300 miles away. We are so remote our IP address is over a hundred miles away.
We heat with wood, garden and if necessary the forest could become a pantry. We have a minimum of one, maybe two months food always in stock as our winters are severe and that in itself would be a disaster for a southern Californian. We can survive without electricity using kerosene lanterns of which we have a few gallons of. We keep several gallons of gas in stock at all times for machinery. If there is a issue, it would be rationed for only use in chainsaws, roto tillers and any other labor saving tool that would enable survival in a disaster. Absolutely no way would this gas be used for a vehicle or a generator (except to occasionally power the well. If the well does not work, we live by a lake and are capable of purifying water.
There’s no way I will list our weapons.
So, in my opinion, no we do not prep, but with regards to a disaster of sorts that is not large scale nation wide, we will survive. If there is a large scale nation wide disaster, we’d likely survive much in the same manner the folks on the TV show Jericho did considering we are quite remote with agriculture areas within walking distance full of grain and lifestock.
With regards to my earlier statement, our prepping was an over reaction to scare tactics, that’s the embarrassment. This we will never do again.
We heard a scare tactic on the radio today, where some firm is foretelling a major financial meltdown and want every one to buy “visible” gold. This is pure scare tactics to get your money. First, “visible gold”, isn’t this one of those schemes where you never get actual physical possession? This is just as effing stupid as those that back up all their data (financial too) on some cloud where anyone including their pet kitten could hack it. Second, and most important, if there is a financial meltdown with the dollar being worthless, just why do they want our dollars?
To sum it up, we will never prep again, and yes we were embarrassed to be influenced by scare tactics, and most important, I bet our current day to day set up exceeds what many people have done they consider prepping.
Without a doubt!
That's the problem with these solar panels. Unless you have an expensive array (very few do), you can't power a house. You can gang together a bunch of lead-acid batteries with a power regulator and converter to up the amps necessary to power appliances. But solar panels will take far longer to recharge the batteries than the power you're drawing out. That's where a generator comes in. I bought one after a storm knocked out power for over a week and we lost all our food in the refrigerator including expensive meat. Bought to be prepared for another storm. It'll put out almost 7000 watts. But it's darn noisy! Plan is to run it for a few hours here and there, not continuously.
I also have power stations, including one that puts out 400 watts for a long time, good enough for most appliances. Recharges from several solar panels. Between the car vehicles with power converters, power stations and solar panels, and the generator I have enough power.
Also have a CB in one of my old cars. Used to use it on road trips with car caravans. Thing is, no privacy on the open channels so watch out for that. Interesting concept of dehydrating in my truck bed (also have a black bedliner), will research that. However, roaming racoons, skunks and other foraging animals are a problem.
Did someone pass a law that says gasoline generators cannot be equipped with a real muffler?
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