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McGrath: There Is a Disaster Coming. Get Ready For It.
SHTF Plan ^ | 11/13/12 | Mac Salvo

Posted on 11/13/2012 9:37:39 PM PST by Kartographer

We’re talking about the potential for an absolute credit freeze that will make the situation in New York spread across this country almost overnight.

Ask yourself this question: Are you prepared to take care of yourself?

If you cannot answer that question with the affirmative it is time to stop just listening to alternative media and thinking of it as entertainment, but taking the advice seriously and considering if you have a plan to take care of yourself and loved ones if the situation arises.

Because if you look around this world, if you look at the mainstream media, they’re forewarning you about what’s coming.

There is a disaster coming. Get ready for it. Make sure you are mentally and physically prepared for what is coming.

(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
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To: appalachian_dweller

This assumes you know exactly what kind of upheaval will happen. You don’t. I’m sure your theories are all sound, but we never know exactly.

Cash may well be useless at some point, but probably not at first and certainly not in a mini crisis like Sandy, etc..

I doubt gold will ever be useless, as it has never been usless in any period of upheaval.

Then again, all one can do is prepare for all types of scenarios. Please read with a little more insight and analogy: for example our 48 ft boat (sold thanks to economy) had many emergency gadgets and supplies on board - we never assumed all will be needed or useful in all emergencies...but there is a reasonable list that reasonable people fill beforehand for reasonable assumptions.

That’s all.


61 posted on 11/14/2012 7:00:45 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost....Again")
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To: MomwithHope

He decided he did not want that, his choice....


62 posted on 11/14/2012 7:01:20 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost....Again")
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To: silverleaf

I live in a town like that.
Although I’ve wondered....if everyone goes into foreclosure - and the banks collapse.

“Who” will own the land? And will they allow us to squat on it.


63 posted on 11/14/2012 7:33:56 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: djf

64 posted on 11/14/2012 7:34:02 AM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: Scotswife

well, either they let us squat and shelter and feed ourselves

or they shelter and feed us

or they let us die ...

unless we can escape to somewhere else, then start choices 1-2-3 again

pretty simple actually

Just been watching “World Without End” .... feudalism isn’t such a dead concept, is it?


65 posted on 11/14/2012 7:39:00 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: Kartographer; MrB

Good info on the inverter. Can anyone explain how natural gas is delivered? I’ve got gas fireplaces, range, furnace and water heater. In ten years, we’ve only had one electricity outage (only for a couple hours due to a freak situation at a transformer.) but it was well below zero at the time. The furnace requires electricity to run the blower. We just turned the fireplaces on. However, in the case of a lengthy or widespread electric outage, would the gas be shut down as well?


66 posted on 11/14/2012 7:43:46 AM PST by philled (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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To: philled
However, in the case of a lengthy or widespread electric outage, would the gas be shut down as well?

I've wondered about this, too. If S truly does HTF, how long until underground gas lines are cut off?

67 posted on 11/14/2012 7:56:07 AM PST by Jane Long ("Miss me yet?" - Mitt)
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To: Jane Long

Gas is suppied via pipe lines and compressor and guess what the compressors run on? Right electricity!

Rolling blackouts in Texas effected New Mexico in 2011

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/environment/gas-and-electricity-affected-by-weather

http://newmexicoindependent.com/68766/gov-declares-state-of-emergency-due-to-gas-shortage-cold

And get this the colder the weather the harder the compressors must work.


68 posted on 11/14/2012 8:14:03 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: philled

Forgot to copy you.


69 posted on 11/14/2012 8:15:10 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Could u put me on your prep ping list...?


70 posted on 11/14/2012 8:18:35 AM PST by gaijin
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To: C. Edmund Wright; JRandomFreeper

Yer picking a fight with the wrong FReeper, *noob*.

I’ve read plenty of his posts on these prepper threads. Perhaps you should before shooting off your mouth again.

I’d sooner have him as a neighbor than about anyone else I can think of, including, likely, you.

*bitter old prune* my foot. Take the plank out of your own eye.


71 posted on 11/14/2012 8:26:45 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: djf
I expect internal casualties amongst looter types to be 80% or greater. And very quickly. Within the first ten days to two weeks.

Which helps us further out in the sticks.

After feeding on each other, they have to survive getting through a couple communities and the res and exposure to the elements to get to us. And what with the way I see people being so casual about dressing for winter weather, if TSHTF during one of our winters, attrition due to weather is going to skyrocket due to exposure getting this far.

72 posted on 11/14/2012 8:35:13 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: djf
If you are trapped on the road in your rig during the collapse, you are a sitting duck.

One word: backroads.

My evacuation plans ALWAYS avoided the interstates.

73 posted on 11/14/2012 8:38:09 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Kartographer

That’s what I was afraid of. Good thing our breezy corner of the northern plains is littered with those damn windmills. They will come in so handy when the EPA shuts down our coal-fired power plant. Ugh. I don’t want to “feel good”- I’d much rather feel warm. It gets very cold here...


74 posted on 11/14/2012 8:39:17 AM PST by philled (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright; Kartographer; blam; The Duke; WakeUpAndVote; JRandomFreeper; ...

There are three things you will never hear:

“Gold - it does a body good”;

“Precious metal: it’s what’s for dinner”;

“Mommy, can we have that gold bullion soup again? Of course, dear, because precious metals are not only good, they’re good for you.”


75 posted on 11/14/2012 8:42:24 AM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: PJ-Comix

They for sure won’t be walking for miles and miles to forage. They’re lazy....your best bet is off a bus/rail line and not close to an interstate or main highway.

Gas is going to be non-existent so they won’t be driving anything they steal very far. Then, it’s up to you to do with the local takers.


76 posted on 11/14/2012 9:04:37 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Or, you could just be a bitter old prune looking for a fight and intentionally going off topic.

Have I gotten into a time machine and gone back to the 1990's and stumbled into a good old fashioned "flame war"?!?! :O

77 posted on 11/14/2012 9:04:41 AM PST by The Duke
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To: driftdiver
I think the common assumption that we’ll see hordes of looters descending out of the city is misplaced. Those people will be out of gas and fighting each other for whats left.

I agree. They'll remain in the cities, waiting for helicopters to drop more 'free stuff' from the sky, until they are out of fuel and desperate. At that point many of them will be unable to travel too much.

I just hope I'm moved out of the city before it all falls apart. I'm house-shopping immediately after Christmas.

78 posted on 11/14/2012 9:21:33 AM PST by The Duke
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To: Gaffer

Plus they’re lazier n’ crap. They’re more enclined to sit on their front stoops with their hands out, than walking 15-20 miles to the next town to loot.

Barely any more evolved than territorial pack animals.


79 posted on 11/14/2012 9:34:53 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around.")
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To: driftdiver
I think the common assumption that we’ll see hordes of looters descending out of the city is misplaced. Those people will be out of gas and fighting each other for whats left.

I hope you're right. I think that's going to depend on how much the media decides to talk about "rural hoarders". Best be as ready as you can for either situation.
80 posted on 11/14/2012 9:38:08 AM PST by Ellendra (http://www.ustrendy.com/ellendra-nauriel/portfolio/18423/concealed-couture/)
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