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Here’s How You’ll Die When the SHTF (and How to Prevent Your Untimely Demise)
The Organic Prepper ^ | 3/23/15 | Daisy Luther

Posted on 09/23/2015 4:02:29 PM PDT by Kartographer

1. You die of thirst or waterborne illness.
2. You die from fantasy-world planning.
3. You freeze to death.
4. You starve to death.
5. You have an accident involving major trauma.
6. You get murdered when raiders or looters come to steal your stuff.
7. You get sick.
8. You get an infection.
9. You die because you are fat and/or out of shape.
10. You die when you daily medication runs out.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: disastershtf; preparedness; preppers; shtf
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To: AU72
if SHTF, certain groups will be all about rape...it'll be their highest priority...not food...not water...not shelter...just rape....and it won't be of their own community...it'll be anyone caught still in the city or near enough to get to....

saving yourself from this will be the first priority...

241 posted on 09/23/2015 10:49:23 PM PDT by cherry
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To: TexasTransplant

Just a hand-held one - 750ml. I’m not sure if they are aluminum - but I’m guessing they are. I see on Amazon they also have them in stainless steel.

I just pick them up if they are in good shape at the thrift store. Brand new - I’m guessing they are promo things and people grab them, they sit around for a year, and then get dumped in the donation bin. Wide mouth is better.

I know aluminum can poison you over time - but it probably beats dehydration. Backpacking once I got sick - still not sure if it was the aluminum pot I used to boil the lake water - or if it was the lake water. Now I carry around a small Sawyer water filter.


242 posted on 09/24/2015 12:03:38 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Kartographer

This is the REAL primary objective of Obama. He WILL find a way to kill the grid, killing 90% of Americans within a year.


243 posted on 09/24/2015 2:30:22 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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To: Kartographer
Whether a disaster on the scale that some people i.e. preppers are predicting occurs or not, there's little the great majority of the population can do about it. Unless again you're either allied with other people, neighbors, or live way out in the boonies.

The best-prepared preppers, by themselves, will not survive much longer than the totally unprepared types if the former are living in high-populated areas. That's the unfortunate fact for the preppers. Of course they could have that fold-out helicopter ready to whisk them away what the shtf.

244 posted on 09/24/2015 2:51:56 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: trisham

3 minutes without Oxygen.


245 posted on 09/24/2015 3:49:22 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: trisham

3 months without hope.


246 posted on 09/24/2015 3:50:27 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: mabarker1
12. You die because they let the plane LAND!!!

There IS a solution...

DON'T LET THE PLANE LAND!!!!
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247 posted on 09/24/2015 4:23:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Sergio

“Yours is so hard to beat” is pretty catchy. :)


248 posted on 09/24/2015 4:24:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Durus

Fat folks bury their skinny peers in famine. However, it has long been known the most important predictor of survival on the battlefield is physical fitness.


249 posted on 09/24/2015 4:41:29 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“How does a biosand filter get rid of the bacteria and parasites?”

Google it, there’s a wealth of info out there and lots of Youtube videos.


250 posted on 09/24/2015 5:10:06 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: cherry

You need a script. It’s all on the up & up, just that many drugs are considerably lower in price.

I place the order online and email a scan of the script.

Also, they will take a fax from the doctor, just like it’s done here.


251 posted on 09/24/2015 6:16:12 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Eagles6
Food grade buckets free at the bakery or restraunt. $5 spigot. Doulton or Aquacera ceramic candles are $20 - $40 a piece, depending on the grade and quantity.

Bingo. A great set up to have handy. I built one a few years ago for when the faucets stop working.

252 posted on 09/24/2015 6:21:46 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: driftless2

Granted a co-op is the only way for the worse case scenario, but the worse case is at the far end of the spectrum there are plenty and far more likely occurrences at the other end of that same spectrum that can just as easily kill the unprepared. Most people don’t even have a weeks worth of food on hand, during the shelter in place and search of the Boston bombs police were getting calls about baby formula and diapers and that wasn’t even a full day.

Funny how many depend on the ‘gubberment’ for everything even their very lives and those of their love ones and that what really gets me is a family man who doesn’t even try to do even the basics and gives his families lives over to the keeping of bureaucrats and thugs.


253 posted on 09/24/2015 6:46:19 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: wastoute

Battlefield? That isn’t on my SHTF list of things to do.


254 posted on 09/24/2015 6:47:05 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Kartographer
Are you saying people should be prepared for emergencies? Well, yes. And in a complete breakdown it would be good to follow some of the guidelines set by (gasp) preppers.

It's just that location and alliances will mostly determine who survives a major catastrophe. But I never liked living in or near big cities anyway.

255 posted on 09/24/2015 7:03:25 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: Lurker

Keflex, don’t forget to store a substantial amount of Keflex ... and learn what dosing to use for which ailments.


256 posted on 09/24/2015 7:11:06 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: MHGinTN

There are going to be a lot of surprised pre-tribbers. :-)


257 posted on 09/24/2015 7:24:24 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Honestly at some point the only way to get the country back may be a tragedy like grid down. The worst of the Hive likely have few guns and not an extra can of chili in the pantry.


258 posted on 09/24/2015 7:27:01 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: TexasTransplant

For a colloidal silver generator you need a 1 pint fruit jar, three heavy duty 9V plugs (get at Radio Shack) two alligator clips (one red, one black) three 9V batteries and a 99% pure 1 OZ (we use Johnson Matthews) silver bar. Instructions for assembly are on YouTube.


259 posted on 09/24/2015 7:39:07 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: make no mistake; Old Sarge; JRandomFreeper; Marcella; Iron Munro; SkyPilot; laplata; Pollster1; ...
"When shtf, some people become animals. People were told to have"

You know what this calls for don't you? ;-)

Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)" (1998)
260 posted on 09/24/2015 7:50:59 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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