"Who could imagine!... It can't happen here!"
Posted on 03/11/2018 10:40:19 AM PDT by blam
Can we prepare for everything?
We never could have imagined…or prepped for…what happened in Venezuela.
In this article, I wanted to analyze my preps, and the nature of the apocalypse we have been forced to face. I don’t know about you, but anything that kicks you out of your place, of your warm bed, your pets, kids, wife, and the rest of your family, for me does not have another better word to describe it.
My comfort bubble was destroyed, my work of an entire life was thrown out by the window, my family insurance full coverage policy is gone with the wind (although with no medications to be had and doctors running away to Argentina and Colombia, it’s not like it was very useful though), and the few preps I had for 4 or 5 months are history now. Of course, they worked pretty well, and we stretched it a little bit, but once the system collapsed, there is nothing else we can do but close the place and bug out to some other place where we can at least buy food.
What happened was something entirely different from what we had prepared for.
I guess that what I mean is, that, within our means, we prepared more or less adequately, but what really happened was something entirely different that we had not prepared for.
We prepared for some of the consequences of turmoil, unrest, riots, crime. We were able to hunker down for a while and able to defend ourselves silently and seriously, without having to leave our haven. The scarcity problems started back there around 2013-2014. Those years were the last time I remember we could buy large amounts of wheat flour, corn flour for arepas (yes, those yellow packages
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I have enjoyed practicing with my food storage – you could make more out of wheat berries than just bread. Although learning how to make 100% whole wheat bread has been a challenge. Anyway, because of food storage I am eating much healthier. I’m not just setting it aside, using it for a rainy day. It’s part of my daily routine now, because I figured I had to learn how to use it after spending all that money on it! And it has been fun and quite delicious. Of course, I do love to cook. I don’t know what someone who doesn’t love to cook would do other than get those horrible dehydrated things that probably taste awful. Except the ice cream of course. Dehydrated ice cream is to die for!
Chances are slim anybody is going to invade the eskimos.
That’s a bit over $16 a day. I spend more per day on myself
Eye-opening.. Thx.
"Who could imagine!... It can't happen here!"
My pleasure.
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