,b>@dcjames5 @rissakris Atlanta is already panicking like a hurricane is coming. I took this pic at target in Dunwoody.
Preppers’ PING!!
/johnny
The thin veneer of our civilization should be apparent to everyone, yet it seems that no one really gets it.
Not everyone. There are many that are prepared. This guy really doesn’t get it that there are people that are prepared.
Prepper BTT. I should be fine for 72 hours (!) or probably more like 72 days. I’ll miss FR, though, and regret that I never took the opportunity to print out the Internet.
Just went to my sports therapist and his massage water bed needed repair.
He needed some rope and pully to lift the engine and replace a part.
Lucky him I happened to have 1,000 ft of paracord 550 and climbing carabiners along with cats eyes carabiners
Pulled the engine up using my belay and used the cats eyes to lock the rope in place, securing the engine for repair.
Woulduh took all day without it and luckily I had my hightech hammer to force one stubborn bolt out of it’s slot.
Of course my high tech hammer is a Fiskars axe with a 30” handle.
I knocked that thing out, we finished the repair and he’s good to go.
Done in just 10 minutes and he allotted an entire day for this as he was the only one working on it.
I’m glad to have that in 30 day pack, which is always in my trunk.
Also tossed him an extra roll of duct tape just in case.
Many years ago I had the wonderful opportunity to talk to a gentleman who was in his seventies. He told me of his life as a young boy on an Island in the St. Mary’s river between the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Canada. His father was the light house keeper then.
To get to town, Sault Ste. Marie, which was only twenty or so miles away was a major undertaking. In the Summer they could use the boat and row up the river against the current to get to town. In the Winter though it was best to wait until the river was frozen over and then use a wagon and a sleigh to go to town.
In either case was they did manage to get there, they would by supplies to last them for a year. That would give them a half of a year’s extra in case of problems. He told me that it would take between four and six dray wagon and their teamsters to bring back their supplies. And they didn’t by in small quantities, Barrels of flour, Hogsheads of potatoes. Pickles and everything else you could think of, Fresh laying hens and a rooster. Even two or three freshened cows would be bought and brought back to the island.
For keeping the light operational there were several hundred yards of lamp wick, a couple of new replacement lamps and globes. Eight to ten barrels of Lamp Fuel, (Kerosene).
Once that was done it was total isolation for at least another six months.
How many today, could live like that? I know that I couldn’t without lots of thought and preparation.
This storm coming up the coast should be a good one to keep an eye on for the preppers.