[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

This is great advice, but it makes me scream, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO MY COUNTRY when we have to resort to this?

God deliver us from evil.

[Sacajaweau]

We’ve stored food as long as I can remember....because we canned and stocked up for winter in NYS. We all had fruit cellars and/or storage areas.

[greeneyes]

This is not new for us. We have always had tornadoes, floods, and electrical outages for hrs or days. In addition we live near the New Madrid Fault Line.

Being prepared just comes second nature to us. We built 2 fireplaces when we built our house for backup heat. Left extra trees in the yard and on the extra lot we bought. Have camping gear, stoves and lanterns. A generator and kerosene heater.

Always have some water stored since we are on a well and water depends on electricity for the pump. We have rain barrels too for the garden during the dry periods, and the knowledge and equipment to make it potable.

Have always loaded up on very good sales and have a stash of basics on hand. Now that we are starting to can and dehydrate foods that we grow ourselves it is even better. We don't have to worry about chemicals or pesticides.

This is the way my parents and grandparents lived. My grandpa never had an indoor bathroom, and always hand pumped water from the well to bring to the house, until he was about 65 years old. Even then it was only cold water from the tap. I used to help grandma wash clothes using a wringer washer.

We lived through the kynesian economics of Nixon, Carter, stagflation and the misery index. Nothing taught the folly of price controls better the walking into the supper market to see nearly empty shelves reminiscent of Pics from the USSR stores. Like wise we learned the folly of easy money/double digit inflation which absolutely destroys the middle class.

Lived through the turbulence of the sixties, the riots, the cities burning. It'll probably get worse before it gets better. I am an American, I can improvise, and I will survive or go down fighting.

Be vigilant, get prepared, and pray like never before. Think of all the people behind the iron curtain. Think of the Jews in concentration camps. Think of people living in Haiti, or Israel, or any one of the other hell holes on earth.

We are still luckier than most of the people in the world. So get the pity party over, dust yourself off, and remember John Paul Jones - We have just begun to fight!

Only thing I would really miss is the air conditioning in the summer and the indoor toilet in the winter. LOL. Other than that, I don't need much.