Posted on 10/29/2005 10:13:52 AM PDT by Travis McGee
ping :)
Bump Marker.
Thats a good question a way to id friend or foe and form parternships
Avian flu maybe??
Bump. Finally sat down, registered, and read the first 2/3 of the first post. Just damn.
That said, I'm feeling reasonably well-prepared.
ping
Did you get pinged here? If so, sorry for the redundancy.
AMEN! And as long as they can keep being reelected (by sheeple) to their seats of power, they aren't worried about having to live like the rest of us!
The US survived and thrived up through the late 1800's under similar circumstances.
Thanks for the ping, Eaker! Mind blower, isn't it?
Thanks for posting, Trav
It's a different country today. If the ATMs, supermarkets and gas stations are not restocked every week our cities will explode.
Is there an FR survivalist ping list? Might be something that would draw some interest, lotta lessons learned from Katrina, etc!
Yup. Probably less than a week.
I read an article recently that analyzed how much food there was in the pipeline.
Seventeen pounds per person. That's it, folks! Less than a case of beans.
I think it's called "revolving supply" or something like that. Our very lives and social order depend on uninterrupted resupply of cash, food, gas etc.
True story.
A few years back, I decided to start stocking up on stuff. So I got about 6 of those plastic containers full of you name it, all those boxed fettucini things, mac and cheese, egg noodles, bullion cubes, whatever.
About a week after I started, two planes crashed into the world trade centers.
So now I'm pretty serious about having a good stock and have at least six months worth, plus seeds, water and ammo. Hope it never comes to it, cause it would get real ugly real quick.
I don't think so. I would like to join one if you start one.
BTW, I found some holes in my 'plan' during/after Katrina.
Interstate 10 here in South Alabama looked like something out of The Stand.
JIT, just in time.
Don't forget about fertlizer and insecticide for the garden.
LOL. My brother-in-law was here during Katrina and afterward we went digging into some of my 'stock'. He said, "Here's a container marked 'matches', can I open it"? I said, "not unless you're ready to use 10,000 matches", lol.
I don't think it's possible to plan on leaving in an emergency. All along the coast in Washington state, they have signs "Tsunami Route" to higher ground.
So, you get the alert that there's a tsunami coming, jump in your rig, get about a mile up the road and get stuck behind some geezer in a 63 Studebaker that just blew a rod....
Not practical. Better to plan on hunkerin down for a few days at least.
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