Posted on 10/29/2005 10:13:52 AM PDT by Travis McGee
I was thinking just in time has more to do with supplying factories with parts prior to assembly. It's related closely to the term I'm looking for for keeping only "the pipeline" full on the way to the supermarket shelf, with no giant warehouses upstream anymore. But JIT will do until someone provides the specific terminology.
As resources, I highly recommend both the frugalsquirrels.com and survivalblog.com websites.
The best thing I read in the essay(besides being stocked) was setting upsome informal neighborhood watch group type. I'm pretty lucky because where I live, it would not take much at all to seal it off from the outside. But it would have to be an organized effort.
Ping.
Thank for the post.
I should ping you too on this one.
Thanks for the ping, TraM!
Yep, a LOT depends on the layout of the area around your house. A walled gated community will be terrific.
Living a block away from main arteries on open surface streets will be a disaster.
I wasn't leaving. My concern was all the needy people who 'flooded-in' to my sphere of influence. People everywhere for days, stranded, out of gas, no food, water, etc.
Has anybody built it?
Yep, those highways can bring tens of thousands of hungry, scared, desperate and possibly infected etc folks into your little shangrila in a hurry.
I guess in a tsunami, you would have no choice. But thinking about the bioterrorism or bird flu epidemic possibilities, the last thing I'd wanna do is run to a supermarket and have some 6 year old kid cough up something green on me!
Commercially available ones here: Vortex Tubes
The bird flu self quarantine option is another reason to have a year's food on hand ASAP.
I tried to have a year's supply of food on hand, but chinese take out only lasts four days, tops.
I remember how some who thought this scenario would play out were bragging about how prepared they were going to be. They were going to have bars of gold, generators, a year's supply of canned good, a closetful of ammunition, and on and on.
These armchair commandos had visions of sitting comfortably in their homes with a rifle across their lap, generator going full blast and eating pork and beans while the world went to hell in a handbasket all around them.
I told them how foolish they were to think this. Fire up a generator during a national crisis and you'll attract thugs and criminals like bugs to a bug lamp. Slap a bar of gold on the counter of the local store and you might as well wear a sign on your back that says "Follow me home and rob me." Shoot at somebody begging at your door and well, you might as well prepare for a lynch mob. I don't care how much ammunition you have stockpiled, you aren't going to hold back a mob of starving people once they find out you've got a stockpile of food cached away.
Yup, Think about what you're doing before you do it. I bought some N95 face masks on an impulse because they claimed to remove 95% of all particles at .30 microns or larger. It wasn't until later that I did my 'homework' and found out that most viruses are .15 microns or smaller. Live and learn.
There is a fantasy of heroism that exists among those whom the world seems to have forgotten.
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