Posted on 10/25/2011 12:57:51 PM PDT by Kartographer
OK, i wanna share with you my own experience. (be patient with my English, i am from far away ) I am from Bosnia, and as some of you may know it was hell here from 92-95, anyway, for 1 whole year i lived and survived in a city of 50 000- 60 000 residents WITHOUT: electricity, fuel,running water,real food distribution, or distribution of any goods, or any kind of organized law or government.The city was surrounded for 1 year and in that city actually it was SHTF situation. (SNIP) Some of us was better prepared, but most of families had food for couple of days, some of us had pistol, few owned AK-47 when all started.
Anyway, after one month or two, gangs started with their nasty job,hospital looked like butchery, police force vanished, 80 percent of hospital staff gone home. I was lucky, my family was big in that time (15 members in one big house, 5-6 pistols, 3 Kalashnikov s) so we lived and survived, most of us. (SNIP) After three months rumors started abouth first deaths from starvation,deaths from low temperatures, we stripped every door , window frame from abandoned houses for heating, i burned all my own furniture for heating, lot of people died from diseases, mostly from bad water (two of my family members), we used rain water for drink, several times i ate pigeons, once i ate rat. Money did not worth sh..
we traded things, black market worked, few examples: for 1 corned beef can you could have woman for couple of hours(sounds bad, but it was reality) i remember, most of that womans were just desperate mothers, candles, lighters,antibiotics,fuel,batteries, rifle ammo and of course food, we fight like animals for that.
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Bflr
yeh, and they always try to convince you that diamonds are girl’s best friend.
You break out a case of corned beef at your next party its full-on orgy time.
Im gonna give it a try at the company Christmans party this year.
I can still get them cheaper in Mexico, problem is I won’t go there anymore so I have to find someone who does and since the overt drug war and needing a passport there are fewer and fewer people who do go.
Who knew?
All those expensive gifts....wasted.
Who knew?
All those expensive gifts....wasted.
Who knew?
All those expensive gifts....wasted.
Herzi-whatever....
:-)
Croats really pounded Mostar, but you never really would have known about it here in the States. It was the Srebrenica show, Serbs this Serbs that, bla bla bla...
Good find. Good perspective.
Note to self - Gotta do more!
Grassy ass, amigos.
Not in those exact words, but he does refer to "rifle ammo", which generally includes shiny yellow metal.
You can also make a pedialyte substitute with salt and sugar only or salt, sugar, baking soda, lite salt.
That replaces electrolytes but doesn’t stop it.
BFLR
What are you going to keep them in?
You can get medical books on Amazon pretty cheap. I bought a nurses guide and a physicians desk reference. Both very good.
Amazing thread over there. Working my way through it. Confirms what I have thought for a long time. Gold is basically worthless when the SHTF. Tobacco, coffee, booze is much better. Some good other ideas—lighters, fuel, containers, etc. Soap.
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Gold will be amazingly useful in buying passage out of the country for my family so they can get to my FARM in what should be a stable country... and for whatever they might need when they arrive.
I had a Vietnamese GF years ago ,, her family escaped to Thailand/Philippines/USA due to a small gold stash after their father (S. Vietnamese army officer) was murdered. There will always be a need for compact , transportable universal currency.
With that said I think having a STILL would be ideal... along with a few pallets of peanut butter.
You got shinny yellow metal and Diarrhea.
I have Anti-Diarrhea tablets and TP and I should trade because??
Ack....During the Y2K stuff, wifey bought several cans of Vienna Sausages - after the all clear was sounded, she actually warmed up a can of that sh*t; I immediately dumped the rest of her stash.
If you go to an agricultural supply store, the antibiotics marketed for livestock are the same as those for humans. You’ll need a scale to get the right dosage.
....Vienna Sausages....
that stuff is bad the dog will eat it if he’s really hungry.
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