very dire.
will i need glenn beck’s 250 lbs of flour behind the living room sofa and a machine gun?
If this week’s power outage here in the state is any indication, I hope I have moved by the time the SHTF.
Rich liberals sure do whine a lot.
The ones I don’t eat will leave.
So I guess I won’t have any neighbors.....
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I would APPRECIATE IT if you wouldn’t post this stuff...it’s simply too intense to deal with.
To me it was the most awesome Twilight Zone ever...because they NAILED IT regarding how preppers are seen by non-preppers.
I think the best analogy that I have was when Hurricane Rita was approaching the Houston area (where I live). My wife thought that I was a nutcase for taking out street maps and plotting out an escape route that only used side streets. She said: “Why don’t you go on I-10”. The Houston areas has 4,000,000 people, at least 2,000,000 vehicles that will be evacuated (i.e., many families took at least two cars). We had 4 usable outbound lanes of freeway (we have 3 more, but they were in the possible hurricane path...so not really usable). 4 lanes simply cannot carry 2,000,000+ vehicle in the timeframe needed to clear out the city, as the world saw.
We took my backstreet route and made it to San Antonio in 8 hours...most people were lucky to move 20 miles in 8 hours, and most of them turned back after not moving much more in 24 to 36 hours.
I bring this up because most ‘neighbors’ that are not preppers, no doubt, figure they can go to Walmart or Sam’s to buy what they need when our distribution system shuts down. Boy will they be in for a surprise. If I had to guess, I doubt that Sam’s has enough toilet paper on the floor for more than 1% of their local population to buy a package of it. With the stuff in transit, maybe 2%, or at best, 3%. The other 97% of customers are simply out of luck. But if you go there tomorrow, you can buy all you want...no questions asked (which is one of the reasons that I like Sam’s and similar stores). Which is why I keep 4 years worth (at least) in my house, along with everything else that I can think of, that won’t spoil or otherwise decay during that time.
I still would have a lot of trouble fighting off a marauding gang...but it may not come down to that - rather it may simply come down to having to wait an hour in line to get my two rolls of toilet paper.
No one really knows how things will go...but generally, short of a war, the police are still around and gangs can be somewhat controlled.
Ping.
So, uh ... which one of these categories does Brandon Smith fall into?
Interesting trivia about Mad Max the Road Warrior. All the nuclear war stuff in the beginning was a last minute addition. Originally in the plot society just broke down and fell apart, but the producers felt audiences just wouldn't believe society could break down without some sort of cataclysmic event like a nuclear war or other disaster causing it.
Today however, Society just falling apart doesn't sound so far fetched after all.
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The reality that today’s comforts could disappear in the blink of an eye
It's conceivable that the demonization of "profits" could lead to the destruction of free enterprise just as the demonization of Jews led to the Holocaust.
In that case, only bribery or force will get you your goodies.
Get out of the city to a rural location where everybody knows and is related to everybody. Also rural folks are much more self sufficient. Zero cultural diversity is not going to hurt either. Become part of the community ASAP. Stock up for 1 year and have a good water supply. If you can afford it or can make it get an alternative source of electricity which is IMHO the most important thing right after food and water. Without electricity your life will be a misery.
The dead.
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The illegal and his 20 family members.