Posted on 05/16/2012 8:57:52 AM PDT by Kartographer
The problem with approaching neighbors (with whom you have varying levels of familiarity) and/or total strangers nearby, is that the likelihood that you will actually convince these people to make serious efforts to prep is, unfortunately, small. The unemployment rate may be awful and European economies may teetering be on the verge of a collapse that will start a domino effect, but the average American is more interested in keeping track of who is ahead on “Dancing with the Stars.” These types are sometimes referred to as ”sheeple,” and they comprise the great mass of the American population.
So what happens if you fail to produce any changes in your neighbors’ preparedness level? Well, frankly, you have made it very obvious to everyone around you that your house is the neighborhood “supply depo.t” When an emergency occurs, your unprepared neighbors will view you as their source when they need anything if the emergency becomes very prolonged.
Even if nothing worse occurs, can you imagine the chants of “Hoarder! Hoarder!” from those standing on the street in front of your house? From their perspective, a hoarder would be anyone who was wise enough to put aside anything for hard times which they now want to share (in essence, a socialist mentality on steroids).
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So did Noah.
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Can you imagine the ridicule he must have endured for building a big boat out in the middle of the desert?
"How long can you tread water? Ha ha ha ha ha!"
“How long can you tread water? Ha ha ha ha ha!”
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The question was moot to Noah.
I don't see how... but I don't think I have a problem with anything else you said.
My original response was only to offer a scriptural answer to your question: "If a man rapes a woman or kills another man is that God’s will or a man exercising his free will to do evil?".
I was in no way trying to ridicule you for prepping... I was just hijacking the thread over your theological point of view. ;o)
I truly did not mean to imply that I thought you were foolish for prepping.
“The reference was to “legitimate” authorities who are confiscating supplies and weapons “for the greater good”
If you consider authorities who confiscate private property and survival supplies as legitimate God help you.
It is always different when they do it,isn’t it?
You were/are correct, obama and the Democrats are going to get his 401k plan, along with all private pension plans. They would have already done it but the results of the mid term elections thre a monkey wrench into their plans.
Ha ha ha - no offense of course, but you have to admit that in retrospect, what you wrote was pretty funny (not knowing the gender of the writer). :)
Notice the quotation marks. They say “under the cover of legitimate authority”. Theirs only so much you can do with the typed word. At some point you rely on the intelligence of the reader. Sometimes that’s insufficient, obviously.
Kentucky.
Land’s cheap here and the climate is relatively temperate. Winter’s aren’t terribly cold, and summer’s don’t get overly hot. For the most part, outside of the urban areas of Lexington and Louisville, the state is deep red conservative.
Having a huge cave system underneath quite a bit of the state also helps when you want to find some ‘cache’ areas.
That’s exactly where we were thinking about ;) My driving trip ends going through Danville KY and then over to Bristol, VA. Either of those areas seem ideal - from internet research and not seeing them! Figure going there in August would give me a good idea what the humidity/temperature is like at its worst.
Cave system? I’ll need to check that out. Interesting idea. Do you mean geocaching or storing stuff for survival times?
Danville’s ok - but a little depressed economically, which could work to your advantage. Check out Mt. Vernon or Brodhead in Rockcastle County - those are some pretty sweet (and remote) areas to buy land. Laurel Co has some nice areas too. Jackson and Hazard Co are very remote, to the point of being backwoods. Basically any of the counties off of the I-75 corridor are good, provided to go about 15-30 miles off the highway. Remote, but still have access to main travel artery.
I mean storing stuff for survival times. A very extensive cave network runs under a lot of southern/central KY. I have friends in Mt. Vernon that discovered a cave entrance in their 10 acre plot of land. Cave stretches back sever hundred yards, and is not easy to get to (ie, hard for govt. officials to find).
Ok, will put those areas on my itinerary.
Neat about the cave system - that’s a great natural hiding place :)
I can look up state income taxes, but property taxes are (deliberately, IMO) difficult to figure out for most states.
And insurance - is tornado insurance pricey?
Taxes in general aren’t too bad at all, especially the more rural you are. Tornado insurance is a little on the high side, but we’re in ‘tornado alley’. Despite all the talk though, a tornado touches down maybe once a year - it’s not like Kansas or Missouri - and the closer you are to the foothills of the Appalachain mountains, or the Daniel Boone forest, the less likely you are to experience one.
The biggest problem is drugs. Pills and meth are big in some areas - but crime is ridiculously low in the rural counties.
But I say all that, having moved here from outside Providence, RI - where crime, taxes, corruption, congestion, traffic, drugs, and multiculturalism were off the charts. KY was literally a breath of fresh air.
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