Posted on 08/15/2012 5:55:42 PM PDT by Kartographer
1. It’s just like camping.
2. You can buy enough food and supplies for forever.
3. Your neighbors will gather around and help each other.
4. If I buy enough gadgets (mini washing machine, generator, solar tracker) I’ll be OK
5. I can get to my survival location when TSHTF.
6. I can convince my “significant other” that this is the right move.
7. I don’t need to prepare a place. I’ll just grab my Bug-Out-Bag and find a cave somewhere.
8. My kids will be bored.
Preppers’ PING!!
“It’s just like camping.”
Camping out at the Little Big Horn,maybe.The urban zombies will be thicker than flies.
Not after two, three weeks tops. Self destruction and starvation should weed the herd significantly.
A lot can happen in two or three weeks.A lot can happen in two or three minutes.Or seconds....
If I see my neighbors collaborating, it'll be about how they can rip me off.
I just had a talk with some electronic experts today
old timers
been there/done that guys
REAL knowlegable
If we ever get the EMP like Iran is threatening, forget about faraday cages. They wont work. Dont even consider it.
food.water.ammo.seeds. Bibles.
not necessarily in that order.
Which leads me to add to the list:
9. You and your wife will be able to hold off a dozen or so angry, armed, and very hungry neighbors.
10. Wild life - squirrels, rabbits, deer, etc. - will be there for the picking.
If we have to resort to cannibalism .. . will vegans taste better?
Clowns will taste funny.
This one is true. Given enough money, you can buy sufficient food and other supplies to last longer than you or your family will live.
You might have trouble storing it all, and keeping others from taking it from you, but you certainly can buy it.
I once heard someone say that he didn’t have to fool with all this survivalist stuff. He said all he needed was a gun and a list of Mormons.
“6. I can convince my “significant other” that this is the right move. “
Is that a myth as it cannot happen because my wife is all on board. It took a little coaching on current events but she saw the light very quickly.
Costco is selling SPAM 6 packs in Atlanta. Stock up, they last for years. SPAM the best currency you could ever offer.
I figure if I have to give up my lifestyle and live in the 19th century, I'm preemtorially surrendering to a catastrophe that might or might not happen.
As far as holding off hungry neighbors goes. If they're that hungry, then they probably are poorly prepared and light on armament and if I have time to get the wire up, I can probably discourage them while they're held up in the wire.
Finally no catastrophe lasts forever. Look at New Orleans after Katrina. Roving bands of police thugs picked on weak and undefended homeowners, stealing their guns, but left the better defended neighborhoods alone. Eventually NO got back to normal (corruption violence and more corruption)
From the comments
Davey
August 13, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Dear S-MOM,
You just made the best point I have heard yet. ‘ITS NOT LIKE CAMPING”. I had not heard of a bug out bag until recently, and when I first heard it I studied to learn what was meant by “bug out”, then I laughed. Not because such preparations are not wise. My vehicles carry enough supplies for comfort for a week in a blizzard on the roadside. I laughed because people think they will leave the city with a bag of supplies and go camping for the rest of their life. Or a year, or a month.
I lived in the Amazon (missionary) with a canoe, hammock, mosquito net and shotgun for a year. I came out of the jungle with malaria, ameobic dysentery, and I looked like a skeleton and was approaching death at age 27. I also camped in my younger years in extreme cold in the USA. I slept with bedding on the ground after wiping the snow away and snuggling my bedding into leaves.
I would be the first to say that a camping mentality is NOT SUSTAINABLE. The surburbanites will die if they think it is a camping trip. I actually would try to stay home and hold the fort if at all possible. Or relocate to a house of some sort as you have apparently done.
Blessings
David
Oh really? And just how long you think the supply of wildlife will last once tens of millions of desperate hunters are out and about?
“I wonder what “survival mom” does about dentistry, medical emergencies, birth control, etc. They live “off the grid” but they don’t really unless they cut all ties with modern society.”
Well, of course, you’ll want to invite into your midst, people who possess essential skills!
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