Preppers’ PING!!
Self ping
For all our supposed ‘advancement’, when the lights go out, we’re animals once again, and I get the sense that the power is slowly running out here.
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Not a problem for me. I’m only a few miles from a Sam’s Club, and they ALWAYS have lots of food.
I’ll just go there when “it” happens.
...along with about 300,000 other people, by my count.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst: the same reasoning why many of us have CCLs.
I enjoy your threads. Keep up the good work!
Ping.
My son is a director of documentary films. He took a film crew to Bosnia while the war was still ongoing. He made a documentary film about the orphans of Bosnia. When parents were killed, if the orphans were lucky, this Bosnian organization found them and cared for them.
It was during this time in Bosnia my son made a decision about risking his life for a film. He and his camera man snuck upon an ongoing battle, hid and filmed. Afterward, he considered the value of his life. He said if he had been found and killed and the film was shown in England (he was living in England), people would watch the film, then go to their kitchen or the bathroom. He determined his life was worth more than that. He would no longer risk his life for a piece of film.
He had already been kidnapped in an African country and the UN had to send a helicopter to rescue him and his crew. They broke away from their captors and ran for the helicopter. He had been held against his will by Gadhafi in Libya when he made a film about Gadhafi. Gadhafi didn’t trust men so his personal guards were women. Once Gadhafi convinced himself my son wasn’t the CIA and wasn’t going to kill him, he let him leave the area where he was and took my son wherever he went, even into his personal home. One time when Gadhafi was going upstairs to his bedroom, guards stopped my son from following. They didn’t want the United States to see film of the location in the house of the actual bedroom.
My son has been in many parts of the world, spent three months on the ice cap headed to the north pole. He walked across the Amazon river in a low place filled with Paraná. The others stepped on rocks but if my son slipped, the camera would be in the water and it would be destroyed, so he waded across. He said he checked for any place on his skin that was scratched that would attract the flesh eating fish and felt he could wade across that area. He made a film in Pakistan (when Russia was fighting in Afghanistan), of the men who became the Taliban. A lot more happened about that film but I can’t tell that.
I am lucky to still have a healthy live son.
My day is going as usual. My Yorkie and I ate the first cherry tomato that was ripe in my small garden. It was juicy and tasty. Another cherry one was ripe and it's in the kitchen. There is real food growing in the garden.
The metal front door is open and there is the glass door so we (that's the Yorkie and I) can see what's happening out front.
Will there come a time when we have to lock the metal door and only go outside in the garden where no one can see us? Instead of food grown now for learning and pleasure, will it become necessary to have that food as fresh food combined with stored food?
We don't know when our present circumstances will change for the worst. It crashed down on Selco really fast and he wasn't prepared. He will be the rest of his life.
By the way, I now have enough potty wipes and blotting tissue for four people for a year. It cost me less than $50 at Walmart and it's all in a box that is 16 inches x 14 inches x 18 inches tall. If anyone needs this information as to type/brand name, send me a Freepmail.
Selco speaks of people dying from disease due to unsanitary conditions. And, people dying from a cut that gets infected. I've tried to prepare so those kinds of deaths won't happen.
Thanks Kart.