Posted on 06/30/2015 5:25:21 PM PDT by Kartographer
It was a seemingly normal Sunday — except it was anything but normal.
For many people in Athens, it was time to prepare for an approaching storm. A short walk from Plaka, a line of people waited to withdraw cash from an A.T.M., hours before the official announcement that banks would be closed starting on Monday. Some bank machines in central Athens had run out of money or were out of service, as screens blamed “technical difficulties.”
Elsewhere, some people had started hoarding gasoline and groceries. “We don’t know what the new day will bring,” said Katerina Vorreadi, who was among a group of retirees waiting in line outside the National Bank of Greece on Saturday night.
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Preppers’ PING!!
They waited way to late and little will they get with what money they will be allowed to draw out.
It is your choice you can prep you can scrammble for leavings.
The world is dry tinder just awaiting the right spark.
So listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3
Selco covers this in this article many times people just can not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it? It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Just getting started or an old hand you might find my Preparedness Manual helpful. You can download the manual at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
And More
Also there is Ferfal’s Blog a survivor of Argentina’s first collapse:
And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
how does one go about safely hoarding gasoline?
Some of us call it prepping and we don’t wait until the last minute to do it.
You figure out how to do with other things what you used to do with gasoline.
Depends on how much and how long and how portable.
Most folks can readily carry a 5 gallon plastic or metal container
Few can carry a 10-15gallon container. They usually have wheels.
No one can easily move 55 gallons of any liquid including gasoline unless they have serious mechanical aids.
Net: 5 gallon containers are quite practical. Put Stabil or Sea Foam or any variety of stabilizers in the gas if you intend to store it.
Think about how you will get the gas to and into what needs it. Again I bet the 5 gallon containers are the best answer for most folks
Anyone see the link to the blog article that Rush posted by the economist that figured the real unemployment rate at 49%?
thanks, that is what I have, but just a few jerry cans.
I was wondering about a buried tank that would be filled over time by repetitive trips to the gas station
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Marine Sta-Bil is widely thought to be superior to the regular stuff. Available on Amazon if not in your local Wal-Mart or auto parts store. FWIW
He mentioned it today and I'm curious too.
Unfortunately I can't afford to join his "club."
The latest, my AC went out last Thursday, and it's 104 outside...
Diesel is the real answer if you go that route. Much longer shelf (tank) life.
Ah, yes, the Mad Max method.
I saw it on Facebook.
Ugh, sorry about your AC. We’ve had a string of bad luck around here too including the AC, the glass in my husbands 7 year old convertible starting to fall out, buying a shed for our mower that turns out was advertised incorrectly and the door opening isn’t wide enough for our mower to fit through, a plastic canister of gas in the garage springing a leak, etc. Mostly little stuff that adds up to a big headache.
NOT in the standard plastic 5 gallon gas containers. We’ve had 3 of them split at the seam and leak over the last 6 years.
55 gallon drum. Rotary pump with brass components.
Gasoline is a hard keep. It can go bad. That said, gas is better than no gas at all.
Thank you, Kart, for keeping up with the prepper pings!
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