For sure.
This is the last near extinction event for humans:
Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . . (Toba)
Our DNA indicates that only about 10,000 humans worldwide survived this event.
Posted on 03/24/2011 10:28:00 AM PDT by Palter
After the devaluation of the dollar and the accounting change in the price of PMs: 100 oz of silver is going to be worth about 150,000 dollars in today’s money - or 3/4 of a million in tomorrow’s money.
So one plan would be to use some of that silver and/or gold to buy a bomb shelter. Just choose the features you want to suit your budget.
If your place gets hit by a tsunami, the rest of us are hosed.
;)
Underground shelters are useful for several types of disasters:
1. Some nitwit in Libya, Egypt, or catboxistan breaks into a germ warfare lab and releases The New Improved Smallpox Virus.
2. Asteroid/comet bombardment. It has happened before; it will happen again. Mass extinction events are cyclical and we are due right about now. Heard a rumor that this is the real reason that food prices are going higher with record harvests. What do they know that we don’t?
3. Nuke terrorist attack. Right now looks like an optimal time. What would Zerobama do? Who would he apologize to?
4. Russkie or Chicom BOOB attack (Bolt Out Of the Blue). Once again, they see a chance to dominate the world.
5. Yellowstone blows. It’s overdue as well.
My plan is to stock supplies, cooperate with friends/neighbors/relatives, and stay mobile as well as organized. Determine the threat and act fast.
How did you broach the subject to your neighbors?
The key word is survival on the new frontier. Introduce me to that big blonde. She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld...
In Tibet, there are ancient tales about 'mountain topping' tsunamis. At least one anthropologist says that the Tibetans moved there to escape tsunamis. So....
It does seen like every disaster is due or overdue these days.
These are times that 'get on your nerves.'
Troubling times.
That would bed a species-ending event.
“I set my bow in the clouds...”
How many humans were extant, at the end of the last ice age?
Perhaps we have been there before.
bkmark
For sure.
This is the last near extinction event for humans:
Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . . (Toba)
Our DNA indicates that only about 10,000 humans worldwide survived this event.
Fascinating thread. Just got off the phone with my wife - “Honey, dress the truck - We are loking at snow in DC on Saturday”.
Not that I expect her to put on the plow and spreader before I get home - but I want her car out of the way.
Lieder, I can’t get my other truck back from my kid in Norfolk in time to help.
I night need it. Oh well, I started this business with one truck...
That is WAAAAAAY cool. Thanks.
My neighborhood was easy. I got them to read the book "One Second After". About a month later, I called for our first meeting. About 20 like-minded neighbors showed up and we started from there.
Questions like ‘what would you do if credit cards suddenly stopped working?’.
It helps that my neighbors think a lot like me.
Patience and gentle prodding.
It's not easy, but it can be done. Good luck.
>> a silver dollar immersed in a container (say 4 pints) of lake/river water will disinfect it overnight. <<
Thanks for the tip!! I’ll be incorporating that in my plans.
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