Posted on 09/07/2012 2:23:13 PM PDT by Kartographer
1. If something happens all I have to do is call 911.
2. All I need is a 72-hour kit with a flashlight, first aid kit, some food and water, and a radio.
3. My insurance policy will take care of everything.
4. Good preparedness is too expensive and complicated.
5. We can only form a neighborhood group through FEMA, the Red Cross or local law enforcement.
6. In a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) terrorist attack, we’re all dead anyway.
7. Nothing like that could ever happen here.
8. All I have to worry about is my own family.
9. If preparedness were really important it would be taught in school.
10. I can get free preparedness information on the Internet.
11. Full preparedness means I have to get a lot of guns and be a survivalist.
12. If something really bad happens, no one will help.
They will have to get to where you are... in a real emergency, that might not be so easy to do without a plan, firearms, and tools.
You might not have to feed them after all.
If you do, make them work for it. I don't know if you remember the old bumper sticker from hitchhiker days "Gas, grass, or @$$, no-one rides for free"
/johnny
/johnny
In my world... that phrase, said by an older southern lady is an ominous thing. ;)
/johnny
Hey. I just checked them out. Not just for the canned meat. This steak package comes in at about $4.30 a pound.
Steak Box I - 14 lbs.
2 Ribeye Steaks
2 New York Strip Steaks
2 Sirloin Steaks
2 Rib Steaks
3 lbs Cube Meat
2 T-Bone Steaks
2 Porterhouse Steaks
Price: $59.95
Oh jeez. Each of these bullet points needs a page or two of footnotes, additions and exceptions. Let me add a few:
13) Don’t be stupid.
14) Be stubborn only when it matters. Change your mind when proven wrong.
15) In an emergency situation or a defensive position, if you are not improving your situation you are wrong.
16) Keep your perspective and do not waste your strength. “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” - G.S. Patton
17) Contamination conquers determination, so keep it clean.
18) Murphy’s Law: “If anything can go wrong, it will, and at the worst possible time.”
19) Cheops’ rule: “Nothing is done on time or under budget.”
20) The fourth law of thermodynamics: “There is never enough of the right kind of fuel and energy.”
Amen on keeping it clean. More people died in WWI from disease than from the fight.
/johnny
I want a crank radio with NOAA on it....anybody know where to get them?....I have a plain crank/solar radio already....
the solution may be worse than the initial problem...
My suspicion is that our money will fade due to high inflation. Why make people personally angry by taking their money, when you can inflate all money in circulation and achieve the same goal impersonally.
“I prefer a radio (several radios) that tune from DC to daylight, and can transmit.”
Ahh, got radios. Must have three emergency ones, and the latest one, several months old, is a Sony for hearing ham operators.
That’s another reason I have to save my liberal kin. The husband is a ham operator, a licensed electrical engineer, and when he comes in my house, he wants a list of items that need to be fixed. He works every second he is here or he isn’t happy. Wears his gun in his fanny pack. In his van, Carries everything he needs to fix anything on earth.
AND, HE LISTENS TO EL JAZEERA NEWS - SAYS THAT IS THE ONLY ONE THAT TELLS THE TRUTH - but, I can’t refuse to feed him because he’s a communist, ‘cause he could save my life - he would kill anything that came near me without batting an eyelash.
“AL” not “EL”
I have one of these
http://www.redcrossstore.org/Shopper/Product.aspx?uniqueitemid=518
check radio shack, Frys and internet.
If you accomplished #11, that ought to do it ,eh?
"11. Full preparedness means I have to get a lot of guns and be a survivalist. "
When the zombies come they rob, rape, torture and murder. Studies show that at least 40% of your nice neighbors will be in this category and 95% of hip hop gangs.
Move out of the cities now or get land within 50 miles. Build an undetectable shelter (into a side hill with concrete, containers or sandbags with secret entrance) with two years food and unlimited water and the ability to farm when it is safe to do so and prep the land now. Rabbits are really quiet and easy keepers.
Staying out of site, no one should be able to know you are there, never having to fight the fight, is the best way to go.
Have a shortwave to reconnect in 6 mo to a year when it is safer and most have died.
When Obama loses, America will burn. Make sure you have enough ammo to defend your family and your neighbors, as needed.
“What exactly is the opposite of a survivalist?”
A. marauder
B. corpse
I've given this a lot of thought. Here in Texas, I think the zombies will naturally rob stores first. What they need is water and food - when that stuff is gone from stores (and they killed each other during that), they will try to go to houses, but that's when they start getting killed in large numbers since most of us have multiple guns.
What happens when they get in a house? There's nothing there since the vast majority of people have very little food in the house and no bottled water. They will find out really quick there's nothing in the houses to keep them alive and it isn't worth getting killed to find that out.
Then, they go to rural areas as they mistakenly think there is food growing in back of every house and plenty of water. The reality is, most people in rural areas use the grocery store for their garden and if they have a well, takes power to get the water. Unless they are preppers, there's nothing much there for zombies looking for food and water.
These zombies started getting killed by each other at the beginning, more got killed trying to get in houses, and there's not enough to keep them alive in rural areas - these zombies are dying off fast - they don't have water and food.
I do like the way you think.
/johnny
Back in the 30 years war (1600s), life was hard and everybody was a survivalist, or they died early. These days, some kids don't know that milk comes from cows.
/johnny
That reminds me, just thought of it - my dad was in WWI - he was a COOK! He raised two pigs every year and we had chickens and fruit trees - figs and peaches. Slaughtered those pigs, salted the meat, plus made sausage and it was stored in his smoke house. He also barbecued meat.
Could cook anything - we actually had squirrel and frog legs he caught. We never lacked for meat and he could cook it.
Back in those days, don't know if cooking schools were around so one could be a chef. He would probably have laughed at that, but the man could cook.
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