Wise words well thought out and presented GR as always .....
As stated here many times we live as grandparents and parents taught us as they experiencd the great depression first hand. I have experienced and seen the worlds worst with my career in the military.
The world is a fragile place where humans dictate by their actions what does and doesn’t happen. If your up to your hips in grenade pins it’s up to you to use USAF Colonel John Boyd’s OODA loop and improve your lot in life .....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
Our own buddy Travis Mcgee has a variant he adopted for our use......his cube at the bottom of his home page here at FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~travismcgee/
The basics of water, food, shelter, security, transportation, communications, medical and hygiene all have redundant layers from every day sources to stored backups, barter ability and sources and improvised sustainability of our basic needs.
We prepare, we maintain, we inspect and repair, we learn, we live how we would if all power and commercial sources were to cease tomorrow.
Key also is to be aware of local, area and national threat assessments. Evaluate such data from ALL SOURCES be they trusted, left or right politically, conspiracy sorts and foreign news outlets as well.
Free insurance for all but total anarchy and natural disasters. For that we have skill sets to survive if the good lord lets us.
Prepping is not all beans, bullets, barriers and bullion.
My opinion and how we address our “insurance”....;o)
Stay safe !
There is an information systems analog / similar thought paradigm to OODA, called ‘agile.’
1. Thank you!
2. Check it out, you and Travis appreciate the cyclical perfection pattern. If OODA can work for business systems, perhaps ‘agile’ could work in tactics. Reverse engineering Sun Tzu?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development