Posted on 08/25/2024 9:25:56 AM PDT by ducttape45
I know many folks don't like it when someone creates a thread using a Youtube video as the source, and doesn't give a synopsis about what it's about, but I wanted to post this one because I think it speaks to the times we now live in.
Long and short, he says that when evil takes over, rural living is not much safer then living in the city and he lays out the reasons why. It's a good listen if you got the time. Share your thoughts.
Thanks all.
Agree. We sleep with pistols by our bed sides and wake up at every sound in our suburban Atlanta home. Up at our rural compound we sleep like the dead. We always have guns but we don’t expect to have to use them any minute.
Yep, and the wild game will last for a while, but everyone with any kind of a gun will have the same idea. It won’t be long until you’ll have to walk ten miles to come back with a squirrel or a crow for dinner. In other words, food for one when you may need food for four.
And anyone with a generator will be a target. If your house is the only one for miles around with lights on and hot food on the table; then your starving, freezing neighbors will leave their cold, dark homes and invite themselves into yours. At that point no one will take no for an answer.
So if you have a generator, you’d better conceal it the best you can so no one can hear it run, (put it underground somehow or build a stout, insulated shed with vents to run it, or better yet get a solar generator) and totally black out your house so no light leaks through the cracks to be visible from outside at night.
Any kind of widespread breakdown of civility that lasts more than a few days will bring serious trouble. It will just take a little longer to reach the hinterlands.
Just don’t sleep with your hand on the pistol. Never know when you’ll have a dream that you’re in the Olympic shooting competition and blow a hole through something just before you wake up. :-)
Plenty of places to get rid of unwanted things where no one would ever find them, especially if we’re in a post-apocalypse scenario, because then no one would even be looking.
Distance nothwithstanding, you should try to cultivate friendly relationships with your like-minded neighbors. There is strength in numbers, which is why humans have tended to gather in communities since the dawn of time.
The work can be shared, ideas and skills can be shared, and people can work in shifts if necessary (such as the neighborhood watch).
Twenty, fifty, a hundred people working together with good leadership can do a lot more toward survival, comfort, and safety than a bunch of individual people, couples, and families on their own.
The old Y2K preppers had a hilarious and wonderful idea on how to keep the bad guys away if things get ugly....
Buy some red ribbon—a lot of it—and some spray paint.
Paint on the doors “Quarantine” and then put red ribbon all over the door areas and wherever else makes sense for the specific property.
Then if anyone actually approaches look as sickly as possible.
Lol.
Cut the trees back from your house a good hundred feet or more if you can, and keep the weeds and grass down. Not much you can do beside that, other than a damn big well pump and a firehose.
That’s the best idea I’ve read in weeks, maybe months, maybe ever. It’s so crazy it just might work!
Now hold on, I’ve always been under the impression that Rednecks and Hillbillies are two different things. Are you saying they can coexist?
Yep, and what happens if you’re dozing on the couch when that happens? Unless you have your sidearm in your hand or within immediate reach, it may already be too late, depending on what your invaders have in mind.
The ones I don’t get my fairly close neighbors “by rural standards” would finish them off. I really doubt that they will get 10+ criminals to go redneck hunting when gunfire is heard almost all days in different areas. Almost everyone here has their own burm / shooting area. That ain’t fireworks.
Bkmrk
There is a certain mindset of people that have an advantage in a rural setting. You either have it or you don’t. My family and closest neighbors have it. We have prepared and will survive just fine. Good luck to everyone else.
In many parts of the country just about everyone is armed, including the folks who are scraping around in their car to find enough change to pay the $1.50 highway toll.
There isn't usually a correlation between "having something worth defending" that isn't yourself or your family, and owning a firearm. You learn that pretty quickly in rural areas.
Live in country in 1,000 acre heavy hardwood forest 1/2 mile from road. Coming down our long drive in heavy woods gets more scary as you come - there is no outlet - once here you are trapped. Ravines on the way make it more scary.
Down here there are more than a few of us, well-armed, our own shooting range which was used today where 2 10-year olds were trained then shot rifles for first time and both put their first shot in the middle of the bulls-eye.
We are loving friendly folk - but you don’t want to come down here with ill-will to anyone.
Sign not far from entrance says, “Small-arms Practice 24x7x365. TRESPASS AT YOUR OWN RISK!” - after “No Trespassing” signs.
We’ll stay here thank you.
Only in Pensyltucky..
Beware, You are entering the back of a shooting range. Unexpected gunfire may begin at any time.
Find out where your Trump friendly law enforcement Dan Mathews lives.
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Sounds like a paradise. I’m envious.
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