Posted on 04/21/2011 8:38:18 PM PDT by Kartographer
Apparently that’s what a survival expert is saying.
My opinion? Unless there’s a real threat to you, leaving your safe, stocked, defensible home, where you know your neighbors, where you have a job and means to support yourself in a complicated economic time, lets say its not the smartest thing to do.
(Excerpt) Read more at ferfal.blogspot.com ...
“Preparing is too much work. I’m just going to rob all of the guys living in the country. >.<”
Let us know how that works out for you. Or don’t bother — I’ll hold a seance and ask. LOL.
There you go. I ain’t exactly in the toolies, but I ain’t downtown by any means. Me and my neighbors will be sitting tight and gathering intel. This will be a great destination for dead-enders.
The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
Proverbs 27:12
“In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but the foolish man devours all he has.”
Proverbs 21:20
;-)
It won’t come to that anyway... Obama has a plan.
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Ditto except I’m in the mountains. Most people can’t even find this place. Even people who have been here still call and I have to go meet them somewhere to get them back here. Them that are “invited” are one thing. Them that ain’t are d e d.
My beef with all ‘survival experts’ is that they think they have it all figured out. IMO, there are too many variables, strokes of bad luck or good, the unpredictability of human nature all added to a scenario that HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. Yes,the world has seen collapses, hyperinflation, and all the rest, but it has NEVER happened in a country as large, diverse, and affluent as America. All we can do is cover the basics and then try to be ready for whatever life throws at us. Adaptability is going to be key.
About time someone posts this sort of thing here, and the responses give me hope as well.
Us “preppers” have been right all along. No grid, no gas, mayhem and zombies- my wife and I, and the few families along the inaccessible, dead-end enclave where we live are essentially ready at this point. We’re not bugging out for anywhere. We live or we die here. These are our homes, and most of us are too old to bother running around. We aren’t likely to live too many more years anyway, but what time we have will be here. We’re ready.
Oh, great, now I’m going to have to repair the motorcycle and then I’m going to have to throw caution to the wind and ride the darned thing. There’s a reason why they’re called donor-cycles. Well, the riding will be at the end of the list after we can’t hunker down at home sweet home.
Better hurry up on that because Hershey's has already stated they're raising the price of candy because sugar has doubled in price.
I plan to ‘bug-in’, but have a fall back plan to another location not far away were we can lay low and out of the way.
Not enough ways out of town that won’t be clogged for one thing.
Luck both good and bad always has something to do with every survival situation.
I have a rule I never ride anything with a motor that can’t stand by itself and I don’t ride anything that can think for itself.
Good rule.
I’m going to write a blog post about this, but recently a ‘survival expert’ criticized me for not having three routes out of town and three modes of transportation. Idiot. Well, I know more than three routes out of Phoenix, but guess what? There are only like four or five and every one of them leads into the desert and none of them are ‘secret’.
Transportation: walking, bicycling, and our trucks. Well, how far will a family of four get in a desert that stretches for 100-200 miles? Bicyling? Just as stupid. So we’re down to our trucks, which was his original criticism — needing THREE modes. These experts have a cookie cutter approach to who’s going to survive and who isn’t, and what may work for him in his lush survival retreat with gravity fed springs, orchards and blah blah blah, isn’t the reality for 90% of the country.
My guess is that Ferfal is responding to James Rawles announcement about bugging out to Idaho, Montana and eastern Oregon and Washington. I thought his post about that was over the top but I guess time will tell.
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Thank you for the links on Argentina....I read a book some years ago where the author also mentioned if certain happenings were to occur here in the US, as we see them doing, that we would look and go thru as Argentina did.
You got that right....or in the workplace. I've tried to engage them in what's happening in the world and they close up one way or another. Some saying it's too sensitive for them to discuss, another "I just am not interested in that stuff"...and still another, who voted for Ob said it's never good to talk about such things as it's a private matter.
How did you open the conversation in the beginning? Might be helpful to share some ways to engage those who are neighbors, friends, or family. It’s been tough for me to even engage my family!
Mesta, did you engage your neighbors about preparations for all to weather any storms? I just can’t get my family into a conversation about this.
I’m reading his book now. I have to say, I agree on many points but in “our” case it might also not be wise to be right where “they” know they can find you.
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