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Urban Survival Skills To Keep Your Ass Alive
survive2thrive.ne ^ | 7/14/11 | Steve

Posted on 07/14/2011 9:06:55 PM PDT by Kartographer

Even if you are fortunate enough to have a retreat out in the country getting to your safe haven maybe impossible during upheaval. Roads blocked by wrecked and fuelless vehicles will stop most bugouters in their tracks. Maybe you were born lucky and can make it out safely before the balloon bursts, then what? People in rural areas, will start shooting if threatened by mobs of refugees fleeing the city. Don’t expect to be welcomed with arms outstretched. Most country folks don’t trust outsiders; you will likely be greeted with a load of buckshot and not the cup of fresh coffee and meaningful conversation you hoped for.

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To: Travis McGee

I love stories like yours. I have one as well. A friend of mine (back in the 90s) told a story of how he was washed overboard of a SSN returning to port in Japan. While they attempted to find him, it was stormy and rough. He floated just 24 hours, but he said the night was pretty rough. He did find God however, made his peace and after that he said it was the most beautiful and moving experience thus far.


241 posted on 07/17/2011 10:19:27 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: wxgesr

Yours reminded me of another. As an NROTC middie I was on an LPD going from Okinawa to Korea, circa 1978. We had a bunch of Marines on board, hauling them to Pusan. At sunset in the Sea of Japan, calm water, two separate guys, a Marine and a sailor, both reported seeing a man overboard, waving his arms for help. Because two different people reported exactly the same thing, but a little delayed, the report was taken 100% seriously. We did an expanding box search pattern all night, using our old Starlight scopes etc. The Japanese reported that yes, they had lost a fisherman off a boat. We all KNEW the man was out there, alive enough to wave his arms frantically at a passing ship.

But we never found him. What a night he must have had, watching us boxing grids all around him with no luck.

:^(


242 posted on 07/17/2011 10:31:28 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Errant

See 242 for another sad man overboard story.
My books are all on Kindle, and Kindles do have an audio mode.


243 posted on 07/17/2011 10:34:09 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

$$$hit happens out there, one just never knows. Thanks for the sea story!


244 posted on 07/17/2011 1:07:11 PM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: little jeremiah

Reminds me of a small shipping incident in 1912....


245 posted on 07/17/2011 11:13:24 PM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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To: ASOC

With all the other ships in the world attached to it so they can go down, too.


246 posted on 07/18/2011 7:15:48 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Kartographer

BFLR


247 posted on 07/20/2011 7:03:29 AM PDT by metmom (Be the kind of woman that when you wake in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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