Posted on 03/08/2012 2:33:48 PM PST by Kartographer
We are really happy how many people participated in our survey. Over 1800 of you have answered the questions and I have spent the last few nights to whip all the responses into a presentable form. This is done now and I think it gives everyone a good idea what is on most people’s mind, why people prepare, what they prepare for and where you are standing compared to others.
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Preppers’ PING!
If El Hierro volcano (Canary Islands) blows underwater, it could bring on a landslide and tsunami across the Atlantic to the US east coast within 12 hours.
IF this happens, we would be in a mini-Ice Age within a couple of months.
There are several reasons I'm concerned besides the above:
1) Lack of confidence in our current government leaders.
2) Skyrocketing prices which we're already seeing.
3) Natural disaster such as a flood or tornado. I always keep in eye on the weather because we've had to head for high ground in the past from floods. There's only one way out and it regularly floods. The last flood, two of the three roads past ours were washed away so it's prudent to have foodstuffs to last until the waters recede and the roads get repaired.
I don't think that recent events in various countries are a good model for the United States, for a variety of reasons, especially our size and power, but I'm having trouble visualizing what the United States would be like in a collapse. Are we going to get through it much more quickly, with perhaps 3 months to a year of chaos, followed by a restoration of order, although with technology set back by a small number of decades? Are we going to slide permanently into the 1800s, and take the rest of the world with us? Will the military try to restore order, and will they be able to? Will we lose 5% of our population (the old, the weak, and the stupid criminals), or 90%?
My guess: The cities (almost any place with over 100,000 people, except for Salt Lake City) will get very ugly, and many will not be recoverable, but even ten miles beyond the city limits we will get back to a functioning society pretty quickly - within months. I'm preparing for a rough year, followed by decades of uncertainty, but I think even in a SHTF situation, I'll be over prepared. I also don't expect to see many zombie hordes roaming rural America. I expect most but not all of them to burn out pretty quickly, run out of ammo, fuel, gas, drugs, and alcohol, and turn inward on the cities where the people and the stuff are, rather than outward where people are too spread out and too well armed. They like apartments with yapping lap dogs a whole lot more than homes with a lot of land and unleashed dogs big enough to seriously hurt them.
How does a tsunami cause an Ice Age?
Why prepare? Because the chance of SOMETHING happening, is much greater than the chance of any one specific thing happening.
Get your life right with Christ, is what a true prepper does.
So...what do these 'stay-at-home' zombies eat? There won't be 18 wheelers delivering loads of welfare food after TSHTF. You think they'll just close the apartment door and starve?
I agreee that there will be lots of urban chaos...once the strongest assert themselves, they'll turn their gaze toward you. You'll be left to deal with the survivors of the inner-city carnage...the absolute strongest and most viscious survivors and they will be on their way to see you shortly.
A true prepper follows the word as well.
Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8
Now I ask you in the history of the world how many times has man or nature cause such devastation and misery that people have cried and and prayed that the Lord would end it all?
I think they would like to turn outward once they run out of loot in their turf, but I suspect the cities will run out of gasoline, and the roads will become impassible due to abandoned vehicles and various accidents before many predators think to leave. I could be wrong, and I'm preparing as if I am wrong, but I think they will turn on each other as more convenient targets - I doubt that it will be easy to leave the cities except on foot after the first 24-48 hours of chaos. I just don't see criminals walking 20 miles, not when they can go door to door in a familiar area.
>>I just don’t see criminals walking 20 miles, not when they can go door to door in a familiar area.
In my suburban area 25 miles from the city we all have nice 1950’s brick houses with high windows that make for a great crossfire for the thugs. The problem is keeping the suburbans from shooting each other.
There really needs to be meeting locations set up all over the country. It won’t be easy for one person to defend a position. The only way to servive the “hoards” will be in numbers.
Which reminds me. NM Serious preppers FReep mail me.
The Word Maps are very interesting. That is a great tool. Thanks for the ping.
Ping for later.
Also could you add me to your ping?
Kart, I know people should keep low-key about their preps, but how do you find others in your area? I live in an area with about 11 homes. We live about 5 miles from a town of approx 30,000 when our local university is in session. None of us even talk to each other except in passing, and others I don’t trust at all. I would very much like to be a part of a group that could depend on each other if something happens.
There’s a couple web sites one being:
http://www.preppergroups.com and the other is
http://www.whenshtf.com/forum.php that have boards arranged by region or state so you can reachout.
Also talk around at your church bring up thinks casually and see where it leads.
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