Posted on 04/03/2012 11:13:52 AM PDT by blam
As I read this article, I couldn’t help but think of a family we know who prepped big-time for Y2K only to have their basement clogged for about six years afterward.
Depending on the disaster, most of the supplies would be worthless anyway. If you are dying of some kind of radiation poison or other biological, then a lot of good all the Spam, powdered milk, or syrup will be. Also, do these preppers then build themselves a FORT? Are they also prepping to turn away relatives who didn’t prep? I could ask a million ?s about this silliness, but for the time being, I’ll just accept that some people exist to entertain us.
Look on the bright side.
Most of those you’re referring to are simply TOO LAZY to make the trip out to your farm or ranch and steal your stuff.
Eat what you store, store what you eat.
Also, don’t buy a bunch of crap that won’t make your life better NOW, as well as post-”shift”.
FR Weekly Prepper Thread.
No thanks. Meanwhile, what do you think the “preppers” are going to do about all the people they love who are on serious medications such as insulin? No way can a person prep for that (at least not for the time frame the preppers seem to be concerned with).
As for all of these nincompoops on here talking about the unwashed urban masses invading them in their rural shangri-la’s, I have never seen so much mean-spirited - and I mean truly evil - thinking when people start talking about this. I have a hunch that the city folks most people are referring to will implode before they ever get out to the country.
Whatever happened to “love thy neighbor?”
I am not curious, but thanks. Don’t have time to listen to a podcast now. Still, thanks.
Do you have a spare tire? That's just so silly.
I have a husband. I don’t need a spare tire. Meanwhile, to compare that with this whole prepper phenom is absurd.
IMPORTANT REALITY CHECK
RE PREPPING . . .
END TIMES PING LIST PING TO THE OP
The government will step in and pick up a fee like a perv lawyer or a rotten cop after ladies in distress.
It’s too easy.
Propane and Propane accessories
We have a propane generator.
Stay safe...don’t know if you are in the line of fire with the storms.
I don’t know who you are referring to when you say they’re “mean-spirited” or “evil”. Most of the “shoot people who ask for food” people have been purged from the prepper threads as inappropriate.
Most preppers have a “charity stash”, but we also know that some folks aren’t prepared to receive charity but would instead try to take by force, and we’re prepared for both.
Thanks for the insult. I'm sure many here feel the same way.
After Katrina I was able to help many people in my area for weeks because of my silliness. You can bet that all those folks have a different attitude about prepping now. Most of my neighborhood is now stocked up at all times.
Did you just come on this thread to make snide remarks?
-houeto.
I remember one suggestion I heard a while back; that was to put back a reasonable supply of small denominations of money - ones, fives, and tens, and some smallish coins - because you may need to have some exact change due to cash registers not working. Assuming even that would be acceptable in such an event, but you stand a better chance of functioning with a few ones and fives instead of having a bunch of large bills that require change when you make a purchase. - Hide them in a safe place; and have a decoy piggy bank in plain site with some pennies and nickels and a few dimes in it so possibly a thief would be tickled to find that and move on.
We need to be on speaking terms with our neighbors just in case we have to go to a barter system, too.
We also need to keep our gasoline tanks in our cars reasonably well filled. We live quite far out in the country.
Regarding food; take the advice of Doris Jantzen Longacre (”The More With Less” books from years ago) and SHORTEN YOUR SHOPPING LIST, eat simpler, and quit trying to eat gourmet every day. Be sure to provide for WATER, WATER, WATER. You can’t live very long without it; you can live a long time on less food than you’re used to. I have a lot stored on the “fat of the land”.
A source of heat in winter months is vital. We got a wood stove several years ago; and have not regretted it. Also got an automatic wood splitter that’s been worth every penny we paid for it. Last year, the storms toppled lots of trees on our place; fortunately, husband likes to use the chain saw, but if you have to, BUY some good stove wood. - Also, have some serious cover (quilts, blankets, etc.) squirrelled away.
No one listens to a -
Twinkie -
But, this is some good advice!
Lots of work went into that manual
Thanks
If you read most of the comments, you’ll realize that most of these folks are not planning or intending to help others. Meanwhile, help comes in many forms, so I’m sure others helped in different ways than you. Why don’t you just respect that not everyone is a “chicken little” type. And if you are going to be that kind of person, you better get used to the insults. If you want to say “told ya so” then fine with me...should that moment arise.
So, Mr. B, you think that a person has to actually threaten “shooting” someone to be mean-spirited? My standards are somewhat different than yours. The comments I am referring to are right on this thread; not pulled by the moderator, nor should they be, but to me are very telling about the sorts of people who are “preppers.” Meanwhile, I don’t consider people who plan for storms as “preppers.” Preppers are planning for a complete breakdown that is going to last and last...not just a week without power.
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