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Preppers PING!

You know it is surprising how many of this type we have right here on FR.

Brenda, the Naysayer: Brenda laughed when her co-worker, Sarah, shared her prepping plans. Now, the streets are over-run with desperate folks. The stores have been looted. Grocers, sporting good stores and gun shops were the first to get hit. But there have been plenty of TV’s, computers and high-ticket electronic items pilfered, even though they’re no good to anyone at present. The family car has an empty gas tank, but she’s in good health and so is the rest of her family. It’s just blind luck Brenda knows where Sarah lives, and the awesome part is she isn’t far—only a couple of miles away. Her family is into bicycling, so the problem of transportation is solved; They’ll just zip past the gridlock, baring looters, that is. The rest of Brenda’s plan lies with the knowledge that Sarah is kindhearted.

She’ll put Brenda and her family up until order is restored, which from the looks of things could be a long time. Brenda and her husband throw what little they have in their pantry (what they can handle weight-wise, anyway) into backpacks and pillowcases. Next, they clear out the medicine cabinet. They tried to use their ATM card for cash just yesterday, so they wouldn’t show up empty-handed—they’d never want to be seen as free-loaders—but the grid is hopelessly crashed, so no luck there, and all businesses are closed, including the banks. But Brenda doesn’t necessarily see that as a deal-breaker. She did everything she could, other than fill her pantry and get preparedness goods. And besides, Brenda has two adorable kids…how can Sarah say no?

For years, I hunted coyotes.... Now I hunt feral pigs.

All because they destroy things.

I'm single and only have to worry about myself. I expect that eventually the bounty on feral humans will be replaced by a bag limit and a season.

SHTF, and I'm gonna enjoy the hunt until I get got. Or a bag limit and a season, whichever comes first. ;)

But as I told the cop the other night... I won't put up with that crap in my neighborhood.

/johnny

Now, the streets are over-run with desperate folks. The stores have been looted. Grocers, sporting good stores and gun shops were the first to get hit.

FYI! Over the past two months, two cars parked on my street have had all four wheels and the tires were taken/stolen! My neighbor right beside me two months ago came out in the morning and found that his car was up in the air and sitting on bricks with all four aluminum wheels and the tires GONE!

Then, last week, this happened again to another car just a half block down from my house! Car up in the air and sitting on bricks and wheels and tires GONE!

Then two night ago one of the Houston news channels stated that two different used car lots in Houston were hit and both had all their cars up in rows - -in the air on bricks with all wheels/ tires gone. Total for both lots was thirty-three cars all in a row!

So, be prepared for new types of criminal theft! (and a hint, buying wheel lock nuts my neighbor said he started to buy, won't work because the crooks will probably already gone to auto parts stores and have all the typical brands - I have no clue how to protect my cars!)

Now, the streets are over-run with desperate folks. The stores have been looted. Grocers, sporting good stores and gun shops were the first to get hit.

FYI! Over the past two months, two cars parked on my street have had all four wheels and the tires were taken/stolen! My neighbor right beside me two months ago came out in the morning and found that his car was up in the air and sitting on bricks with all four aluminum wheels and the tires GONE!

Then, last week, this happened again to another car just a half block down from my house! Car up in the air and sitting on bricks and wheels and tires GONE!

Then two night ago one of the Houston news channels stated that two different used car lots in Houston were hit and both had all their cars up in rows - -in the air on bricks with all wheels/ tires gone. Total for both lots was thirty-three cars all in a row!

So, be prepared for new types of criminal theft! (and a hint, buying wheel lock nuts my neighbor said he started to buy, won't work because the crooks will probably already gone to auto parts stores and have all the typical brands - I have no clue how to protect my cars!)

Brenda apparently never saw the Twilight Zone episode about the bomb shelter.

I went shopping for produce yesterday (garden still a work in progress) and a woman in front of me in the checkout, with 2 small children (one seemed to be having a tantrum the entire time she was in the store) had WIC vouchers for all her purchases.

On the conveyor belt were a number of small lots of food, each with its own WIC voucher that the checker had to total up, check to make sure the food items precisedly matched the voucher, and so on.

It was an eye opener to me (I rarely shop, for one thing) but around here many, many people use EBT cards and usually not for bulk oatmeal; usually frozen pizzas, candy, chips and soda and the like.

I thought to myself: If [when...] the WIC vouchers disappear and the EBT cards don’t work, there are going to be many hungry and desperate people in my valley. Who could have prepared but did not and will not. I saw the two children - now well fed, but maybe very hungry in a while. What will Mommy do? Is there a Daddy around? It sort of brought home the reality.