Winter is coming....

The Event ^ | 08/27/2012 | Jay Pounder

[jaypounder]

Winter is coming.... The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.

- Henry Clay

I love the story of the Little Red Hen.

It is an amazing metaphor for what we truly should be looking for in our current society.

It is what, "We The People" are missing on the most basic level.

If you don't remember the story, here is a quick recap for you;

Come on over to "The Event" to read more;

http://www.preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/08/winter-is-coming.html

[End Times Sentinel]

(I didn't bother to click over to the blog you're pimping but...)

Damn, I can't wait for winter.

I haven't got any heat tolerance whatsoever. In fact, last “winter” here in Philadelphia, the coldest it ever got, I'd walk home with just a heavy sports coat, maybe a scarf, and that was it. I strongly suspect that huge clouds of steam were billowing off behind me (the walk home is to the south west).

I fully expect to be wearing linen most of the winter this year.

If someone could convince me that global warming wasn't the biggest fraud of all times, I'd be marching around, checking out your garbage for recyclables.

[Kartographer]

Perrers’ PING!!

[Kartographer]

We are on the Razor’s edge with our economics, government and our society and it won’t take much to pull things over the edge like a row of dominoes.

Personally I expect something much like the well I think that we are in for something like the collapse of Argentina ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yerKMQc7-w&feature=grec_index )but on a global scale.

Additionally I think we will see a much more violent version. As recent events show (Flash Mobs, OWS, etc) we have a larger entitlement minded population and violent prone and armed population than Argentina. I see many many small business wiped out by flash mob looting, and see rape, robbery and murder for murder sake.

Many of these ‘yutes’ will think no more about killing you than most people think about stepping on a roach. That will be the test of many. Most preppers I know are Christian people and they will hesitate to do what they might have to do to stop the ‘yutes’. On the other hand the ‘yutes’ won’t think twice nor lose a minute of sleep, in fact they will smile and laugh about it.

I can’t help, but think of this quote which is one of my favorites:

“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)

Quark: “Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.”

Clearly there’s a storm coming, as great as a hurricane and like you do when a hurricane comes your way you either prepare to weather it or you become a victim of it.

For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:

http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf

NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!

For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.

As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”

Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3

“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”

[Kartographer]

Perrers’ Preppers' PING!! ;-)

[BreezyDog]

[Squantos]

We keep 12 full cords of hickory secured and stored out of the weather. Last winter was mild and we just used a few face cords. Look forward to cooler weather for a while ....

Good read ...thanks for your work here .

Stay safe !

[sneakers]

I just put fresh green beans in the freezer. Have to get a large tank of propane. We are far behind other preppers, but better than nothing and we could survive. Don’t know what’s coming, but Mr sneakers is finally on board with me on the prepping thing. Even he is getting nervous.

Just got a bunch of bacon flavored SPAM at Big Lots. Wow! It’s good! We’re going back for more. I highly recommend it.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Perrers’ PING!!

I once had a perrer, but lost it.

[Marcella]

There are now propane heaters safe to use in the house, “Mr. Heater”. It uses small propane bottles. I got one in case power goes off. I have sleeping bags good down to 5 below zero. I would use them in the house and Texas doesn’t get to less than 5 below zero and very seldom goes to that. I have a gas fireplace but if power went off for a while, the gas would eventually stop.

I also have warm clothes to wear.

[End Times Sentinel]

Oh, you.

You're just saying that because folks like us ante up to keep this place running and we don't like people pimping their blogs here on our dime, free of charge.

We should stop being so petty.

[shibumi]

Are you not paying attention? Or were you lying when you said you'd post your whole blog here if only you could?

I (along with another helpful FReeper) told you how to do it easily, and I showed you on your last attempted posting here. (Too bad about that one. Are you still using material from InfoWars? That stuff will get you the Zot in a hurry around here you know.)

Well, just so folks don't go wasting time on a side trip, I've copied just a couple of paragraphs from your blog, so they can get a taste of the wonderful prose they're missing:

"Let me asking you another question, growing up, what toy did you treat with the most respect?

Was it the one that you bought with your own money?

Or was the one your parents bought you?

You see we are now seeing a growing epidemic of young people who grow up expecting everything handed to them on a silver platter. Their food, their clothes, their cell phone. They work for nothing!

Here is another example, their educations. As you can see from the cartoon on the right, in the past when you brought home bad grades, well that was your own fault.

Now it is the fault of the teachers because we feel the need to "protect" our children from anyone who would tell them that they aren't good enough. The expectation is that we are all special and we should get things handed to us!

We have been conditioned to it! Our Government does it everyday. Welfare, TANIF, MEDICAID, HUD... all of it... handouts. You don't even have make an attempt to work to get these things... walk in... sign on the dotted line and boom goes the dynamite... your dependent on them for everything!

We as a society are no longer teaching our children to own up to their lives and mistakes.

That is crap.

The issue we are seeing is that when we do what we see in the cartoon above it isn't doing anyone any good."

Well, in your defense, if I wrote prose like that, I wouldn't want anyone to see it either. If that's why you're excerpting, then I guess I understand.

Just for starters, a phrase like "That is crap." while it does contain a subject, verb and object, could hardly be called a well thought out sentence, much less a paragraph. You follow that gem with this one. "Or was the one your parents bought you?" That is neither a sentence or a paragraph. Then there's the issue of "you're" versus "your." Do yourself a favor and look it up.

I guess English Composition wasn't such a big deal at Mead Senior High School, was it? Well, as they say, the Devil is in the details.

[Lurker]

I just learned a really hard lesson about preparing for medical emergencies. I fell way short, particularly in the area of my judgement.

A week ago Friday Mrs. L was bitten by the neighbors dog. The bites themselves were fairly minor, not even a single stitch was needed. The paramedics were called and they all agreed it was no big deal. Now this happened at about 0100 on Friday. “Go see your doctor in the morning” was the advice from the “professionals. Keep in mind I’ve got a significant pile of antibiotics on hand and you’ll see just how badly I screwed up.

By noon that day when I took her to see our physician half of her right hand was almost twice it’s normal size. Our doctor took one look at it and sent us off to the urgent care clinic for a huge shot of antibiotics and pain medications. She was really hurting. We went home, had dinner, and went to bed.

When we got up Saturday morning, the telltale signs of serious systemic infection were all present. This is less than 30 hours after the injury. Back to our family doctor we went. She took one look at it and said “Wait here. I need to make a couple of phone calls.”. Mrs L was not looking well at all at this point, with a fever of 100.5. Off to the hospital we went and she was in a room getting massive amounts of antibiotics intravenously in less than an hour.

She spent 5 full days in the hospital getting 3 GRAMS of ampicillin a day PLUS 3 milligrams of morphine every 4-5 hours “as needed”. Surgery was required to clean out the infection and as I write this she’s still recovering and is wont be able to return to work for another for another 3 days at least.

Perhaps if I’d reached into my stash when she was bitten and pushed 1000 mg of ampicillin into her things might not have gotten so bad as quickly as they did. According to the infectious disease specialist who consulted on her case another 24 hours and she would have been in life threatening trouble. All because I didn’t recognize a serious situation before it reached a critical level.

So like I said, I learned a really, really hard lesson here. All the “stuff” in the world is useless if you don’t recognize an emergency situation when its kicking you right in the balls. I came scary, scary close to losing the thing I value most in this world all due to a serious error in judgement.

She is on the mend now, but I took a well deserved blow to my ego. I thank Heaven above things turned out the way they did. I sure as hell had nothing to do with it.

Hope all is well.

[hotshu]

Kart,

I love being on the list and always check. R U OK?, or were you just in a hurry? Perrers’? If I hadn’t checked “From” I might have thought it was a not-so-nimble fingered frog suggesting a certain bottled water. ;).

Thanks for all you do and particularly for you manual at tomeakers’.

tmp

[blam]

I’m happy to hear your wife made it.

Be careful my friend.

[stboz]

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

Mark Twain

[Lurker]

Every once in a while Life gives you a smack in the face. I am thanking God this one wasn’t harder.

[Alas Babylon!]

Wow! Great reminder. You never know. I’m praising God she came out OK!

[hotshu]

Puncture wounds can be very iffy even when the dogs are your own.

I stupidly stuck my foot in between a couple of litter mates who were asserting dominance and the “sweeter” of the two snapped due to the adreneline. I ended up with a wound that took about two months to heal. I and my better half immediately soaked it with peroxide, applied antibiotic ointment and repeated that procedure with fresh dressings until the wound healed.

My takeaway was to have plenty of peroxide, sterile dressing and antibiotic cream on hand. I know it won’t solve every problem, but it kept me from having some government busybody asking how about my “vicious” dog.

He loves picking nectarines off the trees, btw.

tmp

[Rebelbase]

“When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn’t imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter. “