Posted on 03/23/2013 12:53:07 PM PDT by Kartographer
I'll tell you what gets me when the when the 100+ winds are gone taking the noise with them. At that point the power is out and when the noisy winds are gone, it is deathly quiet. You hear nothing going in the background. It is dead silence. I always have to adjust to nothing.
Going through the no power for you don't know how many days it's going to be, resets your life. I get a routine going so the “new normal” will become some sort of routine.
The first mistake I made was forgetting the garbage disposal didn't work. I had to dig out what I put in there. I then put the stopper in there so I wouldn't unconsciously do that again. If I had to lift the stopper, I would remember not to put food scraps in there.
Your brain has to adjust to a new way of doing things. By the time a couple of days had gone by, we kind of had a routine.
Good luck to you if we have one this year.
If you defend heavily people may think you have something worth defending. then you should prepare to be burned out.
Their tiny Smart Cars won't last past the first curb hopping. If you're not already living in your bug out place, you're likely not to get there if it's an immediate crisis.
In times of duress there are always cowards and turncoats, but the benefits of numbers outweighs the the treachery of an individual or two.
Unlike the Warsaw Ghetto, Americans are much better armed - both in terms of guns and in hindsight.
Hitler and Stalin showed us the price of lack of courage and surrender in the face of evil. We history rhyming now, and much to the chagrin of the global fascist agenda, we prepare.
God Bless America and God give us courage to defend out Constitution.
We see history rhyming now...
They blew up a bridge (intentionally) outside of Austin a few days later and it knocked out cell and landline phones and damaged a city sewer line. 911 was out for many hours. There was no internet and businesses couldn't accept credit cards unless they still had the old hand style machines. People need to be prepared for short term situations as well as long term.
I am relocating to another state in April (Colorado to Texas) so will have to start from scratch in regards to neighbors. The movers will be packing up my house but I will be taking quite a bit with me in my vehicle.
“If you defend heavily people may think you have something worth defending. then you should prepare to be burned out.”
I’m not defending anything unless someone tries to get in my house. I won’t be walking around in battle camouflage with an AR 15 slung over my shoulder. In fact, I won’t be outside in front of my place at all if I can avoid it. If I am outside, I’ll just look like a little old lady who has nothing. My small garden in the back is totally enclosed with high brick walls and no one can get back there or see in there.
Have one window on front and it can't be raised and has three sensors on it to blare if it is touched enough to cause any vibration.
“Suburbians?, hedges grown, then barbed wire woven thru them.”
Have hedges on both sides of front door and they are about chest high and so thick one would be chewed up before getting through one of them to reach the window that is really too high up off the ground to get in easily. I really think it would take a machete and some work to get through that hedge. And, if the window was touched, I would hear the alarms and that person would be dead. I would rather have iron bars but I don't.
“Driveway gates, that are more than just lightweight decorative stuff, and that can be chained/bolted shut.”
Don't have a drive way, have parking spaces in front of townhouse.
“Safe rooms, hardened entryways with drop-bars, alarm systems, video surveillance, solar-powered LED lights with motion sensors (Lowes, HomeDepot-$40-ish)”
Metal front door is hardened, can't be kicked in and has vibration sensor stuck in the bottom of door that goes off it the door moves at all. Back sliding glass door has vibration detector with loud alarm. Small back garden has motion sensor with loud alarm and strobe light that comes on is motion detected. Dead bolt on my bedroom. Loaded 38 with buckshot as first shot and hollow points after that.
Get this: I had a big silhouette target sheet from a shooting range where I had blasted the chest, head and low on the target that would be in the groin area, and I taped that on the back of my bedroom door. A relative saw that and started laughing. I asked him if he was a bad guy, would he enter that room with that target on the door facing him. He said he would never go in there.
“Nice-if-you-can-get-them-> metal roofs to resist fire, brick siding, actual closing shutters, Wood siding? spray with fire-proofing solution.”
Our roofs are slate, will not burn.
House is brick.
“No well? Check your local farming supply/car wash/building supply and get barrels for your rain gutters.”
Have rain diverter on downspout and 55 gallon water barrel it goes in.
Yeah right, can't be kicked in.
You'd be dead meat within hours of your beloved SHTF scenario coming to pass.
The zombies would be feasting on your brains before the sun had time to set.
No need for a garbage disposal, if you start a compost pile. Compost is great to help you grow food.LOL
“Yeah right, can’t be kicked in. You’d be dead meat within hours of your beloved SHTF scenario coming to pass. The zombies would be feasting on your brains before the sun had time to set.”
You really are a nasty, prepper hating, individual. I suspect you may have mental health issues to suggest I would be dead meat and my brains eaten.
All the alarms are battery powered with easily available batteries. If the SHTF and regular batteries ran down, would put my rechargeable batteries in them.
I also will have this week some time, a door mat in front of front door that reads, “COME BACK WITH A WARRANT”. I saw that on Amazon and couldn't pass it up.
Because I live alone, I want to know that I can go to bed without worrying about my safety. So, my preps are for now as well as if we had an emergency that lasted a while.
Then what do you think of this article, posted on FR by a well known prepper, where the writer fantasizes at GREAT length about the grisly deaths of non-preppers when the SHTF.
Pretty disgusting, right? Spiteful, possible mental health issues, etc.
But of course FR's preppers were happy to carry on a conversation under it, and some heartily defended it.
Looks like Yardstick didn’t have the courtesy to ping you about your own thread.
So, rather than take responsibility for what you wrote being over the top, you searched the archives and found one thread from a year ago to use as an excuse for your sick behavior? The article was talking about the general problems non-preppers will face, while your post was personal and talked about the gruesome demise of a beloved poster here. One hardly justifies the other.
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