Posted on 08/26/2013 6:20:36 AM PDT by Travis McGee
A chilling, entirely plausible look into what may await us.
I've mentioned it before, but I'll mention it again. I have this bookmarked and refer myself and others to it often.
When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence
Western Rifle Shooters Association ^ | September 4, 2012 | Matt Bracken
Posted on Tuesday, September 04, 2012 7:37:03 AM by Travis McGee
I reviewed Matt’s first book and could tell his action thrillers with a conservative viewpoint were going to appeal to a lot of us on FR as well as horrify the gun=hating libs.
His username of Travis McGee is taken from a highly popular book series by John D. McDonald that celebrated an iconoclastic hero.
Good stuff!
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Or, you can plant Sunchoke Sunflowers that make tubers that taste like potatoes and they reproduce on their own. Plant them one time, and they make others underground with those tubers. Leave a few tubers the first time, and they will reproduce like crazy.
The problem with regular potatoes is, you need potato slips every year to grow more potatoes. In a SHTF situation, you can't buy or order more slips, so you have no more potatoes. The potato like Sunflower tubers, keep growing forever. Use the tubers exactly like a potato.
Not true...you can save potato seed to grow out the following year.
“you can save potato seed to grow out the following year.”
I’ve never seen a potato seed - what do they look like?
Great job Matt, as always. I'll do my best to push it out.
Regards,
TS
“you can save potato seed to grow out the following year.”
If you are talking about saving part of a potato, how do you preserve it until the next year?
My familiarity with the region you have based this story in caught my attention, and wouldn’t let it go. Still shaking off the goosebumps...will have my wife read this when she gets home.
Thank you for the ping, m’Lady.
Appreciate the ping ... I live in the area where the character starts his exodus toward the seashore. Out my front door I can see a ridge named ‘Indian Ridge’ which was an Indian highway along which tribal travelers would traverse from the lower Appalachian chain to the more Norther sections for great gatherings. Boone and others used these same ridges for their travels afoot.
No one I know who has tried to eat Sunchokes tried them more than twice: once boiled and once fried. Even the cows won’t eat them.
In my area, they have become a wild invasive species. Anyone who wants them can find them from Spring to Fall by the leaves and flowers. I never have seen them dug up, anywhere, in over 30 years.
detailed instructions with pics for storing seed potatoes
http://alpinegarden.blogspot.com/2010/03/sprouting-potatoes-what-to-do.html
photo of potato berries. These are produced on the top of the stalks at the end of the season. The seeds are inside the berry. Potatoes and tomatoes are related.
http://www.backyarddiva.ca/are-my-potatoes-growing-tomatoes/
Mature potato seeds and a place to buy them
http://www.doublehelixfarms.com/true-potato-seed-TPS
Civilizations have fallen this hard before, naturally, including Babylon itself a couple of times. One of the reasons entire populations are put to the sword is that there isn't anything else to do with them. Assyria collapsed into its two principal cities which themselves fell and what was left was a bunch of Mesopotamian farmers looking over their shoulders for raiders and starving when the crops failed. Knossos never did bounce back.
But the tower of Babel was a nearly perfect metaphor for a society dedicated to a utopian aim that collapsed under its own weight when that aim proved to be illusory. Our own progressive aims are grander, taller, and their fall is likely to be even more catastrophic. You captured this nicely. Well done.
I just noticed that Kipling’s “Copybook” contains the phrase brave new world. I wonder if it came before or after Huxley?
The first thing I read is potato berries themselves can’t be eaten as they may be poisonous. I’ll have to study all that information and get back to you privately.
The Sunflower tuber I’m speaking of is the white tuber that looks like a Russet potato - not the kind with all the bumps on it. The bumpy ones are common but not the white variety. The white variety is grown for food.
I think most of them would go into shock and paralysis, waiting for govt rescue until they starved to death.
The bridge overpass in New Orleans a couple days after Katrina springs to mind.
Waiting there. Just waiting. Help has always come before. It’ll come now.
We just need to wait for it...
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