Posted on 08/26/2013 6:20:36 AM PDT by Travis McGee
bfl
As I said elsewhere:
VERY well done. You have given me a focus of survival techniques and items to acquire as well as a series of things I should read. Additionally — to those who are news-unaware and culture-oblivious — you have given them something to mull over.
I can honestly say you have ‘suited up and shown up’ much better than most, certainly much better than me. The best I have done in my writing efforts have been to reinforce what the like-minded already believe. if this gets in front of the other side, you might just sway a few minds.
Of that, we can only hope. I feel the shortness of the story is it’s brilliance. I, personally, find it much harder wading through a whole book. That, plus the high signal-to-noise ratio, have made this the singular most important thing I have read in 2013. That ain’t no bull(feces), neither, and for me to say that is a big deal.
I’m just a little sponge that copies from the dry erase boards of many other freepers.
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Well done!!!
Downloading to my Kindle today!
Those would be the exceptionally lucky ones.
How many people do you know today who don't even have a backyard to dig up to plant a garden, to say nothing of having no seeds or tools, nowhere to fish or hunt, don't even have jars to can with, no a clue on how to do it, to say nothing of having nothing to can?
I planted a significant garden this year for the first time in many years; next year I'll be doing a lot of things differently.
What's mind-boggling is how much space is needed to grow significant calories; 100 square feet will, on a good season, produce 30,000 calories of potatoes.
That will feed one person a starvation diet of 1000 calories per day for one month.
Scale from there.
You had me from I-81 in NE Tennessee. I know that exit.
Will share widely.
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That was a good read, and quite imaginable, given the recent events.
Dayum, Matt. Started reading figuring to come back later and really read it and by “The Hawk’s Nest”, realized I was ALREADY really reading it and couldn’t stop until IT stopped.
Wow. Just wow.
By the way, I referenced potatoes because they maximize the calories-per-square-foot you get; that’s why the poor Irish subsisted on them for generations, until the blight hit in 1847 and 2 million of 6 million starved, and another 2 million were exported to the New World.
Well written as always. Hopefully it will remain as fiction for now. It truly is remarkable how fragile our society is and how quickly it could turn very ugly even for the prepared.....
Super ping to all lists...
Disregard doubles or triples, but get here.
Matt,
I can’t wait to download. I thank you for your efforts to make me think of the unimaginable outcomes that could happen.
Best,
MFO
Thanks.
Wow..! U r an amazing writer.
excellent
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