Posted on 10/08/2021 7:59:52 PM PDT by blam
flr
He’s prolly 17 yrs old.
Thanks, blam. It is critical that people understand this.
That’s a wood supply to dream of.
Preach it!
One doesn’t have to be a survivalist to prep or be prepared.
so, perhaps start living life now a little less extravagant....learn how to stretch meat....plant and sow...preserve food...learn to mend and sew...cut hair...use natural cures for illness....
reuse and recycle and repurpose everything....no waste....
President Trump ain’t coming back. They cheated him in 2020 and no one cared enough to raise hell about it. So if thy have to in 2024 they do it again. The Republican Party collaborated with the Democrat Party to get rid if him in 2020. No one gave a damn. They will do it again in 2024 if necessary in 2024. The people won’t give a damn then either. They wii still vote the same Republicans that stuck the knife in President Trump’s back.
Never saw a fat coal miner anywhere. Saw a lot of fat coal mine owners though. When the SHTF it gets flung far an wide.
Many thanks for all the prepper links over the years!
Appreciated “Bigly”
#13 should concern more people than it does.
“Never saw a fat coal miner anywhere. Saw a lot of fat coal mine owners though.”
Note to self: Own coal mine.
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Thanks for the link.
GitHub and other similar sites will let you host small personal projects for free. Github Pages is free. If you want to publish more stuff it will support that. It also supports versioning and easy reversion if you make a mistake. Static websites only, use an offline generator like Jekyll or Hugo to make static pages for more complex work.
Yup. People in New Orleans who owned generators were fine after Ida hit...until the gasoline supply couldn't be replenished. The Fukushima meltdowns happened because a tsunami destroyed (1) the emergency generators in the reactor building basements, (2) the grid that could have powered the emergency cooling pumps with the generators down, and (3) the roads over which new generators could have been brought. Three-layered safety system gone in minutes.
The lesson is to plan for cascading failures. That isn't as easy as it sounds. What happens when your emergency food is in a flooded basement? When the roads in and out of your community are cut by landslides? When a wildfire is headed your way and your community says "evacuate" but not to where? When you're perfectly capable of hiking to safety but somebody you're with isn't? All of these things have not only happened, but happened recently. Have a plan.
Know of one for sale? I’ll go in on it with you. Unless you need to own it 100% to be fat. Not sure if 50% is enough to maintain adequate fatness.
Great point
I would like to add that, sometimes, it only hits the fan for you.
I’ve seen too many people who thought they were ready for Mad Max, only to lose everything to some normal, everyday catastrophe. Illness or injury, job loss, a nasty divorce, tornado, a wildfire, etc. Things that happen so often people underestimate the kind of damage they can do.
I always advise new preppers to start with the most likely problems, and go from there. A power outage in winter is a pretty easy scenario to imagine, and when people start figuring out how to cook, heat the house, and keep their family occupied without power, they also end up learning how to analyze a scenario and decide what steps to take to prepare for it. It’s usually a short step from there to other scenarios, you can almost see their brain rewiring itself.
I’ve met several people who prepared for the expected Y2K disaster, who later ended up being saved by their supply stash when they lost their job and couldn’t find a new one for months.
I’ve also met several people who were so focused on the “tacticool” aspects of prepping, who imagined themselves with a machine gun fighting off zombie hoards. Only to discover that they couldn’t even feed or dress themselves after spraining a wrist.
If you’re not prepared for the little emergencies, you are not prepared.
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