Posted on 05/29/2009 5:28:31 PM PDT by JoeProBono
There's a new breed of Americans stocking up on canned goods and ammunition. It's not the guy hiding out in a backwoods shack. It's your neighbor.
Jim Wiseman is a fire protection contractor who works "with my hands and the sweat of my brow", a 54-year-old father of five. He lives about as far away as you can get from Washington, DC, and Wall Street...La Jolla, California.
La Jolla hardly seems the sort of place where you'd find a man stocking his garage for disaster, but Wiseman's not alone.
More Americans who are concerned about the teetering financial system dependent on government handouts are preparing for a potential doomsday scenario. They've been dubbed "Suburban Survivalists", and they're one reason the stocks of companies like Cabela's and Big Five.
"I got involved in this six months ago when I became concerned about the financial meltdown," says Wiseman, standing in a garage piled high with enough canned goods to feed ten people for a year. He was concerned that the government's response to the banking crisis wasn't to let the free markets work, but to hand out money. "If this was our response from the government to fix the problem, then I can't depend on them to provide for me and my family."
In the last six month he's spent about $20,000 on food, a 250-gallon water storage tank, a water filter, medical supplies, a grain mill (which can be operated by hand if there's no power), a generator for his RV, and guns and ammunition. "I believe I'm pretty well set." Wiseman says he spent $6,900 alone on food, much of it from online companies which specialize in disaster kits. "I wanted to get it done before the rush happened," he says, adding that his timing was good. After he started ordering, the companies which make these kits were overwhelmed with orders, and some goods are now on backlog.
Why does this article continue to be re-posted again and again?
I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you;-}
Maybe because I missed it the first few times? LOL!
Do you know anybody doing this?
Where can I get one of those?
I’ve been stockpiling food, water, and other necessities since the year 2000. I just rotate everything once a month when I shop.
Without knowing what radical move this moron is going to make next, I feel better knowing that I am not sitting around waiting.
And with North Korea’s circus act they’re pulling over there, you better not forget your supply of potassium-iodide pills.
There isn’t really anything radical about being prepared for potential trouble. Root cellars, pantries, etc al existed a long time ago and if you weren’t well stocked you were thought of as a fool.
So just realize you are keeping alive a great American tradition of being prepared, and also trying not to be a burden to others.
Lots of people are doing it, but not enough, I fear.
I have abt 20 of the 18 Gal Rubbermaid storage containers chuck full of rice, beans, dried potatoes, gravy mix, dried fruit, hell, you name it.
And that’s not counting the canned goods...
If you haven’t seen this site, it has very good info, links to survival goods sites, etc., and the guy who runs it wrote a very good book: “Patriots”
You don't need one of those. you need one of these.
http://www.strategic-air-command.com/missiles/Titan/Titan_II_missile_complex.htm
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That’s a good way of looking at it! You know, about 4 years ago now, we had a power out in Michigan due to that problem with the grid that extends up into Canada. I’m telling you, I have never seen people go from “human” to “animal” so fast in my life. There were lines for ice & water. No gas stations were open. People were radical drivers because the intersection lights were out. It was plain chaos!
I knew then that stockpiling essentials was a good thing!
Yep. Sure do.
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When I was a kid we did this every year. Spent the whole summer growing, canning, freezing, cutting wood, and in fall butchering, hunting, and filling the root cellar. We also sold some crops and bought cloth, toiletries, and most necessities to last past winter until spring. Then, we’d start all over again. We also had a deep well, cistern and outhouse.
To this day it makes me nervous not to have 200 quarts of tomatoes, beans, and sundry jellies and jams in the basement by October 1st.
My FIL, who was Pennsylvania Dutch, when he was young, they would butcher some of the hogs in the fall. Then, cook them mostly, piece it out, and store it layered in the hog fat in barrels.
Store them where it was cool. Lard lasts like forever.
Pork chops in February that were fresh as the day they were packed...
Yes, pork fat rules! One can also can or smoke most meats. Rabbit, fish, deer can be hung and dried. We would store winter squash, potatoes, and sweet potatoes in the rafters. Every part of the pig was used, and if we were extremely lucky we’d have raised a cow. When it was too old to milk, into the larder she’d go. We raised chickens, ducks, rabbits, and guinnea pigs. My mother knew a lot about herbs so we rarely needed store-bought medicines.
However, I will tell you that to this day there is one thing I absolutely hate and will not eat no matter what. Sweetbreads! My gosh, that is nasty. I’ll eat bugs first.
My brother in NY sent me some canned venison for my bday.
Now I grew up in NY and have eaten alot of venison,and it’s ok, but I was never super crazy about it cause it’s very lean.
But this stuff in Ball jars is SUPER! Nice chunks, some stringers of fat mixed in, I gotta get some carrots and veggies and stew some of it out.
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