Posted on 10/31/2012 12:33:08 AM PDT by GeronL
After Big Sandy, I wonder how many people who thought preppers were "crazy" have changed their minds??
Preppers are force multiplers for first responders and in many case they are First Responeders!!
“But then someone has to stand on the bridge waiting for FEMA to bring them a bottle of water, an MRE and a warm blanket so as to provide the Network Anchors their background ‘Money Shot’. I wonder how that will workout for them?”
Thats just the thing, millions are bred to be victims, bred to live that somebody else usually the government will take care of them, latent socialists I would dare to say.
And what when the government doesn’t show up with that bottle of water, the blanki and MRE?
Then even 75,000 rounds won’t be enough.
I finished my food stockpile of freeze dried foods, one year supply for me, but then a hurricane would never hit Alaska, earthquakes possibly. Do I need help from the feds?
No and if they even try to help me I’ll just give it to someone that really does need it.
That works for some, but some of us are more interested in promoting preparedness, sharing information on preparedness and explaining our gear and preparations to people, and prep partly to be there to help in emergencies.
I have already lived through a number of emergencies, and helping and neighborliness and leadership is all part of the benefits of the experiences.
Apologies for the flippant remark. From what I’ve seen the storm was equivalent to a tsunami, and I feel for everyone with person or property in its wake. I’m glad that there were few fatalities (compared to the magnitude of the event). I thank modern technology for the heads-up and the weather forecasters for their stern warnings.
Well said. There is also the economic side of prepping that I think gets short shrift. Its prudent to prepare for financial calamity. Such as losing a job, a politician led depression, or extended bad times. How is doing that dumb or extreme?
Prepping is a spectrum. For some folks it means laying in a weeks worth of food. Others go much further. If what you’re talking about is prepping for the Zombie Apocalypse then I’m simply not of that persuasion. Not really critical of those who choose to do so, just not seeing the practicality if you live in the cities which most of us do.
You really don't it, do you? The person who had the foresight to prep also had the foresight to move the preps to higher ground when he heard, an entire week before, that a flood was coming. Burying weapons in the damp ground out of reach, hahahahahaha!!! Did you pay for health insurance last month? If you didn't use it, then you are just as wasteful as a prepper who had to bug out and leave his stuff.
This is twice in two years that NY and that surrounding area has been hit with a hurricane, and just last summer a massive drecheo knocked out power for weeks. Thats three events in just two years.
You expect to be the 47% sitting in your apartment 12 hours into the storm whining about not enough food and thinking about joining the looters.
Or the individual in NJ complaining their toilet won't flush and can't figure out how to handle sanitation without gov't help.
Those who live in hurriacane country PLAN on evacuations (whoops, must have missed that) so they have what they need with them to ride out the evacuation - (pssssst, its called PREPPING).
You find yourself in a disaster HT, don't whine to us about no food or water getting to you from FEMA. We'll just raise our cups of coffee to you and bite into our supplies we've stored up.
Oh I agree with you. I enjoy doing that but online. I just think that advertising that you’re well prepared is not particularly wise if you live in an urban environment.
A bit off topic but one of the things I’d like to do with the “surviving socialism” pinglist is start getting a sort of shopping list for basic and intermediate prepping and the best deals available.
Sun Tzu said, always hold the high ground. I don't think he was talking about floods, but it works.
Hey I said that!!!!
I didn’t invent it though, read it on a survival website a long time ago.
Yeah, more than ever you've shown that you are myopic.
I "prep" for every winter. We live in snow country and never know what the weather will be and what conditon the roads are going to be in. We live in an area that's roughly 20 miles in ANY direction from a city or reasonable supplies. I prep not only becuase you can never be sure if stuff is going to be available should there be panic buying, which happens with every decent sixed storm predicted, but I also do NOT relish the thought of hauling in heavy loads of groceries through the slop we live with every winter.
It's far easier to stock up with a few months supplies in the nice weather than to do it in the teeth of a nor'easter or lake effect snow when it's coming down 2-3 inches per hour and you realize that you ran out of something.
I am not adequately prepped for TEOTWAWKI scenario, but I could go a good month without shopping and still not be hurting.
Prepping is most certainly worth it even if the world is NOT coming to an end.
Reality of it is, if it is the Zombie Apocalypse, I'd rather not be here anyway.
Reality of it is, if it is the Zombie Apocalypse, I'd rather not be here anyway.
For all practical purposes, it was essentially a tsunami as far as the deatruction was concerned.
However, in light if the mess and destruction everyone was focusing on on the east coast, it’s really somewhat unfair to all those in the mid- Atlantic states who got buried in more snow at once than they probably normally see in one winter. And they are not eqipped to deal with those amounts of snow.
Heck , even here in NYS, that much heavy, wet, nor’easter snow would tax our ability to deal with it. WE’D have trouble with it and we’re used to dealing woth snow.
For all practical purposes, it was essentially a tsunami as far as the deatruction was concerned.
However, in light if the mess and destruction everyone was focusing on on the east coast, it’s really somewhat unfair to all those in the mid- Atlantic states who got buried in more snow at once than they probably normally see in one winter. And they are not eqipped to deal with those amounts of snow.
Heck , even here in NYS, that much heavy, wet, nor’easter snow would tax our ability to deal with it. WE’D have trouble with it and we’re used to dealing woth snow.
For all practical purposes, it was essentially a tsunami as far as the deatruction was concerned.
However, in light if the mess and destruction everyone was focusing on on the east coast, it’s really somewhat unfair to all those in the mid- Atlantic states who got buried in more snow at once than they probably normally see in one winter. And they are not eqipped to deal with those amounts of snow.
Heck , even here in NYS, that much heavy, wet, nor’easter snow would tax our ability to deal with it. WE’D have trouble with it and we’re used to dealing woth snow.
Having been through several hurricanes much more powerful than this one I’ve noticed the majority of the wind damage is due to a couple of reasons.
1. Old, poorly constructed buildings. My home built to hurricane code suffered almost no wind damage.
2. Poorly maintained trees which shed limbs onto cars, homes, and powerlines.
Not much can be done to limit storm surge damage except elevate the building. Usually storm surge is limited to areas close to the water. A couple miles inland and you don’t have to worry unless you live in New Orleans or near a river.
Well said . . +1
Agreed. I have two general rules. 1) Do me no harm. 2) If you want to fly your freak flag, pull your drapes.
Fortunately many preppers plan for the short comings of others too. This time around, I am not in the vicinity of anyone impacted by the disaster.
A couple years back when "Snowmaggedon" hit, I learned that
#1 Many of my neighbors thought I was a crazy gun nut
#2 That though we lived in a very rural area most around me did not have any preparations
#3 Most did not have basic survival skills/common sense. This became apparent when one family wanted to bring perishable items to my house (as I had the means to cook) that were defrosting in their freezer because they had no way to keep food cold/frozen............with four feet of snow on the ground.
This post isn't to pat myself on the back and belittle others; however, it IS to demonstrate to other preppers just how ill prepared others are.
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