I agree.
Posted on 10/28/2013 1:38:42 PM PDT by lulu16
Thanks. Calm heads like yours are needed in my over-heated thread.
But did you enjoy drinking room temp Dr. Pepper?
No power? Just have a tailgate party and you’ll have more generators in one parking lot than you could count! lol
Yes, and instead of survival of the fittest we can delcare it the removal of the dumbest!
I'm not 'bugging out' anywhere or 'prepping' for anything, not that I'd expect to need to anyway for whatever reason the teevee is scaring the hell out of people.
If you live in a city that is used to brownouts, that would be a plus. In Panama City, Panama, they plan for that contingency.
(I know, this trips the assistance of a friendly freeper, who will teach me how to encode.)
This way the toilets still flush, even as you cower in your penthouse, listening to the screams down below.
GPS coordinates please :)
Two things struck me.
One was that everyone had problems, no matter how much they prepped. Even the most prepared had issues to deal with, albeit different issues than the dunces.
The other was how much money the prepper dad must have spent on the cameras, survival food, bunker, supplies and in the end was almost killed as surely as everyone else. He could have sheltered in place just as easily and maybe more effectively.
I agree.
I did pick up one good idea from the show that I hadn't thought of before. Have a small "give away" supply of food for marauders to take while the real stash is secreted away.
LOL I did find one thing very believable; 0bama had no idea what to do.
My give away would be tainted to further thin out the herd.
And the thing is, if he was some skinny effete intellectual who came over looking for some Grey Poupon, I’d understand. But he looked like the type who knew his way around a Costco palette.
But make sure the kids are asleep. They might have nightmares. Let them have their innocent childhood, while you quietly stock toilet paper in the garage rafters.
How in this day and age was everyone so hardy, so civil, so prepared? Canadians really are extraordinary.
That’s an idea I have heard of before from Doomsday Preppers. I wouldn’t do it unless I were certain it would only be eaten by the thief who took it.
Yeah ... you are probably right. I would never prep like that and all my firearms were lost in that tragic boating accident.
I read a story the other day about a ‘prepper’ in Egypt who had a fortress, a wall, a safe room and tons of food in his basement
The crowd targeted his house and chased him into the basement where they raided his stores and eventually broke into the safe rom and killed them.
A man who escaped made it to a neighbor who had NO visible means of protection and nothing that looked like it was valuable, everything was hidden
I am going to save money on fences and put it into hidden storages
The most unrealistic thing to me was the overall absence of neighbor helping neighbor. Having just been through the thousand-year floods in CO I know for a fact that by far most people immediately look to see how they can pitch in and help.
Would the chaos that was shown happen? Sure! But that was all they showed in the program.
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