I'll check back in the morning. I'm interested in finding out what real Americans have to say about this.
Plan C is trust in Jesus Christ and keep working (if one has a job) or get to looking for work(s) to do. God will provide.
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I believe we’re about to put it to the test...
Lots of folks have always been seeking a self-suffcient lifestyle, or as much as you can in today interconnected world.
Alaska, Nevada and Utah come to mind as places that lots of folks have made the decision to “go their won way”.
Nothing sinister, just sensible.
what most survival stories fail to suggest: get in shape!
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Where’s the picture of the ‘Jeez, not this again’ guy?
We Americans lived though the Cuban Missile crisis and the Carter years and survived...
... so the new, improved Carter years (Obamanation) aren’t going to be the end of America either.
I feel so strongly about this - I believe in being prepared for emergency, esp for disruption in food/water/electric/medical supply. I don’t just mean a weeks worth, but at least 3 month’s worth.
Before you call me an alarmist, here is how I look at it. You know how you hear people say how they could never forgive themselves if someone broke into their homes and they couldn’t defend their families? Well, I feel the same way, and I would feel just as badly having to look into my children’s eyes and tell them I have no food. Especially when everyone could see at the beginning of 2008 there was trouble coming down the pike.
I am a believer, and my friends say this is a lack of faith. I say look at Joseph. Noah. God isn’t against being “prepped” for disaster.
Off the soap box now ;)
The party is over (for those of us who aren’t the pigs knocking each other over at the government trough) and it’s time to be smart. Plant a vegetable garden, shoot a few deer and load up the freezer, eat in, splurge on nothing, drive the car into the ground and then spend a few grand on a rebuild rather than $20k or more on something new, and of course, keep plenty of guns and ammo handy.
Also, take whatever savings you have left out of stocks and buy gold or fertile land.
I have noticed a lot of subtle and disturbing changes. For example at Walmart today, clerks were extra careful at checkout with reveiwing credit card/id matches; I was chased out down by a clerk with my purchases after I left the store to make sure I had a receipt. Customers seem ruder, parking lot traffic less courteous etc. Maybe it is something about me, but my Walmart experience today was a little unsettling.
If it really hits the fan, look for a lot of incivility if not outright confrontation. As much as I hate to say it, we won’t “pull together”....that ethos has been beat out of us by the culture, public education, liberal politics and what passes for entertainment these days.
Plan A is no plan.
“Can you survive?”
For a decent amount of time, financially, anyway. Anyone who was paying attention should have been moving investment assets to “Safer” places in about mid-May...
As for anything else:
Decent foodstocks, rural area (but near a major Interstate), and friendly farmer neighbors.
If everything REALLY goes to crap, I have our reasonably defensible small town (small rivers on 3 sides, and two elevated rail right-of ways on two sides.)just a few miles away with it’s own (TINY) police force, a small Guard Armouy, a small, currently-mothballed hydro-electric plant, a large elevator, a town well system within it, and a decently organized Civil Defense. Arms would be fairly easy to come by, if you really needed them, around here. The only thing we would lack in a real breakdown of civl order would be decent medical facilities. The closest would be the county seat, some 13 miles away, and across that major Interstate.
It’s also far enough out of the city to NOT attract suburbanite Commuters. The few we do have (like me!) are out here for a REASON.
Being slammed by tornados every decade or so teaches us to be prepared for about anything.
Funny enough, we gamed a nuclear attack on Indianapolis and Chicago for local CD back in 1979, and part of that was how (And IF) we would deal with the human outflow...
Until 9/11 those plans sat on a shelf, and “Emergency Management was just a buzzword for a local political appointment. That changed after 9/11, and the plan was updated in 2002 after 9/11.
Sadly, I’m probably the only guy alive in town that actually knows how to use and read a dosimeter.
BTTT!
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