Posted on 04/28/2010 6:13:34 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie
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Absolutely. Thanks for the post. We made out pretty well with the April sales for the Ready store. We’ve got a nice stash prepared should something bad happen. More than 3 months and I’d probably be inclined to put my fluent Portuguese and Spanish for the test long term.
Probably ought to work on the English stuff as well.
Is she gonna make Hawaiian music?
A good component of a survival kit would be 144 cases of corn whiskey, 12 cases fine wine, and as much tequila and vodka you can get your hands on.
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Here in maine we used to just call it ‘winter’
She better have firearms or she won’t hold on to the rest of that stuff after the brown stuff hits the rotating blades.
Added more firepower this week.
Yeah. Why put all that stuff away if you’re gonna readily surrender it to the next thug that comes along?
“They both live in rural areas, grow their own food and could live without the grid indefinitely.”
...I live in a rural area too...if TSHTF I’m headed towards a small fortified village....no way my isolated farm could hold off roving bands of crimnals...law and order will breakdown first...remember Katrina where cops abandoned their posts and thieves began looting before the storm even made landfall....for safety, we’ll all have to live in groups and pull pickett guard duty.
It isn't that difficult. Just yell "I love your Vespa" and watch their heads explode all by themselves.
Seriously, the lady is missing the sine qua non of survival: the willingness to defend herself and her family. She is far more likely to encounter intimidation and robbery than starvation in a survival situation, especially if she is known to have a stash of supplies. And the people who come after it won't be starving. During Katrina there were wandering punks after generators, attracted by the lights. They didn't want them for light, they wanted to steal them to sell. The people who were armed were able to decline politely. The people who weren't, weren't.
I collect booze for storage and I just bought 34 bottles of this at $5.00 per bottle clearance.
This site sells it for $38.00 shipped.
Gosling's Black Seal, Bermuda Black Rum
...this site is interesting to poke around in...it concerns life after oil runs out.
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
This is definitely a rhetorical question... but you know all those “Public Service Announcements” the government pays for???? WHY don’t they make a PSA about getting ready for disaster, whether it be a winter power outage or tornado or WTSHTF????
I added another 50 pounds of chicken layer rations (sealed in buckets) to the outside larder. Our flock is stable at six hens, and we expect our first eggs in June, with full production by September. I expect at least four eggs a day out of the coop for at least 2 years with these hens...
OBTW...Home Depot stocks quarter-mile reels of barbed wire for about $65 a spool. That’s a standard length, and about as much as one person can lift comfortably. You’ll look like a hero when you offer a couple of those up at the proper time...
Vodka is a great antiseptic/sterilizer also...right?
...we keep two 50 pound salt blocks on hand...one is out for the deer; one in reserve...you can get them at your local farm&feed store...get the plain salt...you don’t need the mineral/salt block....cattlemen buy that...salt might come in handy for food preservation and for trade bait.
Okay....I THINK I know what the barbed wire is for...but, I’m not sure...
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