This may be Thanksgiving dinner next year if we don't get rid of Obummer.
Posted on 11/23/2011 10:07:10 PM PST by Lazlo in PA
As the U.S. economy tanks and the Mid-East appears poised for war, a chain of survival gear stores in Missouri has reported a jump in sales due to people getting ready for the possible ‘collapse’ of society.
Steve Dorsey, a manager at one of the Uncle Sam’s Safari Outfitters stores in Webster Groves told KMOX-Radio that: “We had to order fifty cases of the meals ready to eat to keep up with the demand in the past three months. That’s not normal. Usually we sell 20 to 30 cases in a whole year.”
When local stores start running out of MREs– specially packaged meals ready-to-eat, generally for the military– that seems to be a sign of strong public anxiety.
Steve Dorsey also told reporters that sales has been picking up since the Arab Spring revolts and with the continued specter of a global economic collapse hanging over America.
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This may be Thanksgiving dinner next year if we don't get rid of Obummer.
ahh, just take a wild guess.
Certainly are more light and compact than cans, jars, or aseptically sealed plastic (like the Dinty Moore stew trays). But costs more. Whether that form makes sense depends on whether one would expect to travel far from home on foot with lots of supplies, and how long one will want to keep them. November 2012? Conventional food packaging will do.
Certainly are more light and compact than cans, jars, or aseptically sealed plastic (like the Dinty Moore stew trays). But costs more. Whether that form makes sense depends on whether one would expect to travel far from home on foot with lots of supplies, and how long one will want to keep them. November 2012 at home? Conventional food packaging will do.
It would be a holiday after all. Why not live it up while you are huddled around a candle.
Really? That much?
Can't tell where the joke starts and ends with this guy.
While it is good to have some short term provisions for situations like weather, I see little value in long term stocks.
If the disaster is civil strife, and/or, long term, you are likely going to be on the move, rather then sitting in your cozy home.
I had a friend that built an underground room and stocked it with a months supply of special canned survival foods, costing quite a lot.
They all expired, before he died.
You got a candle?
HELL YEAH!
All we got to huddle around is a cyalume!
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We've always had a huge garden, man can winter over quite well with 1000 lb tatoes in basement. We grow mostly cold weather vegetables though.
Our family got 3 moose and a bunch of caribou this past fall, all our freezer are jammed packed and we gave over a moose away to friends.
People don't have to buy expensive survival kits & foods. Just use common sense and stock up when canned goods are on sale, no joke.
Prepper’s Ping!
Black clouds cover the horizon, the lightening is flashing and there is the distant sound of thunder! The storm flags are going up, who you heed them?
I am very aware that if it’s the great end that there is nothing I can do to stop or change it, but history is full of instances and times when man or nature have caused such a calamity that people have cried out and begged God to end it all.
The bible has many verse such as this:
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
This verse and others are there for a reason and I urge all to take heed of them, because we are clearly on the edge. Everyday there is a new story about the ‘Yutes’ who grow more restless everyday and when you add the fact that because of the economy people are already on edge it won’t take much to set things off.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
Today we have ‘yutes’ who roam our streets who are with out morals, without respect for law or life itself. They will look are you with the same ‘doll eyes’ a shark does before he eats you and they will feel no more compassion than the shark does.
That will be the test of many. Most preppers I know are Christian people and they will hesitate to do what they might have to do to stop the ‘yutes’. On the other hand the ‘yutes’ won’t think twice nor lose a minute of sleep, in fact they will smile and laugh about it.
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:
http://www.tomeaker.com/kart/preparedness1i.pdf
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
For a somber, yet realistic look at what SHFT is like read some of Selco’s post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2798007/posts
If you like to read more about what SHTF in Bosnia was like take a look at this post on Bosnia War Survivor Selco’s Blog at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
If people aren’t ready now, it’s pretty much too late for them. It’s a lot more than buying stuff, it’s knowing how and when to use it.
Moving around a lot is a good way to die.
For a somber, yet realistic look at what SHFT is like read some of Selco’s post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2798007/posts
it didnt make any sense, I'd always wake up a little perplexed. (vietnam was happening at the time) I would wake up wondering what that dream was all about
makes sense now
“I’m not buying it. Someone serious enough to build an underground facility thinks in terms of years of provisions not months. And he knows to buy provisions that have shelf lives measured in scores of years.”
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Nobody is asking you to buy anything.
This was maybe 25 years ago.
He proudly displayed the concrete walled room, about eight feet below ground, full of shelves with hundreds of large cans that he had ordered from a survival company.
No doubt that the technology has improved since then.
That being said, I can imagine buying foods that have a shelf life of years, but I really can not imagine someone being hunkered down in an emergency situation, in one location for more then some weeks.
Where do you imagine they're going to go?
And this surprises - who?
I don’t know your situation, but generally speaking, it’s far better to stay put, rather then putting yourself in harms way.
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