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This is a true story, it just hasn't happened yet.

Posted on 12/21/2011 7:14:44 AM PST by Any Fate But Submission

This is a true story, it just hasn’t happened yet.

“I’m hungry grandma Kay” Abbie cried “When are we going to eat”? “I don’t know sweetie, I’m hungry too” Kay replied. Abbie just stood there in the living room in her bulky coat and boots swaying back and forth with her head hanging down and weeping softly. She was skin and bones, Kay knew she wouldn’t last much longer. After 3 weeks there had been nothing to eat anywhere and now, only 6 weeks after the lights went out, they were starving.

“Grandma, remember when I told you my friend Marla’s family was storing food at their cabin?” said Abbie. “Yes” Kay sighed. “Why didn’t we store food?” Abbie asked. “Well” Kay said sheepishly, “Everyone thought it was so silly back then, a waste of time and money….“ said Kay as she slumped exhausted in her favorite chair, knowing she could not save Abbie or herself. She thought “If only….”. She ran her glove across the fine leather chair and realized she could have bought enough food for years for Abbie and herself for what she paid for her beloved chair; it would have been so easy back then, just 6 weeks ago. Now, she would give all she had for a single can of stew.

The moral, the point? Give your family a gift of life this Christmas, buy the extra food. Canned goods last many many years if not damaged. Put rice, etc. in Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers (Total $2.50 per 5 gallons plus the rice) and they will last 25 years. You can sense the future, they cannot, it is up to you to provide for them.


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To: Any Fate But Submission

Grandma can always boil the leather chair. Then she’ll be glad she bought as she sips her soup.

Just messin’ with ya’. I’ve got food and ammo. I’m sure not enough but hopefully enough to hold me over until I can come up with a plan of long term survival.


21 posted on 12/21/2011 7:45:17 AM PST by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a second party)
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To: Any Fate But Submission

You know of course that people are not going to politely die in their homes. They are going to the neighbors and take their food. Even if you’re Rambo you can’t be awake all the time, you don’t have an infinite amout of ammo and you can’t fight a pack of desperate people. If we have a total collaspe the folks with the canned goods and chickens may last a little longer or they may be the first to go.


22 posted on 12/21/2011 7:50:02 AM PST by stellaluna
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To: Tzfat

Make your own like I do!


23 posted on 12/21/2011 7:51:00 AM PST by bandleader
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To: IMR 4350


24 posted on 12/21/2011 7:51:00 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: IMR 4350
Obama has already invited to voters to kick him out of office if he did a poor job as President. Obama is only interests in radically transforming the country, so being a President is the only thing important.

The fact is that he hopes the voters will really try to kick him out of office so he can start up Plan B.

25 posted on 12/21/2011 7:52:31 AM PST by oyez
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To: rfreedom4u
The mom in this story probably is a liberal democrat who voted for barack.

Excellent point. The food stamps probably got stolen and now they have no idea what to do!

26 posted on 12/21/2011 7:54:15 AM PST by Obadiah (If U don't believe you can win, then there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.)
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To: Tzfat


27 posted on 12/21/2011 7:54:39 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: Any Fate But Submission

One more thing. I’m a small, shy woman but there’s no way I’d sit and watch my kid die of starvation. I would do whatever was necesssary to get some food. If you look at post war Germany or Russia under Stalin it’s amazing what ordinary, timid people can do if they need to live one more day. I’m not knocking prepers but please don’t sit back and smugly think you’re gonna ride it out why every body else just fades away. If things really get that bad a lot of people will die, the smart and the dumb, the prepared and the sheeple.


28 posted on 12/21/2011 7:56:18 AM PST by stellaluna
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To: Any Fate But Submission

Has anybody seen the movie, “The Road”? I saw it last week and it’s a pretty scary vision of the future....


29 posted on 12/21/2011 7:57:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
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To: Any Fate But Submission

Yes, it’s truly a story.


30 posted on 12/21/2011 7:58:39 AM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Portcall24

I bought that DVD last week.
Pretty scary.............


31 posted on 12/21/2011 7:59:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
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To: Tzfat
You can only stock so much ammo, it seems.

How many rounds could you possibly need for home defense? As I see it, I'm unlikely to fire more than perhaps 100 rounds of 12 ga. even with repeated "zombie" attacks on my home before something goes "oopsie". It's VERY easy to stock thousands of rounds, and even though I think I'm good, I don't believe I'm good enough to need as much as I have and still be alive.

32 posted on 12/21/2011 8:03:47 AM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: wolfman23601
Yep, you are better off getting the food by force when it comes to that than having to store and defend.

Planning to kill other people and steal their stuff.

Highly moral plan.

33 posted on 12/21/2011 8:04:56 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Any Fate But Submission

Getting ready: Growing number of preppers work to ensure survival in case of societal collapse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2822998/posts


34 posted on 12/21/2011 8:06:41 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: rfreedom4u

My friend who lives in Washington State says she can’t understand why there are any people in her state that are hungry as there is an abundance of food in the forests ripe for the picking.


35 posted on 12/21/2011 8:07:05 AM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: stellaluna
You know of course that people are not going to politely die in their homes

Yup. Lots of Freepers with Armageddon Fantasies. I think that they believe they'll just barricade themselves in their "compounds" and occasionally use a shotgun to shoo away a few hungry, unprepared Democrats that come calling (preferably between the hours of 8 and 5, Mon-Fri).

Nothing wrong with being ready. But, IMHO, a real, honest-to-goodness SHTF end-of-the-world scenario can't be prepared for, and certainly shouldn't be looked forward to.

I'm prepared for the most likely case (a hurricane or ice storm...no power, H20, etc, for a couple of weeks). To me, it makes the most sense, and I could fit most of what's needed (plus family) in the truck to bug out to safer ground. All of the food and ammo in the world won't do you any good if it's underwater, or buried. :-)

36 posted on 12/21/2011 8:08:12 AM PST by wbill
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To: Any Fate But Submission

I can see a couple hundred delicious looking cattle from my window. I’ll re-stock my 30-06 rounds later and call it a day.


37 posted on 12/21/2011 8:12:35 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: IMR 4350

Don’t know about any of that (DoJ plans) but I fully expect election year chaos from Occupiers. Previous appearances were just rehearsals.


38 posted on 12/21/2011 8:12:56 AM PST by Lady Lucky (Merry Christmas to all!)
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To: Auntie Mame
"My friend who lives in Washington State says she can’t understand why there are any people in her state that are hungry as there is an abundance of food in the forests ripe for the picking."

I'm especially fond of the hamburger trees myself.

39 posted on 12/21/2011 8:13:06 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Auntie Mame
as there is an abundance of food in the forests ripe for the picking.

When I was kid, June was for picking wild stawberries, July was for blackberries and raspberries, August for blueberries, and October was for apples.

Mom and Dad had a huge freezer, we froze gallons of stuff. Not enough to "live off the land", but it sure made a dent in the grocery budget.

40 posted on 12/21/2011 8:14:14 AM PST by wbill
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