Posted on 03/01/2012 10:29:42 AM PST by blam
Yes, That could be your fate if you don't do something about it now.
Small cities have a 20-25 mile danger zone. Medium size I'd say 50 miles. Big cities 100+ miles, but most big cities are surrounded themselves with medium and smaller cities.
Dangerous indeed will be all of San Francisco bay Eastward to Sacramento, Eastern Puget Sound, the Los Angeles basin and beyond, Southern Florida, anywhere from Boston to Richmond Virginia, Northeaster Illinois through Northwest Indiana; all victims. Throw in all the rest of the big cities not touching another and consider the whole lot Post-Apocolyptic Hell.
I agree wholeheartedly with your post. All the "survivalists" here yapping about their generators, livestock, stores of food and ammunition and whatnot are going to be among the first to die in a true TEOTWAWKI situation.
It's one thing to brag from your keyboard about how you will sit on your front porch and mow down would-be looters with your automatic rifle. It's quite another to actually do it and think you are going to get away with it. Eventually you are going to need some sleep or you are going to run out of ammo Then you will be overrun by the hordes with their pitchforks and torches and whatever is left of your "stash" will disappear down the throats or be carried off by your killers. And if you leave behind a wife or kids, they will soon be dead or wish they were.
Not a pretty picture but that is the reality. Now don't get me wrong, it's a great idea to be prepared to ride out a short-term disaster such as a hurricane, an earthquake or an extended power outage. I have myself a good supply of flashlights, batteries, firewood, canned goods, bottled water, candles and a generator ready to go - so if I lose power for a week or so, I'm in fairly decent shape. But anybody attempting to ride out the apocalypse by filling their cellars and sheds with years worth of supplies are wasting their time and money.
For when the crap hits the fan and you end up being the only one around with lights on at night and livestock running around the place, people are going to very quickly be beating a path to your door and word will spread around like wildfire that you have stuff worth stealing and it doesn't matter if you have a private army of snipers encircling your place 24/7. The well-stocked compound you spent so much time preparing will eventually get overrun by the hungry and desperate masses, even if they have to climb over a stack of dead bodies to get to you.
So that said, what is the best way to prepare for a TEOTWAWKI event?
Learn as many specialized skills as you can. The more services you can provide to a society forced to start all over again, such as carpentry, general repair, doctoring skills, rudimentary dentistry, etc., the more valuable you will be and the less likely you will go hungry as you will be able to barter these specialized skills for food and/or shelter.
I have serious doubts the hungry hoards will be hot footing it 2 miles to get to me.
It could very well be the police looking for hoarders.
bfl
So, what do you do when you run out of your one week of supplies?
Sheriff’s dept. knows better than try that around here.
Not about to get themselves bloodied up over a sandwich.
Your pretty smart if you prepare as much as me, but you’re crazy if you have more.....
:-/
Hopefully I will never have to find out!
The smart FReeper folks aren't going to tell you where, when and how.
Bunnies and venison? I hope so! [I have that problem with my berries now, but I imagine it would be solved if we needed more meat.]
The young spring poke is a delicacy.
Have used the fish shop meds a few times in the past. They work...
Thanks for the link...stay safe !
Avid bow hunter an a builder of my own archery tackle in the form of recurves an long bows.....
A quiet sustainable form of harvesting meat for the pot.
Osage orange is great bow making material....:o)
But yew knew that....lol !
I've used them for years and have a good stock on hand in the refrigerator out in the shed.
I'm afraid the government will eventually cut our access to this source for antibiotics.
I've a take down recurve now...and a compound.
BTW, I've some brand new compound bows for sell....
If you know anyone interested...let me know. I will give you the spec's....
Grandma was from Alabama and she’d make fried poke when dad was a kid.
I’d never use it in SHTF anyway because it takes too much water to fix. It’d be pigweed or lambsquarters instead.
More in the am Buddy.... Off to bed. Oh early thirty wakeup....:o)
Nite...
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