Posted on 03/23/2013 6:34:00 PM PDT by Kartographer
Imagine if suddenly, and completely without warning, the world experienced a total blackout – no electricity, no mobile phones, no banks, no internet, no TV, no emergency services. Nothing. Highways quickly become jammed with cars that have ground to a halt; an aeroplane falls from the sky; a satellite view of the planet shows it rapidly plunging into darkness. As it becomes apparent that the lights are never coming back on, nations are plunged into chaos, mass riots break out in major cities and, without electricity, governments are toppled. Into the vacuum step ad-hoc militias, armed and ready to enforce their own rule of law. This is the apocalyptic premise of the hit American TV series Revolution, which begins on Sky 1 this week. In the first episode, viewers are pulled through this nightmarish chain of events.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’m with you. Living a prepper existence offers no appeal. Being child-free, the will to survive is not so strong. We do have 3 really cute cavalier King Charles spaniels. Perhaps they can protect us. ;)
The book “Eating off the Grid” is available from
http://www.armysurpluswarehouse.com for 16.99 plus shipping.
Keep in mind that you should turn over stored water very regualarly. Tap water with current chlorination is always better.
Why? Ditch diggers will be a dime a dozen during shtf and will work for Spam!
To echo my comments on the other thread:
“1st Rule of Prep Club: You do not talk about Prep Club.”
OPSEC is everything - just read Selco’s blogs to see how it really mattered when SHTF.
This guy is also quite interested in cashing in on the prepper popularity, as the article itself states clearly. Book rights, $400K in revenue - follow the money.
Rocks —
I have a rock collection with a pile of obsidian. And my Dad’s BSA handbook (1920’s vintage). It is way more detailed than the new ones.
Me, too, FRiend.
That would give me time to teach some great-grandchildren to shoot, and have them old enough to be able to carry a rifle not to mention a host of other (what they consider to be) old timey skills.
There is a lot we know that we learned as kids and just considered ordinary that isn't such common knowledge any more, from critter tracks and tracking to basic gardening/farming to making useful stuff (hand tool carpentry), to just building a fire and cooking over it.
So few learn much of that in an era of cheap power tools and microwave ovens.
“This is NOT intended to be insulting, but if you can’t move a five gallon pail of water EASILY, you need to start spending some time at the gym.”
I am 80 years old with bad joints and bad lower back and I’m not lifting a 40 lb. weight of anything. I don’t take your comment as insulting, I just know what my physical limits are.
Getting out of one Dodge is merely heading to another Dodge. Leaving your known Dodge and going to someone else's unknown Dodge? No thanks. But different strokes.
Thanks for posting that. She uses nothing in its normal form that has to be stored in a refrigerator. She is a Utah university trained nutritionist. From her I learned how to cook dry beans to soft beans cooking them in only 30 minutes.
beans like that I don’t believe it. This can only be done with some softer beans like lentils and white beans. What is her method in abbreviated form
http://www.cruisingohio.com/2009/04/famous-fried-bologna-sandwich.html
‘40,000 Punters?
Translation please! :)’
Roughly translated, that means one heck of a lot of Rednecks.
“The Old Dun Cow”
Some friends and I in a public house
Was playing a game of chance one night
When into the pub a fireman ran
His face all a chalky white.
“What’s up”, says Brown, “Have you seen a ghost,
Or have you seen your Aunt Mariah?”
“Me Aunt Mariah be buggered!”, says he,
“The bleedin’ pub’s on fire!”
And there was Brown upside down
Lappin’’ up the whiskey on the floor.
“Booze, booze!” The firemen cried
As they came knockin’ on the door (clap clap)
Oh don’t let ‘em in till it’s all drunk up
And somebody shouted MacIntyre! MACINTYRE!
And we all got blue-blind paralytic drunk
When the Old Dun Cow caught fire.
“Oh well,” says Brown, “What a bit of luck.
Everybody follow me.
And it’s down to the cellar
If the fire’s not there
Then we’ll have a grand old spree.”
So we went on down after good old Brown
The booze we could not miss
And we hadn’t been there ten minutes or more
Till we were quite pissed.
Then, Smith walked over to the port wine tub
And gave it just a few hard knocks (clap clap)
Started takin’ off his pantaloons
Likewise his shoes and socks.
“Hold on, “ says Brown, “that ain’t allowed
Ya cannot do that thing here.
Don’t go washin’ trousers in the port wine tub
When we got Guinness beer.”
Then there came from the old back door
The Vicar of the local church.
And when he saw our drunken ways,
He began to scream and curse.
“Ah, you drunken sods! You heathen clods!
You’ve taken to a drunken spree!
You drank up all the Benedictine wine
And you didn’t save a drop for me!”
And then there came a mighty crash
Half the bloody roof caved in.
We were almost drowned in the firemen’s hose
But still we were gonna stay.
So we got some tacks and some old wet sacks
And we nailed ourselves inside
And we sat drinking the finest Rum
Till we were bleary-eyed.
Later that night, when the fire was out
We came up from the cellar below.
Our pub was burned. Our booze was drunk.
Our heads was hanging low.
“Oh look”, says Brown with a look quite queer.
Seems something raised his ire.
“Now we gotta get down to Murphy’s Pub,
It closes on the hour!”
Mr Random is actually doing it.
Champion followed this up with “When the Old Dun Cow Caught Fire”, which he introduced into his act in 1893.
Well, dennisw, I tested her method in “Eating Off the Grid” because I had trouble believing I could cook dry pinto beans to soft using fuel in the final cooking for only thirty minutes. I did it and the beans were soft. I wrote about that in articles I write for another website and I'll go there and copy that section and put it on here.
Garden is still in good shape but I'm going to have to spend some time on the shop roof when the winds let up.
/johnny
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