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.
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” If you think your chances are better being a loner I have no problem.”
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A loner?
Hardly...I am surrounded by friends and relatives.
I have a number of American and European friends in my neighborhood. Several of us gather at 4 PM each day for a few beers in a shaded garden by the seaside.
The only supply that i need is food, and I have all one could want.
I have a sea full of fish, just 100 feet from my door.
A number of my neighbors are fishermen that go out each morning. They buy their ice from me.
I live in the vegetable capital of Cebu, with mountains full of all the veggies and fruit one could ever want.
The local market, just five min. by bicycle from my house, has maybe 100 vendors of fish, meats, poultry, veggies, fruit, baked goods, and household needs.
It is all low cost.
Life is nice.
I will follow your apocalyptic posts for good advice after the SHTF.
/;-)
Spring is just arriving here and hope to plant a few good veggies.
That's not quite correct.
The fire department uses fire hydrants for fire suppression, training purposes, and--in some jurisdictions--the fire department flushes the hydrants to check them and measure how much water they flow. At no time does the pressure in the water main go negative, which means that no outside contaminants can or do get in.
What does happen, however, is that the flow of water through the mains is vastly greater than normal. This causes rust to be washed from the inside walls of older cast iron mains into the water flowing through the mains.
The brown color is due to rust. It may taste "off," and you sure as heck don't want to wash any clothes with it, but it is perfectly safe to drink.
If the water company has a problem that causes the pressure in the mains to drop to zero, it is theoretically possible to draw in contaminants from outside the water system, but that is not the fire department's fault.
Just yell, “JRandomFreeper here!”, and I'll let you in. Just ignore the front door mat that says, “Come Back With A Warrant”. I just ordered that and it should be here this coming week.
If we really had a disastrous situation, I would make sure I looked like a disheveled old lady. I wouldn't wear my shirts that have my initials embroidered on them. Wouldn't wear anything that looked like I might have a working brain.
Without working class rural experience: no technical capabilities, no running vehicles (assuming the scenario presented in the article) and no fuel. They would be immobile. The few who would have mobility, would be marooned in remote areas they fled to (probably at check points set up for looters), surrounded by the more capable rural locals.
But all in cities, they’d be easier to feed and govern. Television broadcasting and receiving would probably be the priority. And junk food production, of course. ;-)
Lanza’s mother, BTW, received $240,000 per year alimony from her ex. Was she a member of the “prepper” class?
Do go into it, we can't have bad information going out, and since I am the guy who helped you learn about some things related to batteries and such, tell me what is misleading so that I can know.
Having had family in the business of water and sewage treatment plants and lines all my life and seen that side of life.... I will blame the city. Last time was a pump that overpressurized a line that failed and did siphon sand. The sensors on that system were circa 1950s.
I understand they upgraded to SCADA and appropriate sensors.
/johnny
Nope. Not ready. Doubt I ever will be.
Again, we come to the part where I'm a girl and can't carry the weight a man can. Those 4/5/6 gallon containers couldn't be moved by me. I bought Ozarka in their almost gallon bottles that are thick and made to stack on top of each other. If the emergency hit, I would then use those bottles over and over to put good water in and be able to stack them. Two stack just fine and are stable, three is kind of iffy they won't fall over.
He’s not even close to being ready, if that’s all he has.
Very true, and something many “prepper” people don't yet seem to grasp.
It's very unlikely that your __ month supplies will help your long term survival chances, if you are unable to contribute more than that to a new adhoc tribe of survivors.
While minus 4 should suffice for most people, especially since the real problem would be less with a handheld flashlight that goes in and out of your pocket, than with a head lamp that would be fully exposed to low temperatures, possibly for a long time, as long as you stay with the aa/aaa format you can keep on hand a few Energizer Lithium batteries which handle minus 40F, they are expensive but have a 10 year shelf life.
I’ll deal with it in Freepmail.
Smokin, search and you will find em. They handle from AAA to Ds, and sometimes even larger. We are testing out a small one now. Wifey bought it, much smaller, so not that impressed, but IIRC, a bigger unit may run about 50 bucks. I think hers were maybe 25$.
I can drag it out of harm's way if it's full of beer though. :)
/johnny
The key is to have a close unit of 5-6 families or at least males and the weapons for them.
As long as it is about batteries it needs to be on the thread.
What correction or opinion about batteries could possibly need to be secret or private?
I'm the decendent of ancient people that used rocks and sticks to wipe out the wooly mammoth, and others.
Mostly.. it's a matter of some basic training and an attitude adjustment. But most things are.
/johnny
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