Posted on 04/27/2013 8:51:35 PM PDT by Veggie Todd
It’s no secret that a lot of people do not prepare for the worst. Whether it’s an economic collapse, a natural disaster, man-made disaster or any other kind of an emergency, it seems most households are not properly equipped to handle a crisis. This was apparent with recent events like Hurricane Sandy and the severe weather disasters in the Midwest and south in the middle of last year.
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As Kartographer says, “If you can't defend it, you don't own it.” My security measures are extensive. The house is hardened to the point I will know if anyone touches a window or door enough to make a vibration and in the back will know if anyone is within 40 ft. of the house.
It just takes planning and the proper devices to do the job.
I know not to approach your house without certain kind of Jack Daniels. That's the code word not to be killed.
It is out there. I just bought some for a not too inflated price.
Thank you!
Agree!
Staple of life...and a damned good barter item, as well.
Bottles of Everclear ... can drink it, use it on wounds, and burn it in alcohol lamps that can cook stuff.
When I lived in Atlanta, if there was even the most remote possibility of snow flurries, the stores would run out of beer. Go figure.
“Ammo...what ammo? I wish I had some.”
I would bet there are not many people shooting at ranges. They are saving their ammo.
Items not sold at stores- 1. USGS MAPS- (go to your local BLM, for up to date issue) 2. SKILL SETS ( actual map reading, etc.) 3. SELF WORTH 4. ABILITY TO DO THE NEXT RIGHT THING, NO MATTER WHAT-(see #2&3)
22.Random Items For The Home
I wonder what.
/johnny
/johnny
Survival books
Look what is happening right before your eyes and take heed. There’s a Great Storm coming you can feel it.
We have enter a time that George Orwell spoke of ‘as a time of universal deceit, wherein telling the truth will be considered a revolutionary act’ or as the bible says a time ‘in which men call evil good, and good evil’.
Listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3
One of the things that will hurt is the fact that many will not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it?It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Its your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpful. You can download it at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf
NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
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.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
And More
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
No-one remembers that waters boils 1F less per 500 ft AGL(unless it ever really, really mattered to you) and that's in reference books.
If you need a survival book to tell you how to start the fire? You've been harshly fornicated by the universe. There will be bleeding. I know it hurts.
/johnny
Preppers’ PING!!
All I came up with was Roombas, wall art, air freshener, and bookends.
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