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I’m a doomsday prepper — here’s everything you need to know about surviving a catastrophic event
nypost ^ | 3/14/2024 | foxnews

Posted on 03/14/2024 11:43:57 AM PDT by bitt

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To: eyeamok
The solar system I made to power my well will easily run the freezers and refrigerators forever as well as lights, and we have acreage and grow our own vegetables and have chickens too.

Solar panels have a finite lifespan.

41 posted on 03/14/2024 1:01:29 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: bitt

“everything you need to know”

All in a short article with few specifics. LOL.


42 posted on 03/14/2024 1:03:17 PM PDT by unlearner (I, Robot: I think I finally understand why Dr. Lanning created me... ;-)
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To: bitt

Selco is the real deal, the real SHTF guy who lived thru Bosnia civil war

How I survived a year of SHTF in 90’s Bosnia

https://carolinafirearmsforum.com/index.php?threads/how-i-survived-a-year-of-shtf-in-90s-bosnia.96152/

https://www.shtfschool.com/


43 posted on 03/14/2024 1:05:36 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: teeman8r

How long would it take for you to become so degraded that you would murder your neighbors for food, would that be days or a week or two, and if you ran out of food within that short a period wouldn’t you be like everyone else who isn’t prepared and have driven to a government center/shelter by then?

In a real emergency where the stores run out of food, our neighborhoods would empty as most drove to the government centers.

People are not going to sit at home with their wives and kids for months staring at the walls waiting until that special moment when they all turn into rampaging animals/Rambos indifferent to killing and being killed.


44 posted on 03/14/2024 1:22:44 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: bitt

Realistic scenario: the minute you step out of your well supplied house with your kitted out Daniel Defense AR15, 6 spare mages, and your 1911 on your hip, Bubba from the trailer park down the street, who has been sitting behind the neighbors playhouse for hours waiting for you to come out, pops you with the last shell he has for his break barrel shotgun.


45 posted on 03/14/2024 1:23:49 PM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: bitt; All

Without water…? Water is pumped through pipes. Pumps need electricity.


46 posted on 03/14/2024 1:24:02 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: ansel12

yep. it’s gonna be a bloody mess.

fortunately i will be leading my militia to the capitol and taking over the commissary there.

we gotta eat.


47 posted on 03/14/2024 1:34:29 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: teeman8r

You must not have read my post.


48 posted on 03/14/2024 1:40:26 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: nitzy

At the beginning of the pandemic it was clear that was a State Health Department thing. I recall very clearly a meeting with my “people” and there were quite a few of them leaning back in their chairs and staring at the ceiling knowing what a mess it was going to be. We laughed at the thought of the Health Department nuts struggling to dig out their plan and try to put it in action.

Locally it became a boondoggle to spend money on pretty much whatever they wanted. I had seen that in the EM world right after 9/11. Lots of grant money flowed through the system.

The short answer to your question is that there WAS a plan and it had to do with limiting exposure to viruses like small pox or pneumonic plague. I don’t think the health department in our area ever found their binder.


49 posted on 03/14/2024 1:41:30 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vermont Lt
The short answer to your question is that there WAS a plan and it had to do with limiting exposure to viruses like small pox or pneumonic plague

I think it is pretty clear that the virus was not the "disaster". The government reaction to the virus was the "disaster". They should have had a plan for dealing with that. Maybe sheriffs telling the federal and state regulators to "F" off should have been part of the plan.

50 posted on 03/14/2024 1:49:15 PM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: Danie_2023; JSM_Liberty

If you can’t defend it,
you don’t own it.


51 posted on 03/14/2024 1:49:24 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Leep
Also, vices (sugar,tobacky,booze) will be worth more than gold.

No. They won't.

Because all of those things are very easy to make or grow.

Sugar can be made from sugar beets with a grater, pot and cloth bag, tobacco can be grown in the warmer areas and booze is so easy to make a caveman can and could do it.

Caffeine is going to be the thing people crave and will find hard to get.

Not many plants with Caffeine in areas that are not sub tropical.

52 posted on 03/14/2024 1:54:32 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: nitzy

Whatever.

Your personal protection is ALWAYs your responsibility. I guess that should have been my primary point. Just say, “No” still works.


53 posted on 03/14/2024 1:57:20 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I agree. The mundane, day to day emergencies are the ones that people need to prepare for. They are the ones that are likely to happen to them and they are the ones that people can actually come up with a reasonable plan to deal with.

If there is going to be a mass-effect disaster impacting millions of people, it is nearly 100% certain to be caused by the government and not an act of God.


54 posted on 03/14/2024 2:06:21 PM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I sure disagree with you on that, you seem to be thinking of some post-apocalyptic world where new businesses create and sell tobacco, alcohol, and sugar products and get them to markets that the public goes to.

For emergencies, cigarettes, real booze in bottles, sugar, and instant coffee would all be great trade items.


55 posted on 03/14/2024 2:11:59 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: bitt

We learned that during COVID. City folk with money and houses in the country or down the shore headed for the hills and wiped out the local grocery stores.


56 posted on 03/14/2024 2:14:16 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: teeman8r
my neighbor has food.

Sure. Then the only question is - just whose doomsday will it be. I'm betting it'll be yours.

57 posted on 03/14/2024 2:17:31 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: ansel12

i read your post.


58 posted on 03/14/2024 2:19:11 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: teeman8r

I looked at your posting history, being childish is your normal state, I hope you don’t always troll the prepper threads.


59 posted on 03/14/2024 2:20:48 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ridesthemiles

“BIDEN IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO BAN HOME GARDENS”

That mindset began several years ago. Also, they were trying to make it illegal in CA (I think) to collect and store rain water.


60 posted on 03/14/2024 2:20:58 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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