Survivalists: Are you part of the new subculture?

KFOR ^ | 5/6/11 | Ali Meyer

[Kartographer]

At Red Dawn: Hunting, Survival, Recreation, they specialize in homesteading, emergency preparedness and first-aid.

Owner Gaylon Cornsilk first dreamed up this concept about a year ago.

The doors have been open just six months and business has exploded.

Cornsilk says, "This was kinda born out of a passion to see people prepared for any kind of emergency, natural or man-made. We are growing exponentially everyday. Obviously there's an air of people starting to notice and want to prepare for what's going on around them."

Donna Harper manages the store's long-term storage food section.

Some of the pre-packaged emergency food rations last five to 25 years; the rations sell out so quickly they cannot keep enough on premises.

[familyop]

"Do you have an opinion on the Lorex system."

Not yet. I'll have a look at it and get back to you. Meanwhile, you might like to read this, if you haven't already.

The Collapse Of The American Standard Of Living, Inflationary Depression
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2716995/posts

[PA Engineer]

Thanks. Have it up on the FR read stack.

[familyop]

You’re welcome. Here’s another. Some of them can be found by entering the keyword, “economy” (without the quotes).

Housing crash is getting worse: report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2717045/posts

[Ellendra]

read through the post on here there are plenty of ‘conservatives’ fellow Freepers who’s plan is to rob you of your stores, now that isn’t a sad comentary on things?

They can have all the jars of food that didn't process correctly. I might even set aside a few jars of thiefberry jam just for them . . .

[Kartographer]

Read through the post on here there are plenty of ‘conservatives’ fellow Freepers who’s plan is to rob you of your stores, how do you explain that?

[editor-surveyor]

They may be “fellow Freepers,” but they are in no way conservatives. They exhibit the thuggish mentality and M.O. of the afore-mentioned statist liberal democrats.

Jim will allow just about anyone register here, and he has become slow on the zot when they expose themselves.

[yup2394871293]

So is a can of beany weenies.

[kearnyirish2]

“Don’t load up on too many MRE’s, because five years of trying to live off spoiled MRE’s may not be a life worth living, if things ever got that bad in the first place.”

The crackers and spread should be just fine!

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Back before 1975 no one (except me) had a survivalist mentality.” <<

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You’re dreaming!

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Hillbillies don’t beg.” <<

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For sure!

Most of the hillbillies that I’ve known are productive and generous to the bitter end.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “N.Koreans have none.” <<

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They can thank Harry Truman for that fact.

At the end of WW II MacArtthur was ready to roll into China and rout Mao and his fellow thugs, but Truman would have none of it. (the first Jimmah Cahta)

[editor-surveyor]

For $14 at Sam’s Club you can buy three cases of 1.5 liter bottles of Crystal Geyser water that will keep for decades.

Of course, you should be drinking that stuff anyway, if you want to live that is, so why buy fake drinking water at a higher price?

[editor-surveyor]

>> “I can’t see paying starbucks prices” <<

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Starbuck’s doesn’t serve coffee anyway; they sell old burned out tires, liquified and poured into a paper cup.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “The FETS in the inverters are a continuing concern.” <<

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I have yet to have any solid state circuitry in an inverter fail. What usually fails is the DC input terminals. If the clamp blocks are not bright and shiny clean, they heat up if you run them for a long time, and the heat is conducted along the silver rod to the circuit board, where it melts the solder and puts you out of business. (not to mention melting the plastic insulators where the clamp blocks go through the case)

[caww]

Your posts are always interesting..thank you for sharing Eska.

[caww]

That’s an interesting factoid...thanks ES.

[caww]

Is it better to store water in a dark place or doesn’t it matter if in a room with window sunlight?

[Eska]

We have a local guy here where we live and he preaches that it doesn’t matter how much you make, what matters is how much you spend. Sure is a bunch of truth to that notion. Everybody should try to cut back on spending while keeping quality of life intact.

[PA Engineer]

I was referring to EMP hardening.

I am happy with my old Trace inverters, but had a surprise mode of failure in the system. This was a to ground (and batteries) surge that smoked my monitors (TRI-Metric and hybrid home built) on the DC panel. There was a primary to secondary contact on our line that blew the branch transformer to our distribution leg. Everything worked and clamped as designed, sending everything to ground. Everything on the backup side was shut down during this event, except for the grounding.

NEC requires that your boxes and battery negatives be tied to ground. This is understandable for minimizing potential differences, but would be a disaster during a large EMP event.

The FETS were found to be at risk during this (defense studies). Have gone back and forth with my Electrician (good guy) on this. Separate grounds need to be tied together. Period. There is no way around a grid tie in. Transfer box is grid tied. All junction and fuse boxes are grid tied also to ground. The only solution would be a very expensive throw switch for the inverters negative cable and non-conductive shelving. This won't %100 solve the problem because again the inverters are grounded, but probably will go a long way to reduce potential damage. I hate circulating ground current.

One other thing people who are off grid may want to consider. Water well pumps have long wire runs and home wiring will be an antenna.

JMHO. YMMV.

[yup2394871293]

Peanut butter and crackers. Oh yeah.