WHY THANK YOU! THANK YOU! MR. FEMA MAN!
Posted on 05/06/2011 8:20:22 PM PDT by 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.
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Wonderful clarity on your part, but I don’t think we’re supposed to think such thoughts. Too much of that and people might just start turning off their televisions.
Here is a site with some of the most common sense info I have seen on planning for possible natural disasters or sociital upheaval.
How to Survive Hard Times
by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.
http://www.grandpappy.info/indexhar.htm
As an example, the author recommends starting small by accumulating canned goods you probably already use until you have a 30 day supply on hand.
Here are some, but not all, of the subjects covered:
How to Find Water and How to Make Water Safe to Drink
How to Build a Very Effective Water Filter System for Approxmiately $75
A Simple But Effective Survival Plan
Realistic Self-Sufficiency: The Do’s and the Don’ts
Part One: How to Start Preparing for Hard Times on a Very Modest Budget
Part Two: How to Start Preparing for Hard Times on a Very Modest Budget
Use Common Sense to Compare Your Current Location to Another Location
How to Select the Optimal Retreat Location
A 30-Day Emergency Food Supply for One Adult
One-Year Emergency Food Supply for One Adult\
Pure Salt, Iodized Salt, and Sea Salt
Hand-Cranked Stainless Steel Meat Grinder
How to Preserve Food Using Three Simple Old Fashioned Methods
How to Improve the Quality of an 1800s Lifestyle
Firewood, Fireplaces, and Cast Iron Stoves
Shelf Life of Canned Food and Dry Food
Shelf Life of Medicine
Recommended Books for Home Schooling
Books: Emergency First Aid Books and Supplies.
Books: Recommended List of Books to Purchase Before the Hard Times Begin
The Basic Rules of Survival During Hard Times
The Basic Minimum Necessities for Survival During Hard Times
A Comparison of Five Leading Brands of Toilet Tissue
Flashlights Rechargeable Batteries and a Solar Battery Charger
Solar Power Generator
During a Disaster Event Should You Stay at Home or Leave?
How to Effectively Evacuate a Big City Without a Car
An Emergency Evacuation List
Pets and Livestock
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Recreational Vehicles and Campers
Charity During Hard Times
The Most Frequently Overlooked Items for Long-Term Hard Times Survival
Food Inflation Price Index Based on the One-Year Emergency Food Supply
How to Convert Human Waste into a Safe Garden Compost Fertilizer
Job Opportunities During Hard Times
Recipes for Hard Times, including Acorns, Hickory Nuts, Pemmican, Squirrel, and Wild Game.
Home Gardening Tips (Index of Articles)
Wilderness Survival Tips (Index of Articles)
Free Preparedness Manual - LDS Free Online 222 Page Book on How to Prepare for Hard Times.
Check this guy out! He even admits that he has been caught off guard by two major hurricanes and a couple of tornadoes and he still sees no need for prepping! As Bugs Bunny would say: “What a maroon!”
Everything is tied up in urban areas, you can't stop it either.
People in urban areas can't cut their costs like people can in rural areas. Whether going to wally world twice a week or big macs or pizza, the money goes. I'm 500 miles from nearest sams. Living costs are way higher in urban areas and you can't get around that reality. I have friends working 2 jobs, wives work and they spend just so much to stay in the game. Their heads spin at how hard it is getting to just survive. I don't feel it nearly as bad, because I am able to cut costs where they can't. They have to pay expenses that are part of urban life. Taxes, high utilities, high rent or mortgages, but the big one is all that is spent just living the urban lifestyle. Wife and I have our teaching degrees, my monthly costs are $200/ month phone & elec and $200/month dir tv and thats about it. We have way more disposable income than we have ever had in any urban area and we just luv going back in time to the 1940's lifestyle.
No offense, but when the inflation hits, cost of living will affect urbanites much more than how it will affect people living in rural areas; and no way around it. That's what I'm getting at.
Here's one for ya: When I did live urban, I could buy milk cows from local farmer for around 400 bucks. I'd debone and can meat. Would get close to 175 quarts out of a milk cow and it was quite good. Pressure cook meat. I'm so far out now, no farmers. We can salmon, but usually just freeze caribou and moose. I'd check with local small family farmers that are milking 50-60 cows, they always have 5-6 year old cows for sale.
My parents would be befuddled by the word prepper and the idea of not planning ahead and stocking up. That is the way almost everyone lived not so long ago.
We lived in a small town, not on a farm.
But summers and fall were still spent collecting food and putting it up for the winter. It was hard work to pick and prepare the vegetables and fruits but even the small children were brought out to the fields and orchards to help out.
I still think warm thoughts about those shelves under the basement stairs overflowing with tasty home canned vegetables, sauces, fruits and sometimes meats. We knew it meant good meals through the long winter.
Don’t forget Post #2
As for food, water and power, if you only have a half-empty ketchup bottle in your fridge at any given time, live in place where you are surrounded by people you don’t trust or respect, and are incapable of walking, then yes, you are a fool. Either that, or you’re living in Somalia and you have my pity.
By living prepared, you are way better off the whole way around we figure. Couldn't imagine it any other way.
“Don’t forget Post #2”
Thanks.
I already downloaded it some time ago.
A a lot of it is printed out and incorporated into our own hard times/prepper/bailout manual.
Dude, trust me.
I live less than a mile from one of those places that ‘doesn’t exist’ and I won’t even hear the whistle of the nukes coming in.
I grew up and still live in the backwoods and can survive just fine, short of a 10 megaton dropping next door.
And I ain’t beggin’ -nobody- for jack sh*t.
Hillbillies don’t beg.
My kin have survived in these hard mountains for 300 years without the revenooers giving us one single damn thing except a really hard time during prohibition.
I didn’t taste store-bought bread or milk until I left home at 18 and “hamburger” was what you had to feed corn and hay every morning.
Don’t you -ever- dare refer to me as a ‘grasshopper’ again.
You don’t know me *or* what I’m perfectly capable of doing.
Do yourself a BIG favor and put me on your avoid list.
For those not inclined to make any effort to prepare for emergencies and lay in some food and water, remind them of the lost souls wandering around in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina beging for water.
How many hundreds or thousands didn’t even have the common sense to fill up a couple of empty bottles or jugs with tap water before the city water went down?
And it’s not as if they didn’t have ample warning the storm was on the way.
Eat your MRE’s and be quiet, lest the CIA and the FBI find you and cart you away. And don’t drink the water out of the tap. It’s been poisoned with flouride, and it’s slowly killing you.
Would all you Hatfields and McCoys pipe down? I’m trying to git some sleep. Don’t make me come out thar.
LOL
[it’s McLucas...you got the wrong clan]
;]
Do yourself a favor if apost upsets you then stay off it. I don’t respect anyone who’s only reply is a threat shows that they have lost the augerment and that they know it.
You know I fear your type the most because when the time comes and the they realize that they were wrong they will be the first to make sure those that were right are ‘punished’ for it.
Do that two! I trust my dog’s instincts about people even more than my own. If Hope don’t like you then there’s a reason no matter how you might appear or what ‘airs’ you put on she has a excellent sense about people and she’s yet to be proven wrong.
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