So, you are saying you are totally ready, today, to revert to a 19th Century method of living?
You have food on hand forever, can grow everything you need, can manually pump your own drinking water, and can hold off millions of starving and hostile city dwellers, forever?
A city in normal times is like a hornet’s nest, with one or two hornets flying and out that you can see from your picnic 100 feet away. We are talking about smashing the nest open, and seeing a thousand angry hornets coming out all at once.
Starving men can walk 100s of miles drinking ditch water and eating any dead meat they can find or they can make. Including people.
You’re all set for that, and think it won’t touch you?
What, do you live on top of a fortress mountain with a hundred years of MREs, a hand-pump well and a million bullets?
I just want to know how he’s going to fuel that generator after all the local supplies of gas are gone.
And keep any wandering hungry people from hearing it. And echo-locating the supplies of food and other sustenance the sound of that generator promises...
“You’re all set for that, and think it won’t touch you?”
I didn’t say it wouldn’t effect me. I said we’d make it...
Either that, or he’s planning on being one of the marauders. He doesn’t prep anything but ammo because he’s planning on taking other people preps.
“You have food on hand forever, can grow everything you need, can manually pump your own drinking water, and can hold off millions of starving and hostile city dwellers, forever?”
I can certainly grow more than I need, I can ride my bike anywhere I would drive to, including up the river into the mountains where the water is clean. And there are no millions of city dwellers within 800 miles. The biggest issue truthfully would be medication for my wife and looking after my kids and grand kids. And there all within biking distance. The family would probably hole up at my daughter’s house. She has acreage and a large in ground pool that could provide drinking water till utilities were restored if they went out.