Posted on 12/22/2014 5:56:30 PM PST by bkopto
An increasing number of Americans seem to think so, and they're preparing for the end.
They call themselves preppers. Mainstream suburban Americans hoarding supplies and weapons while leading otherwise perfectly normal lives.
It's a national phenomenon and it's supporting a doom boom industry worth many millions.
Braxton Southwick is a typical father-of-six in Salt Lake City, who believes the nice suburban neighbourhood he lives in could soon be swept away by some kind of modern day apocalypse.
Like other preppers, he's afraid of some impending catastrophe but also what that will do to American society.
"I think that is what I'm scared of the most," he told Sky News, "Not the actual events. I've already prepared for that. It's the aftermath, when there are no police, there are no military to protect us, we're going to be protecting ourselves."
The trigger could be a terrorist attack, a monetary collapse, cataclysmic failure in power generation, or a natural disaster. Preppers fear what comes next and have no faith in either their government or human nature.
"Once people use up all their resources, they're going to come after the people that prepared and had more resources. So basically we have to take care of ourselves."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
That is an excellent point.
It is certainly a side benefit of having a stock of items commonly used every day.
When we need something we take it from our prepper stores.
Next time it is on sale we replenish the stock.
Thanks for that tip. We’re city dwellers, but have friends on wells. (Love Lehmans!)
JT
I’ve stored water in gallon jugs to have them go sour or moldy in the cap.
Tried a prerinse of bleach ,,
Add bleach???
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Um.....they have their jobs and wealth and power and cars and homes and toni antiques by means of the theft of our labor through capitulation taxes. They don’t wanna lose them. They got stuff. We threaten to take it back.
Another thing is, Keep your automobile in good condition! and full of gas. And always have some cash on hand!
When the power went out here, after a day we needed more ice, because it was so hot. We went out to the car, and found the oil-light on. We were afraid that driving it would damage it, and walked to the nearest store to buy oil. But, they had no power either, and were only taking cash. (We had none.)
Luckily, one of our neighbors had a car, and she was able to carry us to where the power was still on, and credit/debit cards still worked.
I will never forget grabbing the last two bags of ice in that store - one for my neighbor, and one for us; and then having a lady who saw the ice in my shopping cart ask me where in the store I had found it, and acting as if she would demand that I give her one of the bags.
Fortunately, before we checked out, the ice was replenished; and everyone was happy.
But, it was definitely a ‘lesson’.
JT
I only store water for less than six months, but keep iodine on hand and always up for boiling questionable water.
Yes, and family has experience in Class A Water Treatment, so I’m covered.
Okay,
Thanks.
I was surprised to see it go south so quickly in a month or so.
The membership roles of the LDS Church will be one of the first resources fedzilla will utilize to feed the feral city dwellers starving for want of a handout.
Indeed!
An article for those who have been on Mars for the past six years.
His preps include a 3 month supply of hair mousse ...
“This requires drawing up a menu of 3 meals a day that is food you normally eat. A bucket of beans and rice is not going to work.”
It works for me. I have buckets of wheat berries, beans, rice, oats, popcorn, barley, milk and I think that’s it. I use those items regularly and like cooking from scratch, so I know what’s in the food. Beans combined with rice or wheat will make a perfect protein. With the wheat, I can make bread, pasta, biscuits, pancakes... all sorts of things. I have #10 cans of condiments and other things to reduce appetite fatigue.
This is the cheapest way to store food, plus the buckets of grains will outlast me. I can use them whether there’s a meltdown or I’m older and all is fine, so better use them up. They don’t take up that much room and cost me less than $1500 for two years worth for two people.
You can get food stored in other ways, but will pay through the nose. And store-bought items will only last a few years. They’ll likely last longer than their expiration date, but nowhere near a decade.
“It was not too long ago in this country that we admired those who were self sufficient. Now they are denigrated with terms such as “preppers” and “hoarders”.”
It’s part of the Cloward-Pivan plan. Marginalize and ridicule those most likely to oppose and threaten the socialist utopia, ensuring that the unthinking masses won’t follow them.
And then put us in camps, as examples.
I have a border creek between my property and another, it’s close enough in an emergency to access. I’ve done that in years past, long time ago. It seems that keeping water a long time is not necessary, six months, then replenish before every winter, if necessary. Accumulate new containers and repeat, those who do not repeat/control their supplies are asking for trouble keeping stuff too long...then you deal with mold and bacteria.
I think we have some opportunities to catch up, if something happens, a few days maybe except for food as that must be maintained sensibly...
City dwellers have the most risk and must be prepared continually, as life can change almost instantaneously in high population areas.
The guy with a hand pump and a hose that can pump gas out of the underground storage tanks at your nearest 7-11 will have leg up on a lot of people.
“I have been having horrible thoughts lately of the cannibalism that would ensue if the food supply was ever broken. Don’t get caught alone in the open, you’ll probably end up as dinner.”
Soylent Green, here we come.
Thanks for the link. My new homestead is on city water, but has a well and a pond, with a creek nearby. Can’t wait to get going and settle in!
At their heart, the left believes the economy is a zero sum game. If someone gets richer, they had to have taken if from someone else, probably by cheating or exploitation. They don’t understand that in general transactions benefit both parties involved. That’s why they focus on redistribution and “fairness” instead of creating more wealth. And why they are obsessed with how much others have.
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