Posted on 03/14/2024 11:43:57 AM PDT by bitt
Unless you can hunt ..fish.. forage for food ..and filter water ..you are probably screwed.
also, must be prepared to shoot someone who tries to raid your vegetable garden.
Also, vices (sugar,tobacky,booze) will be worth more than gold.
variety of spices, sauces, mole, etc can make a difference..../s
Like living in prison...
https://www.midwayusa.com/s?searchTerm=surplus
Thanks.
BFL
That philosophy will get you dead because your prepped up neighbor is also gunned up. Trying that at our house would get you unalived. 😏
I shall tell mt wife that I’m investing…that’s the ticket.
BIDEN IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO BAN HOME GARDENS—OVER CLIMATE CHANGE
I work with the State’s Emergency Management agency, the local city agency, and I volunteer with a Ham Radio RACES organization. My daughter has a Masters Degree in Emergency Management.
I am around a bunch of people who make their living planning for and practicing for emergency situations. They have every conceivable situation and the response in a binder in their offices.
None of them call for an emergency that is going to stop food production and transport for six months or more.
These “doomsday” preppers plan for an apocalypse that is so unlikely as to be wasteful of their resources. Many of them plan for gun toting survival in the local woods (as if there would be anything to eat there after two weeks of apocalypse.). The problem is they don’t practice and most of them are so fat they cannot walk 1/2 mile.
When they show up on Ham Radio field day and want to know how to join our organization…we direct them to another town’s group. They are a liability.
Prepping is fine. Having food around is great. Knowing how to fire a weapon and hunt are good life skills. Focusing on events that are not the least bit likely to happen is just a waste of your time. Focus on the things that WILL happen, and practice.
Community is the best tool a prepper can have.
an old joke...
knew someone would pipe up about getting shot... my neighbors aren’t preppers and i lost all my firearms in a boating accident...
neighborhoods will have to stick together... and work together.
no one will be prepared for what will come next... i fear the full blunt force of the government will be used to confiscate everything. everything. for the sake of the ruling class and their minions.
Be sure you live in a community with good hearted people who will work together.
a years supply of food; ammo, cheap liquor and toliet paper.
When it’s that bad the ‘have nots’ will break in anywhere and everywhere.....they’er already doing so stealing from stores etc. to get what they want.
Every single day in the United States, someone is experiencing their own SHTF scenario. It may be a car wreck, a house fire, a catastrophic illness or injury, a job loss, a home invasion, a street robbery or assault, police violating their rights, etc....
These are all things that every individual needs to prepare for happening in their own lives. They are very likely to happen to you.
The type of mass-effect events that impact millions of people and get so much attention in the “prepper” community are extremely rare and not even worth worrying about.
However there is one particular mass-effect event that IS relatively likely and has occurred many times in the past.
Just like the last mass-effect event, the next mass-effect event will be government overreaction to a government created crisis.
Your neighbor may have more firepower than you.
The highest big risk in my area is a large earthquake. Our wood-framed home would probably still be livable, but natural gas and electricity and water would be out. For quite awhile probably.
Bridges on highways would probably be out. The state plan is to have supplies brought in by air to an airport 150 miles away. Then trucked another 100 miles to where they think the farthest bridge will be damaged. Then choppered in the last 50 miles.
And most of that would probably go to Seattle, and not the suburbs. I’m not going to do the math on bottles of water times number of choppers divided by population of Seattle.
If our house was still livable we would be fine. If not it might get a bit uncomfortable living in a tent in the winter in the backyard, but doable.
Of course those supplies are also good for the week-long power outages we get every few years. And enough room to have the elderly neighbor couple live with us as they didn’t have heat or power for his oxygen machine.
While I 100% agree with most of your post, I have a question...
Did any of your contacts prepare for the government creating depression and mania in our young people, shutting down the economy and destroying thousands of businesses, forcing experimental medical treatments on unwilling citizens, etc... all because of a government created virus?
I'll bet that wasn't on their bingo card.
“If something happens to the world that completely destroys the food supply chain for 3 to 6 months then getting food is probably least of your worries.”
Yes, because even if you ‘have’ food, the question will be... can you keep it.
Licensed amateur and gmrs. Our area has a vibrant gmrs radio fire watch which works well—we hVe weekly nets to keep equipment and people practiced. We are in the foothills of the gold country where wildfires have already done their damage. For most “neighborhoods” gmrs is great, especially if it’s tied into the local ARES. Information can be passed up and down
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