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by The Annoyed Man
Tue Jul 10, 2018 10:07 am
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Topic: How "Prepped" Are you?
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Re: How "Prepped" Are you?

Abraham wrote: Tue Jul 10, 2018 9:22 am "civil unrest"

What does that mean?
It’s what happens when the left gets complete control over all departments of the gov’t. In other words, it’s not that far off.
by The Annoyed Man
Tue Jul 10, 2018 10:05 am
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Topic: How "Prepped" Are you?
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Re: How "Prepped" Are you?

I didn’t mention this in my previous post, but I often say this in conversations about prepping...... one of your very best preps is community. Building relationships between yourself and like-minded people, who have also taken it upon themselves to prep, is a very effective strategy. The “lone wolf” is going to end up like all lone wolves - dying alone....possibly at the hands of another. But a community not only makes up for holes in one another’s preps that maybe they didn’t think of individually, but it also provides a larger pool of skills and knowledge. It allows for some degree of specialization, which means that the memebers benefit from the most knowledgeable/skilled individuals at various disciplines.

A community can defend itself more efficiently than a single individual or single family can. Depending on how long the crisis lasts, a community can better provide for the education of its children than a single family/single parent can. A community can grow a larger variety of crops and raise a larger variety of livestock than a single family can. And, for those who are spiritually inclined, a faith community benefits by having additional members.

It is true that the most well-rounded individual should be able to do all of those things for himself, but reality is nowhere near cooperative with “should”. Community is a bulwark against the inevitable lack of cooperation from reality.
by The Annoyed Man
Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:49 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: How "Prepped" Are you?
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Views: 9171

Re: How "Prepped" Are you?

AndyC wrote: Mon Jul 09, 2018 3:33 pm 1. Water first - not just for drinking/hygiene/etc, but dried foodstuffs such as rice, beans, pasta etc need water to reconstitute them, so you actually need a lot for even 30 days. Water purification using unscented bleach - 8 drops of 6% bleach or 6 drops of 8.25% bleach per gallon of water. Check

2. Shelter ie. environmental controls: Blankets, space blankets, source of heat/cooking, propane, etc. Check

3. Regular bulk foods eg. Costco cans/jars and rotate them through your regular current meals - fancy survival foods aren't really necessary (unless you specifically want to anyway), but I'm fond of stashing those lifeboat cookies. Multivitamins etc aren't real expensive and are nice supplements. Check

4. Comms/electricity etc - hand-cranked and/or solar radios/flashlights, solar battery chargers. Check

5. Arms to defend your family and stash as well as some medical supplies. Check

6. Some trade goods/extras for neighbors. Check

I don't see prepping as a bad word - it's simply being prepared to go it alone for a month or so eg. Hurricane Katrina in N.O.
Everything on Andy’s list, plus I would add tents, and other temporary shelter. Having lived in SoCal for so many years, we always had a multiperson tent as part of our prep gear. If an earthquake knocks your house down, a tent is cheaper than a hotel .....which may not be available.

And like Andy says, “prepping” is not a dirty word, it’s just plain common sense. It’s people who don’t prep who are behaving irrationally. The whole movement of prepping for certain bizarre kinds of disasters - comet strike, the earth’s magnetic poles switching, etc., etc. - are kind of silly simply because they just don’t have much chance of happening in our lifetimes .....plus, prepping is prepping. It’s all the same list of needs/priorities; and the odds of events happening like an extremely destructive earthquake in California, or hurricanes and tornados in Texas are fairly high odds. If you have a family, it’s just plain irresponsible to not make contingency plans for their safety and survival, and then acquiring the means of fulfilling those plans. And the bottom line is, if you’re well enough provided for surviving weather or geological disasters, you’re well enough set up to survive pretty much any kind of apocalyptic event.

I don’t worry at all about the really far out scenarios. In fact, I don’t worry at all because I’ve been preparing. It’s a decades long habit. But the kinds of things I think about are much more pedestrian than the zombie apocalypse .... stuff like weather/geology related events, and also possible lawlessness in the wake of a breakdown in social order due to political and/or economic pressures. Venezuela didn’t used to be “Venezuela”, and exactly NONE of what is going on there has anything to do with any kind of natural or sci-fi disaster. It’s all man-made.

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