Christopher Robin
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- Jul 31, 2005
Actually, watching DoomsDay Preppers makes me feel completely sane and not the least bit paranoid.
LOL, I get the same effect reading the DIS Boards.
Actually, watching DoomsDay Preppers makes me feel completely sane and not the least bit paranoid.
christopher robin said:lol, i get the same effect reading the dis boards.
Ever since Katrina, and after reading One Second After, our family has been slowly been building systems to allow for a sustainable lifestyle off the grid.
SaraJayne said:Actually, watching DoomsDay Preppers makes me feel completely sane and not the least bit paranoid.
I tell my husband that we watch because the folks on that show make me look so very reasonable. All I want is a big ol' garden, an itsy bitsy backyard orchard, rain barrels... Nothing extreme.
I know that may be a bit TIC, but really, most rural people used to have big gardens, small fruit trees and rain barrels, when you had to be more self-reliant.
Actually, watching DoomsDay Preppers makes me feel completely sane and not the least bit paranoid.
i have small kit prepared... i do have some odd things in there that emergency kits usually dont have...
aka throwing knifes and throwing axes...
Too poor for a handgun.
Wife cans?????I have a relative whom I think is a prepper, stockpile of weapons, ammo, wife cans, they grow their own food and they also make their own furniture, do their own home repairs, etc. But then again, they live in the land of the free and that seems to be a way of life for everyone who lives there.
Yes, but when they run out of ammo (and unless they have the skill and tools to make their own, they WILL run out) you'll still have a usable weapon.
Wife cans?????
Wife cans?????
Think about it. when it happens, THOSE are the people that will be left. Do you want to be left on Earth with them? Ummmm, NO!
Totally TIC. We live in a small town and around here most people do have at least some of those things (and did before they became trendy/green, back in the days when you hung laundry to save money not to save the earth! ). Our location would probably be our biggest asset in a "doomsday" situation - a small, close-knit town with lots of old school rural types who know how to "get by" without a lot of modern conveniences. That's something that has come to annoy me about the Doomsday Preppers show - with the exception of a couple segments in the first season they all seem to be focusing on isolationist, me-against-the-world methods rather than community building, and I don't think any amount of stockpiled ammo can replace having friends/neighbors/family watching out for each other.
Absolutely. In pioneering days there seem to have been rugged individualists who would've felt right at home with the preppers, but there were a LOT of people who built communities out of whoever came along and settled within 5 or so miles of them. The people who built communities tended to do better when there were serious emergencies - I've done a LOT of research into one such community from about 1850 to 1880. There was a drought in this area during the Civil War when outlaws, the Confederates and the Union ALL came through and took everything everyone had. They should've all starved to death, but I've found records where everyone in the community was recorded along with their assets and foodstuffs so what little there was could be distributed to keep the entire community alive. (One community member, who had about 20 kids that he married off to almost every other family in that community, was actually on the lam for a murder, but I'm discovering seems to have been an orderly to a general in the Mexican War - his homestead apparently was NOT raided by the Union or the Confederates in the war and seems to have been off limits to both - I think his supplies probably kept a LOT of people from starving.)
It's a much better, much stronger survival technique than trying to out supply everyone else and go it alone. If it ever came down to the the end of civilization, we'd go to a piece of land we know of that isn't populated, and so would most of the people we know well. The farming there isn't the greatest ever, but it's tolerable for small gardens, and there's enough wild game and wild foodstuffs to survive. (After all the American Indians in the region built nice civilizations pre-farming; it can be done.)
A community will survive better than one person - preppers seem to be fixated on the notion that no one will come and try to take their foodstuffs or that 2 people can fend off a hundred. . .maybe, but that would be a sad way to survive.
Beau, can I come and hang out in your bunker? I know you said I could friend you on FB. Since I don't do FB, I couldn't do that. But, I'll eat some of your canned goods if that's alright?