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The term "prepping" is an inclusive term incorperating several processes or steps.
Prepping includes building a store of supplies.
A means of defending/hiding those supplies.
The ability to replace the supplies as they are used up, normally through agricultural pursuits.
Until one has encompassed all the facets one is not actually "prepared" for much of anything.
The extent of these "preps" will be detirmined by the depth, duration and consciquences of the triggger event that requires one to go into "survival mode".
Fact is, most people are not equipped mentally, physically or with the equipment necessary to weather even a minor nuscience emergency. In most urban areas worldwide, a 24 hour power outage will trigger fire, riot, looting and general panic. This is why people talk about 'bugging out", anticipating that life will be easier in the rural areas.
Perhaps, perhaps not.
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(23 February 2013, 19:49)Highlander Wrote: Heck there is a lot of question there Mary, I will do the best to answer them as I see them.
For a start, we should all try and do things as close to normal that is possible, life will be easier if we could achieve that,... so in our case we plan to remain where we are, in the area we know well,.. Our location we think is about as safe a place as we could get,... apart from chat on site, we have no plans or ideas about what happens with law and order, I am thinking that there will be a long difficult journey before we ever get to that
If the situation was as dire as your scenario describes, then there is going to be a lot less people around here than there is now, so wild life will increase rather than decrease,..so food shouldn't be a problem, if you know where to find it and bring it down,... the idea is to store as much as we can now, and supplement the stores with fresh food when we can,...of course the stores we save up now will run out, by that time I am hoping that we will be fine with our own grown food in the growing season, inc fruit trees.. and revert to the deer in the winter,... I sold a small farm to come to the location I am in now, so know the ways of animals and food,..I hope enough, I could certainly deal with sheep and poultry,... but I don't know a lot about your horses
Many people forget about toilets,.. the best way would to probably construct an `earth toilet` is that what they are called, when the waste is broken down over time, and can be used to fertilizer the fields/garden
I know little about medical matters but Bracken is a registered home carer, so although not a fully qualified person,.. knows enough I think to get by on this score
We have very little in the way of defensive weapons, we dont think that we would need too many up here,... we have some, but the `bigger` weapons were bought mainly for getting food, and you do need something a bit bigger than a pellet gun to bring down a deer
You are right, life would revert back to the Victorian way of life, but then I really wouldn't mind that, I was brought up in similar circumstances, with no electric, no services or any kind,... life would not be easy,... but we would all have to buckle down and do our best
Highlander, you have exactly got my point. It's that gap period between the unthinkable happening when everyone rushes around like headless chickens, and when things settle to what would be a new normality. I personally couldn't see the point in rushing around brandishing guns - I would be aiming to provide for my family in the interim period with the minimum stress and hassle. Nothing is instant, and that is the point, so knowing how to quickly get things moving and keep them moving would be my priority.
You sound as if you have had exactly the right background. I am sure you would survive.
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great post maryN....my grandparents had a small holding..thats where i get my total love of survival..kept chichens for years and pigs one time...looking for goats and quail and mybe some ducks. Yes i can build a ceptic tank ..and composting tiolet, and i know how the grow stuff ..and store it for all year round ...the knowledge i lack ...and there,s lots of it ....i get by the shed load of this site by members with vast more experience and always on tap to help....and a post just like this one ( forces you to think more on the truely important things we take for granted ) we think we know....but its better to go over and over till we really get it .....and yes billy we all look at world events thats why we are on this site ... as BP says slow down ...but be diligent in how you prep otherwise you could get things wrong....be methodic in what you do ( lesson learnt by me ) i recommend a good read of all posts on here by those dedicated to help and enlighten us all...including you billy
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(23 February 2013, 17:33)Billy Wrote: This year i have been told will be a turning point in our civilisation. We will keep getting struck with more and more meteors,small comets. You will not hear any of this on your mainstream. We have now over 200 volcanos going off and the usual number for volcanos in any given year is 4/5 and that aint counting the ones underwater, the ones we cannot see. There will be a huge earthquake around 2nd April give or take 40hrs either way on the Pacific Rim. If it aint the largest 1 we have ever had then it will be in the top 5. After this i will advice anyone to start forming groups and arrange meeting points. Has anyone heard of the point 8 on the Ricter about 2 weeks ago near New Zealand ? the tsunimi swamped some local islands wiping out 3 vilages. They dont know how many died or are missing because the islands are remote. They are still finding bodys washing up. Yes we will need skills so get swapping ideas and phone no,s when it go,s down then TPTB will pull the plug and dissapere into there rats lair. You need to wake up earlier then the rest because once the majority finds out whats comming all hell will break loose and its time to head for the hills. Have you got a full tank,supplies and a bolt hole ?
Just checked the USGS site and the amount of siemic activity appears the same as it always is , hardly any variation its just the usual ring of fire stuff, but for the sake of fairness please be so kind as to prove the figures and facts you so kindly offer us about the sudden change in vulcanism cos I cannot find anything substansive ?
Point 8 quakes are fairly common BTW but they are usually so deep they dont create sufficient P or S waves to cause major onshore damage. As for the south sea islands they get hit all the time because in many parts the islands are only one or two meters above sea level.
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(23 February 2013, 21:03)Straight Shooter Wrote: great post maryN....my grandparents had a small holding..thats where i get my total love of survival..kept chichens for years and pigs one time...looking for goats and quail and mybe some ducks. Yes i can build a ceptic tank ..and composting tiolet, and i know how the grow stuff ..and store it for all year round ...the knowledge i lack ...and there,s lots of it ....i get by the shed load of this site by members with vast more experience and always on tap to help....and a post just like this one ( forces you to think more on the truely important things we take for granted ) we think we know....but its better to go over and over till we really get it .....and yes billy we all look at world events thats why we are on this site ... as BP says slow down ...but be diligent in how you prep otherwise you could get things wrong....be methodic in what you do ( lesson learnt by me ) i recommend a good read of all posts on here by those dedicated to help and enlighten us all...including you billy
Wow, S, another one who gets it. I thought I was bawling in the wilderness.
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we can prep all we want but the long term survival will be down to luck.
i have come to realise that we live depending on others in oneway or another after an event when we are alone the next little thing you can't handle will kill you then who will look after your loved ones? opsec is good but it's not the be all and end all
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There was a tsunami near the Solomon Islands earlier this month. Is that what you are looking for?
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