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Sometimes it's a good thing to be on the outside looking in (so-to-speak) After watching the horriffic results of the latest blizzard covering most of the world down there, I don't know how anybody living in a city is going to make it if the S really does HTF. Any city.
I've worried for years that the barge bringing supplies to these small communities in Alaska where I live would some day not show up. As it is, if the barge is late by even a day the grocery store shelves are empty of fresh produce and dairy, nearly out of meat. It never ceases to amaze me how many folks, even up here, shop daily for their food. Therefore, for about the past 20 years I've kept a 2-year stock of dry goods, including 100lbs of powdered milk, grains, flours, veggies & meats & a 5-gal bucket of raw honey for cooking & wounds. I can, freeze and dehydrate all summer, storing cases of canned goods under beds, in the closets, they're stacked up either side of the bed for makeshift end tables. You get the idea. The trick is to store what you use and use what you store.
There are lots of things you can do, even in an apartment in the city, to be more self sufficient. If you just can't move to a safer place, now is the time to start. If I lived in a city I'd try to find a place with abundant wild greens, medicine plants, fish & game and learn how to harvest my own.
Not a day goes by I don't wonder how I got so lucky to live where I do.
Have i missed something in the news? whats all this talk of
Everything going South
S really does HTF
Although we maybe going through a tough time i'm still optimistic about the N.American people having the fortitude and resolve to weather the storm so to speak.. and not be thinking of high tailing it to the woods to survive off the land in a survival of the fittest mode.
Some one have a link to these potential doomsday scenarios?As living up here in the Canadian backwoods we arent always current when it comes to news.
Have i missed something in the news? whats all this talk of
Everything going South
S really does HTF
Although we maybe going through a tough time i'm still optimistic about the N.American people having the fortitude and resolve to weather the storm so to speak.. and not be thinking of high tailing it to the woods to survive off the land in a survival of the fittest mode.
Some one have a link to these potential doomsday scenarios?As living up here in the Canadian backwoods we arent always current when it comes to news.
Worst: California and the Pacific NW. (Earthquakes), the Gulf Coast and Florida (Hurricanes), Chicago and the midwest (Tornadoes), New York City and Washington, D.C. (Terrorist Threat).
I'm not convinced "everything is going south", jambo. I am, however, convinced that we're headed for an economic disaster and I wouldn't want to be in the middle of a city unprepared. And if I lived in a city and could move to a more rural self-sufficient area, I would.
Storebought food and medicine is already getting beyond a lot of people's means. If I'm wrong, GREAT! But everybody eats. I'm just glad my family's nutrition insurance policy is paid up and I'd be more than happy to offer whatever useless advice I might have.
Yeah, we all can fish. Yeah, we have MREs, Yeah, we have canned foods ie corn etc. Yeah, we have beef jerky. Yeah, we have skills to bring down game and field dress it. Yeah, I can clean fish and frogs. Yes, I can damn near fix anything mechanical (it's easy for me). I can build fire without matches. I can do things that will make your furry little heads explode. Who cares, it's all common knowledge and gets boring real quick like! How many of you can point shoot without using the sights? How many of you know how to repair your own weapons, sharpen knives and other tools and properly knife fight? How many of you know how and have the ability to reload your own ammo? How many of you know how to function check your weapon? IMO, the other stuff is boring and you could learn it in the lawn and garden section at WAL-MART!
I also add that when you miss your duck or goose, I'm bringing it down for you cause I never miss. We spend whole weekends shooting trap. I run through 1-2 .50 CAL ammo cans worth of 12 GA reloads doing it!
What thingy? If you are bothered by firearms, you are in the VERY WRONG THREAD. Do us a favor and leave!
Actually, you are the one who has hijacked this thread. Please scale it back and leave the gun talk repetative posting to threads that are actually on that topic. The topic of this thread was were to live or not live, not firearms, not CCW. Get it?
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