and the cult leadership told you to prepare for it, they told you that it was just around the corner and could happen any second, and that you must have vast quatities of supplies on hand to be ready, and held apocalyptic disaster drills for whatever it was because it might happen -- right now...
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I see them everywhere, walking around in a daze staring at devices glued to their hands. I suspect nefarious forces operating behind the scenes have placed these enzombification devices into the hands of these creatures that once were real human beings just like you and me.
They walk into traffic, block escalators, stand in elevator doorways, walk off cliffs and walk into trees. I sometimes see them going into supermarkets where they proceed to ram shopping carts into supermarket customers. Their thumbs are always twitching for some reason.... I used to think this was the stuff of Twilight Zone fiction. Now I'm living through it.
I was never prepared for this zombie infestation. I didn't know how to prepare. Why didn't the Prophet warn us??? That 15-year-old wheat in my parents' basement is useless against the zombies.
^this. The smartphone thing creeps me out. watching groups of people who are ostensibly friends sit around a table and completely ignore each other while they do whatever it is people do on smartphiones is really creepy.
dogblogger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Because I live in a zone for a high risk natural > disaster. So a certain level of preparedness is > warranted.
Same here. We are prepared for disaster. Prepared to run like cockroaches up a drainpipe.
mostly because I'm too lazy to go to the grocery store more than once a month. For the fresh green stuff, I just pick it up whenever I need it when I'm walking around town.
But, laziness aside, I don't see anything wrong with stockpiling and rotating a month's worth (or even a few months' worth, if you have the space) of necessities. Sh*t happens.
If you have a lot of "preppers" in your neighborhood that just means you'll have that many fewer people running around like chickens with their heads cut off and storming the local supermarket if the increasingly precarious "just in time" supply chain gets disrupted.
The term "prepper" like the term "conspiracy theorist" is a pejorative and dismissive term that carelessly sweeps reasonable, thoughtful and often correct people into the same bin as certifiably insane nutjobs.
Actually, this is one of the topics that I am ok with.
Years ago I worked with a never-mo guy who suggested that the world was going to descend into chaos. I no longer think this is due to prophecy but I do see that things get out of control. I am not extreme about it.
Yes, and I'm a better prepper now that I'm not a TBM. I have about three months of food, but not whole wheat. It's food that we would actually eat and could easily prepare. Some of it is half of a cow frozen in the freezer. Some of it is canned food that could be added to boiled rice to make it taste better. I have two propane tanks and some gasoline stored, a small travel trailer, a few solar panels, batteries, inverters, and a few guns. I have a generator and chain saw. I have stored water and a well that I can power through the inverter and my vehicle. I got involved in amateur radio in the last year and can do voice and digital HF and VHF/UHF. I conduct drills regularly and make sure my kids know where the fire extinguisher is and how to turn off the utilities. If all of this sounds like too much, it isn't. My family has survived comfortably through two hurricanes, two close calls with tornados, and severe winter storms that knocked out the power for days. Did I mention that we were comfortable and able to help my neighbors pull through and teach them a thing or two? I prepare because I need to, not because an old man tells me the end of the world is coming.
I've been through two wikipedia-worthy hurricanes (Agnes and Diane) and two major floods, and the odd tornado warning. Blizzards sometimes closed the highway, but never for more than a couple days. Diane took out power for two weeks. The Flood of '97 closed the city of Grand Forks for about 6 weeks. Everybody left because they were required to, although, even if allowed to stay and having the survival supplies, living in a house with a basement full of mud and water, not to mention a couple feet of muddy water on the first floor too, would have been damned inconvenient.
In an actual disaster, what you really need is a way to get the hell out of Dodge. That you will ever need to sit there for 3 or 12 or 24 months and subsist on freeze-dried food and rancid water in reused plastic bottles is delusional.
LDS Inc was just trying to sell welfare farm produce to the faithful. That way they made money on food produced and canned with free labor, and got to own the farms tax free because they were part of a church program.
I did none of the stuff Changed Man did. I'm obviously still alive and kicking. You want to prepare for a disaster? Have a year's income in savings.
Great point. Having a year's worth of money in the bank is excellent advice. However, cash is king when the power is out and the ATMs and credit card readers don't work, so having $1000 in cash at home is good.
I was in central Canada back around 2002, and had no cash, US or Canadian. Not a problem. I'd put everything on the card.
Turned out it was the day of the huge blackout in the eastern US and Canada. The power was on where I was, but all the banking computers were in Toronto, and were down.
I was here during and after Katrina. I agree with Brother of Jerry. Having food supplies but when you don't have toilets, or running water to wash your hands after cooking, or garbage pickup, and when it is over 100 degrees and no power, no way to shower, no cell service, just what he said, you want to get out of Dodge till things are restored.
I prep, but I'm a never-mo so it's never been because of faith. I have a few months of food put back (canned and canned from the garden), money, water, first aid stuff, toiletries and ways to cook. It's all stuff I use day-to-day, so it gets rotated and used.
More me, it's more the memories of my grandparents talking about the Great Depression and what they had to go through as young children to young adulthood. Also, I've lived places where natural disasters can happen (storms and earthquakes). Plus, it's nice to have some things put back in case of job loss. It's one less thing to worry about.
Religion and governmental chaos has nothing to do with it for me. It's knowing that bad things can happen and it's nice to have something there as backup. If something apocalyptic happens, we're screwed more than likely...so I don't worry about that.
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