by Guest » Wed 14 Dec 2005, 14:12:40
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('weirdo27', 'W')hen the end really begins to come down do you think you are gonna be a survivor? Do you imagine yourself still making it to being 80-100 years old?
I just dont know, im pretty confident ill be one of the ones to die off in the massive die offs.
I read a book on survival camping once. This guy's idea of a great camping trip was to leave home with only his levis on, and go and 'survive' for two weeks in the mountains or desert. No matches, no food, no pocket knife, no shelter. He has a lot of skills that I don't have and probably never will, but he said that the greatest part of surviving was wanting to. So, Weirdo27, whatcha got to live for? A lot I hope.
This guys name (if I remember right) was Larry Dean Olson. He told about taking a group of scouts into the mountains and that with food all around them they wouldn't eat and that he had to bring them home early to prevent serious consequences. Granted, the food that was there was not what they were used to - cattail roots (toasted - yum?) and a couple of rockchucks that the managed to kill, and some grass seed havested from a nearby meadow. But the kids wouldn't eat it - it wasn't the usual camping fare of baked beans, marshmellows and hot dogs.
When oil and gas get scarce, our economy will likely take a huge hit. People will be out of work - lot's of people. Services might well degrade or even break down. I work in a coal fired power plant. Our coal comes by train, and I expect that even in a total fuel embargo, that the trains that bring the coal to our plant will keep running. They will find it somewhere, and it will go where it is needed. So I anticipate that we will all have electrical power, if not for a full day, then for part of a day, or every other day.
Food might be another thing. Prepare, prepare, prepare. Someone once said that there is "There is more salvation and security in
wheat, than in all the political schemes of the world...." . My Dad once told me that if I thought that I would be out of a job, or that times were going to be tough - that I should buy #100 of pinto beans. He said that would get me through a winter, even if I never wanted to see a bean again. He was the oldest son of five children of a widowed mom and did alot to raise the his siblings, and I think that he had done just that.
The point being that you have time to fill your shelves and under the beds with food and water. Granted, it might well be wheat and beans and dried milk, but that will get you through for a long time and will allow you to stay home in relative safety if conditions on the streets deteriorate. Learn to sprout the grain and you can have salads and stir fry. Buy a wheat grinder and you can learn to bake and have bread. Save some seeds and buy a shovel and learn to garden.....
http://waltonfeed.com/
http://extension.usu.edu/files/foodpubs/fn502.pdf
Just google 'dried food storage' and look at all the resources that are available. Will it solve all of your problems and give you total security? Nope, but a long journey has to be made one step at a time. So if you want to live until you are 80, you have to live through the chaos that might well surround us when big oil shocks come.
Hope that all goes well. Watch the traffic, don't cross the street without looking both ways, don't race trains, don't make toast in the bathtub, and who knows how long you will live.