How many of you are disaster prepping?

[NotCranky]

I think it is safe to assume that I was borne prepped for disaster.

[svelte]

Timely post…look at this recently discovered 50 yo disaster preparation time capsule ala 1960s:

http://thechive.com/2012/03/28/50-year-old-abandoned-florida-bomb-shelter-still-as-good-as-new-20-photos/

[sdrealtor]

I looked at those pictures and two thoughts came to mind. First was that of pouring money down a hole in the ground. Second was why dont they make then like they do in Chula Vista with long tunnels and light rail transportation for 3 ft by 3 ft bales.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]I looked at those pictures and two thoughts came to mind. First was that of pouring money down a hole in the ground. Second was why dont they make then like they do in Chula Vista with long tunnels and light rail transportation for 3 ft by 3 ft bales.[/quote]

My neighbors to the south “Otay Mesa” (SD) are now being all but ignored by the PTB and are using their engineering skills to the max because they CAN!

There’s only so many active DEA/NTF left in their *new* HQ smack in the middle of Nirvana where they can keep a sharp eye on what goes on daily “above-ground” over there and on what is growing in those remaining troublesome “greenhouses” between all the “poinsettias” and other “flowers.” Now that all those former agents with a l-o-o-ong memory have begun their “cushy” public retirement whilst kicking sdr’s a$$ weekly on the golf course, there are far fewer left to monitor potential “tunnels” from 45 mi away :=[

sdr, why don’t you see if you can cull your friends and acquaintances in the “beautiful-people sector” to put a “well-educated volunteer group” together. You guys can give some “horticulture-engineering” classes to all those flower growers in Nirvana. Putting a few heads together, you might be able to devise some sort of underground conveyor-belt operation under those greenhouses to keep all those trays of ‘shrooms properly illuminated and in motion so as to keep them out of sight, out of mind of the PTB … just in case of a raid. When the PTB is constantly present at your front (and back) door, you really just never know what they’re up to :=D

edit: I forgot to mention those holdout trailer parks in Nirvana with the stash of 50-gal drums stored under a camper shell. This is ONE MORE pressing “patrol” issue that is taking away agents from the border area, allowing Otay Mesans to dig to their hearts content :=]

[no_such_reality]

[quote=Arraya]They think if modern-industrial society malfunctions people are going to turn into brain-hungry zombies. Zero faith in humanity.
[/quote]

Never mind 10000 years of civilization history.

They’re not prepping for zombies, they’re prepping for the G8 to revert to subsistance third world status. Think Congo, Somalia, Cambodia and Khmer Rouge.

Most americans have no subsistance skills. Nor do other G8 citizens. They haven’t picked fruit, pruned fruit trees, grown veggies, butchered an animal or clean fished. Not do they have land to support themselves at a subsistance level. Slowly starving people are desperate people. What do desperate people do?

Argentina came close but got bailed out. Greece, bailed out but still could fail. The last industrial country to have their financial purchasing power collapse was Germany in the 1930s. We know how that turned out.

That said, I think all the preppers are nutz. As another said, reposition your finances in view of risk don’t build a bunker.

[Coronita]

[quote=sdrealtor]I looked at those pictures and two thoughts came to mind. First was that of pouring money down a hole in the ground. Second was why dont they make then like they do in Chula Vista with long tunnels and light rail transportation for 3 ft by 3 ft bales.[/quote]

Because that would make it better than just about every public transportation project in SoCal.

[scaredyclassic]

Perhaps strength and fitness training is critical to disaster prep

[svelte]

[quote=sdrealtor]I looked at those pictures and two thoughts came to mind. First was that of pouring money down a hole in the ground. Second was why dont they make then like they do in Chula Vista with long tunnels and light rail transportation for 3 ft by 3 ft bales.[/quote]

Classic!

[sdrealtor]

With TG on partial hiatus and FLU at less than full strength someone needed to pick up slack around here;)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=svelte][quote=sdrealtor]I looked at those pictures and two thoughts came to mind. First was that of pouring money down a hole in the ground. Second was why dont they make then like they do in Chula Vista with long tunnels and light rail transportation for 3 ft by 3 ft bales.[/quote]

Classic![/quote]

svelte, even YOU know that there were never any 4+ mile-long tunnels to the bottom of Chula Vista (north side of Main Street/Otay Valley Rd), having lived around there yourself!

They were dug into warehouses in an industrial area which sit on or a stone’s throw from the Otay Mesa border crossing.

Chula Vista and Otay Mesa are two completely different animals. sdr doesn’t know that because he’s only gotten off the fwy once or twice there to have a sandwich with his biker buddies.

[paramount]

Make your own MRE:

http://www.shtfblog.com/diyhow-to-make-your-own-mres-at-home/

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=no_such_reality]That said, I think all the preppers are nutz.[/quote]
What worries me is that said nuts are disproportionally represented in the good old USA. I’m sure no one in Iraq (to give an example) hoards 1 month worth of food, let alone 1 year! Even well-off Iraqis don’t, and they live in one of the most unstable, explosive countries on earth. OTOH, here in the US we have the wealthiest, most stable democracy in the history of the world, and no one raises an eyebrow that there are so many endoftimers that even Costco caters (as in, meets their needs) to them.

These nutzos even get airtime on Fox News as if that was the most normal thing:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_04/028926.php

[svelte]

BG, he was using hyperbole. That’s what made it funny. Obviously there are no tunnels from tj to your neighborhood in the northwest corner of chula Vista bordering national city.

[sdrealtor]

Thx Svelte. At least someone has a sense humor around here and got the joke along with the hyperbole.

[Coronita]

[quote=paramount]Make your own MRE:

http://www.shtfblog.com/diyhow-to-make-your-own-mres-at-home/%5B/quote%5D

I don’t get it…Someone writes on a blog step by step how to take a bunch of prepackaged foods, put them into a plastic bag, and vacuum seal them (with a device that is a wannabe foodsaver+ I might add)… as a “Make your own MRE”…This should have been a 2-3 sentence line in a blog..”Find your favorite dried food, put them in a bag, vacuum seal them, and label them appropriately…” But man, the dude wrote an entire page on this “procedure”….

I’m looking for survival guide #2, in which the guy blogs.
“How to make your own porta-potty.”…complete with illustrations too.

“Step 1: find a bush.. Step 2: bring a toilet paper roll.. Step 3, 4, 5, 6….”
🙂

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