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  1. This is a very good post. I am always thinking about these things. I recently sent a note to some “like minded families” that they should review their “last run” lists. The situation in our nation continues to worsen and few people realize just how bad things could get and how quickly they could get to that point. Just looking around plus remembering things our parents have told us about is not enough to be prepared. We must think “outside the box” to stretch our minds. Like the guy on the insurance commercial says: “A 500 year storm doesn’t mean it only happens once in 500 years. In the last decade, there have been 26 such storms in this country”. An extended family member lives in an area that is the evacuation place “to go to” for hurricanes evacuations. When they were told to evacuate for a hurricane (they live 70 miles from the coast), they did not believe it could be a problem. At the last minute they evacuated. When they returned, they found that tornadoes had passed over the land at 200 yard increments. You could see the destructive paths of 24″ to 48″ diameter oak and pine trees broken off or twisted off that went for miles thru the woods. The local electric coop that covers a two county area had 8500 broken down power poles. Some of the area had no power for 5 weeks. At that time, none of the locals had generators. Now some of them have 4 per family. None of these details were covered by the national media. Just because you don’t see it happening, doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening right here in this nation.

  2. Just a year ago a snow and ice storm broke off power pole lines, cross bars on the poles, and the poles themselves across three counties in the Redoubt. “The world will little note, nor long remember….”, as it was in north Montana. The thousands of power poles broken resulted in many remote homes without power for several weeks in snowy, freezing weather. Be ready.

    I enjoyed Bobert’s parables here. The tidal wave casualties he mentions included those who went out onto the newly, temporarily exposed seabed as the waterline receded prior to the tidal wave coming in.

    A few years later I witnessed the Columbus Day storm in the PNW which destroyed homes and power infrastructure, and also the Alaska Earthquake which killed people as far away as the Oregon coast.

    I worked at Schofield Barracks with Tropic Lightning Division about 20 long years ago. I learned about Lightfighter Candy (800mg Ibuprofen) and wearing nylon stocking footies in order to march and run with 40 to 60 pound packs week after week, slide down ropes from hovering Hueys, do pushups with the toes of your boots up high on tree trunks and your palms on the ground.

    We watched and prepared for the civil wars take place in southeast Europe, played war games for invasion of islands, monitored insurrection on Madagascar, fought forest fire burning up the slopes of the jungle on the north end of Oahu, saw brown snakes devastating the local fauna, an Army helicopter hitting high voltage lines and killing the aviators, and more.

    I worked for a Major at 25ID who had been on the Grenada invasion was a witness of the problems when Army radios cannot talk to Navy and Air force radios. He learned well enough from mistakes and errors, that he then implemented better management through his career. I got to shake his hand while he wore three stars years later.

    What preparations have you made for these things that are coming in our collective future?

    More important, do you have a mentor, trainer, active advisor, peer, who is objective and gives you advice….that you actually intend to implement?

    I appreciate the writers here who list their mistakes and successes. Thanks for reinvigorating my efforts. God Bless

  3. These posts are always good for planning and prepping for disaster. However, what they all fail to include is contingencies. For example, what if, on your way to your bugout location you run into a military blockade or the unprepared carload of panic-stricken neighbors in front of you runs out of gas…effectively blocking your carefully packed carload of preps?

    These posts also seem to assume that the proponents involved will be rational and level headed…which is an unknown in time of crisis since we in this country have not experienced much beyond bad weather, forest fires and short term power outages.

    They also seem to assume that people will not be caught unawares, have plenty of cash to prep and can find their way home in the face of danger to enact their plans.

    Still, full of good ideas as long as the situation allows for their implementation.

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