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Originally Posted by Oliver
Good thinking, Artvision. I am thankful to you for you dedication.
I would like to repeat my proposal: Avalon should organize a team who will work on profilation of the community’s society in every level. This doesn’t mean uniforming of all of the communities, but a kind of universal recommendations to be followed with free will.
Love and Respect to all.
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YES OLIVER! YOU HAVE RIGHT!
We need something like a guiding set! Some guideline as:
1. Against what we prepare and why we consider that a threat?
2. Survival Checklist - What we need to take in consideration and why!
3. Bug-out or fleeing. To flee to retreat or living in it.
4. Retreating - How we construct/features
5. Water providing, producing, storage - Technologies, techniques
6. Food Storage - What food we store/ Short term, medium and long term solutions
7. Security / Defending / Weapons/Military training/battle training
8. Communication means: between us, with other communities, with world
9. Organizing with community organizing as a micro society - we can create one of ours, after our will, not others
10. Survival Library - Books, magazines, computers CD, disks, ebooks, etc
11. Medical Issues and Health. Plants and herbs. Minerals. Exercises
12. Energy - Solar - Wind - Etheric or RADIANT energy (why not?)
13. Spirituality and enlightenment of the being
14. Agriculture, Aquaculture, animal raising
15. Canning and food preserving
16. Producing, reparing and maintaining things. Learning crafts, etc
17. Learning and teaching
etc,etc
Please feel free about to add.
We can make a general discussion with what is good and what is bad and why, according with other member vast experience. We can then gather some guiding lines, where people can easily start with a retreat or at list have some tclear line of thought in their hands. If the situation would rapidly degrade, at list to know what to do ASAP, without loosing prcious time, then when SHTF.
Why I'm saying that? Because most of the people never put such questions in their life:
1. What you will do if electric power is off?
2. What you will do if there is no police and security maintaining forces?
3. What will do if all supermarkets and shops will suddenly close?
4. What will do if the city service will not pick-up the garbage from tomorrow?
5. What will do if phones, internet will cease suddenly to function?
6. What will do if when trying get money from ATM they will not work and leave you without cash?
7. What will do if most of the banks will close their doors and will be cordoned by security forces armed to their teeth?
8. How I will go in contact with my family now?
etc, etc.
Some people face that challenging, some a few of them, some many of them. But most of people and maybe younger they NEVER FACED SUCH things.
I think that collective knowledge would be an invaluable resource.
Therefore I found some:
Argentina Collapse:
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/10.08/tshtf1.html
Albania Collapse:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...d.php?t=151761
Fleeing of population when Hitler Invading France:
http://www.ebookee.com/Fleeing-Hitle...40_214981.html
What really happened with Katrina and workarounds:
http://www.theplacewithnoname.com/bl...ns/p/0007.html
What is happening when disasters hit. Especially with EMP, but not only:
Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack:
http://www.empcommission.org/docs/A2...ission-7MB.pdf
etc, etc
Please feel free to add from other places or better, from personal experience. Such what happened in Serbia on war, or in Rwanda, or when tsunami stroke in Thailand, when drought in Australia, or problems from other places, where you people may have been or heard stories.
As the things will unfolding with such a rapid pace, we need to have procedure in places. Then we do not have time to think, we just need to act. As fast and as efficient will be life saving! I had a home almost exploding near my hous in an compound. My wife left immediately the house as the neighborhood fire was extending faster and dangerous to us. SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. If the fire wouldn't be quickly extinguished by the firefighters, we wouldn't have then, ANY PASSPORTS, CREDIT CARDS, NOR MONEY, just a few banknotes that I would have with me in my wallet. From then on, (this was a trigger for us) we started to consider procedures and what-if scenarios and prepare for them. What I will do in this case, or that case? etc Running scenarios. Army does that. Big corporation do that, also people may benefit from such scenario preparation.
A foundation stone for our trial of establishing some retreat best practices code, I consider to be this novel:
Triple Ought, written by James Wesley Rawles;
http://survivalbible2001.com/SB-2001...ON/001gray.htm
Rawles which is the founder of the SurvivalBlog.com (which I follow regularily by RSS and find very usefull) and which is a follower of Mel Tappan which started the trend of survivalist in early 70's (if I'm not wrong)
Please make yourself time and read the novel, Triple Ought, as it is full of insights and ideas how a retreat/organisation should function!
I mean I find a lot of things of high value there, things as one may never thought about, in the first places. Really is so important that I already start to draw MindMaps
Really is very eye opening for our subject!