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Originally Posted by Czymra
I am, still considering your night vision etc. it's rather impressive if not unthinkable where I'm from. Germany's kept so tame.
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Someone shot a dog that we had. That and the kids who gather at the school bus stop on Friday nite increased the
paranoia. Mailbox bashers and yobos shooting hunting rifles at night out in the woods. Our problem is we are not FAR enough from the city. They busted a meth lab two miles from where we live. Violent forced entry is a
distinct possibility. Where we live we are isolated enough that they could do what they wanted in complete privacy. Law enforcement response is unacceptably slow.
Perimeter alert at the property line and open carry side arms on your own property starts to look pretty good in that environment. We've had wild life walk right up to the open door while we were looking out. Never know when a raccoon will be rabid. There is also a cougar that comes by once a year hoping for a chicken dinner. Ever hear a cougar scream when it touches an electric fence 300 feet from your bedroom window at night?
I admit that the night vision was extreme. But when you need it, you are REALLY glad it is an option rather than showing a light.
This property has guided us down the path we follow. Then, world events picked up where the property left off.
If you really read what FERfal has been through. If you take the time to understand what Dimitry Orlov has said.
You will realize that our preps are barely sufficient.
We have only prepared for economic collapse. We are not prepared for total anarchy like they have in Somalia.
You made a jest about tunnels being dug. There are those on this forum who are saying underground is the place to be by AUGUST 2009. I cannot bear to even think in that direction. The cost of burying a schoolbus. The logistics involved, are extreme even for me.
Time has shown that our preps were timely and appropriate. Two years ago we bought long term storable food for my aging mother. She raised cain and wouldn't have any part of it. So it ended up with us instead of her. Just last month, she changed her mind and had us help her buy a years supply. She's 72 years old and a thousand miles from where we are. For her to
take the plunge was nothing short of miraculous.
Listen to the whispers before they become shouts. Swim against the lemming tide while you can. That is all I can say. If we are wrong and nothing happens, what have you lost? Just eat the food. How hard is that?
I am SORRY to report that something is happening. The only unknown is when and how severe.
As Dimitry Orlov said in his article Our Village;
As I mentioned, the collapse of the Soviet economy was barely detectable in Soykino. Reasoning by analogy, if some of the more pessimistic (or, as more and more of us think, realistic) predictions come true, and the developed portions of the United States become completely dysfunctional, much more so than they are presently, a village such as Soykino, if one existed, would remain similarly unaffected. And if you owned a house there, you could live there, and be unaffected as well.
Upon arriving, you would no doubt have to explain to the other residents what happened: “You see, the economy collapsed, and now there is nothing more for me to do out there.” And they would say: “No! Really? That’s a pretty big thing, isn’t it?” And you would say: “Huge! Could you please pass the pickled mushrooms?”
Your goal is to place as many degrees of separation between the rough ragged edge and yourself as you can.
When your response to disaster is pass the pickled mushrooms you know that you have arrived.