Originally Posted by
ramairthree
Well, what to do about it when it starts is the whole barn door thing.
In case any thing bad happens, financial, war, natural, etc. there are maybe a dozen things you can do to be ready.
I won’t go onto serious detail. Maybe some follow on posts can discuss that.
1- be in shape. I hike with the dog a few miles once or twice a day. But I eat like a teenager too many days and skip workouts too many days. My IWB belt is on hole four out of five when not carrying. I need to get back on track. I’m not saying you need to be a fitness model, but if your are a 300 pound diabetic your days are numbered once the comfy security blanket goes away. At fifty and in the worse and weakest shape of my life I can bench 275, jog a few miles, sprint and climb under or through a split rail fence, etc. All is for naught if you are a wreck physically.
2- don’t live in the city or the burbs. You are not immune even in the most remote rural area, but you have time, density, and distance in your favor.
3- know your neighbors. I’m not saying they have to be your closest family or anything. But if you are at take care of each other’s dogs, horses, etc. while out of town and cordial level, borrow the chainsaw or tractor for a day, it makes you us against them when the hordes are leaving the cities.
4- have some food and water on hand. A couple hundred bucks can have a few months of decades long shelf life stuff on hand. Even if you never use it what’s twenty bucks a year wasted?
5- have a generator and fuel on hand. And a way to get by without power. Even with a pond, stream, well, I need to run the well pump. Hurricanes, snow storms, downed trees, and such, it’s not like you will never use it.
6- have some guns, Ammo, knives, axes, lights, lanterns, etc. on hand. If you haven’t been converting to rechargeable batteries, do it. Glock, Beretta, AR, and AK pattern is out there in droves. Have at it. Get those rookie numbers up in your ammo Fort.
7- know how to use your guns, ammo, generator, prep food.
8- have a well treated and trained large dog or two that loves you and will die for you and your family.
9- have stuff in your car to get home. A good spare, light, gun, axe, machete, etc.
10- have stuff in your wife and kids cars so they can get home. And that they know what to do with it.
11- have family hobbies that may pan out in hard times. Hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, etc.
12- grow older. The thought of a life sentence or dirt nap won’t seem so bad.
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