fun never stops .... Set the world on fire

 

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No kidding today I had the most liberal of lesbian lefties ask me to teach her how to make her own bullets. She said she needs to learn all that survivalists shit.

 

mind is being blown.

pop culture meets survivalism....

Saw a commercial this morning from some type of New York City emergency mgmt organization. Showed a family in an earthquake, the father grabbing a huge bugout bag, and the family running out the door. They said, "make a plan, get a kit, know what to do in the event of a major emergency/catastrophe" or something to that effect.

 

Govt agencies are trying to get people to be self sufficient, at least for a few days, as they know there is always a delay involved before help can arrive.

 

Seems like a ton of publicity around disaster preparedness over the past yea and a half or so.

Saw a commercial this morning from some type of New York City emergency mgmt organization. Showed a family in an earthquake, the father grabbing a huge bugout bag, and the family running out the door. They said, "make a plan, get a kit, know what to do in the event of a major emergency/catastrophe" or something to that effect.

 

Govt agencies are trying to get people to be self sufficient, at least for a few days, as they know there is always a delay involved before help can arrive.

 

Seems like a ton of publicity around disaster preparedness over the past yea and a half or so.

 

They've been doing this since 9/11 and then Katrina. I've seen commercials for ready.gov quite a number of times in the last 10 years, but it seems to pick up right before seasons that more likely to have disasters (ie hurricane season and winter). I'm really glad they do this now versus the old mantra of just wait for the gov to come help you... yea right.

I've had a kit since 9/11. Mainly 3 days worth of food and water, and flashlights along with some little things for the kids like small toys, a change of underwear and so on. One of the most important things is a list of phone numbers on paper - how many of you keep your phone numbers in your phone? I haven't remembered a phone number in years. So if the cell phones are out, or yours is out of a charge, you can still call a relative from a land line.

I've had a kit since 9/11. Mainly 3 days worth of food and water, and flashlights along with some little things for the kids like small toys, a change of underwear and so on. One of the most important things is a list of phone numbers on paper - how many of you keep your phone numbers in your phone? I haven't remembered a phone number in years. So if the cell phones are out, or yours is out of a charge, you can still call a relative from a land line.

 

What's a land line? Do you have a rotary phone too?

I've had a kit since 9/11. Mainly 3 days worth of food and water, and flashlights along with some little things for the kids like small toys, a change of underwear and so on. One of the most important things is a list of phone numbers on paper - how many of you keep your phone numbers in your phone? I haven't remembered a phone number in years. So if the cell phones are out, or yours is out of a charge, you can still call a relative from a land line.

 

Thats all well and good, but i dont understand how to set up a wireless sync from my phone to the paper list. New tech?

Thats all well and good, but i dont understand how to set up a wireless sync from my phone to the paper list. New tech?

 

Yeah its these new fancy things called pencils, pretty high tech stuff

 

 

Yeah its these new fancy things called pencils, pretty high tech stuff

 

Ahhh ok. I tried to use one of those once..couldnt find the button to turn it on : )~

Thats all well and good, but i dont understand how to set up a wireless sync from my phone to the paper list. New tech?

 

From your smart phone email your contacts to your self, and open up on your home computer now print, problem solved. Hard copy.

What's a land line?

 

It's the phone that works in an emergency.

It's the phone that works in an emergency.

 

Tin cans and a string?

Tin cans and a string?

 

I don't know what rinky dink telco you have in your town, but my hardline phone has never failed to dial out. Never, not once, not even after 48+ hours of power outage, long after the cell service backup power has gone tits up. Hell, even when the circuit was compromised, and it sounded like I was in a bunker in Berlin in 1945, I could at least dial and get a message through. 8-12 hours after the power goes out, the cell service does to.

I've had a kit since 9/11. Mainly 3 days worth of food and water, and flashlights along with some little things for the kids like small toys, a change of underwear and so on. One of the most important things is a list of phone numbers on paper - how many of you keep your phone numbers in your phone? I haven't remembered a phone number in years. So if the cell phones are out, or yours is out of a charge, you can still call a relative from a land line.

 

If cell phones and the internet are out , I would not need phone #3s written down. The only two people I know who have land lines are my mother , Pete's mother in Ireland , and the Police station. Know all 3 of those by heart. Even if I wrote all the other numbers down , they would not be reachable , and I don;t have a land line and have not seen a payphone around here in years lol

 

Food for thought , eh? I have been thinking about getting a landline installed ever since a 911 call that would have seen my kid dead before they got around to transfer me to the right municipality. I hung up after 3 transfers. Good thing he was ok without their help.

I would consider myself a passive prepper.. I have a mental idea of which homes in town I would raid first after my supplies ran out.

Saw a commercial this morning from some type of New York City emergency mgmt organization. Showed a family in an earthquake, the father grabbing a huge bugout bag, and the family running out the door. They said, "make a plan, get a kit, know what to do in the event of a major emergency/catastrophe" or something to that effect.

 

Govt agencies are trying to get people to be self sufficient, at least for a few days, as they know there is always a delay involved before help can arrive.

 

Seems like a ton of publicity around disaster preparedness over the past yea and a half or so.

Right after Katrina everyone was screming "Where's FEMA, and completely ignoring the fact that in their OWN paperwork,regs and rules FEMA was Blunt about the fact that the local Authorities are on thier own for a Minimum of 96 hours Post-Event, in order to give the agency time to get their stuff together, then GET it to the site of the disaster.

It's the phone that works in an emergency.

 

And the phone is old enuff can be used as a pretty good club.

And the phone is old enuff can be used as a pretty good club.

 

That's no joke. Those old rotary dial phones weighed a LOT.