If one depends on electricity alone for heat and trucks alone for what you will be eating in two months from now .. are you prepared?

Can you cook with wood and natural gas if a storm etc. knocks you off the grid. How many hundred pounds of beans, potatoes, corn meal, flour and the salt, cooking oil, chilies, cumin, yeast and baking powder do you have on hand?

When E.R., Doctors and Life Flight have not existed for a spell .. will your Echinacea and Yarrow (stops swine flue, colds, congestion), Mullein (weed - worlds finest decongestant - green tea 20 min soak), Capsicum (blocks heart attacks and stroke) .. stores .. be a blessing to you and your neighbors?

Do you know how to build a clay brick .. wood fired .. baking oven for you and the hood? Get it to 500 degrees and cook several loads of eight loaves at a time and then cook stews after it cools of a bit.

With food grade 55 gal. drums at $18 .. how many do you have full of water? One drop of chlorine will disinfect five gallons of water.

Will you have a shelf full of pop, chips and dip that will run out in two days?

A major war in the Near East oil fields could mean ICBMs, riots in the streets, no infrastructure outside what you have prepared for.

My friend was seven years old, just moved to Germany when WWII broke out. It isn't talked about to this day .. but the unprepared were in the streets shooting each other for a week or so and then things quieted down. Perhaps 5% of all Germans died in this panic .. thousands.

I prepare for cyclones/hurricanes.

The day I start preparing for ICBMs is the day that I no longer wish to live on this planet.

Welcome to Neuro Talk. I had to stop by and say hello. Your post is something I guess we all need to think of. Unfortunatly, our world is a scarry place. I live in a hurricane evacuation zone. I am prepared for that, and I go through that prep every spring. Getting by longer than a couple of weeks would be terrible to experience. We have friends inland, we have talked about grouping together, maybe 10 of us. Climate change has effected all of us too. Many things to think about, not just all of our health issues. We also know people who do live in NC deep in a remote part of the mountains, they are farmers, and have a working ranch. We have all talked about this at some point within our family. We must hope and pray the world stays peaceful, and that reason will prevail over all. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't pray for peace, as well as all the health issues we carry. This is my hope.
"No one will demean or in anyway violate the sanctity of another creature. Every barrier that presents or limits intimacy between us will be removed for all eternity. We will be healed of all brokenness and distortions" I have it pinned in the board in front of me. ginnie

I'm with Lara - I'm out of here. Carpe Diem.

That was an unsettling post. Uh...why??

I've added a trigger icon here as yes, this is a rather strange and unsettling post to make on a social forum for chit chat about home and garden stuff. Most members here deal with daily health problems, and come to this section to relax and "get away from it all" a bit

Here in Florida, we too have preparedness kits and plans for storms.

Anything can happen anytime in this crazy world, but I am not sure I want to live in that level of alarmism personally...if it gets that bad..........beam me up!

DS and I were just doing what we do last summer when Earthquake out of Virginia hit and no way had we expected anything. No damage but for a few seconds we were like WTF?????? In a flash he found a report on FB of what had happened. DD was in Richmond, but on a bus when it hit and felt nothing (buses do their own shaking). But like any mom, I was so worried when the cell towers went blank and I couldn't reach her for hours. DS and I felt the aftershock too, she slept through it. I think she got mad we felt more of whole thing than her.

If the unimaginable happens, hope we go out in the first act and don't linger.

Most people who garden are the self supporting type .. this is what my post addresses. This is also a site for non Nuro .. which is why I put this post here. Perhaps you need a new category. I am concerned that so many fragile people seem to be the last to see "whom" is going to suffer the most in a world wide "bump" in the Eco System. How anyone can absorb the daily news of wars, earth quakes, murder, rape, pillage and think this falls in the Alarmist category is quaint to me. Perhaps you don't have a grand son in Helmand Provence.

G'day friend.

I was the first to reply to your original thread. I feel I need to reply now.

I wish your grandson a safe return home. I do understand your concerns and fears.

Your post was unsettling to me. I guess the words "war", "ICBMs", "riots", "no infrastracture" tend to be unsettling as surely you would understand.

I had a father who was a POW on the Burma Railway for almost the whole of the second world war. In fact my father was in the ditches in Singapore being attacked before Pearl Harbour was attacked. He survived. Well, I guess you call it survive. He made it back here after those years so I guess that was survival. Here I am. I keep surviving because of him, a man I never knew. I don't want to prepare for ICBMs, frankly because it wouldn't do any good.

Heck, tell me more about your ingenious fireplace. Tell me more about your tricks for keeping food safe in times of drought and floods.

Please don't imagine that we here don't understand the state of the world or think about the future.