Are You Personally Prepared For a Natural Disaster?

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PDW

 

Interesting site -- thanks.

 

Are You Personally Prepared For a Natural Disaster

Why ?? Are the Americans coming again ???

 

genset--chain saw,---ha ha typical Florida.

Oh damn I forgot the blender.

Are we talking a 6 month disaster or a kind of till the end of your life thing.

 

Your remark is right

I read also somewhere : freezer or refrigeration systems...
I thing also it is not a priority in survival conditions for example in my wife family they got her first fridge in 1970 they could survive since 'cromagnon' without.
(yes we are French and not too far aways from caveman era )

 

Exactly what kind of 'natural disaster' are folks dreaming up these scenarios for??

 

it all started in MD with some guy who kinda looked like a frog. Spread uncontrollably from there and poof, everyone started looking like a toad. brought down the whole human race. Now, what few of us remain, are struggling through the great toad war.

;-)

 

I can just remember the first family fridge and yes whats the point of a fridge when its -2 outside.

I think it all started with super markets selling bulk cheap and frozen food.

You dont need a fridge when you live on a farm,-fresh eggs, straight from the cow.

 

You dont need a fridge when you live on a farm,-fresh eggs, yoghurt and Pork chops straight from the cow

Cow !! pork chops ??? what have i been missing ????? cross breeding ?? mix up in the lab ?? Jurassic park 4 all over again ?? :?:

 

I realized my mistake and changed it so it now reads --fresh eggs straight from the cow.

 

oh no !!!

Thats nice !! fresh Cows eggs !! square with screw tops in differant colours (boys and girls ) ( his and hers ) all with recycalable outer shells and some are cardboard !! clever cows !! moooo!!
Sorry Frosty just playing with ya wooden leg !! its one of those days !!!!

 

Sorry I don't know much about cows, It trod in a cow pat once though and ive never been the same since I saw one chain sawed in half at a school visit to the ********.

It took me 10 years to set foot in Mc Donalds again.

Cant spell it,--big place that kills cows N stuff.

 

Need, no. Highly convenient, yes.

Try eating your way through an entire steer before it turns green & rotten in any civilised climate, let alone the tropics.

PDW

 

You just cut a slice off for your dinner then use the rest for bait.

You can also use the skin for making useful stuff you can sell like leather steering wheel covers or leather bags for lap tops.

 

meat goes bad real fast. You've got to prep it immediately. Helps if you've got some experience with it ( my outdoor oven that I smoke in about twice a week or so is perfect assuming you can slice and dice fast enough. ) but in warmer climates preservation is a huge problem. You want to smoke it asap or sooner. Keeps the bugs off it till you can slice it for curing, which involves even more smoke. All in all I don't envy anyone the task in bugland, hunt season around here is in the fall, not to many issues with it that time of year around here.

When I did hunt camps we had a couple guys who'd attack whatever the moment it hit the ground. Quarter it, pack it out. Its an art form.

The tropics are not where you want to be in an apocalypse, lots of disease and chances of infection. Colder climes is where its at. At least for me. I'll take the PNW any day.

I'm not sure CO is where I'd like to hang if the **** really hit the fan. I'd aim for the washington coast line and on up to the PNW. Hopefully team up with some friend there and settle in for the long haul.