Are You Personally Prepared For a Natural Disaster?

And did you know its transferable from the keys on your computer or lap top !!!!so better wear rubber gloves and a mask dont forget to wash you keyboard with hot soapy water and strong detergant and let it dry in the strong sun for 6 months .

 

As long as you dont go to America you will be OK

 

I have no wish to ever go there ! the country ok its just the people get me !!

 

Thats the only problem with America, Its full of bloody Americans.

Red shirts, green trousers and trainers with the shoe laces undone with a camera round thier neck and a huge cigar with a fist full of 100dollars looking at resteraunt bills saying' gee is that all heres a tip' and all the women are called Mirtle.

They are all so fat they waddle out to a car the size of a bus that has seats that turn so they can get thier fat arse on it then face the steering wheel which is on the wrong side.

Ive never been though --my brother told me.

 

There have always been people who believe the sky is falling, or that the end of the world is near. What's different in today's world -- if history can be used as a guide -- is that there probably are some big changes coming. How concerned we should be depends a lot on where we live, but I can see some major changes coming in the US and most of Europe. It may simply be an economic adjustment to a more austere lifestyle -- but even a discussion of cutbacks has generated riots and a resurgence of socialist rhetoric. The US is right now as divided as it has ever been. The attraction to this sort of thread is due to the fact that a large percentage of the population sees the current warnings as real.

 

SW--I think your absolutely correct. ooooooh yes.

We all know there is some serious adjustment round the corner whatever that may be and we might think we can run for the hills.

I blame the movies, they seem to make people think they are more than they are and making a fire and catching a rabbit is easy --Ive seen it on TV-- Man verses wild, its on every night.

I keep promising myself I will go into the jungle here across the road from the marina car park and into the jungle and see if I can start a fire with a tampax and a piece of wood as I would in full survival mode. I wont go too deep because im scared of the monkeys and I do'nt want to get out of telephone range in case the wife wants me.

 

There a lot of people who think they're MacGyver, along with those who think they can live by their wits in the wild -- but none of that changes the reality that throughout history people have been displaced, supply chains have broken down, currencies have failed, and governments have been overthrown. Just because some people have unrealistic or romantic visions of those types of disruptions doesn't mean preparation is a bad idea.

 

all to true but on the other hand being not just prepared but also practiced is best. Its kinda like when I got the girl a shotgun, just buying the gun wasn't going to get it, she needed to get out and learn how to use it. Same think with wilderness survival. Until you take a couple courses and try different environments, you really have no idea of what your up against.

The nuclear scenario is probably the least of my worries, well aside from the Zombie attack ;-) I'm thinking financial/resource melt down will be the first to hit, followed by an exponentially worse and worse climate shift.

 

Strange to think the dust bowl wasn't that many years ago really.

 

Other Americans may understand what you just said but I hav'nt a clue.

 

Don't feel bad. I don't know any more about Thailand than you know about America probably. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl I was replying to Boston's post about a climate shift natural disaster.

 

the fruit i was referring to is an aussie, unfortunately. i had to laugh when he was saying good bye to everyone as he and his family are going off the grid and closing their farm to visitors. how dumb will they look when they come out in a few months for a look and the world is still the same.

 

This is my worst weakness. I am well versed and practiced in obtaining food in temperate climates. Too far south, or in a different part of the world, and my skills are less applicable. I don't think it is possible for you or I to survive as easily if we were, say, dropped in the jungle.

Water? Check. Shelter? Check. Food? A little more iffy.

On a separate topic, I practice survival because I enjoy it. It's nice to know you can live if cut off from society, but I do it mainly to learn, then to apply the knowledge to real life situations. My wife and i practice it together. We have a lot of very nice times acting as hunter gathers and using our wits to sustain life without outside interference (or guns). It's a very enjoyable pastime.

 

Funny, that's my chief complaint about the USA too!

 

That's where we differ- the warning signs were largely invisible when present in 05/06, and the changes they foretold have now occurred.
Those adjustments needed are largely made/being made and we are all living in different times.

I would judge that the stress of having to change to suit the new paradigm has some wondering in fear over how much more will change in their lives.
I'm not one however that tries to calculate just how large a pile of dental flow I will need to stow away for after the 'collapse'. The collapse already happened and they still have toothpaste in the stores...

I have a Government Printing Office pamphlet around here somewhere on how to dig a fallout shelter.
The intro text is quite remarkable and along the lines of:

"Things may happen from which the government cannot protect you... dig a hole and get ready to craw into it...."

We live in remarkable times- no shortage of dental floss, but still something to tell the grand kids about eh?


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