On the rare occasion we get a dusting of snow then you see devastation! Rainfall in Houston can cripple the city & is far more common.Living here in Indiana it's hard to imagine the devastation you folks in places like gulf coast Texas face from hurricanes.
I have lived on two islands and two coastal cities where hurricanes were not IF but When, so I got into the self preservation mode early. I retired to the mountains in Colorado 32 miles from town, power outages and being snowed in were common every winter. Now that I am back in Texas, I am planning a tornado shelter. I like to shoot so I buy ammo when cheap, I am not a chicken little about gun control, however a rational thinking person can predict that ammo is going to be restricted and some form of reduced access to firearms is inevitable. Therefore I keep an assortment of guns and lots of ammo for them.I mean, what specifically do you expect to occur?
There are obviously all kinds of possibilities. Some see signs of the end-times as detailed in the Bible. Others see economic disaster or massive natural disasters.
Just an off-the-top of my head list: (not in any particular order)
Economic collapse
Planet X/Niburu/Wormwood passing by earth and bringing devastation
Pole shift
EMP event - solar or from HAND
War/Civil war
False flag event perpetrated by the global elite/Illuminati to initiate the new world order
Pandemic
Yellowstone Caldera blowing
Asteroid Strike and nuclear winter, tsunamis, etc.
Global warming/climate change (regardless of the cause) causing world grain crop failure (which some are reporting is already happening - as grain crop yields have been down over the last few years and are trending down further)
Aliens (there are increasing sighting reports all over the world, etc.)
So, you can't deny that you have something in mind... after all, you're prepping. So why?
Since I'm asking, it's only fair that I say my "why" first...
In general, I've prepared for the need to 1) defend myself and any family I can gather and 2) survive a situation of privation -that is, shortages of food, etc. which could be caused by any number of things. We've all witnessed events like Katrina that have created situations like this - and it's really no stretch to think of any number of things that could cause a much wider-spread crisis. Further, we see the Antifa illegal immigration invasion, etc. news on a daily basis. Lastly, I am one that believes that some of the signs as detailed in Revelations have come to pass. I don't know the time frame that is involved - could be a few years or decades... but I do think we've seen the events as listed there - like the alignment of sun, moon and constellations as detailed in Rev 12.
OK, your turn. And again, if you're in this forum, posting about prepping, then saying that there's no reason or whatever is a cop-out IMHO.
My wife answers those-"You know what? You know WHAT? Epstine didn't kill him self!"Lately, I've been getting calls from home security salesmen who aren't even real people. They use an automated machine that uses catch phrases in your response to dictate what it will say next until you agree to be put through to a live salesperson. If that isn't a perfect example of them already having pre-planned answers for everything, I don't know what is. My thing is - I don't even care about having a house alarm. I just want a home camera system with sensor that send notice to my phone. Kind of like the ring, but for then entire house.
With "80 million" of them having voted for Joe Biden, you should!I still worry about zombies!
With "80 million" of them having voted for Joe Biden, you should!
Living here in Indiana it's hard to imagine the devastation you folks in places like gulf coast Texas face from hurricanes.
LOL! Remembering the year it snowed in San Antonio and the drivers were not doing well.On the rare occasion we get a dusting of snow then you see devastation! Rainfall in Houston can cripple the city & is far more common.
LOL! Remembering the year it snowed in San Antonio and the drivers were not doing well.
I have driven in snow, ice and sleet many times, but in our area of Texas, we very, very seldom get any measure of snow that actually ever sticks, but when it does, I stay off the roads because of all the idiot drivers that don't know how to drive.
I got here from eastern Canada in '97 in the middle of December. Not long here, decided to snow/sleet/freeze. The whole city shut down. The boss had lent me the company truck (1/4 ton pickup). I figured it'd be a good chance to cruise around the loops and check out the city since it was pretty quiet. I got pulled over 3 times by the cops because it's scary on slippery stuff I guess. They just let me go on my way every time after seeing my Newfoundland drivers lisence. Later on I showed the boss how to slide sideways into a spot with the parking brake. Older Scottish guy so he friggin' loved it.
But I digress.....
Our household preps for hurricanes first. That'll take care of a lot of situations if you're ready for a CAT3. Other than that, I kinda worry about the rail tracks around me, to the north and south west. They're at most a mile or so away, so if something nasty derails and spills/ignites, then I'm not sure. I'm not worried about a golden horde situation. Actually, I'm on meds and if it gets that bad and I loose Rx refills, I'll be dead in maybe 4 months at best anyways.
I have a mini-fridge (only), set at it's warmest, where I store my medication and supplement preps.A lot of people dependent upon medications to essentially live, would be at risk if some sort of catastrophic event occurred and supplies of their medications were cut off for a lengthy period.
I suppose some could be stocked up and stored, but some might not be able to. This might be some good questions to ask a pharmacist about the long term storage of medications and to get some ideas of how to safely store them for long term, just in case.