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NWWoodsman

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I'm heading to out church in a little bit. It's a small home church, very "conservative", we're all mostly very pro second amendment, pro-life, not too Obama friendly, and there has and will be talk of what to do when the SHTF. I know a few people in the church who are stocking up on guns in food because they all feel that something is about to happen
I have a hippy sister, as flaming liberal as they come (please save the insults), attends blue grass festivals instead of church, listens to the grateful dead, and who never owned a gun before. Talking with her and she's telling me about the canned goods, water purifiers and ammo she's storing up.
I have this ol' guy, about 85, living across from me who has at least 10,000 rounds of misc ammo and enough friggin' spam and canned goods to feed him for years. Not trying to sound cold but he'll probably die of natural causes (or spam poisoning) before he goes through his supplies.
Seems to me that more and more people are finally realizing that something is about to happen. Hopefully more people follow suit so they're less needy when it comes crashing down.
 
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Hi, Woodsman.

I'm seeing a little bit of this myself, too. I hate the term 'sheeple', but it does tend to describe the phenomenon of 'the masses' largely all doing the same thing because everyone else is. My concern is that if the herd decides to start prepping in earnest, there will be severe shortages and panic.

'Spam poisoning'... lol!
 
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Well I only know one person who is a "preper" and he is a Mormon. From what he tells me a large amount of his church are prepers. I have just recently started talking to my dad about emergency/disaster scenario's and weve decided on a BOL. Only problem is we either have to leave my mom behind or rent a Uhaul van so we can take all of her clothes and shoes :xeye:.

My fiancee isnt a prepper but she knows if SHTF were heading for my uncles house in the mountains. I have at least got her carrying a flashlight and a pocketknife in her purse.
 
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It's definately moving a little more into the mainstream. There are a few popular TV shows on survivalism,now. The History channel has been running an excellent 2 hour special on the imminent collapse of our infrastructure.
The Weather Channel has their series "It could happen Tomorrow."
I've seen occasion pieces done on morning news shows. TIME magazine recently cited survival supply stores as an up and coming buisness thriving in a difficult economy, and GQ magazine ran a piece on young urban professionals that had a closet full of preps.
I don't believe this attention will result in it becoming a passing fad, not with things continuig to worsen, I believe all but the most negatively biased attention brought to this is a good thing.
 
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I'm not seeing much change locally. The sheeple are nervous, but nobody seems to be taking mitigative measures. There are a few preppers who live on my street, but they have been preppers since before all this. Like me, even before the Y2K scare. Glad to have them nearby, but the rest of the neighbors might be a problem. We've talked to a the neighborhood at block meetings, but so far, nobody is on board and we have to be careful not to disclose our preps because of that.
 
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seafarer said:
I see a lot of people waking up but I see these same people tell me "I wouldn't know where to start to get ready for what is coming". They have gone from sheeple to a deer in the headlights. The result will be the same.
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I think a lot of the problem is education of how to start and the inspiration to start. If people think they have to have a year's supply of food saved up, they won't do it because it would seem hopeless. This is where a lot of survival attention from the media can hurt, if they show everyone with their 3 year supplies of food, water, and toilet paper!

In a nonrelated forum that I lead, I have brought up the idea of storing food, and the one thing I hear all the time is that they can't afford it. This is the general misconception, that you have to go out and spend $3000 right away to do it. I think I have gotten them past that, and some are now preparing however they can. It's interesting that not one in my forum has ever brought up the idea that it isn't important to do it...they agree that it is and that food might be scarce soon. Combine that with the fact that prices of food keep going up all the time and unemployment worries are a reality to many, and it is a powerful reason to start storing food now. They just had to be encouraged to do what little or much they can, just do it.
 
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gsxrac said:
My fiancee isnt a prepper but she knows if SHTF were heading for my uncles house in the mountains. I have at least got her carrying a flashlight and a pocketknife in her purse.
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Hey gsxrac... may I add that you might suggest tear gas to her. My wife has a small canister of it on her key chain and a larger one in her purse.

Use the approach that you want her to be able to stop the mugger type if needbe. Stress having her keys out (thus tear gas) when walking to her car like when in a mall parking lot.

Take the time to explain how to use it and the possible affects of wind. I even bought my wife an extra and we went out into an empty parking lot so she could use it / see how it worked / understand it's range.
 
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I wish I lived by more preppers... my neighborhood is full of people who feel something bad is going to happen... they talk about it... but when I ask what they're going to do... their response is "head to the hills..." it'd be funny if it weren't so sad...
 
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People close to us are doing nothing. My wifes familiy has every belief that Obama has fixed it and we are all hunky dory. My wife thinks like me. She is the outcast Conservative in her union liberal family. Her dad is starting to think more like a conservative though. He just switched over to wood heat this summer and is and has always been pro gun. He got some reloading equipment in advance of the rush on ammo. But they are not stocking any food. My wifes cousin has all the food anyone will need as they have a big farm with lots of fruit trees and a huge garden. My guess is the Her cousin and Us will be ready to help the rest of the family. My son and his wife do not have any money to stock anything as they can barely keep thier gas turned on. My daughter inlaw thinks we are funny to be storing food. I love her because she is a good mother and good for my son but she is clueless as to what is coming. Her job when it all comes down will be to care for the kids and help in the garden ,cook and wash clothes. We are planning for several non preppers to be here with us. My wife and I will not be able to defend our home without help. So we are prepping for 6 adults and two children. Kingfish
 
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I too have noticed that more people are starting to think about prepping but thinking and doing are two different things. I honestly believe that it seems like a daunting task to them and they don't know where to start. My boyfriend and I are prepping for both our families. We have been storing food/guns/ammo/medical/ and paper products plus have bought a few air beds to accomadate the others. I have told my parents we are prepping (as she rolls her eyes at me) but they don't and I could not face turning anyone in our family away. We have a huge garden 50' wide by 100" long and next year we are going to expand it, we are also trying our hand at indoor gardening this year. We have froze or canned everything that came out of the garden and have saved our change from this year $618 to make a good trip to the stores for more preps. We are planning on installing a windmill and 4 solar panals next year to at least run the freezer and wood stove blower so at the least we will have food and heat. I just widh more people would wake up to reality and not to the fantasy they are running in their minds.
 
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Katrina got a lot of folks around my area (S MS) on board. I saw folks with literally only 1 to 2 days worth of food and drink at the house when it hit. I am 90 miles inland and still had no power for 19 days. Learned an awful lesson from it but we faired much better that others.
 
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captbob said:
Hey gsxrac... may I add that you might suggest tear gas to her. My wife has a small canister of it on her key chain and a larger one in her purse.

Use the approach that you want her to be able to stop the mugger type if needbe. Stress having her keys out (thus tear gas) when walking to her car like when in a mall parking lot.

Take the time to explain how to use it and the possible affects of wind. I even bought my wife an extra and we went out into an empty parking lot so she could use it / see how it worked / understand it's range.
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Hey thanks for reminding me of that. I had actually kicked around the idea before and she had said she wouldn't mind having one but I forgot about it after that. She is colorblind and has other eye problems such photo sensitivity so she wont ever be able to get a license. Only good thing that comes out of that is that im with her 90% of the time when we go out. The handgun and pepper spray would be for when shes home alone or when were camping or biking.
 
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