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My first time in Survival forum was yeterday. I learned a lot in just a few minutes of reading. There's a lot more to SHTF senarios than just having plenty of ammo and guns. If I went right out and bought eveything I want to buy right now, my wife would chop my nuts off. So I set a goal to get as "prepared" as I can, by the end of the summer. You guys will be seeing me in this forum more often.
[Beer]
A little here, a little there. I would say that it took 4 years to get where I am at now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colorado Luckydog
I started by buying two 20lb bags of rice. You can kill all the meat you want, you still have to have carbohydrates. I plan on eating alot of cattail roots. They are to be cooked like a potato.
As of late I have been picking up bulk items for storage in the basement.
Mostly canned items that will last a year and I can rotate and use as needed.
My wife is understanding and always asks what else we can pick up.
First Im preping for a month of sustainment for us 3. Mainly food for my 5 YO. I can eat crap but my main concern is my boy, then the wife then me. Ha, the low calorie intake might do me some good.
I am always in a defensive mode anyway so it is down there if we need it.
I don't recall ever seeing cattail's in CO. Are they readily available where you live or plan to bug out to?Quote:
Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
I know where a bunch of cattails are. Well, a bunch compared to none anyway. Not much to live off of.
There is a bunch over by my house, all along the ditch and the swamp type land it pours into.
Yep,, Lots of 'em in Slaughterhouse glutch in Littleton...
Yeah I'd bug out if Colorado Springs was nuked! Probably head up the Arkansas River if it was summer, down it if it was winter. I can usually get enough to eat from the water, fish and the like. Anyways below is a link on the cattail.
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/duffyk43.html
Great infoQuote:
Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
Why just the tail? Pussy makes a damn fine meal.Quote:
Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
M2MG
Don't eat the roots if they have been dyed.
Quick ? what Eve are we opening here?
I vote Christmas!
Dyed? Why would they be dyed?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.man
It's taken me the last 8 hours, but I think he meant "Eye".Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.man
8 hrs.... Hmmmmmmmm,,, Nope, not going to do it...[ROFL1]
You will need lots and lots of tin foil, for all kinds of stuff...including and not limited to hat making
Given the sludge my brain seems to be in lately, I'm pleased it only took me 8 hours!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marlin
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Originally Posted by KevDen2005
That's what I'm talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dec 21, 2012...
All you will need is a lounge chair and a cooler of beer.
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Originally Posted by vegas976
Well I think we have always been eye to eye, just don't look up at the satellites watching us!
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Originally Posted by Mtn.man
Exactly what I'll have for my "Look, we're still here!!" party.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.man
This brings up a point I always like to make. Ammo and guns are about worthless in a SHTF if you do nothing else. Who are you going to take food from? The family down the road that didn't prepare either and has nothing left after 2 days?Quote:
Originally Posted by Colorado Luckydog
Nope, you're going to get the bright idea to go to try and take stuff from that survivalist guy down the road. But trust me, he's going to be a lot better prepared to defend himself than you ever will be attacking.
The proper mindset to have is that you have guns and ammo to protect what you have prepared from those that don't have it. That's about it.
Very insightful. Thanks for that!
It's easy to think that even though you don't have food, others will. Even if that were true, couldyou really take food away from that neighbor with 4 kids?
Fate favors the prepared!
people do interesting things when desperate.
try reading the short story "birth of a raider" by old bear
You mean the neighbor who plays the stereo at high decibals all night long while yelling and beating his wife? The one who's mouth would make a sailor blush? The kids who don't have respect for anyone and who trash teh house, scratch the cars, pick fights, have a rap sheet, and are generally a nuisance to society? Yes, I could take food from them.Quote:
Originally Posted by theGinsue
hehehe[ROFL1]
ahem...I thought they were food!Quote:
Originally Posted by BigBear
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Originally Posted by BigBear
And you're always going over there and pounding on his door yelling, "Hey buddy, mind keeping it down? I'm trying to survive here!"
By Executive Order 12333, those satelites have to keep their lenses facing OUTSIDE of the U.S. borders, unless........Quote:
Originally Posted by KevDen2005
Any of you have reason to suspect that you might be on a DHS watch list?
[ROFL1]
Oh, just 'cuz Y2K was nothing but hype you think that relying on centuries old calendars from long lost civilizations {Mayans, civilized?} can't possibly bear the fruit of total devastation? Geesh! How narrow-minded of you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troublco
Oh; snap! I forgot about those little sh!theads!Quote:
Originally Posted by BigBear
I took a class about natural disasters in college and our professor was telling us about people down south having Hurricane Parties. Basically, they all just go to an apartment on the top floor and party during the huricane while other people flee in fear. For the most part that is okay, but she showed us the before and after pictures of a 6 story apartment complex that wasn't quite so lucky. The after pictures literally looked like a vacant parking lot. The highest piece of material was not much taller than a concrete parking block. The storm swell was like 30 feet or something.
She was the crotchety old lady that would talk shit about how stupid people are during natural disasters (filming a tornado while standing in front of a plate glass picture window, hurricane parties, etc). She really enjoyed telling the story about how when the people throwing that hurricane party on the 6th floor of that party found out it was too late, most of them died. One lady put her husband onto a mattress (he couldn't swim) pushed him out the side of the hole in the wall, and then never saw him again.
Thinking of that class reminds me. You know what the three major natural disasters of Colorado are? Tornadoes, Hail, and Expanding Clay.
Yep, clay. I've never heard of that before, or since that class.
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Originally Posted by Stuart
?? WTF?? I've gotta look up "expanding clay". That's a new one on me.
ETA: My quick Google search revealed MANY sites on expanding clay, but nothing looked like anything that I could consider a "natural disaster" to any degree.
Apparently, in the Denver metro area, there is clay in the ground that expands when it is soaked with water. It is considered a natural hazard because it can crack foundations and cause a lot of expensive damage. At least that's what she told us. Could easily be old info.
bentonite clay can cause a house to lift or sink and ruin it.
That's why they have those commercials to fix your house and foundation.
Highlands ranch is built on the stuff.
When I lived in Phoenix, they called this "Expansive soil".. but it was pretty much clay that did this..
saw it first hand- house across the street got a leak in their pool... it had an auto-fill valve to keep it topped up, so they didn't notice, until the crack appeared in the ceiling of their house...
by the time it stopped shifting, there was about a 2" gap in the ceiling, and about a 1" crack in the floor caused by the expansion... they were afraid the house was going to have to be torn down..