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I seldom watch many of the "reality" shows on TV....my own reality is exciting enough at age 75 but I "dropped in " on a show called Preppers for a few minutes. Showed a family that had prepared in all ways possible to exist for a period of time if the financial system collapses or other problems occur.
I grew up in a time of people building bomb shelters, the "Civil defense patrol" having block captains, etc and over the years have seen survivalists and now the Preppers getting ready for enormous tragedy.
Got to thinking about all this.... a little....and I don't know how anyone would ever be prepared to exist for a very extended period of time it today's world. We have become so totally reliant on the technology, etc that I'm just not sure what would happen...no electricity..no phones...no water...no currency...no supplies after a very short time no transportation...unrest in the streets....no medical care...and so on. I sort of wonder about folks preparing for a "year" of survival...so what happens after a year?
I grew up in the mountains of Colorado and in some very rural parts of Nebraska...when younger I was tough as a boot and could pretty well make do with whatever the situation but I'm not sure that even then as rough and tumble as I was that I'd be able to survive the way some of these folks seem to think they can....I'm one that believes in being prepared as best we can for the always threatening earth quake and damage...for fires...for a reasonable amount of civil unrest and things like that but how about if the power grid goes completely down (we had 1/2 of the U. S shut down a while back...lasted for just a short time but shows how fragile things are....we rely on water from the California aqueduct and canal and from Lake Mead...what happens if God forbid Boulder Dam gets destroyed...
It's just all what if's and on and on but it's some food for thought...I wonder how many folks .... mostly older folks...that would be unable to fend for themselves and rather than fight an unwinnable battle...just give up and remove themselves from the situation...We don't like to think about those things but lots of folks in the World Trade Center took their "own way" rather than face the inevetible...
Just thought I'd throw this happy little tid bit out and see how folks feel. I love life and love what life offers but I'm not sure at my age with my disabilities if the crap really hit the fan what I'd do to insure my Wife and our pets and I didn't suffer a long, slow tragedy.
I grew up in a time of people building bomb shelters, the "Civil defense patrol" having block captains, etc and over the years have seen survivalists and now the Preppers getting ready for enormous tragedy.
Got to thinking about all this.... a little....and I don't know how anyone would ever be prepared to exist for a very extended period of time it today's world. We have become so totally reliant on the technology, etc that I'm just not sure what would happen...no electricity..no phones...no water...no currency...no supplies after a very short time no transportation...unrest in the streets....no medical care...and so on. I sort of wonder about folks preparing for a "year" of survival...so what happens after a year?
I grew up in the mountains of Colorado and in some very rural parts of Nebraska...when younger I was tough as a boot and could pretty well make do with whatever the situation but I'm not sure that even then as rough and tumble as I was that I'd be able to survive the way some of these folks seem to think they can....I'm one that believes in being prepared as best we can for the always threatening earth quake and damage...for fires...for a reasonable amount of civil unrest and things like that but how about if the power grid goes completely down (we had 1/2 of the U. S shut down a while back...lasted for just a short time but shows how fragile things are....we rely on water from the California aqueduct and canal and from Lake Mead...what happens if God forbid Boulder Dam gets destroyed...
It's just all what if's and on and on but it's some food for thought...I wonder how many folks .... mostly older folks...that would be unable to fend for themselves and rather than fight an unwinnable battle...just give up and remove themselves from the situation...We don't like to think about those things but lots of folks in the World Trade Center took their "own way" rather than face the inevetible...
Just thought I'd throw this happy little tid bit out and see how folks feel. I love life and love what life offers but I'm not sure at my age with my disabilities if the crap really hit the fan what I'd do to insure my Wife and our pets and I didn't suffer a long, slow tragedy.