dig in 2012

DIG IN 2012
Below is an email I received. It asks for some advice on underground shoring. I'll let you read it in a bit, but first I must prattle on and on in an attempt to trick you into thinking I wrote something today. I apologize about the slow down in my output the last week or so. I'm going through a bit of a block, not having any real good ideas and kind of just winging it. I realize it is far from my best and am trying to get out of the funk. I know you are all a fickle lot and will leave me as soon as I grow stale and repetitive. Heck, I would do the same thing. So just bear with me a little. I've had these before and always emerged.
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Should we be concerned with 2012? 90% of what is out there is utter drivel, the "my great grandfather the Earth spirit came to me in a dream and showed me our Mother weeping, her flesh torn asunder and the man locust swept aside". Am I being rude and dismissive? You bet. I had better vision on LSD and I don't try to share them with many people. They were my enjoyment, and were not some window into an alternate universe. Okay, I'll share a little. After the acid kicks in, listen to the Doors "The End" ( thanks, DK, for introducing me to the music ). That giant snake was cool. Don't go with Pink Floyd. For one thing, you don't even need drugs. And for another, waaaay too depressing. I used to go to sleep every night with "The Wall" playing on headphones, and look how I turned out with that subliminal programming.
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What isn't voodoo crap is easily explained. As in, the Mayan calender might have stopped simply because society supporting the astronomers work crashed. The other 10% seems to make sense. I won't even try to repeat most of it, something about the earths orbit farthest away from the sun affecting the poles. It seems it can all be explained scientifically. I think a search under "pole shift" should get you a lot of info. Yet, Peak Oil can be easily explained scientifically and look how few people accept that. Or, look at global warming. Al "I invented the Internet" "I look like an uber-geek with my beard" Gore gave the whole scare a really bad name. Yet looking at the before and after pictures of the glaciers make it seem plausible. I wouldn't dismiss any potential disaster, as long as it seems reasonable. Whether you can realistically prepare is another matter. You just have to pick and choose what you can prep for.
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Here is a letter I got:

Hello James,I am a reader from France (yeah I know ;-)I like your concept of frugal survivalism, I can relate to that.Since this year I have an obsession to go underground. I somehow feel that it's where I will be secure from all the catastrophic events announced for 2012 ... don't laugh, to each his own paranoia ;-)So I plan to dig a kind of bunker, deep underground. I have no job since last October, my financial situation allows me a shovel and some construction material (wood, concrete etc).But I have time, I just lack the knowledge to dig and to reinforce the tunnel / bunker to avoid the whole thing collapsing on me.This is something I can't ask in France, even on the Internet : here nobody knows that it's "TEOTWAWKI now !!!" ;-)They would send me in a mental institution after discovering all the rice I stockpiled ! :-)I was thinking maybe you or one of your reader could give me advices on how to reinforce my construction, you know like in the old mines they were putting wood all around the tunnels they were digging (my dictionary gives me "stay" or "prop" or "strut" for the french word I mean but I don't know if it's accurate).I would start to dig under a tent to avoid being seen. I was thinking about a kind of tunnel that would go to the bunker.This bunker should offer protection from solar flares and radioactivity, maybe a lead covered roof if I can afford the lead.I think the lead would allow me to dig a shallower bunker, but I don't know how much ground or lead I need to block solar flare or radioactivity.I want to start as soon as the winter will be over.So I would be grateful to you if you could post this email on your blog. Please don't give publicly my email address, I will read the answers in the comments.Thank you and keep up with the blog, there are not only the trolls that read it, even the (one) french do ! :-)JMN
Jim says- I did a spell check by other than that left it alone as written.
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