the sky is falling

THE SKY IS FALLING


I’m particularly fond of Creekmore’s site, http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/ . I like them all, and find value in them all, but in a world full of rude asshats such as myself it is nice to encounter a true gentleman. Some folks are pretty darn scary, such as religious nutters which scare the crap out of you since you know you are on their hit list for daring to diss Baby Jesus. Even if you do it all in fun, which to my way of thinking is required since even evil vast conspiracies that will crush you are worthy of ridicule and jeers and since you only get one life you might as well try to enjoy it, still you will be terminated as an enemy of the new post-Apocalypse Divine State. I don’t know if I’ve cheesed off the Latter Day Saints, but I’m sure up Idaho way there are White Party schmucks wishing to punish me for betraying the Race by copulating with those of mixed blood. And a few Old Testament freaks that do not believe that me and Jesus are on a first name basis. So, I’ve got enemies on two or three sides. Just in case you decide to join the Bisonian Army Of Doom I thought I should warn you. But Creekmore, he doesn’t put out a vibe of danger. Plus, he has always been free with helpful, profitable advice. However! And you that was coming so don’t look all shocked and surprised- his Thursday or Friday article spoke of the dangers of only stockpiling one kind of food and I must take exception.

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How many ways could the sky start falling suddenly? Everyone seems to be blissfully unconcerned about a quick collapse, plodding along ever so slowly accumulating supplies. To warn of just a partial list of dangers, there are asteroids, solar flares, nuclear war, dictatorship, economic dislocations and oil shut off. This is nothing new, people. You could have gotten that list from a book thirty years ago ( Life After Doomsday ), although I don’t think the oil was mentioned since by that time Alaska was pumping all out and everyone went back to sleep over Peak Oil which had been first warned about in the 1950’s, to which I can only conclude- Jane, You Ignorant Slut. Let’s take them one at a time, shall we? Okay, an asteroid hitting is far fetched. It made for one of the best survival fiction books, ever ( my top three would be Lucifer’s Hammer, Dies The Fire and One Second After, at least for describing the effects through the collapse ), but it is a low probability event. But just ask yourself this. Would the true odds or an actual warning ever truly be given to the general public? Might it not be in the interests of those in power not to spook us? Plus, by avoiding the coasts for asteroid danger you get a three-fer by avoiding tsunamis, mass populations and Gore Warming sea level rises ( if you find it in your library, “Flood” is a decent disaster book. Not a good survival book, but close enough. Just don’t spend hard cash on it.

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Solar flares are not a remote possibility like an asteroid is. They are far more likely to happen and the effects will in all likelihood be far worse than a man made EMP. Whatever man likes to think he has mastered, Mother Nature can effortlessly manage a thousand fold worse. Sure, a Faraday cage is dandy to keep your tactical radios working ( Bravo Six, this is Tango One, we have Godless Infidels intruding, looks like the Arch Enemy Dakin is leading ), but the rest of the command and control globally is wiped out. The military might have plenty of hardened equipment but it won’t last long as the civilians provide all their oil and food. This is close to the danger of nuclear war. Not that there is a huge risk of two or three nuclear powers swapping enough ordinances to plunge us all into a permanent nuclear winter. But there will be plenty of risk at least of limited exchanges in regional conflict. Not so much the fallout danger ( although that is real ) but the collapse of critical infrastructure. Such as the middle east oil facilities. Wipe out ten percent of oil capacity globally and it is instant Depression ( oh, did that already happen? ). And there is a real danger of a False Flag attack by the CIA or whoever, nuking a tourist trap ( Disney World ) you live downwind from. Not that it would shut down the world, but you would be quarantined and no supplies would be available.

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Which leads us to dictatorship. Engineered attack, instant command economy. The same idiots that brought you the Merge And Debt And Layoff business strategy that has worked out so well will look to China and conclude that the entire economy working for the military is a wonderful idea. Of course, work prisons and shooting political dissenters goes along with that. And an economic implosion- wonder what that looks like? Like Detroit with a thirty percent ( the understated official number ) unemployment, shrinking the city size to cope with less services. Ten percent home foreclosures. Bailing out foreign countries to halt the meltdown domino effect ( sure to be as successful as the Vietnam War and the halting of the Communist Domino Effect ). And I’ve said enough about oil in months past. The short of it is we are already seeing less every year, and that decrease will increase.

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Too many fast fall possibilities are out there to ignore. The odds are low, but then the odds of a house fire are very low and you still carry insurance. It is just smart to have an immediately available food stash. Just In Case. You make a one time investment of wheat kernels. If anything happens you at least have a bare minimum of calories to hunt for stew pot meat. If nothing happens, then you have the luxury of bulking up your calories, protein and variety. If you only buy the best food in a trickle because you can’t be bothered with such an unworthy food as grains and insist on a wholesome balanced First World diet, and if something bad happens, then you are screwed. One food for a diet is not the goal. One food, any one food, is incomplete and inadequate, and yet sometimes it is all you have. It is better to have a year of wheat at 1200 calories a day than three weeks of freeze dried at two thousand calories a day. First, a bare bones survival stash. Then, on to a more perfect solution. Time is not on your side.

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