Friday, November 2, 2012
I admit it. I'm a survivalist.
It won't/can't happen here.
Where is the help? I'm hungry, cold, thirsty.
It's been three days! What, you can't work miracles?
Water from a tank truck? No way! Where is my free bottled water?
Ya know, I love NYC. I can take an elevator down from my apartment and walk five minutes to restaurants and stores.
Evacuate? What do ya mean, evacuate? I'm staying right here. HELP, SAVE ME!
Romney does a photo op making it look like he is doing something while the SS watches from the sidelines, doing nothing. Obama visits and claims he cares. Photo op of hugs...
A friend of mine 'listened' to me last year about being prepared. Yes he did. Bought a case of ramen noodles.... He works for FEMA too. Gov agencies take care of their own.
Do you think anyone's disaster planning will be affected so they don't have this problem next time? I say no, you're either an ant or a grasshopper and it looks like the grasshoppers are winning
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So true.
Without utilities, I don't think I could get past two days. Maybe I could get used to eating cat chow.
I put some large bottles of water in my basement storage bin after Y2K fizzled. By the time I moved, they had all leaked out.
All of us should do something in the event of a disaster. Have medical supplies, cash, propane,
firewood... at least some sort of plan. If things are that tough, I will not want to live in pain and suffering. I will make an active move to end the suffering.... OR I will go all out with an attitude of helping as many as I can until I am doomed myself. Just say "F*#K IT ALL" and hit it like gangbusters and go all out to help.
survivalist or just being prepared is a mindset. Check out how Mormons prepare for several months without any outside aid.
Maybe I shouldn't have said Survivalist. I'm not one of those nut jobs from the shows on TV, but also not a person to wait until the last minute to buy the last pack of Tampons because all the shelves are empty of food. I like knowing how to be self sufficient. knowing how to take three tin cans and make an efficient volcano stove to cook a meal using small bits of wood, grass, or twigs for fuel.
Keep watching NYC. It's going to get ugly.
There are many survival uses for these personal ladies items. Not suggested for food.
1.Medical Bandage
Tampons are sterile and ultra-absorbent making them the perfect first aid bandage for heavy bleeding.
2.Crude Water Filter
Won't work on chemicals or bacteria but can filter out grit and sediment from water
3.Survival Drinking Straw
Suck dirty water through a tampon if there's no other way to purify the water.
4.Fire Tinder
5.Tampon string can be used as a candle wick
Make an emergency oil candle with rendered animal fat and string
6.Use Tampon string directly
It's not much of a string but could be used to make a deadfall trap or tie things together
7.Use cotton as fletching for blow-dart
8.Blow tube to heat up coals
9.Waterproof case for matches
10.Use packaging to make bobber for fishing line
Wow, BLB has it covered. I was thinking more along the lines of bartering with a desperate woman for a can of tuna.
Sterno is a must-have for me. I got some for Y@K, but I think I threw it out.
I just read an article on the gasoline shortage in NYC. No electricity means no way to pump it out. Where there is gas, there's long lines of both cars and people, over three hour wait, but just a couple of minor incidents so far.
Der. Y@K = Y2K.
AHHH, bartering...KK!!! I never even thought of that! See what two minds can come up with instead of one! Sure... I would have wicks and bandaging and a filter...but you could have tuna!
As Huck has indicated, and BLB has written.
There are sites that provide lists of survival items from ordinary household items.
The show MacGyver is a good reference.
I am in for the BLB party on 12-21-2012.
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