The end is near, the sky is falling
Never mind that was just Nasa again.
Everyone does need to start changing for the better to be sure, and be prepared for some things to be a bit rough. Yep in just the last few years we saw the Twin Towers, just about the entire N.E. USA without power in the summer, Water shortages and power shortages in CA. often and lots other places, always some forrest fire or hurricane destroying someplace, winter storms knocking out power often for weeks, many more things. SO, who says I am paranoid, I'm not, they really are out to get me!!
What I love is survival food. I see so many people go out and buy this stuff that is 5 times the price and supposed to last 10 years or so. Heck give me 100 bent cans at 2 for a buck and I am happy :0
Ya those bent ones will last nearly as long as that $5 can, and who needs food 10 years from now? I stock a ton of canned food, eat it as I want it, move the old to the front and put the new to the back. Rotate the stock! Always eat fresh food, or with canned stuff the least old!
If the world ends, then I ain't gonna survive 10 years on the food I have stored anyway so why does it need to last for 10 years?? Even if well packed I don't want to eat 10 year old spaggettie and meatballs!!
The way I eat I would have to have a football stadium to store that much food to last that long. So my bent cans will last as long as 10 year cans based on how fast I eat it, not store it. Also buying bent cans saves me money, it's less than half the normal retail price most the time! So I can afford to stock up even more cans
Solar pannels are a good idea in a way for disasters. If it ever comes down to those movie type end of the world panic days, then when everyone is stealing everything from everyone else and your trying to hide out in saftey, and everyone wants to kill you and steal your food, that wind gennie flying over ahead is a dead give away where your at. With a solar panel you can slip out early morning before sun up toss it on the ground, hide out durring the day, come out at night and get it. Only give away your location to people actaully walking by, not the casual road driver if you have some brush in the way.
Hand crank gennie and exercise bike gennie are good for total seclusion. Besides, what do you need all that power for in this case anyway? Couple lights and a radio to hear how bad things are if it's still even broadcasting? Course I would like to watch "It's a wonderful life" a few times durring such hardships I geuss. I do need power for that TV and VCR or DVD player. And what good is it to be alive and hiding under ground if I can't play WarCraft on my Pc and 21" monitor with suround sound??? Well actually I only have 17" and it's big enough I don't even want a larger one. Size isn't important, it's the motion of the axes and catapults that count
I do beleave in being prepared, I don't beleave in buying things I don't need just to be prepared though. Buy a ton of batteries now to last 20years when theres no real reason, and in 5 years they come out with a battery 10 times as good that lasts nearly forever and you'll be kicking yourself. Or they drop in price and you could afford 3 times as many of the same ones, and they would be new too. Have an earthquake and they all get busted your just out big bucks for nothing and have a heck of a mess too.
That's just the way I look at it, course everyone has there own ideas, and no-one is correct or wrong about any of it, just what makes us feel better really.
Again me, I like to buy bent canned food, save alot of money now and have enough to eat for a few months if I have too, just to get by and survive. Also I often buy a skid of salvage groceries for this reason. I get tons of good food I would normally not buy because of the price, tons of cans to store, and some things like burrito and taco shells I have to eat sometime soon beacuse they don't store well for long periods or worried about mice etc..
I got my inverter and batteries that will last me along time in a disaster with my low power needs. If in an emergancy I would not be using much power anyway. And I could actually live with out it. A refrigerator is the only hard part, and I can dig a deep hole to help with that
Any good deepcycle properly cared for bought today will probaly last till a better one comes out. And adding a few each year is better than buying a bunch right now that will all die at once. At least if the world ends as we know it, you would gradually run out of power as they die and could ween yourself from it slowly, but if they all die the same month or two and you can't get more your really hurting then!!
So I geuss my thought is buy the best you can afford today that best meets todays needs and don't worry about 10-20 years from now. Heck you may die tommorow in a car wreck or get shot in the head by an armed robber and a stray shot, be in a terrorist target spot at the wrong time, worse things to worry about that are more likely to happen than the end of the world
or is that
I been in 3 earthquakes already and never even lived in CA. just various parts of USA! They were mild tremors, but still, and New Madrid is not that far away and they had one I geuss about 100 years ago or something that ran the river backwards! Pretty bad one! It's supposed to happen again sometime but never can remember when they said that was?? 5 years from now or was it 10 or 30??
I am more worried about if I will have gas for the car than electric, electric I can live without, but dang if I want to stay home all the time and not be driving around in my truck!