Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.
Ice storms are giving people back East a hard time. I haven’t had the pleasure of being in one for about seven years or so. They can be pretty excinting, especially from a driving standpoint, and they are all but guaranteed to throw your electrical capability into the Bronze Age.
Other than trees falling, the problem with an ice storm is that heavy ice forms on power lines, the lines sag and eventually break. (Of course, lines also go down when cars plow into the power poles and snap them off at the base.)
Last ice storm we had made a heck of a mess but power wasnt out for more than a few hours. I wasnt nearly as prepared then as I am now for it. We have plenty of fuel, heaters, water, food and communications gear so all an ice storm would do for us is make leaving the house even less attractive.
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Returned from the Hamilton gun show. I only saw a couple things I wanted (S&W 686 4″, Mossberg 590) but nothing I wanted enough to spend precious resources on. Problem is, no one at the show wanted to risk what money they had for something as superfluous as a gun show acquisition. Its hard to justify spending $250 on AK ammo when you dont know if youre going to have a job in three months. however, judging from the buying habits of those who were actually spending money…the natives are restless.
Enjoy the gun shows while you can folks, ’cause you really cant be certain what’s coming down the pike from Washington next.
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According to at least one self-proclaimed prophet, this holiday season is the last one since we’re all gonna get nuked.
Listen, there is no one who knows precisely when the world is going to end except the guy who is actually going to push the button, light the fuse, release the microbes or set the timer. Oh, sure there are folks who will claim that it’ll be ’soon’, ‘within our lifetime’, ‘when the signs are nigh’ or something equally vague and nebulous. But in narrower terms, even down to within 12 months, no one ever seems to want to go on record.
So, yeah, its gonna happen someday but anyone who says they know when is just smoking crack.
The problem with these idiot prophets . . . people follow them even after their “predictions” are proven wrong.
The worst part about that kind of prediction is the one time someone gets it right, they wont even be able to say “Nah, Nah! Told you so!”.
TEOTWAWKI
There are some that have the actual date, Mayan Calendar, I Ching, Nostradamus, NASA, etc. And that date is December 21, 2012 at 7:12 PM (eastern time)
Re: TEOTWAWKI
try and have a good time ’til then.
Re: TEOTWAWKI
But that’s a few days after Hillary is confirmed by the Electoral collage.
even the antichrist needs some time
Re: TEOTWAWKI
Youre telling me NASA somehow thinks 12/21/12 is the end of the world? I’d love to see a link supporting that.
The notion that the Mayans somehow know when the end of the world is is a little suspect. Theyre savvy enough to predict the end of the world but not savvy enough to keep from becoming extinct?
Here ya go. http://www.december212012.com/articles/news/8.htm
I know it is hard to convey tone in a post, but it was said (slightly) tongue in cheek. My gut tells me we are very close to TTEOTWAWKI, but it could be just gas.
soothsayers and prophets
are those whom talk the smooth way of conning the public for their profit. on the other hand it was amazing how many missed predicting “9-11”, only to able to jive their followers with some sort of excuse why they “were out of tune”. sort of like economic forcasters for the stock market were suddenly silient when the credit crunchies hit.
anyhow being prepared for the worst lets me sleep better at night.
have loads of fun always, Wildflower 08