TEOTWAWKI...What does it mean to you.
Revue your action plan.
Inventory your supplies
It is gonna be a bumpy next 2 1/2 years.
Be prpared for civil strife
Be ready for food and fuel shoratges
Be ready to defend your AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
because you just may have to.
MORE PARANOID RANTINGS....
We put in a deep limestone filtered well, we have fresh water no matter what,
And I don't pay water bills.
We put in a very large septic tank and leach field.
We don't pay for sewage treatment.
We put in a solar array.
We don't pay electric bills and as long as the sun shines, we have electricity.
We built a wind generator, Not a big one, but 'Finish' charges the batteries and works when the sun isn't shining.
We have two electric vehicles for running around the farm.
Makes use of our battery banks, and when not in use for transportation, they power up the house/garage.
Momma has a 40 MPG car, and I have a trailer towing, mobile tool box that I can still work on myself is we need more than just a passenger car...
With a little work, mine can be propane or alcohol in VERY short order instead of gasoline powered!
We have an earth sheltered home.
We can heat it with wood, or with propane.
We insulated the crap out of it, so it's VERY easy to heat and it's cool in the summer.
It is mostly a poured concrete bunker with lots of south facing thermal efficient glass for passive solar,
And the thermal solar panels on the roof give us free hot water so we don't have to run the water heater most days...
We catch rain water and 'Gray' water for the garden, livestock, utility water, ect.
Our water works for us TWICE before it gets released to the environment again.
We grow a VERY large garden, and store it in a 'Root Cellar', we probably have two or three years of basic foods, seeds for new gardens, and we can expand at any time if needed.
We don't call this 'End Of The World As We Know It',
We call it SUSTAINABLE, ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY living, and it's also MUCH HEALTHIER than eating fast food and burning gasoline at record rates, which is NOT sustainable.
You can call it anything you want to, but we are probably 85% off 'Grid' (we still burn small quantities of gasoline and propane) but we are heading towards being 100% sustainable as we go.
An 85% reduction in garbage, better health, having my own gun range, and generally not having 'Neighbors' looking over my shoulder all the time is worth driving to town once a week to get what we don't have locally...
Everyone has a rooftop, everyone has the opportunity to go with a hybrid or electric vehicle, everyone has the opportunity to cut back on things that are over packaged, foreign made or grown, and to stock up on things when they are in season or locally available.
It's as simple as not buying things that have to be shipped from south America or Asia when they are produced locally,
I don't have to have strawberries in February from Brazil, and if I do have a taste for strawberries in Feb., I get them out of the freezer or open a home canned jar from when they were in season locally...
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On the other hand,
40+ acres of pasture, grass, trees & garden gives me LOTS of places to bury the bodies of the 'Survivalist' types that get out here and find out they were WOEFULLY unprepared since all they did was type on the internet and complain instead of doing something about it...
Then decided to take what I have instead of asking for help...
Humans aren't good fertilizer, and it would bother me to put one down that wasn't a direct threat, but I have some land that we don't plant or use for much else...
And if the 'EOTWAWKI' actually happens (and of course it won't, but some idiots might jump the gun when something like a giant oil spill threatens the coasts) we might have to rely on ourselves, so we are doing that now.... Right along side the Amish which have been doing it all along!
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