Damian McBride is the former head of communications at the British treasury and former special adviser to Gordon Brown, erstwhile Prime Minister of the U.K. Yesterday he tweeted some surprising advice in response to the plunge in global equities markets.;
Advice on the looming crash, No. 1: get hard cash in a safe place now; don’t assume banks & cashpoints will be open, or bank cards will work.
Crash advice No. 2: do you have enough bottled water, tinned goods & other essentials at home to live a month indoors? If not, get shopping.
Crash advice No. 3: agree a rally point with your loved ones in case transport and communication gets cut off; somewhere you can all head to.
Evidently, McBride interprets the wipe-out of over $3 trillion in total global market cap during the three-day rout as a prelude to a much broader and deeper financial crash that will precipitate civil unrest.
Just like mid-October last year, the market howls; the Fed panics & puts the dummy back in; and we all pretend it’s OK again. It’s madness.
Every day the era of easy borrowing persists just means even more loans that won’t be repaid when the real crash finally comes.
Today is just the stock market catching up with the terror over defaults that’s been gripping the bond market for months.
According to McBride,
We were close enough in 2008 and what’s coming is on 20 times that scale.
Too late. Times up. Maybe. Some day. Probably tomorrow or even next decade. That’s as close as I can pinpoint it anyway.
Water purifier (Aqua Rain is Made in the USA. Using one now to filter undesirable municipal tap water. Fantastic!!!)
Water bob (holds 100 gal. in a bathtub)
Rain barrels
Containers of water stored for uses other than drinking
Bleach
Etc, etc…
Yumbo , Wal-Mart(Sam s Club) has bottle water on sale by the case .30 20 ounce bottles for 10.99 .
Did you ever get a scope for your M1A ?Wal-Mart has 308 tula( Russia )ammo on sale 10.00 a box.20 rds a box .*I shoot tula ,wolf , and bear in my M1a with no problems so far.
Thanks Yumbo , I think they know I’m not the most sensitive guy so I make a easy target. I take most of it in fun .Learned that lesson the years I played high football. Got to have a sense of humor about life.
bb is a good sport, other folks will push back. He has offended a few folks who don’t understand his kind of humor.
KillBill can also turn a conversation into a bizarre exchange, though he is not in any way on the fringe like my buddy bb.
Maddie’s Mom, that’s a good list. I want a Berkey water filter, which is the best of them all. Plus a Sun Oven to cook with. These are great for people in apartment buildings where you are prohibited from grilling on balconies and porches because of the fire hazard.
You should always have regular bleach (NEVER the scented kind) for purifying water and general sanitation; white vinegar, and baking soda.
A few hundred pounds of cat litter, plus a tough plastic pail and toilet seat, so you can be a big cat when the plumbing doesn’t work. Guy trapped in New Orleans after the floods hit and the plumbing became unusable, did this.
Lots of heavy-duty garbage bags for sanitation.
Lots of your prescribed mediation, and over-the-counter meds and first aid supplies. Always have sanitary napkins whether there’s a woman in the house or not- they are essential to your first aid set up in case of a serious wound that is bleeding heavily.
Water purification tablets and maybe a water test kit.
Manual can openers- have 3 or 4.
Make an inventory of stuff you use on a daily basis and stockpile those items.
Make sure your dishes and laundry are done – don’t head into a major weather event or emergency with a stack of dirty dishes or all your essential clothing and bedding in the laundry hamper waiting to be washed. There is nothing as miserable as trying to heat enough water to do the dishes when you have no power or gas, or handwashing clothes and waiting for them to dry in a cold house.
Stockpile heavy, warm clothes; underwear, socks, towels, and bedding. Don’t ever toss an old blanket or bedspread that is still usable- keep these clean and ready to go in case your furnace isn’t working. Same with old coats- a big pile of old coats on top of a bedspread will keep you toasty in the coldest weather.
Oh, YEAH- a supply of liquor, and things that can entertain you without having to plug anything in. Cards, board games, books, notebooks and sketchbooks.
Chi-Town, my uncle modified one of those sturdy metal frame chairs, took the padded seat off and replaced it with a toilet seat. he put the 5 gallon bucket under it and this became my granny’s chamber pot when she was too old (98) to walk 40 feet to the bathroom.
Chicago,
What makes Berkey the best?
Chicago, don’t buy a berkey filter set up. Buy the filter elements from Berkey and two food grade five gallon buckets and a spigot for the lower bucket. These can be had at a homebrew shop. I’m sure you can find a youtube vid that shows how to put it together. You’ll save a hundred bucks or more.
Always use and test your preps……..case in point……..I bought some berkey black filters and put together my own setup for using them. After construction I decided to use the filter setup for a few months. Worked great. When I went to wash everything, break it down and store it away the filter elements fell off of their bases when I leaned the bucket they were mounted in on it’s side.
I called Berkey to ask WTF!!?? In an emergency situation I would have been fucked. Turns out the manufacturer switched adhesives that are used to attach the two parts. Being submerged in water caused the new adhesive to fail. Berkey replaced all four filter elements and picked up the postage. I tested the four replacements by using and drying them twice to make sure they are secure.
If you are forced to defecate in a bucket, don’t use kitty litter. Use powdered lime. Also, do not urinate in the same bucket.
Instead of bleach, use pool shock tablets. Bleach loses it’s disinfecting power rather quickly. Pool shock does not. You can crush the dry tablets up and measure the right amount of powder to use for the task. Also, pool shock tablets are light and take up much less room.
Don’t forget trash bags people. Lots and lots of trash bags. A roll or two of heavy (10 mil or better) visqueen will have plenty of uses.
Lipoh , but then you would say I was boring . Like IS. He is the typical Blithering idiot. Always posting stuff about outer space that no one understands. I think he thinks that makes him smart but I’m on to his ways.
ID, thanks for the tips.
Maddies mom, your best bet is to read up on water filters. After all, you may be betting your life on it. Who do you trust more than you?
Berkey filters and I believe the Doulton ceramics are “tortuous path” filters. The literally slice and dice any micro organisms to death including single celled organisms. No chemicals needed. I think each berkey element is good for 10,000 gallons and they can be scrubbed with a scotch brite pad to clean them. I’m told you can piss in a berkey filter and get clean water out of it. Never tried it though. It will filter red food coloring out of water.
If your water is particularly dirty, you should have some separate buckets for allowing sediment to settle out and make or build a charcoal filter to neutralize and odors or flavors.
My brother is married to a Filipino woman and most of her family still lives in the Philippines. Clean water is an issue in their village so my brother and his wife sent a bunch of berkey filters over with instructions on building their own setup. Now they filter and sell bottled water and make good money at it in addition to having clean water for themselves.
El’s comment re: an ad-hoc shitter isn’t bad…
On deployments, we would take a milk crate and cut most of the bottom out. Flip it over, then duct tape a toilet seat to it.
Dig a cat hole, put milk crate shitter on top. Do what you have to do. Then bury it.
Variations: Milk crate upright, bottom intact, toilet seat duct taped to the top with a trash bag underneath. Also the mighty 5-gallon bucket with a toilet seat lid attached.
Either way, have some lime onhand. Dig you a cat hole, do your business and then dump some lime down in the hole. Clean up and you’re on your way.
Wherever you decide to do your business, do it downstream or downhill from your water supply… obvious shitter placement is obvious…
Billy, Good to see you posting again.
I wanted to tell you that I got around the capcha crap by saving my comment and going to another post before coming back to the intended article.
Here’s another idea, if yer caint git off the couch. Just roll over, let er rip, spread some cat litter and make Billy Jr clean it up.
Git yer ass home Billy.
BW, Evidently you don’t read the entire thread before posting your putrid puff plop. I-S said you should not use kitty litter, he said to use powdered lime.
Good gawd beaner, when trump runs yer ass outta here me n Billy are gonna eat 13 microwave burritos in yer honor. I thought y’all still picked lettuce on Sundays.
Caint we talk more prepper shit over here. This is me n billy’s forte. I swear that man can take a corn pocked turd, some ketchup and a flour tortilla and turn that shit inter something any beaner would his daughter for.
I can’t think of anything offensive to come back with that you wouldn’t take as a compliment. Shit!