“Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, cutting off the radio. Phones go dead.
Roads become impossible, and cars get stuck. Food supplies dwindle. Day to day vestiges of modern civilization – bank machines, mutual funds, mass retailers, computers, satellites, airplanes, governments – all recede into irrelevance. Picture yourself and your loved ones in the midst of a howling blizzard that lasts several years.
Think about what you would need, who could help you, and why your fate might matter to anybody other than yourself. That is how to plan for a saecular winter. Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted.”
Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
Protective and safe shelter.
Food, water, and fire.
With that you can survive anything.
Everything else is just luxury.
Sure, agreed, but how many will have that?
I suggest you order a wood stove. And wood.
Some fireplaces can be relined and the stove
placed to fit. That can cover the heat anyway.
Most won’t and many who want to cannot afford to in today’s economy.
As for the wood stove, for those that can’t afford one or have a place to put it and the wood there are alternatives ranging from little things that can keep you alive in a car to larger emergency stoves and heaters that can heat an entire home or field tent.
YouTube is alive with examples, many inexpensively home made from common materials (it takes no space and costs nothing to store things in your head).
As with anything, learn what you are doing and how to use what you make safely. You actually survive relying on ingenuity and creativity as much -or more- as you do equipment and supplies.
Keep in mind that you may end up on the move in a survival situation, plan for that as well as shelter in place events.
If you would like to run your personal and/or neighborhood/community preparations through an excellent checklist, you may wish to view a seminar (webinar) produced by Oath Keepers and presented this past Thursday, November 3, 2016. The seminar is also an excellent wake up call for those who have yet to act on the trends Admin and his regular readers clearly see.
I have a little bit of a background as a former fighter pilot during the Viet Nam era and a graduate of several of the military’s survival schools. I belong to the Oath Keepers organization. I now live in a very remote part of Montana on our small ranch having escaped my former three-piece suit existence. I have served as a volunteer fire and rescue chief during some great storms and forest fires…things change rapidly. Going without commercial electrical power for days is a normal winter occurrence here at the ranch. Rescuing the unprepared traveler is standard practice for our fire and rescue operation. I have also learned a lot from the LDS literature.
I first read The Fourth Turning about 10 years ago. I bought copies for our adult children who live in more “civilized” locations (or at least, far more densely populated areas). For the past few years reading The Burning Platform is a daily ritual. First class material. Many thanks to Admin and all the contributors.
To view the recording of the seminar go to oathkeepers.org. Then just click on Recording of 11-3 Webinar, Civil Unrest: Post Election Scenarios & Preparation. It runs almost three hours. Well worth the time.