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Comment on North Korean Nukes, Israel Nuclear Submarines by Robin

Robin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:53:13 +0000

I wish I could make the rest of our community see what is happening, every time I try to tell them I end up looking like a nutjob because I get so passionate about the survival of my loved ones. what to do? Keep the faith with my Immediate family and do the best I can with the others around me.
thank you for your website, it has been an immeasurable help in committing my wife and kids into food storage and sustainability, although we still have a long way to go, I know we are better prepared than probably 95% of the population. may God be with you, and all your weavils be garlic flavoured :).
Robin

Comment on Emergency - by Neil Strauss by John

John — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:44:24 +0000

Thanks for the review. I’ve seen this book promoted in a Washington Post article. The fact that his fear went down is telling. Being mentally prepared, as well as physically prepared, is a key to survival.

John

Comment on Storing Grains by Snafu

Snafu — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:26:10 +0000

Short story: not true. It kills insects well enough, but not their eggs. In fact, for some insect eggs, freezing actually facilitates hatching. Go figure.

Fumigants can work, and fortunately, one good fumigant is simple Dry Ice. But frankly, I’ve never tried it. I see issues with the moisture that is formed by the very low temperature of Dry Ice. And it just plain seems too difficult. But I believe that if the directions are followed to the letter, it would probably work.

The directions, along with a whole lot of very good information on food storage, can be found at the Utah State University Cooperative Extension website:

http://extension.usu.edu/foodstorage/htm/wheat

Also see

http://extension.usu.edu/foodstorage/htm/insect-treatments.

Comment on Storing Grains by jandt

jandt — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:58:44 +0000

I have heard that if you freeze your food for 24+hours prior to storing that it eliminates the insect eggs. Not sure if this is true. Any insight would be great.

Comment on Beginnings by Cate

Cate — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:53:47 +0000

“Some people literally do not know how to boil water.”
So true… without a stove or microwave, most people don’t know how to do so in a way that would not be dangerous, and a supply of safely burnable fuel is totally missing from most people’s homes unless they have a grill - and that fuel supply is usually tiny or linked to gas lines that would not last long if at all in an emergency.

Comment on Who’s in Charge? by Cate

Cate — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:45:45 +0000

Funny, it doesn’t even take an emergency to see what you’ve described here.

Comment on Why Bother? by Cate

Cate — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:43:57 +0000

Wow. That’s surely the Lord, huh?

Comment on Sleep - Part 2 by Cate

Cate — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:07:36 +0000

From personal experience, even recovery from serious surgery-prompted infection is best aided by rest. Not ‘rest while working from home’ or ‘while playing video games’, but actual rest. I think the computer age has mostly robbed us of the inclination to rest correctly.

Comment on Hunger by Cate

Cate — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:00:53 +0000

It sure doesn’t help that our farmers are paid to NOT grow food. We are really digging ourselves an inescapable hole.

Comment on A Bushel of Bullets by Cate

Cate — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:37:36 +0000

You make a good point.
Countless books - fiction & non-fiction - have been written about this very situation… and we read them because we can vicariously live through the conflict with out LIVING THROUGH the conflict. I suppose a few of these books mention, or even focus on, those who have prepared well… but they tend not to reach best-seller lists as far as I have seen.
If the ‘golden rule’ were followed, we would all be living in sustainable communities where owning guns to defend would be part of a last-ditch idea to defend against the criminally insane.
What does it say about us that, on the whole, that is the first idea considered?
As it stands, it looks like we will be living through a Mad Max-type world if anything momentous happens.