Originally Posted By: billym
... if you believe that TEOTWAWKI is around the corner then gear up.


billym, If the big one comes it will be a statistical anomaly and very annoying. At that point all bets are off and no amount of preparation will be enough. But regardless if you or I make it through I think the human race will. Just us and the cockroaches...

Originally Posted By: Grant
I prepare for what is likely. Am I prepared to deal with a comet striking earth or a post nuclear winter? No, but I'm really not that worried.


Grant, apparently you don't watch enough TV, not including the SciFi channel I think I could have seen a half dozen shows last week on the end of the world.

I agree, prepare for what is most likely to happen and for what I can manage in those circumstances.

Originally Posted By: Tirec
When you look at what has already occurred to the just the US in the last 100 years or so, you'll see that there are a lot of potential threats to the "Fragile Shell" of modern society. Some things haven't occurred in the US, but could. I put together a little look at these threats at http://tirec.mysite.com/rich_text_2.html

Tirec, read thru your site, I won't be able to sleep for a week, criminey! I just go back to what my friend the mathematician tells me about statistics "they're only numbers'.

Originally Posted By: Farmer
I prepare because I'm not willing to lay down and give up. I prepare because being prepared makes my mind easier, and sometimes makes my life easier.

Besides. It's just plain fun sometimes to work on the gear.


Farmer, Amen brother!

Originally Posted By: bws48

It sounds like you have everything pretty much covered, but if you haven't thought about what happens when you are in that meeting in downtown DC, it would be worth some extra thought. And given the increased security in some of the buildings, you may not even get a SAK in with you. I've seen several confiscated. Makes planning harder.


Fortunately one of my sibs lives in the District so even if public transport is out or I can't drive I could probably walk there in a few hours time and my EDC would carry me thru. Haven't had any trouble with the DR PSK at my prinicpal work place but I leave the knives and other items of interest home when I need to go places where I have to pass thru security check points.

That's a whole other rant, the 'criminalization' of self protection and stripping of our kids' instinct for survival. (Next time on Oprah, 'how to fight off a mugger using Martha Stewart pillowcase...'

Sorry for going off topic.
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