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#255973 - 01/29/13 04:23 AM The Preppers Next Door
Hanscom Offline
Journeyman

Registered: 11/23/05
Posts: 86
The New York Times online has a remarkably cogent and pretty level-headed look at what we are sharing here.

Not a bad read and a number of links in the article with which I am unacquainted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/nyregi...wanted=all&

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#255982 - 01/29/13 03:34 PM Re: The Preppers Next Door [Re: Hanscom]
TeacherRO Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 2574
Nice article...well done.

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#255994 - 01/29/13 10:08 PM Re: The Preppers Next Door [Re: Hanscom]
Dagny Offline
Pooh-Bah

Registered: 11/25/08
Posts: 1918
Loc: Washington, DC


Remarkable. And the reporter is an avowed prepper - makes all the difference in tone.

Thank you very much for sharing the link.

9/11/01 is still a vivid memory for millions in that area. And so is the blackout of 2003 and, of course, Hurricane Sandy. The prudence of prepping shouldn't take a lot of convincing there these days.

Though no doubt many remain unprepared....



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#255998 - 01/29/13 11:10 PM Re: The Preppers Next Door [Re: Dagny]
Russ Offline
Geezer

Registered: 06/02/06
Posts: 5357
Loc: SOCAL
Quote:
...MY OWN ATTEMPTS at prepping started at a point between the fall of Lehman Brothers and the corresponding rise of quantitative easing, when it occurred to me — as, of course, it did to many — that the financial system was appallingly unstable and that the realm of the possible now included a disruptive reduction in the value of our money. ...
The destruction of the dollar is going to cause a number of really big problems... (I'd go on but then the prepping thing goes all political.)
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