OT: Are you prepared for emergencies, such as the grid goes down?

[johnson86-1]

One of the absolute best things you can do to prepare for an extended emergency is get to know your neighbors.

For sure. Hard to really scope out what they have that you might need to steal without being friendly enough to get inside their house. Also can find out what kind of guns they have and whether they will be a real threat with them.*

 

[AttillaTheDog]

If the grid goes down, I ain't leaving my little shack in the hills . I got 10 gallons of George Dickel, 20 cartons of cigarettes in the deep freeze, my rifle, kbar and some chickens. I'm good

 

[horshack.sixpack]

With a family of six you either have daddy money or make six figures so I wouldn’t worry about it

six figures ain't what it used to be...my starting salary in the mid-$30's in the mid 90's, had the same purchasing power as $80k does today...

 

[horshack.sixpack]

If Dan Bongino is saying we need to be prepared, you better getyoass prepared.

That guy knows.

Also Dan Bongino, just to name a few...

Mar-a-Lago raid: Falsely claimed documents proved the Biden White House was involved in the FBI raid. The documents concerned access to records already held by the National Archives, not authorization or advance knowledge of the raid.

Pfizer “mutating COVID for profit”: Falsely amplified claims that Pfizer was deliberately mutating COVID to create/profit from vaccines.

Boston University “80% kill rate”: Promoted the false claim that researchers created a COVID strain with an 80% kill rate.

Gates Foundation/digital IDs: Falsely claimed a $200 million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiative for digital infrastructure was part of creating a “totalitarian society” through digital IDs.

Kamala Harris rally crowds: Falsely claimed CBS had established “the fact” that Kamala Harris' campaign inflated crowd sizes by busing hundreds of attendees into a New Hampshire rally.

AstraZeneca vaccine disclosure: Falsely suggested AstraZeneca had newly admitted that its COVID vaccine caused a rare blood-clotting condition. The risk was real, but it had already been publicly identified and reported in 2021, years before the 2024 court disclosure that Dan referenced.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

I’m not prepared and not sure how I would be prepared. I’m not going to start buying and stocking up emergency food supplies in my attic.

I’m also not that concerned with it ever happening. Half the **** on the news these days is just there to scare you

The fact that tinfoil isn't the most scarce material in the US baffles me...

 

[horshack.sixpack]

I've had several people ask my opinion on all this "chatter."
I'm prepped and comfortable I can sustain for a while. It's good to be prepared, but this "chatter" going on now is nothing but more social media hysteria, and a lot of it stems from the military testing their system redundancy for 90 days. Why wouldn't the military test their systems. Since the beginning of time people have tried to predict catastrophic events from the end of the world to natural disasters. Since social media came out it has hit overdrive. I remember when Camp Shelby was being used as a staging and training area for units deploying to Afghanistan because it's so big and has a few hundred empty barracks that can easily accommodate many units. I think it was Fort Hood that shipped their M1 tanks there by train and people were seeing these trains loaded with tanks and FREAKING OUT thinking the military was up to something and about to establish Martial Law. The hysteria over toilet paper when Covid was a big deal is another example. Back to this current hysteria, if something like this were to happen, we're not gonna know about it. How do the people reporting this know about it?

But, regardless I have provisions like MREs and water filtration kits, guns, LOTS of ammo, some cash stashed in secure places, lots of survival supplies like solar panels, heater/stove kits, etc. Again it's good to be prepared, but I figure this is just MORE social media hysteria.

ETA: Also, when nuclear energy was being developed, Russia was spreading lots of propaganda making people in the US fear it. It's been proven it was Russia while they were aggressively developing nuclear power. There were people in the US quite literally thinking that living near a nuclear power plant would make them have deformed kids and stuff like that. This hysteria over AI taking over or "shutting down the grid" isn't any different.

if you have enough ammo you won't need much cash

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

Also Dan Bongino, just to name a few...

Mar-a-Lago raid: Falsely claimed documents proved the Biden White House was involved in the FBI raid. The documents concerned access to records already held by the National Archives, not authorization or advance knowledge of the raid.

Pfizer “mutating COVID for profit”: Falsely amplified claims that Pfizer was deliberately mutating COVID to create/profit from vaccines.

Boston University “80% kill rate”: Promoted the false claim that researchers created a COVID strain with an 80% kill rate.

Gates Foundation/digital IDs: Falsely claimed a $200 million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiative for digital infrastructure was part of creating a “totalitarian society” through digital IDs.

Kamala Harris rally crowds: Falsely claimed CBS had established “the fact” that Kamala Harris' campaign inflated crowd sizes by busing hundreds of attendees into a New Hampshire rally.

AstraZeneca vaccine disclosure: Falsely suggested AstraZeneca had newly admitted that its COVID vaccine caused a rare blood-clotting condition. The risk was real, but it had already been publicly identified and reported in 2021, years before the 2024 court disclosure that Dan referenced.

Why do you still hate America?

What you label "false claims," are actually a thousand points of "truthiness." Seriously, you know there's a little truth in there... somewhere. Right?

Listen to Dan. He knows!!!

AI shuts down the power grid.
Then armed urbanites come in great hordes for your bottled water and MREs ... and your guns
Then the AI robots come for wives and daughters and small pets.
Then the zombies come for your brains.

THE END IS NEAR!

 

[BossDawg78]

Why do you still hate America?

What you label "false claims," are actually a thousand points of "truthiness." Seriously, you know there's a little truth in there... somewhere. Right?

Listen to Dan. He knows!!!

AI shuts down the power grid.
Then armed urbanites come in great hordes for your bottled water and MREs ... and your guns
Then the AI robots come for wives and daughters and small pets.
Then the zombies come for your brains.

THE END IS NEAR!

And the "fascism" . Don't forget the "fascism." Thankfully we have groups like Antifa ready to burn cities down and harass innocent people to fight it.

 

[AttillaTheDog]

Apparently there is a coup underway in Poland. Things getting spicier by the day.

 

[Dawgbite]

Apparently there is a coup underway in Poland. Things getting spicier by the day.

Europe is a powder keg. All the open borders and anti police movement has turned a lot of Europe into a mess.

 

[Mjoelner]

Against how many people equally or more armed than you?

Against a squad of trained soldiers? Not long at all. Against that same number of un-trained, un-organized people coming to loot? Not worried. I also have a roommate invested just as heavily in 'precious metals'. Booby traps and obstacles would have them funneled into a zone where one person would be defending from the house and the other would have them in enfilade while hidden in the woods. I may or may not already have things pre-positioned to do this.

 

[ZombieKissinger]

Can this thread end? Yes, I’d die and it’s depressing

 

[Hugh's Burner Phone]

Plenty of examples where folks dont walk. Take some of the African nations for example. Cant griw food cause they live in a desert. They walk 12 miles for water. God forbid they move that grass/dung hut closer to the water

Just saw somebody beat me to Sam Kinnison.

 

[L4Dawg]

Against a squad of trained soldiers? Not long at all. Against that same number of un-trained, un-organized people coming to loot? Not worried. I also have a roommate invested just as heavily in 'precious metals'. Booby traps and obstacles would have them funneled into a zone where one person would be defending from the house and the other would have them in enfilade while hidden in the woods. I may or may not already have things pre-positioned to do this.

How about an organized group of 50-100?

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Can this thread end? Yes, I’d die and it’s depressing

I'll die, but kicking and clawing.

 

[Howiefeltersnstch]

L4 has a problem for every solution.

 

[preacher_dawg]

I think that 10% of the population will lose their minds because they will not have any more news or social media to blame Trump for stuff while another 10% will lose their minds because they will not have any more news or social media to say how great Trump is.

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

 

[hoopsdreamer]

Bo freakin Cephus!

 

[hoopsdreamer]

We have enough muscadine jelly to last a few days. But at that point, I’ll be mad at my wife for not using it to make wine!

 

[uptowndawg]

Thanks for the tips guys. I will start executing my neighbors as soon as the lights flicker.

 

[hatfieldms]

Can this thread end? Yes, I’d die and it’s depressing

This thread will end when the grid goes down. I hope you are prepared

 

[ZombieKissinger]

This thread will end when the grid goes down. I hope you are prepared

I have my saltines and Brazilian Jiujitsu on tap

 

[BoDawg.sixpack]

I still maintain that The Walking Dead is the worst thing to ever happen to the state of Mississippi. Never seen so many obsessed with chaos. Meanwhile things are better than they've ever been.

I like Bongino but how would he even know? How would anyone know? If something catastrophic is about to happen, nobody will know. People melt down on social media over anything.

 

[grinningmule]

I think that 10% of the population will lose their minds because they will not have any more news or social media to blame Trump for stuff while another 10% will lose their minds because they will not have any more news or social media to say how great Trump is.

40% of the population would be dead within six months or less, mostly within large urban areas. Starvation, disease, murder, and of course those dependent on meds and power to keep them alive. Look at the chaos that erupts from short term blackouts in major cities now.

 

[grinningmule]

I think that 10% of the population will lose their minds because they will not have any more news or social media to blame Trump for stuff while another 10% will lose their minds because they will not have any more news or social media to say how great Trump is.

Much like Kramer when the Kenny Rogers red light shut off

 

[grinningmule]

Thanks for the tips guys. I will start executing my neighbors as soon as the lights flicker.

First you must ask, what kind of neighbor are they?

 

[The Peeper]

If Dan Bongino is saying we need to be prepared, you better getyoass prepared.

That guy knows.

If he knew anything of any importance and disclosed it, he would be Hilliaried, Trumped, Obamaed, etc. i.e. he'd have a tragic traffic accident driving home one afternoon

 

[uptowndawg]

First you must ask, what kind of neighbor are they?

Dead.

 

[FrontRangeDawg]

That's for me to know... and you to find out. But I wouldn't recommend it.

It's good that you're confident. A cursory review of any country that has been ravaged by war will quickly show you that unless you're the owner of Camp Shelby, you'll get overrun. People's capacity for depravity far exceeds your ability to defend against it. The best plan you can have is to make sure that you're the one who kills your wife and family before the real bad things begin.

 

[bolddogge]

You can tell we have certain posters that have made zero preparations for any disaster and make themselves feel better by saying your preparations are inadequate

 

[BigDawg0074]

It depends on how long. If we are talking about a coronal mass ejection full grid reset, no. Exceedingly few of us are ready for that. My wife and I could get by for a few months without power but it’ll suck carrying all that water. We have enough food for that but not enough water on hand. If we went more than a few weeks without power I suspect some of our locals would get pretty desperate and start raiding unless the government had a strong presence with food and medicine.

 

[HopInMyDakPak]

You can tell we have certain posters that have made zero preparations for any disaster and make themselves feel better by saying your preparations are inadequate

You can make preparations until the cows come home, and one lucky bullet from 300yards out derails a lifetime of preparation. It’s not like the movies people will do heinous things to survive.