The experience of seeing their grocery store shelves stripped bare may have been the “Katrina Moment” for thousands of people, starting some of them on the road to preparedness. A quick survey of websites selling freeze-dried meals shows that they’ve…
Some people think it is a foregone conclusion that many of their fellow citizens will turn savage if the constraints of “normal” society falter. Will shortages and confinement turn us into brutes? Is our basic human nature so wanton that…
Over the last week, especially, masses of people have descended on local stores like Biblical locust plagues, stripping shelves bare. Is such Hoarding Fever rational? The dynamics are murky but the solution is clear: don’t let The Fever get you. …
Today provided a useful lesson in how the general public will behave just before some impending trouble. Today was also a perfect example of Proverbs 23:3, “The wise see danger ahead and avoid it, but fools keep going and get…
Every now and then, someone in the American media rediscovers how vulnerable our modern life is because it is dependent upon grid power. Doug MacKinnon’s “Will you survive the coming blackout?” is the recent iteration. His article appeared on Fox…
After the Mad Max, kill-or-be-killed, zombie apocalypse phase of SHTF has passed, the survivors will not emerge equal. There will be the new “rich” (the preppers) and the new “poor” – those who survived with little or nothing. With the…
While cutting up a downed maple tree today, ( the pond was frozen), I was musing about the subtlety of modern slavery. An editorial in the Sunday paper cited some very brief quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville regarding freedom and the…
EMPs or CMEs are statistical possibilities but hackers are a lot more plentiful and therefore a lot more likely to be the cause of the grid going down. There was a recent (9/06/17) story in the online WIRED magazine (link…