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Post by bulltrader on Mar 11, 2020 21:02:48 GMT -6
All this virus talk and the big worry is not having toilet paper.
Could you survive without running water, electricity, indoor plumbing?
Could you cook on a wood stove, do without a cell phone, AC, internet?
Could you hunt and grow a garden enough to survive?
I grew up without any of it. A Dipper would freeze overnight in a water bucket inside the kitchen. Have we became tender. I could last a while but not forever
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Post by plumber2 on Mar 12, 2020 4:44:41 GMT -6
I think I would enjoy doing without some of those.
Spent a couple weeks without most of them.
Missed the most simple thing the most, ICE!!
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Post by angusrancher on Mar 12, 2020 5:33:30 GMT -6
It'd be tough without fuel and gasoline. Would have to get root callers dug and use cold springs for refrigeration, like they did a few decades ago.
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Post by ebenezer on Mar 12, 2020 7:35:22 GMT -6
As long as the possums keep trying to show the chicken how to cross the road we'll have fresh meat!
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Post by bulltrader on Mar 12, 2020 7:47:39 GMT -6
As long as the possums keep trying to show the chicken how to cross the road we'll have fresh meat! I have eaten possum. Many now wouldn't. Plus how many people now even know how to skin a possum or pluck a chicken? |
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Post by chuckie on Mar 12, 2020 7:53:03 GMT -6
That thought often crosses my mind. There is so much we have relied on, that it would be tough. I can plant a garden, but would need help getting it right. My parents never had a garden, and I often wonder how I got this far in life not having one. The main reason was that my job kept me away from home 12 hours a day, and there was no way I was going to spend those few hours I had free working a garden.
My Grandaddy always had 3 gardens, but he was very anal about his gardens, and wanted to do them himself. I can understand that, but wish I could have helped him to learn.
Often I have thought about being dropped back to a time in the past where there was no electricity to see what it was like. I am sure a year spent back then would teach us all a lot.
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Post by highgrit on Mar 12, 2020 15:35:55 GMT -6
There's no way that I can survive without power or fuel. Guess I'd finally be albe loose some weight.
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Post by smokinm on Mar 12, 2020 17:56:07 GMT -6
I can make a good run. Probably won’t be the last man standing but I wouldn’t be the first to go. Would miss diesel fuel, chainsaw gas and ice most of all. Wish I was a better gardener and knew more about canning. Cell phone, internet and tv are no big loss.
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Post by M-5 on Mar 12, 2020 18:48:24 GMT -6
Living with out grid power over 2 weeks in 18 gives me a new perspective. Gen power thanks to high grit helped after a few days . After about 2 days with cell or running water things come into perspective. Looking back family and neighbors became closer working together.
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Post by bulltrader on Mar 12, 2020 19:26:21 GMT -6
Governor declared a state of emergency and stopped all out of state work travels for state employees.
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Post by okie on Mar 12, 2020 20:52:07 GMT -6
I lived in the Sierras in California for six months at a time without much of anything but a fishing pole and a can of beans for days at a time in my late teens. I did that for three summers leading mules all over the backcountry. I wouldn't want to go back to it but I guess I could if I had to. I never even packed a tent.
At this point in time I would be caught off guard as I'm getting ready for a move but living out of the garden is more of a way of life than a panic response for me. I just don't feel right without enough veggies and meat coming in to store something. In the past I've produced enough that a trip to the grocery store meant a loaf of bread, canning supplies, flour, and that's about it.
I think most people really don't understand just how much of what they eat is excessive, too. I'm on the diet of kings myself currently but it really doesn't take much to get by. every pound that you have hanging around your belly is a days worth of food that you can miss completely. For most folks (myself included) that's at least a two week head start before you even need to start thinking about feed.
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Post by smokinm on Mar 12, 2020 20:59:57 GMT -6
Governor declared a state of emergency and stopped all out of state work travels for state employees. Run faster my fellow lemmings I think I smell the sea! The idiot did that along with telling everyone that thinks they have it to go see their family doctor to be tested. They have very few tests and can get very few tests. They can’t treat you and aren’t set up to treat you, but yes take your contagion to the place where the most vulnerable group of people are and spread it about so you can ignore quarantine orders and infect as many as possible. How that dumbass wears lace up shoes as stupid as he is is beyond me because his intelligence level is not up above the Velcro and drool level. He is supposed to be a DR. I think they should just go see him to be tested and he can personally see to their safe handling. |
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Post by 11111 on Mar 13, 2020 8:35:51 GMT -6
We have fuel in plenty supply. I guess the biggest obstacle would be protecting it if things got real bad. Have two hogs and a whole cow in the freezers. Plenty of canned goods. Well water and multiple generators. We could last a while without electricity or a trip to the store.
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Post by M-5 on Mar 13, 2020 10:14:10 GMT -6
If it does happen I hope someone tells all the people still living in tents on the gulf coast that they should prepare.
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Post by greybeard on Mar 13, 2020 20:52:19 GMT -6
Preppers be like..."Who's laughing now?"
I can grow lots of vegetables, know how to can and have done it for years up until a couple years ago, but if shit really hits the fan, it takes weeks for produce to get ready to pick. Fish are waiting in the pond and there are plenty of feral hogs, squirrels and I could kill a deer easily enough but don't know how to salt it to preserve it ..or how to smoke meat.
No electricity or fuel for my genset would be hard and it's not bad right now, but after summer heat gets here it will be a lot harder.
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