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re: what are the highest calorie food bars for bug out bag
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:33 am to oleyeller
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:33 am to oleyeller
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guess you didnt live in area hurricane katrina hit, or been stuck on the road during a snow/ice storm, or been on a camping trip/hunt and storm hits and you get stuck in the woods a few days.
If anything, Katrina shows you what can happen with only a few days of mass chaos and letting animals be animals. We are only civilized because we arent allowed to be uncivilized for the most part. If that falls, then what do you have?
Oleballcoach: ever wonder what would happen if this country's electrical grid would go down for only one wk? What if all of our transformers exploded due to a solar flare? Life as we know it would not exist. We are too dependent as a species on modern technology now. Fuel would not be able to be processed without electricity (remember, all of the transformers are gone). Without fuel, or shipment/trucking services would be useless. No more product for people to buy at the grocery stores. You know how many people in the country hunt? Less than 1%. Less than 1% of the population would be capable of harvesting their own protein. Without transformers, people would lose all of their food in their fridge/coolers after approx 3-4 days. So in 3-4 days you'd have a country of 350mil+ people that had no food/safe drinking water, no means to get it, and no security other than marshall law to keep things civilized, much like 3rd world countries today. You wanna stick around for that?
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:36 am to oleyeller
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:51 am to OleBallCoach
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Yep Rita hit here, Wind blew rained a little knocked down powerlines and trees all over...done damage to the house.. 17 days of camping commenced. Good food good times, plenty of good friends all home with no work to go to, great memories made no doubt....didnt need to BUG OUT for anything been stuck in the mountains in Colorado and Montana for a week the first time and 2 weeks the second time....no worries. Just killed what we ate and camped, nice fires at night, great times and great memories....no biggie....its not an issue unless you make it one.
well you have it all figured out
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:54 am to OleBallCoach
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Yep Rita hit here, Wind blew rained a little knocked down powerlines and trees all over...done damage to the house.. 17 days of camping commenced. Good food good times, plenty of good friends all home with no work to go to, great memories made no doubt....didnt need to BUG OUT for anything been stuck in the mountains in Colorado and Montana for a week the first time and 2 weeks the second time....no worries. Just killed what we ate and camped, nice fires at night, great times and great memories....no biggie....its not an issue unless you make it one.
The only reason any of that was able to take place is because society hadnt collapsed around you. Sure, you may have not had power and were forced to run your house on a generator for a few wks, but where did that fuel come from? Where will it come from if that would have happened to every single State in the U.S. at the exact same time?
Posted on 5/28/15 at 12:08 pm to dnm3305
The ice storm that hit Atlanta also hit Birmingham pretty hard. I wasn't stranded since I have a 4x4, but it wasn't very comfortable navigating on frozen streets wearing suit pants and dress shoes. Thankfully we still had power.
But I did pack and old gym bag when I finally made it home the next day. Good boots, jeans, some thermal shirts, an old sweatshirt hoodie. And then I threw in some food bars, a flashlight, lighter, knife, and as many bottles of water as would fit in it. Left it in the Jeep all winter.
I wouldn't have minded bunking down at work, but the schools were closing and everyone hit the road at once trying to get their kids. I wasn't going to at first, since my wife was headed to get them. But 15 minutes later she calls me saying her van is stuck and she can't go anywhere. She stayed in a local bakery all afternoon, drinking coffee and ate a little bit. She hiked about a half mile back to her office in the ice and I eventually made it there and we (she) decided to sleep there and get the kids the next day. One of our friends picked our daughter up from school and they were stranded at my son's daycare since it was at the top of a few hills with just one way in. Waited until sunrise and we drove straight there and then home with no one else on the roads but the road crews out surveying and spreading sand.
So I don't imagine some end of the world scenario as much as I do rapidly changing weather conditions. I keep a bag in my Jeep at all times now with enough in it to live off of a couple of days.
But I did pack and old gym bag when I finally made it home the next day. Good boots, jeans, some thermal shirts, an old sweatshirt hoodie. And then I threw in some food bars, a flashlight, lighter, knife, and as many bottles of water as would fit in it. Left it in the Jeep all winter.
I wouldn't have minded bunking down at work, but the schools were closing and everyone hit the road at once trying to get their kids. I wasn't going to at first, since my wife was headed to get them. But 15 minutes later she calls me saying her van is stuck and she can't go anywhere. She stayed in a local bakery all afternoon, drinking coffee and ate a little bit. She hiked about a half mile back to her office in the ice and I eventually made it there and we (she) decided to sleep there and get the kids the next day. One of our friends picked our daughter up from school and they were stranded at my son's daycare since it was at the top of a few hills with just one way in. Waited until sunrise and we drove straight there and then home with no one else on the roads but the road crews out surveying and spreading sand.
So I don't imagine some end of the world scenario as much as I do rapidly changing weather conditions. I keep a bag in my Jeep at all times now with enough in it to live off of a couple of days.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 12:10 pm to TU Rob
yall should do like KR and grow corn out of your truck bed.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 12:20 pm to Chad504boy
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 12:22 pm to OleBallCoach
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 12:32 pm to oleyeller
I make and store pemmican. Beef fat (Tallow) is the most coloric dense food you'll find. The shelf life is amazing.
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 12:37 pm to OleBallCoach
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are you serious about any of that? If so how do you even sleep at night
By having a bug out bag.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 12:43 pm to OleBallCoach
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are you serious about any of that? If so how do you even sleep at night....geessh. Man i had no clue there really are people in good ole Louisiana like that. Hell wanna talk about MRE's random idiots dropped a case of MRE's at my door step every single day for the entire Rita outage...have no clue as to why...like we are all of a sudden gonna starve in less than two weeks so we need to pack on 4000 calories a day just in case.....craziest shite I have ever heard of. Hell this is Louisisana...water everywhere...you can boil and cool it in minutes to drink from every river, stream and lake. Food around every corner from animals to vegetation, why the hell would you ever wanna 'bug out'? Where the hell else you wanna go?
Man, I sure hope none of us ever have to go through any type of post-apocalyptic scenario, but you have no idea how dependent you are on civility and technology. You would be in for a very rude awakening. I dont think you have any clue of what it takes to sustain life, even for a small population. You wouldnt be able to just waltz outside and shoot a cow, pick berries, harvest corn and rice and live a happy life. Every single person in your area would be trying to the exact same thing in a scenario that would have no order or civility. People are animals at their very core, and the animal would come out when backed into a corner. You think your neighbor would share his corn with you and your family or shoot you to eliminate you as a threat? This post was edited on 5/28/15 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 5/28/15 at 12:51 pm to OleBallCoach
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Where the hell else you wanna go?
Into the wilderness to live in seclusion for a long period of time (at least 6 months). This would allow the weak to die off and the elite to rise. Gangs would form and they would pillage the surrounding areas until there was nothing left to consume, then they would turn on each other. That would include raping and killing your family, stealing every single asset you have, then moving on to the next house. Are you prepared to defend your home alone in the middle of the city against a gang that wants what you have? No, youre not. No one is. You would have to move to the woods, live in seclusion for a long period of time, slowly branch out to like minded people that have survived and form treaties for the hope of colonization. You would then be at war constantly with surrounding people that dont share the same moral code or ethics as you. We are civilized people, but we would be thrusted into the world of a caveman.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 1:11 pm to dnm3305
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Into the wilderness to live in seclusion for a long period of time (at least 6 months). This would allow the weak to die off and the elite to rise. Gangs would form and they would pillage the surrounding areas until there was nothing left to consume, then they would turn on each other. That would include raping and killing your family, stealing every single asset you have, then moving on to the next house. Are you prepared to defend your home alone in the middle of the city against a gang that wants what you have? No, youre not. No one is. You would have to move to the woods, live in seclusion for a long period of time, slowly branch out to like minded people that have survived and form treaties for the hope of colonization. You would then be at war constantly with surrounding people that dont share the same moral code or ethics as you. We are civilized people, but we would be thrusted into the world of a caveman.
im no doomsday prepper or anything. But to think nothing could ever happen in the great us of a is naive. And to think if it did you would be just fine living off the land like you know how to now is far fetched. I just like to be prepared, rather its a natural disaster or a gubment takeover lol.
oh and dnm3305 i wasnt directing this toward you, just replied to your mesg
Posted on 5/28/15 at 1:41 pm to oleyeller
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 1:49 pm to OleBallCoach
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 1:50 pm to oleyeller
Get a jar of peanut butter and as others have said...MREs.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 2:08 pm to OleBallCoach
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Oh yea.,...id like to take this time to once again thank LSU for a wonderful education so I didn't end up with the thought process of some
live in the woods
thanking lsu for great education
make up your mind, are you a big business man or a country boy
Posted on 5/28/15 at 2:13 pm to OleBallCoach
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Im a country boy we farm, grow, hunt and fish
So youre the same as nearly every single person that posts on this board.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 2:18 pm to oleyeller
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 2:20 pm to OleBallCoach
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Oh yea.,...id like to take this time to once again thank LSU for a wonderful education so I didn't end up with the thought process of some
Well, clearly you didnt get a degree in history as you have no scope or reference as to how much civilization has evolved. Human life has been on this planet for approx 200,000 years. Modern industrialization has only been around since the 1800's and slavery has only been abolished for 150 years with the signing of the Emacipation Proclamation. That means humans have been civilized for approximately 0.0006% of our existence.
But go ahead and keep on believing that "a good ole country boy can survive" if the shite hits the fan.
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