re: What do you think of "Doomsday Preppers"

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Every year I grow a large garden and can or freeze enough produce to last me throughout the year. I also plant fall, and winter gardens to supply fresh greens, carrots, beets, onions, etc.

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How will you be freezing something in Mississippi in a "prepper" scenario? Where will you get the seeds?

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Where will you get the seeds?

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Considering that he already has gardens, seeds should not be in short supply.

FTR, I said I'd make it about two days.

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After reading some of the post in this thread, I wonder how many people in this country could survive for 8 weeks if the shite really hit the fan.

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This is how you get warlords...

Where are they going to go? I'm not going to let them come out to my farm and take over. Do they really think they can live off the land? There are about 350 mill people in the US. A third would die quickly, by starvation or mob rule. There are only so many animals in the woods they could eat!

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Where are they going to go? I'm not going to let them come out to my farm and take over.

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You're not going to have much of a choice, if the DoD is right. There's a study out there by the DoD about what the aftermath of a nuclear attack on major cities would look like. Anyone who survives the attack will quickly deplete the supplies still viable in the cities. They will begin streaming out of the cities, increasingly hungry and increasingly desperate. Even though hundreds of thousands or millions may have died, there will still be hundreds of thousands or millions leaving the city and trying not to die. I believe the study centered on a strike on D.C. and people streaming out into the Maryland, Delaware, and Virgina countryside.

The TL;DR is that if they think there are supplies there, there will be so many of them that you can't kill them quick enough to prevent them from ransacking your place and scavenging everything there and then moving on like locusts.

I am prepped for low to mid level events, as everyone should be...but I would have no desire to survive an event that would blow us back to to the stone age or even to the mid 1800's...not interested at my age.

They gonna have to walk a far piece to get to my 5 acres from any city of significance. IF they do they better have god with them is all I can say

Houseboat on the lake with a 50 cal BMG FTW.

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I am prepped for low to mid level events, as everyone should be...but I would have no desire to survive an event that would blow us back to to the stone age or even to the mid 1800's...not interested at my age.

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Would you end you?