On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:58:35 GMT, Alan Connor wrote:


On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 07:58:35 GMT, Alan Connor wrote:

Dear Sue,

I know you want to believe that you will be able to go on living much as you
do after TEOTWAWKI, but that just isn't going to happen.

Most of the survival information presented on this group is of SHORT-TERM
relevance only.

These folks just don't realize that if they are dependent on complex tech-
nologies in a world without the industrial infrastructure to maintain them,
they just aren't going to last more than a year or two, outside.

They seem to believe that what's coming will be just another Depression to
be weathered until it passes.

Sorry. There are far more people now, than there were in the 30's, and the
Land is in MUCH worse shape.

There will be no recovery from this Depression.

Mobility will be the key to survival, and if you can't run like hell for
your lives on a moment's notice, then you probably won't make it.

This means that you need to have Bug-Out-Bags handy and have the knowledge
and tools in them to create what you need from native raw materials.

Food -- Clothing -- Footwear -- Shelter -- Heat -- Light -- Water --

An addiction to animal foods will probably do you in faster than anything
else.

It is just too much work and there will be too many people competing for
what animals there are.

There is also no way to adequately camoflauge a Shelter if you hunt or
trap or keep animals. Too many signs.

"Camoflauge". Oh yes. Your FIRST defense.

Unless you are a fool that wants to live like a pig because you have to
put all your energy and time into (maybe) driving off people that want
what you have.

Or running from them...


see http://home.earthlink.net/~littlefoot8/wildwood.html



AC



And above all, don't have anything to do with any of the people that look
upon the gun as their primary survival tool.

If you even let them know where your Shelter is, you will be sorry, because
they will be forced by their own stupidity and ignorance to become brigands
in no time, if they even live that long.

The other group of people here to avoid, and the two often overlap, are
the ones that seem to think that they can live just like the American
Pioneers did in the MOVIES.

Sorry. But the North American continent is just not what it was back then.
There are 100X as many people and 1/100th of the unspoiled wilderness.

And most of them have guns but no other survival skills.

Which leaves competing for the rapidly dwindling populations of large
game animals and piracy their only means of survival.

When they run out of canned goods they are going to be dangerous as ****,
or sooner if they don't have any stores.

see http://home.earthlink.net/~littlefoot8/wildwood.html



AC