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All-In [27149]
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For the preppers out there...
Apr 18, 2022, 12:53 PM
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Potassium Iodide caps in adult/kid dosage are available from Anbex, one of the approved sellers.
https://www.anbex.com/shop/iosat-potassium-iodide-65mg/
Does not hurt to have these around, and they come with a 10yr shelf life.
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Lot o points [155944]
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Perspective is a funny thing
Apr 18, 2022, 1:01 PM
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By every valid statistic, I’m on the right side of the average lifespan curve. My kids are also at the point where, while it would be less than ideal, they could continue their existence without my wife and me—-in other words, my role as protector is quickly diminishing.
As those two things have aligned, the more that “prepping” has seemed like a waste of time to me. If I got the alert that an ICBM was headed my way here in 2022, I’d likely ask Alexa to play a favorite tune, pour three fingers of bourbon, and go sit on my deck.
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CU Medallion [60234]
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and queue this song up on the stereo
Apr 18, 2022, 1:17 PM
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https://youtu.be/LuN6gs0AJls
Modern English lead singer Robbie Grey, who wrote the song with his four bandmates, explained: "I don't think many people realized it was about a couple making love as the bomb dropped. As they made love, they become one and melt together."
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All-In [27149]
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A more realistic scenario is something like a more extreme
Apr 18, 2022, 1:27 PM
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version of COVID. Something that isn't society ending, but enough to break, at least temporarily, basic civil services (medical services, food chain, police, etc.) where self-sufficiency will be required for a few weeks/months before order is restored.
We also live close enough to a nuclear facility in which having these on hand isn't a bad idea.
A little light prepping costs a nominal amount overall, and gives you enough self-sufficiency to outlast disruptions to the status quo. Even if you never use the stuff, it's a small price to pay to know if stuff goes sideways you're fine to bunker up for a few weeks.
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Heck, even Katrina reaches this threshold if you weren't
Apr 18, 2022, 1:29 PM
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able to get out afterwards.
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Re: Yeah, when I was in Lake Wylie they used to give those pills
Apr 18, 2022, 1:58 PM
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Dhec and counties have a stockpile and distribution setup. If you can get to it. One of the problems is the expiration. It would have to be an event or extreme probability for it to be distributed on orders by governors and health officials. In other words were gone be screwed if there is fallout deposition.
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I "kinda" do it because of regular extended power outages
Apr 18, 2022, 1:42 PM
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from tornados, hurricanes, ice storms. Duke Power has forced me to learn how to live without power for a week at a time. Far from a "prepper" though. After a storm, seems I'm the last one in the area to get restoration. I think I've gone a week without power 3 times in the last 5 or 6 years.
So I have lanterns, battery powered stuff, a car power inverter, generator. I aim to get some solar stuff so I don't have to rely on gasoline, just never have gotten to it yet. I have a bunch of food in the pantry I either don't have to cook or can cook over open fire or grill (again, thanks for the hard lessons Duke). And I have chickens, a stocked fish pond, and fruit trees on my property. I could do 6 months never leaving my property pretty easy starting tomorrow. Proper animal feed would be my biggest issue over a long extended period.
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EMP attack that knocks out...
Apr 18, 2022, 2:10 PM
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All of our electronics and sends us back centuries. That's a realistic and frightening scenario.
Have fun when your local grocery store gets stocked for the last time.
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A wide ranging EMP would be difficult to employ
Apr 18, 2022, 2:36 PM
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and would take a LOT to power.
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Our electrical grid is frightening fragile.***
Apr 18, 2022, 2:48 PM
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Oculus Spirit [81078]
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maybe, but the kind of power it would take to do any
Apr 18, 2022, 3:00 PM
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wide area damage couldn't be mustered in anything that also wouldn't be causing its own damage.
Way back when I worked at a generating utility, I just missed seeing a NG generator motorize after some control wires got corrupted. It only took out some of the very local grid and did some damage on the immediate transformer pad.
I can't imagine an EMP being any more dangerous or powerful than a gas generator immediately going from zero to 3600 rpm--backwards.
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Oculus Spirit [81078]
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Thats kinda what I was saying--it would just about have to
Apr 18, 2022, 3:03 PM
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be a nuke to generate the amount of power needed to affect a wider area.
But then you gotta decide--what is really worse? The radioactive fallout/potential heat blast/explosion, or the EMP from a detonated thermo nuclear device?
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I read a novel on it once...
Apr 18, 2022, 3:06 PM
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By a guy who was apparently an expert at one time on this kind of stuff in the Pentagon. It takes place in Black Mountain.
Granted, it was fiction, but the scenario he painted as pretty frightening. Knocking us back into the primitive times with no military or police to help (most vehicles would be toast), no more food deliveries, towns facing war with each other over necessities to survive, etc. I think I'd rather burn up on impact.
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Lol
Apr 18, 2022, 1:06 PM
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people buy that kind of shat?
Must be hard going through life with that level of paranoia.
I know a prepper. Weird dude, paranoid as all get out, conspiracy guy. Told me to BE READY IT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN at the onset of Covid. Said he had just returned from buying extra water filtration devices.
SMH WHAT A GOOBER.
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Oculus Spirit [81078]
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I wonder whatever happend to all those folks in 98-99
Apr 18, 2022, 1:18 PM
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that were moving to the mountains and going "off grid" for the year 2000 stuff.
I was looking at youtube this weekend and there are a slew of folks on there who are predicting the end of teh world stuff that make 2007-2009 like a bad day on the market.
I guess since 2008-2009 seemed to catch a lot of folks off guard, they want to be the first ones to say "told you so!"
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We got an acquaintance family who are preppers
Apr 18, 2022, 1:22 PM
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Bunker in basement, food and medicines for years, ammo and guns galore…..
Asked me if I’d stocked up the other day and said he only asked because we are friends and he’d hate to turn us away when the big event happened. I told him I didn’t need all that stuff, that I just needed to be a better shot than he was. He laughed, but I’m sure he filed that one away.
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The opposite of this
Apr 18, 2022, 2:00 PM
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I feel like this is Lacey
Apr 18, 2022, 2:02 PM
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lacey
@JohnFBell
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Perfect example of a pre-post-peak oil mindset.***
Apr 18, 2022, 1:23 PM
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Just go ahead and call him out
Apr 18, 2022, 2:29 PM
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I get all the iodine I need from Sarah Peldon
Apr 18, 2022, 1:09 PM
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There’s your trivia question of the day . . . .
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COVID proved I was extremely adept at getting things that
Apr 18, 2022, 1:35 PM
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other people were fighting over without waiting in line.
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All-In [27149]
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sweater stockpile came in handy.***
Apr 18, 2022, 1:36 PM
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the best place to buy toilet paper when you were
Apr 18, 2022, 1:49 PM
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you know, actually out.....was the gas station about 20 minutes away in the boonies. Always in stock, never a line and I could get a shot of whiskey while I was there too. Boom, done & done and never told anyone about the place.
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Carolina Reaper preppers are great and I LOVE
Apr 18, 2022, 3:13 PM
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habanero preppers
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A1 post.
Apr 18, 2022, 5:29 PM
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Would read again.
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