JO your link page does near 100% google translate over to English.
Seems like the four eastern Baltic countries are in a world of hurt having to be energy importers.
AND since I started this topic North Korea been 5.1 earth shaking faking a mini-thermal-hydrogen bomb.
Ukraine just released that a pre-Christmas grid-taken-down occurrence was the result of an activated, embedded “blackenergy” hacker program. Finger pointing to Russia.
BillS frozen dead wood is good wood to directly burn. One year we had enough F.teens, low enough, long enough freeze-down I trialed burning ~30% moisture frozen solid wood. Interesting it did better with small frozen loads onto the hot char bed versus bring inside to thaw first. Give it a try.
Resurching inverter/generator run reliability a fellow posted up a 30 hour failure video you might find interesting.
On youtube users name of desertdualsport, “30 Hour Damage Update”.
William and Al,my favorite set of books is by a fellow named Jared Diamond.
“COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose Fail or Succeed”. Follows up on his Pulitzer Prize winning, “Guns, Germs and Steel”. And then a later follow up book.
He approaches this from a resources depletion angle with many documented examples and lots of real human story interviews. Great historian.
Dumb shit guy though. He lives; and has his family live in L.A.
Yes in the middle of a friggin’ desert dependent on robbing water and energy from three states.
Obviously he is asking for a top-down progressive changing.
So . . . I will search out and read your references.
I am already aware of the events you listed. Family silver is old stashed from the FDR take-away days. Kennedy/Johnson had thier ways with the sandwich silver degrade.
What I will be looking for in Rienhart, Roghoff, and Martin Armstrong is where, and how they personally have chosen to live for themselves and their families based on their writings. Are they responsible men?
Al Gore; versus Chris Martinson, wife and family moved out rural now. With gardens and chickens.
If you believe it - Do Something Personal About setting up for you and yours. Set an example. Just like woodgas. Some use-proof. Others preach.
So are they New York city living? Chicogo city living? Asking for a top-down regressive changing?
And this leads into, “Am I my brother keeper?” Nope. I am not.
I was 17 years old before I acquired my first brother. Older sister married. Just turned 21 when my folks took in two american Indian boys as foster brothers. Then my younger sister married. Then I married my wife. Two brothers with that package. Up to six then. Then my youngest sister married. Seven!
Only one lives in-state close enough to heip. We been helping back and forth for decades now. Of the others: four doing great for themselves and thiers. Need no help. One a ex-marine recovered alcoholic, much loved, with an always invitation to come and stay. And one died under a bridge stabbed to death by a fellow, out of control alcoholic.
So I still do not consider myself as my brothers keepers.
My ten joining neighbor families . . that is a different story. Five live just like we do. Rural. Independent. Free and proud of it. We already swap propties watching when gone. Critter tending as needed. I’ve been called to free a oops mistaken leg trapped Bald Eagle. Helped pull calves. Head thumped a toxic weed paralyzed Named goat, needing dome. Then baried respectfully with a cross marker that I’d made up. Have three more than our own dogs buried up in our hillside pet cemitary. Been asked to be a back-up kill-shooter come hog slaugter day when the neighbor Mr get called out on his river tug job.
Point is we already have active share resonsibilties relationships.
The other five adjoining neighbors are one acre lot owners. On previous family farm properties.
WE swap garden produce. Dog escape adventures. Children growing responsibility learning lessons.
Shit hit the fan. Long term grid down, and we will be sharing out everything we got with these neighbors as needs arise.
It is this ongoing investment in others that I do not see in the preppers.
Got one house in town bought up by a couple of three guys in the 2008-10 down turn for cheap.
They only show up in their mondo big tired prepper vehicles a few times a year.
Any one of us old gray haired heart-walker guys tried to say howdi sidewalk walking by been growled at.
So the cofeeshop/bar talk is SHTF we’all know where to find lots of bullets, bandages, and cans of beans.
Preeper boys if they can even make it up here past all of the urban crush going to find a dug-in for the duration community. One they chose to shun any human investment involvement into.
They will be givne one last chance to become involved. Town cematary is still half empty. SHTF and starting at three months on out to a year it will be filling up. Us meds dependent be some of the first. My plots bought/reserved.
Young fathers loving their children be doing the follow up cematary filling as needs-must.
Us been-there, done-that, gray hairs giving them the examples courage.
Governments are always either top-down too late, too little. Or too top-down intrusive, “We’re from the Government. We’re here to help. Now do things OUR way.” Both approces wrong.
Only thing keeping a couple local drug dealers alive now and one absolute pain in the ass neighbor hated now by all, having every government agency on speed dial and calling in folks for nothings, is one brown shirted County Deputy. SHTF he will not be there anymore to “protect and serve” these.
All the studies say, all of the histories say that one year out with no complex interdependent societal infrastructure be a 50% die off rate. Second year be a die off of 50% of those remaining. Just as important as health, and luck, to be in the remaining you have to be civil and helpful to your niegbors.
No one can actually sleep with their eyes open, irregardless of the prepper/survivor/fanisy books, magazines and Hollywood flicks.
Invest in to your neighbors ahead of time.
I never see Survivalists, Preppers doing this.
Regards
Steve Unruh
