Yet another fascinating blog entry from Preparedness Pro about communications in an emergency situation. When all hell breaks loose, it may not break loose where you live, it may break loose where someone you love lives. How can you keep in touch?
Kellene makes a number of very intelligent recommendations including having a wireline phone with corded phone for when the power goes out, skype (which can be used with a cell phone) for emergencies away, and a number of other options for long-term outages when wireline phones are not an option. How about becoming a Ham radio operator and get plugged into an alternate network of news on the ground. Learn shorthand, and/or Sign Language. There was an episode of Star Trek where Sign Language was used in battle when regular communications were out.
It strikes me that if you have a group of like-minded preppers and you all learned an abbreviated set of signs to use in emergencies when quiet is necessary, that would be a very good thing. You can even come up with signs of your own.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Disturbing News from South of the Border
If Americans ever received a clearer indicator that they no longer live in the land of the free, it's the kind of legislation the U.S. Senate is contemplating right now, Senate Bill S410 Food Safety Moderation Act. It seems ironic that it is Canadian "watch dogs" that have alerted Americans to this threat. Check out the article.
I've read a lot of survivalist blogs and texts floating around on the internet, and there was one fellow/group who predicted this very thing, and worse, so it was a bit surreal to see this kind of thing going on in the U.S. Imagine making seed-saving illegal. Let's take another step, and imagine making it illegal to use compost that you made yourself, illegal to grow non-hybrid crops, illegal to use home-made alternatives to commercial products. Sounds like a movie I recently watched called Downstream is not entirely crazy.
I hope this kind of insane BigCorp mentality isn't contagious.
Update December 1, 2010: Check out Dr. Laura's Blog. The thought police are rising in America.
I've read a lot of survivalist blogs and texts floating around on the internet, and there was one fellow/group who predicted this very thing, and worse, so it was a bit surreal to see this kind of thing going on in the U.S. Imagine making seed-saving illegal. Let's take another step, and imagine making it illegal to use compost that you made yourself, illegal to grow non-hybrid crops, illegal to use home-made alternatives to commercial products. Sounds like a movie I recently watched called Downstream is not entirely crazy.
I hope this kind of insane BigCorp mentality isn't contagious.
Update December 1, 2010: Check out Dr. Laura's Blog. The thought police are rising in America.
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