Living in an area frequently hit with Hurricanes and even tornadoes I've always had to keep an eye out for preparedness

but I'm telling you people, it's on a whole new level after the government sponsored event I attended

Trust me on this one. I'm not one easily moved or swayed by conspiracies of any kind and I am least likely to trust to the government. But when you have some pretty high ranking people looking like the boogie man just slapped them around on a zoom call it's time to take a deeper look.

And when they disclosed how fragile our grid really is I was floored.

Go for it 

Quote from: Reggie Essent on February 18, 2026, 08:02:34 PMHa!  No, man, but I could ask an old buddy.  He's a big Ham Radio guy.  Got a license and the whole schmeer.  I ain't talked to him in years. Used to jam together.  Big Bluegrass guy.

Dude! You're overthinking it. As long as you have an agreed upon plan, you just have to trust in Providence that all will go well.

And it's funny you mention GPS. I've never used it. Last year I drove out west to Idaho, taking all kinds of side routes to see shit and stuff, and I used a good old Rand McNally paper atlas, even though I have one of those dashboard touchscreen GPS hold-your-goddamned-hand-because-you're-a-pussy thingies in my car.

I don't fucking need that!  I got a map!

But I digress, the important thing is you have The Plan. Comms are important, but not guaranteed. If everyone important knows exactly where to go in case of Sideways, you always have Hope.

Overthinking is part of my core function in what I do for a living. Preparing for the worst case scenario of a disaster and cybersecurity

so I probably just cant help myself

I even have spare parts for my generators and replaceable parts for my car and truck. My well pump pressure switch can go bad 9 times during the apocalypse and I still wont have to show up to a hardware store to buy another -- kinda helps that I get them for free though 

my deep analytical & meticulous thought process comes from being a virgo I guess -- I try to leave nothing to chance. From a years supply of the spices I cook with to old school DVD players that still connect with those audio video cable thinggies

Should I?

I've got an artistic sibling who can help me with the formatting and lay out.

ATF seizes 36K guns as Trump administration shifts focus from Biden priorities to cartels, street crime

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Quote from: Dove on February 18, 2026, 07:57:00 PMNope it was just straight regular Hunts tomato paste.

 Lord knows having my period is just like acidic tomato paste leaking out my asshole 

You're really trying to gross me out...

Little steps young Padawan....

Quote from: Oliver the Second on February 18, 2026, 08:22:18 PMAny way to bounce a signal off a satellite or something like that?

He's got Starlink.... and if he has the money for a couple high altitude balloons carrying Gotenna Mesh relays, he's got a sizeable portion of Florida and up the East Coast.

Sorry, that sounded sarcastic... wasn't meant to be.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on February 18, 2026, 07:41:14 PMI do have agreed upon routes and spots and even have maps already printed to paper as GPS will be a thing of better times at that point but it's a long route down 95 and the highway will probably be littered with all kinds of issues. I've already told him that if the crisis is still fresh he can get on the highway but if we're already a few hours in avoid them like the plague as they will be death traps.


I make sure he's stocked with at least 10 gallons of extra gas and he does own a pickup truck.

But if he's stranded and runs out of gas anywhere along that route I want to be able to grab my guns, my extra gas -- hop in my pickup and go get him. wherever he is.

I've never been this way before but then again, in my 30 years of experience doing what I do I've never heard government sponsored agencies so intensely worried about a grid down even that is expected to last months if not years.

Cloud services went down yesterday for the 5th time this year.

Something is coming old friend.

Take a chill pill. Something is coming. It always does come and people are stunned, shocked, furious, when it does... As long as you raised your kids with common sense, they'll likely prevail.

Just last evening my 13 year old was walking around the yard with an open knife looking for a tree branch to whittle. She thought nothing of it. That was her birthday gift at 9 yo, and she's very crafty. I suggested to her that Australian cops would see that, walk up to her with a hand on their service arm and shoot if she freaked out.... then spin it in the state run media.

I should have said that to her far earlier. Taught her knife skills but forgot to mention authoritarian socialist pigs. Kids grow up so fast, eh? 

She was shocked and said, "but it's our property!?", and I'm like yeah and no.. we're American, but we're NOT in America. The pigs here are even piggier than in the worst run Democrat city. 

Something is coming....eventually. We prepare for our lineage. I don't ultimately care now if I live or die. I'm generally surrounded by fuckwits unless I'm in my home. The younger guys at work randomly say the most ignorant shit about the US in my presence and I don't pull them up. At best, I just make myself scarce. Stuff that even American leftists had to eat crow about years ago..

But there are good wholesome people here in the interior. Connections made and offers made. We're going there.... as the capital cities full of fair weather migrants and dumb socialist Australians (which is about 85-90% of them) kill each other..then fan out and try to kill and/or steal from those of us outside of the CBD's.

But I had an instinct early on to get as far away from the US as I could, and I don't regret that. I am a through and through Libertarian American. If I have to suffer here so my kids survive, well be it.

I still think the US is going to get knocked to its knees in my lifetime. Maybe I jumped the gun... dunno...