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PREPPER TIERS 4

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7) Year long.  Tier Six was Seasonal, all the easy and cool supplies gone and the need to resupply somehow.  The Year Long Tier Seven is no different except in duration ( finally, right?  A literal definition instead of another abstract concept.  Damnit Jim, stop confusing everyone so you sound smarter than you are ).  Yet, this seems to be the hardest Top Tier to ever get to ( the next three tiers are close to impossible to reach, as we’ll see ).  I take great pride in my minions.  They are the crème de la crop of preppers-by definition because nobody else would be so dedicated to the hobby that they put up with my crap.

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And what is their average stockpile?  Not a year of food.  Nobody wants a years worth of just wheat.  I’m not judging.  I know I have a freakish attraction to it ( being poor will warp you like that-thank goodness I didn’t attach to money.  Poor imprints you, just like your first sexual encounter.  Luckily mine was a chunky gal, so my standards there were never high.  And thankfully when poor I latched on to wheat as my calories savior ), and I know a lot of that aversion is practical as that translates into a higher octane fuel.

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But as with all two sided coins, the good part is quality and the bad part is quantity.  It is almost impossible to have both.  I implore and screech and beg of you to pick quantity over quality, but then I also understand that you’d be a bigger fool to not do what works exclusively for you alone.  Quantity is my preference.  That makes it easy for me to realize Tier Seven And A Half, while making it harder for you to get to just Tier Seven.  Hey, who knows, your far superior diet might be strategically sound while my barely adequate one might see me dead much sooner ( the Chinese with their vast Rice Fed Army did poorly against lesser numbers of meat eating horsemen ).

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Tier Seven also differs in that you must plan and train for NO IMPUTS for the entire time.  Going from three months ( seasonal ) to one year of no resupply isn’t just a simple matter of stocking four times the goods ( other than in food, that is a simple matter of the ideal 3k kilocalories X 365 ), because you must build an entirely new infrastructure.  For Seasonal, you just stocked up on the existing infrastructures capabilities.  That was the propane and gasoline and chest full of clothes and etcetera.  To get through a year, however, usually means you must recreate a two century old localized economy, and that crap ain’t easy because all the old was wiped away by petroleum.

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Homesteaders and Backwoods Home types would be a natural for Tier Seven, except they are NOT preppers.  And if they ain’t even preppers, how can they hope to be survivalists?  Anyone who allows the bank to take their home is NOT a prepper.  You are better off living in the city with a debt free home than you are living in the country with a mortgage.  But almost as bad as that, besides mortgaging their food production ( what?  The Great Depression didn’t teach anyone how bad of an idea this was? ), they have a naïve view of life that will get them killed.

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I’d call this view “Libertarians On Farms”.  They think, as do all libertarians, that what is right and just should be reality.  They ignore the dog eat dog reality to live in their fantasy world of Natural Rights.  They don’t understand that Might Makes Right.  Owning a gun waiting to shoot revenuers is NOT prepping for the apocalypse.  It is a child living under the bed covers ( “if I can’t see them, they can’t see me” ).  Anyway, my strategy for Tier Seven was to go so low on the frugality scale that I can easily last several years with supplies on hand.  I have a little bit of Libertarians On Farms ( without the farm ) in my plans as I’m not far enough away to actually remain unmolested, but in my defense my prerequisite for success is already beginning as people start leaving town ( the bloom is off the rose economically, here ).  And when I moved here, the plan WAS more realistic ( until the boom started ).

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8) I could of course go on at length with Tier Seven, as it is the Survivalist Norm Or Sought Standard, but I think the series of articles here has gone on long enough.  Let’s wrap this bitch up with the last three near impossible Tiers.  Tier Eight is Decade long.  The standard example is if Yellowstone Volcano erupted ( there are a few other Super Volcanoes out there, but Yellowstone seems the most willing to blow any day now ).  You’d need supplies to see you through a decade of sunlight so degraded from atmospheric particulates that nothing would be able to grow and the animals would die.

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Yellowstone is actually something literally impossible like Tier Twelve, centuries long with NO SUPPLIES, if it turns out to be Worse Case Species Bottleneck Event, but in terms of preparing ten years should be more than adequate.  The atmosphere would be clear enough after just a few/five years, but then you’d need more storage to get you through other species survival cycles.  But, can you REALLY plan for a decade on JUST storage?  Sure.  But when you need to transition livestock through that event, therein lies the real rub.  It’s friggin Noah’s Ark for ten friggin years instead of seven days and seven nights and a slight Drying Out period. 

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9) Generations.  This is either your Total Retirement Stockpile Without Resupply, or the multigenerational plan where you stock for your grandkids.  In theory, this is easily achievable as you merely take your five year supply and multiply that by six or eight for the consumables.  Not impossible, right?  You already have the homestead and arsenal, you just need the clothing, entertainment, ammunition and the like.  The problem though, as I see it, is that you can’t stockpile for the infrastructure collapse. 

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Right now I’m living in a 105 year old house.  A lot of you back East might be living in 150 year old ones.  Does anyone with an iota of sense really think that anything built in the last fifty years will last all that much longer?  And those houses built today, right now, without an insanely prohibitive cost, are not going to outlast its mortgage.  Supplies, affordable or if not affordable feasibly financed ones, are built with Job One being Quality Zero.  Crap is going to be falling apart around your ears.  Is fixing it feasible?  What if you didn’t have a car or a mule to get far enough to salvage?  This is what I mean about your infrastructure collapsing.

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10) Centuries.  Now we get to the point where salvage is gone and done.  If there is still metal, it is long ago rusted away, good for nothing but Termite.  Nothing is feasibly imported from the Oil Age.  Actually, this is more attainable than Tier Nine, as there is a far more primitive build up that uses all natural material.  It might even be an uneasy blend of Stone and Metal Age, given the complete lack of non-petroleum extracted ores available.  Given the lack of people, due to the pollution and soil infertility and aquifer depletion, herding and slash and burn farming are more feasible.  It will by necessity look more like the proto-Agricultural Age than it will Agricultural Empire Age.  The complete planning for this tier is just books on knowledge.

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Stone Age Preppers are by definition Tier Ten.  The problem isn’t planning, stocking or skills but just finding an area you will be unmolested to live Tier Ten.  It is easier to stock for Tier Nine than live Tier Ten.  Okay!  We are done here.

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