Sunday, December 31, 2017

prepper tier 4 of 4


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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16 comments:

  1. The achievable level one can attain under normal-reasonable resources/money spent would be a one+ year period of time frame. There is so much "other" necessary that past a year or so become problematic to plan for. Pulling absess teeth to stay alive is only the beginning. An isolated monastery type infrastructure in place and up and running self sufficiently with multi generational human and skill/knowledge replacements in the pipeline would be in order for decade plus scenarios. Good luck making that work with modern selfish punk-assed humans. If your middling aged and preppin' for your sport/hobby then be content to sqeeze as much life out this lemon and outlast the other jerks you had to wait in line or traffic behind all those years! Great series again Jim.

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    1. Thanks, glad you enjoyed. I don't know why I'm so animated by this topic, other than it is a bit fanboy/ubernerd driven.

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  2. By your definition my LOL (lifetime old lady) and I would be solid sevens with minors in 8,9 and 10.
    Of course reality and Murphy have a bad habit of screwing things up.
    One of the prime factors for our choice of Florida is post oil/ grid survival of winter. Throw in Yellowstone and anything north is not gonna make it.
    It gets right back to even if you are seven level, tomorrow could take you back to a one level and hopefully you've got a bugout bag. Not to mention experience surviving with nothing more than what you can carry.

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    1. FL is not a bad choice at all, as you say. If I was as comfortable in a swamp as I am in the desert, it would have stayed my choice. It works better on you.

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    2. Kinda figured you'd get a kick out of my acronym for my wife...
      You've got NOL and I've got a LOL ha ha

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    3. That was good! :) Of course, we all need MORE acronyms. At least she isn't your GILF.

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  3. Sounds as if you’re fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on how you look at it) to make it to tier 7, you’d better have those primitive bushcraft skills down. It’s tough to say how it would play out. I think that the gangs will be the most likely to make it to this stage, yet something tells me that such types wouldn’t bother with the practice of such knowledgeable skill-sets, but rather get there on raw brutality alone. The remote hermit types, the few that exist, will probably fare better over the long haul.

    One advantage of the desert is that due to its harshness and lack of water, most people would never even attempt to traverse the more remote regions. Though any towns or retreats within close proximity to a highway or major road, will be in danger. Have some topographical maps for your area, in case you need to make a hasty exit. Not all water sources shown will in reality have water once you make it there, so scout out as many as you can within close proximity to each other. You can take a weekend jaunt out there to occasionally check the availability of the water sources, or try Google Earth and check it that way. Just be aware that those Google Earth images for remote areas aren’t updated very often. Of course, undoubtedly others will have the same idea, so ideally you will have some cache’s set up at various strategic points, should you have to move on if someone else has beat you to your chosen location.

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    1. Google Earth was terrible-my place was on pre-construction pics for around five years or so. Don't trust 'em!

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    2. I haven’t used Google Earth lately, but I’m pretty sure that the last time I looked at my junk land, there was the option to see when the image was taken. Get some topographical maps for the area, and take note of all creeks, springs, ponds, etc, over a 20 mile radius ideally. Does the NOL have a 4x4? You might consider a cheap Craiglist dirt bike (the motorized variety). I know you don’t believe in bugout bags, but you never know when you might need to get out of Dodge, and quickly. And Elko is uncomfortably close to a major thoroughfare.

      You could even keep it in the motorcycle’s saddle bags (Be sure to include a lifestraw as well). You can turn it into a weekend hobby, just make sure that you know how to read maps so you don’t get lost in the desert. You’re a cheap source of entertainment that I don’t wish to lose 😀

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    3. I'm on the bob. And the river north is unsettled.

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  4. Tier 6 unless we're talking about my whole tribe then we're in trouble.

    Pushing to Tier 7 if I can get my eyes off buying a new rifle (this one being _Teh one_) CZ 527 in 223 OR CZ 557 Ranger. Don't worry Lord Bison, I don't even have enough for a deposit on one of them. :-)

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    1. I know how it is with a better ( ?-not really, it is just the lizard brain trying to convince the squishy emotional part ) arsenal always Siren calling to you.

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  5. Good video from Canadian Prepper about your new years resolutions...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV_4aJUkm38

    Peace out

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    1. I keep trying to watch Kunukian Prepper, but he just drones on. I'm digging on Pastor Joe of Viking Preparedness.

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  6. Well my fireworks in las vegas this new years is at least conditioning my brain past a ptsd stage to an acceptance level of small arms fire at night. I think adapting to such stimuli in various forms is gonna be a major key to adjusting to new normals. Have to get tossed on your ass some times to get out of comfort zones and be ready. Just passing on an analogy to what may happen. Peace out, and nice hair Jim!

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    1. True about getting tossed on your ass-and of course none of us likes it. Happy New Year.

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