All hell has broken loose. Hurricane-force winds are howling all around you, the ground is shaking in never-ending darkness. You constantly feel nauseous. Rain is pounding the roof of your shelter, thundering in your ears. A fireball explodes nearby. The earth is moaning and groaning. Noises you have never heard before are all around you. You're in the worst war zone that has ever been.
You are deafened, you are blind; you are on a never-ending carnival ride run by evil clowns. This has been going on for more than a day. You're exhausted, your nerves are frayed, you're scared to death, you feel like you are starting to lose your grip on sanity. The kids are past crying. They sit silent and somber, smelling of excretions. You feel death is at the door.
What can you do now that will help prepare you and your family to combat the fear?
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You can make coffee and flour from acorns, white pine bark is good to eat,
I spent summers on my grandparents farm. They were sharecroppers so I learned (during the summers) to do without a lot. My Grandfather taught me so much about how to live off the land. And him through his mother who happened to be fullblooded Cherokee. I know I am luckier than others but I believe if you have a will to survive you will.
Austin, I read that you should put the worms in a bag of flour for a while. The worms eat the flour and then they purge the junk from their systems. Definitely need to find what spices/sauces will mask any off flavors. Chopping them up so they don't look like worms would probably help too.
It's the spiders I can't do.....eeeuuuuwwwww. Worms at least look kind of like spaghetti.
It's true, Brian. Think of housework drudgery a hundred or more years ago. Any non-electric appliance you can get now would be a miracle in the aftertimes.
But let's not forget that our ET friends will be helping too. That's something to focus on, that things won't be as desperate as we think. Having brought sufficient supplies with us gives them time to help the less fortunate, so there is another reason for preparing, just like in a hurricane...everyone can't be helped at once. There are too many, even if only 10% of the population, that's still a lot of people.
As for hunting, all I can hope is my food supplies make it through, or I'll be eating worms. Maybe. People starve to death rather than eat something distasteful. I don't know which I am because I've never been in that kind of a situation before. Maybe I should start practic....eh, later, maybe, huh?
My favorite Mark Twain quote (actually, it is said that he was quoting Benjamin Disraeli):
There are three kinds of lies:
Lies,
Damn Lies, and
Statistics.
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