tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812128414310678524.post4038653500787093164..comments2023-09-03T02:18:45.267-07:00Comments on FARM LIFE LESSONS: # 214 - To Flee or Not to Flee...Prepper TopicLanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14422413007128219320noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812128414310678524.post-16245568753638832322012-03-06T10:02:19.266-08:002012-03-06T10:02:19.266-08:00Leigh --- You have learned hard lessons as well. I...Leigh --- You have learned hard lessons as well. It's hard for people to imagine the shelves going empty within a two hour time period, the gas being drained and all the stations shutting down, the electricity lines being snapped and there being no access to any of your funds, nothing is open, roads are blocked, barricades are everywhere and roaming around is dangerous. These lessons are indeed unforgettable. Being inland is still no guarantee of being insulated because desperate people are fleeing inland and often without proper resources for their own immediate survival. Scary circumstances, for sure. Thank you for honoring me with including me on your links. I just write from the heart and from experience.<br /><br />Melissa --- Since you're in our area, you understand the dangers we face during these storms. As for canning, I will be visiting your blog, as I did today, to keep reading about your tips. I haven't started canning yet and won't do so until we get moved to our acreage, just so we won't have to transport more heavy items. But, I'm eager to get started! As for the impact of the storm, there is so much to write about --- so much that is to be considered --- I have an account of one of our storm situations that I've been putting together and will be posting in a series...going over exactly what you mentioned. It's incomprehensible for some people to imagine that they CANNOT find gas within a 300 mile radius because of widespread devastation, then to realize that you can't keep driving to find gas because you have no gas to keep driving! It's a terrible situation. Anyway, I look forward to more visits with you neighbor!<br /><br />Lanawww.FarmLifelessons.blogspot.comhttp://www.farmlifelessons.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812128414310678524.post-81709415461386342872012-03-06T10:01:16.382-08:002012-03-06T10:01:16.382-08:00Linda --- Thank you for the compliment. It was a t...Linda --- Thank you for the compliment. It was a topic I couldn't skimp on; it's been an integral part of our lives to be prepared for hurricanes, etc., but we've also suffered with the devastation it can bring. Sometimes, we watch these preppers as they get ready for the end of the world and they've yet to live through a disaster that would yank some of their ideas back into reality. There was one prepper we watched who said he'd be "prepared" for a horrendous disaster simply because he knows which weeds to eat and how to survive with items in his backpack. For me, that is a true prepper. We're not guaranteed to be in the area of the food stored up for twenty years, so a real prepper better know how to survive with what is on the land. If nothing is there...survival is probably not likely anyway. Surviving a natural disaster or a terrorist attack, especially for us who are living in a HUGE industrial zone and by the bay, these are things that are more likely to occur than doomsday issues. Since we've seen the terrifying left-overs of a hurricane and the harsh survivor mode you must embrace afterwards, those are the things we keep preparing to survive. They are more likely to occur again in our lifetime, probably a few times.<br /><br />Kathy --- I love your blog. And you are such a good daughter to be so sweet and loving, even after your mom is long departed, in a physical sense. I admire your depth of love. I have the same kind of love for my departed mother. Missing her every day is now part of my existence instead of being able to pick up the phone and call her. As for your blog, it's been a true delight to look at your pictures with the vintage spin. I've enjoyed every post! I'll go back and read your hurricane post, thanks for letting me know.<br /><br />Vickie --- We have friends who offer their homes for some hunkering-down, it's usually a time of great socializing during these stressful events. Having somewhere to go where you can be comfortable while knowing your own house might be in the middle of becoming toothpicks is so important and comforting. It is also amazing how these hurricane winds can do major damage inland for quite a long distance, especially with the dangers of tornadoes produced and high winds that make trees your worst nightmare (such as you already know). We had neighbors flee their home in our neighborhood only to go to a hotel 200 miles inland and have a tornado rip off their roof of the hotel as they were sleeping. The woke startled to see the sky directly overhead. As far as prepping goes, we're the same as you, been doing it long before it became the new fad. I've been growing plants with my own seedlings since I was a teenager. I don't know how to can yet, but my mother did it all through me growing up. I do hope that being on our land will help us be better able to be self-sustaining. As for your henhouse, I'm sure it will be very rewarding for you. Those eggs will be a treasure for you too. Maybe you'll be able to have more green eggs! As for our "arms," -- for those of us, like you and me, who have lived through disasters, we know that our house can be fine one moment and destroyed the next. With the widespread disaster of Ike, we learned quickly that being able to protect yourself and your property is not an area to be taken lightly. I just hope we sell before the next hurricane season gets into full motion.www.FarmLifeLessons.blogspot.comhttp://www.farmlifelessons.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812128414310678524.post-73234984617665106042012-03-04T15:13:39.616-08:002012-03-04T15:13:39.616-08:00OK New to your blog. I am not even sure who I link...OK New to your blog. I am not even sure who I linked over from sorry. This is a very long and educational post. We lived here through hurrican Ike also. We are South of Houston and deffinatly in an evacation zone. I would say we are preppers too. I live to can something anything, just doing it is fun. I find that folks do think the government will help. YA RIGHT! I learned that gas is a biggy. If there is no power gas stations cannot pump gas. Do to, floods and covered roads gas trucks cannot get in to refuel the empty tanks anyway. We had no power for 9 days. We faired really well do to our prepping. We drank milk,,, cold milk the entire time even. I am babbeling,thanks for the post. MelissaKids and Canning Jarshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794388845414644018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812128414310678524.post-53212949968426926842012-02-29T04:41:38.264-08:002012-02-29T04:41:38.264-08:00P.S. I linked to this post on my blog, under "...P.S. I linked to this post on my blog, under "Preparedness Links", right hand sidebar.Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02435811789823712254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812128414310678524.post-89590362014735944502012-02-29T03:48:47.508-08:002012-02-29T03:48:47.508-08:00Lana, absolutely excellent post. lived both in co...Lana, absolutely excellent post. lived both in coastal Louisiana as well as Houston for over a decade, so I know of what you speak. Even now, though we live 200 miles inland, we still can get extensive flooding and wind damage, as well as wiped out store shelves from downgraded hurricanes. Experience is absolutely the best teacher, and it's reading your experiences that really hit home.Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02435811789823712254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812128414310678524.post-37656719646034617892012-02-28T20:47:10.733-08:002012-02-28T20:47:10.733-08:00Hey Lana - interesting ready here. Altho I'm n...Hey Lana - interesting ready here. Altho I'm not on the coast, we feel some of the effects of those killer storms. We also house lots of those who do flee. I'd be apt to hunker down myself and so would my husband. "A country boy & girl can survive". I guess that's why I'm so into the farming and gardening and preserving and being more self-sufficient. I've been that way for a long time, even before it became fashionable. Now, we have a better chance cuz we're on the farm at last! I'm about to start on my henhouse, and my garden is getting put in this week (barring rain). You and your husband ought to do well on your place, too. Love that Arkansas boy - I've got my "arms" here with me and I know how to use 'em.Vickiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07741431727993692456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812128414310678524.post-42113558302369950462012-02-28T18:26:33.429-08:002012-02-28T18:26:33.429-08:00What a hoot! This was so funny - and I loved all ...What a hoot! This was so funny - and I loved all the new "prepper" vocabulary! <br /><br />I've had my experience with hurricanes - and was not well prepped at all - but thankfully even through the wind and the rain, the Lord is faithful. You can read my account of just such an occasion in this post from last August when Hurricane Irene was storming up the mid-Atlantic seaboard towards us in South Jersey: http://thewritersreverie.blogspot.com/2011/08/hurricane-pinks.html<br /><br />Thank you for your sweet comments about my mom. So sorry for you loss, too - yes - way too early . . .<br /><br />Joy!<br />KathyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812128414310678524.post-47844189429193027842012-02-28T13:59:50.039-08:002012-02-28T13:59:50.039-08:00Sadly, in coastal areas, this is necessary because...<i>Sadly, in coastal areas, this is necessary because there are opportunistic vultures out there who are ready to cash in on your disaster. </i><br /><br />This is what bothers me the most, I think. It makes me angry, stuff like what happened after Katrina; or anywhere after a disaster of some sort. This country would be a better place if people felt they should work for what they have rather than they are owed it.<br /><br />We've been enjoying the doomsday shows too. Mostly in a chuckling way. Like you, we'll do the Disaster prepping, but save the end of the world stuff for another time.<br /><br />Good post, Lana.LindaGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12203719919661519350noreply@blogger.com