Source; @RobertM
This is a time of uncertainty to say the least. Some say buy gold. Some say don't worry about it, this too shall pass. [Yeah, when we get rid of the Brandon (Biden) Cartel].
Nowhere in US time has there been chips on credit cards before.
Unavailable cash. 3 different ATM's were unavailable. A while back I was sitting in a sandwich shop and had just seen this. The 3 close to me were unavailable. I watched as a parade of people tried and drove off. I really wasn't just watching until I saw a car pull up and was able to get cash and go. I said something to the person I was with and it was 1100 on the dot.
We watched. At 1200 on the dot that machine was unavailable again.
A different day different location I watched. It took roughly 45 minutes for the truck and guard to reload the machine and drive away. No Brinks showed up to reload the machine.
I saw this same machine unavailable and then on and then off again about a week later.
"They" are preparing people slowly for the unavailability of cash.
Where is that chip going to end up? Biblically in your hand or in your forehead. The only two places that do not store fat. Those readers are stymied by fat. Your dog or horse probably has a chip. You may not know it. The technology is there.
Remember the chipcom19 card? You cannot come in here unless you show it? I know... that happened here.
This to me is the time to start stocking up on canned goods, ammo and try to get yourself into better physical condition. I don't mean marathon running but talk to someone about how can I sit in a chair and help my conditioning. PBS has a sit and be fit. That is not a crock.
Spread meal times out. Look at what you have, that is your go to snack and if you cannot reproduce it yourself, stop it.
That is the thing that always gets people after a storm here is the unnecessary violence over junk. Whether that's junk food or just plain a luxury you can but won't live without.
I have looked and coffee is something I don't have to have. No. You don't have to have it. Withdrawals from caffeine happen when you are most needed to be on alert. I started Cafe Demond. Half coffee half chicory. Now I am at a point I can miss out and no big thing.
I also lost the craving for chocolate at the same time. I asked why? The nutritionist I know says it's a trigger in you to have either or both if you are addicted to it. When I lost the gotta have coffee, I no longer have to have chocolate.
Learn a skill that is valuable. Fire starting. Water cleaning. Things you will not have if the grid goes down. Another wake-up call was them trying to outlaw gas stoves. Why stop there? Outlaw gas heaters. Propane stoves, Butane stoves. They already scare people into medication by the loss of electricity and they want everyone to use electric stoves???
What about your medicine? How much do you have at any one time? What happens when you run out?
People say I have cases of MREs. Those actually do go bad in a short period because, you don't know how long those have been packaged.
Buying dry beans or rice just makes them available until the bugs in them already start to gnaw on them. Long term, years of storage in bulk is possible to do rather easily. It takes little effort from you now, just time. Storing them in a dedicated area in a closet or a room for your stuff.
Being one of those underground bunker types is fun to watch but reality I have seen was Hurricane Harvey. 64 inches of rain in 4 days. Galveston bay quite literally went from the Louisiana border west, to well past Katy. It went from the Gulf/bay to Conroe. You can look at a map and almost everything in that area I said had water inside. Some places that never flooded had water to the roof line. The mayhem from that was an apocalypse movie people would go to see and think that was stupid or have some comment other than, I need to look at my house and stuff.
Being prepared and being a prepper are two different animals:
If you have not had electricity for 6 months like east Texas did, you will trade your gold for wet wipes. You will trade your gold if someone will even bother with it, for a can of Dinty Moore stew.
People say “I can't believe you watch The Walking Dead!” I did but for different reasons once I starting looking past zombies and just thought starving neighbors. This is a show on how people treated people after Harvey. They robbed, killed, burglarized and police could not respond.
Ambulances? Not happening.
That's the difference between being prepared and shush and having only today's worth of anything.
Be prepared. The Mormons say have a years worth of food. You have to go nowhere. You can stay in your house because out and about makes you a target for your shoes as was seen in a week of people being wet, making it to a dry spot and killing someone for their dry clothes.
If I am in my house or yard, a neighborhood of like-minded people on the quiet, you can be inconvenienced but not have to go kill someone who is also looking to kill someone.
The news glossed that over so badly, no one wants to talk about the misery and death from people to people about Hurricane Harvey. It was an abomination.
My wife griped, or huffed, at me until she finally had to look at what I had and realized we are in good shape for a period of time because I had tried to be prepared.
Remember. For 120 years, Noah was a complete lunatic moron... until it started to rain!!!
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