The Fallacy of Bugging Out – Are You Prepared to Be a Refugee?

[Bally002]

This was great.  I'll certainly look into more of Horton's vids and check out his books.  Never heard of the man but then I'm downunder.  

Kind regards,

Bally)

[Ninurta]

That's a pretty good overview of Franklin and his work.

He bases most of his stuff in a reality, and takes it from there. For example, the "Mad Mick" is based on one of his acquaintances, and the Mad Mick's compound is an actual place, about 8 miles or so from here, that was once a coal mine maintenance depot before the mining industry got collapsed by the Wokies.

"The Borrowed World" is set in "The Valley", which is an actual place called Elk Garden and Green Valley. He takes some liberties with actual geography, but in the main I can recognize landmarks and the area from personal knowledge of that area. The character of Hugh lives alone in a trailer hidden in the woods way up above The Valley on the side of Clinch Mountain.

He takes that grounding in reality, that foundation, and extrapolates via human nature into rip-roaring tales. Franklin uses his experience of people in this area, and it's history of preparedness and refusal to rely on an unreliable government for simple survival basics, and shows how it's done here in the hills.

His "crossover" between The Borrowed World and the Mad Mick series was well received, but he told me that it was such a headache that he would likely never do it again. Meshing the differing agendas and lifestyles between the two series was a lot of work, perhaps more than was necessary, to merge the two into a single narrative.

Still, his books taken as a whole give one a good insight into the prepper mindset, and what's more, the mindset of those who neglected to prepare and find themselves in extremis after a collapse. It's good insight into human nature, psychology, and social interactions after a fall, and the dynamics between the two very different sets of people - preppers and not-preppers.

Just as in the real world, people die. Sometimes good people who die from the stupidity of others. It's not a predictable thing. I used to joke with him about when he was going to kill off Hugh, but that character became surprisingly popular among his fan base, and so may live on to fight another day. He's said that in an upcoming book, he's going to expand on the background of Hugh, which is something I look forward to, being as how that character was inspired by me. It'll be interesting to see the direction he takes it in.

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[Ninurta]

This was great.  I'll certainly look into more of Horton's vids and check out his books.  Never heard of the man but then I'm downunder.  

Kind regards,

Bally)

His dad and my mom went to high school together. His family settled on Horton's Ridge, which is the ridge directly west on my house - when I step outside and look west, I'm staring directly at the broad side of Horton's Ridge. My family cemetery is on the crest of that ridge, about 1100 meters from where I sit right now, and my ma was raised in a house about 2/3 of the way up a holler in the ridge, the mouth of which opens right here at my current house, just across the road.

When I moved back home, his dad was the first person I went to see. He was an instructor at a local community college at the time, and dabbled in local politics, so he had a good finger on the pulse of the area such that I could get good advice and pointers from him on which way to proceed after all the changes that a 30 year absence engendered.

Franklin was also a student at Virginia Intermont College during the time I got kicked out of that stalwart institution. There was a lot of drinking and brainstorming that went on in his dorm room prior to that expulsion. We worked together at a local radio station as announcers (WLRV) many moons ago, in the early 1980's.

It's not surprising that you've never heard of him before, being half way around the world and all. His story is a story of a "local boy who did good", and I can't quite wrap my head around it myself - he's always been, and will likely always be, Franklin to me, rather than Horton the Author.

But man alive, can that gent ever weave a tale!

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[727Sky]

One possibility that may not be to far in the future for all of us..



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it's not exactly a secret that the sun
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can super flare that solar storms happen
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regularly over time and whereas in the
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past when our society was not dependent
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on electricity it didn't matter as much
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our modern electrified way of life can
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be taken from us in less than a day no
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farming equipment no Refrigeration no
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Transportation the food supply collapses
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water treatment and distribution
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collapses no water from the tap no heat
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no air conditioning no internet no
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lights no phone no hospitals no banks no
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gas no ATMs no 9-1-1 so the question
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begs to be asked when is this going to
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happen
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in terms of the sun's maximum flare an
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x1000 event the grid destroying solar
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kill shot for sure the most recent
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analysis suggests they happen every 6
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000 years but lesser equally dangerous
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flares to our way of life happen much
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more often previous analyzes suggested
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those x-1000 flares could happen as
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regularly as every 800 years with the
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smaller ones still capable of
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eliminating our way of life every 150 to
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200 years we went over a study earlier
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this week that suggests sun-like Stars
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May produce X 4000 or even x 9000 flares
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but the question is not the maximum
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flare power of the Sun the question is
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how often does it fire a big enough
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blast to send us back to the Stone Age
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the studies that attempt to answer that
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question do not look at the Sun from a
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flare physics perspective but rather the
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geologic evidence deposited by past
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events here on Earth time and time again
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the answer seems to be the same as we
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saw this past week in another paper
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every 150 to 200 years the sun will hit
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Earth to that degree not a Long window
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for an electrified civilization to get
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its act together
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the level of flair that our modern way
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of life could not handle it's actually
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only around x50 which would produce a
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geomagnetic storm in excess of kp9
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wiping out the global grids setting fire
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to electrified structures and sending
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Humanity back centuries the last one was
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1859 164 years ago so in the scope of
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that 150 to 200 years range we're in the
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Red Zone if it happened tomorrow no
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serious solar physicist or geophysicist
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would be shocked beyond belief and our
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time is certainly running out what's
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worse Earth is becoming more vulnerable
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because we are in a geomagnetic
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Excursion the magnetic poles are
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shifting but more importantly the
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magnetic field protection of our planet
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our protection from the Sun is weakening
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we have seen it impacting the upper
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layers of the atmosphere and even the
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jet streams but more important than the
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slight modulation of geophysical
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phenomena the sun is getting an easier
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and easier shot at our planet during
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this magnetic pole shift
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the magnetic field weakening quickly
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accelerating let's do a little bit of
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math we should see that super solar
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storm at some point within the next 36
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years that would be the maximum full 200
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years between the last one and the next
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one but when exactly in the next 36
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years is anyone's guess chances of it
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happening this year are only about five
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percent but by 2030 that number jumps up
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to 25 percent by 2040 we're basically at
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a 50 50 chance but that's before you
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consider the weakening of Earth's
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magnetic field I consider it highly
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unlikely we will make it to 2050 and the
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very good chance we're not going to make
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it to 2040. the important thing to take
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away from this is that what we see
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around us is not going to continue these
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storms routinely pound our planet and
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we're due for the first time we are in
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an electrodependent Society unlike the
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past where nearly everything that keeps
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8 billion people alive will be impacted
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if not taken away completely are you
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ready for this to happen the sun doesn't
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care if you are or you aren't it's
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coming it seems like we're in a war of
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culture economics politics good and evil
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these days seems fitting the sun is set
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to declare war on our entire planet

[Infolurker]

Carrington Event is a huge concern.

Pretty much takes us back to the stone age. I "assume" it would only impact the side of the planet facing the CME or at least one can hope.... 
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event][/url]

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

It has been foretold.

Revelations 13:13

King James Bible

And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

[quintessentone]

I am just brushing up on my wildfoods cookbook. 

I am now reading about cattails in the bush because where I live they are very abundant.

Use the inner stalks as a cooked veggie. 

Sliced roots cooked or roasted on the fire or in a gruel (remove fibers).

As a meal from dried roots (removed fibers then pound into a meal). 

The pollen is eaten raw or ground into a flour, it supposedly resembles a musty wheat flavor and used to make cakes or bread, but some sort of animal fat (porcupine is suggested) is needed for cakes and bread. The pollen can also be used as a thickener in stews. Use the pollen as a fire starter as it is very flammable. 

Make a pillow by using an old shirt, by tying the sleeves together and stuffing with the cattail pollen.

[Infolurker]

I am just brushing up on my wildfoods cookbook. 

I am now reading about cattails in the bush because where I live they are very abundant.

Use the inner stalks as a cooked veggie. 

Sliced roots cooked or roasted on the fire or in a gruel (remove fibers).

As a meal from dried roots (removed fibers then pound into a meal). 

The pollen is eaten raw or ground into a flour, it supposedly resembles a musty wheat flavor and used to make cakes or bread, but some sort of animal fat (porcupine is suggested) is needed for cakes and bread. The pollen can also be used as a thickener in stews. Use the pollen as a fire starter as it is very flammable. 

Make a pillow by using an old shirt, by tying the sleeves together and stuffing with the cattail pollen.

I will admit, I have zero plans on foraging as I am a food prepper but I do have a few similar books on my shelf


Top 12 Best Foraging Books (Worth To Read)

https://www.backdoorsurvival.com/the-bes...h-reading/


Appears that this one is top rated: (But there are so many)

The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants Paperback – Illustrated, May 15, 2006