About Us
I, clearly like you, am worried about what is going on in the world. We seem to be faced with a different threat everyday, varying from social unrest, to nuclear war, and topped off with the fear of an EMP. We all know that these threats are not necessarily real, but they are scary and that is why we didn’t follow the prepper crowd. We knew these things were puffery, and we have been right about it the whole time. However, when you talk about these threats, if they suddenly become real, we are screwed.
There have been several studies conducted about our power grid. If the grid fails for an extended period of time 90% of Americans, at least according to these studies, will not survive. I am a father of three. When I heard this, I started thinking about them, not about me. The idea that my girls (I have three) would come to me hungry, cold, or in peril, and I would be hopeless and lost, scared the hell out of me.
I’m also an attorney, and I started a law firm several years ago. When I had my firm, we had an encounter with a disgruntled client. Unbeknownst to anyone in the office, I placed a 12 gauge behind a bookcase in my office. I had a heated conversation with a client, and he stood up and started to reach for his back waist when I delivered bad news to him.
I reached for my 12 gauge, and since I could just grab it, instead of fumbling for it, I picked it up, and that was that. The situation was diffused. My secretary saw the whole thing. We talked about the encounter after the fact, and I apologized to them for bringing a gun into their workplace.
The conversation went way different that I anticipated, and my takeaway was my secretary telling me that it is always better to be prepared for a situation and not need it, than to need something and not have it. I took that seriously, and so did my attorneys and staff, and withing a few weeks, I was being questioned and asked to show my employees that I was armed. I told them they could arm themselves, I didn’t care, but none of them were willing to buy a gun or learn to shoot, frankly they were all millennials except for my secretary, but none of them wanted to carry a gun, they just wanted me to protect them.
There are a lot of people in this world that want to be protected, but when the shit hits the fan, they are hoping for the national guard to step in, that their government will protect them. They don’t want to take responsibility, they want someone else to step in and help them. That is irrational and irresponsible.
The bottom line is if shit hits the fan, everything is up to you. So, to reference my previous comments about the global prospects of nuclear war or an attack on the United States, I think that is farfetched, but crazy has prevailed in the past. Crazy is the wild card and come time to time someone rears their ugly head, think Caligula and Hitler. But societal breakdown doesn’t happen often, like 2,000 years between those events.
What pushed me over the edge is our power grid. Sure, an EMP can take down the grid, so can a Carrington event. In the 1850s, there was a solar flare that lit the telegraph wires on fire from a solar flare. A Carrington Event is estimated to decimate the power grid and will destroy all of our power grids. Estimates, if we have global cooperation to restore the grid will take months if not years.
What is truly scary is that a Carrington event, which is caused by a Coronal Mass Ejection or CME, is a blip in what the sun can do, and evidently has done. A Miyake event, which seems to occur every few hundred years is recorded in tree rings, and these events are recorded in tree rings. They aren’t sparsely recorded events lighting telegraph wires on fire, they are systemically more powerful.
So what happens then, a Carrington event will destroy our grid, and a Miyaki event will revert us to the Stone Age.
We all know what happens with the zombie apocalypse when everyone dies. What if everyone lives, and society dies? There is nothing in the stores, the warehouses, but everyone, at first anyway, is still alive. The population, when all of mankind’s technology is down raids everything. The world of Walking Dead where everyone is dead, and there are still supplies and food and water are not going to happen. Everything is gone.
Currently, we employ Just in Time Inventory, meaning that when a store receives an item on a truck, and offloads it to the shelf, it is almost immediately sold. Walmart is the king of this technology and that is why they receive daily shipments and are stocking their shelves daily. My point is that if we lose the grid, there may be a few supplies on the shelves of stores, but there won’t be enough to sustain us.
In the 1800s, parents taught their children basic skills. Things like milking cows, making cheesecloth and gardening. We take these skills for granted today as we rely on what we can readily go out and buy.
If this happens, well, we are all likely screwed. People who were preppers will prevail, but like you, I am late to that party. I don’t have stockpiles of canned goods and other things in my home, and you are the same. If you want to prep today, you are limited by how much you can purchase. At the end of the day though, despite what you prepare, and what you buy today, everything has a shelf life. If you have 5 years’ worth of canned goods that expire in 2 years, you only have 2 years’ worth of food, then what?
We, as a society, have lost the sets of skills that our forefathers had. I have spent about a year looking at guides and trying to compile a list of skills that I or my family might need to survive if shit hits the fan (SHTF).
What I am trying to accomplish with this guide is a collection of basic skills that you can use to try and help you and your family survive. We take for granted right now that we can look up anything online and we can find a hundred different ways to do it. What if that goes away?
There are hundreds and thousands of books out there on how to stockpile your home, how to defend yourself, what types of guns to own, and how to brew beer, wine, and liquor, but there isn’t a basic book of skills that you would need should the internet go away. My goal with this book is to give you those basic skills, and to provide a reference manual of things that you might need to know should SHTF. The skills our forefathers were taught, but we weren’t.
With the help of AI, I have compiled instructions on basic skills that we may need if we lose access to the internet. Some of these are not verified as they are currently illegal to do, but should SHTF, well, laws won’t matter, and you may need to at least attempt to do some of the things in this book.
