I am not paranoid

It started way before the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. I have had a don’t live downwind of a nuclear plant philosophy for a long time.

I am not paranoid. I think that is how I sound sometimes when I tell my girlfriend I wanted to move to Arkansas and that I wanted to move west of Russelville because that is where the nuclear plant is and I did not want to be downwind of it. She says I’m smart and she loves me for it.

So what happens today? A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Virgina. What did they do? This is the CNN headline: Virginia nuclear plant shut down by quake. Here is some of the copy:

Dominion Virginia Power said both reactors at its North Anna plant, less than 20 miles from the epicenter of the magnitude-5.8 quake, shut down after the first tremors. Amanda Reidelbach, an emergency management spokeswoman for Louisa County, said the plant vented steam, but there was no release of radioactive material.

David Heacock, the utility’s chief nuclear officer, said the plant was operating on emergency power and the units were safely deactivated.

“The plants are designed for this kind of a seismic event,” Heacock said. “There is no apparent damage to anything at the plant right now.”

No apparent damage, sounds like the Japanese.

My Hometown

Found this article about my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee. The tenth of 10 of the worst cities to live in. My family lives in the suburbs, but WTSHTF and the center of the city is razed the hungry horde will forge into the burbs. I hope my family is far away from there by the time the SHTF.

10 Worst Places to Live by Aaron Crowe

10. Memphis, Tennessee
Population: 670,100

Memphis has one of the worst violent crime rates in the country, and was ranked third by Forbes in its list of miserable cities for corruption by city officials.

According to stats released by the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the city had the second-worst rate of violent crime. NeighborhoodScout, which tracks crime and other factors in various cities and neighborhoods said “One’s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 10. Within Tennessee, more than 90% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Memphis.”

As for political corruption, reportedly nearly one public official per month over the last decade has been charged with public corruption. Recently, a former city administrator used a city account that was supposed to be for auto parts to buy big screen televisions.

See full article from WalletPop: http://srph.it/cUWyYi

The Road movie review

I went and saw The Road this afternoon. This movie has been out since Nov 25, but just made it to the theater here just this week. Needless to say I was frustrated up until today. It was true to the book. They did not change much. How far would you go in a TEOTWAWKI situation? The movie shows it all. He killed to protect his son. They collected and ate dead crickets. They were also, at the urging of the son, charitable good guys and shared their food. They did not pull any punches with the end either, just like the book. I won’t ruin that for you. I will definitely buy the DVD to see any extras.
I do not think the world will ever die like they show in the movie. I do think with the dwindling of energy resources the future holds savagery similar to what was shown in the movie.

Buy guns, store food prepare yourself mentally for the worst.

Peak Civilization

There is a great article called “Peak Civilization” – The Fall of the Roman Empire over at the Oil Drum. It overlays the collapse of the Roman Empire onto the graphs from “the “Limits to Growth” study. Very interesting. Collapse is coming to our great American “Empire” too family. I hope I can be powered down and on a farm before the non powered future smack us in the face.
Here is the link
Some of the comments are worth reading also, the part about Roman pottery shards in London got long winded and I quit reading.
I am adding The Oil Drum to my list of sites if it not there.

Book Review

I finished the book One Second After by William R. Forstchen this weekend. It was a good book. Spoiler alert. I thought the author cheated us out of some action by have the riot at the barricade happen while the main character was sick. But he saved himself by a good description of the big battle at the end. I guess I can forgive now that I am finished because the book was definitely all from the point of view of the main character.
The book was kind of depressing and scary like The Road. It was pretty brutal the way the town leaders decided to let some people starve to death. Some starve or we all starve.

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Beretta 92 F pistol grip

Helllo Gunburgers. Here is a project that is simple and easy to do. My tag cloud is pretty heavy with the garden stuff. Finally getting a gun project done. I changed my Beretta 92 F pistol grips from the hard plastic to black rubber. I bought some Houge grips for $15 at a gun show in January.

The grips

The procedure was pretty simple remove 2 screws, remove the old grips and replace with the new and install the same screws. Just needed a screw driver.

One side off

Both sides off

All back together

Ready to smoke some zombies.

Buy guns, store food and upgrade your weapons.

The Road Warrior

I watched the beginning of The Road Warrior before I fell asleep on the couch last night. I have seen the movie a million times but did not realize that the opening monologue was talking about Peak Oil. Basically it was talking about the end of oil. It says, “Without fuel they were nothing. They’d built a house of straw.” These lines premiering in 1981 were prophetic. I think the results of cities exploding will be the same. I think very few people will have gas when rationing is instituted.

Here is the whole Road Warrior opening monologue, “My life fades, my vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land. Most of all, I remember the man we called Max, the road warrior. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time. When the world was powered by the black fuel, and the desert sprung great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They’d built a house of straw. Suddenly their machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. Cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting and a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white-line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, waging war for a tank of juice. Good brave men were battered and smashed. Men like Max, who ruled the highways in the name of the law. Who became a lover, husband, father. And with the roar of an engine, he lost everything, his woman, his child, his world. He wandered out into the wasteland, and here he would learn, amid the dark wreckage, that the fire which burns in the heart of man, will endure. Hope survives.”

As I watched the movie what I thought was cool was the anti-vehicle ditch dug around the desert oil refinery. I should have paid attention to how they built their palisade walls.

My weekend

I spent my weekend in the hospital. My wife had a massive asthma attack at work after she choked on some food Friday at lunch. By the time I got to the emergency room she was sedated and on a ventilator. She was that a way until Sunday morning and not lucid until Sunday evening. Lord help us when the SHTF because I could have lost her.

Buy guns, store food and have a nurse or doctor in you survival community.

Stay at home Influenza kit

I downloaded and saved this .pdf file called the Stay at home kit for Influenza. I found it while I was catching up on my daily reading of SurvivalBlog.com. It looks like it has a lot of good information.
Last year I read The Great Influenza by John M. Barry. In it he describes the Influenza pandemic of 1918. Cites lost thousands of people because they did not shut down public gatherings soon enough. They did not want to “panic” the public. If something like this starts to break out stay home. Wear rubber gloves and masks. Avoid people.
Here’s the web site http://www.co.nezperce.id.us/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=5FH434lyuKo%3d&tabid=450&mid=1057

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