20 Things to Survive a Collapse

Yesterday at prophecy lunch, we were talking about the reality that few of us could survive a day or two if the grocery store closed and the lights went out.

We are SADLY unprepared to care for ourselves.

The last generation to go through a collapse during the 1930's was much more prepared. Most lived in rural areas without electricity and had gardens, chickens, cellars filled with canned goods and well water brought up from the ground by a hand pump.

Those who didn't have those things roamed the countryside looking to split wood, bail hay or serve as a handy man in exchange for some food.

Those days are LONG gone!

Today if the lights went out...Cub would be empty in an hour, the city faucets would be dry, and the hungry folks may not offer to work for food. What kind of work would we offer them to do anyway?

With all this in mind, I ran across an article that spells out the 20 things we should all have even to make it a handful of days until the power can be restored.

He ends his article with some pretty serious questions;

It is important to be flexible and to be ready with backup plans when disaster strikes.

You don't want to end up like the folks in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. You don't want to have to rely on the government to take care of you if something really bad happens.

Right now the U.S. strategic grain reserve contains only enough wheat to make half a loaf of bread for each of the approximately 300 million people in the United States.

How long do you think that is going to last?

Now is the time to get ready.

Now is the time to prepare.

The United States economy is going to collapse and incredibly hard times are coming.

Will you be able to survive when it happens?

See it here; http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/06_Prep_tips/100512.10.things.4collapse.html

When the welfare checks bounce in Los Angeles at the same time police and firefighter paychecks bounce....do you think that chaos could break out and spread pretty fast across the country?

If a major earthquake shakes apart Kansas to New Orleans and the interstates and pipelines are all shut down.....do you have enough in your cupboards to last until the infrastructure gets repaired?

Remember, we are not called by Christ to go hole up in a cave waiting for Jesus....but what if you could offer food, shelter and comfort to some other lost soul who doesn't know Jesus...and by being the hands and feet of Jesus you "snatch someone from the fire"....

Wouldn't that be a good reason to set aside some food?