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20th January 2016, 18:17
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Self-Reliant Living is Critical
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Perusing current news articles and even threads on forums sometimes brings me to the point of wanting to shake some people to get them to wake up and to see the bounty around them and to say to them ‘you don’t have to be a victim to people in authority or to circumstances you feel are out of your control’.
Be Self-Reliant! Take control of what is negatively or apathetically affecting your life! You don’t have to live in fear or constant worry of things you may feel are out of your control or out of your ability to change.
An Example: The residents in and around Flint, Michigan are drinking, cooking and bathing in highly contaminated water and have been for over a year. People are literally dying or will suffer health ailments for the rest of their lives from using water THEY KNEW something was wrong with it.
http://news.yahoo.com/how-the-people...043602916.html
I ask myself WHY would anyone with half a brain drink water they knew wasn’t right? People have become so apathetic they feel their local, state and federal governments will take care of them to the point they blindly continue with actions that are dangerous to their health AND life.
Who holds the greater responsibility? The government or the individual?
If I lived in Michigan this is what I would be doing:
• Set up a system to collect rainwater and store in barrels or cistern
• Find where there are local natural springs and set up a collection system
• Collect water from streams, rivers or ponds
• Even water from the municipal system
Of course these would need to be filtered and there are many filtering systems from high dollar reverse osmosis systems to Berkey water filtration systems with additional filters that take out the worst of containments, including lead and fluoride (I use) to the old standby of sand, charcoal (make your own) and boiling.
With what these people are spending on buying bottled water (that probably isn’t much better) they can invest in a Berkey filtration system and be rest assured their water is pure and one set of filters last for many gallons.
Neighborhoods can group together, families can group together, friends can group together .. . . . . share the work and share the expense!
Learn. Learn. Learn. How you can take care of the basic necessities essential for life. Don’t stop at one solution, have several . . . . . options are your friend.
Self-Reliance is freedom and peace of mind . . . .
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22nd January 2016, 18:49
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85 million people will be effected by a massive snowstorm in the Eastern U.S. in the next 3 days. Snow fall accumulation records are expected to be shattered in many areas. Forecasters have been warning for over a week that power outages for millions will be a stark reality. Government officials are telling people to stay home and stay off the roads.
The actual storm will be 3 days but problems the storm will cause will last days and weeks for many.
Sadly there will be many deaths . . . . . . . . deaths that could have been avoided if people were more self-reliant because most have the expectation that the government, police, rescue squad or others will take care of them. But these agencies will not be able to physically get to them for days.
There will be those who will bitterly complain that their governments failed them and are at fault for the inconveniences and dangers this storm will bring and that they will have to endure.
I live on the border of Kentucky and Virginia at one of the highest altitudes in the Appalachians, right smack in the middle of it. As I type snowflakes as large as cotton balls are cascading from the sky . . . . . it is absolutely beautiful and I am unconcerned with what the days and weeks may hold.
But, my heart goes out to those not prepared and are expecting others to take of them without taking responsibility for themselves, their family and their neighbors.
I have lived on this farm for almost 5 years (this will be my forever farm) and my first priority these past 5 years has been to secure backup and secondary backups for heat, water, food, medicine and transportation (if I need to leave this mountain). Necessities like water, food and heat I have 4 and 5 sources.
These self-reliant measures have not been expensive, most have just taken a lot of willpower, know how or experience and tons of hard work and sweat equity. I would like to mention I am a 56 year old woman with one reconstructed knee and the other knee is mostly bone on bone. If I can do it most anyone can!
As our planet continues through the ongoing climate change self-reliant and sustainable living is going to become more and more important . . . . actually it will become a matter of life and death . . . . and already has.
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22nd January 2016, 21:11
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Your inspiring Blufire, I do love love waking to the snow quietness.
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24th January 2016, 12:05
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