Guest Post: Taking Precautions

©2016 Kim Robinson


Since the threat of Y2K, there has been this little nagging voice telling me to take precautions so that I can sustain and protect my family in the event of a crisis. While studying apocalyptic, extinction level event movies and books, I have come to the realization that I had better start preparing. The people in Syria never thought their homes would be eviscerated, and look at the death, displacement and illness that has resulted.
My Apocalypse concerns have prompted me to start researching things, like steam powered generators and solar panels, in case there is no way to power lights or flip a switch to get heat. My husband bought a ten dollar bag of wood and it was gone in three hours. There aren’t enough trees in my backyard to keep my house heated for a week and can you see my old butt trying to swing an ax? No way, I just got this new shoulder.
Another big concern is medicine. Heck, half of the world is going to be scavenging for food and water, while I am going to be breaking into the local CVS pharmacy to get my pills so I can survive. People take medicine and they use the bathroom, the waste goes to the ocean and then the fish eat it, you eat the fish, and the water is lifted by clouds and then comes down as rain, feeding the vegetables and grass that the livestock eat. Where did the medicine go? I think that is why different areas have different physical maladies.
Water is already a problem, ask the people in Michigan who are getting sick from municipal water, or the people in Gardenia who are being told that black water is okay for consumption. How am I supposed to know what water is safe to drink? I try it, and by then it could be too late.
Where are we going to put our waste, are we going to bury it in the backyard and later use it for fertilizer, or save to try and recycle it into water?
Money will be just like it was after the civil war, worthless.  The bank where your money is? Are they going to give you something that no one uses? Also, without tellers, how can you get to your savings? I guess I better start buying silver and gold bars, maybe they will be worth something.  Hopefully my sewing and cooking skills will be something I can barter to survive.
Transportation, how will I fuel my car? I get worn out on my elliptical machine after ten minutes, so I know that I can’t bike or walk far at my age.
And now we address my main concern – food. How many people know the proper way to hunt and prepare food so that they don’t poison themselves?  I wouldn’t know one herb from another if it wasn’t labeled in the vegetable section, or in a spice jar. I’ll be done messed around, and might season my food with poison ivy or something.  I have been watching a show that teaches you how to cook in a wood or coal burning fireplace. I have to order some cast iron cookware, some spider pans and start practicing. Kind of gives you a new respect for our ancestors that had to discover what was edible or poison, and how it affected their body. Then they had the nerve to learn how to cook, season, and make it taste good.
With all the unrest in the world how would you survive?What are some of your ideas on surviving in a post-apocalyptic world?
Kim Robinson      Author of The Roux in the Gumbowww.kim-robinson.com

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Published on March 26, 2016 09:50
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