Surprise

I was in a meeting today with fellow preppers and found out that people do actually read this blog, so I'll keep it going for a while and see how it goes.  But as we were discussing various things, the subject of when to bug out came up.  The question was when does one know it's time to head for the hills.  So today 'll discuss some "trigger events" we all should watch out for.

Everyone has their own pet theory as to when TEOTWAWKI will start and why, but no one seems to have a great grasp of what will be the deciding factor.  I have several scenarios that I am constantly on the lookout for.  One concerns the banking system.  If the news comes on and announces that the entire banking system of computers has been hacked and a virus placed in it so that ALL banks will have to be shut down until the virus has been removed and NO ONE will have access to their accounts until this is done.  If/when that takes place I'm loading my car and heading to our retreat.  FDR did something similar in 1933 when he closed all the banks and had his auditors  examine them, including ALL safety deposit boxes.  He then stole all the gold from said boxes and replaced it with almost useless greenbacks.  Citizens were not asked if they wanted to sell their gold because FDR had recently signed an E.O. banning Americans from owning gold other then ornamental jewelry.  And since the banks were closed when the people learned of these thefts, they couldn't go and get their precious metals before they were stolen.

My next trigger event concerns the stock market.  Graphs show that the Dow is following almost the exact same path it did prior to 1929.  Experts original expected it to deviate eventually and poo-pooed talk of another big crash.  Now they're whispering among themselves about what this means.  Big money players like Warren Buffet are getting out of stocks and into precious metals as quickly as they can without tipping the Dow into a premature slide to oblivion.  When the market goes into free fall, I'm loading my car.  Along side the Dow, I'm also watching foreign markets like the Nikkie in Japan.  It's dropped over 14% since the beginning of the year and that is a huge drop even for them.  The Footsie in London is also in a severe downward slide and it's the same in countries like Italy, Spain, Hungry and Romania.  None except for the Nikkie and Footsie are all that big, but any of them crashing will send ripple, no not ripples, but tidal waves through the rest of the worlds markets, especially the Dow.  And as the Fed continues to taper down their QE efforts it's effecting the world's developing countries and that also could easily disrupt markets around the globe.  If any of the above market triggers happens, I'm loading my car.

As our election cycle draws near I'm watching it very carefully.  Not to see if my man won, but to see if even the Lame Stream Media figures out that Maobama will lose control of the senate as well as the house.  If that happens he is likely to be impeached by congress and convicted in the senate.  Maobama won't allow that to happen so I expect him to launch a false flag event allowing him to declare martial law, send both houses of congress home and suspend the elections until HE says they can go forward.  By my estimate he'll allow the elections and recall congress somewhere around the 12th of Never.  In the mean time he'll rule as if he were an emperor, by decree.  So as the elections draw near, if anything happens that could be construed as a threat to America, I'm loading my car.

Those are the most likely events to take place in my opinion.  There are other things that could happen and trigger Maobama to action, but I believe these are the most likely.  Think things through for yourself and come up with your own scenarios.  Then plan on how to get around them and to your place of safety.

You may have noticed that I keep using the catch phrase "I'm loading my car" at the end of each scenario.  That's because, hopefully, that's all I'll have left to do.  I should have the majority of my supplies and gear at our retreat location and all I'll need to bring with me are the last minute things I just picked up.  As for the car I always keep the tank full so I have a decent cruise radius.  My group has a temporary retreat already in operation, but it's far from ideal and we're looking at another, better spot fairly close by as well as some locations in surrounding states.  As soon as we settle on a spot I'll begin transferring 95% of all my supplies and gear there so a bug out won't be that difficult.  I strongly suggest you do the same if your able to.  And if your not able to, then I even more strongly suggest you get off your duff and find a location where you can get to quickly and be safe.

I posted earlier about bug out/72 hr. bags and as well as my EDC and how the two of them compliment each other.  I'm going to do an even more extensive post on them as well as the other gear/supplies every survivalist needs to get off and stay off the grid, safely.  This will be a drawn out article, possibly 2 or more articles, so it will take me a little while to get all the research done.  In the mean time I'll continue the posts concerning medical solutions to various illnesses, both modern and old time solutions.  But, again, my posts will only continue as long as I know people are reading them and gaining info from their readings.  So, if you want this blog to continue, you have to let me know your out there.