tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post5823657849395164967..comments2024-02-11T01:14:21.904-08:00Comments on SURVIVING IN ARGENTINA: Comments on HaitiFerFALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-3936055025301312492010-01-23T21:41:26.740-08:002010-01-23T21:41:26.740-08:00I think what he meant was
3 minutes without Oxyge...I think what he meant was <br />3 minutes without Oxygen<br />3 days without water<br />3 weeks without food<br />Now shelter can run the gamut depending where you are. Depends on the enviroment in cold water, or the antarctic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-84831235129636633952010-01-22T12:33:28.960-08:002010-01-22T12:33:28.960-08:00When this earthquake hit, I told my wife that the ...When this earthquake hit, I told my wife that the U.S. will probably spend $100 billion on this relief, when all is said and done. Our country is collapsing itself, and all we care about is helping everyone else. Who's helping us? Nobody. We're such an idiotic country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-14816796386036270142010-01-21T19:31:27.709-08:002010-01-21T19:31:27.709-08:00"When goods dry up money will be worthless.&q..."When goods dry up money will be worthless."<br /><br />My understanding is that in the capital of Haiti, goods have well and truly dried up. There isn't enough food or water, even in the short term, that is why people mob relief convoys. Still, money is worth something. I heard yesterday or the day before, a woman saying that if she only had bus fare, she would leave town. She wasn't lamenting money that no one would take, she was lamenting money that she didn't have.<br /><br />Maybe -big maybe- money will one day become useless in the states, but don't prepare so hard for the Big Disaster that you aren't prepared for lifes ordinary calamities. At the very least, have a few thousand in cash readily (ie. not in the bank) available at all times if you can (I can't at this point) and then that your storage of wealth type prps are in a readily convertible form. Gold is convertible to cash, readily. Hand tools are not.JJ in SCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-29706779349127002672010-01-21T16:36:48.066-08:002010-01-21T16:36:48.066-08:00Ferfal, this is off-topic and you don't need t...Ferfal, this is off-topic and you don't need to post it. More of a Heads up.<br /><br />You may have heard that the Republicans did a Stealth Campaign and managed to seize a new Senate Seat in Heavily Democratic Massachusetts. What news media has not covered much is some of the Major impacts this will have on American Politics and Economy:<br /><br />a) The Healthcare Reform may be dead -- House really dislikes the Senate Bill but if they change it in any way , it has to go back to Senate for re-approval and Republicans now have enough votes (41) to block it via filibuster.<br /><br />b) Major Financial Regulation Reform -- i.e, regulation of the deriviatives and attempts to rein in some of the more irresponsible actions of Wall Street -- is probably DEAD. Wall Street thinks that is a feature, not a bug. Who funneled Money into the Masssachusetts Republican's campaign is left as an exercise for the reader.<br /><br />c) Possibly is the biggest impact is on the US Federal Debt Limit. Basically , the Democrats are running out of money and need to raise the US Governments debt ceiling by early February or we will default on our US Treasury bonds. <br /><br />Dems want to increase US gov debt to over $14 Trillion --up $1.9 Trillion from current $12.3. <br /><br />Republicans realize that if Dems are kept starved for cash, they can't buy the votes of the US voters with new jobs bill, stimulus spending, unemployment checks etc and that the resulting hardship--in current recession -- will have voters enraged by Nov and in mood to throw out the party currently in power.<br /><br />So Republicans are balking at increasing the debt -- a game of chicken that may start to worry China and other foreign investors in a few days.Don Williamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-91354519510899637832010-01-21T11:29:20.691-08:002010-01-21T11:29:20.691-08:00"Anonymous said...
3 hours without shelt..."Anonymous said...<br /><br /> 3 hours without shelter and you die??!<br /><br /> I have been outside for 2 and a half hours!!<br /><br /> January 21, 2010 4:48 AM"<br /><br />I've been out all day and still alive :p)<br /><br />3 hours without shelter can be fatal at extreme temperatures. Example, walking during a snowstorm without proper gear hoping to make it to a safe place before dropping dead.<br />Exposure kills most ill prepared hikers that get lost as well.<br />Shelter may as well be a good jacket and a space blanket if you know how to use them well.<br />FerFALFerFALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-46790897022026663142010-01-21T10:24:22.765-08:002010-01-21T10:24:22.765-08:00"...money still makes the world go around.&qu..."...money still makes the world go around."<br /><br />Indeed it does. But don't forget; Haiti is not yet 10 days into this disaster. Once actual 'goods' start to dry up, money will become worthless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-7584885785967185092010-01-21T07:10:43.049-08:002010-01-21T07:10:43.049-08:00"3 hours without shelter, 3 days without wate..."3 hours without shelter, 3 days without water or 3 weeks without food (give or take before you die)"<br /><br />Don't forget another very important Law of Three- "3 seconds without a firearm"...jayjetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-38606527675707617522010-01-21T06:27:42.481-08:002010-01-21T06:27:42.481-08:00"Then of course, the basic, prime need of hav..."Then of course, the basic, prime need of havings the "Lwas of 3" covered: Shelter, water and food.<br />3 hours without shelter, 3 days without water or 3 weeks without food (give or take before you die)"<br /><br />A plan for all seasons, a well balanced plan, gives us the options for situations we can't entirely anticipate. Cash will be needed for some transactions, and precious metals for other transactions. That emergency wad of reserves can be handy in all sorts of ways such as medicine.<br /> Yet if one cannot afford to do it all, securing food, water and shelter are #1. Securing several sources of food and shelter is better yet. There are variety of ways to execute that.<br /><br />aAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-48360278589134406622010-01-21T04:48:11.854-08:002010-01-21T04:48:11.854-08:003 hours without shelter and you die??!
I have bee...3 hours without shelter and you die??!<br /><br />I have been outside for 2 and a half hours!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com