Dramatic and sudden global weather conditions

If (when) another ice age occurrs, I think it would be a safe bet to say that migration of people and animals would occurr (and it would not always be peaceful). One of the causes of WWII was lebinstrom (please forgive my misspelling) meaning livingspace.
I believe, if it happened quickly, anarchy(with its attendant finantial and social caos) would be almost inevitable. Those with skillls and money might be able to emegrate to Australia or Central/South America (thank god for friends). The rest of us would have unpleasent choices forced upon us.
Enjoy!
 
Can't believe no one mentioned the four hurricanes in Florida or recent rains in Southern California that caused some tornados. Also, a personal observation that bird migration is a little different this winter.

Anyway, love these debates. It's fun to speculate and prudent to prepare for what may happen in the future, but you still gotta live in the now.
 
Quiet Bear said:
Can't believe no one mentioned the four hurricanes in Florida or recent rains in Southern California that caused some tornados. Also, a personal observation that bird migration is a little different this winter.

Anyway, love these debates. It's fun to speculate and prudent to prepare for what may happen in the future, but you still gotta live in the now.
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Yep, more severe weather is with us and all the experts are saying that it's going to get worse. In our area, the local meteorologists are predicting an average 10+ degree increase in temperatures over the next 5 years or so. That would effectively make us a desert in a fairly short amount of time. Not to mention that 90% of all produce and a heck of a lot of other food goods sold in the US, come from this area. An example of what this would do to our temps. In July-August of last year, the area around the King City area of California hit high temps of 117 F. for almost 2 weeks straight, before cooling to the mid to high 90s. I was there and man it was hot. My pump came in handy as I had to purify a lot of water and spent a lot of time in the small river flowing next to my camp, swating green flies that were ignoring my best attempts to poison and bushwack em as they bit the heck outta me. Add 10 degees to that and I don't want to be there. Moving north is sounding real good, till you figure that the North will be doing it's own thing on the extreme side.

I'm seeing birds here that I've never seen in this area before and the birds that were migrating either north or south this time of year are not leaving. It was shared by one local bird guy that he read a report that stated it may be the magnetic field has changed some, due to the instability of the Earths rotation (wobbling on it's axis).

I agree, we have to live our lives today and if we carry all this stuff around with us, it'll just drive us nuts. But walking this life without taking care of business to make sure we and our loved ones have the best chance at a life in the future is plain crazy in itself.
 
I submit that one very good strategy is to travel and make some good friends, that way you can at least have someone local to help ease any transition should you need to suddenly relocate.
Yo... Skam, you can come south to Colorado, I'll head for Belize or Panama (I always wanted to attempt that drive).
I think a food supply, at home, should be a priority to prepare for disaster. A pantry that has at least a couple of months of your standard food can be easily put together by just buying a can (or package) for me and one for the pantry. It also makes it easy to cycle as it already contains what you normally eat. This would be a good stopgap for snowstorms, finantial lean times (we've all had 'em) and other things like terrorist episodes, earthquakes and hurricanes (I have probably missed a lot of disasters).
Enjoy!
 
Happy Joe said:
I think a food supply, at home, should be a priority to prepare for disaster. A pantry that has at least a couple of months of your standard food can be easily put together by just buying a can (or package) for me and one for the pantry....This would be a good stopgap for snowstorms, finantial lean times (we've all had 'em) and other things like terrorist episodes, earthquakes and hurricanes
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Exactly!! I couldn't agree more.

That buying system is what I call my "Need one, buy two" stock-up process. The extra one goes in the pantry, just as you noted. That way you spread out the expense of stocking up over time. It's a lot easier to swallow an extra five or ten bucks per shopping trip than to approach stocking up as a one-time expense of a thousand or more dollars.

For added security, you can adopt the "1 year food supply in the basement" strategy of the Mormons. While I don't have a year's worth of food stashed, I don't feel any anxiety when the occasional power outage strikes. ;)
 
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