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To: Ron who wrote (318536)	9/11/2019 8:51:08 AM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By Ron Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362514

I have all my father's tools, plus gardening tools, ax, hand saws. Would my chain saw be an asset? Not without fuel. Would my truck? Only if they can get gas delivered to my station. Maybe my son has an extra bike.Maybe my neighbor's horses can pull the truck, if we pull the engine. I now have greenhouses, so I might be able to grow food in the winter. Don't need meds, so I can get by without electricity. Won't be much fun.

To: Ron who wrote (318536)	9/11/2019 10:04:10 AM
From: Sun Tzu	1 Recommendation Recommended By elpolvo Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362514

I've lived in such situations twice (though not due to natural disasters), and it was absolutely great. To begin with, after the initial shock of what the hell do I do now, everyone becomes more sociable. Soon we were playing guitar by candle lights and talking about all sorts of things. Then there is the added benefit of a good night sleep and more physically active days. In the absence of TV and Internet, everyone will play games (cards, board games, etc) and tell stories. One guy that I got to know in a refugee camp was a taxi driver back home. Having nothing to do but wait, he picked up some paint and canvas and started painting. His original works were like a 3rd grader. Two years later, he was a pretty good artist. Last I heard of him, he had his own gallery in Australia. If your book is meant to be a suspense or man against nature kind of deal, you need a lot more than no electricity.

To: Ron who wrote (318536)	9/11/2019 10:06:20 AM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362514

Richard Louis Proenneke was an American self-educated naturalist who lived alone for nearly thirty years in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed with hand tools near the shore of Twin Lakes. Proenneke hunted, fished, raised and gathered his own food, and also had supplies flown in occasionally.

To: Ron who wrote (318536)	9/11/2019 10:16:15 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	1 Recommendation Recommended By Wharf Rat Respond to of 362514

One of the wrong (utterly wrong IMO) directions the green movement is inadvertently (I hope) taking us is the continued thinking that we need to jam folks tighter and tighter into cities and have huge power grids to service same.. We should be using renewables to decentralize.. I don't mean survivalist off grid.. But smaller independent communities.. Interconnected for emergency.. Anyway I have one of those old brace and bit drills.. Although I just sentimentally call it dad's drill.. I drilled my first hole with it .. It produces one human power LOL.. Nice wood handle and pommel.. Pre divorce it hung in my garage along with other tools.. I used to dread having to help dad as a teen.. (So many more important things to do at that age lol NOT) with renos lol.... Now I am so greatful now for all the skills I picked up..

To: Ron who wrote (318536)	9/11/2019 1:04:34 PM
From: bagwajohn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362514

I'm a fan of hand tools. My collection contains hatchets, axes, a draw knife, hand crank drill, a splitting maul, saws of various sizes, chisels, carving tools, a small square mortise making chisel, and lots of stones and files for sharpening said tools. I use them often mostly because I hate making noise. I don't have enough solar or potable water yet though. I think I have a grill I've never used, because of the smoke pollution. Lack of ammunition might be a bit of a problem though. People take what they don't have when they have the firearms. Lack of structure and order will certainly be a factor. Food will be the ass kicker, even with a greenhouse and gardens. Many folks up in this region of the state (Humboldt) live mostly off grid. Not a scenario I'd like to see take place, but Gaia rolls those dice without our permission. Reading Lucifer's Hammer years ago, helped me to see down those lines of play.