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It Doesn’t Take Much For People To Start Behaving Like Crazed Lunatics
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
If an ice storm can cause this much panic in our major cities, what will a real crisis look like? The biggest news story in the United States right now is the "historic ice storm" that is hammering the South. Travel will be a nightmare, schools and businesses will be closed, and hundreds of thousands of people will lose power. In fact, it is being projected that some people could be without power for up to a week. But at the end of the day, the truth is that this ice storm is just an inconvenience.
Yes, the lives of millions of Americans will be disrupted for a few days, but soon the ice will melt and life will be back to normal. Unfortunately, it doesn't take much for people to start behaving like crazed lunatics. As you will see below, the winter weather is causing average Americans to ransack grocery stores, fight over food items and even pull guns on one another. If this is how people will behave during a temporary weather emergency, how will they behave when we are facing a real disaster?
This is a perfect example that shows why it is wise to always have emergency food supplies on hand. According to CNN, all that is left on the shelves of some grocery stores in Atlanta is "corn and asparagus"...
As the skies turned heavy, Atlantans cleaned stores out of loaves of bread, gallons of milk, bundles of firewood and cans of beans and beer. In some stores, all that was left were the apparently less-popular corn and asparagus.
And according to an Infowars report, some people down in Atlanta were actually getting into fights over basic essentials such as milk and bread...
Atlanta residents ransacked neighborhood grocery stores in frantic preparation for their second major snowstorm of the year, waging fights over food items and leaving destruction and empty shelves in their wake, a stunning precursor to what will ensue once a major crisis impacts the U.S.
After three inches of snow shut the city down two weeks ago, causing major havoc and leaving miles of cars stranded on immobile roadways, the residents of Atlanta took heed and shopped early.
According to people who Tweeted photos of barren store shelves, residents went crazy over essentials like milk, bread, water and eggs, and in some cases “people were fighting. Yes fighting,” alleges one user.
The photo that I have shared below was posted to Twitter by Kris Muir. It shows what the bread aisle at a Kroger in the Atlanta area looked like as the storm approached...
So what would happen if this was an extended crisis and you had not stored up any emergency supplies for your own family?
That is something to think about.
And just like during the last major winter storm in the South, there are reports of hundreds of vehicles being abandoned on the side of the road in major cities. For example, just check out what has been happening in Raleigh, North Carolina...
"I live and work in downtown. I was able to get from my office back home. My wife works in Morrisville, about 25 minutes away. She left the office at 12 p.m. and is still on the road. I am coaching her home with Google Maps. It appears that, from WRAL TV, the ramp from Wade Avenue to 440 is blocked by abandoned cars. That is a HUGE ramp (downtown Raleigh to highway)."
We are also seeing quite a few reports of "snow rage" as this cold, snowy winter drags on. In fact, on Sunday someone actually pulled out a shotgun and threatened to shoot a snow plow driver on Long Island...
As CBS 2’s Carolyn Gusoff reported Tuesday, people have found themselves fed up with the hassle of plowing, shoveling and salting. In fact, they have been pushed to the edge, to the point where they have been taking out their frustrations on plow drivers.
Eric Ramirez, a snow plow driver on Long Island, said an irate man went so far as to rack a shotgun Sunday and threaten to shoot him because he was piling snow in front of the man’s Manorhaven home.
And a similar incident involving a pistol was recently reported in Union Township...
The incident happened Monday afternoon along Underwood Street in Union Township.
Police say Eckert became angry when the self-employed driver, John Abraham, accidentally pushed some snow into his yard while cleaning a neighbor’s driveway.
“I went like this to put it in park and there was a gun right here in my face,” Abraham said.
Eckert is then accused of taking a .22-calibur pistol out of his coat, and pressing it against Abraham’s cheek, telling him to remove the snow.
As I write about so frequently, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is starting to disappear. A whole host of surveys and opinion polls have shown that Americans are angrier and more frustrated than ever. Our society has become a ticking time bomb, and it isn't going to take much for it to explode.
When it does explode, most people are going to be depending on the government or someone else to take care of them. The following is a brief excerpt from a recent article by Mac Slavo...
Despite warnings from FEMA, as well as the prevalence of popular preparedness TV shows, Americans still don’t seem to understand how susceptible we are to a complete destabilization of life as we know it. It boggles the mind that most people seem to think that when disasters strikes they’ll be able to depend on someone else to provide them with assistance.
Fortunately, at least a few people seem to be learning some lessons about the importance of being prepared from these winter storms...
"Last time I was totally unprepared, I was completely blindsided," said Lisa Nadir, of Acworth, who sat in traffic for 13 hours and then spent the night in her car when the storm hit Jan. 28. "I'm going to be prepared from now on for the rest of my life."
What about you?
Are you prepared?
We live at a time when our world is becoming increasingly unstable, and it doesn't take much to imagine a bunch of scenarios in which this nation would be facing a major crisis for an extended period of time...
-A major eruption of Mt. Rainier or the Yellowstone supervolcano
-The "Big One" hits California
-A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault line
-A highly infectious pandemic that kills tens of millions of Americans
-Hackers bring down the Internet or crash the banking system
-A massive tsunami hits either the east coast or the west coast destroying numerous major cities
-A major war erupts in the Middle East and the United States gets involved
-A crisis involving North Korea sparks a major war in Asia
-A terror attack that specifically targets our power grid
-A terror attack involving a weapon of mass destruction in one of our major cities
-A terror attack or a major natural disaster causes one or more nuclear facilities in the heart of the United States to experience a "Fukushima-like crisis"
-A massive EMP blast that fries our electrical grid and our communications systems
-Last but certainly not least, a massive economic collapse that fundamentally changes life in America on a permanent basis
So what do you think?
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Beat me to it ;-)
Two Mayors enter, one Mayor leaves. I say we put him in there with DeBlasio.
you're fucked..we got Rob Ford
(nice nailer...planning something?)
FOrtunately, I don't live within the borders of DeBlasio's kingdom. I'm outside the insanity blast radius.... but not by enought to feel very comfortable about it.
leave mayor de blasio out of your evil plans. mayor de blasio is busy "protecting children's lives" from individuals with a mouth which
when they, devoutly orthodox jews, suck on just circumcised penises of little boys in a brit milah ritual:
http://forward.com/articles/192278/protect-the-children-mayor-de-blasio/
related: mayor de blasio must act now. he cannot attend at thunderdome. forget some temporary weather emergency. this is a real crisis:
http://forward.com/articles/191918/new-york-baby-infected-with-herpes-af...
Huh. I never would have guessed that Orthodox Jews and the Roman Catholic clergy had so much in common.
well, see, that's the thing. roman catholic clergy is denounced when they get caught molesting and sucking boys' penises. the jews, however, they go on the offensive. they start litigation, if they cannot satisfy their passion and joy they get from a ritualistic oral sex with helpless and just disfigured boys. it's a violation of free speech, you see how that works?
ref: http://forward.com/articles/191918/new-york-baby-infected-with-herpes-af...
Akak
I do not know why people will junk you for making an observation of the Truth.
I know where you stand on God's Existence but I have a great hope that, in the end, all of the evil in the name of God will be exposed.
Of course that does not help here and now.
So I upvoted your post and I do want to validate your observation.
Thank you Tom. That was very decent of you.
His chocolate city is going to be about 6' by 8', and there they call it fudge packin' city.
Bye Ray.
Ray Nagin, just convicted on 20 of 21 counts of fraud, bribery & corruption.
http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/jury-finds-ex-new-orleans-mayor-guilty-in-bribery-case?ocid=ansnews11
I just don't understand it, I thought the moonbats said W blew up the levees to kill the people of New Orleans after a HAARP event or sumpin...and now this.
Its a conspiracy I's tells ya ;-)
Nagin's conviction(s) are the only sign of Justice I've seen in quite awhile.
We've seen videos of people fist-fighting for their place in line to buy 200$ Reebox shoes.Nothing in this article surprises me.
I usually like to rip Michael Snyder on these threads but he went to Atlanta right before the storm and uploaded what he saw on his own blog. I gotta admit it took balls to do that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiFe9CmlbVA
So, blackfriday.....forever? Oh dear God.
Every day is black Friday in Atlanta baby!
Ah Jesus H Christ get over yerselves. Atlanta panics because they aren't used to this stuff. They act like Sherman's coming to town again.
Up in the north where things are much worse the stores are fine (at least the ones around me are).
As more ice storms and snow storms hit south (because of global warming (heheh)) things will quiet down.
That's not really the point of the article...i'll be really surprised if i don't see one of the events listed in my lifetime.
As more ice storms, etc., hit the south, they will begin to prepare for them. That is the difference between north and south. It's because the north is prepared that they don't have problems. Throw in a problem that is not anticipated either north or south and that is when you see people flip out and panic. The gist of the article is that there are lots of things that can go wrong and to not be prepared on an individual/family level is suicidal. The fact that these rarely occur is not an excuse to not prepare, especially if you have a family you are responsible for. Some of these issues are inevitable but folks are conditioned to the store shelves always being full and will not prepare.
Think Sandy, or the next one.
Sandy was bad for the areas that flooded. Elsewhere it all depended on if you were prepared or not. If you had a generator, a few gas cans (and the foresight to fill them BEFORE the storm) and a willingness to forage for more gas (plenty was available if you were willing to drive a bit or go for it after midnight) you were fine. It took 3 days before gas became an issue.
Better yet if your generator ran on natural gas. NOT having a generator in the NE where power lines are still overhead on poles is foolish. You WILL lose power on a regular basis - even if only for a short time on most occasions. Old trees lose limbs and lines come down.
If you use natural gas for heating - or have a big enough oil tank - you're even nice and warm with power to run your furnace. A freezer full of food, a stock of flour and a breadmaker - you're set for a while but even with Sandy, food really wasn't a problems for more than a couple days.
Take out your chainsaw and you can stock up on free firewood too. I have to laugh at these people paying $10 for a couple pieces of firewood when you can cut a cord or more after a big storm. After storm cleanups, most towns leave cut wood on the curb for you to take (saves them on disposal costs). Cut to length, let it dry a bit and then split it yourself or splurge on a power splitter. Actually kind of a waste with 100 year oak and maple going for firewood. I've split two foot diameter logs from storm downed trees.
Yeah those doomsday preppers don't seem like nutbags afterall....
I've been in one of these ice storms...just as bad as any blizzard.
They just had this problem a week ago.
Is it really that hard to tell everyone to "stay home"?
This country has lost its marbles.
We need to have everyday be "national grow your own tomatos day."
Instead its "attack of the killer tomatos."
I was at college in Rochester NY when an ice storm hit I think in 1991. I lived off campus. 5 days of no power no stores. After me and my housemates ate everything in the cupboards in 2 days we had to eat at the campus chapel soup kitchen the next 3. Skinny days.
Yes, but there are, ahem, ethnic and cultural differences.
Atlanta and Lawn Guyland are not Mule Creek.
Gotsidank.
I see a graphic novel idea. EBT FSA vs. Preppers. "Can the hordes defeat the hoarders?"
Only until the suburbian preppers bring out their $3000 Benellis.
I'll make my stand with the 870, thank you very much. Praise the lord, and pass me the ammo...
Mossberg and #4 buck.
I only paid $1800 for my Benelli M4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dibSfoBtGU
I don't know. It's not like this is the first time it's snowed in the south. I think people are just wired differently down there. I could be wrong though.
You have to realize a lot of the retards in the South all moved down from the North. Take Florida for example.
But, then again it could just be the heat broiling the brain every July and August.
Yeah, I don't get it. Live in Ohio, level 3 travel alert a couple years ago, meaning you are not allowed on the roads. Couldn't understand that as the roads looked no worse than the dozens of other winter events I've seen
So I drove into town for some donuts and coffee at Tim Hortons. No big fucking deal.
WTF is with the drivers in Raleigh leaving roads blocked with their abandoned cars? Cripes, at least pull off to the side before bailing out.
But if they leave their cars on the roadsides, thereby blocking them, where will all the stranded Chinese Citizenism citizens be able to do their thing? That is the mattering question, the very crust of it.
Alas, alas, three degrees below zero Celsius alas, Chinese citizenism will always find a way to blob it up a notch.
Likely resultment to be concentrated in brown stoolagmites frozen to crustiness like roadside pingos.
WHAT?!? We have Timmies south of the border now?
I'll start packing the car.
Ohio here too. Guess nobody remembers the blizzard of 78 up here. So what was the big deal. They just moved the snow with front end loaders. Sure, it took a couple of days for one to get around to our area. We had plenty of bourbon and firewood. No sense owning a fireplace and not having firewood stocked for the season. And I checked on the elderly neighbor after shoveling my way over there. Those level 3 road alerts are for the dumb and dumbers who spent their last check on some i thingy instead of buying new tires. Somebody up above said "pussification". He wasn't kidding.
The Sun's Magnetic Field flips once every 11 Years. But the Earth's Magenetic Field stays pretty much constant. For 11 Years the Earth's Magnetic Field is strong due to the Magnetic Alignment and consequential Constructive Interference. This is followed by an 11 Year period of the weakening of the Earth's Magnetic Field due to Destructive Interference.
When the Earth's Magnetic Field is Strengthend then less Solar Radiation gets to the Earth's Surface and we experience cooling. When the Polarities of the Sun and Earth are opposed then more Solar Radiation gets to the Earth's Surface and we experience warming. These Cooling and Warming trends do change the climate.
Furthermore there is the fact that the Solar Radiation varies as the Sun is a Variable Star. We do not understand the mechanism behind the variability of the Sun. But it happens. It IS
Because of the changes in Solar Flux and due to the Natural Cycles OUR CLIMATE CHANGES.
You cannot deny Climate Change as it is a Natural Phenomena. (Look at the Ice Age and compare it to current conditions. Did the climate change?)
The only constant about the World's climate is that it is constantly changing. The Earth is dynamic, not static
One of the reasons that Humans have become so successful is because of our ability to ADAPT to different climates. The basic tool for adaptation is the Human Mind.
I do not make the claim that Climate Change is directly due to anthropogenic activity. However I am making the claim that some of it is while most of it is not.
AS for the Carbon Tax...It is complete NONSENSE and just serves as a way to milk the Tax Herds for more revenues by corrupt Governments...Farm Managers.
But we do have the ability to adapt so I suggest that you take a good look at it and figure out for yourself how best to adapt to it. Denial will not make it disappear.
Denial will just lead to your own personal destruction as you will not be able to deny the consequences.
To ridicule Carbon Tax proponents by denying the evidence does not serve you well.
However by pointing out the facts intelligently you can put these Tax Proponents in their place.
They use YOUR IGNORANCE OF SCIENCE AS A RED HERRING in order to defeat you.
Unfortunately they have been too damned affective.
I can use the same arguments which I proposed here AGAINST THEM. Then I point out that it is an excuse for Big Government to EXCISE TAX REVENUES. They have NO DEFENSE WHEN I DO THAT.
Get it?
The vast majority of climate change to date happened when we weren't around, you play with words asshole. It's the wee bit of climate change going on NOW that concerns us, and the prospects of adapting to Canfield Oceans for humans and the mass #'s of species here, now, is looking very un-fucking-adaptable. asshole. and there will be a lotta climate change over the next 7 billion years until the sun explodes asshole.
A lot of folks just aren't going to make the cut. Hell, it would be easy for any of us to be caught out of position, you can't live your life sitting inside your house with a gun across your lap. For folks like the ones described, they just don't get it and probably never will until right up to the moment that they figure out no one is coming to help and they are on their own, just like they always were but didn't know it. Our towns and cities are set up for X number of mishaps per day. Anything exceeding that number starts the breakdown. When a calamity hits everyone at the same time, there aren't any resources to call in from neighboring cities/towns. This collapse is really going to be something. These fools in ATL are just now getting it. It'll be interesting to know how many of these folks are now converted preppers?
I wonder how many laughed at the preppers. He who laughs last laughs loudest.
"It'll be interesting to know how many of these folks are now converted preppers?"
A new NBC/WSJ poll says the answer is: 2.
It also says the number who are now committed looters is: 16,000.
Most common answer given: It's so damned easy when the power is out and the police are nowhere to be found.
I was just thinking about how the people that help out when something like a huge tornado blows out a populated area (Joplin, MO for one of many examples), or some similar catastrophy occurs - local and surrounding-area neighbors, etc. Those are the same people who are more prepared to take care of themselves should the culprit(s) be food shortages or no juice for gadgets, etc.
Tell me about it.......
Living in WI we see all sorts of snow storms, ice storms etc. and people up here never act like that during storms. People go to work, kids to school, grocery stores have plenty of goods for all,neighbors help each other clearing snow from driveways and strangers pull each other out from ditches. It depends where you live I guess if your community is made up of animals or decent human beings.
MN here. It's always worth it to watch when the south gets a little snow. I can't even imagine what they would do if they took a look out my window.LOL
There ya go looking down yer noses at your southern neighbors like they're a bunch of greasy wetbacks from Mexico that No Habla English.
I got the first 1,000 zombies covered.
I'll take the thousand on the left
As the fighter pilots say, when hopelessly outnumbered,
it's a target rich environment;)
What do I think?
I think I'll go get a Snickers bar. *nom*nom*nom*
Yup, there is gonna be a reckoning... w/o EBT cards.... inner cities will get interesting.... Will they get "hired" by the inner city elites to "go get" and "protect" or do they just get wiped out slowly but surely...
Will be easy to fill FEMA camps voluntarily..... food, shelter and Cable available. There will be lines for the busses.
Snow Rage!?! What the fuck is that? I've shoveled over 65" of snow this year and never felt the need to pull my piece on someone for a loaf of stale bread. Damn.
you'd think people would keep their cool
pun-meister
lol...its hard to do though.
Every new hot/cold/wet/dry/windy/calm event is linked to...well, hysterical climatic calamity that only moar fedreal taxation can fix!
Or so says ace reporter Flip Spiceland ;-)
I don't get it either. I'd probably just mutter something like "cocksucking sonofabitch" under my breath and grab the shovel.
Once you're home, it's better to just have fun with it. Several years ago, we had a record snow storm that dropped 2' of snow on Albuquerque. I was going to bed at about midnight when the storm had only dropped about 10"-12" and stopped when I noticed lightning, followed by the power going down. So, I put on my jacket and went outside. Another neighbor was out there, so we decided to screw with one of the teenage kids that lived down the road. We started a snowball, and rolled it and rolled it and rolled it, stopping occasionally to watch the lightning. (Lightning in a snowstorm is not only rare, but very, very surreal.) After rolling the thing for what seemed like an eternety, we left it right behind his Jeep, at about 8' in diameter.
I have to wonder if his dad was pissed about having to shovel that.
Thank God I love brussel sprouts. Nobody jacks people for brussel sprouts.
So you're the one.
Haha. It was me all along!
Hated them as a kid. Mom made me "clean my plate". I grew up and now I fucking love them.
Cut 'em in half, a little olive oil, little butter, Salt and pepper (to taste, of course) saute in cast iron pan until lightly bronzed ~ Mmmmm.
I had a dream a few nights ago that I was planting Brussels sprouts. Even in my dream, I was asking myself "WTF am I doing planting these things?" Needless to say, I did not sleep very well that night.
Little known fact:
Brussels sprouts, broccoli, kale, kohlrabi, cauliflower, cabbage and a couple other vegetables are all the same species and will all cross pollinate.
ie Brassica
Bacon wrapped Brussels baked till crispy.....good luck finding bacon grid down but fresh Brussels lightly steamed with some butter and garlic salt are not bad....
There was a picture on the news today of a GA freeway with a little ice and snow, countless abandoned cars, and a car that had burst into flames and was engulfed in a fireball.
I live where the weather is about 87 times more severe, and I have never seen a car burst into flames because of an ice storm.
Our depression-era forebears are crying in their graves at the pussification of this country.
Leaf,volt,tesla,pris, or late model fisker?
When should we receive the global warming doom Al Gore promised?
Method And Apparatus For Altering A Region In The Earth's Atmosphere,
Ionosphere, And/Or Magnetosphere
Inventors: Eastlund; Bernard J., Spring, TX
Assignees: APTI, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Issued: Aug. 11, 1987
Filed: Jan. 10, 1985
U.S. Patent 5038664:
Method For Producing A Shell Of Relativistic Particles At An Altitude
Above The Earth's Surface
Inventors: Eastlund; Bernard J., Spring, TX
Assignees: APTI, Inc., Washington, DC
Issued: Aug. 13, 1991
Filed: Jan. 10, 1985
U.S. Patent 4712155:
Method And Apparatus For Creating An Artificial Electron Cyclotron
Heating Region Of Plasma
Inventors: Eastlund; Bernard J., Spring, TX
Ramo; Simon, Beverly Hills, CA
Assignees: APTI, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Issued: Dec. 8, 1987
Filed: Jan. 28, 1985
U.S. Patent 5068669:
Power Beaming System
Inventors: Koert; Peter, Washington, DC
Cha; James T., Fairfax, VA
Assignees: APTI, Inc., Washington, DC
Issued: Nov. 26, 1991
Filed: Sep. 1, 1988
U.S. Patent 5218374:
Power Beaming System With Printer Circuit Radiating Elements
Having Resonating Cavities
Inventors: Koert; Peter, Washington, DC
Cha; James T., Fairfax, VA
Assignees: APTI, Inc., Washington, DC
Issued: June 8, 1993
Filed: Oct. 10, 1989
U.S. Patent 5293176:
Folded Cross Grid Dipole Antenna Element
Inventors: Elliot; Paul G., Vienna, VA
Assignees: APTI, Inc., Washington, DC
Issued: Mar. 8, 1994
Filed: Nov. 18, 1991
U.S. Patent 5202689:
Lightweight Focusing Reflector For Space
Inventors: Bussard; Robert W., Manassas, VA
Wallace; Thomas H., Gainesville, FL
Assignees: APTI, Inc., Washington, DC
Issued: Apr. 13, 1993
Filed: Aug. 23, 1991
U.S. Patent 5041834:
Artificial Ionospheric Mirror Composed Of A Plasma Layer
Which Can Be Tilted
Inventors: Koert; Peter, Washington, DC
Assignees: APTI, Inc., Washington, DC
Issued: Aug. 20, 1991
Filed: May. 17, 1990
U.S. Patent 4999637:
Creation Of Artificial Ionization Clouds Above The Earth
Inventors: Bass; Ronald M., Houston, TX
Assignees: APTI, Inc., Washington, DC
Issued: Mar. 12, 1991
Filed: May. 14, 1987
Are you new to this type of forum Mr. Wilson?
Thanks Tony. I'd seen a couple of these patents but not nearly all of them.
They're slinging up cell towers every mile where I live. Plus a very out of place looking antenna more akin to TV broadcasting right in the middle of BFE.
Can't begin to imagine what for.
Could be micro wave towers for using the white bands for providing internet to local areas.
What the propaganda piece below doesn't get into is the "truth" or "technology" behind their less often employed rain-stopping methods, but since that seems to involve old, bald, half naked guys in orange pajamas- it's easier to just focus on the patents issued to a guy regarded is certain circles as a semi-divinity.
http://thailand.prd.go.th/ebook/king/father.html
In his royal address given at Chitralada Villa on 30 July 1986, His Majesty said:
Rainmaking is like a warship: you fire the missile far, then closer in order to properly hit the target. Since we have facilities for rainmaking, we should be sure to use it properly to get rain in the right places.
In 1971, the Government established the Artificial Rainmaking Research and Development Project within the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, which was ready to offer rainmaking services to farmers. In that year, a very dry period, one of the first places royal rainmaking activities helped was Chanthaburi, a province abundant in fruit. After it proved successful, a group of Chanthaburi residents came to Bangkok to present fruit to His Majesty to show the happy result of the rainmaking. Later in the same year, royal rainmaking activities were carried out in the central plains and the southern region to provide more extensive and effective assistance to farmers. The royal rainmaking staff reported their operations to His Majesty by radio, and His Majesty frequently offered technical suggestions in return. When their operations failed, he usually gave guidelines to solve the problem.
His Majesty pays great attention to rainmaking operations, and he sometimes gets involved with them himself, as seen from his demonstration of the rainmaking process for the Singaporean delegation at Kaeng Krachan Dam in Phetchaburi Province in 1972. Thanks to his experience, rain came within five hours, creating a great deal of excitement and certainly impressing the Singaporeans. His Majesty continually has up-to-date information from various sources, including the Internet, aerial photographs, and satellite images.
As demand for the rainmaking project has increased over the years, in 1975 the Artificial Rainmaking Research and Development Project was upgraded to be the Office of Rainmaking Operations under the supervision of the Office of the Permanent Secretary for Agriculture and Cooperatives. Later, the workload increased, and to provide greater flexibility, the Cabinet in 1992 approved the merging of the Office of Rainmaking Operations and the Agricultural Aviation Division into the Bureau of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation under the Office of the Permanent Secretary for Agriculture and Cooperatives.
The royal rainmaking project was registered with the World Meteorological Organization in 1982, and since then, Thai and foreign experts have continued to exchange views and experience on techniques and technology. The project serves as a model for many Asian countries and brought in many requests from abroad asking for assistance in rainmaking. Indonesia sent a team to work with Thai staff several times. Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Sri Lanka have also sent officials to learn from Thailand.
In 1986, a group of American experts and rainmaking officials were granted an audience with His Majesty the King at Daksin Palace in Narathiwat Province. His Majesty stressed the importance of rainmaking development as part of the country's water resource management. Impressed by His Majesty's initiative, the experts came up with the Applied Atmospheric Resources Research Program in a joint cooperative effort between the governments of Thailand and the United States from 1988 to 1999. An essential part of the program was the transfer of US technology to the royal rainmaking operations.
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/67/67ec25fbfc059a2a5a6bc239700c166a456c431e...
Its Bush's fault. In the mentime, the arrogant,narcissistic, pathological lying illegal alien muslim sociopath says it's going golfing while the wookie wears a 17,000 buck dress and being attended to by 28 assistants. Suck hind titty, all u serfs and peasants supporting the nonworking, nontaxpaying freeloaders with their free phonez, EBT cards and free healthcare. What a great country.
What a eloquent and deep thought provoking response.
Thanks for contributing.
Dude-ironomy 14:03
"...and thus he spake unto the great gathering of such wonders and mysteries and the people said, and a great chrous rose 'tongue punch her fart box!' and it was so."
I bet you would still tongue punch Nancy Reagan's fart box if she asked you nicely...
Sorry and nothing personal but you sort of walked into that one...
d10
Thanks. We may be related.
I'm hoping for the economic collapse. The others are too destructive.
Mammals are a funny bunch. Highly unpredictable. Humans much more so.
Well, it's tough being a primate.
Civilisation is a rare and fragile state, historically speaking.
Absolutely....
And ~10,000 years is like tears in pond, negligible ripples in the grand scheme of things...
I think that we are witnessing a real time demonstration of the solution to the Fermi Paradox....
I'm still waiting.
I've got just one thing to say to those people:
"Say hello to to my little friend."
I was living in Los Angeles during the "Rodney King" riots. The veneer disappeared in a matter of hours. That was 1993 and I've been very awake since then. You have no idea what starts pouring out of inner city apartment buildings.
"That was 1993 and I've been very awake since then."
Apparently, you have a one-year reaction time.
ExCUSE me, it was 1992. The Northridge earthquake was 1993 and those disasters group together in my mind. My point is nevertheless valid. Are you always this smarmy?
"Are you always this smarmy?"
I'm not quite sure what smarmy means, but probably not always, because my little prod at you was done in jest; with some folks here, I prefer to cut to the bone.
"But at the end of the day, the truth is that this ice storm is just an inconvenience."
Absolutely true. However, if you want to get your ass killed, just try inconveniencing someone during their morning commute. Or while they're being rude as hell yacking on their cell phone like an important prick in a restaurant. Inconvenience is no longer accepted as part of 'Mercan exceptionalism.
A real crisis won't be advertised on TV news.
In a real crisis TV tells people to be calm, etc and so on, entertainment goes on. The band plays as the ship sinks. In a fake crisis, like a snow storm it's SNOWAMGEDDON! LEARN HOW TO SURVIVE, WATCH ACTION NEWS 3 FOR UP TO DATE REPORTS ON THE SNOW HEADED OUR WAY.
In a real crisis, we'll have DHS cockwads roaming our streets in riot gear and bearcats.
DHS cockwads roaming our streets in riot gear is a real crisis in and of itself.
Touche
What do I think? I think the author needs to chill, smoke some good weed and listen to Bach while studying a nice Penrose tiling and thinking about five-fold symmetry, the golden ratio and logarithmic spirals.
However, I am concerned about the fact the sun will eventually become a red giant and engulf the earth in a cosmic inferno. But that's not for several billion years. I'm also a little concerned about all this dark energy and matter which makes up 95% of the universe and what the hell is it anyway? But in the mean time, party hardy.
And what will we do when all the protons decay in 10^35 years? No, protons, no atoms, no molecules, no macromolecules, no life. Bummer.
Think I'll just chill out and enjoy life and live in the moment! Remember life is short, eat dessert first. Ergo, stockpile dessert, lots of it!
The Sun will increase it's solar radiation constant, by 500million years from now it will be too bright and too hot for any of the current life forms to survive on this planet.
We don't have billions of years we have a few hundred million.
Not if we could gradually move the earth outward to compensate for the increase in solar radiation. Just a quarter mile per year should do it. Of course, Mars will have to be given the boot. And eventually, the asteroid belt is going to pose a real problem. But hey, where's that good old American "can do" attitude?
"... it doesn't take much to imagine a bunch of scenarios in which this nation would be facing a major crisis for an extended period of time."
Pick any presidential election in recent times. Any one of them will do as the beginning of an extended crisis. And it's not over yet either - not by a long shot.
What will I do:
-A major eruption of Mt. Rainier or the Yellowstone supervolcano - die.
-The "Big One" hits California - Long Florida and SA fruit producers.
-A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault line - Long.... short.... What do they do there again?
-A highly infectious pandemic that kills tens of millions of Americans - Stay home and go long rubber gloves and masks.
-Hackers bring down the Internet or crash the banking system - In the case of the internet, wish I could ask fonestar about it. Banking system, celebrate until I pass out.
-A massive tsunami hits either the east coast or the west coast destroying numerous major cities - Start thinking about buying cheap beach front.
-A major war erupts in the Middle East and the United States gets involved - Go long natural gas.
-A crisis involving North Korea sparks a major war in Asia - Short them all.
-A terror attack that specifically targets our power grid - Hello, fonestar?
-A terror attack involving a weapon of mass destruction in one of our major cities - Since law enforcement considers a fart the equivalent of a WMD nowadays I won't care.
-A terror attack or a major natural disaster causes one or more nuclear facilities in the heart of the United States to experience a "Fukushima-like crisis" - Long duct tape and plastic sheeting.
-A massive EMP blast that fries our electrical grid and our communications systems - Get drunk celebrating. Wake up hungover wishing I could ask fonestar about bitcoins.
-Last but certainly not least, a massive economic collapse that fundamentally changes life in America on a permanent basis - Long rope.
You beat me to it. A baker's dozen of "catastrophes" to choose from.. Let's see, Yellowstone would be a global extinction event, so instead, I'll just go for 'crash the banking system', 'massive tsunami hits the east coast, (destroying DC)', and awakening the 'New Madrid fault line'. If I order all three together, can they be delivered at about the same time?
Its always a good idea to be long shotguns, ammo and canned food with like 1% of Your portfolio....
re: "A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault line - Long.... short.... What do they do there again?"
On the southern end of that, lots of rice and cotton(Miss. R. delta)...moving north/NE(including the Wabash Valley Seismic zone) corn, 'beans, and tobacco.
Memphis...BBQ
I live in Raleigh and got to drive home in this chaos. Here is what really happened. It started snowing at 12:30. It was snowing pretty hard. I grew up in western PA, and even by their standards, this was a pretty intense snowfall. By 2:00, everythng closed. I left work at 2:00, along with a few hundred thousand other people. It was too cold for the salt pre-treatment to melt the snow on the roads. With all of those cars driving on it, it got packed down and turned into ice. There were people abondoning thier cars. They were driving rear-wheel drives cars with shitty tread tires. They were getting stuck on hills. I can't tell you how many stuck cars I drove around (front-wheel drive Ford Edge).
The North Carolina DOT needs to spend some time with Penn DOT to learn how it is done. I've been on NC since 1997, in both Greenville and Raleigh. It has snowed at least once every year I have been here. They like to pretend it doesn't snow here. It does. I think I'm going to get a beater truck and a snow plow. I could make a killing on days like today.
"There were people abandoning their cars. They were driving rear-wheel drives cars with shitty tread tires. They were getting stuck on hills. I can't tell you how many stuck cars I drove around (front-wheel drive Ford Edge)".
Considering similar numbers have hit the roads at the same time in the past during winter storms and you had cars stuck, on the side of the road etc. but not just stopping in the middle of the road. So what has changed? The storms have been bigger. Most cars are front wheel drive now. I think people just give up at the slightest bit of resistance. You expect disruption, but never have I witnessed people just abandoning their cars in the middle of the road save for some epic storms in the 1970"s. Of course if there is no where to move to you have no choice but someone's lack of common sense ahead of you caused it. I don't know, It just seems like people don't react well when confronted with adverse conditions.
This is a cautionary tale for sure. The canary in the coal mine. There have been bigger storms in the south than this one arriving at different times of the day. Much bigger in fact. They cause disruptions and municipalities just don't invest in plows and salt to deal with storms in an efficient manner because they generally only get one storm a year if that. It's understandable. So in the past, how did people survive? Why did they NOT abandon cars and clog up roads exacerbating the situation for everyone else? Why do people sit in their cars sideways in the road after an accident waiting for law enforcement? And vehicles not damaged beyond moving. And not just in the south, I'm noticing similar themes everywhere. I remember epic storms in the past up north and they didn't miss a beat. But now winter storms cause disruptions more and more. Why is that? Nothing new about winter storms. Some more powerful than others and you can usually remember a bigger storm. It means the people have changed and not in a good way. Wait for the "authorities", it's not my responsibility, someone else will get me out of this situation, I don't know how and have no intention of learning. I can't do it...sniffle, sniffle. And blame the government. Which supports my irresponsibility theory.
So if trucks ever stop rolling for a few days even, lookout. Grocery shelves will be empty, according to authorities, in 24 hours. I say probably 12 hours depending on where you live. We have all noticed it and in some cases been a member of the squad ourselves. I'm talking about idiot squads. They don't really know each other and aren't coordinating, although sometimes it can appear that way, which is why I dub them idiot squads. They can be in a car, on foot, on a bicycle, on a motorcycle, in the air even. They can even be immobile. At any time they can attack and wreck your whole day or worse.
Now imagine this same species on the loose with grocery stores empty. They're hungry and think the world is coming to an end. Legions of morons wreaking havoc because they may have to skip a meal or two. Could the zombie fad as of late be a metaphor for these roving dumb asses? You decide. If truck service is disrupted for whatever reason for an extended time you can be sure they will not be in squads, they'll be whole divisions roaming around trying to take your food and simultaneously blaming the government and you.
There are about a dozen key highways that connect the two coasts of America for commercial shipping purposes, and they all travel across mountainous regions with bridges at some point. With a few flares and cones to close the roads in the middle of the night, the bridges could be destroyed without loss of life. Then commerce grinds to a halt, and supermarkets across the country go bare. Then the zombies attack (with epic loss of life and endless entertainment value).
WTF? Double tap.
The "BIG ONE" in Kommiefornica? A Tsunami hitting both the east and west coasts?
I'm fine with both of these. In fact, bring it. We can get rid of a lot of problems in one fell swoop.
LOL terror.
That reminds me of the power outage my city had two years ago. I decided to walk around and enjoy the stars, and some of my neighbors were freaking out because they thought it was a 'terror' attack.
Our government has us terrified of their own taxpayer-funded puppets; which they always bring up whenever they wanna fuck us over, or confiscate our rights so we can feel 'safer'.
However, that didn't detract from the original message; which I feel is rather important: "Civil people today might not be civil when the SHTF".
The Twilight Zone: The Shelter
Great episode of The Twilight Zone, and thanks for the link. Very on-point.
Correct. I don’t even need to click the link. What's funny, the separation was amongst whites only. Fast forward to today, they have capitalized on ethnic hatred and profiling. Toss in other nationalities and recreate the same script. The whole episode would portray a completely different meaning. We live in very dangerous times. The people mapping the future generations have lost site to what is important.
Society will advance, without them. They will plead for their lives and offer money. The global community already knows how to handle these charlatans.
SNAFU SNOFU, who gives a shit!
If there is a major disaster with hidden implications, us peasants will be the last to find out about it. After 9/11, EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman gave the "all clear," the Feds said it was safe at Ground Zero on September 17. About two weeks after the Fukushima reactors blew on March 11, 2011, Dr. Nancy Snyderman on NBC Nightly News told anchor Brian Williams there was nothing to fear from the radiation the Fukushima reactors released.
On an ABC Saturday Night news magazine show on the making of the IMAX movie on Mt. Everest (the news magazine aired on ABC on 28 February 1998), David Breashears makes the comment: "There was a moment when I thought, 'Maybe Everest has just had enough. And Everest just took one giant swat and said, 'Beware!'" Breashears was talking about the 8 climbers who died on Mt. Everest in 1996 when a storm hit the mountain, making descent from the peak very difficult. But if Mother Nature decides to take a real big swat at us, I doubt that stocking up on foodstuffs will make that much of a difference. Almost none of us have access to fortified bunkers or remote facilities like Camp David.
"The Climb", the story of the Everest disaster, is one of the best books I've read.
Bankster induced madness. I blame Janet Yellen, Loyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon.
Totally.
Thik you got snow?
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=32c46049c6&view=att&th=12e4001...
After reading a bit of the posts here with the bantering back and forth of offended and offensive little egos who have spent too much time watching American TV or were stupid enough to actually become a member of it's armed forces and want to swagger about this little blog like little tattooed tyrants. I'd like to pass on a little story about a real weather event and how humanity is still not totally incapable of reacting in a civilized manner.
September of 1989 the hurricane Hugo with 200 mph winds ransacked much of the Caribbean. Watching some of it developing from up north and having a home on one of the islands near Puerto Rico I was very concerned. Attempts to contact people by phone or even shortwave were not possible. I took the first available flight expected to land in San Juan. The plane sat on the tarmac in NY for 4 hours before getting clearance to take off. Landing in San Juan in the aftermath of the storm with torrential rains still decending. Along the runway aircraft were crumpled up like a crushed packs of cigarettes. I gathered my two chainsaws and gear and hailed a cab for the small airport that had the only planes flying to my off island. There was several feet of water in the highways and streets all the highrise building looked black and and windowless, giant high tension poles constructed of coreten steel and at least 5 foot in diameter at their base and 100 foot tall lay twisted like so many straws. Arriving at the little regional airport there was only one plane and it was reving up to leave, but seeing me with my two chain saws (not a common tool on the islands in those days) they ejected one passanger and waved me aboard. Flying over the islands there was not one spec of green even the grass was gone it looked like winter. On my little island the roads were blocked in most places by debris from homes and trees. Most houses made of wood and tin were blown away leaving just concrete steps and a few posts. The tangle of downed trees made it difficult to get anywhere. My own home was unscathed and I spent weeks helping clear the roads and peoples yards. My experience was that almost everyone pitched in no matter how much they had lost. The governemnt and the military all assisted providing water, supermarkets gave away food that was in freezers as they had no electricity like everyone else. The few generators were used to open the gas station and hospital. Ferry boats were washed ashore. It was a terribly difficult time, but no one drew guns or threatened each other. There was no refridgeration and no ice and a few would have perhaps done anything for a cold beer, but we made it through this time and the power was restored in a month and the shattered tree trunks began to sprout leaves, and shoots of grass began to emerge. So tough up mentally you TV polluted pussies.
Check this out for congestion to see where you are going if thing deteriorate further.
http://safeshare.tv/w/vwncRciSFb
Good comment, and underscores a point often lost on those who haven't experienced life disruption first hand: It's one thing to survive an event, but slogging through the aftermath is quite a different mindset entirely.
Corruption is not equally distributed. Americans are the most degraded people, take away the material and there'd be a second Africa in USA (especially in large cities). Blackout, or some snow - and you've got a riot and looting. Yes, they will have a break down whenever hard crisis hits and there are real problems with food. But that's not because all "peope" are such beasts, it's because of the _quality_ of people living there.
Yeah. Once I was on a Greyhound Bus outside of Bakersfield and a guy farted. It, like, made this little girl puke and the lady next to her puked. Pretty soon people in the back of the bus puked. As the smell hit the general population there was more people puking than not. They stopped the bus in Buttonwillow at a Denny's. The toilet and sink clogged up and the manager shut down the restaurant. This guy improvised a key and was able to turn on the faucet outside the Denny's. We took turns washing the puke off our pants and we broke out our suit cases. People changed clothes with no concern for modesty. The bus driver was on the phone the whole time getting yelled at because he was off the schedule. It was really bad.
always eat a DOZEN pickled eggs, couple slim jims and drink 12 beers the night before you take the hound.... and YOU be the first to fart... enjoy the show...
Reckon I can last 6 months with the provisions I'e stockpiled. But here in the UK we're not allowed proper guns so all I have to protect myself is a .22 air rifle!
Are you allowed cross bows in England? Might be a better weapon for you. They pack an incredible punch, can even penetrate kevlar in some instances.
We don't need a bunch of castastrophe scenarios; Obummer is doing quite well, thank you.
Yeah, 0bummer and his regime ARE the catastrophe!
Life is a temp job.
FEB Retail sales will be down due to "People Behaving Like Crazed Lunatics"
I traveled to Tuscaloosa Alabama and worked running a chainsaw and tarping roofs after the tornado outbreak a few years back. I saw a tornado touch down as an 8 year old but seeing first hand that kind of damage was breathtaking. I had to stop in northern Ga on my drive down from Chicago area at a motel for some sleep. A man refilled my coffee and we began to talk as he was at the table next to me at breakfast. He had lost his home, his business and several head of beef cattle in the storms but his wife and three kids and he were unharmed physically. He was refilled my coffee and asked where I was from. Imagine. Say what you will about the south and I have southern relatives, when they say "how you doin" they mean it. They may have only two speeds, slow and stop but I will take a neighborhood full of southerners versus metro area notherners any day in a calamity. Also, I will share my last meal with you but do not try to steal it from me. As to stopping your car on the interstate in a snow storm I think it is rolling the dice. I grew up in Michigan and remember 1979 blizzard. If you stop on an interstate in a white out you are likely to get seriously hurt getting rear ended. There are people killed here all the time stopping to help motorists in trouble and getting themselves killed by another vehicle. If you drive too slowly when white outs hit you are also likely to get rear ended. Keeping good tires on your car and exercising some common sense in your driving habits go a long ways.
it's all DIRECT TV's fault.... dont let your dad get punched in the stomach over a can of soup...
let them eat asparagus and corn...
LOL! It would not hurt if you Americans became a bit more like Russians. Russians don't give a shit if it snows a bit. I guess lots of people in the deep South are now hunkering down in their backyard bunkers, eating MREs, thinking this is TEOTWAWKI, SHTF, WROL, whatever.
MOTHER NATURE makes us realize how thin the candy coating of "civilization" really is when the shtf... kind of like an M+M... a very thin veneer...
Weather modification can be tracked here ... some cool programmer these people are
http://www.theweatherspace.com/haarp-status/
- Xbox live goes down.
- Government bans internet porn.
Are you prepared!?
Yeah, I know, the weather's tough. We were going semi-crazy here in San Diego because it almost got to 80 degrees. It's always hard when you're like arguing with yourself 'cuz, hey, it's beach weather, and I was gonna chill out and listen to some tunes at home. You know it's like you don't want to and you do wanna boogie and at the same time chill. That's like a riot, right?
It's the ennnnnd of the worrrrld and I got miiiiiiiinnnneeeee.....