Here's how trapped you'll feel if you don't do anything to prepare today.
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http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/w ... e_08132013The following list exemplifies just how much a person has to lose if they have failed to prepare themselves for emergencies. After a large enough catastrophe, the recovery time frame can be very long term, or potentially never for certain critical needs.
1. No clean water coming out of the faucets to drink.
2. No hot or cold water to shower, bathe with or wash your hands.
3. No washing machines or dishwashers to clean your clothes or dirty dishes.
4. No flushing toilets.
5. No heat or air conditioning, not even fans.
6. No light at night.
7. No grocery stores or home delivered food, no restaurants, no food period.
8. No trash pick up of waste that will mound up and collect strong diseases.
9. No medications, especially antibiotics, or simple over the counter remedies either.
10. No vitamin or mineral supplements to help keep your body from breaking down.
11. No 911 help service at all.
12. No mechanical transportation with any fuel to run anything.
13. No protection, no law enforcement.
14. No communications; no internet, no TV, no radio, no clue what is going on.
15. No phones, no way of talking to people miles away, cut off and blind.
16. No refrigeration, no freezers, no food preservation from going bad quickly.
17. No stoves or microwaves to cook food.
18. No easy prepare meals.
19. No toilet paper, and no good alternative to toilet paper to those unaware.
20. No feminine toiletries.
21. No pest control against animals and insects that are very hazardous to your health.
22. No utilities; no gas, no electricity, no way to make anything function in your home.
23. No advanced warning of weather, war, or other life threatening events.
24. No odor control from rotting wastes and rotting corpses that stink too bad to mention.
25. No healthy food to maintain proper nutrition, leading to sickness and weakness.
26. No proper basic hygiene and bacteria control on the body, especially the teeth.
27. No repair of tooth cavities or other life threatening oral problems.
28. No pain control, no aspirin, no way to ease pain like from a bad tooth.
29. No basic first aid to treat minor injuries that will become major.
30. No replacements for worn out clothes, shoes, socks, underwear.
31. No replacement parts to fix something that is broken.
32. No soap or disinfectants.
33. No outdoor protection from the elements such as sunburns.
34. No safety net that society provides. No welfare, no assistance, no government food.
35. No sexual protection from the wide array of deadly diseases that are transmittable.
36. No treatment for the sick and dying.
37. No modern power tools to repair all that will be broken, no workable anything.
38. No way of cleaning up messes that range from irritating to hazardous.
39. No care, no help, no chance for medical needs of infants and children.
40. No protection against rabies.
41. No means of easing chronic depression that will be very widespread and intense.
42. No outlets of entertainment to distract people from the overwhelming despair and fear.
43. No familiar and basic everyday needs that give comfort and security to most people.
44. No way of getting to family and friends because of distance, or too dangerous to even try.
45. No respectable way of laying to rest someone dear to you.
46. No way of protecting yourself and family from roaming gangs without enough firepower.
47. No workable answers from rudimentary to complex problems that will present themselves often.
48. No calling up your local professional help to repair something essential to you.
49. No feeling of being civilized as losing everything and becoming dirty and unkept does this to anyone.
50. No way out without having prepared for such an enormous downfall of society.
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:56 pm
