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rumble · Tar Sands Joined: Oct 04, 2007 Posts: 44

I found this site tonight and cannot stop reading the threads! How exciting to have the opportunity to communicate with people who get PO!

I have known the term and what it entails for quite some time, but only recently realized the urgency about eight months ago. Don't ask why - I can't figure out how I missed putting it together. I was probably too focused on Fema work camps, global warming, North American Union, the collapse of our economy, or hell - maybe even birdflu!

It is top of mind now. That's for sure. What bothers me most is I know I can't stay where I am (even though I love it with all my heart) and on top of that I have no idea where to go. Sometimes I lay at night thinking something like this "Ah ha! If there is enough railnfall there then I can do this, and as long as I am on the coast then I can escape in a boat, ....wait a minute... there are too many people there or the government there is too unstable or whatever" I don't own any land, yikes! No one wants to start a sustainable community in Northern California/ Southern Oregon (that I can find out about). It is beginning to really get to me. Not too bad - I am a stable person- but I am getting frustrated. I am the kind of person that needs to be prepared for huge events such as this. I have wanted a "doomsday" underground lair right outside of an
eco-village since I was 13. damn it - why didn't I make that my top priority Smile

As for now, I have my books and DVDs, emergency supplies, passports, compost pile (on my apartment patio), and bicycle to ride everywhere on the weekends. (need to get in shape for when TSHTF)

Well, thanks for letting me ramble on and I look forward to learning and conversing with great people!

Rumble

MD · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:06 am Post subject: Re: Hi!

Ramble on, Rumble!

Welcome!
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Narz · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:33 am Post subject: Re: Hi!

Welcome and good luck!

Don't let anything here depress you. Focus on your goals & take everything with a grain of salt.

Where you from?
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MD · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:54 am Post subject: Re: Hi!

rumble · Tar Sands Joined: Oct 04, 2007 Posts: 44

Thanks for the greetings!

I agree I do need to move! I just need decide on the place I am going :) If I could just get that one thing down, it would make a world of difference. I am just trying to be smart with my decision.
Hopefully, I will figure it out soon.

truecougarblue · Heavy Crude Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 471

Hi.
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Pops · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: Hi!

Hi rumble, do a search for Redwood Empire (pstarr?) and also thuga.

There are folks up there in your area, look through the Connect with Peakers thread in the Planning Forum and then Search By Author for the folks you find in your area and see what they are up to.

We moved from Cent. Ca (Modesto) to Missouri to get away from the hoards-to-be but you may be able to find a good place up there in the sticks.

G’Luck
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rumble · Tar Sands Joined: Oct 04, 2007 Posts: 44

Thanks, pops!

I sent pstarr a PM.

Right now, I am in an apartment in the bay area and I have got to get my bootie out of here!

Thanks again for the advice! I will definitely check it out!

albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1338

horsestoaster · Heavy Crude Joined: Feb 07, 2006 Posts: 109

So much 2 know!So little time(we thinks)...Come on an' ride the educated horses with the rest of us folks and welcome 2 U!Even those that disagree withyou will teach you.

rumble · Tar Sands Joined: Oct 04, 2007 Posts: 44

thanks, horsetoaster! That is exactly what I plan to do. I have already received such a good education from this board. I can't stop reading. Yeah, some of it you already know, but the different perspectives are what I have been starved for!

By the way - While I was thinking of one place in the US, I just can't help but believe we are going to martial law. I know Canada is not far enough way from the US, however, I think I have found a nice place to wait things out. If it gets too bad, I will fare my way with pirates out on the sea! Ha.

rumble · Tar Sands Joined: Oct 04, 2007 Posts: 44

Arghh - sorry about the typo in your name! Yikes!

albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1338

Rumble,
First of all you need a better Avatar.
Here's a suggested one, the only objective is to make her square and fit in the box somehow.

(A rather though homework assignment given that some of us are living with exactly this for a lifetime).

rumble · Tar Sands Joined: Oct 04, 2007 Posts: 44

Alright, alright. When the internet connection at home is back up (sometime this week) then I'll settle on a new Avatar. In the meantime, the covered up head is usually how I am during the day. I am in there singing "nobody knows the trouble I see..." Just kidding!

albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1338

Well, are you married? I don't think so otherwise you would have commented on the addendum under the pic.

Taking it a step further, if there would be no biological built in responsibility for the offspring males and females would be in a permanent and violent war-kind of relationship.

Women and men are no match from heaven. Yet, all advanced biological systems seem to follow this split genetic approach. The must be some sort of a logic in this after all.