Doomsday Preppers Week 11: Farmers and Flyboys
John and Kelly Taylor are retired firefighters from Florida who have moved to the mountains of Virginia to live on a 41-acre homestead.
What led them to leave the Sunshine State?
Former emergency responders, they’ve been on duty during hurricanes and other natural disasters, and they’ve seen how thin the veneer of civilization can be when the infrastructure holding our society breaks down for even a little while. They’ve seen mankind go primal, and they want to insulate themselves from the social unrest that will follow what they feel is a coming economic collapse. Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah.
From everyone.
They invested all of John’s retirement into prepping. The little income they do have of $4,000-$6,000 a year comes from their solar panel array, which not only provides all the power they can use, but generates enough energy that they sell the remainder to the power company.
Between their crops, animals, and honey bees, the Taylors have managed to “check out” of the normal monetary economy, rendering them largely immune to the direct impact of the financial collapse they fear must come.
Of course, what they can’t do is isolate themselves 100% from the sort of social unrest that would presumably follow such a collapse, and so they’re taking steps to defend what they’ve built.
In the event that they are forced from their homestead due to invaders, they have supply caches in the hills nearby, and have a desire to protect them. Their solution? Conibear traps. I don’t claim to be an expert on trapping, but I’ve heard the stories of body traps such as these designed for possums and beavers killing family pets, and I find it both unethical and possibly illegal to set such traps and leave them unattended as they seem intent on doing. It’s also incredibly stupid. Do they really think a trap designed for a small animal is going to stop even the blind man that doesn’t see the shiny metal traps, or it is just going to tip invaders off that something nearby is worth taking?
John & Kelly — the way to do it properly. To me, they’ve already bugged out. Love the lack of bills, credit cards and life a cashless life. Having stored food is good, but you’re going to run out eventually. Learning how to grow/raise your own is important. And short of having, say, a castle, any place can be overrun. Now if you have to leave the farm, it sure would be nice to be able live off the land. . .
Brawdy, yeesh. It sure doesn’t look like his cab is bullet proof. Besides, tires can always be shot out. He won’t survive the first gang that really wants all his shiny stuff. It may be his family is better off without him.
I’m glad I’m studying Aikido, rather than MMA. I’m not liking all the bunkers. Yes, they are handy in the short term, but eventually you have to come out and rebuild society.
Did you notice that the last two segments showed a certain company’s (that advertises on the show) 5 gallon dried food buckets?
I think it’s something to love from a distance. It’s going to be fun for them when a hard winter starts to damage those solar panels, or they need to be replaced from normal wear and tear. Or if one day one of them twists an ankle or breaks a leg, and running a farm becomes hard to impossible.
A lot of these preppers, even the serious ones, are doing the equivalent of buying a winnebago or visiting all the casinos in the US; just something to blow the retirement on to give themselves a sense of purpose. They’ll wind up selling a well-stocked prep shelter to the next guy entranced by that dream when they need medical care or just get tired of cold beds and hard farm work. Well, the sane ones will.
Claymores would be more useful than Conibears. They could also use them to fish with.
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