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as I mentioned earlier, went camping with my missus and had to carry all water and food to the camping site ( 91,4F) so it was hot, trying to get your brain to function in hot weather is hard,so..

from my view hot is danger, cold is danger,to choose from these two, don't know which one, both sucks,
 
there was a paper written in 1972 which has just been republished, that stated social collapse would come around 2040, total collapse by 2050.
I reckon there calculations were a bit off and its already started.
Yes I agree, It has. It's like the second great depression they talk about, it's here, it's just not equally distributed. I wonder if it felt like that back in the 1930's for the people who still had lots of money or good jobs.
I believe the Limits To Growth study was and still is very accurate.
 
so it was hot, trying to get your brain to function in hot weather is hard,so..
Was it humid too? Humidity and heat are the worst combination. I worked outdoors all my life and those hot days can be bad but coupled with humidity it is a tools down job. Twice last year, our hottest year on record down here, I had to knockoff at around 9am in the morning. The sweat just wouldn't evaporate off me and I heated up and up. Drinking lots of water then is pointless, just made me feel sick.
 
The sweat just wouldn't evaporate off me and I heated up and up. Drinking lots of water then is pointless, just made me feel sick.
Just do not forget to get enough salts when you drink. Getting sick is a sign of losing too much water and also of getting too much water and washing all the salts from your body by sweating/perspiring... sometimes you need to pour the water over your body to cool down. Another problem is drinking tooooo coold of anything, your body has to heat the cold beer/water/tea and starts producing more body heat to do so. Even if it is not soo tasteful, drinking warmer liquids does help to cool down...Gary
 
Was it humid too? Humidity and heat are the worst combination. I worked outdoors all my life and those hot days can be bad but coupled with humidity it is a tools down job. Twice last year, our hottest year on record down here, I had to knockoff at around 9am in the morning. The sweat just wouldn't evaporate off me and I heated up and up. Drinking lots of water then is pointless, just made me feel sick.
yes, if my memory serves me right,humidity was around 90, didn't like it and seawater was 80F, way too warm to cool you off properly.
 
-Just do not forget to get enough salts when you drink.
-sometimes you need to pour the water over your body to cool down.
-your body has to heat the cold beer/water/tea and starts producing more body heat

All excellent tips, I wish they included stuff like this in the media stories about heatwaves. All they do is say "Stay out of the sun and drink plenty of fluids" The mass media is a Whore.

yes, if my memory serves me right,humidity was around 90, didn't like it and seawater was 80F, way too warm to cool you off properly.
I hate when that happens. I remember once I was with friends in the Queensland coastal town of hervey bay. Fraser island, the largest sand island in the world lies about 12 miles offshore but the waters between are very shallow. It was during a heatwave and we went down for a swim to cool off. There were a lot of people on the beach but no one in the water, we found out why as soon as we went in. It was like stepping into a hot bath.
 
with this hot hot weather this up north,it won't do any good for crops,we will prolly see shortages in bread grains and higher prizes for basic stuff in the near future, my 2 cents,
Any weather changes are bad for farmers and ultimately bad for consumers prices. You know how the majority here have been learning to prep for tough times? We’re heading into them now I believe.
 
We've had weeks of hot weather. Its been between 80-87 degs with a few days of temps up to 96. Humidity has been around 12%. These hot temps are unusual for our elevation at this time of year. This is more like August temps. The worse is that it hasn't been cooling off at nights, only down to the 60's. It should be in the low 50's at night.
We've had less than an inch of rain since April and 6" of snow in May. Even the weeds are dead.
 
Farmers are regularly murdered in SA and the lesson is obvious. Having a remote property far from neighbors is not necessarily the safest choice in a disorderly world. It's why farmers in the darkages clustered together in small villages. But if you wan't to know what really works in that environment have a look at the small town of Orania in SA.

It has a population of around 2500 people and no crime. That's right, Zero crime.
It is the role model as far as I am concerned and I live in a rural Australian town of similar size and makeup. I'll add too that I did have a rural property, 100acres, but the odd walkins and thefts convinced me it would be a bad choice in the long run. This thinking doesn't sit well with those who have followed the prepper mantra that a remote and isolated BOL is the logical endpoint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orania,_Northern_Cape
Sounds like where I live. Do You mean no one drives drunk? Do kids not spray graffiti? Does no one shop lift ? I really can"t concieve of someone stealing a chainsaw or a truck here.
 
as I mentioned earlier, went camping with my missus and had to carry all water and food to the camping site ( 91,4F) so it was hot, trying to get your brain to function in hot weather is hard,so..

from my view hot is danger, cold is danger,to choose from these two, don't know which one, both sucks,
I am a camper. Tell me what camping is like in Finland. Hot and and cold are a danger too here in the highlands, You can swelter in the afternoon and freeze at night.
 
Sounds like where I live. Do You mean no one drives drunk? Do kids not spray graffiti? Does no one shop lift ? I really can"t concieve of someone stealing a chainsaw or a truck here.
According to the story, and a couple of youtubes I watched on the place, it's clean as a whistle. It's basically a 'village' community, in the traditional sense, and even traditional native african village communities have a pretty lawful structure. They might go and slaughter everyone in the next village over a slight, but in their own camp they have to behave by the rules or else. That's the main drawback of city living, there is plenty of community but they are all split into different tribes.
 
I am a camper. Tell me what camping is like in Finland. Hot and and cold are a danger too here in the highlands, You can swelter in the afternoon and freeze at night.
there are designated camping places here and there, some have drinking water for you, some not,
most have fire places or fire pits for cooking, some have huts with possibility of coooking "indoors".
out houses where to take a dump, trash bins, those I like to go to as my missus too, are along the coast.

then we have this "everymans right" , you can camp on someones property ; but!! no camp fire, no destruction of the forrest and ofcourse don't put up your tent on their front or back yard ;)
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we stayed near this "hut", had our tent behind this building and the sea about 10m from that fire place,
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that's the island from an aerial view, will go back there again, promised to buy my missus a new back pack, prolly one to me too,
 
Farmers are regularly murdered in SA and the lesson is obvious. Having a remote property far from neighbors is not necessarily the safest choice in a disorderly world. It's why farmers in the darkages clustered together in small villages. But if you wan't to know what really works in that environment have a look at the small town of Orania in SA.

It has a population of around 2500 people and no crime. That's right, Zero crime.
It is the role model as far as I am concerned and I live in a rural Australian town of similar size and makeup. I'll add too that I did have a rural property, 100acres, but the odd walkins and thefts convinced me it would be a bad choice in the long run. This thinking doesn't sit well with those who have followed the prepper mantra that a remote and isolated BOL is the logical endpoint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orania,_Northern_Cape

I would love to have 100 acres. Motion sensors and video (wireless) can tell you when and where a surprise visitor has trespassed. Then you intercept them and make sure they never do it again. With that much land, nobody cares about gunshots, and nobody can see you digging.

The spider has caught a fly...

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Heading well into year two of stored preps. I keep going. Moved to the farm a year ago, and have the animals and start of bartering going. First year garden here, and it's going well so, I'll see how long in the season I can keep it going. Getting reading to seed for fall plants. I spent some time putting in plants that will pay off next year...strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, horseradish, herbs. Although I did get a good strawberry harvest and herb harvest on first year plants. So much work needed to be done here, inside and out, and so much still to do. But that's how prepping is.
 

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