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Well the "Stash Cooling System" would be good insurance from wiring mishaps. You just never know about them critters and ice cream withdrawal.Pess had an I.T. guy and I am betting he can and will have password hacking software and can and will produce the passwords. Could save a ton of time and I am also willing to bet Pess used a password that is an actual word or phrase, like Jet Ranger or SHTF spelled out. Just a guess but that would make the password search easy ad much faster.
Now the Greenhouse will probably not need a cooling system but it is going to need a heating system. A simple heat pump with a dual ducting system will cover both possibilities. Solar panel on green house and battery & controls installed next to greenhouse will take care of the power requirements. Backup generator for redundancy and oops. Crop rotation is going to be a key feature in your planning. Different seasons for different crops and different crop purposes. Crops for nutrition and vitamins. Crops for herbs and spices. Well you get the idea and there are many folks on this forum who can and will help you plan it all out. Bee keeping would be good for both medicinal and caloric count.
The Ruger is a nice concealed carry pistol and yes most definitely easier to conceal than the 44 mag or a 357. Glad you all got your Fostechs. As for the cities, I have to agree they are not user friendly. I carry at all time, even in my home. I am too old to run and too tired to fight, I will just follow Redbeards 3 S's. There is a lot of vacant desert land. We don't have the wild hogs that Texas has, so we have to do a bit of shovel work. Pess had the concept for the "Retreat" to become an isolated compound and my concept for the "THH" was designed to be a livable fortress compound. Pess and I had many a discussion of the pro & con of each concept. The cities will become a war zone or at least area's will become No Go" zones where even the police will not enter, like parts of London and parts of Germany. I don't think it is going to happen in my life time but I do think it may happen withing my children's life time. I hope it holds off until my grand children's lifetime, so more can be done and planned for. As I see it, rural living will not be enough. If a ranch or farm is not designed and structured as a fortress, then it will not survive. Today's farms and ranches all require the owners to expose themselves to capture or ambushes. I don't think the danger will be from the big cities, I think it will come from the locals who did not plan ahead but know where the food is raised or grown. The city folks will be too busy stealing and killing each other to head for the country folks. The local drug dealers and petty crooks and just the unprepared will start stealing and killing their neighbors for the food and supplies they need to survive. Granted not a pretty picture and probably not appreciated by many on this forum. Too gloomy and depressing.
I am curious how the "Kids" construction project is coming along/ I would also like an update as how the Cousns's project is doing. So many topics left in the air. I wonder how the final design for their place turned out. I advocated for a more fortress type layout and they were leaning towards a more typical farm / ranch approach. I am not too excited about Pess moving into a simple double wide, without adequate special features. Life is strange, Pess going from "Isolated Retreat", to double wide, lakeside retirement home. Well that is enough for tonight and too much for the forum. Chat at you again.
I agree 100%, Pess has just about done a 180 regarding SHTF.....which, hopefully will change once he gets caught up on three decades of history, and realizes today's world isn't the world of 30 years ago. About the only thing that has carried over, so to speak, is that he still carries everywhere he goes, as do my son and I. But he was carrying 45 years ago, so that's understandable. Can't hit the broad side of a barn with a pistol, but he's deadly with a rifle. He can do 1" groups at 500 yds with that March scope on that Tikka of his....of course that scope is rather awesome and has a lot to do with that! Puts a 500 yd bullseye 6 1/4 yds in front of you! Pretty hard to miss if you have a calm day!! I finally found the IT guy's number a week ago, and he says Pess used some kind of a password generator on his external HDD's and the NSA would be lucky if they could break in, so I don't have much hope of figuring out the password, or passwords. The home computers were not a problem...he's used the same password on them for years and his Cousin had that...it's just the external HDD's we can't get into.
Too old to run, too tired to fight? I hear you...and that's the truth...leave that to the youngsters, guys like you and me (and Pess) will just shoot 'em and let the Deputies log it in as self-defense. Well, the "Retreat" is certainly isolated, no doubt about that!! Yes, I am going to be looking around the Forum for a lot of things...I am not much of a "survivalist," but I'm learning. The Muslims ALREADY have "no-go zones" in the U.S., but don't get me started on them, or the cesspool cities, or I'll be here for hours. I tend to agree with you in thinking the greatest danger will not come from the cities...if the SHTF, I doubt there will be many survivors in the cities. My personal belief is that Pess was calling it right...isolation is the only way to guarantee your safety. Even rural areas will fall apart if the SHTF lasts any length of time, and MAG's are too dependent on having good leadership and strictly followed procedures. I know what I WOULD DO....I DON'T KNOW what YOU would do...and that's not my idea of "safety!" If my life may depend on YOU, then I need to KNOW what you would do in any given situation. Even as screwed up as Pess is right now, I still KNOW what he would do...that part of him hasn't changed. He probably never told you of some of his/our experiences, but believe me, I know what he would do, and he does it RIGHT NOW, no talk, no nothing. I would rather have him watching my six than the entire Denver PD!!
The "kids" place will probably be up and running before the end of the month, and you're right, it is basically a small farm type setup, not a fortress....but they are fairly isolated, and way back in the woods, and there will be no power line running in from the road to indicate anyone lives back there. His Cousin's project is on indefinite hold...damn Inspectors want all the bears, alligators, and some weird kind of turtle relocated before any development can begin. It may be a year or two before she can even get started. Whenever he finds the property he likes, Pess will have some "special features," as you put it, if I have to put them in myself. Cameras, motion detectors, dogs, pistols/rifles/shotguns are all fine and dandy, but a few little "surprises" are called for, in my opinion. Where does the time go...just looked at my watch, almost 5:30 already. Better put the dogs out for a little while, and start breakfast....Pess will be up around 6:00 anyway...wants to get an early start checking out some land up by the lake. Did the Evel one tell you the Bounty Hunter is going to buy Pess's place here? Well, you take care...got to get a move on.
and hope he will be back to himself soon.:thumbs up:
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