http://flightinwinter.com/ Flight in Winter en-us Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:42:35 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Flight in Winter News http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://flightinwinter.com/images/header.jpg http://flightinwinter.com/ http://flightinwinter.com/News/article/sid=35.html You call that converted broom closet full of food your pantry because you are too embarrassed to call it your food storage.  Don't worry, your secret is safe with us. You've got your pantry stocked for a rainy day and you are feeling pretty confident (cocky) as you watch the approaching storm.  Yes indeed, you are ready for almost anything...or are you?  How much food do you have put aside?  Enough for a month?  Three months?  One year?  You run to your pantry and take a cursory glance.  Yep, you can probably feed yourself and your family for...oh...about...about...a long time.  Yeah, right.  You'll be fine. Let's be honest, shall we?  A one month supply of food isn't all that much when you think about it.  one month goes by quickly, doesn't it?  You can probably cut back on your portions and make the food in your pantry go farther. Reality Check: A one month supply of food is not good for much.  To prepare for a local disaster, you need a few days worth of food and water, just enough to hold you over until help arrives or until you relocate.  An extended catastrophe might last a week or two at the most so you'll need enough to hold you over until help arrives or until you relocate.  See how that works? A crisis that is greater than a local, natural disaster like a hurricane or earthquake, etc., is another thing altogether, but you have to define what a crisis might mean to you.  What kind of crisis are you prepared for?  Do you think you might need to rely on your food supply for an extended period of time?  What does extended mean?  Extended is obviously more than a month.   One month is nothing more than a healthy supply for a temporary local disaster, not an extended amount of time.  Three months supply is more than enough for a catastrophe, but is three months really an extended period of time?An extended period of time to a small child is different that an adult who went through the depression. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:42:35 GMT http://flightinwinter.com/News/article/sid=34.html Long before the press woke up and sounded the alarm, I told you to invest in water.  Some people took me seriously.  Most didn’t.  I also told you to invest in food.  I told you to take all of the money you have and purchase food.  Some people did.  Most didn’t.  I have heard and am encouraged that some people are just now jumping on the bandwagon.  Better late than never.  Imagine how much money they would have saved had they started earlier, like you did. Time has obviously proven my reliability in these matters. Now that the readers of my sites are actively investing in food and water purification, I am going to make two more recommendations.  Don’t ignore them. Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:51:33 GMT http://flightinwinter.com/News/article/sid=33.html There is no doubt in anyone's mind that the American pioneers were a rugged lot. They loaded their covered wagons and set off across the planes on a journey fraught with peril, starvation and often death. In the early 1860s, it took an average of four months for emigrants to travel to the gold diggings in Idaho and Montana. Failure to plan on their part was definitely a plan to fail and some of them did fail even though they had a good plan. People today don't take planning as seriously as the early settlers because we are spoiled by the comforts of technology such as restaurants, air-conditioning, Quik Trips, etc. Our vehicles are jammed with coolers, DVD players and talking GPS systems. We cannot imagine life without our creature comforts, but imagine we must if we are to survive a calamity. Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:45:44 GMT http://flightinwinter.com/News/article/sid=32.html Someone has stolen hundreds of billions of dollars and destroyed an entire nation.  Thus far, it appears to be the perfect crime, because we don't know who did it or where the money is. It does matter and yes, you do care because it will change your life forever. When someone closes on a mortgage, that loan is sold to another company who sells it to another company and so on.   It may eventually end up at Fanny Mae or Freddie Mac who then converts the loan into shares sold to investors on Wall Street.  Greed focused on this bizarre part of our economy and sub-prime lending scams abounded and people, enticed by lower, temporary interest rates, refinanced or purchased new homes.   As more and more companies took advantage of those less fortunate, foreign investors jumped in, adding their mostly oil-based dollars to the exploding financial pile. Everyone knew the party could not last forever. The mortgage scam frenzy eventually slowed to a trickle, fewer investors were willing to purchase or invest in the shaky loans and those stuck with the paper began raising those temporary interest rates in an attempt as a hedge against potential losses, often tripling people's mortgage payments.   Eventually, many people could no longer afford to make their house payments and were tossed into the street, losing everything. Foreclosure rates are now at an all-time high and still rising.  Thousands of people are losing their homes and homeless shelters are overflowing.   Families are being split between facilities, while others are being sent back into the streets.  Because of this, some cities are already setting up parking lots where homeless are allowed to sleep in their cars...if they still have a car. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:16:56 GMT http://flightinwinter.com/News/article/sid=31.html Uneducated and unmotivated individuals often believe that they can draw drinking water from their home's plumbing in an emergency.  Simple mathematics reveals the folly of this plan.  Let's calculate the volume of water in your home's plumbing. The plumbing in your home is 3/4" diameter.  Radius of pipe (r) = 3/8 of one inch = 0.375in Area of a cylinder (pipe) = π x r2 pi = 3.14159265 3.14159265 times 0.3752 equals 0.44178646 Volume of a cylinder (pipe) = area x length One gallon of water equals 231 cubic inches Our plumbing contains 0.44178646 cubic inches per running inch Let's put in our numbers. 231 / 0.44178646 = 522.87704788417463043118161656652 Let's round this off to 522.88 inches. Divide this by 12 and we see that we need 43.57 feet of plumbing for every gallon of water. You need a minimum of one gallon of water per person per day.  Three days supply for two people would require 261.42 feet of plumbing, which I sincerely doubt that you have in your home.  Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:27:15 GMT http://flightinwinter.com/News/article/sid=30.html People have all kinds of differing opinions about what food is nutritious and what is not. One camp says wheat is bad for you and another says wheat is good for you. The same is said for corn, milk, butter, eggs, wine, sprouts, vegetable oil, MSG and artificial vitamins. If anyone says anything bad about gravy, I’ll go medieval on them! Some say alcohol is bad for you and others say drinking a glass of wine periodically will lessen your chances of having a heart attack. Amen! Some say you shouldn’t eat potatoes, yet in the 1800’s, one third of the population of Ireland was entirely dependent on the potato for food…and then the potato famine wiped out a million of them. I guess they didn’t know any better. We shouldn’t eat rice because it is too starchy and contains few nutrients, yet billions of people around the world live on rice. Perhaps someone should tell them it’s not possible. Some people avoid sugar and use Nutri-Sweet which was created in a laboratory. Some say real butter is bad for you, so they opt for margarine, also created in a lab. Soy is good, soy is bad, peanuts are good, peanuts are bad, and oh my goodness, now we have an entire community that fears genetically modified foods even though they are impossible to avoid. Those miserable creatures can’t eat fresh fruits or vegetables. They can’t eat canned goods because there’s no telling what’s in them and they buy meat because the cows and chickens eat genetically engineered food. What do you suppose they eat? Pop-Tarts! [1] Factoid: Genetically modified soya produces 10% less food than its conventional equivalent. Remember when everyone jumped on the anti-caffeine bandwagon and rode it over the cliff? I almost got arrested for ordering a regular cup of coffee! That fad ran its course and now, there’s an entire section of overly caffeinated drinks in the stores. Someone discovered we need more fiber and suddenly, we were force-fed bran muffins, oat bread and cereal that tasted like saw dust. One day, I could have sworn I flushed a nightstand down the toilet. A deep voice announced over the loud speaker, “You need more protein!” Yea, verily, the shelves were filled with protein drinks and protein bars and if that’s not enough for you, buy some protein powder to spike everything you eat, but be careful because some is made from whey and some from soy. They should make it from a natural substance like bugs. In the midst of all of this, a group of people decided that our colons needed a good cleansing. These fringe dwellers believe that rancid food is building up in our poop chute because Yahweh didn’t create us properly. Get a hose and some water purified through distillation or reverse osmosis and see how many gallons you can hold before you burst…or just eat some sauerkraut and wait about ten minutes. Then some nimrod became infatuated with parasites and that created a whole new market for pest control elixirs, gizmos and fad diets.  Help!  Parasites are eating my guts!  Gotta get those pesky parasites out of our bodies because…because…I don’t know why, but we have to do it or we’ll die!  Wait, we’ll die one way or the other, won’t we? Do you think it was an impacted colon or parasites that killed our grandparents when they lived to be one hundred? Remember, they ate bacon and eggs and real butter and gravy and they drank whole milk. Many of them even cooked with lard and their veins didn’t explode. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:30:59 GMT http://flightinwinter.com/News/article/sid=29.html What happens when the security forces deployed are above the law? Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:00:00 GMT http://flightinwinter.com/News/article/sid=28.html Already enjoying the huge financial benefits of being a pastor of a non-profit 501c3 church, will your pastor someday do the bidding of the government? The day may come when the government will ask your pastor to return the favor and saying no will not be an option. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:41:14 GMT http://flightinwinter.com/News/article/sid=27.html CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Hospital patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers were evacuated in the middle of the night as the biggest flood Cedar Rapids has ever seen swamped more than 400 blocks Friday and all but cut off the supply of clean drinking water in the city of 120,000. They didn't see this coming.  No one expected the torrential rains. Do you think the people were prepared for this type of emergency?  Are you? For decades, Cedar Rapids escaped any major, widespread flooding, even during the Midwest deluge of 1993, and many people had grown confident that rising water would pose no danger to their city. The flood this time didn't just break records; it shattered them. The Cedar River was expected to crest Friday night at nearly 32 feet, an astonishing 12 feet higher than the old record, set in 1929. Flooding left 2 inches of water in the emergency room at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids on Thursday night, and water spilling into the lower levels threatened to knock out the hospital's emergency generator. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:42:53 GMT http://flightinwinter.com/News/article/sid=26.html Your vote won't count. No one wants to hear what you have to say. When the people rise up against tyranny, tyrants will rise against the people with force. Before you accuse me of being anti-police, my son is a police officer.  When, not if things get ugly, Keep your head down Keep your mouth shut Avoid confrontation Avoid interaction Become invisible Be careful what you eat and drink Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:15:03 GMT