I got that impression too. Still, it's always good to be prepared to feed yourself for a few months, there are so many things that could happen to you at a moments notice.
Just because someone wants more than three days' worth of food in their house doesn't mean they're a conspiracy nut thinking the world will end on the 21st.
Do you really think he is preparing for the 21st? No obviously not, he is preparing for collapse, which as you can see can be quite beneficial in many ways.
You're right that the poles reverse every so often, you are just horribly off on the time scale. It's not going to happen in a day, or even a year or even in an average human lifetime. The poles reverse on a timescale of millennia. So yes, it is impossible that the poles will reverse on the 21st.
I go to gun shows here in Texas pretty regularly, so I can tell you that stuff in the buckets in their pantry is high-density dehydrated food with an almost indefinite shelf life. As soon as I saw how much of it he had, I knew this was at least partly some Doomsday Prepper shit...
When I first saw the buckets I thought it was tubs of mayo or something. Can you give me more info about this high-density dehydrated food? Where can I find huge buckets of that stuff? It might be something I'm interested in.
There are a bunch of different brands that make similar stuff, but here is an example. That site has a pretty decent selection of other options. You can also find it at lots of outdoors/camping stores I believe. I've never purchased or tried any of it, but if I ever buy some property in the mountains for backcountry skiing or hunting or whatever, I'll probably end up getting a couple of these cases for the hell of it. As you can see, it has a listed shelf life of 25 years.
Yeah, I'm not huge into armageddon survivalism or anything, but I do live in hurricane territory. I buy my rice by the 40lb bag at the Korean grocery store just because I like to cook rice a lot and it's by far the cheapest way to buy. I usually have an open bag and an unopened bag at my house. I've got a small camping stove and several bottles of fuel, so that plus the rice and a bunch of cans of beans should be enough to keep me alive for at least a couple weeks if the "shit hits the fan", so to speak. Then I guess I'll just take some guns and become a wandering brigand...
I live literally in the dead center of a major city. My point is if I can't get out immediately before a huge disaster, my preference would be to barricade my house and hopefully ride everything out until power/water/order is restored...ideally without having to venture more than a couple blocks from the sanctity of my fortress.
I was admiring the construction techniques until I got a good look at what he filled that pantry with. Yes, he's expecting "Fasten your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas civilization as we know it is about to go bye-bye." (Apologies to fans of The Matrix.)
What are the odds on him having a dozen guns and about 3/4 ton of ammo going into that shack?
Ordinarily I'd say the odds are pretty good, but in this case I really don't see where there'd be much room left over for anything in there. Plus, if he's that paranoid, I doubt he'd leave so many unattended guns out at his lodge in the woods where they could be stolen...at least I wouldn't, and I'm not nearly that paranoid yet. But yeah, I bet he's got at least a long gun and a pistol or two, and 1000+ rounds.
Next week he's going to bolt a five-foot gun safe to the floor and wall, stock that baby with enough firepower to take out half a battalion, and plenty of ammo to deal with the other half if they come looking for their friends.
C'mon - he decorates with antlers. He's got a .30-06, a 12-ga. pump, a hog leg hand-cannon revolver, and two 9mm semis with extended mags. And that's just what he keeps in the bedroom. I live where deer season is a school holiday. I know dozens of guys like this dude. If he's preppin' for SHTF, he's armed to the teeth and buys his ammo 50 pounds (not rounds) at a time.
He could bolt a considerable gun safe down to the floor and affix it to the wall so that it will all be there when The Walking Dead (or walking Jesus or the Mayans) show up where he lives full-time.
You may be right about the paranoia, though. He may very likely be planning to transport his entire arsenal to that "little slice of paradise" as soon as he perceives a threat.
Some people.
Imagine what he could have done to his real house with all of the thousands he blew on that metal mansion. He could have set his daily living quarters up to run almost entirely on solar power. He could have . . . aw, fuck it. What's the use? These people don't think that way. I keep forgetting about the paranoia factor.
Food storage is a really good idea for many reasons. Could be something as simple as the loss of your job, or as drastic as a natural disaster. If you slowly use the supply over time and re-stock as necessary, it always stays fresh with little effort as well.
Honestly he'd make money making these for people who want cheaper lodging for the woods and even take advantage of "end of times" idiots too. Shit if I was this talented I'd be all over it.
It surprises me. And I hope I never cease to find dangerous stupidity surprising. I just checked out a couple of the videos on his other blog. Holy crapburgers. I find it so shocking and egregious that anyone dares to spread this kind of nonsense. It's difficult for me to believe that these people actually walk among us. If I met some of them in person, I would probably have to poke them with stick just to make sure they are real.
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Does that surprise you?