Election EVE
OK folks things seem to be heating up. First Wal-Mart pulled ALL of the guns and ammo from their displays last week “in case there were rioting going on” then Friday they put most of them back on display except in the worst areas. Friday a friend in Madison WI reported that the stores downtown were boarding up their windows getting ready for the election riots. Getting similar reports from other places around the country. Many police departments have cancelled days off, vacations ect for one to two weeks surrounding the elections. And then there is this head line–New York City luxury buildings hire armed guards for possible Election Day unrest. Them that can afford that would do well to have that in place all over. In my area listening to the police calls there are more and more calls stacked up WAITING for an officer to become available and often when they get dispatched the call is ended with the dispatcher saying “I will send back up as soon as I can”. Folks that is very concerning to many of us as it shows how over loaded the system is getting. It IS bad now and I believe that it will get much worse regardless of who ‘wins’ Tuesday. It will be bad at least till spring.
But what are the rest of us going to do?
Top up your vehicle this morning on the way to work OR tonight on the way to get stuff.
It is NOT too late to organize with those who live near you. You can still go to the big box stores and buy stuff. Get last minute stuff as if it were going to blizzard for the next 1 – 6 months. While you are there get a couple of CB radios antennas, AND cigarette lighter plug in so you can power the CB in your vehicles. Also get a few of those blister pack FRS/GMRS radios AND if they have them a mobile radio to go with them. IF they have scanner radios get one of those too. Do you have a good AM/FM radio or 2. Gathering information will be vital in the coming months. Charge and check ALL of your communications devices. Make sure they are all programmed correctly and that everyone knows how to use them. Finalize your communications plan. What if the net goes down? Do NOT depend on only your cell phones nor just one or 2 social media sites to communicate with friends / family.
Review your bug out plan and fine tune it. Where are you going? How are you getting there-transportation- AND routes?
Security issues- when things are going on in your area you will need at least one person on FIRE watch 24/7. They can also monitor the radios. Should things locally continue down hill you will have to set up stronger security arrangements 3 or more people to do this. One person to stay at the Comms center / command post and the other 2 to patrol or stand guard. What does that look like for you? Could need 12 people for this. Which leads to how do you / they get sleep, eat and take care of other bodily functions? How does the rest of what you have to get done, get done? What is everyone’s work load?
Please let us know about things in your areas and ideas to address your concerns. Reply below.
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side note… I thought that I was watching an episode of TWD, turns out it was the evening news…..
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