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We've had some discussions about the extreme preppers shows but it seems there are urban preppers too.
I can understand stocking up for a short term emergency like a hurricane, flood, earthquake, tornado or fire. Longer term doesn't make much sense to me because everyone that doesn't have anything will try to take mine. Pretty tough to hold off the world. Just in normal groceries I could likely live pretty well for a month and I have a well so water isn't a problem.
A guy I know has several fairly new duplexes he rents out. One of his tenants called him and said there are rats and mice all over. He had an exterminator put traps and poison in but it didn't seem to help. The exterminator said there were so many that he caught over 100 mice and 7 rats in a week on glue traps but they didn't touch any of the bait. It appeared that they had gnawed holes in the garage wall between the units and he wanted to get into the garage for the other unit. That tenant didn't want to let him in. There was a provision for inspection on 24 hour notice in his leases so he gave the tenant notice. The tenant told him he couldn't enter and threatened to shoot him. The County sheriffs department went with the owner to the location and were there when the tenant got home.
They entered the house to get in the garage. The place stunk of rodents. The garage was stacked full of plastic pails , plastic barrels and cardboard boxes. The rooms in the unit had the same. The tenant told them that they contained food, water and ammunition for when the government collapsed. Rodents had gotten into his food supplies and were raising young and had over run the place. He figured he had enough food to live on for 10 years. I suppose it could be used if he lost his job or retired.
Usually an eviction would take weeks or months but they got the County health department to condemn it so they guy had to move out. The rats and mice had gotten into the walls so he had to have all of the sheet rock and insulation replaced. The landlord has started inspecting all of his properties at least once every two months.
I've seen the Wise food ads on late night television with several days worth of food in a plastic pail. It might be a good thing to have in case I had to suddenly leave my house. Just grab the pail and go. I also thought of having a pail in other buildings in case my house was destroyed. It occurred to me that plastic pails aren't a good thing to store food in. Rats and mice can chew through them. They should use metal pails.
Do you or anyone you know go to such extremes?
I can understand stocking up for a short term emergency like a hurricane, flood, earthquake, tornado or fire. Longer term doesn't make much sense to me because everyone that doesn't have anything will try to take mine. Pretty tough to hold off the world. Just in normal groceries I could likely live pretty well for a month and I have a well so water isn't a problem.
A guy I know has several fairly new duplexes he rents out. One of his tenants called him and said there are rats and mice all over. He had an exterminator put traps and poison in but it didn't seem to help. The exterminator said there were so many that he caught over 100 mice and 7 rats in a week on glue traps but they didn't touch any of the bait. It appeared that they had gnawed holes in the garage wall between the units and he wanted to get into the garage for the other unit. That tenant didn't want to let him in. There was a provision for inspection on 24 hour notice in his leases so he gave the tenant notice. The tenant told him he couldn't enter and threatened to shoot him. The County sheriffs department went with the owner to the location and were there when the tenant got home.
They entered the house to get in the garage. The place stunk of rodents. The garage was stacked full of plastic pails , plastic barrels and cardboard boxes. The rooms in the unit had the same. The tenant told them that they contained food, water and ammunition for when the government collapsed. Rodents had gotten into his food supplies and were raising young and had over run the place. He figured he had enough food to live on for 10 years. I suppose it could be used if he lost his job or retired.
Usually an eviction would take weeks or months but they got the County health department to condemn it so they guy had to move out. The rats and mice had gotten into the walls so he had to have all of the sheet rock and insulation replaced. The landlord has started inspecting all of his properties at least once every two months.
I've seen the Wise food ads on late night television with several days worth of food in a plastic pail. It might be a good thing to have in case I had to suddenly leave my house. Just grab the pail and go. I also thought of having a pail in other buildings in case my house was destroyed. It occurred to me that plastic pails aren't a good thing to store food in. Rats and mice can chew through them. They should use metal pails.
Do you or anyone you know go to such extremes?
