I've got a few friends interested and ready to do something but not as many as I would like. I have looked at some of the survival forums out there and to be honest a lot of those people are way out there. Like tin foil hat crazy.
With the threat of terrorism and the uncertainty of the economy I've stepped up my efforts to prepare for any uncertainty in the future. Me and my wife were involved with Katrina and then later on Gustav in South Louisiana and a few days later Ike. What we saw was that the Federal and most State Government agencies were just woefully unprepared to do just about anything but collect taxes. We have both served on active duty and in the National Guard and got called up to deal with disasters. One thing I remember doing was walking around neighborhoods that had not been flooded and handing out FEMA flyers. Meanwhile a few miles away there were families that had been flooded with no water, no electricity, and no help from us. The last straw for me was when they had us pass out flyers in an area that had received no damage and a unit had been through the very same day but earlier passing out the same flyers! Still no help to the folks that needed it. My wife saw much of the same when she was deployed to New Orleans a few days after Katrina. She was in a civil engineering unit that was tasked to help securing building and bridges from basically falling over and causing more damage. Instead of going out and doing that to help out the people of NOLA they were tasked with setting up tents at the airport. Oh by the way the whole time all the people in the unit were asking why were they setting them up when another storm was possibly coming through. Sure enough about eighteen hours after they set them up they were tasked with taking them down. Then Rita didn't hit them and what do ya know they were told to set them up again. All in all they never left the airport. But I digress.
So if anyone in the North, South, Central to East Texas is interested reply here, PM me or email me. I don't want to go into details out in public as to what our current ideas/plans are but once I've talked to someone and we both agree that neither of us has our tin foil hat on too tight we can possibly move forward with bringing them into our little group.
Finally I understand to some this just seems silly and paranoid. To those all I can say is that my views are based on first hand accounts and I realize that while the day may never come when I'll have rely on not having any help from the government, city water, or electrical it just may. I'd rather be prepared and eventually wind up with an efficient house on some land which I would want anyway.
