Coronavirus – The Suburban Redoubt

News: Judge Not, Finger Wavers

A Gray Man — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 16:37:06 +0000

Today I ran across this Tweet: The dog whistle target of this Tweet and the comments that follow should be clear enough to anyone who has witnessed our increasingly savage culture wars. In case it wasn’t, one of the comments provided a helpful re-Tweet that translates this for the Bible thumpers among us: After seeing …

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News

A Gray Man — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 13:15:11 +0000

So, apparently, ammo.com is experiencing a surge in sales in the last couple of weeks: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ammunition-sales-soar-response-coronavirus-133400231.html North Carolina and Georgia lead the pack with 179% and 169% percent increases, but other states notable jumps include Pennsylvania (140%), Texas (128%), Florida (76%), Illinois (67%), New York (48%) and Ohio (40%). I suspect the absolute increases were …

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Of masks and men

A Gray Man — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 01:20:59 +0000

I am going to talk about prepping in part through a series of rules or guidelines that have informed my prepping. In my last post I introduced my number one rule (“Be the gray man”) because…hey, it’s the number one rule. And now I’ll skip to one of the last rules on my list, because …

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I am a gray man

A Gray Man — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 22:16:59 +0000

So let me say a little, but just a very little, about me. I have been a prepper for around a decade. There were series of triggering events for me (e.g. watching the chaos and disruption in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, social distrubances in our increasingly polarized society, witnessing increasingly severe climate events, etc.). …

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Welcome

A Gray Man — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 21:49:54 +0000

Welcome to The Suburban Redoubt. This is a blog about preparing yourself and your family for significant social disruptions. It is a blog about prepping. I have been a prepper for a while (more about that in another post) and have toyed with the idea of a prepper site for some time, if nothing else …

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