The average American on the street is counting on FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), the government’s agency for responding to natural disasters to take care of them in the event of a disaster.
There are just a couple of problems with that. First, FEMA has a horrible track record in dealing with disasters, bringing more red tape than anything else.
Secondly, FEMA has been out of money for quite some time, having spent their entire budget on taking care of other disasters. But people keep hoping and expecting that FEMA will be there for them.
That is, people outside the prepping movement have those hopes and expectations. Those of us who are preppers aren’t expecting FEMA to be there for us. We plan on taking care of ourselves when a disaster strikes, not wait for government handouts which might never come.
But that’s not to say that FEMA isn’t a concern of ours. FEMA wields a huge amount of authority, which theoretically allows it to do a host of things that no other government agency can do.
During times of disaster or crisis, FEMA is reportedly able to declare martial law and confiscate critical supplies for distribution. Click here to find out which medical supplies FEMA will try to confiscate from you in a crisis.
They also have a large number of abandoned government facilities at their disposal, which can be used as refugee camps or relocation camps.
One of the big problems that many people have with FEMA is that we know very little about their actual plans in an emergency.
As we saw during the pandemic, our government is not above using a disaster to further their power, taking control over greater and greater parts of our lives.
In case you’ve forgotten, there were a lot of people who lost their livelihoods, for no other reason than they didn’t agree with the narrative that the government was pushing; a narrative that took away basic human rights.
This just adds to the conspiracy theories about FEMA that have been floating around since the Obama presidency.
We are living in a time when our government cannot be trusted and where the entire administration is being weaponized against those of us who don’t ideologically align with “the elites.”
While I avoid most conspiracy theories, it’s getting harder and harder to say that they are nothing more than conspiracy theories… especially with so many of them coming true.
What this means for you and I, is that in any time of crisis, we’re not only going to have to deal with the crisis itself, but with government bureaucrats that want to tell us what to do, not necessarily for our benefit.
While they will all be working under the auspices of FEMA, they will not all be from FEMA itself. Rather, FEMA will be the central agency, drawing other government agencies into the fray, so that they can each apply their own brand of red tape.
One thing we need to realize is that FEMA, like many other government organizations, is not in favor of those of us who stand for our First and Second Amendment rights.
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When they relocated people to various “refugee centers,” they wouldn’t allow those refugees to bring their guns with them. Apparently it was more important to them to maintain their “political correctness” than to allow women to protect themselves from the predators.
Best to stay away from them all. Just how do we do that?
Bug Out Early
The first thing to consider, if FEMA is going to be showing up in your town, is getting out of Dodge before they get there.
Any disaster that is serious enough to warrant FEMA’s Involvement will probably be bad enough that bugging out will occur to you anyway.
Their involvement just gives you one more reason to tip the decision towards leaving, before you have any contact with them.
This is not to say that you necessarily need to bug out if FEMA is showing up in your neighborhood. It is possible to stay off their radar, without having to bug out.
Your bug out decision has to be made on what is going to be best for your family’s survival, not whether or not you are paranoid about the government. If FEMA is coming to town, I’d have to say that it is probably safe for you to stay home.
However, FEMA doesn’t show up until after the fact, not before. We were talking about bugging out before things get bad enough for them to show up, preferably before the disaster.
In other words, while a disaster that’s bad enough to make you decide to bug out is likely to cause FEMA and other government agencies to descend on your community, it really impacts how quickly you return home, more than it impacts whether or not you leave. Don’t rush home, if you don’t want to see them.
Don’t Ask for Help or Handouts
The whole idea of FEMA showing up during a crisis is to pass out government money and emergency supplies. This is for all those people out there who haven’t bothered to prepare.
While you and I might be able to make use of that aid, we have to realize that they are going to demand our contact information and proof of residency, before giving us anything. Once we’ve done that, invisibility goes out the window.
The real question here is why are we going to the government for help. If it’s just for emergency supplies, there’s really no reason for us to bother.
I can pretty much guarantee you that any prepper who has been at the prepping game for a while will have a much better stock of food and other supplies.
This will surpass what the government is offering.
If they don’t, they’re not prepping.
We’re talking about government bureaucrats here. They will likely feel like they are overworked and underappreciated. Few will have any motivation to comb the streets, looking for people who need help.
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Rather, they’ll set up a distribution center and wait for people to come to them. After all, all they need to have, to impress their political overlords, is records showing that they gave out X tons of food and other supplies, not how many people were aided.
Any “count” of people will be calculated by dividing the tons by how many pounds were programmed per person. That will give them an inflated figure; but that’s okay in their eyes, as it will make them look better.
There are lots of other organizations out there, who pass out emergency supplies after a natural disaster. In addition, many churches and civic groups will collect supplies and rush them to the disaster-stricken area, helping people, without red tape.
On the other hand, there are times when FEMA provides some financial relief to help people rebuild their lives from a disaster. This aspect of their work became famous after Hurricane Katrina and has been seen with other hurricanes and disasters.
However, this puts us in a quandary; do we sign up and take the help or do we hide out and go without? Even as preppers, we’re going to need money to rebuild our lives with, making it tempting to go see what FEMA has to offer.
The answer to that question is to avoid being one of the first to go. If FEMA has a program where they’re passing out money to people who have been negatively affected by a disaster, that program will be in place for several months, at least.
Wait to see how FEMA is treating those who pay them a visit, before accepting their largess. Any resettlement in a FEMA relief center or relocation camp will happen early. Waiting until things settle down will give you the opportunity to receive that help, without the risk of other negative impacts on our lives.
Avoid Government Installations
Taking that idea a step further, we should steer clear of all government facilities, whether municipal or federal, including those occupied by FEMA and other agencies.
While they may not actively scrutinize those who appear more well-off, we can’t be certain.
There’s always the chance that someone would see us and get curious.
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Local government installations might actually be more dangerous in this regard, than FEMA installations, especially if you live in a small town.
The local mayor, city council and police department are much more likely to know the citizens of their community than someone imported from Washington or the regional FEMA office.
If they see you and connect that with rumors they might have heard that you are a prepper, they might decide to check you out. If they’re working hand-in-hand with FEMA, which they pretty much have to do, things could get sticky awfully fast.
Practice OPSEC
When we talk about OPSEC (operational security) in the prepping community, we are normally talking about not letting friends and neighbors know that we are prepping.
That’s good and it’s important as well. But OPSEC doesn’t end when the disaster comes. Rather, it needs to be stepped up a notch.
If we want to make sure that we don’t attract anyone’s attention, including FEMA, then we need to make sure that we are living in a way in that post-crisis world, which won’t seem out of place.
In other words, we need to watch out for cooking smells, burning garbage, having lights on after dark, when nobody else has lights on and anything else which would make us look like we’re not in the same shape as everyone else.
At the same time, we should put into practice the concept of “out of sight, out of mind,” by doing everything we can to ensure that nobody sees us while we are at home.
That means staying in our homes or at least our backyards, assuming we’ve got a privacy fence.
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Any of our neighbors who happen to see that we are better off than they are, just might decide to report us to FEMA or other authorities.
FEMA supposedly has the authority to confiscate food stocks for redistribution.
While I think that this provision of the law was written with supermarkets and food wholesalers in mind, the authority extends to all stocks of food, including yours and mine.
We’ve got to keep that hidden, to avoid the risk of anyone reporting us and FEMA paying us a visit.
If Necessary, Lie
When all else fails, you can always fall back on an alibi, avoiding the truth. But if you’re going to do that, you want to be sure that you have your alibi prepared ahead of time, and you have rehearsed using it.
I have long been known by my neighbors as an “eccentric engineer.” So, when they see the rainwater capture system I have, with 500 gallons of water capacity, they laugh about how I only water my garden with rainwater.
When they see my wind turbine and homemade solar panels, they think I’m experimenting to save money on my electric bill. I’m living my alibi now, so that it is ready when the time comes.
The last thing you want to do is let anyone know what you have and how well prepared you are. But to avoid doing that, you’ve got to have your story straight. I’ve done that already and you need to as well.
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My uncle showed me how to hook and run a solar panel in the late 80s… to heat the back yard spa. Mad engineers for the win!
Other cover hobbies can include gardening, wood and metal working, camping/hiking, sculpture artist, mechanic and drone flying… all of them can be cover for a wide range of useful skills.
I would like to have a well drawn by windmill and hooked up to produce electricity but don’t know how. I’m 79 yr old female
Quit voting for democrats who spend money on the Ukrainian war then repair our America first. I was a dumbocrat, now voting for Trump to make America great again.
The unions are gutting our economy, too high wage protesting. We got woke corporations destroying our once beloved American products.
The idiots in charge want to give Venezuelans work permits for jobs here. What about us unemployed Americans first for a change?
Close the border and drill the oil now!
The wall drawn by windmill is a pretty common feature on Aussie farms…. I’m sure there’s a load of info online about it.
Running it as an electricity generator is a simple wind generator – generally these are much smaller vanes/fan wings and small and light, vs the water pump ones.
It’s all online 🙂 If you can find this here, you can find that… there.
Heating a spa with solar panels. Not a bad idea, but an interesting study in energy efficiency. Converting heat to electricity in order to make heat. Well, that may be the easiest way to get that heat where you want it, in any case.
He was a tinkerer…
He also had the black plastic water heater pipes on his roof and tried that out for a while… maybe the solar panel (it’s been 35yrs, my memory is sketchy!) was to pump the water up there? Run the bubble jets?
He also used to run a nitrogen liquified and on hot (Aussie) summer days we’d throw cups of liquid nitrogen on the concrete floors and lie on the cold of it 🙂
In the 80s it was more likely a grid of black pipes on the roof to heat water than a solar panel to generate electricity.
Hey there, Ton o’ Poo, you belong to a cult. That means no amount of facts, reason, or reality will ever dissuade you from furiously Rusty Tromboning your Golden Calf, Donald. This means you and everything you screech can be safely removed from any debate.
Biden is a boring, old-fashioned politician to be sure; he works for people on both sides of America’s ideological lines, and that *infuriates* the Cult45 members who only wanted their tiny, tiny, tiny MAGA base to be served. If you want a dictatorship so bad, don’t make America host it. Just go to Putinland where Donald will no doubt go soon since he’s so beloved by their worst guys. Or join the Taliban. I understand they’re looking to destroy America just like you are. And they’re also a monotheistic theocracy that values guns over women’s rights, so you’ll probably be welcomed as a General on Day One!
???better take your TDS pills and please you are definitely NO CHILD OF GOD! at least the true God. Maybe your satanic one!
The COG, is another wimpy troll of twisted humor, COG can’t be serious.
I live in Eagle Pass, Texas, we see this dismanteling of America at ground zero. Those Blue Sanctuary cities have no idea what is happening there. We know we, America will be imploding soon if we don’t get Trump back into office in 2024.
I carry a weapon everywhere I go, these illegals are taking over in gangs. Some are rape gangs, just like what is going on in Europe with the illegals they have too.
We need new blood in Washington DC to fix our crumbling America.
Please America wake up! The homeland security is having border patrol cut breaks in the razor wire for illegals. Our governor is trying to repair those cut wire. We are in an invasion war with Biden’s thuggery in Texas and elsewhere in America.
Please contact congress to build the wall, thank you fellow Americans.
I live in Chicago,
where thousands of illegal migrants of military age
are being brought in…
$29million (to start) has been set aside for special housing for them
The Illinois Governor ….has just made it legal to hire them
for LAW ENFORCEMENT….
Which means…FEMA WILL PROBABLY HIRE THEM FOR OUR “CULLING”
WISEST NOT to rely on FEMA (or ….their subcontractor, Wal-Mart)
That is why we Americans must be on guard for our own personal self defense. The globalist would rather train these military age illegals to do their bidding. The illegal’s reward will be our homes, while we rot in FEMA camps or be terminated.
A million or 2 patriots on the border might go a long way as a deterent.
hahahaha…. man only if….. i dunno they got off their moblity scooters
If you think Traitor Trump is a prime example of new blood, then you and I don’t seem to share the same definition of new.
The new blood in Washington is going to SHUTDOWN the federal government which means people who earned Social Security benefits will not receive those benefits, Veterans who receive pensions will not get those payments. Veterans getting medical care through the Veterans Administration and those getting compensation for injuries and debilitating illnesses will not be able to get the care they need or the benefits they earned when they put their lives on the line for unappreciative people like you. Those Americans who receive “government assistance” in all the ways it is provided will suffer when the government shuts down. You have obviously never survived a natural disaster when FEMA did provide aid, because state and local government could not.
I would like to remind everyone, that a basic precept of being a prepper is that IT IS EVERY MAN/WOMAN FOR THEMSELVES!
To the 72 year old lady who wants to build a well powered by a windmill, I say go for it. Start by getting a good shovel. Otherwise pray that your local government with help from FEMA will be able to provide you with drinking water were the need to arise.
Pheonix, you are sorely misguided and misinformed.
Trumps not winning lol
Fema is a joke, it is an interment camp system for American citizens. While the illegals flood America to take their rightful place in Biden’s America. To be the new democrat voting block to sustain the corrupt politicians in all 50 States.
We see the California governor newsom the harbinger of false hope as president.
Unfortunately in San Diego we are getting illegals flooding the hotels and sidewalks. We Californians the conservatives never voted to be a sanctuary State.
The brain dead democrats here got manipulated into voting for that status.
We need the funds here not spending billions in Ukraine for a false hope war.
What is the point of the illegal babying of foreigners over us Americans?
Most taxpayers have no clue where their hard earned money goes to. Why do we give foreign countries foreign aid, like our adversaries who hates us. And stab us in the back with the BRICKS gold back currency.
Why doesn’t Biden put the US Dollar back on the gold standard?
America can file for bankruptcy, who says we can’t??
I would never refer to a.mortal enemy as a joke.
Not even as a gesture of self-soothing
Our border State farmers are having their farms, homes broken into, pets eaten by hungry illegals and harm done to their children.
There is no more sustainable emergency funding as Americans we can’t afford living in our own homes. As illegals get free housing, food and so, we are loosing to the Biden’s invasion.
I’m having hard time paying for higher priced food and gas but yet the illegals flood our country.
The wall gated armed security politicians don’t care about us.
Who do these elected bureaucrats represent, not us Americans, that is for sure.
Rothschild’s Depopulation (Sustainable Green) Agenda 2030
was planned quite some time ago
Yes let the godless fearing Chinese military age nationals into America. Let the illegals get work permits to gain jobs over American citizens.
Americans are now couch potato’s playing video games vaping weed and magic shrooms. Lazy people getting their student loans paid off by our illustrious leader in DC.
Let the banks go digital to take our bank accounts away from us if the bank goes bell yup. We all voted for this to happen. Give more billions to the Ukrainian president beggar in chief as he makes the political rounds in DC.
Give the South Americans legal status so they can get temporary work permits. We need to give more to others. It is better to give than receive as our Christian brothers and sisters have been brainwashed into Christian socialism. These Christian churches and groups for decades have added to the illegal migrant invasion we now have.
Yes give our sovereignty away to the unvetted diseased flooding America cutesy of my endearing hair sniffing president. America is last, how long can we hold out til the 2024 election?
Our politicians never lost their lobs in Covid. Isn’t it time for all of them to loose their jobs in 2024.
All Americans are living paycheck to paycheck in Bidenomics. The other guy gave us oil and gas production at around $2.50 a gallon. Some places are getting close to $10.00 a gallon. Food is way too expensive and the quality of food has gone down hill.
Anyone gone to the ridiculous high priced Disneyland or world lately. Who can afford it anymore? Anyone been drinking that Bud Lite lately?
We have a duty to help Ukraine. We said that we would protect them if they gave up their nukes. If they kept their nukes Russia sure as hell would not have invaded.
Wow, so brainwashed. Turn the MSM off and learn your history.
The Covid mongrels want us to get the Chinese made Covid tests mailed to our homes.
Think about that, like the fox guarding the hen house, China benefits.
China makes America dependent on wind power and solar panels for green new deal farce. China is building up their Navy to eventually invade America, forget Taiwan. Our elected officials have and still are selling America out.
China owes America’s debt.
Why not have America file for bankruptcy? It is in the Bible of debt forgiveness every 7 years. This is a Christian nation still, so we need to go for bankruptcy as following the Bible standard, why not?
There is no way the average American can help pay off our debt anymore.
God guide us into a bankruptcy to heal America, thank you.
FEMA forget about it! It’s FUGAZI!!!
Great idea, let America file for bankruptcy before Biden drags our beloved America in the mud of no return.
Cancel, defund the IRS and the FBI too.
Ukraine is a money laundering Ponzi scheme about $110 billions in aid since the start of the fake war.
Union strikes are another form of added taxes on Americans. Where is our fair share of tax relief?
Fake war? I have a friend in Kyiv who will laugh in your face along with myself and every other lucid, sane person. Have you watched footage of Ukraine? Is that fake? You are another conspiracy idiot and should believe your eyes and ears, use your noggin and stop believing the annoying orange. Try truth! Geez…
FEMA does not have the authority to declare martial law under our constitution in the U.S.. The president, congress and state officials have that authority because it imbues powers to the military. FEMA does not control our military. FEMA may act with authority only when directed to do so. That is not to say there wouldn’t be abuse of perceived power though.
That won’t stop them. fugazi.
We got rouge govt agencies operating above American law right now.
The president is not running our country it is those woke 20 year olds behind the scene running our country. Congress don’t care until they are up for election. Most State officials only care about their next higher office. The military is in shambles, get tax free abortions and gender surgeries. Yeah sure!
The Covid broke the bonds of government sensibility. We have lurch in congress dressing as a slob in shorts and a hoodie, dress etiquette is thrown out fro slobbism. Dr. Fauci with the CDC didn’t have power either and we got the lockdowns.
FEMA’s predecessor did, the WWII Japanese internment camps. Yes they can and will under the next re-election of the Biden crew. Democrats in charge during major crisis always to do the worst decisions ever.
A few years ago the military did a “Jade Helm” exercise in 9 States. Check it out, it is a potential threat to Americans today. We have police drones flying over defunded police cities, for what purposes?
FYI – FEMA has already composed a database of who lives where. It is based off your ID and utility bill address as well as other lists.
If they offer a handout, TAKE IT.
It can at least extend your supplied.
If you do not take it, it will set a red flag and draw their attention to you.
Be the gray man. Blend in like everyone else.
They know who the grays are, be the transparent man instead. FEMA is watching.
FEMA is pretty useless for the first few days then over aggressive. Yup, if possible I’ll vanish for a space of time to assess the situation. Need to work more on wilderness cache. Friend and I can walk away into mountain mists pretty easy. Wilderness almost at the back door.
Preps and bug outs, locations are temporary in this lifetime. Eventually like in RED DAWN all the preps are gone and the Wolverines had to resupply. That will be the preppers Achilles Heel in prepping and survival of the once great outdoors. Now home to the illegals, homeless, armed drug cartels to the terrorist cells now operating in America. Antifa and BLM will welcome those into their flocks of our destruction.
I’d like to know about the sign spray painted on the house… a large orange check mark next to a circle with an ‘X” through it with 3-3 on top, 0 on the right, O on the bottom and TNP on the left all in the circle. Wondering if it means that if you put this on your house, in times of disaster
/crisis, that FEMA will not come to your house to take our stuff?
They record these homes and fly drones to recheck any mistakes. It might fool the normal citizen. That could be illegal with FEMA. Do some more research and let us know too, thanks.
Mark your home the same way that FEMA is marking houses that have been searched. FEMA is not going to search the same place twice.
You can also use markings to keep people away from the home if you know what they mean.
FEMA search and rescue markings are usually spray painted on a building after they have searched it. It starts with a Red X.
Top Section: Date Searched/Time Exited
Left Section: Team/Time Entered
Right Section: Hazards
Bottom Section: Victims
If you want to make your home immediately unappealing to all, simply put BIO HAZ in the right section of the X as this will tell people there is a biohazard present in the home.
Thank you very very much. This kind of information is critical. This is why I still visit this site. Once you get past all the churchy and political crap you find that one gold nugget.
What are Urban Search and Rescue Markings?
These markings are sprayed on the side of residences searched by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) responders. The markings meaning is broken down as follows:
• Single Slash: This means that FEMA responders have gone inside and that a building search is in progress. This helps reduce duplication of search effort, and lets other responders know where their teams are searching.
• X with Writing in Quadrants: This means that a search has been completed.
o Left Quadrant: Search team’s identifier “tag”, usually a short acronym or military number.
o Top Quadrant: Time and date search team left the building.
o Right Quadrant: List of hazards present (if any)
o Bottom Quadrant: Number of survivors and bodies found. Usually noted in that order: 0/0 for no survivors and no corpses.
• X with a Box around it: This means “Do Not Enter”, usually because it is dangerous.
What does the mean for a resourceful Prepper in a SHTF scenario?
If you are out and about after a disaster, now you can easily see what is going on at buildings that have been searched. Not only can you read the markings, but if SHTF and gets real nasty, you can write a marking.
I am looking at a Log cabin Ghost town to buy. Not sure how much it will be but I will definitely be off the Grid then.
Remember
Duck ,Cover, Run , hide
with the evil intent of the society with out Fear and NO respect of persons or God
this is inevidable , when a society Throw s out God , Installs Money, Godless , Crime ridden familys for fear of loosing thier money , and fear of not maintaining control of thier money tree
this is what happens , collapse , distruction , disallusionment
koas, evil will abound
When the king is Godless, Perverted , has no Consciencious this happens
TV, Perversion , Extortion, is what is controlling things right now
affraid of the social persecution and social blockage
Well Time is Now
STand up , Speak out , Stop the liars networks of crime familys
Boycott, stop supporting them in any way , dont buy and they will fail
or see the change and change
Time is now Stand up for your beliefs , Dont Accept the DEI Lie , Woke Agendas , and Invasion of your boarders
Research before it is too late
Be very careful. I volunteered to help one of the FEMA teams in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We had complete lists of houses/addresses/number of occupants/extended family members near by, etc., in the flooded and devastated areas and applied a great deal of scrutiny when checking those list to identify which households had come for and received help, and which had not. Those families or individuals that had not, and were fully expected to since they were in or near a disaster zone, were put on a list and physically visited as a wellness check to ascertain if they were trapped, too injured to make it to the recovery facility, relocated or deceased. Families and individuals who had no obvious source of support or supplies yet did not apparently need or want assistance were duly noted and registered with the FEMA on site team. Once the names and addresses were handed off to the onsite teams, we were out of the picture, so I cannot definitively say what action FEMA took if any. Be very careful what you do, or don’t do when FEMA is around.
Well its simple when you go to vote for president were you better off under Biden now.
Or were you better off under Trump ,
Is the country better off now ,
Would all this be happening under trump if he was still in Office.
I do not know a bout every one here ,
But I would say NO
All of you Dubocrts that support Biden, need to quit with the Woke attitudes and WAKE THE HELL UP! If Trump doesn’t win the next election, then the toilet handle will be pushed, and our lives will swirl quickly to the septic tank of Communism, under the control of filthy rich elites, who will then allow China to deploy their military, which is ALREADY larger than OURS, and rapidly expanding, to come and claim what belongs to THEM. Do the research! They own more of our country than Americans do! LAND AND COMMERCE!
I’m almost positive that the ELITES that are currently running this country, including the Obamas and the Clintons, already have a plan in place if it appears that their attempts at AGAIN, hijack the upcoming election, (ie: the open border, allowing people who are not even Americans to vote via mail, and without identifiation) should fail. All of us who are aware of their power and the lengths they will go to to KEEP IT, should be diligently preparing and EXPECTING a national disaster to strike in the final weeks, or even months, before the vote! ! We already know what they are capable of!!
EVIL IS UPON US!! Don’t be fooled!! They are a very cunning ENEMY, and they are DETERMINED to have things their way!! I pray that God intervenes on behalf of His people!! He is the ONLY one who can conquer the EVIL that is and has been operating to strip us of our freedom, liberty and hope for the future!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!