Fortunately, there is a large USAF ANG wing 5 miles north, a USCG Maritime HQ nearby, and many retired Vets living here.
I knew WV had the highest number of Vets per population which is one good reason I moved here.
Get this. The house next door was empty for a year after we moved here.
The guy who moved in is a nuclear scientist at the NRC and a serious prepper.
He grew up on a family farm in Pennsylvania and returns to help out.
Stores many prepping materials there.
We have fun exchanging books only civil defense nerds like, such as: the 1990 Army Engineering and Design EMP and TEMPEST Protection for Facilities, Technical Directives for the Construction of Private Air Raid Shelters and the 1971 Conception of the Swiss Civil Defense, Lifesaving Nuclear Facts and Self-Help Instructions: Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearny with forward by Dr. Edward Teller (Founder of the American Civil Defense Association), and, of course, copies of the Journal of Civil Defense, and the TACDA Academy Lesson Manual.
My last article in the Journal of Civil Defense was Farmer's Markets & American Food Shortages and includes the farm market a mile away we both shop at.
BTW...I put in hundreds of hours uploading issues of the Journal of Civil Defense from 1960 to 2000 on our website if you want to look up anything.
I did an interview with Civil Defense Radio years ago where I explained that preppers were great, God love 'em, but many had one flaw: they thought they would survive a disaster alone.
Just not true.
You survive as a family, community, church, etc. through others.
Fortunately, in all the articles about where to move to avoid the horror in American cities right now, many states are mentioned, except Almost Heaven West Virginia.
We did the same thing a few years ago and left the DFW metro area for a farm outside the city. Our area has many attractive qualities but we wish it had more trees and better topsoil. Our access to water is pretty good and we have been working step by step to get to a self-sustaining place should things go south. Even if they don't our views and tranquility are nice. I just returned from a walk and the only thing I could hear was nature. Nice article and I look forward to more of your posts.
Great article! Id add access to firewood, a home fitted with at least one wood stove and a fireplace, both can provide heat and a place to cook.
Then I saw nothing on what maybe required in the event of the collapse of the rule of law. When this occurs there will be no sheriff, state police, or military to save us.
The possession of firearms is essential but knowing how to run them tactically and a mindset to drive home a tomahawk to the skull ( see the authors article on the French and Indian wars) of a intruder is essential.
Physical and mental toughness top the list as many rural residents are too fat to fight.
One can have all the supplies in the world but if they are unable to mount a defense of those things, looters will quickly take them from you and most likely your life with them.
I avoided firearms deliberately on the belief that Americans are a heavily armed people compared to people anywhere else except Switzerland or Afghanistan.
So, I took it as a given that most Americans are armed. At least they are in WV where I live.
Given that firearms protect Americans 2 million times yearly, although the legacy media never covers it, it is still a fact.
For example, BLM/Antifa left Milwaukee in vans to bring their riot to the suburbs.
They chose the wrong neighborhood. All the men confronted them with serious weapons.
The BLM/Antifa scum fled as quickly as they arrived.
As for fat rural people, sure, that's a problem.
On the other hand, my area is farmers and tradesmen. Most are in great shape to judge by X-Treme Fitness gym where I see them working out daily.
We have most, but not completely trusting any elevation below the center of the US. Where I want to go, and where I can go is limited because I like warmth, and fault line, water ways, salt basins, Karsten, 2A, and etc., limits my options. Not to mention this green agenda non-sense. PA wants to tax the rain! Seriously, tax the rain! Sad times we live in.
I grew up in Philadelphia and went to the U of Penn so know the tax insanity of PA.
When I lived in Maryland, they tried to tax the rain. Plan was to tax you extra for big roofs and driveways because it was an "impervious surface." The commies were all excited because they thought they had a new way to huge tax money to steal.
It was a big deal for 2 or 3 years. I remember writing a letter to the editor pointing out how insane it was.
Eventually, it was tabled.
We looked into retiring in PA, but I don't like how Left the state is.
I am very happy in WV. It is a 2A state. This makes a big difference. It keeps crime down.
We have 19 out of 23!
I would #12 is probably the most important. But opinions can vary.
Agree.
Fortunately, there is a large USAF ANG wing 5 miles north, a USCG Maritime HQ nearby, and many retired Vets living here.
I knew WV had the highest number of Vets per population which is one good reason I moved here.
Get this. The house next door was empty for a year after we moved here.
The guy who moved in is a nuclear scientist at the NRC and a serious prepper.
He grew up on a family farm in Pennsylvania and returns to help out.
Stores many prepping materials there.
We have fun exchanging books only civil defense nerds like, such as: the 1990 Army Engineering and Design EMP and TEMPEST Protection for Facilities, Technical Directives for the Construction of Private Air Raid Shelters and the 1971 Conception of the Swiss Civil Defense, Lifesaving Nuclear Facts and Self-Help Instructions: Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearny with forward by Dr. Edward Teller (Founder of the American Civil Defense Association), and, of course, copies of the Journal of Civil Defense, and the TACDA Academy Lesson Manual.
My last article in the Journal of Civil Defense was Farmer's Markets & American Food Shortages and includes the farm market a mile away we both shop at.
BTW...I put in hundreds of hours uploading issues of the Journal of Civil Defense from 1960 to 2000 on our website if you want to look up anything.
https://tacda.org/journal-topic/journal-of-civil-defense/
So, yes, #12 is at the top of my list as well.
I did an interview with Civil Defense Radio years ago where I explained that preppers were great, God love 'em, but many had one flaw: they thought they would survive a disaster alone.
Just not true.
You survive as a family, community, church, etc. through others.
And no! I'll not tell where we live.
Understand.
Fortunately, in all the articles about where to move to avoid the horror in American cities right now, many states are mentioned, except Almost Heaven West Virginia.
That suits me fine.
There are so many stereotypes about WV that are incorrect.
My wife always laughs at them and says, "Good. They won't move here and ruin it like they have so many other areas."
Some troll didn't like this thread because the guy added the Times Square ad meme of Trump winning in 2020.
He wrote 3 posts with ugly screeds about poverty, chemical spills, yada yada yada in WV.
Like all trolls, he was trying to get me to engage.
They get a rush from getting others to react to their foolishness.
I just deleted his insane comments.
Learned long ago to ignore trolls.
They are very sad, sad people.
We did the same thing a few years ago and left the DFW metro area for a farm outside the city. Our area has many attractive qualities but we wish it had more trees and better topsoil. Our access to water is pretty good and we have been working step by step to get to a self-sustaining place should things go south. Even if they don't our views and tranquility are nice. I just returned from a walk and the only thing I could hear was nature. Nice article and I look forward to more of your posts.
Agree.
There are 50 other American Tactical Civil Defense articles you can read if you don't want to wait for future posts.
I was scrolling though them and you have several that caught my attention. Great stuff and I will take a closer look.
Great article! Id add access to firewood, a home fitted with at least one wood stove and a fireplace, both can provide heat and a place to cook.
Then I saw nothing on what maybe required in the event of the collapse of the rule of law. When this occurs there will be no sheriff, state police, or military to save us.
The possession of firearms is essential but knowing how to run them tactically and a mindset to drive home a tomahawk to the skull ( see the authors article on the French and Indian wars) of a intruder is essential.
Physical and mental toughness top the list as many rural residents are too fat to fight.
One can have all the supplies in the world but if they are unable to mount a defense of those things, looters will quickly take them from you and most likely your life with them.
I avoided firearms deliberately on the belief that Americans are a heavily armed people compared to people anywhere else except Switzerland or Afghanistan.
So, I took it as a given that most Americans are armed. At least they are in WV where I live.
Given that firearms protect Americans 2 million times yearly, although the legacy media never covers it, it is still a fact.
For example, BLM/Antifa left Milwaukee in vans to bring their riot to the suburbs.
They chose the wrong neighborhood. All the men confronted them with serious weapons.
The BLM/Antifa scum fled as quickly as they arrived.
As for fat rural people, sure, that's a problem.
On the other hand, my area is farmers and tradesmen. Most are in great shape to judge by X-Treme Fitness gym where I see them working out daily.
We have most, but not completely trusting any elevation below the center of the US. Where I want to go, and where I can go is limited because I like warmth, and fault line, water ways, salt basins, Karsten, 2A, and etc., limits my options. Not to mention this green agenda non-sense. PA wants to tax the rain! Seriously, tax the rain! Sad times we live in.
I grew up in Philadelphia and went to the U of Penn so know the tax insanity of PA.
When I lived in Maryland, they tried to tax the rain. Plan was to tax you extra for big roofs and driveways because it was an "impervious surface." The commies were all excited because they thought they had a new way to huge tax money to steal.
It was a big deal for 2 or 3 years. I remember writing a letter to the editor pointing out how insane it was.
Eventually, it was tabled.
We looked into retiring in PA, but I don't like how Left the state is.
I am very happy in WV. It is a 2A state. This makes a big difference. It keeps crime down.