pat-tekker-cat
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Imagine 4000% humidity and being covered in no-see-ums & mosquitos.
Yep, either under a bridge, on a boat, or motorhome/travel trailer.
You have to consider, you'll eventually need to bathe & what you going to do with the pee/poop?
The Cubans put it in bags & hang it in the trees, yeah, nice, I know...
(that's why they got their roadside weekend bar-b-ques shut down).
You'll need your fresh water source, too.
To do it full time, would just become unbearable, at some point.
A nice little house or sail boat, solar outfitted, you can anchor out, but,
eventually, you'll need to come ashore for supplies.
Even a camper, solar set-up, etc... you'd need a home base, so to say.
Somewhere to park, do your water/sewage thing, get supplies.
I did see a wore out mobile home on 3 acres in Clewistan fl realestate
the other day, I think somewhere around 40K.
You'd be in the middle of sugar cane country & farm land.
Make a "home base", then you can branch out from there,
go anywhere you want, & at least have that port in the storm, to come back to.
Smokeycat got it down. One can only be "so prepared"...
Nice to have every supply you'd need, then the hurricane blows it all away.
The year it froze at the Ga house at Christmas, no power, we at least had a fireplace & grill.
We'd a froze to death, if not.
To be totally prepared/self sufficient, youd basically have to be Dick Pronnecke, and even he got tired of the isolation.
Had 3 husbands, she lived to be 98. Most all the women in that side of my family lived into their late 90's some even over their 100's.
Life was very hard in the south, back then.
Yep, either under a bridge, on a boat, or motorhome/travel trailer.
You have to consider, you'll eventually need to bathe & what you going to do with the pee/poop?
The Cubans put it in bags & hang it in the trees, yeah, nice, I know...
(that's why they got their roadside weekend bar-b-ques shut down).
You'll need your fresh water source, too.
To do it full time, would just become unbearable, at some point.
A nice little house or sail boat, solar outfitted, you can anchor out, but,
eventually, you'll need to come ashore for supplies.
Even a camper, solar set-up, etc... you'd need a home base, so to say.
Somewhere to park, do your water/sewage thing, get supplies.
I did see a wore out mobile home on 3 acres in Clewistan fl realestate
the other day, I think somewhere around 40K.
You'd be in the middle of sugar cane country & farm land.
Make a "home base", then you can branch out from there,
go anywhere you want, & at least have that port in the storm, to come back to.
Smokeycat got it down. One can only be "so prepared"...
Nice to have every supply you'd need, then the hurricane blows it all away.
The year it froze at the Ga house at Christmas, no power, we at least had a fireplace & grill.
We'd a froze to death, if not.
To be totally prepared/self sufficient, youd basically have to be Dick Pronnecke, and even he got tired of the isolation.
My great grandmother had a problem keeping husbands alive, too, around the turn on the century.
Had 3 husbands, she lived to be 98. Most all the women in that side of my family lived into their late 90's some even over their 100's.
Life was very hard in the south, back then.
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Been here all my life and there's some things you learn. For that last 30 years, I've been out here alone in the woods in a house I built myself, but I have all the comforts of home. You can live by "getting by" but it's much easier on you to live with some conveniences and that's human nature. In more civilized areas you get to drink what the government wants you to drink. Most of it is so polluted with chemicals you can't stand the smell, unless you prefer poison to sulfur. First lesson: sulfur water...if you drink it, it emits sulfur from your sweat glans. Number one reason why we don't get "bugged" by skeeters and chiggers and ticks and anything else that crawls on you to feed. Second: Heat, well yes it's hot as hell sometimes, but I've never had to shovel snow out of my drive and thank God because it's a mile to the hard road from back here. Third, you don't have a large closet full of cold weather clothes and that's another reason we don't find many buttons down here(a negative). I mean you can sew buttons on a t-shirt if you want, but you'll probably need to find a golf course...There are many reasons to find fault with it but take a hint from Blak Bart, the keys is one crowded place with real restrictions everywhere and there would be other places easier to exist, even in Florida. Dangers exist anywhere you go and be prepared for that wherever you go.
