Desolation

^{2 July 2012}

My sources are telling me that any day we may be hit with a solar apocalypse, an event worse than Carrington in 1859. If I am unable to tell you in person some of what you must know, I’m writing this down, so that you will have it.

Read After The Solar Apocalypse…

I left you pretty well prepared with supplies for what will happen immediately and sometime after the apocalypse. However, more important is how you will mentally and physically prepare for the new realities you are about to face. There is no way you would be aware of what will most likely happen after the first 30 days, much less the first 300 days, unless you have been through this before or truly thought it through like I have. This is the purpose of the next few pages; it’s my way of helping you prepare for the coming days.

First, it is important to keep this in mind. Our homes on the beach of Rocky Point were never intended for long term survival. It is true that I have stocked close to two years’ worth of food and water for me, Fernandez, and your family. However, you will not be there that long, that is if you want to live. I know we all have these idyllic thoughts of retirement on the beach, but those thoughts work only if civilization hasn’t collapsed or you are completely cut off from civilization. When the solar apocalypse occurs, neither will apply here at Rocky Point. Subsequently, RP will not be a pleasant place to be even 10 days after the proverbial shit hits the fan. Don’t worry; I have made provisions for you elsewhere: just continue reading.

Most important in all this is your mental preparations. If you are reading this immediately after the apocalypse has occurred, you have a little time, as most will be dealing with the shock of the event and all will believe that normalcy will return: Of course it will not, nor will it ever return in your life times. You will be inclined to try and stay in RP and ride it out. But that will be impossible. It pains me to think that each of you will need to reach a mental place of utter desolation before you will be able to accept that it is time to bug out. I just pray that you will not have to experience all of this without me. If I am not there, get ready.

Just as the Bible speaks about the many signs that will be revealed during the “end days,” you too will see many signs that your time in Rocky Point is at an end, and you will need to leave. Here are some of those signs and my recommendations for each.

When the food is gone

When I served a tour in Iraq, I witnessed something that changed my whole view about what regular people are capable of doing if they are desperate and hungry. My unit came across a small village in Kurdish territory that had been pillaged by one of the local terrorist factions. This village was waiting for help from their government that never came. It was thirty or more miles to the next village in the middle of the dead Iraqi desert. When we arrived, the villagers were fighting each other for the last few scraps. One villager, who was well liked by everyone, walked to his elderly neighbor’s house and stabbed her to death to take the last small piece of bread she had so that he could feed his young son and daughter who were starving.

It won’t take long, maybe 10 to 20 days. When the food runs out everywhere, people, it might be your neighbors, will turn to violence to feed their bellies. Desperation will motivate the meekest person to commit the most heinous act of violence. Desperation for the plight of one’s family or friends could turn anyone into a killer. Some person, but most likely a group, will come to you demanding food, and if you don’t give it to them, they will attempt to use force to take it from you. Be ready, because this day will come, and it will come soon.