The Siege of New Hampshire

4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape, Chapter 2

Harold and Mario share a lunch of Canton rations (cold mush). They want to discuss their predicament, but are aware that the foundry's office is bugged. Fry, one of the laborers assigned to the project, shares the news that they are to cast a second aluminum blade base. The first crew's casting failed. The rumor is that the first crew were taken out to sea and shot for their failure.

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Extra: Prepping & The Holidays

Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss how the holidays can be significant for preppers. Part of it is having to maintain one's situational awareness when out in crowded public places. Ne'erdowells seek out crowded places to cause trouble.
A more positive holiday feature are the deep discounts. A good time for the shrewd prepper to save on preps.

Links:

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4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape, Chapter 3

While assessing their dismal prospects, (their work is doomed to fail) Harold discovers that a secret resistance organization has a couple of operatives working around the foundry. He recalls a neighbor of his down in Canton Boston telling him about the secret society. Harold confronts one of the operatives to request help. The operative makes no promises but says they will need time. Dorn, however, wants the project to commence the next day.

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Extra: Nuclear Reality

With renewed concerns of possible nuclear exchanges (Ukraine/Russia, Iran/Israel) Mic, Brian, and Jeff explore some of the reality behind nuclear blasts and more importantly, fallout. These were fairly topical among Americans during the Cold War, but with the fall of the Soviet Union, nuclear realities have slipped out of the mainstream American consciousness.

The catalyst for this episode was a book by journalist Annie Jacobsen, that highlighted how precarious things still are. Below are links to items mentioned in this episode.

Links:

Annie Jacobsen's book: Nuclear War, A Scenario -- (amazon link) Not promoting her book so much as providing a link if you're interested.

A Long-Form Interview with Joe Rogen

A print article in the publication Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The 1983 Made for TV move The Day After (free on YouTube), cited by Jacobsen as influential in amrs talks in the 80s.

FEMA PrepTalks about nuclear preparedness and after effects (You Tube)

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4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape Chapter 4

Casting Dorn's part cannot be put off any longer. Red has a one-shot plan to rescue Harold and his family. While it means escaping to "lawless" New Hampshire, it is better than certain death. Their conversation over the details is masked by the roar of the furnace. Red plans to sneak them out that evening. Dorn, however, orders them to be ready to leave in a half an hour.

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Prepper Fiction: Homestead, the movie

Mic, Jeff, and Brian all watched the movie Homestead over Christmas week. This is independent Angel Studios' screenplay based on the book series Black Autumn. Originally planned as a series, the first two episodes became a movie. More episodes to follow, says Angel Studios.

The boys look at prepper lessons to be learned from the film and touch upon some of the thorny issues a well-equipped prepper is likely to face. While the boys can't help but do a few spoilers, the story goes on in later episodes, so there's not ending (yet) to give away.

Links:

Black Autumn Book Series on Amazon.

Angel Studios' website.

Homestead movie trailer

Ready Your Future exclusive email group. (membership is closed at the moment, but you can add your name to the waiting list.

 

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4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape, Chapter 5

The moment has come. Harold and his family must sneak out of their guarded townhouse and into the secret compartment in James Reddimer's truck. Red manages to involve a guard in restarting the truck as a way of proving his truck was empty. Harold worries about many things as they seem to be traveling no place in particular. The travel authorization provided by Dorn gets them through a checkpoint. Beyond that lie a mile of woods an the New Hampshire border.

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Extra: Trump Doom, Terror Doom, Storm Doom

So much Doom! With inauguration just a short while away, the boys review some of the doom we've been told will befall us all. In a more realistic vein, the threat of terrorists remains, regardless of who sits in the White House. We're told that hacker-terrorists have infiltrated many infrastructure systems. If they strike and take down infrastructure, what is a prepper to do about that? And then, there are winter storms that can take down the grid too, albeit less catastrophically than terrorists, but with greater certainty.

Links:

Mr. Heater "Buddy" portable propane heater — emergency indoor* heat source.
* With sufficient fresh air available. Best used with carbon monoxide detector.

News story: Chinese Hackers in Infrastructure -- Jake Sullivan of Biden White House warns Americans of depth and breadth of CCP hacker infiltration.

 

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4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape, Chapter 6

The final installment in the backstory of Harold Perkins -- the man who had the steel casting expertise to fix that broken locomotive. In this chapter, Red has dropped them off at the woods along the border. They have to travel by night, without lights that passing drones might see. Then, hope that they've stayed on course to meet the people who think they're trading engine parts for a sack of corn.

 

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Prepper Fiction: Movie, Aftermath

Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the 2014 movie Aftermath: an independent production about a group of average folks who gather in a north Texas farmhouse cellar to try to survive the radioactive fallout from a nuclear war. This is another of those Everybody Dies movies. The boys comment on what the writer did well for conveying prepper knowledge, and where he missed the boat. The biggest boat he missed was assuming that fallout stayed at toxic levels for over a month.

Links:

The Movie: Aftermath (2014) Free on YouTube

The FEMA PrepTalk about the reality of fallout and how to protect yourself.

 

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