-Greg
Friday, May 06, 2022
SELCO: When Our SHTF Started, We Thought it Was Just a Temporary Disruption Too
When SHTF started, the great majority of us thought that what was going on around us was something like temporary rioting that got a bit out of control. The city services still worked in some areas and everybody was waiting for the madness to stop.
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Excellent and timely post.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note; Why should the Supreme Court feel any more of a sense of security and privacy than the rest of us.....Everyone is in the circle, and anyone is reachable........
Strange days indeed........
Read.
ReplyDeleteHeed.
There is a lot of advice on the internet about survival if you care to look, a lot of people have strong feelings on what you should do & how you should prepare.
ReplyDeleteBut...
Not many have actually lived the situation, Selco has and his writings on that time are worth listening to.
Peter Grant (Bayou Renaissance Man) has been through this too. Some good stuff on his blog.
DeleteI was in and out of BiH from 2000 to 2005, mostly in. Talked with so many about their time during the war ive lost count. I was able to travel all over the region as well during that time. Selco’s depictions of that time in BiH is typical. Most FUSA citizens have no clue how fast their lives will turn to shit when it happens.
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SHFT? what? I took a nap and missed it. Looks like we lost because shit is the same. At least my stuff is till here and ready for the next one.
ReplyDeleteI read Selco first before he went commercial, maybe 15 years ago or more. His blog sounded like an effort to purge the demons haunting him after the disastrous dissolution of Yugoslavia. I am not so much a fan since the commercialization, because the articles before the switch were much more poignant and from the heart.
ReplyDeleteBut, he woke me up. He changed my attitude. He prompted me to ask serious questions; I still don't have the answers.
Some years before I ran across Selco, I sold my first house to a mixed (Bosnian Christian, Croatian) couple who had fled that mess. They lived in a 300 sq ft apartment in Germany for a long time doing shit jobs that allowed neither of them to use their college degrees to work. We became friends and had dinner once a month or more for years. Sometimes, the talk went to those dark times and what had happened. They had left before it totally degenerated, but the impacts on their families was dire and severe.
There is more to say; but I will let it rest there I think.
Yeah Selco's stuff in the early days was real and harsh. I might be way off base but I think the blog might have been sold to some female prepper type who destroyed it ? Anyway, his stuff before was very hard hitting reality.
DeleteI knew a guy about 25 at the time who managed to survive that mess in Yugoslavia. He was a boarder at a house my girlfriend at the time was also renting at. He used to wake up in the middle of the night screaming often. He'd get up so I'd go down to the kitchen and talk him through it. He obviously really needed someone to listen and he really appreciated that I got it. He had gone through hell and was still trying to deal with it.
People over here are clueless beyond belief, and they refuse to listen and learn, let alone prepare for anything.
So .... they had better stay in their corner when it goes south or they're gonna get dealt with real fast.