OT: Gas War in Tupelo 2.59 @ Murphy Express W. Main

[WrapItDog]

Murphy Express opened a new station earlier in the week. Murphy, Dodges, & Dees Oil have been lowering the price 2-3 cents back and forth. Murphy went with the kill shot this morning going from 2.69 to 2.59. There wasn't any lines but all the pumps were full when I passed by at lunch. I filled up yesterday thinking it ain't going much lower.

Fill em up N. MS Sixpackers

http://www.mississippigasprices.com/Tupelo/index.aspx

 

[DerHntr]

I bet the doomsday prepper types will be filling some 55 gallon drums this week.

I've watched a couple of documentaries and shows on those folks and it is some pretty crazy stuff. A "War of the World's" type broadcast if mistaken could turn into some absolute insanity in the backwoods of Kentucky.

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

My boss is a doomsday prepper. He is preparing himself and his family for an economy collapse. Needless to say he has opened my eyes up to the reality that doomsday preppers are all around us.

 

[seshomoru]

I get the feeling that those people wish something catastrophic would happen.

I'm cool with not being alive if hell on earth occurred. I think they see it as an extreme camp out with license to kill. And that's another thing. I think those doomsday freaks just really want to kill someone.

 

[dorndawg]

^^^THIS^^^^

There's a WIDE gulf between being prepared for an emergency (food, water, shelter, & firearms if one is into them) & making sure you are set to kill half your town.

 

[dogmatic]

I truly believe the preppers I know will be disappointed if they don't get to go into lockdown mode and kill some people at some point before they die.


EDIT: This thread could turn out to be funny. You know we will have to lock it if you even think you need to say "Not to get this thread locked, but...". Now make fun of the dang preppers like everyone else without politics.

 

[PBRME]

Hey. This is Mureka. You don't like it you can leave!

 

[BigMotherTucker]

Gasoline only stays good for a short amount of time. Storing huge stockpiles of it would be pointless. On the same note, it cracks me up watching Daryl fire up a minivan thats been buried in kudzu for 3 years.

 

[Philly Dawg]

You probably have a better return on your money as a professional gambler.

 

[DerHntr]

The drums are used for the generator during drills

 

[DerHntr]

Hey WrapIt...sorry but I think I slightly hijacked the thread and now I am going to go ahead and hijack it all the way.

Does anyone have other stories about knowing a Doomsday Prepper like pDigital32Dawg's boss? I want to hear more.

 

[seshomoru]

I don't personally know any doomsday preppers...

As in the kind that has one of those self sustaining bunkers or what not. I do know (not friends with mind you) people that are absolutely convinced the United States will have a race war. If you try explaining that if that were somehow to ever happen, the US still does have a military... well, the government is in on it and wants it to happen, so I'm protecting myself. These are exactly the people that should own 5 assault rifles and the materials needed to make expolives.**

 

[WrapItDog]

As long as were going get off the track let's go all the way. Why doesn't Daryl get some alternators and batteries from the abandoned cars. Set up treadmill with alternators attached outside the prison and let the Walkers generate some 12 volt power?

 

[PBRME]

Nice try NSA.

 

[DerHntr]

Even if I was the gov't, you could trust me. I promise.

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

Too expand further on my earlier post

I do not have words to describe my boss's house. He has 250 gallons of water stashed behind his living room couch. A large storage room that looks like you're walking down a grocery aisle of canned food. All of it is sorted first expiration first out (FEFO). He has enough wheat supplies to make bread for 9 months for his entire immediate family. They have a shed outside that is one half water supplies and food supplies, the other half is garden tools,etc... He has a vegetable garden, radiation packs, chicken coup with about 20 chickens or so. Enough guns and ammo to march across Mississippi unscathed. Every room in the house has some type of reserve stored in it, whether it is food, weapons, med kits, you name it.

With all of that said and done, his house does not stand a chance to a tornado, a fire, or a flood. I have not figured out what the doomsday plan is if he were to lose the $300k of inventory in addition to his house. No I am not wishing any harm upon him or his family, I very much enjoy knowing him and working for him.

 

[BigMotherTucker]

Make the walkers work for you... Interesting.

 

[tuku 2]

I've always appreciated the people that would step over a dollar to pick up a nickel.

 

[BoDawg.sixpack]

I work with a prepper who has upped his game recently

he now speaks of buying a set of tomahawks based on the premise that if the coming doomsday does contain walkers that are more or less the version you get in the Walking Dead, he won't have to waste any of his precious rounds of ammunition during an average day. I **** you not.

 

[BoomBoom.sixpack]

I do not have words to describe my boss's house. He has 250 gallons of water stashed behind his living room couch. A large storage room that looks like you're walking down a grocery aisle of canned food. All of it is sorted first expiration first out (FEFO). He has enough wheat supplies to make bread for 9 months for his entire immediate family. They have a shed outside that is one half water supplies and food supplies, the other half is garden tools,etc... He has a vegetable garden, radiation packs, chicken coup with about 20 chickens or so. Enough guns and ammo to march across Mississippi unscathed. Every room in the house has some type of reserve stored in it, whether it is food, weapons, med kits, you name it.

With all of that said and done, his house does not stand a chance to a tornado, a fire, or a flood. I have not figured out what the doomsday plan is if he were to lose the $300k of inventory in addition to his house. No I am not wishing any harm upon him or his family, I very much enjoy knowing him and working for him.

I hope to have most of those things in a few years. Not for a 'doomsday' scenario, but more for a scenario like Contagion.

 

[Villagedawg]

Hey

Do you work in Columbus?

 

[snoopdog]

Prepping dangers ...

I do not have words to describe my boss's house. He has 250 gallons of water stashed behind his living room couch. A large storage room that looks like you're walking down a grocery aisle of canned food. All of it is sorted first expiration first out (FEFO). He has enough wheat supplies to make bread for 9 months for his entire immediate family. They have a shed outside that is one half water supplies and food supplies, the other half is garden tools,etc... He has a vegetable garden, radiation packs, chicken coup with about 20 chickens or so. Enough guns and ammo to march across Mississippi unscathed. Every room in the house has some type of reserve stored in it, whether it is food, weapons, med kits, you name it.

With all of that said and done, his house does not stand a chance to a tornado, a fire, or a flood. I have not figured out what the doomsday plan is if he were to lose the $300k of inventory in addition to his house. No I am not wishing any harm upon him or his family, I very much enjoy knowing him and working for him.

In my opinion, if **** did hit the fan and all he'll breaks loose, whoever has built up stockpiles will never be able to defend it. Too many people will come for it. So while it is nice for a very short term inconvenience, any long term benefit is pointless. In essence, they are doing all of this work to lose it to others in the case of severe apocalypse.

 

[PBRME]

True. Except the guy with the underground bunker with blowtorch hand rails attached to the steps leading down to the door. If you make the door you have swinging spikes. That was a preppers episode.

 

[WrapItDog]

I saw the blowtorch hand rail episode. That was pretty sweet. If I remember correctly the guy had a generator and he also has to have fresh air intake to the underground bunker. If I can get to one or both of those without getting shot or booby trapped I could get him. Plumbing the generator exhaust to the fresh air intake would kill him with co2 or figure out a way to get smoke down the air intake. Pour gas down either one and set it on fire but that might burn up the food I was after.

 

[Wicked Pissah]

Confirms that 97% of people are morons. Your boss is a superior so not only is he a moron, he is in charge of people.

where do people get this paranoia? Kind of like guns to have the right to form a militia. I own guns but if Obama decides to roll a tank into my culdasac, I'm boned, even with my 9mm. The conspiracy theory folks kill me

 

[just1dawg]

With all of that said and done, his house does not stand a chance to a tornado, a fire, or a flood. I have not figured out what the doomsday plan is if he were to lose the $300k of inventory in addition to his house.

That stuff is all good, and worth having if you can afford it, but I'd rather have an ICF house. In the Huntsville area the most likely catastrophic disaster we'll ever face is an EF-5 tornado.

 

[dorndawg]

In his defense, tomahawks are kinda badass.

 

[Old Fart Dawg]

As a charter member of the Fatalistic Americans in these Revolutionary Times, I can assure you that we preppers will not be disappointed if we end up with shelves of unused food and stored ammo. Indeed, it is our optimism in the survival of the species that motivates us. Hope for the best -- Prepare for the worst.

 

[af102]

For those of us driving through Tupelo tonight, are those gas stations still at $2.59?

 

[DerHntr]

As a charter member of the Fatalistic Americans in these Revolutionary Times, I can assure you that we preppers will not be disappointed if we end up with shelves of unused food and stored ammo. Indeed, it is our optimism in the survival of the species that motivates us. Hope for the best -- Prepare for the worst.

I see what you did there. C34 wouldn't have caught it.

 

[WrapItDog]

It's up to 2.68 on that corner this morning which is still a good price. Rest of town is in the 2.80+ range.

 

[PBRME]

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