The Siege of New Hampshire

Abi talks Matt into helping her take a big old chair to the local transfer station's Swap Shop. While there, Matt discovers an abundance of castoff building materials. Abi coaxes him into taking a tennis ball named Wilson so he'll have someone to talk to. Later, Matt shops for groceries in Lincoln and is surprised by the garish bustle of a tourist town in tourist season. Afte...

Almost no one is born a prepper and spent their whole life being a prepper. Instead, it is usually some major disruption in a person's life that shakes them out of the complacent stupor that is modern life Mic, Brian, Jeff, and Andrew share what it was that turned them into preppers. They also share what their biggest hurdles had been, and mistakes they will they could have a...

On Matt's return from the library, and his narrow escape, he comes across discarded pallets. Building material for an outhouse. Back at his hillside, Matt spade-tills his corn patch and plants his seed, but needs water with no rain in sight. While borrowing buckets from Abi for river water, she tells him of her grandfather's dried up well farther up the hillside. Matt begins ...

Mic, Brian, and Jeff and joined by Andrew to continue their look at the upheaval Peter Zeihan foresees. Two more of those ramifications that will (and are already starting to) effect the average citizens are, the hourglass-shaped employment model and the potential explosion of immigration when people in the poorer regions try to get into the regions that fared better. Decreas...

The supplies Matt arrived with are running thin. He has to head into a store for more. The local grocery store / truck stop / hardware store had garden tools and seeds so he can grow his own food. Matt stocked up, though he realizes he has no real idea how to about gardening. On the way back home, he spots the little library of the village of Warren. Its one computer with fir...