Today's Survival Show

Here’s how weather can affect your best laid plans.  Even if you’re not directly impacted by this, if you dwell in an area plagued by droughts now or later, you will see prices of everything rise like a liberal tax plan.

Central and South Texas are seeing their worst drought in more than 50 years.  Farmers there have lost an estimated $3.6 billion in crops and livestock this year, and if the rain doesn’t come soon, the figure might go above $4.1 billion by the end of the year, eclipsing the figure from another horrible drought year – 2006.  And the problem isn’t just agriculture.  Water supplies are low across 30% of the state.

All this is no big surprise.  Climate scientists predict that the Southwest is going to get dry.  Very dry.  Bone dry.  Dry like dust.  The predictions are that the dryness will start in earnest sometime in the next 15 years, but like most predictions about global warming, reality seems to be arriving ahead of schedule.

Here’s a scary scenario.  The droughts are ongoing and getting worse, water supplies are scraping bottom, and the governments of Texas (or Utah, or Arizona) and the US are in no position financially to help anybody out.  Then you’ll start to see people on the move.  Mass migrations are no fun, and surely when you’ve got your little prepper paradise set up along the migration route, and a swarm of Texas refugees descend on your place like a plague of locusts.

Weather is going to be a wild card in the years ahead, and it’s going to upset a lot of applecarts and ruin a lot of best laid plans.  In one of our upcoming Podcasts we will discuss how to store water and have a secondary location to migrate to, or what to do if you don’t have one or can’t afford one…stay tuned.