When The Excrement Strikes The Rotary Oscillator

When The Excrement Strikes The Rotary Oscillator

Sooner or later, the Excrement will Strike the Rotary Oscillator (ESRO), or… as it’s more commonly stated, the Stuff will Hit The Fan (SHTF).

Nobody knows how. Nobody knows when.

Also unknown is whether that ESRO even will be on a personal, local, community wide, area wide, state wide, regional, national, continental or global scale.

Additionally, how fast the poop flies both into and off of the fan blades is unknown… will it be a slow catastrophe like an economic collapse? A building economic and/or social unrest? Will it be a “we see it coming” event like a tornado coming out of a well-warned storm, or a hurricane tracking in after three days?

It could be an instant, out of the blue situation like an earthquake, solar flare, terror attack, an accident or a health crisis.

All of these things have happened in the history of the world, and every single one of them will happen again, sooner or later. There will be storms. Earthquakes will come. Accident will happen. Nations will war. Terrorists will strike. 

When it happens, what do we do?

I’d like to propose a plan for dealing with the excrement, something I call the CCCE Plan. Spice and I have developed this plan over the years, and it is what we have trained ourselves to engage in when the ESRO. 

The CCCE Plan

The basics of the CCCE plan: there are four elements; communicate, consolidate, consider, execute.

Those elements are in that order by design. We have drilled ourselves on the first two, and have designed several systems to accomplish them.

The second pair of elements are somewhat dependent on the situation, but we have also been prepping to implement them as well.

In fact, we’ve posted several articles talking about most of these already, and as I explain each element I will include links to what we have shared so far.

One thing to consider is that if it’s a slow-developing disaster, like increasing risk from civil violence for example, then the CCCE plan is triggered on a different timescale, but the four elements remain the same. 

Communicate

Communications is a key aspect of our plans, but I’m using the word “communications” not in the common sense but rather the word’s military usage. Let me explain.

In the military, they talk of “lines of communications” and that includes not only the various ways that troops and commanders can talk to each other (radio, telegraph, messengers, signals, etc.) but also as corridors of movement.

A person’s line of communication if they are at work isn’t just their phone or radio in their car; it’s also their route of retreat towards consolidation.

We’ve talked about communications several times (Basic Communications For Preppers, Communications In A SHTF World, GMRS/FRS Real Range Tests, GMRS/FRS/CB) so those resources are available if you want to look at them.

Our entire purpose of communications in an excrement flying emergency is geared towards one thing, and one thing ONLY. To help us consolidate.

Consolidate

This is the most important part of the entire plan. We must consolidate with our people around our preps. This goes for every single prepper In Our Humble Opinions (IOHO), even the lone wolves out there. 

Spice and I will consolidate between ourselves, heading towards our pre-determined objectives (depending on the situation, and if possible we will communicate with our extended group, people we want around us or at least working with us (Mammy, The Man Of The House, Doc, The Engineer) to determine if they need to come to where we are, if we need to head to Mammy’s, or where we are (i.e. the next step).

We think everybody needs to consolidate around their preps. Go home (or wherever you store your preps), consolidate, and even if you have to bug out you will have your full depot of preps to base your actions off of.

We also have a lot of articles on consolidation, you can read a few of them here, here and here.

Once we have reached our consolidation point, whether that be home, an alternate BOL or wherever, we can stop and consider our next move based upon circumstances.

Consider

These next two items are pretty much impossible to talk about in advance because they are completely dependent on the situation you are in, the amount of knowledge and supplies that you have, and whether you are going to be able to bug-in or if evacuation is required.

I know a lot of folks who say they are going to bug-in no matter what, but I think back to the recent forest fires that have swept over whole communities that thought they were safe from fire, killing many “bug-in” type people. Sometimes, you’ve just gotta go; so this has to be part of the consideration process.

I will tell you that having options is KEY, having places that you can go already scouted out and planned for will quite probably be the difference between living and dying (or at least living and ending up in a shelter) for most.

We talk about alternative locations here, here, here and here. 

Execute

Remember those B monster movies we used to watch when we were kids? You know, the one where the radioactive lizard with a pure hatred of Tokyo would stomp around for a while kicking the tail of the Japanese Defense Force, swatting jets out of the sky and flattening tanks with its tail? Well, sooner or later the mad scientist would come along (with his kooky kid sidekick) and figure out a way to kill the big radioactive reptile?

What was the one key rule in that kind of movie? When the critter dies, roll the credits.

That’s what I’m going to do here, there’s no way to really talk about the final part of the plan because it is entirely dependent on circumstances. 

So.

Written By

Salty

Directed By

Salty

Based On A True Story

By Salty & Spice

Starring

Salty as Salty

Spice as Spice

Paranoid Prepper as Paranoid Prepper

Mammy as Mammy

The Man Of The House as The Man Of The House

Kevin Bacon as Godzilla