Resourceful

Various Troubled Times members have had some thoughts on how to meet special clothing needs during the pole shift and Aftertime.

• Clothing for the hands and feet, for the cold, and for fire are the only special purpose cloths that should be needed.

• As the fauna and flora will remain the same, and many cultures have learned to live off the land, perhaps it is skills and knowledge that need to be accumulated, not material goods.

• Good boots that are waterproofed are survival boots.

• Being a person who lives in a wintry climate, my only suggestion that we haven't yet done is buying everyone a pair of Sorel boots. They keep your feet warm down to -40 degrees Fahrenheit. In addition, mittens not gloves should be purchased.

• We must think beyond Reboks, jeans, and T Shirts, to something good enough to venture away from our shelters in as the need arises, i.e. bring in a straggler, water, repairs, food gathering, etc. Now as the climate for some could switch to deepest winter permanently, and in all cases we can expect rain, extreme wind, heat possibly fire, I don't think a K-Mart raincoat is going to do the job.

• I think a diver’s outfit would do on some occasions. I remember when a friend of mine was a diver for some time, and once he went diving in a mountain lake in December! It was freezing outside, but he said he was warm and dry in a lake that had an ice crust on it. Perhaps this would be an ideal outfit for cold pole shift times with continuous rains.