Prepper Anxiety Poll #10, Nov. 1, '04

At this point in time, your "doomer" stress level is pegged at ...

  • absolutely no worries

    Votes: 12 4.6%

  • a bit concerned

    Votes: 47 17.9%

  • watchful, ready, and checking the preps, just in case

    Votes: 104 39.5%

  • glued to the screen, expecting the worst any day now

    Votes: 93 35.4%

  • totally freaked and in my bunker

    Votes: 7 2.7%
  • Total voters
    263
  • Poll closed .
Safecastle

Safecastle

Emergency Essentials Store
First time I'm fudging the actual start date of the poll ... let's see if we can't catch a big wave here and get a good maximum measurement, hey?

Please post a brief explanation here (and links to current relevant threads) so that, in the future, we can go back and reference the issues that were on people's minds.

This is the tenth poll in the series. Pete/ME should be posting a graph in this thread representing the previous poll results.

The first poll, June 16--average score, 1.83:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...threadid=104207

The second poll, July 1--average score, 1.65:
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The third poll, July 15--average score, 1.91:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=108265

The fourth poll, August 1--average score, 1.85:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=111006

The fifth poll, August 15--average score, 1.65:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=113376

The sixth poll, September 1--average score, 1.89:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=116464

The seventh poll, September 15--average score, 1.94:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=118574

The eighth poll, October 1--average score, 1.76:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=118574

The ninth poll, October 15--average score, 1.94:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=123099
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Pete/ME

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As promised, here's the latest chart... Have a feeling the next column will be up there as well. With a total of 68 people voting thus far, the level is at 2.09
 

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LMonty911

Inactive
Just saw the news about the new OBL tape, before i did the poll..almost made me go from option 4 to totally freaked, but i'm saving that for Tuesday morning.

god, I hate Tuesdays.
 
pjadams

pjadams

Inactive
I choose watchful. I'm prepped as well as I can be at this point and when you've done all you can do, you stand. I think that means wait and watch. And pray.
 
Pepper

Pepper

Inactive
There was not a question that describes my feelings. I am calm, determined, in control, and ready, after letting OLB's post sink in. He wants some American butt?
He can bring it here on our turff. I am prepped, I am ready. I have had almost three years to prepare. My fear is gone. My resolve is complete. I am ready.
 
snowmiser

snowmiser

Inactive
what Pepper said.

i chose a bit concerned. not as in fear, but as in those familiar, comfortable butterflies you may get right before you're about to do something immensely important, and you know you're going to succeed and do it well, but you still have that healthy little amount of anxiety to remind you you're alive.
:sldr:

Pepper
you rock!
 
thunderlight

thunderlight

Inactive
I'm probably about to say the same thing as Pepper and Snowmiser ... but in different terms.

Any and every rational and sane human being that has ever found themselves under 'fire' (military combat vet's, law enforcement officers, firefighters, etc) has known fear. Some before, some during, some after, and some a combination or all of the above.

For most, fear is one of the penultimate motivators. OTOH, it is also probably safe to say that only fools and those with mental health issues have never truly known fear.

It is not the presence of fear that separates the brave from the coward, the survivor from the casualty ... it is how fear is confronted and the actions and deeds taken in its presence.

Which is probably why there are so many :sheep: out there!


ThunderLight
 
tropicalfish

tropicalfish

Veteran Member
freebyrd said:
i voted no worries, i am not letting a bunch of government lackies ruin my life
freebyrd
Click to expand...

You keep telling yourself that and sooner or later you will believe it. :lol:

Me, I'm very nervous with the video coming out. It makes me think the attacks are sooner than one would think. It seems when OBL speaks, something usually does happen.
 
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Dare7

Inactive
I've been a no worries kind of gal throughout these polls but I had to vote a bit concerned this time - not due to any events outside my home but rather a major long term hit to my already precarious financial status which means I've been living off preps in the past month and will be for the forseeable future -- no restocking capabilities means I'll be in a world of hurt much quicker than planned if the ball goes up any time soon.
 
Safecastle

Safecastle

Emergency Essentials Store
Certainly a noteworthy poll this time ...

- less than 15 hours into the poll and we have 155 votes already

- we are, at present, sure to set a new poll high average by a significant amount ... right now we are at 2.23

- at the moment, we are at a 15% higher anxiety level than our highest previous measured level.

All this, of course due to the two recent tape broadcasts by the bad guys and to the imminent presidential election.
 
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Pipers

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thunderlight said:
I'm probably about to say the same thing as Pepper and Snowmiser ... but in different terms.

Any and every rational and sane human being that has ever found themselves under 'fire' (military combat vet's, law enforcement officers, firefighters, etc) has known fear. Some before, some during, some after, and some a combination or all of the above.

For most, fear is one of the penultimate motivators. OTOH, it is also probably safe to say that only fools and those with mental health issues have never truly known fear.

It is not the presence of fear that separates the brave from the coward, the survivor from the casualty ... it is how fear is confronted and the actions and deeds taken in its presence.

Which is probably why there are so many :sheep: out there!


ThunderLight
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Pipers

Inactive
Pepper is right. In any case, whether it's called karma or "what we sow," we always get what we deserve, whether it's government, tranquility, disaster, and/or whatever else.
How we think, feel and behave is what counts, and en masse the results are obvious.
Be prepared and keep the faith... easy does it.
 
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Inkywon

Inactive
Between #3 and 4, concerned enough about Election day I went and voted absentee, Enough preps are topped off, I lurked before Y2K, and then joined on that day in September. I don't post much, just read and learn daily from this special place, Looking at the history of the feelings of the people of TBK something is fixing to (yep I am a redneck) going to blow. So I am not glued to TV but I am here on this forum triple from what I was 2 months ago. That is my mental thoughts. So my brain is saying danger. Personally, my intuition says whoo take stock, lock and load. I awake 3-4 times nightly, having wild dreams, and daily walk through my home looking to see where that proverbial bomb that is ticking going to go off at. Strangely enough I am calm. Is it that feeling you have during the still watch, you know a incident is going to happen you have accepted it and you are just waiting? I don't know if this concern is from my intuition I have always had about my family or my brain looking at facts, and history. But, that is where I am at, (between the "a" and the "t"
Inky
 
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Claudia

I Don't Give a Rat's Ass...I'm Outta Here!
Um, let's see - why would I be glued to the screen and expecting the worst? Well, I suppose it could have something to do with bin laden's message (What was the message? In this case, IS the medium the message?), the approaching election, the inept dance of duck and cover being done around the saga of the missing explosives in Iraq, the apparently quite ill Arafat and the repercussions inherent in the situation should he die . . . I could go on, but it all seems so obvious that it seems pointless. I'm starting to feel like Chicken Little - the sky is falling, the sky is falling. Have a serious case of cat on a hot tin roof syndrome, and my Valium supply is only marginally helpful. I went long in the market through the weekend prior to the election - may well be the stupidest thing I've done recently. On the good side, I'm prepped up to 3+ months of prescription drugs, 6 months worth of the really important ones, 3-4 months of food including food for four dogs and two cats, close to 100 gallon jugs of water plus what is in the hot water heater and what I could put in containers at the last minute. Basement equipped. Going to top off the tank on the car, get some more water, and hope I counted the ammo right. I lived in a so-called third world country for nearly a year about 2-3 years ago, right after 9/11, and I fear this next time I'm not going to have to leave home to be in a third world country.
 
Sharon

Sharon

Inactive
Watchful, as always, but a little more so than normally. Just makes sense. Would be with or without the OBL tape. Once February comes, I "may" be a little less watchful, but always watchful now.

And in-between watching, I knit, crochet, and enjoy life. Preps are up, but then they always are. It's easier to STAY prepped than to get prepped!!!
 
pkchicken

pkchicken

resident chicken
Really, there are alot more dots this week than there have been durring the last polls. Still i am "watchful" Don't see myself panicing. Prepped as much as reasonable and have contingency plans. Drilled the kids and DH.

DH and DD are away this weekend in philadelphia seeing the sights and checking out some art schools. Sigh! I am not thrilled to have them in such a high profile place, especially 3 days before the election but as so many have said before, ya can't stop living and ya can't live in fear. You can bet I went over disaster stuff with them before they left.

pk
 
jed turtle

jed turtle

a brother in the Lord
while i don't "feel" any different, normally just vote cautious and prepared as usual, i had a client visit yesterday, he's not particularly religious, but he mentioned that he has had dreams that come true since boyhood (he must be 40 something) and that he just had a dream real recently that a nuclear device aboard a boat went off in NYC harbor. since that has been mentioned so many times as a distinct possibility in the last few years i just nodded, but after mentioning it to a close friend he seemed rather more concerned than i would have expected him to. in retrospect, it seems that the timing for such an event - on or before the election- would be made to order for maximum effectiveness to attempt to cow America into retreating from the middle east.

if it happens, i hope Mecca becomes an instant hole in the ground.
 
Safecastle

Safecastle

Emergency Essentials Store
The latest votes seem to indicate just a slight ebb in the anxiety level. Still, the overall average stands at 2.16 with 205 votes in. If I'm not mistaken, the most votes we've collected in one of these polls is 220. We have three and-a-half days to go, so we ought to be able to surpass that number.
 
workerbee

workerbee

* Winter is Coming *
JC, we certainly could surpass that number if you'd only allow BWD and I to vote more than once like we did in the meat world HA HA!

I would like to thank you for these polls. It certainly is nice to see in real data what we collectively are feeling.

You do good work! :)
 
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lili

Senior Member
I understand what a gut feeling is. My stomach is extremely nervous. I can actually feel tension in the pit of my stomach area that is affecting my breathing. I have been upbeat lately, and things are going well for me personally, so I have no immediate reason to be anxious and unsettled, but the elections taking place the day after tomorrow, and all of the talk of an impending attack, have me on edge. When I saw the blood red moon last Wednesday night, I knew that it was a sign of the end times. Things just don't feel right, and haven't for awhile, but the feeling has intensified. My dog is absolutely a nervous wreck, also. She is constantly whining, barking shrilly, crying and just being needy. I can tell she senses a disturbance. She keeps trying to warn me that something threatening is coming, and I keep reassuring her that everything is O.K.
 
Jesse

Jesse

Membership Revoked
G'morning!

At the moment (usually really) I am calm, happy, and not worried about anything. I still chose watchful and ready though. I pay attention and I try to be ready, mostly spiritually, but also physically for whatever may come. It's a *peaceful* kind of vigilance though, thank God.

Yours in Christ - Dee.
 
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suzy

Membership Revoked
Up a notch this time to "glued....".

We have a convergence of events that have the potential to turn bad instantly.
The two tapes, Arafat out of the area, elections tomorrow (at least theyre still scheduled),
and the ME is rife with fighting. Numerous hostages taken in the last weeks, and no end in sight. Ramadon. And now the President indicates that he's going to bring freedon to Cuba. Are we going into another country!

suzy
 
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daisy

Inactive
My dog is absolutely a nervous wreck, also. She is constantly whining, barking shrilly, crying and just being needy. I can tell she senses a disturbance. She keeps trying to warn me that something threatening is coming, and I keep reassuring her that everything is O.K.
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My dogs are like this too, since Friday. I voted glued....I don't see us getting through the week without something going down somewhere......
 
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Debbie

Inactive
All we can do is be watchful.
Are WE really the lucky ones? I went to a trade show in Vegas on Saturday and not one person there even heard of any tapes surfacing or any threats ....(lucky stiffs!)
 
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