PREP Prepper Anxiety Poll #25

At this point in time, your “doomer” stress level is pegged at…

  • absolutely no worries

    Votes: 13 4.2%

  • a bit concerned

    Votes: 46 15.0%

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

    Votes: 139 45.4%

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

    Votes: 103 33.7%

  • totally freaked and in my bunker

    Votes: 5 1.6%
  • Total voters
    306
  • Poll closed .
Topusaret

Topusaret

Deceased
It's time to once again gauge the anxiety members are feeling regarding the current world situation and how they view the relative near-term future.

With a nod to JC Refuge, who developed and created this identical poll the first seventeen times, and to CfI for invaluable assistance, here we go again. The poll will remain up for five days. Your poll responses are private and cannot be viewed, but I encourage you to post your response and why you voted the way you did.

Here are links to all previous polls:

The first poll, June 16, 2004--average score, 1.83:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=104207

The second poll, July 1--average score, 1.65:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=106303

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=120887

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

The tenth poll, November 1--average score, 2.14:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=125432

The eleventh poll, November 15--average score, 1.66:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=128175

The twelfth poll, December 1--average score, 1.58:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=130406

The thirteenth poll, December 15, 2004--average score, 1.59:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...hlight=prepper

The fourteenth poll, September 1, 2005--average score, 2.42:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...repper+anxiety

The fifteenth poll, July 14, 2006--average score, 2.12:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...repper+anxiety

The sixteenth poll, October 9, 2006--average score, 1.92:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...repper+anxiety

The seventeenth poll, April 2, 2007--average score, 1.98:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...anxiety+

The eighteenth poll, October 23, 2007--average score, 1.90:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...anxiety+

The nineteenth poll, January 26, 2008--average score, 1.97:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=274740

The twentieth poll, April 24, 2008—average score, 2.03:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=286030

The 21st poll, July 24, 2008—average score, 2.02:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=295575

The 22nd poll, October 18, 2008—average score, 2.17:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=306775

The 23rd poll, February 16, 2009--average score, 2.48:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=322886

The 24th poll, June 26, 2009--average score 2.05:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=336490
 
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ejagno

Veteran Member
I voted "glued to the screen, expecting the worse any day now". I'm not really glued to the screen but I am expecting the worse any day now. I live along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. Nuff said. LOL
 
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BREWER

Veteran Member
Concered turns to worried.

Topusaret: The Deepwater Catastrophe is enough to have anyone with two functioning brain cells on watchful edginess outside the directly affected areas.Those members, and their families, that are along the Gulf of Mexico must be extremely sick with worry. Guys we pray for you!

Accuweather.com's Joe Bastardi, among others, have given their prognostications on a higher than normal number of hurricanes this season. Here in the Mid-Atlantic the drought is setting in harder than we are being led to believe.

I can imagine the situation with everything burned to a crisp here and if we get, perhaps not just one, but multiple tropical systems through here we are in a peck of trouble. The Northeast could be in the cross hairs this season, too.

The electric grid is not in the best of shape to begin with and a hurricane Isabel event during these high temps we are experiencing currently could in very short order put us in dire straights.

The distinct possibility of a ME war with all its implications on oil and food is another immediate concern.

Our economy is a disaster. The recent unemployment insurance running out for millions is a recipe for social unrest on a broad scale. Someone will start playing with matches this summer. Needless to say the list of vulnerabilities is long. No doubt our enemies are itching to give us a kick in the head, too.

So there you have the sugar coated version of my vote thought process...
watchful, ready, and checking the preps, just in case

Thanks for the pole Topusaret. Take care, BREWER.
 
TerriHaute

TerriHaute

Hoosier Gardener
ejagno said:
I voted "glued to the screen, expecting the worst any day now". I'm not really glued to the screen but I am expecting the worst any day now.
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Me too. I have always picked "watchful, ready, and checking the preps, just in case" for these polls in the past, but now things seem to be coming to a head. I can't guess what it will be, but I think it will only take one thing (attack on Iran, expanding devastation from the gulf oil spill, market plunge, dollar crash, major food shortage) to send our society into collapse or revolution.
 
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zeda1

Senior Member
Not really glued to the screen, but more than usual. Things just can't go on like this for much longer. I feel like the speed of "The long, slow, emergency" is comming to a boil......
 
DustMusher

DustMusher

Inactive
ejagno said:
I voted "glued to the screen, expecting the worse any day now". I'm not really glued to the screen but I am expecting the worse any day now. I live along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. Nuff said. LOL
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+1

Additionally - what I am seeing in the meatworld with people's reactions has my 'spidey sence" on high alert.

Seems like everyone is on the edge. Several e-lists I have been on for years - very civilized posts - disagreements but nothing illogical. EVERY list has had a flame war break out in the last few days. (Just look at the thread here welcoming Buff as a Mod.)

Friends in Emergency Services have contacted me to 'find out what is really going on?' (I am the area doomer/dot collector) because they are ALL amped up and SCARED and have no explaination WHY- these are people who have handled scenes that would give most of us nightmares for years to go back to the station and eat dinner - and are not adrenaline junkies. They also are not in communications with each other. But like most of us who work/ed in emergency services have learned to listen to that still small voice which regularly does prepare us for what is to come.

DM
 
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squeeksmom

Deceased
ejagno said:
I voted "glued to the screen, expecting the worse any day now". I'm not really glued to the screen but I am expecting the worse any day now. I live along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. Nuff said. LOL
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What she said. Waiting to see what happens next.

squeeks
 
JF&P

JF&P

Deceased
Obama is the tip of the iceberg.... He's a major symptom of what the "Dark Side" has in store for America.....their plan is to destroy us so that they can rebuild us into a Marxist Orwellian One World Government.

I am more frightened now, especially for my children and grandchildren, than at anytime in my life.

However, I do know how it all ends.....Jesus wins.

;)
 
Pass Go

Pass Go

Inactive
I've been ready and watchful for a couple years now.

When the wheels come off, I believe it's going to happen fast.
 
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Deena in GA

Administrator
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Voted glued to the screen, although I'm not really glued to the screen - just checking in a lot more lately. I'm definitely closer to glued than to watchful and ready.

We were talking to absolute strangers last night at the fireworks display up at Callaway and they brought up how much America has been going downhill. I said something about it seeming to go downhill much more and much faster the past couple of years and they said, "Yes! Since the new administration took over". This was an older couple who are retired and thankful that they were able to retire and that their children all have jobs for now.
 
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Double_A

TB Fanatic
Well done.

I appreciate the work that you've done (and those before you) to pull this all together.

I'm glued to my screen I do expect TSHF in 30-60 days.
 
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mikedonathan

Contributing Member
Hasn't it been about six weeks ago that we only had six weeks to live and then it was all over? I'd like to pull that thread up but don't know how.
 
workerbee

workerbee

* Winter is Coming *
We've been on the edge of tshtf for longer than I thought we could.

As if some kind of suspended animation has allowed us to remain in this continual state of limbo.

Each day allows us more time to prep physically, spiritually and emotionally but each day gives our enemy more time to fortify the infrastructure that will be used after tshtf.

My sig says what I believe is our only source of possible victory.

But with God ALL things are possible.

Our forefathers knew the only way they could defeat the British was to appeal to God. The flag with the tree of liberty that said "Appeal to Heaven" was used by a squadron of six cruisers commissioned under George Washington's authority as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in October 1775.

The situations are similar in many ways. We're fighting tyrants, we want freedom.

Much of what we face results from too many of us not paying attention to what our government has been doing, not being engaged. Much of the constitution has been distorted. The fundamental principles have eroded, the checks and balances are virtually non-existent.

But many of us are awake now. We're mad as hell. We're scared. We're informed. We're engaged now. And like our founding fathers, we appeal to heaven.

Sorry for the rant.
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Absolutely now worries from my end of the spectrum. I 'think' I have finally learned my lesson in this area but just when I think I've arrived the Lord knocks me back in my pride so I'll keep it with I 'think'. :)

God is soverign in his creation and it's not going to fall apart one minute before He says that it's time. I can rest in that. I've done all I can to prepare over the years to the best of my ability and I'm as ready as I can be with the resources I have had. Since I can't do anything about what I don't have no sense worrying about it.

I always have a small punchlist of things to get done as the funds allow and the last thing on my list right now is having the septic pumped by the end of july. The woodshed is filled, got a new woodstove this spring as the old one was showing it's age. The food storage shed is filled, I have refilled and treated my ready gas supply for the generator. I bought a new chainsaw, installed new led lighting in the cabin and tied it into the battery bank, ect. If one treats preparedness as a lifestyle and not look at it as a single event (i.e. prepping for Y2k) one is ahead of the curve. Above all things God has everything under control and when it happens...it happens. Until it happens...it hasn't happened.
 
Anne in TN

Anne in TN

Deceased
All the other times we have done this poll, I have always indicated "watchful and ready". This time, however, I picked, "any day now". It's a "no brainer"!
 
FarOut

FarOut

Inactive
Anne in TN said:
All the other times we have done this poll, I have always indicated "watchful and ready". This time, however, I picked, "any day now". It's a "no brainer"!
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Agree. We're at that part of the curve where everyting accelerates. "The bird of time is on the wing".
 
lectrickitty

lectrickitty

Great Great Grandma!
I'm somewhere between watchful and glued. I check the forum daily if possible so I'm somewhat glued. I've been careful to keep the preps topped off. None of those last minute panics for me cause I know I'm as ready as I can be.

I expect the economy to take a dive any time. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it hangs on another year or two. There are a lot more things I'd like to acquire (to make life easier) before it all goes south, but I can get along without them if I don't have the time and opportunity to acquire them.

I have no doubt it's coming, it's simply a matter of how many days/hours/weeks/months or possibly years we have left until it arrives. It all depends entirely on how talented the thieves are. They might be able to keep the smoke and mirrors moving around for a while yet.
 
joyfulheart

joyfulheart

Veteran Member
I'm especially nervous for the next 10 or so days. Lots of bizarre stuff going on

1-- queen elizabeth supposed to meet with 0 tomorrow and make a speech about peace. (wth?)

2-- the 11th lots of bizarre stuff-- some doom potential then.

people talking about this week stock market doom, that timewave zero thing has this upcoming week as bad too...

Oh, and Netantahyu (sp?) is supposed to meet with 0 also... Every time he meets with 0, bad things tend to happen in the US.

Lots of things going on-- makes me want to duck for cover.
 
Vicki

Vicki

Girls With Guns Member
I replied watchful & ready but in general I'm more at ease than normal. The only things that does get me stressed is dealing with DGI's. I have about lost all my patience and sympathy for them unfortunately.

Vicki
 
Jonas Parker

Jonas Parker

Hooligan
I picked "watchful and ready" but I'd like to add that I'm expecting things to fall apart in the next 6-8 weeks. No, I'm not "glued to the screen" - the MSM wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and bit the talking heads on their noses! (Might be entertaining to watch though!)
 
Topusaret

Topusaret

Deceased
A little summary of the sentiment so far, after 27 hours and 233 votes:

Average for the previous 24 polls = 1.9354 (1.94)

The score for this poll up through the 233 votes is 2.1373 (2.14)

Those 233 votes is only one less than the total votes for the last poll (234), which ran for the full five days.

A bit elevated, but not what I expected, especially since the first 50 votes or so had the average just under 3.00, which would have been a huge dot. As with all things, however, equilibrium asserts itself.

Keep the votes and rationales coming. Don't make me stop this van!
 
Terriannie

Terriannie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I put glued to the TV but that's not entirely true. I am praying and living life as best I can in between.
 
onetimer

onetimer

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Hfcomms said:
Absolutely now worries from my end of the spectrum.

Above all things God has everything under control and when it happens...it happens. Until it happens...it hasn't happened.
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There is a constant ebb and flow of world events none of which has even come close to TEOTWAWKI in modern times. IMO a natural disaster has a better chance of disrupting our lives in the US than any other world event, well that and our .gov.
 
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herbgarden

Veteran Member
Just watchful here.Not glued to the tv cause it depresses me.Nothing I can do about a lot of things-yet.This admin is pulling things that any other pres of any party in the past would be drawn and quartered for. The news media would be all over it-even msm. In Nov.I will vote.

For now I am watchful and enjoying life and my garden.I feel that whatever it is that is coming will be sudden and all the news watching in the world won't help me be more prepared.
 
Border Guns

Border Guns

Veteran Member
I'm with intergator on this as well. It may seem callous but I have been watching my sis slowly die of cancer. She is very near the end and I don't want her to have to go through what we all see coming. I think we, including DH, are as ready as we can be. Hope the SHTF doesn't happen when we are trying to get back to Arizona, south of Tucson and east a bit. We are aware that it might get dangerous. Have guns and dog in RV.:dstrs:
 
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Ben Sunday

Has No Life - Lives on TB
My visceral response is that life as we know it is precariously perched on the crumbling edge of the abyss. It would not take much to push things over the edge.

Nothing specific and no bot influences either. Just a deep and consistent wrench like sensation that a lot of things are going wrong, or at least exhibit the potential to do so.
 
Topusaret

Topusaret

Deceased
With approximately 20 hours remaining in the poll, the Prepper Anxiety Level stands at 2.13, which is above average, but not alarmedly so. What is a bit surprising is the number of voters, which is up 60 over the last poll, and the highest number I remember.

So, your chance to vote is slipping away. Vote and comment. Don't make me bump the thread...lol
 
Volleyball Granny

Volleyball Granny

Inactive
I've already voted, but I'll bump it for you. :D

It's been an interesting read. I am not going to say that I'm glued to the news--or even TB. I am in overload and have chosen to stick my head in the sand for the weekend. LOL I'm going to join my friends in the picture.
 

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Woolly

Inactive
I'm some anxious, but, on the whole, I'm reconciled to our fate. I think that the real fat will be in the fire by the end of 45 days (mid to late August.). It could come sooner, but the Bots and the Cardinal cross point to ~August 1st.

The Administration is going to take some real hits in that time frame. I don't know the specifics, but it is suggested that the WH will be in a real panic. In any event, economic indicators show a likely deterioration over the coming months.

I do NOT look for a program, or Government policies that will contribute to the easing of unemployment. The deficit will continue to grow. The oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico will NOT get plugged for many more months. Thus, the economic and environmental issues for the South East States continue to grow.

Many States are nearly bankrupt, and they have yet to take the steps necessary to keep them solvent. The Federal Government can't help much as she is also insolvent, and deeply in debt.

The Middle East and the Korean Peninsula are sitting on a knife's edge, and could easily fall over into a regional war, but one that might go world wide in only a matter of weeks.

On the domestic front, currently developing worldwide shortages of food may impact the United States with 1st. Higher Prices, and 2nd. actual shortages of some food stuffs this year. This unusual situation will catch many American unprepared.

Because of the deteriorating economic situation in the United States, we could encounter social unrest in the cities and elsewhere.

We live in interesting times.

Woolly
 
Dex

Dex

Constitutional Patriot
I can't remember a time when so many different issues were happening at the same time with such drastic potential.

I would have to vote in between the categories somewhere. Possibly between glued to my screen and already bugged out. I don't waste too much time glued to the screen because it's never really got me anywhere, not on 9/11, not during y2k, it's just a point of reference and an alternative perspective and most of it I already know at one level or another. Besides, I spend far too much time in front of a computer screen at work to have the energy to read everything and it's mostly preaching to the choir with me anyway.

It seems pretty clear that the big melting pot is about to get really stirred up at any moment, you just have to remember that there is life outside the prep movement and try not to let it all overwhelm you because it will if you let it.

There are a few more preps I would REALLY like to have right now. There is a sinking in my stomach that tells me that IT is going to happen in some way that effects most of us and it won't be as romantic as I imagine it in some of the ways that I do. It's like good space opera in Sci-Fi, you imagine it as so cool and keen but to actually be there may not be so many shits and giggles. The playing field would be more level and I know that is what many of us really want in The End.
 
Topusaret

Topusaret

Deceased
Three hours left.

I have a church meeting to attend that begins precisely as the poll ends and when I would normally post up the results, so that summary will be delayed by a few hours.
 
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