Comments on: Off-the-Grid Living on only 1/5th of an Acre http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/off-the-grid-living-on-only-15th-of-an-acre.htm Intelligent Know-How for the Concerned Citizen Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:10:51 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tactical Intelligence http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/off-the-grid-living-on-only-15th-of-an-acre.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1238 Tactical Intelligence Tue, 04 May 2010 03:31:43 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1229#comment-1238 Steven, That's some great thoughts. I'm going to give this some thought and respond on it in an upcoming article. Thanks for the inspiration! Steven,

That’s some great thoughts. I’m going to give this some thought and respond on it in an upcoming article. Thanks for the inspiration!

]]> By: Steven http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/off-the-grid-living-on-only-15th-of-an-acre.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1223 Steven Mon, 03 May 2010 05:42:43 +0000 http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/?p=1229#comment-1223 Hey Erich, I'd like some posts that give some strategies for just getting along with other people in emergencies. If somebody freaks out in your party, the doubt and indecision can paralyze the entire operation. Last summer my hiking party got caught in a surprise rain storm... the situation quickly escalated into into an emergency with the previously climbable rock faces turning in to raging rivers on the way back down. I made it, but I think sheerly by the luck of having a good party member who took the lead. My problem is that an emergency creates a power vacuum... anybody that goes for it can take control. How do I know I don't have a crazy idiot taking control? What if I was with strangers whom I didn't trust? After hurricane Katrina nobody knew how to coordinate without the grid. I want to avoid that happening to me. An emergency creates the most primitive human political scene possible, and it seems to me like that would be essential to be able to predict these weird emergency politics that people resort to before things get out of hand. Any practical advice for dealing with this kind of problem? Hey Erich,
I’d like some posts that give some strategies for just getting along with other people in emergencies. If somebody freaks out in your party, the doubt and indecision can paralyze the entire operation.
Last summer my hiking party got caught in a surprise rain storm… the situation quickly escalated into into an emergency with the previously climbable rock faces turning in to raging rivers on the way back down. I made it, but I think sheerly by the luck of having a good party member who took the lead.
My problem is that an emergency creates a power vacuum… anybody that goes for it can take control. How do I know I don’t have a crazy idiot taking control? What if I was with strangers whom I didn’t trust? After hurricane Katrina nobody knew how to coordinate without the grid. I want to avoid that happening to me.
An emergency creates the most primitive human political scene possible, and it seems to me like that would be essential to be able to predict these weird emergency politics that people resort to before things get out of hand.
Any practical advice for dealing with this kind of problem?

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