I’ve talked to hundreds of preppers over the last two years and many people who like me try and provide guidance to those who prep or staring to and the one comment I hear the most is that they have a ‘feeling’. These people are from all social, education and financial backgrounds. They say that there are demonstrable statistic that show that the number of people missing airline flights that end up crashing is higher than the average number of people that miss flights. I know myself there have been times when I have putted around doing this and that in the morning, which is unusual for me only to leave and find that a big wreck has taken place along my route to work. I say listen to that little voice in the back of you head, because there’s a good chance it knows what its’ talking about.
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For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
Lastly this for the doubters and the scoffers.
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
/johnny
Several friends are saying they have that feeling but aren’t doing anything about it. Life is getting in their way. More than one has been talking about having a garden for years but there’s health issues, kids, jobs, family, etc. that they never get around to putting one in. I’m afraid it’s going to hit the fan one day soon and all these people will be scratching their heads wondering why they failed to act on that little voice.
My little voice has gone from whispering to yelling and bashing with baseball bats (yes, I’ve loosened the tin foil hat). I am far below where I want to be in preps 1) finances and 2) family who roll their eyes, but we’re dining on fresh homegrown beans, squash and salad tonight.
Definitely. There is a common sense of unease out there. And, depending on your faith and eschatology, you're going to attribute it to various things.
For some, it's the Mayan calendar thing, or planet X, or pandemic, or financial collapse, or the Tribulation.
Under normal circumstances underestimation can be fatal. In a disaster, it WILL be fatal.
The margin for error is going to shrink dramatically in a SHTF scenario.