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First thanks for the incouragement!

I agree with you on problem I see is most people think Preppers=MadMax. SHTF doesn't have to be MadMax and 99% of the time would be something like a hurricane, ice storm, flooding so forth. We have all watch as different countries have gone through financial crisis and bank shutdowns and withdraw resrictions have always go with these events. So are you prepared to live a week, a month with no or little access to cash, debit/credit cards? Do you have on hand enough food, suppies, fuel, cash to make it through such for a week or maybe even a month?

I remember reading during the Boston lockdown and searh for the bombers of people call the police for help with formual and diapers. We all read about the fighting in gas lines on Long Island after Sandy. Do you want to put yourself though such? Do you want to stand in lines for hours everyday just to end up with just enough to get you through that day?

It is your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news

Thank you, Kart.

I enjoy the threads, and I joined the ping list because I HAVE been through several instances of terrible ice/snow storms that stranded me at home for many days, and through summer thunder-storm power outages. And I know that many of my compatriots have been through much worse: Sandy, Katrina, &c.

It never hurts to know this stuff, and to be able to decide - from an educated standpoint - at what level one’s own circumstances suggest to prepare.

As others have said: if people don’t like the threads, they don’t have to read them.

Post On!

-JT

We fix up houses and sell them. We just had this last one delayed for three months because a disabled vet couldn’t get the VA to approve it for a long time. We waited it out with him even though we could have sold it to another buyer.

It strained our finances but we had plenty of food in the prepper pantry to ride out the wait. It doesn’t have to be Mad Max to come in handy.

During an ice storm a couple of years ago, I had to drive 50 miles to fill up my gas cans. Now I have six of them, always filled. I rotate them weekly.

36 gallons is what it would take to go to my daughter’s college and back. Plus a little.

You should have seen the smile on her face when my wife explained that to her.