A report from one of our Preppers who survived a glancing blow From Hurricane Irma ..
and then a head-on attack from Hurricane Maria.
The biggest enemy of Preppers is complacency and not being adequately prepared, even though you think you are;
and failure to keep an ongoing assessment of routine tools and maintenance as well as seasonal adjustment.
Throughout this post you will learn of what worked, and what didn't work, as well as praise given where it belongs,
as well as the blame for failures.
Also, he has much good to say about our FED.gov response that you won't see in the news or mainstream media,
and has offered a serious critique on local PR politicians.
Learn from his example, his forethought, his prepps, what worked, and then his experience.
This is an outstanding report !
H/t to Sergio
Thanks to all. I’ll get back to this thread after I take my wife out to dinner to the fanciest restaurant I can find open tonight. She was the cook during the whole ordeal and did miracles with just a gas grill at our disposal. I’ll share that next. Later tonight.
“We’ve been criticized by “hardcore” preppers and survivalists for whining about being without power for so long or for any length of time. They say that temperatures in the 80s are mild and perfectly adaptable to. Well, if you are a hardcore trooper maybe, but to the ordinary citizen, especially the old, the newborn, the bedridden, the infirm, the handicapped, it is hell. 80s in the Midwest, for example, is not the same as 80s in the Tropics. It’s the humidity that kills you, to use a cliché. The heat index (opposite of wind chill factor) is more like the 90s. Food spoils faster, bugs go out of control. Walls, bed sheets and clothing become damp and moldy. And to aggravate this you have hundreds of gasoline and diesel generators being fired up at the same time to add fumes and noise to the misery.”
I don’t worry so much about food or water for the short term (say, 6 months), but the WEATHER will impact our daily lives more than anything. Winter will make it hard to work outside and getting wood without a chain saw and log splitter - who knows if we can even do that, being in our 50’s and all - and not having the equipment. Summer, like this article says, would actually be worse. I might be able to grow stuff in the garden, but without refrigeration, it wouldn’t last long.
So much prepping to do, so little time. (or not, who knows?)