‘Preppers’ hone skills for coping with disaster and dystopia

The Star.com ^ | 8/9/15 | Stephen Spencer Davis

[Kartographer]

A man who calls himself Che Bodhi draws a crude map in the dust on the hood of his maroon Volkswagen, a battered car that can run on used vegetable oil.

There’s the United States and all its guns to the south, Bodhi says. Highways 401 and 407 are heavily travelled. And St. Catharines and the Niagara Region are a “funnel point.”

“North,” he concludes, “is the only way that you can truly disappear.”

Bodhi is the organizer of the Annual Preppers Meet, held on a recent weekend on a patch of land near Shelburne, and he knows something about disappearing. I call him after the meet, having heard his name is an alias. He’s evasive and won’t confirm it directly.

[Paladin2]

I’ve found to be quite chilly taking the dog out in the yard in the snow without wearing socks.

[backwoods-engineer]

one of them must be a buxom blonde co-ed for repopulating the species.

Nah. Who wants to put up with their drama now, never mind when TSHTF?

[Old Sarge]

Okay, okay, you got me there...