>“The Mindset”—the idea among Silicon Valley doomsday preppers that “winning” means earning enough money to escape the damage that befalls everyone else.
Yet no one will tell us why billionaires all have remote getaways in new Zealand
My neighbor is a big time prepper but when I see what she’s doing I think..ok she’ll maybe be able to live a couple weeks, a month longer than the rest of us and then what. I am reading a book she gave me called One Second After about that sort of thing happening. Scary stuff.
Around here there are multiple guns in every home, and newborns often come from the hospital wrapped in camo. Among the many wonderful friends I've made, some are Mennonites who grow and process their own cattle. And there are countless gardeners and small farmers.
Nope, one does not need to be a millionaire to find their own personal Galt's Gulch.
“I don’t have the money to buy that level of prep, or the varied skills and time to do it on the cheap. I accpt the possibility that in a real SHTF situation that I might just well die. I hope that I am given the Grace by God to die a Holy Death, and that I can protect my wife and children somehow.”
You’re more realistic than 99% of the population. Most people are storing food for the people who will kill them for it later, whether it’s their neighbor who didn’t store quite as much as they did and is now starving, or the stranger who will shoot them from the tree line the minute they step out of their house. I especially like to hear, “oh, I live in a safe place, all my neighbors are great.” Wait and see how great your neighbor is when they run out of food and know you have some, or how great you will be when you run out of food and your family is starving.
hunker down - have lots of New Haven pizza on hand and you’ll be all good
I would be concerned about living in southern Arizona in the summertime with an extended power outage. Without AC or big swamp coolers you’d better find some Anasazi caves. It IS very expensive to power AC with a whole house generator or huge solar bank.
I live next to the Columbia River, it can get hot here, too (120°F a few years ago), but cool downs are a half mile away. We’ve got our own problems with volcanoes and earthquakes, though (although not so much locally unless Jellystone goes off and then it’s curtains for all of us).