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Are you a prepper?
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:30 pm
Are you?
I was raised in a different time, on a farm, so by nature I was raised that way.
Not a survivalist, not a doomsdayer ... but a prepper, for a rainey day, just in case.
Extra food. Generators. Fuel. Firearms. First aid. A garden, and we can and jar what we grow. Five water wells on the property plus we collect rainwater and have water purification in place for the lake and the ponds.
We raise our own livestock and grow feed for them.
Next week we're doing something I've wanted to do for years ... installing solar panels.
Are you a prepper?
I was raised in a different time, on a farm, so by nature I was raised that way.
Not a survivalist, not a doomsdayer ... but a prepper, for a rainey day, just in case.
Extra food. Generators. Fuel. Firearms. First aid. A garden, and we can and jar what we grow. Five water wells on the property plus we collect rainwater and have water purification in place for the lake and the ponds.
We raise our own livestock and grow feed for them.
Next week we're doing something I've wanted to do for years ... installing solar panels.
Are you a prepper?
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Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:34 pm to scrooster
sort of, maybe
have 2 acres of garden i've spent the last 5 years developing - fertilizer, cover crops, etc
growing a ton of food now
few head of livestock
horse
generators (for hurricanes mostly)
no canning - don't trust myself with it but would like to learn
guns - yes - but i'm not paranoid or excessive about it
no solar panels yet but interested in the project
tractor and implements able to handle about 5 acres of garden
first aid kits - not as much as i'd like
have 2 acres of garden i've spent the last 5 years developing - fertilizer, cover crops, etc
growing a ton of food now
few head of livestock
horse
generators (for hurricanes mostly)
no canning - don't trust myself with it but would like to learn
guns - yes - but i'm not paranoid or excessive about it
no solar panels yet but interested in the project
tractor and implements able to handle about 5 acres of garden
first aid kits - not as much as i'd like
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:36 pm to scrooster
No
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:36 pm to scrooster
I prepare.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:50 pm to LSU1NSEC
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LSU1NSEC
You're a prepper. Good for you.
Buy an American Canner and go for it. It's easy peasy.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:54 pm to scrooster
I am. Dead serious.
I don't prep for the end of the world. I prep for the slight chance that disaster could happen at any moment in many different forms (Tornado, New Madrid earthquake, epic ice storm, economic collapse, martial law, etc).
Everyone should prep, yet society has made prepping a joke.
This past winter an ice storm hit the southeast. In less than 48 hours in Atlanta people were looting grocery stores for milk, bread, and eggs...all non-essential items. People were robbed of their food at gunpoint.
Preppers in Atlanta had nothing to worry about. Survivability for 48 - 72 hours was an afterthought to them.
Non-preppers on the other hand....
I don't prep for the end of the world. I prep for the slight chance that disaster could happen at any moment in many different forms (Tornado, New Madrid earthquake, epic ice storm, economic collapse, martial law, etc).
Everyone should prep, yet society has made prepping a joke.
This past winter an ice storm hit the southeast. In less than 48 hours in Atlanta people were looting grocery stores for milk, bread, and eggs...all non-essential items. People were robbed of their food at gunpoint.
Preppers in Atlanta had nothing to worry about. Survivability for 48 - 72 hours was an afterthought to them.
Non-preppers on the other hand....
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:55 pm to five_fivesix
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five_fivesix
Figured, with your username.
Gotten beyond just the firearms and into the other Fs yet? Food, first aid, fire, fuel,, fitness, ... and then most importantly, water?
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:57 pm to scrooster
I've been called preppy before.
I hope that doesn't put me in this category.
I hope that doesn't put me in this category.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:57 pm to scrooster
Everyone should be prepared for a couple weeks. Ice storm, tornado, hurricane, flood can easily knock power and access for short period of time.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:02 pm to mizzoukills
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mizzoukills
You are 100% correct.
I grew up in a family where my parents and grandparents were poor and lived through the Great Depression so naturally they taught all us kids to prepare for hard times.
We were living on the Isle of Palms when Hurricane Hugo hit ... we were prepared when we returned to the island.
Y2k and Katrina set-off the current prep per craze. It is now a muliti billion dollar industry.
Today's current social climate has only accelerated the mindset.
It's coming ... who knows what, where or when but it's coming.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:04 pm to scrooster
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LSU1NSEC
You're a prepper. Good for you.
Buy an American Canner and go for it. It's easy peasy.
I'm 70/30 on the canning at this point. But I'm really going to take my time and make sure I do it safely. I tend to take shortcuts and you can't do that with canning.
ETA: I commented on a thread a few months ago about canning. The thread was basically a parody of preppers and guns (i guess). Commented that most preppers I follow occasionally on youtube are more concerned with canning food than with guns.
This post was edited on 6/26/14 at 11:07 pm
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:05 pm to scrooster
Well, I could always use more, but I figure the wife and I could hunker down in the abode for a month or two before having to eat the dogs.
We lost power this past January for about three days due to a freak winter storm. Fortunately, my Honda 3k kept the boiler, well pump, and pellet stove going. The real problem with being prepared is fuel. Hard to acquire in an emergency, hard to store in quantity for such emergency and critical to sustainment.
We lost power this past January for about three days due to a freak winter storm. Fortunately, my Honda 3k kept the boiler, well pump, and pellet stove going. The real problem with being prepared is fuel. Hard to acquire in an emergency, hard to store in quantity for such emergency and critical to sustainment.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:11 pm to scrooster
I'm an Eagle Scout... I am always prepared.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:12 pm to five_fivesix
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The real problem with being prepared is fuel. Hard to acquire in an emergency, hard to store in quantity for such emergency and critical to sustainment.
It's tough storing fuel here in the South.
I store gas, diesel and propane.
The key is good rotation, good conainers, proper placement and utilizing life extenders - fuel stabilizers.
I prefer Stabil Marine ... it works well for me but there are others out there.
ETA I hate autocorrect, going blind with old age and worst of all small print.
This post was edited on 6/26/14 at 11:19 pm
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:13 pm to scrooster
Have a few thousand rounds of ammo, rations to last 3 mos, extra fuel, first aid supplies, and a mean-arse guard cat...so probably no by prepper standards but enough for me to last through the worst of society tearing itself apart when TSHTF.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:14 pm to reggierayreb
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I'm an Eagle Scout... I am always prepared.
same here
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:16 pm to roadhouse
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roadhouse
If you know what TSHTF means and you've got nine months worth of supplies, you're a prep per. Not a TEOTWAWKI type, but you're a prep pet. That's outstanding. Keep at it!
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:18 pm to scrooster
Not a prepper but live near 2 so I'll just take their shite when the time comes.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:21 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Everyone should be prepared for a couple weeks. Ice storm, tornado, hurricane, flood can easily knock power and access for short period of time.
Everyone should ... at a minimum. Few actually do althoughbyhete are many more doing it now than any any other time in the past twenty years. It's still not enough.
Things can go bad in a hurry. It wouldn't take much ... it never does.
Don't forget the tools.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 11:24 pm to scrooster
there's a prepper on youtube i like watching. some woman in tennessee (i think). but now she's getting so much attention she's going on hollywood diets and talking about how she'd like to move to the beach LOL
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