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Post by Chloe on Jun 15, 2016 20:00:19 GMT 10
When I find myself googling other prepping websites from around the world or just watching something disaster related on TV. it makes me think about how so many different situations could cause "the end of the world as we know it". So I'd love to know what everyone is preparing for. I'm still in the early stages and what I have stored would only last my self and my boyfriend + my parents a few days at most. But I'm still growing/learning!
So, what are you preparing yourself for?
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Post by remnantprep on Jun 15, 2016 20:11:09 GMT 10
The thing that motivated me to prepare was the interest I had in ww2 rationing in the UK! I feel we are close to WW3 (if not already in it) and so we are preparing for it as well as economic collapse or job loss. The other reason was that I was living in Far North Queensland during cyclone Yasi and the town ran out of tape for windows etc it was a very scary experience although the only damage we had was a large Jacaranda tree that split in half and thankfully caused no harm to any structures
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Post by Peter on Jun 15, 2016 20:11:34 GMT 10
Firstly, I prepare for the "everyday" stuff. Financial preps to help if I find things tough in terms of work, food & water in case of infrastructure breakdown, that type of thing.
If you're talking about the big stuff, my main three are economic collapse, power grid-down (specifically as a result of cyber-terrorism more than CME or HEMP), and pandemic.
Great question, btw.
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Post by Chloe on Jun 15, 2016 20:22:07 GMT 10
Great responses! I totally feel you rem about the job losses and natural disasters. Always good to know you don't have to rush into the shops with the crowds when disaster strikes again. And I also worry for those things Peter. Economic collapse, cyber terrorists and pandemics are things I think about all the time. Especially with the overuse of antibiotics these days.
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Post by Ausprep on Jun 15, 2016 20:39:05 GMT 10
Great post Chloe! Like FB, im preparing first and foremost to look after my children regardless the situation. I recently went through a marriage separation as well as job loss. All in a very short period of time. It was very difficult to say the least.
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Post by jo on Jun 15, 2016 21:04:21 GMT 10
Hey Chloe am just prepping for life in general... want to be more like my parents.... we always had food, no matter the political/economic situation, we always had a roof over our head and felt safe even if we didnt have 2 cents to rub together and we were always loved even if we didnt have the latest clothes or games or updated family car.... I am trying to live simply and more self sustainably and am working to be less dependent on the system of having to have more stuff
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 15, 2016 23:56:55 GMT 10
I'm prepping for most of the same reasons as Peter. The everyday and the catastrophe. I would add coastal flooding/rising oceans to the list, but otherwise he has summed it up nicely.
I think I've read too many books and watched too many movies to not do something...for my family's sake. Some of my favorites:
Kim Stanley Robinson's 40 days of Rain trilogy Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as we Knew it series Gary Paulsen's Hatchet series Laura Ingalls Wilder The Long Winter Day After Tomorrow
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Post by remnantprep on Jun 16, 2016 0:00:41 GMT 10
Have you seen or read The Road Ziggy?
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 16, 2016 0:13:48 GMT 10
I've seen the movie, but haven't read the book. Very similar to the Susan Beth Pfeffer books. I should have also included The Long Walk by Slawomir Rawicz. I find books that I love and read them every year or two...someone usually starves to death in every book. Probably why I am so committed to stockpiling food so that I never have to watch my daughter go through that.
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Post by remnantprep on Jun 16, 2016 0:16:43 GMT 10
I never want my daughter to go through that either!
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Post by graynomad on Jun 16, 2016 0:56:44 GMT 10
... I am trying to live simply and more self sustainably and am working to be less dependent on the system of having to have more stuff I'll just go with what Jo said. If you reduce your dependence on the system it doesn't much matter what happens short of a meteor impacting or a foreign invasion. In Oz I'd say that the most likely scenario is a gradual erosion of rights and reduction in living standards, I already live pretty rough by most people's standards and can live a lot rougher if needs be so that doesn't matter to me, but the removal of rights issue may.
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Post by jo on Jun 16, 2016 4:23:30 GMT 10
Ahhh Ziggysdad your book collection sounds similar to mine! My new favourite is the Ashfall series and my very new fave is "the burn" series love books about doing it tough and very nearly dying in the process.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 16, 2016 7:02:06 GMT 10
I haven't read Ashfall or The Burn, but once I finish 'The Hab Theory' I'll jump into those. Always love tales of survival or 'doing it tough'. Thanks, Jo!
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Post by Chloe on Jun 16, 2016 10:05:17 GMT 10
I'm prepping for most of the same reasons as Peter. The everyday and the catastrophe. I would add coastal flooding/rising oceans to the list, but otherwise he has summed it up nicely. I think I've read too many books and watched too many movies to not do something...for my family's sake. Some of my favorites: Kim Stanley Robinson's 40 days of Rain trilogy Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as we Knew it series Gary Paulsen's Hatchet series Laura Ingalls Wilder The Long Winter Day After Tomorrow Ahhhhh glad to find another Susan Beth pfeffer fan!! Her life as we knew it books are my favourites. Also made my mum read those haha. Another good one is The Ashfall Triology by Mike Mullin. A little more teenager style but just as intense as life as we know it. About the yellow stone volcano going off in the USA.
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Post by shinester on Jun 16, 2016 13:03:56 GMT 10
I'm prepping for nothing and potential problems that might happen. That is I'm giving myself a buffer to high danger/inconvenient events that are easy to prepare against. I have a spare tyre because it's highly inconvenient and easily resolved. I have insurance because it's highly inconvenient and easily insured. I have food because it's highly dangerous to not have food and easily prepared for. I have water because it's highly dangerous to not have water and it's easy to store. I have a UPS on my modem because it's easy and cheap [$50] to have yet could impact my income with lost/uncharged clients if I lose connection whilst working. [I've used it twice this year!] Chances are I won't need most of these things and I'm just fine with that, they didn't cost that much and/or have other purposes anyhow. I get that the chance of many events is remarkably low and I have enough things and knowledge to be able to handle 'most' situations with relative ease already.
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Post by perthprepper on Jun 16, 2016 16:20:03 GMT 10
I'm preparing because the chance that some form of significant disaster will happen over the remainder of my life (potentially another 40 years) is fairly high. A pretty quick look at history suggests that disasters of various kinds are actually normal. In the Western world they've seemed rare in recent decades but that looks like an anomaly in the context of recent centuries/millennia. I won't start on a list of what could go wrong locally or globally from here, it's too long, most of us already know the general idea and the point of what I'm doing isn't to predict, it's to prepare. For the sake of a few hundred or a few thousand dollars and a few hours' time invested per week, you can make good inroads into cutting your risk when the next disaster hits. That's good value especially when you've got kids in the picture. A couple of book quotes I like, since we've been discussing them earlier in this thread (and just because I like these quotes): John Wyndham's "The Day of the Triffids": “ ’You know, one of the most shocking things about it is to realise how easily we have lost a world that seemed so safe and certain’. She was quite right. It was that simplicity that seemed somehow to be the nucleus of the shock. From very familiarity one forgets all the forces which keep the balance, and thinks of security as normal. It is not." James Clavell's "Gai-Jin": "... of disciplining oneself to be satisfied with little, there being more hungry times than abundant, to bear cold and pain with fortitude, there being more bad days than good, more cold than warmth so best be prepared. Less is better than more. Except for saké. And fornication." Must add more booze and condoms to my list
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 16, 2016 18:49:43 GMT 10
James Clavell is one of my favorite writers. We can learn a lot about the enduring human spirit from King Rat, but all great books.
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Post by perthprepper on Jun 16, 2016 19:03:59 GMT 10
I love them all, but Tai-pan is my favourite, followed by the Noble House
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 16, 2016 19:18:50 GMT 10
Hard to choose a favorite. I only wish he wrote more books.
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Post by Peter on Jun 16, 2016 21:16:55 GMT 10
James Clavell - not a name I'm familiar with. Looks like more books to add to the "to read" shelf...
Booze and condoms - both have myriad applications beyond their common uses.
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