People make fun of preppers, say they are paranoid nutbags.
Back at the beginning of January there was a winter storm, relatively minor in the South and Southeast of the US. Some cold weather, snow, ice, threat of power going out, nothing that major really. But panic ensued anyway. This was no big storm, this wasn't some disaster, it was predicted well in advance, everyone knew it was coming. Below are some pictures of the panic. This is how people reacted to a relatively minor snow storm. The pictures are from a North Carolina Walmart employee documenting the empty shelves.
These Walmart shelves were emptied in a matter of hours for a small storm.
People make fun of preppers, why? It's not a bad idea to have some stuff stored and packed away in case of emergency. If preppers are just crazy nutbags, then why did people go crazy and empty the entire grocery of a Walmart in a few hours? What would happen to the people who emptied these shelves if something really bad happens that won't be over in a few day?
This thread is a guide for prepping. I'm not much of a prepper myself, but there is no reason not to take some precautions. Not because one believes the government is going to collapse, or aliens are going to land or a zombie apocalypse is going to break out, but because natural disasters happen. Floods, massive blizzards, earthquakes, these things happen and in the midst of these disasters the store shelves will look like the above. Where is one going to get food? How is one going to ride out the disaster? Waiting and hoping someone comes to save them or by preparing and having enough supplies to weather the storm?
First and foremost, the number one rule of prepping- Don't tell anyone about it. The only people you want knowing that you have a stockpile of supplies are the people you are planning on sheltering, i.e. your family. Make sure to tell them not to tell anyone else either.
If all you neighbors know you are a prepper (and were laughing at you behind your back the whole time), they will be knocking on your door in the event of an emergency begging for your supplies. The supplies you carefully gathered to protect and you and your family. You won't have enough for everyone. When you have to turn them away, people can become desperate. Desperate people do desperate things. They won't be your neighbor's anymore, they'll become threats.
The basics- Whether or not you consider yourself a prepper or not, everyone, and I mean everyone should have enough food, water and supplies to get through a minimum of three days without access to electricity, public water or services. That's the absolute minimum. If the power goes out tomorrow and every single store with food and supplies is empty, what do you have around your house to eat, drink? How will you cook food? Do you have nonperishable foodstores, enough to last at least three days?
You'd be surprised at how many people don't even have this level of basic stores. Such people are the one's who are truly fucked if ever the SHTF and become very desperate very quickly. Look at the shelves above, these were people who heard about a winter storm coming, looked at the food they had and realized they didn't have shit. After the storm passes, after they've consumed all the stores they bought they still won't learn the lesson and will live as they always have and assume they'll have plenty of notice to be able to purchase what they need in the event of an emergency, as if all emergencies are given fair warning beforehand.
So, pretend that you have decided to become a true "prepper", what steps will you take to prepare? List your suggestions ITT.
Better to be a "Have" than a "Have Not"
Worked great when out of power for 24 hours,,,can still have a hot meal!
