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  1. JPK, loved reading this post. Don’t usually comment. Each topic could easily be expanded. I live in Memphis, TN, but am a fellow North Caolinian. Do you have any like minded fellow contacts in West TN? Would like to buy 20-30 acres. Thank you. God bless.

  2. It is alway great to hear other people’s stories on their preparedness journey. Like this stories author we too have made some mistakes along the way but the key is learn and move forward. With the Internet of things it is now possible to search and quickly learn from other people’s lesson, both good and bad. Before we “jump” we send time “looking” and learning. There is often conflicting information but you just have to de-conflict those issues. Often those conflicts are due to geography/climate. What a person does to prepare in Georgia might not be able to be done in Pennsylvania. Our food stockpile is divided into “normal” off the self food that we eat every day and Number 10 cans of dehydrated or freeze dried food and buckets of rice and beans. Our “normal” food we try to keep at least 2 month supply of. Some items like beans, pasta, nuts, etc we can store more of a year supply of.

    I have also viewed preparedness as a long hike verses a sprint. We you start to buy into the latest and greatest “let’s prep for fad” you can make expensive mistakes. One of my ex-bosses gave me some good advice, never make a decission right away unless you have too. He went to explain that using time allows us to think, research and ask other opinions. Prepping is the same way. Slow and steady wins the race so to speak- also keeps the wife off my back about spending too much!! I thought how sad it was to read that prepping businesses were seeing a decrease in sales since Trump became president. Gee, did all the risk if floods, tornadoes, CMEs, nuclear weapons, etc. etc. disappear? Those threats are still out there and with every new cyber-this and cyber-that our fragile society becomes even more at risk.

  3. Thank you 20/20 hindsight .. you identify serious issues of long term storage.. mice will eat the corner of a bag of anything just to leave feces and urine to ruin it, salt, soda, diatomaceous earth. Mice will eat auto wiring and ext cords. …Duracell batteries with a 10 year guarantee usually last about 5 years then they start to show white corrosion on the ends or they start leaking liquid acid. Some tuna cans (not expired) have swollen with pressure. Extra hoses, plastic parts, utensils and stuff get hard and brittle so it breaks, Bags of food sealed with oxygen [absorber] thingys can and will go bad if not done perfectly. Do Not store anything with batteries in it even if you occasionally use it ..you will leave the switch on it will corrode to trash in several months. Just a few of many seen it done its. Thanks again

  4. Believe it or not but our first book was also Patriots and guess what our second book was. Yes, One Second After. We moved to the Redoubt one year later.

    Of course we quickly found this site. The following 2 documents were absolutely priceless in waking us up and in planning our relocation:

    https://survivalblog.com/precepts/

    https://survivalblog.com/retreatareas/

    The author mentioned 2-legged predators. Even in the rural, mountainous Redoubt you will find very self-centered inconsiderate neighbors. And their dogs left free to roam and cause harm. Avoid these people. There are greatly outnumbered by very good neighbors and friends. We met many working on our road association projects, through church and by joining the local AmRRON ham radio net. They are the ones we call for help today. And they will be our ‘tribe’ in the future.

  5. I applaud your courage in acknowledging the breakdowns and failures you have experienced. You do us all a service. I bet each of us has felt “I’m the only one going through this” at times.

    Truth be told, we are in this together.

    Carry on.

  6. When I wound up seriously ill in the hospital last year, I did not know what grace was in store for me. While I was in hospital, my wife had to take care of everything that I couldn’t. She not only proved equal to the task, for reasons I don’t completely understand, she went from skeptic to prepper. She proved a very good blessing, because she not only brought order to some of my chaotic prepping, she balanced it better than I did, and organized it to a much more workable system. Now when I talk to her about prepping, instead of ill-disguised complacency, I get enthusiastic and intelligent input/critique. I even got her to go to the range and shoot more. It is like having the cavalry come to the rescue. The one drawback is that if something goes rotten, I have to be the one to get rid of it.

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