OK fellers, what are you prepping for?

HKShooter65 · Mar 10, 2019

Caribbean Vaq?

Have a sweet girly rum drink and get annoyed with how Texas got screwed with the murky gulf coast water.
Good for trout and redfishing. Not as pretty too look at.

Mowingmaniac 24/7 · Mar 11, 2019

Of late, I've been watching a bunch of prepper documentaries.

The reasons to prep vary widely.

Each plan is so full of holes the biggest benefit I see in doing so is it reduces preppers anxiety regarding a bleak, riot filled, break down of law and order future, oh the list is endless to prep, a global endemic, nuclear war and on and on.....

If the shtf, no prepper is going to make it much longer than the unprepared......so you live an extra horror filled 6/12 months and then it's over.....prepping is a 'feel good' exercise in futility......

baboon · Mar 11, 2019

I have said it before & I'll say it again. When I was to young to be trusted home alone my parents would drag me to the supper market when they went grocery shopping. I would go over to the magazine rack & mostly look @ gun magazines, but all the survival/prepper existed 50 years ago.

The reason it still exist is people are paranoid & easily made more paranoid. And that sells & appears to be a profitable industry.

Mowingmaniac 24/7 · Mar 11, 2019

In the overlooked category: No one lives forever........and frankly, if living a bit longer in horror, grief, and dismay at the loss of the world going down - who the hell wants to still be alive?

Not suicidal......realistic....I wouldn't care to still be breathing if the world was ending.

BRD@66 · Mar 11, 2019

Mowingmaniac 24/7 said:
In the overlooked category: No one lives forever........and frankly, if living a bit longer in horror, grief, and dismay at the loss of the world going down - who the hell wants to still be alive?

Not suicidal......realistic....I wouldn't care to still be breathing if the world was ending.

Maybe if you spent more time with pois, er, venomous snakes.....

Texas Heat · Mar 25, 2019

Mowingmaniac 24/7 said:
Of late, I've been watching a bunch of prepper documentaries.

The reasons to prep vary widely.

Each plan is so full of holes the biggest benefit I see in doing so is it reduces preppers anxiety regarding a bleak, riot filled, break down of law and order future, oh the list is endless to prep, a global endemic, nuclear war and on and on.....

If the shtf, no prepper is going to make it much longer than the unprepared......so you live an extra horror filled 6/12 months and then it's over.....prepping is a 'feel good' exercise in futility......

^^^^THIS. Currently, I prep for power outages caused by natural disasters. I have a wife and two kids that I want to keep comfortable. I don't think I can carry us through the end of times. I have about 20 more years to work. I'm looking for land to buy now that I can prep for my retirement. I would like to go off the grid but that's more to connect with nature and not so much my "bug-out location".

I do enjoy the survivalist/prepper reading/forums but reading them only makes you see how unprepared you'll always be. No one is prepared for everything. But just for funsies, of all the big deals to prep for, I think the most likely, not high likelihood but most likely, could be power grid going down by way of EMP, global resources/food shortage due to astronomical population growth all of which would cause societal breakdown.

Younggun · Mar 25, 2019

I’m prepping for the Democratic primaries.

I have 3 months worth of popcorn stockpiles but given the general outlook it may not last more than 6 weeks so I’m going to have to really buckle down. Looking in to some extra storage options also.

Have an industrial popcorn popper in order as well, I just hope it gets here in time.

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gshayd · Apr 18, 2019

I ain't prepping for anything except hurricane season. I need to get a good natural gas generator put up to run the house. Need to get the old well working again. That will be about it.

toddnjoyce · Apr 19, 2019

Easter brunch. Liquor store’ll be closed Sunday and tomorrow’s going to have all the last minute shoppers out.

BRD@66 · Apr 19, 2019

gshayd said:
.... I need to get a good natural gas generator put up to run the house. .....

Taco Bell is your friend.

birddog · Apr 21, 2019

wileycoyote said:
depends on the type of prepping i'm worried about on any given day...

i wrote this tongue-in-cheek list years ago to help friends understand what each type of prepper worries about (its since been borrow and adapted throughout the interweb):

SURVIVAL CATEGORIES

Working Citizen - Concerned with paying rent & utilities, keeping or getting health insurance, paying taxes, inflation, car repairs, leaky plumbing, back pains... May work two jobs, does without personal luxuries, hopes their children will do better than themselves. Emotional, physical and financial survival is the focus of daily life.

Upwardly Mobile - Concerned about aging, retirement investments, cholesterol levels, loss of employment, lawsuits, burglaries, bandwidth, clothes dryer lint fires, poor room service. Takes vitamins, exercises, eats oatmeal, wears seatbelts, has smoke & carbon-monoxide detectors, requests medical tests, has numerous insurance policies, files lawsuits, pampers themselves wherever whenever possible. “Survival” to them means living long enough to take full benefit of extensive retirement plans and long term care insurance policies.

Medical Crisis - Has very complete medical pack in house and in car. Donates blood and is active in the Red Cross. Has taken paramedic EMT & CPR courses, knows vital signs, stockpiles medicines, etc. Concerned with vehicle accidents and emergencies involving injuries. Focus is on helping family, friends & community survive medical emergencies.

Every Day Carry (EDC) – Just like the Boy Scout modo suggests: “Be Prepared”. EDC'er always have on them a number of necessary items to allow them to handle as many varied “everyday” situations as possible. From a handful of things like flashlights, multi-tools, pocket knives, fire starters and cell phones, all the way up to full disaster kits in day bags, with one in each vehicle. The search for perfect items is part of the joy. Usually is a contributing member on a number of EDC forums.

Safety Preparedness - Learns principles and techniques needed for surviving worse-case scenarios that can occur anyplace, anywhere. Makes preparations for such common calamities as structure fires, dog attacks, physical confrontations, snake bites, lightning strikes, car breakdowns, third-world travel problems, bear encounters, flash floods, home invasions and even train wrecks. Reads: Survive Safely Anywhere series, Worse-Case Scenario Handbooks

Wilderness Survival - Being able to stay alive for indefinite periods in life threatening wilderness scenarios. These can include: plane crashes, shipwrecks, being lost in the woods. Concerns are: thirst, hunger, climate, terrain, health, stress, fear. Prepares with: knowledge, training & practice. Kit includes: water purifiers, shelter, fire starters, clothing, food, medical supplies, navigation & signaling gear. Reads: Nessmuk, Kephart, Angier, Mears

Personal Assault Survival - Individuals concerned with surviving brief encounters of violent activity. Focus is on personal protection & it's legal ramifications, danger awareness, Boyd's cycle (also known as the OODA cycle - observe, orient, decide & act), martial arts, self defense tactics and tools (both lethal & less-than-lethal). Reads: Ayoob, Cooper, Jordan, Applegate, Sanow, Marshall, Taylor, Steele, Sun Tzu

Natural Disaster, Brief - People that live in tornado, hurricane, flood, wildfire, earthquake or heavy snowfall areas and want to be prepared for the inevitable. Investment in material for fortifying structures and tools for rebuilding & constructing temporary shelter, perhaps have a custom built shelter, food, water, medicine, and supplies, enough to get by until contact with the rest of the world resumes.

Natural Disaster, Years Long - Concerned about long term weather cycles of 2-10 years, unusually cold or warm periods, that have happened on and off for thousands of years. Might stock several tons of food per family member and have a heavy duty greenhouse with packed in nitrogen non-hybrid seeds.

Natural Disaster, Lifelong - Possible scenarios include: severe global warming and the coming ice age, the greenhouse-effect-gone-wild, warming/cooling of gulf steam waters, large meteor strike, magnetic solar storm, shift in earth's axis or reversal of geo-magnetic fields... Owns maps of previous ice age glacier patterns and hopes that where they live will be south of the permafrost line. May have purchased snowshoes. Reads reports by National Academy of Science and Woods Hole Physical Oceanography Dept.

I read a multi-volume RAND study that is eerily similar in many respects to your assessment of the population centers cognitive and behavioral responses, descriptions of motivational factors, categorizations and responses by citizens affected by catastrophic loss of our nations critical infrastructure by various means and the affect on social order and goverment, economic, and business continuity.

In a nutshell, the response if it were to occur would be to relocate to a rural area with family, friends and people you trust. Cattle, horses, wild game, fish, plants, water, food stocks and seeds, medicine and renewable energy and isolation is a significant factor in survival. As is being armed and willing to defend yourself.

The perception is it would take a seriously catastrophic event to unravel society and life as we know it. The reality is it would not.

Environmental, ecologic, terrorist or asymetric attacks/events could wreak havoc on our country. Riots such as Furgeson, Rodney King/LA, what occured in New Orleans, thats an example of what will happen if societal order is lost. And it will be perpetrated by those who will take anything they please given the chance and desire, be it life and/or property.

Exploding ICBM's in LEO to flood the orbital paths with debris would do it.

Taking out electrical grids would do it.

Poisoning water resources would do it.

Biological attacks on agriculture would do it.

An EMP or dirty bombs would do it.

The list is long....

birddog · Apr 21, 2019

O.S.O.K. 1961 said:
WEC, that's quite the list of prepper typology.

I think you can pretty much put them all into three categories.... those who are preparing or prepared for some kind of physical disaster, those who target financial disaster and those who only worry about the spiritual...

On its face, that statement implies that concern of the spritual by those of faith is due to their belief in prayer, Divine intervention and Gods will in all things. And their awareness that an end time scenario occuring as prophesied in various religeous scripture/doctrine could happen or worse. It infers a fatalistic/deterministic acceptance, a perspective manifested by degrees of complacency, acceptance and submission to what they perceive to be Gods will.

I know many men of faith intimately. They are ALL by far the most well prepared preppers I have seen or known, from the neighborhood level up to the national/international level. They are better prepared, funded, and organized than FEMA in many, many respects with assets and resources in place worldwide including air assets dedicated for that purpose. In ways you cannot begin to fathom. Every possible need is covered by highly educated men and women that would willingly serve to provide support. They are some of the most intelligent, capable, diciplined, caring, and giving people you could ever meet.

O.S.O.K. 1961 · Apr 28, 2019

It's interesting to me to see all of the replies. As always, some make fun of the very idea of preparing for disaster of whatever type, some just admit to not paying any attention and taking what will come and others speak to specific types of things happening or not....

I must agree with those that say that the disaster channels on youtube and such are constantly declaring the end of the world due to some thing or another and do so in order to get views and sell ads. So, you just have to take that all with the proverbial grain of salt.

I think if we are all honest, it must be admitted that things are very screwed up at this point in time. Much more than any time in my past life. The only time I can remember that there was a real concern over disaster was during the early days of the cold war. But I was very young at that time.

You can pretty much pick any type of disaster or SHTF category and look at the reality of our current state and see what I'm talking about. And yes, if you read the Bible you will see that there are many things lining up with the prophesies of Armageddon and there are many parts that are mirrored in other religions and historical accounts of previous cultures. I find it all very interesting actually.

So, for me, since being generally prepared for "disaster" lines up with other preferences like living in the country, having my own water source and generating my own electricity and growing my own food, I think it makes sense to do so as it covers most of the things that could happen and when I get back to that preferred state, then I'll truly feel free of worry for what I could have done. And that actually hits on the unspoken part of all this - not wanting to find myself in a bad situation and not having done anything when I could have to provide not just for me but for my family as well.

91cavgt · May 6, 2019

In the early 80’s I was a kid living just north of Conroe when Hurricane Alecia hit. Our power was out for several days so of course everything in the fridge went bad. I can vividly remember waiting in line for an ice truck to show up. It was such a helpless feeling knowing that your future lay in someone else’s hands. Then as the power plant (we lived within eye sight of the power plant off of Long Street) was brought back online, it sounded like a dinosaur roaring.

It was a very scary time for a young boy and I swore that when I grew up, my family would never be put in that situation.

Fast forward a couple more years and I joined the Boy Scouts. After acquiring the rank of Life, girls and cars became my primary focus so I left the Scouts. I left the Boy Scouts but the Boy Scouts never left me. Once a Scout, always a Scout. The Boy Scout motto “Be Prepared” became my life’s motto.

So I guess you could say I was a prepper before the name existed. After all the decades, my primary prepper focus has not changed much. The most common SHTF emergency situation has and will continue to be caused from Mother Nature. I have found that if you are prepared for Mother Nature then most other SHTF situations you will also be prepared for, with very little exception.

rmantoo · May 13, 2019

Late to the party, but I've got 2 cents, so here goes:

I don't think of myself as a prepper, at all. That said, both sets of grandparents were in their 20s and had young kids when the Great Depression hit, so they each had root cellers/storm shelters (here in west texas) where all 3 walls where stacked floor to ceiling with mason jars of 'canned' veggies and meats. Easily enough for them to live for 6 months or so if all the kids and grandkids happened to be at the house. My parents were born basically during the Great Depression, and my grandparents were POOR, so from a young age they looked at life and extravagances with a VERY conservative and skeptical eye... Being one of the grand kids who spent a LOT of time with them, I absorbed a lot of that mindset without ever thinking of it as prepping...

They also both kept big gardens, and only bought things like sugar, flour, tea, cheese, and the like. Never remember either set buying veggies or meats. About once a month, women from the church/area came to one anothers house and would can, or 'put up' veggies for 2-3 days straight. Grandpa kept cattle, and neighbors had pigs and chickens. Heck, grandpa even made his own vinegar, and one of my great uncles made moonshine and wine: They all traded back and forth. That went on until all the grandparents passed on by about 2005 or so.

Now one of the cousins owns most of their land, and continues to run a full acre + of garden veggies just for family. At least once a month during summer/fall (about 9 months a year, lol), we help out canning and harvesting. We're still sexists, so mostly the guys work outside, and the women do kitchen duty. It's humbling, and no matter how much some of us may make in dollars, no matter who shows up in a $90k pickup or suv, we're all pretty equal when it comes to sore backs, bloody or burnt fingers, and scorpion stings.

It's not prepping, it's simply wanting to eat stuff grown by hand, that we know where it comes from, with as few gmo and pesticide infested crops as possible, and if the power ever did happen to go out for a week or 3, or the trucks weren't running for that same period, we could still eat. What's surprising is how many of the farmers, ranchers, and hobby ranchers around them are almost the exact same way-even though most of the cotton and cattle operations are multi-million dollar businesses, they still put food up, just in case.

The cousins place has plenty of room for 20 or so of us to sleep- the way we did when visiting in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, kids on floors, women stacked up in beds, the men on cots or bed pallets on porches. Most people stay in hotels when visiting family: "We wouldn't want to intrude." If we're visiting family, we stay with family, kids piled up all together in living rooms, adults wherever we reasonably fit. Not prepping: Family.

My family could walk there, cross country if needs be, in about 1 1/2 days. I can't see many things causing us to 'bug out' like that, but I'm way more comfortable knowing that's an option than when I lived almost 300 miles away in Frisco... of course, we travel for fun at least 8-10 times a year, and with my luck, if The Balloon ever goes up, I'll be in Belize or freaking Thailand, lol.

No way to survive, almost, if the Balloon goes up and Mexico (or even just the cartels) invade. No viable options for surviving fallout other than luck if there's a true nuclear exchange... but to be able to sit out a week or 3 of no grocery store runs or sold out of almost EVERYTHING seems pretty basic.

31STMEUSOC · Sep 3, 2019

In a word ALL!

Mohawk600 · Nov 19, 2019

Natural disaster and/or civil unrest do to a variety of factors.

rhaas90 · Dec 7, 2019

Civil unrest for sure... !

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Matt_RetUSAF · Jun 11, 2020

Civil unrest is a big one for me along with natural disasters. Our society seems far more fragile than I thought.

Rak320 · Oct 22, 2020

Civil unrest/Natural disaster. This has led to a deeper desire to be prepared overall.

OK fellers, what are you prepping for?

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