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How do you Prepping?
23 October 2013, 20:34,
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RE: How do you Prepping?
When I was a kid, growing up as a military brat, in the Washington, DC suburbs during the Cuban Missile Crisis, we thought everyone was going to be vaporized in the next minute. Dad explained that if things took a turn for the worst, that my older brother and I were in charge, and it was up to us to carry on. Mom had been an air raid and fire warden when not working at a defense plant during WW2 when Dad was away, so she "knew the drill."

My parents understood that the best way to vanquish fear of the unknown, is to do something about it, so we went to work cutting extra bracing and shoring to reinforce an area under our cellar stairs, sandbagging the basement window wells, covering and sandbagging the entrance over the outdoors cellar stairs, and stockpiling blankets, canned food and bottled water, sanitary supplies, etc.

The bombs never dropped, but we maintained and improved our cellar shelter over the years, using it several times during tornado warnings and hurricanes. I grew up in scouting, Dad was a scoutmaster, and we lived by the motto Be Prepared. Having a stocked pantry of food and basic supplies and learning to rotate food stocks as part of our normal shopping routine paid for itself many times over during winter storms, etc., avoiding the panic last minute buying experienced by the hordes of the "unprepared in denial."

Prepping is the modern term, I suppose. To me this is simply the lifestyle I grew up with and still practice.

73 de KE4SKY
In
"Almost Heaven" West Virginia
USA
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How do you Prepping? - by Scythe13 - 22 October 2013, 10:10
RE: How do you Prepping? - by PreparednessUK - 22 October 2013, 10:19
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Skean Dhude - 22 October 2013, 10:36
RE: How do you Prepping? - by bigpaul - 22 October 2013, 11:13
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Midnitemo - 22 October 2013, 14:32
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Mortblanc - 22 October 2013, 15:16
RE: How do you Prepping? - by bigpaul - 22 October 2013, 15:19
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Scythe13 - 22 October 2013, 15:36
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Midnitemo - 22 October 2013, 15:52
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Highlander - 22 October 2013, 17:09
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Jonas - 22 October 2013, 17:32
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Scythe13 - 22 October 2013, 17:45
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Straight Shooter - 22 October 2013, 18:12
RE: How do you Prepping? - by BeardyMan - 23 October 2013, 13:02
RE: How do you Prepping? - by bigpaul - 23 October 2013, 13:20
RE: How do you Prepping? - by BeardyMan - 23 October 2013, 13:52
RE: How do you Prepping? - by bigpaul - 23 October 2013, 14:01
RE: How do you Prepping? - by BeardyMan - 23 October 2013, 15:10
RE: How do you Prepping? - by bigpaul - 23 October 2013, 15:25
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Jonas - 23 October 2013, 18:12
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Rush2112 - 23 October 2013, 18:19
RE: How do you Prepping? - by Skean Dhude - 23 October 2013, 18:28
RE: How do you Prepping? - by CharlesHarris - 23 October 2013, 20:34

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