Emergency Preparedness in the North West Part 2

 I get asked....

    "Are you a Mormon?"
       "Conspiracy theorist?"
           "Are you some kind of Hippie or something?"

   Without sounding too radical, I am a little bit of all of these (kind of), and you should be too if you really want to be prepared. I am not saying that you need to really subscribe wholeheartedly to these practices but they all have areas that they prepare more than others.

Be a BoyScout, Be prepared.

  Hippies (not all of them of course) believe in the end of the world/society and plan on living off the land. Some of them are getting ready for that.
  Conspiracy theorists are getting ready for a revolution or civil war. Some of them are getting ready for that.
   Mormons (and a lot of others), believe in being ready for something. Listen to them. Whether they share your belief system or not, they are more ready than most. You can go to a lot of different sites and blogs where they tell you how to get ready. My brother (talk about Mormon) is starting a preparedness website to order ALL the things you might need.
.  Food
   Water
   Supplies.....   Tip of the iceburg.

 I think I will put an (Occasional) blog out about how and what to prepare, but for the most part this blog in general is about conceal carry, handguns, practice, and safety. How does that go along with emergency preparedness?

Guns. And lots of AMMO.

 You can prepare your whole life. Have all the food storage you need. If you think everyone is gonna group hug and share everything you are crazy. People will have guns. People will be mean. Those who have not prepared themselves will do what they feel they need to survive. People will steal and kill for food for themselves and their families.
  Prepare for your family and prepare to defend your family.
  Do you have somewhere to go that you can protect?


 I will touch on this subject every once and a while. But for now, Buy ammo for the guns you have. Store it in a cool dry place. Add to it when you can.

  Add this blog to your reading list.

Why do emergency preparedness?

There are many of us like minded folks out there that are now nicknamed "preppers". We prepare ourselves for hard times and believe one day we may need to use our provisions. While we all have different motivators for preparing, we all try to have a complete ration of supplies for hard times.  I personally am not an “end of the world” or “zombie apocalypse” kind of guy, but I do believe history repeats itself. 

Just because we live in the United States of America does not mean that war cannot visit our shores.  I also live in Oregon right at the base of the Cascade Mountain Range (literally).  This is an active volcanic range with active bulges growing right now on the South Sister in Bend and Mt. St. Helens in Washington.  We have many siezemic monitors located throughout my town for study and warnings.  So what? Will they erupt again in my lifetime? Probably not, but if they do and the food supply is cut off, roads or bridges destroyed, or no power for weeks, I will be able to still feed my family. 

A few years ago I was working on a utility crew for 6 days a week and long hours in the day.  All of the sudden we went from a work crew of 26 to 6 and a work week of 6 days to 3.  Ouch!  For the next year my family lived of our food storage and other supplies without having to get help from family, friends, or our highly funded government.  So it is not always the major disasters to prepare for, but the small and turbulent events of everyday life.

So I encourage all to be prepared for the unexpected.  I tell people I plan for the future as if nothing will ever happen (I have big dreams for me and my family I want to come true), but I prepare as if everything that can go wrong will.  This ensures that either way, my family will  have a good future.