Comments on: Are Preppers Crazy or is it Crazy Not to Prep?

By: Rastus McGee

Rastus McGee — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:37:27 +0000

While discussing "preparedness" with a friend in reguard to a "what if " scenario with an EMP disaster, he said he would just as soon go ahead and die if it got that bad. I told him I would like to have the opportunity to make that decision myself if the time ever came! This past week with a minor disruption in N GA due to a little snow I had the luxery of stoping dead in my tracks in the door of the local Kroger. I relly didn't have to deal with the crowd , being prepared pays off ! Lord help us if tshf!

By: LizLong

LizLong — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:17:52 +0000

Preppers are the crazy ones. There's no way a strong country with solid hard-working citizens like ours could go under. Just look at the Egyptian Empire! Oh, no wait. The Roman Empire! Darn it again. The Aztecs? No, Mayans. Greeks! Mesopotamians? Um, Chinese Empire? (Broken up and reformed repeatedly, I believe, over the Millenia.)

Oops. My bad. Those assuming it could never happen to us are the crazy ones.

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By: preparednesspro

preparednesspro — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:32:00 +0000

This is something that I’ve been mulling over for the last several days also. People look at preppers like they’re crazy, paranoid and hoarding all the supplies. But at the end of the day, the conclusion I’ve come to is that there is tremendous honor in being prepared and self sufficient.

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:19:04 +0000

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By: Rudy Kearney

Rudy Kearney — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:47:47 +0000

Interestingly enough, I've found that simply being open about it in a 'reasonable' way nets the best results. While I will occasionally in good company refer to myself as a survivalist nutbird, I am generally very careful to project an image of sane preparation vs 'live in a shack on raw land in the middle of nowhere' preparation. While I certainly believe that everyone has the right to make their own decisions about how far they want to go, I'm pretty fond of creature comforts to fore go them completely. As with most things in life a balance must be sought.

I've managed to bring quite a few people around from the 'oblivious' stage to the 'realistic prepper' stage just by being upfront about what, why, and how. The only 'target' conversion that hasn't taken yet is one of my sisters but she's almost there!

By: TheSurvivalMom

TheSurvivalMom — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:47:35 +0000

I should have included a poll in this blog post, huh? )

Your last sentence really is the money quote. I don't think most people realize just how fragile our "society" is and how quickly it could break down, until we remember Hurricane Katrina.

Lisa

By: TacticalIntelligence

TacticalIntelligence — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:03:17 +0000

I'd have to go along with the "it's crazy not to prep" crowd. You don't have to be a gun-burying, ammo-hoarding "survivalist" to know it's a wise thing to prepare for a rainy day. Besides, it doesn't take a societal collapse to necessitate the use of some food storage, or eating from a garden you planted yourself. All it takes is a job-loss or a pay cut (both of which are very real in our current economic situation) to make use of those "out of touch" skills.

We as a society are way too dependent upon the fragile network that we naively trust will always be available.