National Preparedness Month- September

[StagLefty]

I go there for everything but the religion sub forum.

[cmailliard]

For the 9/11 post I want to focus on the the preparedness action of one individual person. Many of you may know his name and something about him but if you don't look him up and read about his life.

Rick Rescorla saved hundreds or even thousands of lives on 9/11 because of preparedness. Look him up if you don't know about him, here's a cool nugget about him - The guy on the cover of the We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young is a young Rick Rescorla.

http://rickrescorla.com/articles/stand-and-never-yield

[Great-Kazoo]

The book about him was a good (touching) read. Or someone associated with him.

[TheGrey]

That was inspirational! Thank you for that link.

I have some questions for those that are prepping- are you alone in making your preps? Do you have a partner, a spouse, like-minded neighbors, friends or family helping you? How much do you discuss prepping? Do you have people physically nearby that you can depend on, or that you know will depend on you? How do you fit this into your prepping?

[Great-Kazoo]

That was inspirational! Thank you for that link.

I have some questions for those that are prepping- are you alone in making your preps? Do you have a partner, a spouse, like-minded neighbors, friends or family helping you? How much do you discuss prepping? Do you have people physically nearby that you can depend on, or that you know will depend on you? How do you fit this into your prepping?

Yes to all the above. Everyone has something they bring to the table. Unfortunately we have some friends who are under the impression. Because we have preps, they're going to freeload off our hard work. They still don't get it.

[TheGrey]

Yes to all the above. Everyone has something they bring to the table. Unfortunately we have some friends who are under the impression. Because we have preps, they're going to freeload off our hard work. They still don't get it.

This is a situation that many preppers have to deal with. It's easy to sort of sweep under the rug and laugh it off; after all, in an emergency, what is the likelihood that they will show up at your door? How far away do they live?

But.

It may be something to nip in the bud. You don't have to say, "Over my dead body!" After all, these people are your friends.

Some of our friends will be welcome here. They know that.
Depending on who else invites themselves, I respond, "I'm afraid that all our rooms/beds are all spoken for."
Or, "You might find that they close the road down if it snows that much," or something like that. I offer to show them instead how to begin prepping for themselves.

If they are acquaintances, frenemies, or people I don't really care for, I shrug it off and smile and make some quip about us not sticking around for the zombie invasion, and rigging the house to blow.

[StagLefty]

I had a neighbor several years ago that I encouraged to prep for his family. His comment to me was "now I know where to go if something happens". My comment to him was "if I see you coming up the driveway with empty hands you'll die in the driveway".
The older I get the less concerned I am about prepping but I'm still in better shape than most of the people around me.