Interesting post on being prepared/prepping.

[CrabbyCockwomble]

She doesn't call it prepping, but I thought it was interesting and relevant to this board. Someone on my facebook feed linked to this post about the Paris attacks, and reading it made me think of you guys. In particular, this part...

"Right now I want to ask you a more practical question:
One Friday evening, relieved that the stress of the week is over, you're attending annual catch ups and thinking about Christmas. All of a sudden bombs and bullets start going off in your supposedly safe city in your supposedly safe western country. By morning your Prime Minister or President has declared a nationwide state of emergency, and you're ordered to stay indoors until further notice. All the shops and food outlets are suddenly closed. You normally do the grocery shopping on Saturdays because you work all week. How long could you stay indoors with what you have in your house right now? How long could you feed yourself and your family with what you have in your fridge and your pantry right now?
What if, instead of bombing football games, "they" bombed the power stations (including the backup generators) and there was no electricity? How much electricity do you have in your house that's on the right side of that power point?

"What if the terrorists were thinking huge and were clever enough to poison the water supply, to take out as many "infidels" as possible as quickly as possible? How much water do you have in your house that isn't on the wrong side of those taps?

"What if that Friday night was just the warm up, and the attacks went on for weeks, and you literally couldn't leave your house for that long? How long would you and your kids last without your laptops, iPads, Playstations and smartphones before you all went mad and started killing each other because your resilience and imagination were practically non-existent thanks to immediate gratification and manufactured entertainment? Or because you're dehydrated and starving? Check out the Minnesota Starvation Experiment to see what starvation will do to people both physically and mentally: www.madsciencemuseum.com/…/great_starvation_experime…

"Life can turn on a dime - just ask someone whose husband died of a sudden heart attack yesterday, or whose teenage child was killed in a car accident last night, or whose doctor just told them they have cancer. Your entire country can change dramatically in the time it takes you to get home from work. It was only four weeks between the assassination that ignited WWI and the first two countries going to war. Conscription in England was enacted just two days after Germany invaded Poland.

"Are you prepared for a sudden lock down of your safe city? Will you stand on your own two feet, or will you be like a helpless baby, waiting for the government to feed you and take care of you and make everything okay again? Like the citizens of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck, you might be waiting a long time.
Are you thinking, "It won't happen here"?
I bet the people just like you in Paris thought that too."

[lighteningirl]

Flouncing then slinking back is the part of the true path to MN royalty. Another who thought great post here.

[CrabbyCockwomble]

Thanks all.

[trashcanjunkie]

An excellent post. Shame some don't agree. I'm very interested in your post and shall be giving it some thought.