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Reply to: What triggered you to prep? Posted July 7, 2021

Sorry I know this is an older thread but I just joined as was reading thru old topics. For me, I feel like it comes in cycles with something triggering me to get back to prepping at almost every stage in my life. I became interested in emergency preparedness when I was very young and saw what happened to Florida during Hurricane Andrew. We live in Texas and I knew I spent regular nights sleeping in our indoor shelter room due to tornado threats. I ended up talking my mom into letting me use some of the grocery budget for canned goods and flashlights to leave in the shelter room. Probably watching what happened during Katrina triggered the next cycle. At the time I was living/helping my disabled elderly father on the gulf coast. Realized how vulnerable he was going to be if something happened here. Kicked it into a higher gear. Then I started med school and lived thru Ike. I was the only person with more than 2 meals in my apartment and back up cooking source. Then I read “One Second After” while pregnant with my first. And mommy hormones made my “nesting” look a lot different than other moms. The pandemic and SNOVID is what finally got my husband more on board but I think he’s still only just tolerant of what I do. But he did let me get solar and battery backup for the house and put in 200 sq feet of raised beds in the back so there’s that.

Reply to: Heard The Prepared on NPR this morning in an interview titled “Doomsday Prepping Goes Mainstream” Posted July 7, 2021

I found the story very helpful to post on my wall and send out to friends that I was hoping to get more interested in prepping. Though I was really discouraged by some of the comments from listeners about how we should be focusing on fixing things. I never understood the mentality that we can’t be actively involved in both.

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Reply to: What triggered you to prep? Posted July 7, 2021

Sorry I know this is an older thread but I just joined as was reading thru old topics. For me, I feel like it comes in cycles with something triggering me to get back to prepping at almost every stage in my life. I became interested in emergency preparedness when I was very young and saw what happened to Florida during Hurricane Andrew. We live in Texas and I knew I spent regular nights sleeping in our indoor shelter room due to tornado threats. I ended up talking my mom into letting me use some of the grocery budget for canned goods and flashlights to leave in the shelter room. Probably watching what happened during Katrina triggered the next cycle. At the time I was living/helping my disabled elderly father on the gulf coast. Realized how vulnerable he was going to be if something happened here. Kicked it into a higher gear. Then I started med school and lived thru Ike. I was the only person with more than 2 meals in my apartment and back up cooking source. Then I read “One Second After” while pregnant with my first. And mommy hormones made my “nesting” look a lot different than other moms. The pandemic and SNOVID is what finally got my husband more on board but I think he’s still only just tolerant of what I do. But he did let me get solar and battery backup for the house and put in 200 sq feet of raised beds in the back so there’s that.

Reply to: Heard The Prepared on NPR this morning in an interview titled “Doomsday Prepping Goes Mainstream” Posted July 7, 2021

I found the story very helpful to post on my wall and send out to friends that I was hoping to get more interested in prepping. Though I was really discouraged by some of the comments from listeners about how we should be focusing on fixing things. I never understood the mentality that we can’t be actively involved in both.