Paladine71
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Just to illustrate how quickly something unexpected can happen, take this example from my home town, where people are currently without electricity, food, water or fuel.
Two days ago, a massive wind storm hit most of Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and DC. Millions of people have no electricity due to fallen trees. Appalachian Power is saying that the outage will last for days, and even weeks in some areas. The unprepared are facing many problems: food spoilage, lack of running water (modern pumps run off of electricity), stores are closed, ATMs are closed, cards are unusable and modern fuel pumps are not working. All of that is on top of the high temperatures (seriously threatening the elderly). The older fuel pumps at some stations still work, but have lines of vehicles waiting for hours. It has only been two days and people are already desperate and fights have broken out in many areas where people are competing for resources.
Most people do not store extra food, water and fuel. This could get very serious, very fast, and they call us Preppers the crazy ones...
How would the complete loss of these resources affect your family? Mine could do without these things for months based on what I have prepared.
So much for the "it can't happen to me" mentality.
It is wiser to learn from other people's mistakes, than to make them yourself.
Two days ago, a massive wind storm hit most of Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and DC. Millions of people have no electricity due to fallen trees. Appalachian Power is saying that the outage will last for days, and even weeks in some areas. The unprepared are facing many problems: food spoilage, lack of running water (modern pumps run off of electricity), stores are closed, ATMs are closed, cards are unusable and modern fuel pumps are not working. All of that is on top of the high temperatures (seriously threatening the elderly). The older fuel pumps at some stations still work, but have lines of vehicles waiting for hours. It has only been two days and people are already desperate and fights have broken out in many areas where people are competing for resources.
Most people do not store extra food, water and fuel. This could get very serious, very fast, and they call us Preppers the crazy ones...
How would the complete loss of these resources affect your family? Mine could do without these things for months based on what I have prepared.
So much for the "it can't happen to me" mentality.
It is wiser to learn from other people's mistakes, than to make them yourself.
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