How To Survive The First 90 Days After SHTF
This video by City Prepping is well worth the watch if you're an experienced prepper. If you're relatively new to prepping, it's a MUST watch.
With so many people coming around to the idea of preparedness to varying degrees, it's important to know two widely accepted truths when getting started. First and foremost, have a plan. Stockpiles of food, water, ammunition, medicines, and cash can all go to waste if you don't have a plan laid out and oftentimes practiced.
Second, be ready to bug in OR bug out. I know people who take one or the other to the extreme. For some it's a matter of circumstance; my friend's 82-year-old mother in a wheelchair has no intentions of scurrying across the countryside but she's loaded with food and plenty of shotgun shells should the need come for her to stay home without access for weeks, months, or even years. But others prepare for only bugging in or only bugging out even though they're capable to do either. How we handle a nearby nuclear blast is very different from how we handle an economic collapse and martial law.
The folks at City Prepping put together the excellent video above that lays out five stages of a generic major disaster as well as five rules to follow in a crap-hits-the-fan scenario. It's well worth the 20-minutes it takes to watch and should be shared widely.
We have no association with City Prepping. In fact, I can't get them to answer my emails. BUT, I still respect their information and I often recommend many of their videos. You can check out their YouTube channel for other important information.
As a sixth rule to add to their list (which should actually be the first rule and the only one you really have to follow), I'd strongly recommend prayer before, during, and after a crap-hits-the-fan situation. I realize not everyone is a Bible-believing Christian, but my sincere hope is that our readers will strengthen their faith if they are believers or consider embracing the faith if they're not. Regardless of how everything pans out for America, it's imperative that our spiritual wellbeing is the top consideration. Stay frosty.
I appreciate your closing remarks. I see the problem with the US is primarily spiritual, and so is the answer. Now to your closing point, from Psalms 127:
Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat—
for he grants sleep to those he loves.
So we can work all we want, but if the nation still acts contrary to God's Word (and common sense moral decency for that matter) we're toast. Example, mainstreaming sexual perversion and even forcing it on our children is just plain sick.
Understanding that reference point, here's what I have done with what I can change:
1) I bought a house on an acre now being cleared for growing food. My neighborhood is a community who watches out for each other.
2) I have reduced dependency on the sick care system to the extent possible, including all pharmaceutical products. I adopted a whole foods plant based lifestyle in 2015 in the process reversing cardiovascular disease, advanced cancer and severe ulcerative colitis. .
3) Getting spiritually grounded. .
4) getting physically fit. Everyone can do exercise, walking, strength training, etc.
5) and then all the everyday stuff this author and the referenced video discuss: Food, water, etc.
Start today. Example, I have secured now 600 lbs of dried food. Organic oatmeal, dried beans, organic pasts, as well as other long term storage items. I expect truly scary times ahead. Mentally I'm preparing for the worst, but praying the evil is purged form our culture and decent people resume control.