Survivor’s Edge – Winter 2021
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Inside Survivor’s Edge Magazine Winter 2021 Issue
We always did a lot of cooking and baking when I was a kid spending time at my grandmother’s house, and I’ll never forget that she kept a 20-pound sack of sugar in the back corner of her pantry. She never used it, and it was an old sack even then. When I asked her why she kept it, Grandma replied, “Because during the Depression in Missouri, we could never get any, so I always keep some just in case.” Just in case: Three words that define the emergency preparation industry.
A competent person who is actively concerned about the safety and well-being of his family, neighbors and close friends will entertain contingency scenarios and maintain an adequately supplied cache of gear to support the successful mitigation of these circumstances. Just in case. Wildfires on the West Coast, “peaceful” protests, hurricanes in Louisiana, locust swarms in Africa, coronavirus, Beirut’s explosion, floods in Indonesia, Cardi B, earthquakes in Turkey, the eruption of Taal Volcano in the Philippines and a gas plant explosion in Nigeria—2020 has showed us its ugly side, the view of which has convinced the majority of us to clutch ever tighter to our emergency supplies, not knowing what could happen where or when. There’s still a couple of months to go, even. So, we restock. Just in case.
If your ruminations on the possibilities that might befall you this year have encouraged you to expand your preparations, you aren’t alone. In my stores, I have numerous redundancies for even the slightest survival element. Fifty folders, for example, over a dozen axes and hatchets, about eight water filters, emergency kits in nearly every closet in the house, gas cans, water cans, ammo cans, half-dozen packs filled and ready for each member of the family, emergency food for a year, several power sources and enough toilet paper to teepee the Biltmore Estate. Just in case.
Well, all that stuff has to go somewhere. When Southern California experienced power outages during a massive heat wave in September, for example, the flashlights, solar chargers and portable generators were only useful if I knew where they were kept and I could get to them. To ensure that this doesn’t become a problem, you’ve got to keep organized, know where everything is stored and be able to get to it when needed. Being prepared isn’t just having eight water filters; it’s being able to put them to good use when the time comes.
As for my grandmother’s supply of sugar, that “just in case” situation never came for her, but I think she was comforted knowing that it was there, even if she never needed it.
We prepare for situations we hope never come by collecting gear and supplies we hope to never use.
Be Prepared.
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