Prepared…
That depends on your ability to OODA.
Twenty years ago I was planning for the possibilities of today, and any given day since then; an ICBM party. It was my greatest fear from 1962 through about 2012.
What was different about 2012. Not the Mayan sci-math-woo for sure. I just decided to live in a fearless manner. The thought of a vaporizing bucket of sun burn was nothing compared to the horror of F2F CQC with demonic sub-humans willing to terror-mind-f*** my brethren.
The other horror is long lines for basics; be it water-food-shelter-or medicines that I do not take, except for topical wound healing, or anti-virals. In any scenario, I’ll never be able to prep enough, as my design energy would require at least a 10 million dollar budget, to off grid in a huge way.
Recently I had the experience and opportunity to endure the same life altering crisis with about 20 different local families. Here is how it unfolded without being too descriptive.
There were two families aware of a problem, a full 4-months before it was brought to the attention of the neighborhood. People don’t comm very well post CV-19. I was not of the anointed X-XX-XXX+, so my Wife & I were Scarlet letters. No problem here. I do my own decisions.
One morning I noticed an (O)bservable problem. Hmm. That’s not good!
Three days later the obvious problem has grown toward a prominent unyielding situation.
Three more days pass… The problem is not going away, it is MAGNIFYING MAGNITUDES beyond origin!
Oh boy! Time to (O)rient & Assess Options.
The (D)ecision to leave the area was now in my immediate planning stage.
(A)ct! My move, leaving the area began with a handcart to a moving van a city block away. Good-Clean-Fun… NOT!
In 72 hours a unified official acknowledged problem changed to a critical problem. It was time to Bug-Out!
I am an unusual type for my age. I stayed active throughout my life. I shared one of my 18 hour moving days with the millennial stepson 35 years my junior.
At 3-hours into the move S/S was MIA, despite his new-found 1st year obsession with body building. Recuperating at home while myself, his mom, and hired help pressed on.
Mental fortitude during unpleasant conditions. The ability to accept the problem in front of us. We / You didn’t prep for walking away from our home in a 72 hour window.
When your SUV becomes the mobile container for loved ones and their Go-Bag’s, consider yourself blessed that it’s not Grandpa toting his mothballed Little Red ‘Radio-Flyer’ Wagon, while Junior frets over lost bars of cell reception.
I was not prepared to endorse others miscalculations and priority decision making under mini-crisis. I continually experienced wife & S/S making huge strides around logic and common sense.
I was a patient commander who required strict adherence to my instructions, until wife and 29+ year old S/S could get up to speed.
Are you prepped to up & move everything you can in 24-72 hours or better?
It’s a pipe dream if everyone in your family is not on the same page of experience or commitment. And babysitting in the middle of TEOTWAWKI isn’t gonna help the cause.
Orient the family, the friends. Get ‘em on the same page or have em write their own chapter in a ‘embellished’ non-fiction of their own.
OODA, and not everyone is going to be in line with you on the first O.
Ego-Expectation-Comfort Zone. They are the enemy residing in your ranks.
Gets the loaded haywagon in the barn before it rains.
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