How does preparedness affect your day to day life

Tevin, excellent post. Seems like these days, more mundane situations seem to be arising. For example, here we are in the middle of the busiest travel weekends and we have airport closures in the east and northeast and central U.S, delays and cancellations at airports in S. Cali, winter storms and crashes from the middle of the country to the east coastand power outages from snow and ice all over the place. I would think that we on the Monkey should be able to get through all of these situations not necessarily easily, but with less discomfort than a whole lot of other folks.

EMP? GTW? Heck, give me a nice hot bowl of soup in front of a roaring fireplace when it's 10 degrees, icy and the power is out.

Kajun

 

One of the biggest eye openers I ever had when I started this life journey, It's all in your mind!!! How you prepare your mind for things, be it daily chores, fun things, preps, a hobby ect, it all comes down to having the right mind set. A positive mind set is the real key to every thing!!! Knowing all that you know, having the skills and abilities, the wisdom passed from others, life experiences, none of this is ever going to be easy, but having your Mind Prepped with a positive, can-do attitude will surely have a positive effect on any outcome. all the rest is putting every thing you can together and working through the problems!

 

There is not a time I leave the house, and not think of how I'm getting home,
If my bike/truck/car, are completely compromised due to EMP or earth quake and the fissures are too great to get my transportation across to safety, that means i'm on foot the rest of the way . Having folding bike really sounds good but difficult on a motorcycle.
To compound this ,if there are volcanic eruptions as a result the several geothermal sites I know of in southern calif would exacerbate the situation expotentially .
Added, is a friend that is getting dialysis treatments I'm shuttling her to every other day or so, this event will in fact kill her and those like her. either abruptly or slow and painful.
During an event like this, how long do you hang out with some one that is compromised in some weakened state ?
Tough call.

 

Gives me a sense of calm and confidence.