Also posted in the discussion section of Get Out of the City.

My entire prepping regime revolves around getting out of the city, therefore, the things that I have to account for are not the same as if I was prepping from "Alpha Prime", if you will. Alpha Prime, is the town in rural Kansas that I grew up in, and if things go bad, the place that we are evacuating to. One of the things that I do have to account for is that when we get to Alpha Prime, the only place to go is my mothers. this presents a problem in that, I can not, in good conscience, ask my mother if it is okay for me to stockpile large amounts of food and material, on the off chance that I am right. So, instead of going out and buying massive amounts of food to store in the basement, etc,  I have to rely on a bug-out vehicle. 

My bug-out vehicle will be the topic of a future post and I am also considering adding a trailer to that outfit. Am thinking a 7 by 16 tandem axle v-nose enclosed, same kind of thing that I use for work, and if I do decide on that, that too, will be the topic of a future post. 

Yeah, I will get to Part two and three of Go With What You Know in the next couple of days, just need to put some thoughts  down first. 

Read the paper today and was surprised to hear that the Doomsday Clock was set back one minute. Was also surprised to read that 50 million Americans believe that the world is going to end within their lifetimes [source].

Also got in an argument with the wife about prepping. She must have forgotten to take her anti-bitch pill today because she was all over me like white on rice. The jist of the argument was this: 

15 July 2009

Doomsteading, Prepping, Stockpiling, Caching, Pack Ratting; Whatever you may call the process of storing goods, the idea and motivation are the same; To prepare oneself for times when things may be scarce or just non-existent. 

The urge to stockpile can be anything as simple as, ‘Wow, Wal-Mart had a sale on socks, now we have 500 pair’; too, ‘I saw what happened in New Orleans and I won’t let that happen to me’ , or it could be something even more. Those are just two examples and I am not about to sit here and pretend to know all the reasons, then list all the reasons, and then give commentary on the reasons. That would be asinine. However, what I can tell you is that I think I know at least two more reasons why people stockpile…