Non Preppers Guide to SHTF
Why I did this
A few years ago when I started looking at the threats we face, both internally and externally, I got concerned for the safety of my family. When you look at everything that is happening in our world, you start to get concerned. When you research things like a Carrington event, or worse, a Miyake event, the idea that our power grid could collapse becomes truly fearful. I have been married for 20 years, and I have three daughters that I care for. I have a family that I need to protect.
My Philosophy
When I got scared about SHTF, I started to research everything. . What to buy, how much I needed, and so forth. The problem became really clear to me though, in that, eventually, whatever I buy now, I have enough food and supplies for a year, maybe two. What happens after that? If the grid goes down, we have 9 to 12 months before it is restored, but that is if the people that can restore it have food, water and shelter. If we have a man-made catastrophe, it's the same time table. The issue is that 90% of people in the US will die from starvation, viruses, violence, or another horrible ending. The bottom line is that if the grid fails, the people that will take the grid back up, will not live, and the grid will stay down. So, my mind went to what do we need to know if Google is down?
What this site is and isn't.
This site, and my book are not about what you need to do to prepare for a catastrophe, it is an attempt to record the knowledge that our grandparents or great grandparents had, because they had to survive, information that we no longer possess. For all the farmers in the midwest, the knowledge of how to milk a cow is ingrained in you, but the person living in Manhattan has no idea. I have researched what I would want to know, to protect my family, if SHTF, and I have recorded this in my book and on this website. If you like this website, great, but if we have a grid failure, well, this website won't help much. So, buy the book, and stash it away. Please note that many of the topics I discuss in the book and on this site may be illegal for you to undertake, but the goal of this site and book is to give you the knowledge for you to have the skills should a SHTF scenario become real.