I’m enjoying newsletter on prepping ht . Lots of good FEMA data in his latest. DC is the least prepped statelet, Montana is the most prepped.
“2020 didn’t increase how many people are preppers, but existing preppers doubled down.”
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“Hawaii is the tenth-most prepared state, but Pacific Islanders are the most prepared people by race.”
“Another interesting fact: preparedness among Asians skyrocketed after 2020. Among many other things that year, Asians became targets of violence and harassment”
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Rebranding and de-crackpotting of prepping as a normalized, mainstream, and non-partisan tendency is long overdue. This newsletter is a solid outpost in the future of prepping.
I’d like a highly urban edition though. Half the country lives in cities and rents.
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Resilient Citizen, (or RC for short): someone who has 31 days or more of necessary supplies on hand.
Highly Resilient Citizens (HRCs): 90 or more days of supplies.
Ultra-Highly Resilient Citizens (UHRCs): 97 or more days of supplies.
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We’d count as RCs I think but with gaps
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90 vs 97 seems like an odd range? Either it’s a tail bucket boundary or a mistake
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this is great too, along the same lines nostarch.com/practical-doom
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"When I think of the events of my life that most inspired me to prep in the first place, it wasn’t 2020 or 2001, it was the ice storm of 1994 that left my family in the cold dark for a week."
2015 i think (storm desmond) is what made my mother take things seriously
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Montana has winter snow, you prep for just straight up not having power or roads for 3 weeks.
DC has condos, even if you wanted to prep, you can't.
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