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Hazards, Skills and Solutions - New Zealand specific hazards, useful skills to have, and possible solutions to those hazards.

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 It has been a long time since my last post on here. If anything, the world at large has become even more hazardous, with more threats today than ever before. Natural hazards and man made threats are now coming at us thick and fast. This post is to give a brief round up of the hazards we face right now, the skills - as preppers - that we need to learn in order to get through the problems that we are facing and (hopefully) a few solutions - or ways that we can either combat these problems OR help to reduce their affect on us. Some of these hazards and examples of equipment that preppers should have (or could have) to have a better chance of survival have already been covered in the post - link showed below - so please follow the link - or cut and paste it into your search engine. https://hbprepper.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-preppers-next-door-why-we-prepare.html The writer is based in Hawke's Bay, but the dozen hazards I'm about to list are New Zealand wide and not Hawke's Bay...
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Is the political tide turning? Can we relax?

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 As I type this Donald J Trump has been President of the USA for a couple of weeks.  Since his inauguration he has signed a number of  Executive Orders which have started to add weight to the "common sense" side of the political see-saw. You may not agree with me - and that is your prerogative - but I view most of the rules he's brought in as a positive thing for common sense and the wellbeing of the world as a whole. Some of the major E.O.'s in my opinion were - securing the southern border - abandoning D.E.I. hires, instead selecting the most qualified person for the job based on merit and their ability to actually do the job - withdrawing from the W.H.O. which has outgrown its original purpose and has become a bureaucratic tick box nightmare with a ridiculously high budget - declaring that there are 2 genders, male and female (although technically if you are born with both sets of genitalia you would be a hermaphrodite, so the argument could be made for a 3rd gende...
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The Preppers Next Door - why we prepare.

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 This article was inspired by a New Zealand Geographic article written by Tom Doig titled The Preppers Next Door. The link to his full article is here -  The preppers next door | New Zealand Geographic (nzgeo.com)  and it's well worth a read. It got me thinking that it could make an interesting article if I was to write about what started my journey - on the road to becoming a dedicated prepper. I belong to and facilitate/help to guide a group of around 20 preppers from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We are at various stages in our preparedness journey with some having a lot of experience, who have been prepping for years, and others who only came onboard during the recent Covid pandemic response. In my case, my eyes were first opened to the need to be prepared yourself rather than to rely on the authorities when I saw the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina back in 2005 and how the people were pretty much left to fend for themselves, with those who did...
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Cyclone Gabrielle - Prepping - what worked and what didn't.

 My last article, published here on February 9th 2023 was titled "Timely Reminders and General Thoughts" And, timely it certainly turned out to be. Only 3 days later Cyclone Gabrielle paid New Zealand a visit that we on the east coast will never forget. I also said, in that last post, that I would make my next article about what I was doing to prepare. So, here it is.  Let me first say that compared to how Gabrielle impacted people's lives in places north of Hastings and Napier - such as Esk Valley and Wairoa, also Pakowhai - which lies between Hastings and Napier - we got off very lightly. The damage that some have endured, losing homes, livelihood's, livestock and human life has been terrible.  We personally were very lucky that our only losses, during the gale-force winds and driving rain of Gabrielle, were our veggie gardens and fruit trees. This happened because our property from front fence to back fence was under about a foot of floodwater, compromising our sep...
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Timely reminders and general thoughts

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 Hello again and welcome to the first post of 2023.  Let me first wish everyone a Happy New Year - rather belated, but sincere. Let's hope it is a better one than 2022, 21 and 20. As I write this article, just over a week into the month of February, there has been so much in the news - and here I mean the mainstream media that the unawake rely on for their information - to give people a nudge into being prepared and becoming preppers. A lot of what's being reported on is fact, but there is a lot of speculation and what can only be described as "fear porn" too.  It helps the governments of the world and the powers that be in general to keep the global population fearful. The theory being that if we are scared and relying on THEM to protect us, we will give up certain rights and freedoms that we have had for centuries, in exchange for perceived safety. We are constantly being bombarded with news about the Ukraine war - which is nearing it's one year anniversary (24t...
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