The Preppers Next Door - why we prepare.
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...