{"id":26107,"date":"2017-09-26T05:40:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26107"},"modified":"2017-09-26T05:40:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:40:40","slug":"you-are-either-a-prepper-or-a-future-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26107","title":{"rendered":"You Are Either A Prepper Or A Future\u00a0Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projectchesapeake.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/24\/you-are-either-a-prepper-or-a-future-victim\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">You Are Either A Prepper Or A Future\u00a0Victim<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry clear-block\">\n<p>The recent disasters around the world have shown most people are ill prepared for sudden disruptions to normal life. Just as there was a lack of imagination that allowed 9\/11 to happen, the population suffers from a lack of imagination that allows them to suffer from sudden occurrences. Survival favors the prepared mind.<\/p>\n<p>Simply having supplies piled up in preparation for some occurrence is not enough to insure your survival. There are several other things you must keep in mind and balance out among your preparations.<\/p>\n<p>You must imagine the potential catastrophic possibilities<br \/>\nYou must prepare yourself mentally to deal with whatever happens<br \/>\nYou must have knowledge of how best to employ your resources<br \/>\nYou need to use your imagination to think outside the box<br \/>\nYou must be able to improvise, adapt and overcome obstacles<br \/>\nYou must have a flexible plan to guide you<\/p>\n<p>Many people have spewed hateful rhetoric at preppers over the years and today some are finding themselves in dire circumstances as infrastructure and supplies are cut off for an indefinite period of time. Those unprepared individuals have few options and now rely on the actions of others to insure their survival.<\/p>\n<p>As many in the Caribbean can now attest to, having to wait for help to come from hundreds or even thousands of miles away is slow and stressful to those who wait. They do not know when help will arrive and what resources will be available when they arrive. It could take years for many locations to return to some type of normalcy and this is at a time when help is available and forthcoming. What happens when that help is not available following an event?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Are Either A Prepper Or A Future\u00a0Victim The recent disasters around the world have shown most people are ill prepared for sudden disruptions to normal life. Just as there was a lack of imagination that allowed 9\/11 to happen, the population suffers from a lack of imagination that allows them to suffer from sudden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9474,4019,648,650,5748,6858],"class_list":["post-26107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-disaster-planning","tag-emergency-planning","tag-preparations","tag-prepping","tag-project-chesapeake","tag-tom-chatham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26108,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26107\/revisions\/26108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}