{"id":48617,"date":"2019-09-22T17:54:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T22:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48617"},"modified":"2019-09-22T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T22:54:33","slug":"it-could-never-happen-here-many-people-wont-consider-the-grim-reality-of-long-term-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48617","title":{"rendered":"It Could Never Happen Here: Many People Won\u2019t Consider the Grim Reality of Long-term Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/preppers-reality-long-term-survival\/\">It Could Never Happen Here: Many People Won\u2019t Consider the Grim Reality of Long-term Survival <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How dark are you willing to go in your preparedness efforts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re like a lot of people, there\u2019s only a certain level of SHTF that you are willing to imagine. And that means you aren\u2019t going to be prepared for it if things get worse than the level you can envision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019re probably a prepper or have some SHTF awareness. Maybe you\u2019re participating in my&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/national-preparedness-month-daily-challenge-day-19\/\">National Preparedness Month Daily Challenge<\/a>. If not, it is a series of small challenges \u2013 mostly thought exercises \u2013 to help people get better prepared by taking a step every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The challenge has been really popular, both on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the website<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.theorganicprepper.com\/forum\/challenges-and-contests\/\" target=\"_blank\">over on the forum<\/a>. Except for this one day when I took things to a darker place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The question many people didn\u2019t want to answer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/national-preparedness-daily-challenge-day-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Day 15<\/a>, I asked people how they could acquire food if they\u2019d run through all their preps and still we had no grocery system in place. This challenge was loaded with excellent answers from people who really knew about the bounty they had outside their backdoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then on Day 16, I asked people to take it one step further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Today\u2019s challenge is inspired by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/selco-survived-urban-survival-course\/\" target=\"_blank\">the course that I took in Croatia with Selco and Toby<\/a>.<\/p><p>Yesterday,<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/national-preparedness-daily-challenge-day-15\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0I asked you what food you could find nearby<\/a>\u00a0if the situation had devolved to the point that you\u2019d gone through all your stored food.<\/p><p>Now, if the situation has devolved that far, you have to also imagine that there is no Rule of Law. It\u2019s the Wild West. Everyone is a threat.<\/p><p>As Selco said to us, \u201cYou think this is hard?\u00a0<strong>Now do it while everyone is trying to kill you.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It Could Never Happen Here: Many People Won\u2019t Consider the Grim Reality of Long-term Survival How dark are you willing to go in your preparedness efforts? If you\u2019re like a lot of people, there\u2019s only a certain level of SHTF that you are willing to imagine. And that means you aren\u2019t going to be prepared [&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":[27235,728,5756],"class_list":["post-48617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-collaspe","tag-shtf","tag-the-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48617","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=48617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48618,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48617\/revisions\/48618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}