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Travis Maddox, a prepper and producer of “The Prepared Homestead” on YouTube, feeds his turkeys and chickens. (Courtesy Travis Maddox)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2018Preppers\u2019 Quietly Stock Up for the \u2018Perfect Storm\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A crippling ice storm that left Travis Maddox and thousands of other Missouri residents without power in 2007 had an \u201calmost apocalyptic feel to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one could move. It just shut the whole region down for two weeks. I wasn\u2019t as prepared as I thought,\u201d said Maddox, a burly man of 43, sporting a long black beard, T-shirt, cargo pants, and baseball cap, while tending his garden.<\/p>\n

Those two weeks made Maddox realize that being prepared\u2014\u201cprepping,\u201d as it\u2019s called today\u2014was the key to a life of self-reliance and personal freedom.<\/p>\n

As an Eagle Scout, he never forgot the Boy Scout motto: Be prepared.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, the ultimate level of prepping is being self-sufficient. You\u2019re still being modern, but you\u2019re in control,\u201d Maddox told The Epoch Times on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n

In 2009, Maddox launched his YouTube channel, \u201cThe Prepared Homestead,\u201d which now has over 32,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n

People, he said, are waking up to the worsening reality of supply chain disruptions and food shortages, and rapid political and social changes that all point toward \u201ca perfect storm\u201d just ahead.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0COVID<\/a>-19 lockdowns and empty store shelves only served to heighten popular sentiment that the \u201cold normal\u201d is gone, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the pandemic struck, we started seeing all this panic buying,\u201d Maddox said. \u201cWhat\u2019s really increased is the number of people that contact me. These are really personal emails. They\u2019re not crazy extremists. These are single moms, elderly people, disabled people, regular working people. They\u2019re realizing that things are changing. They can just feel things are changing rapidly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe riots [of 2020] were bad. The election was bad. Now what\u2019s happening is the whole world is starting to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Travis Maddox, a prepper and producer of “The Prepared Homestead” on YouTube, feeds his turkeys and chickens. (Courtesy Travis Maddox) US FEATURES \u2018Preppers\u2019 Quietly Stock Up for the \u2018Perfect Storm\u2019 A crippling ice storm that left Travis Maddox and thousands of other Missouri residents without power in 2007 had an \u201calmost apocalyptic feel to it.\u201d […]<\/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":[31591,4052,607,648,650,31091,16350],"class_list":["post-58914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-allan-stein","tag-food-shortages","tag-pandemic","tag-preparations","tag-prepping","tag-supply-chain-disruptions","tag-the-epoch-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58914","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=58914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58915,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58914\/revisions\/58915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}