Do Not Advertise Your Survival Plans
More Articles Related to PreparednessWhen implementing your long term survival plans it is important that you keep a low profile and do not advertise your preparations. As tempting as it may be to tell your friends, coworkers, and members of your extended family about your prepared stocks of survival gear and food, this can only lead to trouble should an actual emergency survival situation occur.
Remember this: only a very small percentage of people will have completed any preparedness at all. Instead, they are under the misguided notion that outside entities like FEMA will be there to save them in a timely manner when any disaster occurs. The people of FEMA may very well be busy saving themselves!
When cut off from supplies for an extended period the unprepared people in your area will quickly become hungry and destitute. If they know about your survival preparations (because you told them all about your efforts) they will turn to you. Or worse, turn ON you.
Living in your prepared home with enough food, water, and preparedness supplies to last out the situation you will probably not be a position to provide for everyone in your area. With the survival of their own families at stake it could turn ugly fast as predatory people try to take by force what is yours.
When the disaster situation gets very bad, you will have to be careful not to display your wealth of preparedness supplies to a public that is going without. Don’t be cooking a big pot of beef stew over a backyard fire when everyone in town is starving. Rather, prepare your food indoors at night so that cooking odors go up the chimney. Don’t be driving your vehicle all over town every day when everyone else has little or no gas. You may even try to loose a little weight to disguise the fact that you have plenty of food – your malnourished neighbors will be interested in why you remain so fat and rosy cheeked!
An important part of your survival preparations plan should be to keep your plan from the knowledge of other people. When a long term survival scenario occurs you do not want the starving hordes beating down your door.
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Exactly. I made the mistake of telling some friends about my preps and their first comments were I am coming to your place in case anything happens.
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This is good advice. It may turn out that you can sensibly share your resources with others, depending on the severity of the situation and community response. No man is an island but of course you do not want people taking advantage of you either.