Basics

I think every hard situation we bear brings change. Even with the changes we know something is coming that will make us different and how we react to things will be different. Enter, The Storm...

When the storm season hit a couple years ago, our life was more or less held captive to irate winds and systems that beat the coast down. If it wasn't one storm keeping you on tenterhooks it was yet another. On this day when our lights were to go out and lose power for three days, I realized how enslaved we are to almost everything, and how dependent we have become.

The lack of electricity showed me this...

No TV or anything else electric
No news because I was a dummy and didn't buy any batteries for the radio
No way to store food because it's all frozen and the freezer runs on electricity
No generator
No money because the banks lost power too (I'm laughing now but then it was not funny).
No gas, can't get that either. Besides the lines were long with people panic buying... They ran out.
No cell phone... For whatever reason. They just didn't work.

That is not an exhaustive list but it's a primer to getting you thinking about your own situation should the tables turn.

So, with that said, I'll ask you, What would you do without power? Any power... Not even a cellphone.

By The Way.. I'm not a survivalist either. I never was and don't live in fear over this poop and I'm not changing many details about how I live. "BUT", I do have batteries, now; and am looking at a generator. I also now have large tanks, should I need to store a bit of gas and water. Either way we'd be alright in the water and gas department for a while.

Food... Well, as long as I have a generator...

I guess what I'm getting at is that this difficult time birthed some changes and created some new ideas. This time also changed my view of the world and how I deal with things. This includes how I prepare for long term situations.

Later on in the following year, the economy took a nose dive. My husband retired, and we have got to learn to exist on almost half of what we were making. Another evolution is here... I'll keep you posted.