Editor’s note: PlanandPrepared.com welcomes Tony C to the website. Tony first realized the how ill prepared he was following the 2008 stock market/housing collapse. Tony vowed to change that, and has been preparing him and his family ever since. He’s a proud husband of 20+ years and a father of two boys. You can find Tony at Prepsurvivalguide.com
In a large part of prepper writing, people are told to prepare for major disasters. Events like EMPs, mass famine, financial collapse, martial law, or nuclear war get plenty of attention from our fellow preppers and advice regarding these events abounds. Most people’s view of a prepper is someone who expects only the worst in life to happen.
While this can be true, it is not always so. For example, I am not a big believer that we are going to go to nuclear war any time soon. I may be wrong, but I would love to be right.
What I am a big believer in is that things could go wrong every day. Some of these are not huge SHTF events (like a car running out of gas), while others can pose serious issues (like an elderly family member falling).
And more often than not, it is not the extreme events that cause disorder in our lives. The events that cause most of the destruction in our daily lives are when regular, daily occurrences go horribly wrong.
So to truly prepare for disaster, we must ask the question: what are common, daily scenarios that could go horribly wrong and result in devastation for myself, my family, and my loved ones?
The sad, yet true answer is that there are many common disasters that can quickly escalate to devastating events. For simplicity’s sake, I’ve divided the most common ones into three main
categories: health, location, and natural disasters.
Health
Health could be an issue where a seemingly minor pain can quickly become extreme or even life threatening. Imagine this scenario: My son was weightlifting a few months ago and felt a small twinge in his lower back. He’s a pretty stout fellow and is use to some pain. The problem is that he thinks he’s a really stout fellow and can work through the pain!
He was wrong.
His minor tweak soon turned to a full on muscular pull in his back. Not only was he unable to continue exercising, but he was walking funny, had trouble opening doors, and didn’t even want
to pour milk by himself.
His entire problem started because of a minor strain in his back. Now imagine if we had to bug out. Imagine if he had to defend himself, his girlfriend, or his mother from an attacker. Imagine
if he had to grow his own food.
