Local (to me) article about prepping

[crudos]

From the local free weekly paper, with a okay article on prepping and preppers in the area (Madison, WI)

http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=41184

Thought the last paragraph was actually pretty good:

So, what's your plan for WTSHTF?

My family doesn't prep, and when I took an online survey to learn my "Prepper Score" at the "Doomsday Preppers" website, the results were predictably pathetic. Sure, we've got a camp stove and some fuel, but I come up empty on bottled water, ham radios, generators, guns and ammo, or old-fashioned, tradable currency like silver. The survey says we'd last one or two weeks. The best preppers could survive 18 months.

On our own, then, we might not survive. But I'd like to think that my utopian east-side neighborhood would rally together if catastrophe struck. After all, we already swap tools and watch out for each other's kids. In a pinch, wouldn't we pool resources and become one big Swiss Family Robinson?

I told LaHaise this idea. "That's good that you trust everyone," he said. However, after a pause, he added, "But can you really trust everybody?

"People that are stressed, that are starving, that are panicking, they become different people," he says. "That's a heavy thing to think about."

It is. And in case he's right and I'm wrong, I've got a plan B. My family would "bug out" to my uncle Arvid's farm in southern Minnesota. He and my aunt can their own food, know how to kill and field-dress a possum and, like Kathy, know the difference between a poultice and a liniment.

I could tell you where they live, but, you know what? I think I'll keep that off the record.

edit: Here is the link to the Madison Area Preppers Meet Up group.... http://www.meetup.com/MadisonPreppers/

[Well-Prepared Witch]

Interesting!  But what happens when Uncle Arvid says they can't feed dude's family and chases them off with a shotgun?  I hope he's at least floated the idea by his uncle.  I know there are several people who will be shocked to find out we're not letting them in our "lifeboat".

[Deathstyle]

I know riiight? Dude's prepping plan is to go mooch off his elderly country relatives because they can food. They probably don't even prep, just can food like alot of people out in the boonies.

[Kentactic]

This guy went from
Plan A. Mooch off neighbors
To
Plan B. Mooch off family

Plan C. Mooch off gubberment?

[sledge]

This guy went from
Plan A. Mooch off neighbors
To
Plan B. Mooch off family

Plan C. Mooch off gubberment?

Ken, just to make sure that I understand what you're saying.  You're saying he's a moocher, right?   

I agree.  He probably has a lifetime "moochers anon" card.  About the only thing I can say for him is at least he took the test and knows he isn't going to make it if tshtf.  Which is fine I guess.  I've met people before who have said that they wouldn't want to live in a shtf world.

Personal choice I guess, not the one I would make.  The problem occurs if they change their minds after the event happens and all of the sudden want to live at any cost.