by St. Funogas, Survival Blog:
(Continued from Part 1.)
CLASSES OF PREPPERS
Truly prepared preppers – These preppers took things seriously, even if the chance of a SHTF event wasn’t highly probable. They weighed the probabilities against the consequences of not being prepared and chose to prepare. For many, the self-reliance skills learned, knowledge gained, and talents developed while prepping made it worth it, SHTF or not. The psychological benefit of being ready for anything is also a big plus.
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The most prepared preppers will have a written plan to employ as soon as they realize that today’s The Day. They’ve done simulations and practice runs and everyone knows what their job is without a second thought. A short meeting is held anyway, calmly explaining it’s time to put the plan into action and quickly reviewing everyone’s responsibilities for Day One. Their Emergency Phase will be fairly calm and short, only lasting for a week or so, before they fully transition into stage two, Survival Mode.
A recent SurvivalBlog article, JIT Training For Trusted Friends, Family, and Neighbors, presents one approach on how to form an impromptu group.
Inadequately prepared preppers – I call these “unprepared preppers” because while they may be preppers, and they may have their buckets of beans and rice and totes full of water, in truth they’re not well enough prepared for TEOTWAWKI. Perhaps they were either too new at prepping, or too lazy to adequately prepare, or perhaps just liked calling themselves preppers after inventing seven different ways to make tinfoil hats. Many preppers will say they just couldn’t overcome the financial hurdles of what it took to adequately prepare. Some thought they didn’t have the storage space. Other unprepared preppers will not have gone to the trouble to really research what things they needed to have, or what skills needed to be learned. Perhaps the largest group of unprepared preppers will be those who didn’t adequately prepare based on a probability approach: “a serious SHTF event is unlikely to happen just yet so I’ll do some prepping, but just the inexpensive stuff like toilet paper and a multi-tool. If it starts looking more likely, I’ll get some of the other stuff.”
Short-Term, Non-SHTF Preppers – Short-term preppers are those who are prepared for an event like a hurricane or ice storm. To their credit, this type of prepping is adequate for what they’re preparing for, and a short-term event is far more likely to occur than a TEOTWAWKI event. We see short-term events frequently, the most recent ones in 2024 being hurricanes in the Southeast and the fires in southern California. To be fair, those preppers were very prepared when the short-term event came to pass. Not only were they good to go, but also had the means to help grateful friends and neighbors as well. There were several excellent articles posted on SurvivalBlog sharing these kinds of stories.
If the world is falling apart in slow motion, then short-term preppers can possibly have enough time to get some sort of a better-than-nothing program put together if they hustle. Already having a prepping mindset and understanding the basics of what they need to stock up on for a TEOTWAWKI event would be a big help.
Urban/Suburban Preppers – These preppers cannot survive in place. It’s not possible to have some of the most essential long-term preps such a water source, and there’s no realistic way to defend what they do have from the thousands and tens of thousands of desperate people who’ll do whatever it takes to get a drink of water or a bite to eat.
Non-Preppers – Those who are totally unprepared will be up Schumer Creek when the Schumer hits the fan. Some of these will become the most dangerous kinds of survivors who serious preppers will need to most defend their homesteads against.
IMPLEMENTING EMERGENCY-PHASE PROTOCOLS
The whole point of TEOTWAWKI prepping is to be ready for anything, to be ahead of the curve before the general populace figures out they’re not in Kansas anymore. Ideally, we want to be through with the Emergency phase before the masses come to a full realization they’re in deep Schumer and totally unprepared.
