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Posted by hamil26@reddit | preppers | View on Reddit | 38 comments
Just joined. I watch YT vids on prepping and husband wants to start but not enough to my liking. Anyway we notice most peppers are from the south. Anyone live on the northeast of US on here? We are in a very liberal state and I’m Guessing that’s why .
premar16@reddit
Maybe the ones who are in the youtube videos are from the south but preppers are from all over the country and all walks of life and both sides of the political spectrum. I live in the PNW and many around me prep in some form or another.
OnTheEdgeOfFreedom@reddit
I lived in the northeast for 65 years. Everyone I knew prepped, but we prepped for what I like to call real world events - ice storms blocking roads, power fails, cold weather, layoffs, and so on. Politics has nothing to do with prepping in this sense.
We also talked about it less. We didn't call it prepping. We called it not being stupid. Yeah, I had a generator, propane for heaters, firewood and a chest freezer full of food. Just like most everyone in semi-rural New England. So?
The southern US has different situations - more extreme weather like hurricanes, more violence and issues with medical care, more poverty, less problems with growing seasons, no risk of freezing to death in a week of no power. So prepping there looks different, sometimes very different. And they seem to talk about it more; not sure why. But it's all prepping in the end.
FIbynight@reddit
We are in the NE in blue area
arm2610@reddit
I live in the Pacific Northwest
SSPREPA@reddit
In New England, it's not prepping because it's simply common sense and necessary. The mindset is different.
Hypnales@reddit
Agree. Having a generator and food stores is just good sense when you can get stranded in a typical winter. Just like prepping the car for whiteout conditions or getting stuck in a blizzard.
Icy-Ad-7767@reddit
Ontario Canada here, and I live rural and I agree with what you said but I’ll point out the end result is the same, I’m not going to dunk on someone who wants to get on the same bus headed in the same direction but is getting off at a different location than I am.
cserskine@reddit
We’ve had a major pfas spill in our town and im now buying water rather than using the tap. Town officials have said it’s ok to use the town water but there are many nearby the spill with wells.
Icy-Ad-7767@reddit
Start with prepping for Tuesday, aka normal events that are a pain in the neck to deal with. Northeast, ok a few years back Boston had record snowfall that basically shut the city down for a few days during clean up. What if a nor’easter decides to bomb and you get a sudo hurricane, power loss for a few days to a week. The Montreal ice storm.
Do you camp? Have a travel trailer? A propane bbq? Does it have a side burner? If you do odds are you have what’s needed to cook and boil water. Do you live in an apartment? Get a few UPS ( those battery backups for computers) put them on a cpap machine;( router, lamp) if needed, if not they are a good back up power supply that is always charged for keeping your phones charged etc. keep an extra pack of TP a few days extra worth of canned/ dried foods you eat regularly.( I buy an extra few when they are on sale until I have enough in stock then just replace as used. Start small and slowly build up a stock pile for a few days at first then a few weeks. Do you own a home where you can instal a wood stove? ( heat and cooking in winter). I’m a Costco shopper so canned goods are sold by the case, and have multi year best before dates.
okunivers@reddit
Whats going on Tuesday guys?
Icy-Ad-7767@reddit
It’s a term used to mean the “minor” disasters not a full SHTF social collapse disaster. Think a blizzard, hurricane or something that takes out the power grid for a week, which to the unprepared is a major disaster but to those of us prepared for it just a pain in the ass at worst.
Whole-Lengthiness-33@reddit
My general thoughts on “prepping for Tuesday” is Just think enough to deal with a weeklong-ish disruption of electrical/gas being out, but not to the point of prepping for toilet paper/hand sanitizer being out for a few months.
okunivers@reddit
Got it lol.
Dumbkitty2@reddit
This Tuesday we have scheduled a few water main breaks, several drunks taking out power to a variety of subdivisions, drought killing crops, a solar flare which might give us Northern Lights along with the communication disruption. Weather has not reported in with an update yet.
Whole-Lengthiness-33@reddit
Ruby Tuesday
CleanCut2018@reddit
Tuesday kinda rhymes with doomsday. Doomsday preppers are the ones who go bananas prepping for unlikely scenarios (possible, but unlikely). Tuesday preppers prepare for likely scenarios.
capnbob82@reddit
This is the way! Start small and grow as you can. It's more about mindset than stuff!!
Adol214@reddit
List your locals and personal risk.
In yt, people are either very dramatic (SHTF) or generic (eg water storage)
Understand your personal situation in order to prioritize your prepping.
Flood? Fire? Nearby chemical industry? Wild or farm animals?
How reliable are the utilities? How long are usually the interruption of service? How does this affect you?
Lost of employment? Chronic or frequent health issues? Pets?
Dangerous hobby?
Do you have a local community to help or to help you? Are you Alone in the middle of nowhere?
"Not enough" is all about risk mitigation.
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
There are plenty of my fellow progressives, lefties, and liberals who prep as well.
You likely know people who have preps , they just don't talk about it.
Sexycoed1972@reddit
Yeah, its probably your libetal neighbors, they don't like to plan ahead. Makes sense.
Shit_On_Your_Parade@reddit
Don’t be a dick.
Sexycoed1972@reddit
I'm not the one who brought up politics in a 5 sentence post.
TheSensiblePrepper@reddit
I am in the Upper-Midwest/Great Lakes Region. Plenty of people that "lean left" Prep, especially after 2020 with COVID-19.
If you learn to prepare for an extended power outage, you are prepared for 80% of all situations. I would recommend you check my recent post about preparing for a Power Outage.
SunLillyFairy@reddit
I started prepping in the CA Bay Area; you don’t get much more liberal. Just change your terminology to “disaster preparedness” or “planning for climate change” and all your neighbors will be in.
BigAustralianBoat2@reddit
What do politics have to do with prepping?
Early_Dragonfly4682@reddit
A lot. Preppers' media bubble tends to tell them that every thing is bad and getting worse. You don't get that in the other media bubble.
FinallyawakeA@reddit
When my great grandma (born in early 1900’s) died, we found pounds and pounds and pounds of sugar in her pantry. I will never forget that.
Cute-Consequence-184@reddit
You prep for Tuesday not for political affiliation.
You also prep how you want to prep, not how others tell you to.
You prep for your area and your weather, not for anyone else's.
Ok, not that that is over, how much food do you keep in your house on a weekly basis? Most barely keep 3 days.
The easiest way to start is to just start keeping regular food on hand for an emergency. No more running to the store when you know bad weather is coming -because you already have enough food available.
This is no different than keeping jumper cables in your vehicle, just in case.
Do you have a way to cook off-grid?
Do you have lights that can last 48 hours in an emergency?
Do you have a way to stay warm if the power goes out in the winter?
Do you have enough drinking water that is safe in an emergency (1 GPD) or do you have a way to treat any local water you have access to?
And it would help if we knew if you were in an high rise apartment, a farm, a city house?
swampjuicesheila@reddit
'Liberal', 'conservative', any media/community that lives via contrived outrage about any given issue, has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's most likely that YT's algorithms saw that you picked a video to watch on a southern-based channel and just keeps feeding you more of the same. A good prep here would be changing your search to 'how to prepare for winter in the US northeast or maritime Canada', 'summer power outages in Maine', 'nor'easter storm preps for Boston', 'Great Lakes blizzard prep', etc., if you're interested in something closer to where you live. I looked for a specific Dremel tool project *once* and years later stuff is still showing up on YT suggestions. YouTube is a good resource for many things but you have to realize the limitations.
I started prepping for a weeklong power loss because we lost power for a week from a huge ice storm over 10 years ago, we call that a Tuesday prep in this sub, and then expanded to building and maintaining a deep pantry for a month or two in 2020 for a supply disruption/unable to leave home. Then I expanded my idea of prepping further to 'building community', building relationships with neighbors and others in the general area. My spouse and I are looking at prepping-adjacent hobbies such as target shooting, just something we could do in common, and there's a big community around that.
Traditional-Leader54@reddit
I’m in the northeast.
It’s not as much about red vs blue state as it is about not being in highly populated areas and the northeast is very density populated. Also it’s not just the south but just about anywhere rural because if you’re prepping for SHTF having a bit of land is very helpful and you’re gonna find a lot of SHTF preppers on YouTube.
On YouTube I recommend Sensible Prepper. He’s mostly a prepping for Tuesday prepper but does take SHTF precautions as well but mostly sticks to talking about Tuesday.
Capt_Gremerica@reddit
CT here- grew up in a rural area and frequently lost power, so prepping was ingrained from an early age
Eredani@reddit
If you are looking for a local group to join or learn from, this is probably not the place. And I don't have a good resource for you. This is a tricky topic since talking about prepping can be risky. I'm all for teamwork and community, but be careful who you trust .
Information shared can not be unshared.
Hot-Profession4091@reddit
The left preps too. We just tend not to be as vocal about it and usually have more of a community focus. I would recommend getting involved in your local mutual aid group and getting yourself ready for a few days or a week without power & water. Go from there.
Strong_Web_3404@reddit
What I came here to say. Plus less emphasis, generally speaking, on shooting the Zombie Hordes.
johndoe3471111@reddit
I would agree with the general consensus here. Prep for a few days without any services.
YardFudge@reddit
Those things as are irrelevant to preparing for Tuesday or SHTF.
You’ll quickly learn YouTube is about the Likes, not information
YardFudge@reddit
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Straight-Aardvark439@reddit
I live in Michigan right now. There’s a lot of peepers here.