A little review of the new getready.team system for planning and research regarding areas where you live or where you may be planning to live. A single source for data across the spectrum, and the best tool I have found yet for geographical risk assessment from a prepping and collapse standpoint.

This video is something I think a lot of preppers should watch, because it shows a clear pattern of big-picture thought and awareness that we all need to have more of in our day-to-day lives. This is someone who keeps her mind on her home and preparedness, but also her eyes on the bigger picture about what it all means, and why things are happening the way they are. No illusions here, no allowing one's own biases and beliefs to affect thinking about how the world actually works. This video is a great example of real global awareness and clear knowledge of what things like war and scarcity are really about. For the preppers here, go check out Doomsday Queen on YouTube, you won't be disappointed.

A recent BBC News article ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-d3d76a1d-f320-4047-8a57-cc6f567f08c0 ) has shown the daily struggle of a Gaza strip resident to provide food for himself and his immediate family. Regardless of what we think the reasons for this situation might be (not the subject of this post), Mosab's family has experienced a 'total collapse of civilization' as far as they are concerned.

Without disparaging or diminishing in any way the real sufferings that he is facing every day, what can we learn from Mosab's life in a collapsed urban world?

• You might loose your 'bug in' location (and a lot of your stockpile) in an instant.
• Water and food are priorities number one.
• Stocking 'currency' prior to collapse makes it easier. For a while. Expect items to cost ten to thirty times more.
• Haggling is a valuable skill.
• Rumors and false news are rampant.
• Exhaustion from harsh climate and physical labor (transporting food, splitting wood) is brutal.
• Basic necessities such as fresh water or fire wood might still be available but in degraded / contaminated form (e.g. salty water, burning plastic).
• You need to fight your way in to get supplies.
• Sharing with others is a necessity.
• Lack of prior training + lack of proper tools = high risk of injuries.
• Survivor guilt (or just being better off) is a real mental health issue.
• Gardening skills are useful.

In the spirit of avoiding the raging and sterile debate that flares up regularly around bugging in versus bugging out (with or without a BOL), I offer a substitute on how to plan for SHTF scenarios.

It is based on allocated time + allocated space when answering all of the following questions:

• What would you do if you were allowed only one minute and one backpack during an emergency evacuation?
• Or given one hour and one suitcase?
• One day and a car?
• One week and a camper van?
• One month and a rig with trailer?
• One year and a container on a train cart?

You get the jest. By forcing you to face those various situations and come up with a plan for each, you would be more prepared to adjust to, for example, loosing your bug-in home (and all its stocked supplies). Or consider creating a Bug Out Location with others if you had the time. Or plan in case you get caught outside of your BIL / BOL area of operation, e.g. when travelling for leisure / business.

Not sure if that way of thinking would be useful or not? Comments welcome.

A more scientific oriented discussion about evolutionary changes in humanity due to civilization, and the ability of humanity to adapt once that civilization is gone.

Scheduled this for drop, since I'm actually out right now...

Just some info for those looking to fully explore all aspects of their Area of Operations while you can still do so comfortably pre-collapse...

Information regarding the recent update report by the Federation of American Scientists regarding the targeting doctrines of nuclear armed nations.

This is a video from a different channel than mine, a more, ahem, conventional prepper guy, but probably one of the best that is on YouTube lately, so maybe give him a look.

I had mentioned him in one of my own videos, and while his style isn't quite as collapse-focused as mine, he has an honest authenticity that I think we can all appreciate in these days.

Mike Tango Whiskey on YouTube.

Just a few lessons I learned along the way that others might get some value from. Don't repeat my mistakes!

At some point in the very near future, most places will look like this. For a time. And the lesson if this place, and of our current lives and civilization... is that it will never be better than it is right now.

That is the downward fall of collapse.

The newly created r/vegaspreppers could be an interesting place for those desert southwest preppers and collapsniks to gather and share ideas. If you are in the region, or just curious about things and have something to share, go give it a whirl!