Modern Day Survival Situations
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Most people live life day to day and simply go through motions of contentment. They become complacent in the fact that if they need something, they can simply order it online for pickup or delivery or drive a few minutes down the road to get it. If you run out of toothpaste, you simply get more. Which all of us can appreciate and should take advantage of. Such niceties save us time, which in today’s world, we have very little of it seems.
Having said that, most people are lacking in the ability to plan for hard times or circumstances. If you have lived for any amount of time, you have experienced some form of difficulty.
The term “prepper” has been thrown around a lot in recent years and most times it’s used in a negative light. We at Crossroads Survival are not advocating or encouraging you to sell your home and move to the mountains and surviving “off grid”.
We are about embracing where you are making it work for you and your family’s needs. You know your situation better than anyone else which is why no one can ever tell you specifically what is needed for you.
Our approach is to help change your mindset and start thinking in a way to allows you to have a basic plan for temporary to long term survival.
Survival Situations in Today's Modern World:
1. Environmental Considerations
Natural disasters are the most common and generally most understood reason for getting into the survival mindset. When a community is aware that something bad is headed their way, they start thinking of the “what if’s”. When individuals living along coastlines are told a dangerous hurricane is coming, they will begin to shift their mindset. They must consider their options based on what they should do to survive. Is leaving the best option? Sometimes that may not be an option at all. If it is not, what are the short-term threats and long-term threats. Short term threats could be storm surge flooding, high winds, loss of power to name a few. Long term threats are lack of food, clean water, limited access to healthcare or medicines, or even looters trying to take from others during the initial moment of chaos after the storm has passed. The hurricane example could be used for areas affected by tornados, winter storms, flash floods, forest fires, mudslides etc. Nowhere is free of some form of natural disaster.
2. Unforeseen Financial Strain
Another consideration is financial stress or strain that was not planned on. This could be a sudden loss of job, a family member died, and you are left paying for the funeral expenses, sudden medical bills, or as mentioned above rising cost of goods based on geopolitical situations (i.e. recessions, depressions
3. Geopolitical Considerations
Geopolitical and political considerations is what we will use when considering a wide array of things. These things could be your local politics and economy up to world politics and economy. In many ways they coincide immensely and often times when something happens on the other side of the world, it will directly or indirectly affect you and your family’s needs. A recent example of this is oil and gas shortages causing prices to double or triple in some areas. If those prices continue to climb that could strain the economy, logistics, and supply chains to slow or stall. Such a strain would create goods not being restocked at a normal rate. When the shelves begin to empty that creates a sense of urgency and panic across the area. We noticed this with the great toilet paper shortage in recent years. When supplies got low initially, people felt compelled to “stock up” exacerbating the situation and putting further strain on an already strained system. That scenario is what we at Crossroads Survival will help you better prepare for.