MountainWitch ⛤:flag_bisexual:

Yet again, all the preppers (from Tuesday all the way to hard core) are not the ones emptying store shelves before the storm. Adding food, water, and fuel/energy sources to your stash a little bit at a time all year long, as you can afford and have time for, will see you through any disaster. Home preserve, shop, forage, trade, barter, buy. If you can food, fill any extra spaces in the canner with water in jars. It stays potable for years, and takes up the same amount of room that empty jars take. Small camp stoves can heat soup up or boil water, don't take much room or fuel. Most people have a bbq these days, propane lasts for many years as long as it's stored properly. Wood stoves are ideal for heat and cooking but even a Buddy Heater will keep one room toasty warm in an emergency. Any level of preparing in advance helps and once you get into it, have your first little power outage or whatever, you realize how stress free it makes your life. Off-season prepping will get it done for everyone that is able to, and last minute shopping can be left for those that have no other choice. #prepping #GetPrepared

I've touched on situational awareness before but I want to dive deeper for a moment. Lots is always being said about coming face to face with obvious danger. But the hidden dangers that seemingly come out of no where are, in my opinion, more lethal. I learned to hone situational awareness while travelling alone many times over the years. I've almost never travelled with other people, I'm a loner at heart and it just worked out that way. There are many people that never go anywhere or do anything alone, always have a chatty walking buddy, always someone to help with travel arrangements, always a concert buddy to rely on. Being absolutely alone and having to rely on only yourself for information, safety, and well being is more valuable that you can imagine. Learn to discern your environment and recognize harm, help, potential or immanent danger. Befriending strangers can be an important skill to have, but where acute danger awareness is also paramount. Strangers can save you, they can also end you. I don't have great hearing. I have ringing in one ear probably due to standing too close to concert speakers as a youngin. I NEVER use earphones either walking, or driving. It is incredibly distracting and muffles not only what you may not want to hear but what you might need to hear as well. There is a reason why the sound of a twig cracking in the distance makes hair stand up on the back of your neck. It is a primal response to being tracked by a predator. Being tracked by a cougar in the wilderness is a horrifying experience. It has happened to me on horseback many years ago... when the forest is suddenly too silent, the birds stop, tiny sounds echo, the horse knows- his ears swivel, his steps dance a bit, his skin shivers a tiny ripple. The message is to get out, now! Walking down a city street at night, can you hear distant footsteps? Are they synced with your own? Do they stop when you stop? Do they fade away into the dark or almost imperceptibly get closer? This happened to my daughter once in downtown Vancouver late at night. She made it to her door safely by walking down the very centre of the street with her keys laced in her fingers, but was terrified. Is the car behind you keeping a reasonable distance? Has it followed you for many turns? Are you on a deserted dark road or a well lit city street? Is it about to cut you off by rapidly changing lanes? Is it driving erratically? Coming up too fast? Driver doesn't see you? Are you in a group of people that suddenly becomes so crowded, a trip or fall could be a trample danger? This happened to me during a Celebration of Lights fireworks display in Vancouver years ago. Suddenly I was in a sea of people shoulder to shoulder as far as I could see. The press of bodies became frightening, hard to breathe and I got out of the throng as quickly as I could by traversing sideways straight into the bushes at the side of the street. In the dark, all it takes is one person panicking or taking suddenly ill to cause widespread panic and crowd surge. A nightclub where the exits are partially blocked or not clearly marked, way too crowded with people, tables and chairs? A windowless mall where your directional awareness is gone? Suddenly lost on unmarked streets or forest when the trail disappears? Can you get away from where you are safely? Have you been in an earthquake that is so rare in your area that you don't know what is happening and can't think of what to do? Have you awakened in the middle of the night and something seems wrong but you can't think what? The only answer I have for any of this is to practice honing your skills. Be alone, listen, explore, become familiar with your surroundings, and educate yourself on how the survivors lived. Who lived, who died and why. #prepping #GetPrepared #situationalawareness #civilunrest #war

I've seen this going around again so just want to weigh in once more. A microwave oven is NOT a faraday cage. It has some of those properties and blocks some frequencies but is not in any way safe if someone truly needs to hide their device. I tested this out. I had 2 phones that had “find my phone” enabled. While looking at that app, put one phone into the microwave and shut the door. The app went dark for a moment then showed the phone as being across the road from where I was. The signal seemed to be scrambled somewhat but still leaking and the phone was clearly still in the area. Microwave doors are simply hard a plastic edge laying against another plastic edge. Every microwave is built differently with different assembly quality, price point, age and wear and tear of unit. It simply cannot be relied on to completely shield a device. This is a faraday pouch. It only works when the top edge is folded over twice and the extremely tight velcrox is fully fastened. The manufacturer of this one even says that with use, the more it is folded, over time, the less reliable the seal is. If your safety or your life is at stake, please make sure you know what you are doing. #TheMoreYouKnow #Prepping

Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.

We are at the Crossroads right now. We are entering into the era of Truth. Choices will be made. Battles will be fought. All that is left is for each one to decide which future they want for themselves and all others. That will be the same future.

Some amazing photos of the Lake Erie seiche floating around right now. None that I can share but if you do a search, you'll find lots. Who knows how long it will last. Very cool and interesting. #LakeErie

I just finished watching "Evenfall", a dystopian post-apocalyptic 7 part series on yt. Highly recommend. It hit all the right notes. Low budget, nearly perfect. Check it out. #Evenfall #dystopian