Hi all;
We just had an interesting wake up call in our household. Our prepping activities are intended to smooth out some of the extreme low points in our day to day life. Those low points could be anything from running out of gas for the car to the total collapse of society. On a scale of 1 to 10, we could have to deal with anything from 1 to 10. We Live in coastal British Columbia and yesterday had one of our usual high wind weather events. This morning, in the aftermath, we had a brief family discussion to review how we reacted in the heat of the moment. The wind storm was clearly not a 10 on the "oh shit scale" but quickly could have evolved into a much big problem had any of the downed trees hit the house. We learned that debriefing our response to these kinds day to day events is an excellent way improve our learning curve. It is amazing to me how conditioned we are as a society to shrug it off and wait for the power company to get the power lines back up so we can watch TV. Anyone have any comments on how they debrief these kind of smaller events?
I think any event is worth talking about,the more you talk about such things in the world the less panic you will have dealing with it..
We just had our bug out rendezvous, point finalized..it went well because it was something we have discussed on a lower scale but this time it was very serious and the fact is they were good with it because of previous discussions..It was something that had been planted in there minds already..
So my point being talk about every thing if it is relevant to you or not and could it happen in your area...And if so how and what would you do...
Better to have it and not need it; then to need it and not have it...
Greetings,
it is one of the aspects of to be better somehow, we are some how like little kids sometimes, we need to hear that "good boy / girl" kind of motivation not just to discuss what happened, IMO, I think it is essential that such debriefing gathering and discussion take place not just once the hazard goes off completely , but in little pause times that has little safety into them, something like reassurance to communicate that things are going according to plan, and they dont need to be modified or so.
but the end of the hazard debriefing would be once that evaluate, have what happened been taken into previous considerations ? was the initial plan enough to stand it? and what every body noticed ? and how can things be done better, if it is more than one person.
but with all honesty, I strongly believe that such kind of discussion can also go in the heart or mind of the solo prepper, to remain sane , if that solo prepper faced an ouh shit situation.