Hello Kevin and greetings from Northern Ontario.

tell us a bit about yourself Kevin, i know there are many people from the london area around here. jump in and get to know them.

i have been researching the doomsday theories quit a bit and my personal option is The Shit Will Hit The Fan..soon. either by a solar storm , economical failure and now with recent events terrorist. i'd like to network with others to toss out ideas and planning. i feel if tshtf many is better than a few. i come from a rural back ground , now i work as a radio tech in the two way radio field. if someone in london would like to get together over beers and swap ideas it would be welcomed. cheers

Hey Kevin, welcome to forum!!...I too am from London, Ontario.

Hi Kevin,

I'm new to the forums although I've been lurking for a while now. I'm also in the London area and would be interested in connecting online with a few like minded individuals. (perhaps in person someday, but online discussions as a start.).

I've kept a well stocked car emergency kit / get home bag for a few years now and have a decent stockpile and plan for minor short term emergencies such as 3-4 day power outages, or inability to travel to buy groceries etc due to storms or other short term issues, however I'm just starting to get into the world of prepping as it relates to long term prep's / plans.

Although I'm in the early stages I already know that bugging out won't be an option for me, so if something long term or drastic occurs (outside of a personal SHTF scenario) I'll be bugging in. To that end I'm working on trying to stockpile some needed items, working on a garden and will be attempting some options for rain water collection and water storage next year. I have a lot to do, but I'm trying to focus on gradually building up the amount of food/water I have stocked piled as well as food and water options for sustainable living once the stock pile runs out. I guess at this stage until I have those two major items covered I won't be too focused on anything else.

Snowandrain you made the post of you list using your IPhone. It is obviously an important communications device to you, as mine is to me. My post was only to note that you did not include your IPhone in your list.

If you guys want, we could meet up some weekend morning for coffee and I will give you what answers to what ever I can. I work afternoons on the weekends so it has to be over by 1:30. I'm by far not an expert, by I have some experience and lot of research.

Hey. I'm near Talbotville. I'm not prepping for any SHTF scenarios. I'm more in the boat of short-term stuff like twyst. Bugging in, get home bags, etc...

If you go back a couple pages, there's 2 or 3 threads specific to the London area.

We have had a few meetings here and about, and its started meetings all about. I don’t care if you your friends are just mildly curious or are a very serious prepper, we will meet.
Not at somebody’s house, I don’t want to know where you live.
Nor do I want you to know where I live.
Whether you plan to bug in or out, it don’t matter, cause sometimes IT WONT MATTER.
Shit happens and all you nicely coordinated plans get blown out of proportions by events that are out of your control.
Those of you that are coming to these meetings, there are the few rules that we meet by:
No recording devices, and unless you are a professional liar, your eyes will tell that you are.
We go by site (prepper name) and first names on a meet, no last names.
We are not a secret society, but because of bad press we shun reporters.
We will meet at large fast food place for the first time, usually in the large corner seat units.
If you have some Ideas you would like to pass on, this is the time to say it.
As for myself, I have some experience/reference in water purification, Gasifiers, Solar ovens, and military gear. I am no expert, but I know more than most. I read/collect, old trade books and hand tools.
These meeting are to pass on information and meeting like minded people. Not for bullshitting on something your not sure about.
Also I keep track of Solar Weather, and like a few of us on this site, know the effects, or of the effects that a CME of solar flare can have on society.

Come or not, I care not, my role in life now is to pass on what knowledge I have so some of you may survive and live in the future.

This is meant as no disrespect ranger2012, but I feel that your last post was NOT the way to do things. Why wouldnt you want to have someone to back you up in case of shtf? This is something that can be talked about away from the meetings. I dont get why everyone wants to be loners in this when we should stick together as normal people. If gangs are going to rule, a few extra people wouldnt hurt at all. I do agree to meet to discuss strategies, survival, and anything related to prepping. That is why I feel that past meetings were not working. There was a sense of 'oneness" and ya that can happen, but if it doesnt have too?

HOWEVER...... I will not trust my life to just anyone. I would have to implicitly trust the people that I am with as far as the group goes. Have different skill sets in order to benefit from them. To learn different skills like the ones you impart ranger2012. You have been very informative here on these posts and kudos for that. Thank You....but perhaps a different approach?

What ever.
I do things the way I do because I learned to rely on no one, NO ONE. If I didn’t do it, it wouldn’t be done. I am willing trust/rely on others but only, ONLY after I have met them, and talked to them and gauge them by what they say. Would I help in a group?, definitely, would I trust them to watch my back, only time and experience with them, would tell.
Trust, like respect is earned, not to be given freely. In the military, there were officers that I would have fought thru Hell with, others, I wouldn’t trust them to tie there own shoes. Like my late step father said about WW2, "There were two type of officers’ in battle, the Good and the Dead." I may be cold and blunt, BUT I am a realist.

I Live to learn, and to pass on what I have learned. The Meeting that We had in Hamilton park, gave us the chance to put a face to the names. Most of us there learned who we could trust, not will trust, but could trust. Those that feel that they could trust me have asked me into a group.
My methods work. Not with every one. I learn fast on those people, who want to be Alphas, and those who Deserve to be Alphas, but don’t want it.
I'm not an Alpha, I'm opinionated and I know it, but I chose who I will Trust, and maybe follow.

If you want to learn what I have to offer, then we'll meet. If I think that I may be able to trust you, then, I will help you. I am, Who, I am.

What I know is that prepping isn't like being in the army, such that the fact that you have begun to prep doesn't give you entrance to some sort of secret society. Two preppers standing side by side would'nt naturally have any more in common than two other perfect strangers.
For me, prepping is the beginning baby steps toward the goal of becoming as self sufficient as possible, ultimately (maybe) homesteading. Maybe homesteaders naturally have more in common with eachother, having "walked the walk" longer, I don't know. All I know is I'm not interested in sitting in a coffee shop with a table full of strangers just because we've professed on some level to be preppers. Sorry, but it's not enough of a draw for me.
If there's some common learning goal involved, maybe. Otherwise, I have lots of family with canned goods in their cupboards that even if I don't have much in common with them, I have trust and history. And in a SHTF situation, I'll take that over a prepper stranger any day.

So how do you want to meet these other Preppers, are you going to invite them to your house. Or are you going to organize a meet somewhere, other than a coffee house. I don’t care where. I suggested a fast food place so that you can meet these people. Oldschool organized a meet in Hamilton at a park, and I helped her set it up, and gave a demonstration on building an emergency solar oven and in doing so missed the other demonstration being given. But first we met at a "coffee house/green seed meet" just so that we could talk to find out what the other had to contribute.
Like I said, If you want to organize a get together in a park with an over head cover, then do so, but if you don't, then don’t shoot down the "coffee shop" option. At the last "coffee house meet" I was at, we past on a lot of information, with a show and tell afterwards in the parking lot.
I'm here to pass on what information I can, when and where ever I can.
Don’t talk about it, DO IT. Or leave it alone.

No offense intended Ranger... Meet anywhere you want... I'm out...