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I started prepping before the process was called bad names. I had experience in visiting two grandmothers in Arkansas when I was a kid. Today, they would be called preppers. They lived so far away from any town, if they didn't grow food and can food, they would have had practically nothing to eat. There was no power so I saw and experienced how they lived. I doubt there is any place like that now in the US. Staying alive depended on them. There was no government assistance - you either lived or died due to what you did.

They had a garden, cows for milk, chickens, hogs, and cattle. They had many jars of canned veggies and fruit. There was a well in the middle of a back porch. They had a wood cookstove, and a wood stove in the parlor. The bedrooms had no heat. Naturally, there was no air conditioning. They used oil lamps.

Somehow we went from self survival to wusses who can't live on our own. My parents still had a garden, raised two hogs a year, had chickens and fruit trees.

I was the generation that broke that chain. When I was out on my own, cars were to get one to the grocery where the food was. It was all different then.

I guess I'm so old that most people don't remember that time and living like that is now called prepping and crazy. we went from a generation of self canned food, as much as one could store, to canned grocery store food and we shouldn't have a lot of the grocery cans.

See what happened? Rural living without power caused necessary storing and this freaking generation today has no idea that happened.

You know what? I don't care what this crying, wimpy generation says. Just call me galt.