Posted on 12/29/2009 7:23:03 AM PST by ChocChipCookie
Lisa Bedford is what you'd imagine of a stereotypical soccer mom. She drives a white Tahoe SUV. An American flag flies outside her suburban Phoenix home. She sells Pampered Chef kitchen tools and likes to bake. Bedford and her husband have two young children, four dogs, and go to church on Sunday.
But about a year ago, Bedford's homemaking skills went into overdrive. She began stockpiling canned food, and converted a spare bedroom into a giant storage facility. The trunk of each of her family's cars got its own 72-hour emergency kit—giant Tupperware containers full of iodine, beef jerky, emergency blankets, and even a blood-clotting agent designed for the battle-wounded. Bedford started thinking about an escape plan in case her family needed to leave in a hurry, and she and her husband set aside packed suitcases and cash. Then, for the first time in her life, Bedford went to a gun range and shot a .22 handgun. Now she regularly takes her two young children, 7 and 10, to target practice. "Over the last two years, I started feeling more and more unsettled about everything I was seeing, and I started thinking, 'What if we were in the same boat?'" says Bedford, 49.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
What’s her FReep name???
Pampered Chef — good products.
Future Republican voters.
I am aware of many people following this same tactic since the mulim in chief has shown such a great love for his muzzie brothers in destroying this country and the poser in chief is ramming his socialist policies down our throats faster than we can swallow.
We’ve been doing the same for the last 3 years.
Interesting. I can’t get the Newsweek links to open — 10 tips. Probably the web site is busy.
LOL
If was serious, she and the family would not be living in Feenix (Ya, h/t CQ)).
Good that she is doing some prep, but while at chursh, she had better pray the faily beats the gust front to the hiway out of town....
As a Phoenician, believe me, I worry about a mass evacuation. The very, very few highways out of the city as well as the summer heat would guarantee hundreds of deaths.
This family isn’t alone.
gotta tip the hat to my fellow Americans who belong to the LDS church. They were way, way out front on this.
She needs to upgrade her range time to shooting something with some authority. Other than that, she’s pretty smart.
Whazzat you say?
It is OK about “preppers” but it sure isn’t nice to those before them.
“They call themselves ‘preppers.’ They are regular people with homes and families. But like the survivalists that came before them, they’re preparing for the worst.
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Far from the stereotype of survivalists past, she owns no camouflage, and she doesn’t believe that 2012—the final year of the Mayan calendar—will be the end of the world.
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In the past, survivalists and conspiracy theorists might go out into the woods, live out of a bunker, waiting (or sometimes hoping) for the apocalypse to hit. It was men, mostly; many of them antigovernment, often portrayed by the media as radicals of the likes of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.”
A .22 in the hand beats a .45 on the nightstand every single time my friend.
Most likely Quik-Klot. Each of our GOOD kits has a pack of this in it.
Huh?
Best Survival Guide on the net:
Surviving in Argentina...http://ferfal.blogspot.com/
This guy gives some great common sense about economic collapse survival.
Not to mention the nuclear facility.
A little extra in the coffee this morning?
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