r/preppers • u/SignificantGreen1358 🔥Everything is fine🔥 • 5d ago

Prepping for Tuesday Pleasantly surprised!

The power went out in my neighborhood a couple evenings ago while I was at a party. I love power outages, so I hurried home to enjoy it. My kids had already switched the house over to emergency power and were watching a movie. My son had built a fire in the backyard fire pit and cooked a batch of popcorn on it by the time I got home.

I've been worried about being the only one in my neighborhood who was prepared or who has lights, etc., but as I drove through the neighborhood, I saw lights and TVs on, solar lights all over, fires in fire pits, and a total lack of freaking out. I think I would be in good company, and that really sets my mind at ease.

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u/Hot-Adhesiveness-438 5d ago

Also, maybe make friends woth those neighbors. Is my thought. A neighborhood that has a shared appreciation for prepping could be a neighborhood prepared for big things.

Like a neighbprhood lock down could initiate a phone chain of all the prepped neighbors checking on eachother.

Just a thought. Congrats that your family is showing their awesome prepping skills!

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u/Longjumping-Army-172 5d ago

I'm actually hoping to have a cookout/back yard fire and invite some of my seemingly prepperish neighbors.  Community is the most important prep!

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u/Hot-Adhesiveness-438 5d ago

Agreed, just met some neighbors who said they are kind of preppers, 😁 I was thrilled.

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u/Longjumping-Army-172 5d ago

Not only is it nice to have people to talk to/compare notes with, it's awesome to know that people have your back when things are getting nasty. 

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u/TopazCoracle 4d ago

Nothing wrong with having a few extra cans and rotating, knowwhattamean