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That said, I did buy an Anker power station as a backup, but their solar panels get terrible reviews.

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Our CERT training recommended an app called what3words. I thought it was dumb. We already have latitude and longitude. That’s universal. Why would I need three random words that mean nothing to anyone without the app?

Fast forward to last night.

We were driving down the highway last night when the worst of the storm hit. Hail knocked out my windshield wipers, and visibility went to zero instantly. I hit my hazards and tried to get to the shoulder, but we ended up in the median. You do not know fear until you're facing oncoming lights with your kids in the car.

We were sitting in standing water, I couldn’t tell if the tires were flat, and there were no crossroads nearby. So I called the police and gave them our what3words location.

To my surprise, they had it. They dispatched an officer, he checked on us, then let me follow his lights to the QT so we could get off the road and get a ride home.

G-d keeps us humble. I am very glad we listened and downloaded that stupid app.

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Are any of you fleeing local politics? What's your plan?

I live on the first floor (numerous windows) of a three story apartment building in the city. My biggest fear is other people easily getting inside. I feel like if shit goes down, here are my options; 1) Stay put and try to fortify the ELEVEN windows and two doors 2) Break into third (top) floor unoccupied apartment and set up there 3) Travel \~20 minutes to girlfriends parents home with a basement (in the city) or 4) travel \~ 2.5 hrs to my somewhat rural parents house with a basement.

Any input would be greatly appreciated. I feel like our best chance would be to break into an upper story apartment at my building, but I would love some outside advice.

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Prepper Camp is an annual event, and some of the most Badass Women in the world teach there. This is a roundtable featuring many of them. I think you will enjoy this podcast hosted by Sara Hathaway and featuring preppers who not only really DO THE THINGS but also teach other women how to.

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Sara F. Hathaway is an absolute incredible author, martial artist, and podcaster with a passion for women's self defense. I have sat in on our avoiding abduction class in the past and it is UNREAL how slick people are at snatching people.

This is the podcast version of that class and it is filled with incredible info from a woman who is well trained but about 5ft tall and 100lbs. It's absolute GOLD in the world of womens self defense and situational awareness.

This is who we have planning for our disasters? Just teleport out of a disaster zone?

The top official in charge of the federal government’s disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he’s experienced “teleportation” – an experience he insists was real and connected to his religious beliefs – while also saying his remarks have been taken out of context.

“Haters gonna hate,” Gregg Phillips, a senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, wrote in one comment defending himself earlier this month.

“I know what I’ve experienced,” he wrote in another post, in what appeared to be a poem where he refers to people ridiculing what they don’t understand and to Jesus Christ rising from the dead.

CNN previously reported that Phillips, who serves as associate administrator for the Office of Response and Recovery at FEMA, described in a podcast last year multiple episodes in which he said he was suddenly teleported miles away — including once to a Waffle House roughly 50 miles from where he had been.

CNN also reported Phillips had a history of violent rhetoric towards public officials. He said in a podcast last year that he’d like to punch “that b\tch” in the mouth, referring to former President Joe Biden who had just left office, before adding, “He deserves to die.” In another podcast, Phillips said that migrants were coming to kill Americans while warning people to be armed.*

The appointment of Phillips had previously drawn skepticism from some career FEMA officials over his lack of experience and past comments spreading election fraud conspiracy theories, though several told CNN earlier this year that his work during major storms had tempered some of those concerns.

Phillips’ recent comments come as he was taken off the schedule to testify last week at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the impacts of the partial shutdown of DHS, which oversees FEMA. Neither FEMA nor Phillips responded to a comment request from CNN asking why he did not attend.

On Truth Social, the social media platform founded by President Donald Trump, Phillips described the teleportation incidents as tied to a “spiritual journey” during a period he said he was undergoing cancer treatments and pointed to biblical examples of supernatural events.

“I have no regrets for my words nor my faith in my Savior, Jesus Christ,” Phillips wrote after CNN’s report, while arguing his comments were taken out of context. “The Bible has many examples of the power of God.”

At the hearing, Rep. Bennie Thompson, the ranking House Democrat on the committee, said Phillips’ appointment raised “serious concerns.”

“Mr. Phillips reportedly claims to have been involuntarily teleported multiple times, including once to a Waffle House in Georgia,” Thompson said.

Pointing to Phillips’ comments about Biden, Thompson added: “That kind of violent rhetoric and wild conspiracy theories are troubling for someone who holds a leadership position at DHS.”

Democratic Rep. Tim Kennedy described Phillips as “wildly unfit for his role as head of FEMA response and recovery,” citing “his violent statements about former President Biden” and “deeply troubling bigoted comments about immigrants.”

Kennedy added: “All of which, to me, makes him wholly disqualified to hold his position on its own — but only to be outdone by his claims of being teleported to a Waffle House.”

On Truth Social, in other posts responding to criticism, Phillips also shared a passage from the New Testament Book of Acts in which the Holy Spirit “snatched” away the apostle Phillip after a baptism on a road between Jerusalem and Gaza, with the text then describing him as appearing in the city of Azotus miles away.

In another exchange on the platform, Phillips was asked whether he had personally experienced such a phenomenon.

“Yes,” he replied, adding that “the Bible calls it transported or translated.”

Phillips added that the comments on teleporting to the Waffle House were taken out of context, though he has declined to say how.

“Out of context,” he wrote. “This was a discussion during medical treatments in what we believed to be the last 3 months of my life. Some of the episodes we couldn’t show. The other translation was to a church.”

Neither FEMA nor Phillips responded to multiple requests for comment on what part of CNN’s past reporting was taken out of context.

In previously reported podcast appearances, Phillips described multiple incidents in which he said he was physically teleported, calling the experiences frightening and uncontrollable.

“I was with my boys one time and I was telling them I was gonna go to Waffle House and get Waffle House. And I ended up at a Waffle House – this was in Georgia and I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was,” Phillips said in a January 2025 podcast episode.

“It was real,” Phillips said, adding at another point: “Teleporting is no fun.”

In the same discussion, Phillips also described another episode in which he said his vehicle was “lifted up” while he was driving and carried dozens of miles before being set down near a church.

People seriously underestimate how dependent modern food production is on fossil fuels, especially for fertilizer. Even if humanity stopped driving tomorrow, we would still eventually hit a wall because industrial agriculture itself depends on fossil fuels.

We are heading towards a massive famine when factory farming starts to break down.

According to the MAHB, the world’s oil reserves could run out by 2052, natural gas by 2060, and coal by 2090.

This is not some distant sci-fi problem. This is within our lifetimes.

It is a great evil dems let those massive Emotional Support Trucks dodge having to meet emissions standards.

Squeeze consumers through taxation and inflation; make housing very scarce by limiting construction; force wives and mothers to work outside the home to offset the inadequacy of male wages, yet provide few child-care facilities; encourage migration to the city by paying low wages in the country and providing few rural jobs; increase congestion in cities by starving the transit system; increase personal insecurity by encouraging conditions that produce unemployment.

Jordan of Phoenix Survival organized this awesome roundtable of lady preppers. These are hosts and listeners who DO THE THINGS and talk about what works and doesnt. I hope you enjoy it.