A crippling ice storm that left Travis Maddox and thousands of other Missouri residents without power in 2007 had an “almost apocalyptic feel to it.”
“No one could move. It just shut the whole region down for two weeks. I wasn’t as prepared as I thought,” said Maddox, a burly man of 43 sporting a long black beard, T-shirt, cargo pants and baseball cap, while tending his garden.
Those two weeks made Maddox realize that being prepared—“prepping,” as it’s called today—was the key to a life of self-reliance and personal freedom.
As an Eagle Scout, he never forgot the Boy Scout motto: Be prepared.
“To me, the ultimate level of prepping is being self-sufficient. You’re still being modern, but you’re in control,” Maddox told The Epoch Times in a phone interview on Thursday.
In 2009, Maddox launched his YouTube channel, “The Prepared Homestead,” which now has over 32,000 subscribers.
People, he said, are waking up to the worsening reality of supply chain disruptions and food shortages, and rapid political and social changes that all point toward “a perfect storm” just ahead.
The COVID-19 lockdowns and empty store shelves served only to heighten popular sentiment that the “old normal” is gone, he said.
“When the pandemic struck we started seeing all this panic buying,” Maddox said.
“What’s really increased is the number of people that contact me. These are really personal emails. They’re not crazy extremists. These are single moms, elderly people, disabled people, regular working people. They’re realizing that things are changing. They can just feel things are changing rapidly,” he said.
“The riots [of 2020] were bad. The election was bad. Now what’s happening is the whole world is starting to change,” Maddox added.
True ! Be prepared ! Embrace the Reality and Science of Climate Change. Remember bomb shelters. There is a crumbling one in the back yard of property inherited from my grandparents with rotting mattresses bunk beds and rusting shelves of canned foods and melted candles. Thinking they would survive a Nuclear War. LOL. They didn’t survive their marriage went their separate ways and died of lung cancer from a lifetime of smoking. Just don’t choose your battles people. Know damn well what they are before you put all your superstitious eggs in one basket. Funny now everyone is worried about everything but Nuclear Annihilation and that threat has really changed little since then if not become a more a threat but people believe those Weapons are some sort of equalizer that keeps the peace. I guess they associate that threat with their Fantasy of THE RAPTURE.
Homeless people are likely better prepared to survive any of us.
Learn some simple recipes and stock up on ingredients. Start with breads.
5:16 Obviously you won’t have to worry about being in the Rapture. You will be a “left behinder”.