Preparedness – The Suburban Redoubt

An inflection point?

A Gray Man — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:13:06 +0000

Saw this today: Well, I don’t know if that title is how I would put it. But it does seem like we might be at a kind of inflection point, where an idea that had currency in a small minority, prepping, begins to achieve wider acceptance. To be sure, the people clogging Costcos right now …

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Covid-19 and society

A Gray Man — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:18:24 +0000

This evening the local news had a special on covid-19. An economist opined that this could cause a recession. On the other hand, if there was some good news, such as a fall in cases in Italy, it could rally people’s spirits and make them think everything was going to be alright. I got stuck …

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News: Judge Not, Finger Wavers

A Gray Man — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 16:37:06 +0000

Today I ran across this Tweet: The dog whistle target of this Tweet and the comments that follow should be clear enough to anyone who has witnessed our increasingly savage culture wars. In case it wasn’t, one of the comments provided a helpful re-Tweet that translates this for the Bible thumpers among us: After seeing …

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Of masks and men

A Gray Man — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 01:20:59 +0000

I am going to talk about prepping in part through a series of rules or guidelines that have informed my prepping. In my last post I introduced my number one rule (“Be the gray man”) because…hey, it’s the number one rule. And now I’ll skip to one of the last rules on my list, because …

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I am a gray man

A Gray Man — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 22:16:59 +0000

So let me say a little, but just a very little, about me. I have been a prepper for around a decade. There were series of triggering events for me (e.g. watching the chaos and disruption in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, social distrubances in our increasingly polarized society, witnessing increasingly severe climate events, etc.). …

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Welcome

A Gray Man — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 21:49:54 +0000

Welcome to The Suburban Redoubt. This is a blog about preparing yourself and your family for significant social disruptions. It is a blog about prepping. I have been a prepper for a while (more about that in another post) and have toyed with the idea of a prepper site for some time, if nothing else …

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