survival series

okay. major storms this week across the usa, 63 percent of the country has snow or ice on the ground. a new record from what i was told. it brings me to a very important point. preparedness is the key to survival. a prepared person, keeps their head about them , they don't panic and they think it through. . .

my wife gives me heck until the lights go out and we have to live in a world where there is no heat, no light and no food, that is until i get the generator going, the woodstove going and pull out the emergency supplies i have in backpacks. then she's grateful she married a man that doesn't
feel the need to say the sky is falling the sky is falling.....

we lived seven days in our garage by the woodstove a few winters ago during an ice storm and blizzard that hit us and knocked the power out for 7 days straight
think of it as camping out. i said as the outdoor temperatures dipped down to below twenty degrees at night. we had a great time cooking and snuggling to pass the time away. . there was no way out. 25 inches of snow and ice made certain we stayed fairly close to the garage. we used melted ice to bathe in. a five gallon bucket in the shower, its exhilerating to say the least
ive lived in the cold areas up north, dug snow caves and cut igloos , ice fished and hunted
for game nearly all of my life, all my adult life at least.
new york, in the great lakes and finger lakes region, the cold weather capital of the country. ive been in michigan in the cold too. minnesota was a trip. and believe me, i was born in the midwest, raised there and saw animals frozen in their tracks there at 30 degrees below zero...one winter day. i felt the blizzard of 68 that hit the northeast, and lived to tell about it. ..no brag just fact. and each time i make it through these things i know deep down that a lot of folks didnt... oh by the way merry christmas friends