{"id":381124,"date":"2018-10-15T22:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/preparation-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-10-15T22:58:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T21:58:29","slug":"preparation-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/preparation-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Dear ,<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cFear is the mind-killer\u201d<\/strong><br \/><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Dune<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sing up for the Gold Goats \u2018n Guns Podcast on iTunes and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.us15.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6e81e4ae23a6d43212abf113f&amp;id=075e27da44&amp;e=c7ae6d5677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Michael caught a lot of people unprepared.\u00a0 What looked like an uneventful gulf storm turned into a raging monster by the time it made landfall in the Florida panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>Michael missed us completely this year.\u00a0 I never really worried about it because there was so little error in the track and it was a relatively small storm. If we had to leave there were plenty of exits.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, last year\u2019s Irma was huge and violent.\u00a0 The track was truly a once-in-a-century kind of thing.\u00a0 It left us with very few options.\u00a0 Irma was bearing down on us in a way that, for the first time in the more then 30 years I\u2019ve lived in and around Gainesville, my wife and I considered boarding up and bugging out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/10\/mail.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-692771 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/10\/mail.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/10\/mail.png 624w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/10\/mail-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/10\/mail-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/10\/mail-620x349.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We boarded up, but ultimately didn\u2019t need to bug out.\u00a0 It was mostly a non-event for us, but it could have been far worse.<\/p>\n<p>But, preparation like that is not something you do at the last minute.\u00a0 It\u2019s not running to the store and buying bottled water and peanut butter to last you through a few days without power.<\/p>\n<p>Preparation is a state of mind. It\u2019s having 90% of the things you need well before the storm is even named.\u00a0 And then all you have to do is go through a short checklist calmly.<\/p>\n<p>It needs to suffuse your entire lifestyle if you are going to put yourself in harm\u2019s way.\u00a0 And living in Florida is the very definition of\u00a0<em>in harm\u2019s way.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gold Goats \u2018n Guns\u00a0<\/strong>is all about that state of mind.<span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Preppers-Blueprint-Step-Step-Disaster\/dp\/1496092589?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1496092589\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51dx5eSDW3L.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Preppers-Blueprint-Step-Step-Disaster\/dp\/1496092589?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1496092589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Prepperu2019s Blue&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Tess Pennington<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$21.55<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$27.00<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 09:25 EDT &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=1496092589&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is taking responsibility for your personal well-being in a way that is holistic, it\u2019s a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/10\/thomas-luongo\/preparation-is-more-than-just-buying-bottled-water\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear , \u201cFear is the mind-killer\u201d\u2014 Dune Sing up for the Gold Goats \u2018n Guns Podcast on iTunes and\u00a0Spotify Hurricane Michael caught a lot of people unprepared.\u00a0 What looked like an uneventful gulf storm turned into a raging monster by the time it made landfall in the Florida panhandle. Michael missed us completely this year.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}