Has Your Personal Situation Changed?

Life throws us all sorts of curveballs, many of which have nothing (directly) to do with prepping. I’m personally navigating disability after years of being healthy and active.

This has changed way more than my ability to get around easily.

It’s changed the things that I find important. It’s changed the things that I used to do with ease. It’s changed my whole life, plan, to be perfectly honest.

I spent some time fighting this, refusing to accept that my personal situation had changed. I firmly believed it was all only temporary.

But, it’s not giving up to say that this is not temporary. This is how life is for me now. It’s still great in many ways, but adjustments have to be made. I have to change how I live and how I prep.

Recently, we had a tornado warning. I grew up in tornado country so I’m generally pretty unruffled when it comes to these warnings. I know what the signs look like. I know the greenish color of the sky, the sounds it makes, and what it “feels” like when there are tornadoes afoot.

This time, it really felt like it was coming at us for real. I have a bathroom with no windows and a large sturdy tub that is my planned retreat for things like this. I keep some wet cat food in there to lure the pets, and I have things all set up in a cabinet earmarked for that purpose.

I got in there to wait out the storm, armed with a novel, my phone, a radio, and the three cats. Luckily, it passed us by with no harm.

But the thing I noticed was that it took me far longer than it used to to get myself into a safe situation. I’m not very spry and collecting my phone, feeding the cats, grabbing my book, and getting into my bathtub wasn’t the speedy few seconds it used to take.

That’s when I began to wonder what else I might be misjudging with my change of circumstances. It reminded me of those guys I used to chuckle at, the 60-year-olds who believe that their high school football career means that they’re still athletic and can sprint, tackle, and work the way they could almost 50 years ago. Except, now I’m the theoretical high school football player, and it seems way less funny to realize that I’ve overestimated myself. (Sorry, fellas!)

That’s why I decided I needed to test myself. I created Practice Makes Prepped, a variety of emergency drills that take only five minutes to complete. There are absolutely some places I’ve discovered that I need to make adaptations for my new reality, and I’d much rather know now, while I have time to figure it out, than when the flood water is pouring in through a broken window or a tornado is sweeping through the area.

I bet I’m not alone. While many of us are lucky enough to age in a way that doesn’t affect our preparedness skills, others are not. And if we have children at home, or someone new to prepping, it’s our responsibility to help them learn to be safe too. Are you doing it now with a baby under your arm and a toddler in tow? An elderly relative? Has your situation changed since you made your own plan?

It’s great to have lots of preps, but if you don’t know what to do with them, quickly and efficiently, it may not be enough in the event of a crisis or disaster.

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And whether you choose to use the drills I set up or create your own, whether you ace everything like it was as easy as pie or you find some rough spots, whether your loved ones know what to do or are little lost lambs…

Do it.

Test yourself.

Make sure that you aren’t overly confident because that could get you hurt or even killed. Five minutes is all it takes and even if you “fail” the drill, you win because you get to create a new way of doing things that works for you now.

Have you ever overestimated your prepping abilities and skills? Your flexibility or endurance? Let’s talk about it in the comments section.

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