Hi! I just joined the forum, but have been a prepper of sorts my whole life. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and that meant keeping supplies on hand for bad winters, power outages, flooding, and every other sort of inconvenience rural life threw at us. Through all the cities I lived in since, including the one I live in now, I've always maintained a cache of food and water, self-defense measures, and the means to clear out if necessary.
