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Those who know my mother know she is not prone to hysterics or being easily swayed by popular sentiment or hot button issues. She has lived through much. She is old enough to remember her father calling her mother to tell them WWII was 'over', and her mother gave her the phone so her father could tell her, too. She said she didn't understand much about the war as she was so young, but she understood the end of it was a great and historic event.
She lived through a polio epidemic, catching it and surviving it relatively unscathed. She's been from fairly well off to dirt poor to middle class. Lost her parents and a child. A staunch Christian and believer in the work ethic. So there is not much that gets her worried. But the corona virus has her worried.
We were talking the other day and she said she remembers her grandmother talking about how hard the Spanish flu hit rural areas in 1918. Obviously, being rural didn't help at all back then. There is a cemetery in Caddo, Tx. I've been in where there are so many headstones with the date of death being 1918, and a sad number of those were child's headstones.
My mother called me a while ago to make sure I have plenty of preps in case the coronavirus begins to take hold in the general population like the Spanish flu did, and we all have to stay home for an undetermined amount of time. She knows I'm a prepper, and she knows I've always worried because basically, they are not. In the past several years they do keep more food on hand, but not more than a few weeks worth at most. And if they lost electricity and lost the contents of their chest freezer, cut that time in half.
I said yes mom, I have plenty of preps but I have been adding to them lately and plan on doing a major shop in the next few days when my knee is up to it. She said they are going tomorrow and are going to 'spend big' on it. Of course to her spending 'big' on anything is not really my idea of spending big, but it's better than nothing.
She also was talking about other prep type issues. And I just thought of something I need to ask her about tomorrow---what about their meds? I need to see if they have some on hand. God knows Walgreens would be the last place I'd go in a pandemic.
So yeah, my mom, the prepper!
Y'all, I am so, so proud of her I could burst!
She lived through a polio epidemic, catching it and surviving it relatively unscathed. She's been from fairly well off to dirt poor to middle class. Lost her parents and a child. A staunch Christian and believer in the work ethic. So there is not much that gets her worried. But the corona virus has her worried.
We were talking the other day and she said she remembers her grandmother talking about how hard the Spanish flu hit rural areas in 1918. Obviously, being rural didn't help at all back then. There is a cemetery in Caddo, Tx. I've been in where there are so many headstones with the date of death being 1918, and a sad number of those were child's headstones.
My mother called me a while ago to make sure I have plenty of preps in case the coronavirus begins to take hold in the general population like the Spanish flu did, and we all have to stay home for an undetermined amount of time. She knows I'm a prepper, and she knows I've always worried because basically, they are not. In the past several years they do keep more food on hand, but not more than a few weeks worth at most. And if they lost electricity and lost the contents of their chest freezer, cut that time in half.
I said yes mom, I have plenty of preps but I have been adding to them lately and plan on doing a major shop in the next few days when my knee is up to it. She said they are going tomorrow and are going to 'spend big' on it. Of course to her spending 'big' on anything is not really my idea of spending big, but it's better than nothing.
She also was talking about other prep type issues. And I just thought of something I need to ask her about tomorrow---what about their meds? I need to see if they have some on hand. God knows Walgreens would be the last place I'd go in a pandemic.
So yeah, my mom, the prepper!
Y'all, I am so, so proud of her I could burst!
