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1987 stock market crash.
Being a new survivalist at the time and only a teenager, I didn't know the significance. I mean come on, the parachutes were not falling on the high school football field yet, so this must not be THAT bad.
What's interesting is that later that day I happened to be talking on the phone with a guy I had been corresponding to via the "Survivalist's Directory" in the old American Survival Guide magazine. He happened to be in my town working and we talked for a while. He talked about some friends who were freaking out and had gone to their local gun store that day and stocked up because of the market drop. Honestly I didn't understand much about economic collapse then- hell I was 14!
Later I would understand the implications of it more and the possibility that things could have gotten a lot worse quickly. Such as the nature of things like this, hindsight always being 20/20 and what not. Often times when we are "in" the problem we don't see how big the problem is or potentially could become. This is why it's important to learn to ACT rather than being forced to REACT.
Grabbing the initiative versus sitting there watching things unfold on TV, looking for more "research", etc. Just like the untold tens of thousands that were glued to the TV on 9/11 instead of finalizing preps, getting away from bad areas, etc. The reality was that NO ONE KNEW what was coming next and the attacks could have easily been a precursor to a larger war starting. Sure NOW all the Monday Morning Quarterbacks would say "it was just blah blah blah" and do the "nothing to see move along people" approach. But THAT DAY, NO ONE KNEW.
We have to learn to act on limited information at times, as we will not always have the "big picture." Too often "preppers" get bogged down on "research" and that becomes endless research, which often times goes in large circles but the person cannot even see that. What is missing from the equation is often ACTING on the "research."
Learn to ACT, learn to operate without all the "data".
Being a new survivalist at the time and only a teenager, I didn't know the significance. I mean come on, the parachutes were not falling on the high school football field yet, so this must not be THAT bad.
What's interesting is that later that day I happened to be talking on the phone with a guy I had been corresponding to via the "Survivalist's Directory" in the old American Survival Guide magazine. He happened to be in my town working and we talked for a while. He talked about some friends who were freaking out and had gone to their local gun store that day and stocked up because of the market drop. Honestly I didn't understand much about economic collapse then- hell I was 14!
Later I would understand the implications of it more and the possibility that things could have gotten a lot worse quickly. Such as the nature of things like this, hindsight always being 20/20 and what not. Often times when we are "in" the problem we don't see how big the problem is or potentially could become. This is why it's important to learn to ACT rather than being forced to REACT.
Grabbing the initiative versus sitting there watching things unfold on TV, looking for more "research", etc. Just like the untold tens of thousands that were glued to the TV on 9/11 instead of finalizing preps, getting away from bad areas, etc. The reality was that NO ONE KNEW what was coming next and the attacks could have easily been a precursor to a larger war starting. Sure NOW all the Monday Morning Quarterbacks would say "it was just blah blah blah" and do the "nothing to see move along people" approach. But THAT DAY, NO ONE KNEW.
We have to learn to act on limited information at times, as we will not always have the "big picture." Too often "preppers" get bogged down on "research" and that becomes endless research, which often times goes in large circles but the person cannot even see that. What is missing from the equation is often ACTING on the "research."
Learn to ACT, learn to operate without all the "data".
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