As none of us can know when the heaven strike, I am sharing with you my current state of readiness. I hope you will find inspiration and provide criticism and advises. I am no expert in survivalism so please seek advices with better than I do (for example alex jones guests, mike adams, joel skouzel and others prepers.
Your soul is your ultimate shield. Make peace with God, love and respect and learn from his guidances, attempt to follow his path. Have a relation.
Your body is the earthly vessel of your soul ! Take care of it. Always be in a good health, do the most to have a good regulary nutrion, heal your sickness, specially those chronicle. It's just to increase resilience, same for general fitness level. Get used to carry a bag.
Mobility / Bunker down. Sometimes there is no choice but to move and otherwise it's best to hunker down. Both scenario ask for awarness, informations and 2 completly different setup. I believe both should be prepared.
One of the major risks, at least in france, is nuke plants blowing up, I don't have still yet a geiger counter. This is I guess the major gear I miss. I think it's critical to have such a tool. Specially to be able to decide to stay or leave, and in which direction.
Food / drinks both in a shuffling program. It's useless to have stocks you don't use on a regular basis. They may be against plastic bottled water, but having a supply, and refreshing it by consuming it can be really useful. Right now I have 4 packs of 6 1,5 litter bottles. It's low. I should refuel soon. Same for food, having some dry easily storeable food, like rice/pasta and can be great. To up the game seeds, or potatoes can be really an improvement. Meaning switching from the dead storage to the livestock.
On a more technological level, having a cell phone external battery with a little solar panel on it can be really useful, and of course an array of open source apps, from openmaps which works without cell towers (ie maps on the devices) and apps like firechat to be able to communicate without celltowers. To a more bunker down, having all the software you need, p2p torrent software and all this kind of stuff can be really useful. And the ability to create and carry light is priceless.
Ultimately it's more a mindset than gears or stuff. One great way is to play video games, specially the survival kind, for example Alan Wake, or the Fallout kinds...
preparedness trumps everything, and being in the "cycle of it", is really the only way to be comfortable with it. And please don't let the useful idiots demoralize you. When they laugh seeing you carry those water packs like a fragile donkey, or struggling to get some seed out of the grounds, or using resilient software, just try to forget them, but more importantly ignore them, don't waste your energy convincing or arguing with them, just do your stuff. And if the time comes, remember the story of the ant and the cricket...
One danced all summer long, while the ant worked hard and made preparation for winter. When automn got cold the cricket had nothing, and went to ask the ant for help, sadly, the ant had to keep a closed door. Which shall the ant die for the cricket to plunder his stocks. Of course I guess the cricket didn't like this answer, started or to use mercy, pitty, and then when still faced with a refusal, violence, the first gate keepers of the colony died, but ultimately the cricket became a food source for the surviving ants... The mother of the swarm, knew that her valorous children did the right thing for the swarm. Yes, they try to say she is a queen, but no, she is the mother of them all.
ps. if all the mobile electronic gears cables could be harmonized it would be great to help others... because those proprietary cables can be a good way to extract value from the con(ed)summers but they increase fragility.
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