I Am Not Ready For An EMP or Losing My Phone

Phone Panic

If you are following me on Twitter (@prepprinciples), then you know that a few days ago that I posted about losing my phone.

I was in a panic. No, seriously, I will admit it.

I thought I was going to hyperventilate. I was running around the house looking for it like a mad woman. Throwing things around, not out of anger, but you know tossing a sweatshirt out of the way moving magazines around.

Retracing my steps, I checked the bathroom, refrigerator, mailbox, washing machine - OH GOD DID I WASH IT??

This here girl was starting to go into full on panic mode - over a phone!

I posted on Twitter that I lost my phone, as if anyone following me could help me find it!

I checked under my chair, in coat pockets, on the desk, on my dresser, in my dresser drawers.

Then it hit me - what in the world was I going to do if an EMP hit and there were no cell phones.

Chill out, I told myself.

I sat back down and did some work on my computer. And then I decided it was time to go do some yard work and realized my headphones were still in my car.

Guess where I found my phone?

Sitting on the seat of my car.

Lesson Learned - Don't panic, not even over a misplaced phone. It gave me some things I need to work on and prepare for, a list that always seems to grow instead of getting smaller.

My Family Does Not Like My BOB

How do you deal with family members that aren't supportive of your prepping activities? That's what I'd like to know; seriously what do you? I have received more "eye rolls", shrugs and offhand comments than I care to mention. Is this what all Preppers face? It's as if we have the plague, ha!

Recently, I went on a day trip to another relatives house a few hours away. My parental unit, my offspring and I left early in the morning. I'm the navigator because honestly, my parental unit sucks at navigation and this allows me to take notes, watch for landmarks, unmarked back roads and just get a general idea of the area.

We left exactly on schedule because of my planning. (Patting self on back.) I had the car packed and ready to go and everyone up and moving early enough to take of the personal hygiene needs, SSSSB (Shit, Shower, Shave, Shampoo, Brush Teeth)

Driving down the highway I hear my parental unit say "Did you have to bring THAT?"  "That" is my B.O.B. Why yes, yes I did need to bring it. And it's a very good thing I brought it.

Why?

Because the GPS on all of our phones did not work correctly. None of the available online map services pulled up the address we needed. Now we knew the basic direction and knew the town we needed to be near, but we didn't know the complexity of the back roads, the lefts at the fork and the right at the stop sign to get to the exact location.

Guess what I had in my B.O.B.?

A good ol' fashioned map of the area that I just so happened to print the night before! Woo Hoo, jumps around does a happy dance and gives the parental unit the "yeah, I told you so look".

Now let me ask you this?

What are you going to do if an EMP is detonated?

My parental unit may just start appreciating my prepping ways a little more now.