All those years of preparing and one mistake could ruin it all, and could genuinely be the difference between your family making it or not. My safe spot is a critical part of my preparations, and it is essential that I manage to get my family there, and that no strangers know of its existence.<\/p>\n
I’ve had the privilege of being approached to present my thoughts on “doomsdays” to the general public via TV shows. That means a far greater reach than my blog or book<\/a> are likely to achieve. That means many lives potentially saved, should something go wrong. But at what personal cost?<\/p>\n Most of those opportunities have been null and void due to me not being in the USA. Nat Geo flew out here, that was cool. Doomsday Preppers<\/em> asked if I wanted to be their first international subject. I declined. It’s not worth the risk. There are too many ways it can go wrong, and my safe spot can become public knowledge. An anonymous reader posted their similar story over at The Intel Hub<\/a>:<\/p>\n I was flattered that my story was good enough to be on national TV.\u00a0 I thought it would be interesting to offer some advice to others. \u00a0Heck, it might even be fun.<\/p>\n So we began talking.\u00a0 I told them I had three requirements: no face shot, no real name used, no real boat name used and no real location used.\u00a0 I was contacted by the associate producer; everything agreed to except the face shot.<\/p>\n Nope\u2026.you got to do better.\u00a0 I was then contacted by the executive producer\u2026..must have face in video to make the story.\u00a0 Nope\u2026..I must retain my secrecy.\u00a0 Then they threw in $500 cash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The author has come up with some basic rules for Prepper Privacy:<\/p>\n Now that’s pretty extreme and paranoid. Nothing wrong with that!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n It’s different when you are a blogger\/author. I have a minor smoke screen in that Bast is not my real name. But I’m not shy about telling\u00a0acquaintances\u00a0that I am a prepper – I’m on a mission to get the word out. I have lots of supplies at home, but my main stash is somewhere else, and virtually nobody knows where.<\/p>\n\n
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