Suburban Prepper (@SuburbanPrepper160)

Fellow Hoosiers, Anybody else still cleaning up from that storm? It came through my town and took everything down. No power, and my generator wouldn't start — fuel line was torn and it was beyond my skill set to fix. Sitting in the dark that night, the only thing still working in my house was the toilet, and only because of gravity. Next morning I went hunting for a generator. Drove all over Northwest Indiana, then down through Lafayette. Every store cleared out, same as you probably found. Finally turned one up at the Menards in Lebanon — a display model nobody had bought yet. I'll be honest about something. Living up in Northwest Indiana this close to the Illinois line, I've gotten used to people being a little short, a little guarded. That's just how it is up here now. Everyone in that Lebanon store was kind, helpful, went out of their way for a guy who'd been driving all day. Took me back for a second. I'd forgotten how different it is. Drove home on almost two days without sleep, and the power came back on partway through the drive. Got home to a flooded basement. Here's the part that stung. I was a paratrooper flight medic in Desert Storm and a combat medic in Afghanistan. Two combat tours. And I still got caught flat. The lesson wasn't buy a better generator. It was that gear you haven't tested is not a plan, and gear you can't repair is somebody else's problem waiting to become yours. I built something out of that. It's called the Total Preparedness Program. Over 400 modules — trauma care for when no ambulance is coming, alternative medicine for when there's no pharmacy, medical care for your whole family, land navigation, comms for when the networks are down, grid-down survival, defensive operations, homesteading and survival gardening. There are city survival guides in there too, Indianapolis included, built for the ground people actually live on. $9.97 a month. No trial, no gimmick, no upsell. I'm a one man operation — no company behind me, just a guy who put his savings and a few thousand hours into it. If it's useful to you, it's there. If not, no hard feelings — but I'd appreciate you passing it to a neighbor who'd get something out of it. tpp.suburbanprepper.com Suburban Prepper