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Practical Prepping Podcast Episode #225, Reporting Storm Spotter Information To The National Weather Service."

In this episode, we discuss what and how to make storm spotter reports to the National Weather Service, even if you have not had the Storm Spotter training.

What To Report:

Tornadoes, funnel clouds, rotating wall clouds
Hail one inch, or quarter-sized, or larger.
     (Do not use "pea sized" or "marble sized" in reports, use
        standard measurements or coin sizes for reports)
Wind speed, 58+ mph,  measured or estimated
Wind damage to trees, roofs, structures, or downed power lines.

Check your local National Weather Service website to find the ways to reports to them. You can make phone reports, online reports, for most local offices, and apps for others.

We discourage "storm chasing" for the untrained and inexperienced, but we certainly encourage you to get "storm spotter" training.

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Practical Prepping Podcast Episode #224, "Ten Prepping Activities We Can Do."

In this episode, we discuss ten prepping actives, any of which, or several, we can do in an afternoon.

Dump your Get Home Bag or your EDC bag
        Examine each piece of gear
        Check your supplies
        Check & replenish first-aid supplies
        Rotate your OTC meds
Plant something edible
Check food supplies for short dates
Check your car preps
Check your supplies of these items:
Check your battery operated devices
Practice starting a fire without matches or a lighter
Cook without electricity or your regular gas stove
De-clutter your space & check for pests
Take photos & record serial numbers

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Practical Prepping Podcast Episode # 223, "Adaptability In A Changing World; The Adaptability Skillset."

Inthis episode, we discuss the adaptability skillset. Adaptability is a skill that allows us to be flexible and change easily. Adaptable people tend to thrive in unpredictable environments, and can adapt to changing situations.
EEveryprepper can benefit from adaptability in a changing world.

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Practical Prepping Podcast Episode # 222, "Senior Citizens And Prepping."

In today's episode, Krista discusses the benefits and challenges to senior citizen preparedness. Hat tip to www.survivorsullivan.com writer, Tara Dodrill, for the timely information.

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Practical Prepping Podcast Episode # 221, "Increasing Your Odds Of Having Stolen Property Recovered, And Dealing With Insurance."

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Practical Prepping Podcast Episode # 220, "Government Over Reach; Big Brother Is Listening, Watching, And Tracking Us, And He Is Being Nosey." - rewind

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We're taking Mother's day off from recording to spend time with our family, so we are rewinding a very popular episode from last year, which we are sure you will enjoy.

In this episode we discuss recently discovered information about "keyword warrants" being used to compell Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to turn over key word searches and user information to government agencies.

We also discuss the IRS proposal (in the three trillion dollar bill before congress) that will require banks to send all transactions from every bank account with $600 or more transactions per year.

We discuss a whole lot more including our children's education and even history.

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Practical Prepping Podcast Episode # 219, "Building Get-Home-Bags, And Seventy-Two Hour Bags"

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In this episode we discuss building that bag that would help us get home, or will help us when we are away from home.  It really is useful for more than just getting home after a SHTF.

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Practical Prepping Podcast Episode # 218, ""Having A Positive Attitude And A Survival Mindset, rewind"

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In this episode we discuss: "Having A Positive Mental Attitude and Survival Mindset, And Dealing With Stress"

"A positive mental attitude will not let you do anything, but it will let you do everything better than a negative attitude will". - Zig Ziglar

" Whatever the mind can conceive, and believe, the mind can achieve" - Napolean Hill

"We become what we think about" - Earl Nightingale

We all know people who are so negative that we often hate to see them coming. We also know people who are so positive, to quote Ziglar again, they "would go after Moby Dick and take the tarter sauce with them."

 In such a time when we need to use our preps or put our emergency plans into action, the stresses mount up. Stress can impede our performance in areas of memory, decision making, and multitasking, as well as increase fatigue.

Two basic types of stress: chronic stress and acute stress.

Chronic Stress
Remove the stress, if possible
Take some deep breaths
Take a break
Break things down in to smaller tasks
Count to 10 before speaking or responding
Take a break from news & social media
Develop Regular routines
Prepping relieves stress & worry
Make a plan and work your plan

Acute stress
Train to handle acute stress
Visualize Scenerios
The mind doesn't know the difference between visualization and the actual doing of a thing.
A Survival mindset says, "I am ready, I will prevail"
A survival mindset is the prepper mindset. We decide ahead of time that we will survive most any situation and that we will do what it takes to protect our family.

Decide ahead of time what you will do.
Acknowledge there will be stress
Plan for the stress
Plan a course of action

What are you willing to do to save your family or to save your own life?
Are you willing to turn others away when there is little food?
Are you willing to take another's life?

We decide ahead of time that we wont let the situation drag us down. 
We prepare. We train. 
We visualize scenarios so that when we get there we are prepared because in our minds, we have already been there.

Find ways to relieve your stress

Have some fun

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Practical Prepping Podcast Episode #217, "Learning as you go, in life, as well as in prepping"

We should strive to improve each time we do something, in all areas of life.
Seek to increase your prepping knowledge regularly
Work to improve our prepping skills each week or each month

Understand That We Will Make Mistakes
Do not fear failure, or making mistakes, unless you are a bomb disposal technician.
Thomas Edison, when questioned about having unsuccessfully tried thousands of times to make a working lightbulb, replied, "I have not failed.... I've just found 10,000 ways that wont work"

Learn from our mistakes
What went right? 
What went wrong?
What can we do better next time?

Learn from the mistakes of others
What did they do wrong?
What could they have done to avoid the mistake?

Try doing old things in new ways
We're not reinventing the wheel here, but looking for little improvements in systems or procedures
ie: A better way to inventory your food or your water storage, or rain water collection

Remember that we can learn something from everyone
Sometimes What/How to do
Sometimes What/How not to do

Doing a "hot wash," "post mortem," or "after-action" of an event or practice and make notes
What did we do right?   Or what went right?
What did we do wrong?  Or What went wrong?
Analyze the information 
And Develop a plan

Commit to the learning process !
Learn something every day
Read something every day
     Books, journals, website, articles, magazines, forums, social
     media groups (may have to filter thru the clutter)
Even if only for a few minutes each day
Watch/listen to something once or twice each week
     Youtube videos, podcasts, especially while driving

Recapping
Learn as you go
Don't fear mistakes
Figure out what you did right or did wrong
Try doing old things in new ways
     ie: Fire starting, water filtration,
Commit to the learning process

Do these things and you will be light years ahead down the road.

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Practical Prepping Podcast Episode # 216, "Things That Could Threaten Your Life In An Emergency Situation"

Normalcy bias, indecision, and rubbernecking, in the wrong situations, can get you killed. 

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