My Study of Dystopian Fiction Never Prepared Me for Reality Here in Gaza
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I was really into prepping for years as a hobby.
Then I found myself in the actual shit hit the fan situation in 2011 with the super tornado outbreak.
No amount of reading or prep can prepare you for the reality. Weeks without power. Roads blocked with fallen trees. Gunfire every night. All on top of having wave after wave after wave of tornadoes pass over, and by my house.
I had all the stuff. I was ready. But when I went to assemble the solar panel, batteries, inverters, and charge controllers I had such PTSD that I kept frying components and hooking stuff up wrong. Trauma really messes with your mind.
Now a days you can buy a pre assembled one from jackery or such. But damn, trauma makes you stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Super_Outbreak
Couldn’t even finish the article it’s so horrible and depressing, and yet we have ‘politician’ dildos decrying ‘antisemitism’ when people are saying maybe don’t do genocide. Fuck this.