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You may have to abandon your TV… hit the off switch, for there isn’t time to laze around. But there is the Internet and used bookstores and libraries, where you can devour the information that will further enlighten you on the skills you will need to survive.

This journey does not include vacations to sandy beaches, or $200 designer jeans and nights out on the town. Those are frivolous things, at best, when pitted against the ability to eat. I hope that you are blessed in this journey, that others will take up the baton and save you isolation. But if not, press forward anyway. Along the way, once some of your preparations are done, when you send off for heirloom seed whose yield will not shrivel to the earth or poison you, and you have a moments respite, give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done.

Chapter 2

Are You Ready?

“Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.”

Author unknown.

It’s 1:45 on a Tuesday afternoon. The office is quiet and your thoughts travel to what to make for dinner tonight. As you jot down a grocery list, the radio station you are listening to is interrupted with an attention signal from the Emergency Broadcast System. You tune out the irritating blare. They’ve been stepping up the tests to the point that it serves only as a mild disruption, nothing more. Your list is complete. As you lay down the pen, it occurs to you the voice coming from the radio is not the same recorded voice you’ve grown used to with other broadcasts. You turn up the volume on the radio and suddenly your blood runs cold “…nuclear attack,” the announcer says. Where? You listen, holding your breath as your heart races. “You are advised to remain indoors until further notice. Please stay tuned to the emergency broadcast system for further instructions. I repeat, this is the National…”