Could Sweet Tea Save Your Life When SHTF?
In the United States, we have come to expect certain social norms that are not necessarily enjoyed in other countries around the world. Indoor plumbing and electricity, for example, are expected norms in our society because they seem to have a hand in controlling almost everything we do. Electricity can power water heaters and refrigerators while indoor plumbing causes toilets to flush and makes showering possible. Having traveled around the world, from the tip of Africa to the Middle East to South America, I have not always had these norms at my fingertips.
There was one major event that happened in my life that changed my perspective of being prepared and caused me to view the world in a different light. That event was Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, I lived in the southern part of the State of Mississippi U.S.A. and was working for a very prominent environmental company. It was that year that Hurricane Katrina hit the coastlines of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. During this time, I was exposed to what social breakdown, martial law, and corruption in its purist form really looks like. DHS, FEMA, and United States Military were all active during this disaster and I was able to work shoulder to shoulder with them due to my oversight of post storm oil spill cleanups.
During this time, I gained a great appreciation for comforts in crisis. My personal favorite comfort in crisis is coffee. It was over the next several months, after the storm hit, that I became a coffee fiend. The facility that we were working out of had hired in a massive catering company from the Midwest that was cooking three square meals a day with all the tea and coffee you could drink. It was these comforts in the midst of crisis that helped the tens of thousands of men that were involved in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast Regions. Mental stability and one’s emotional state are absolutely pivotal to success in a survival situation or social breakdown. Your mental state means everything.
Truth of the matter is that if you breakdown mentally or emotionally then your preps mean nothing.
So the question is what is your comfort in crisis? My personal three comforts in crisis are coffee, chocolate and sweet tea. Coffee is a stimulant that can assist in awareness, and mental alertness. This can be especially important if you have to operate a guard duty rotation in the case of unsavory characters running around. Chocolate can be used to lower nerves, calm children, and even be used as a major bartering item. And lastly, you can’t be Southern without liking a big glass of sweet tea. Of course it takes clean water, sugar, and tea bags to manufacture this little treat but the idea that the average person can just adapt and overcome in a disaster situation without any form of normalcy is an extremely ignorant and naive idea.
Even the men and women of the Armed Forces have to go through training to be able to handle high stress environments and that is training that the average civilian will never have. With that said, most civilians have never faced a social breakdown, natural disaster, or terrorist attack and they will not appreciate socials norms and comforts in crisis until they are faced with crisis. I have seen this reality first hand.
I would encourage each person who claims to be prepared to find two or three specific comforts that they can stock up on. Whether it is chocolate, or coffee, or chewing gum. Remember that the environment during a disaster can be extremely miserable, riven with anxiety, and can even lead to a horrendous state of depression. Anything that one can do to make one’s situation more comfortable and at least a little “normal” will make a huge difference in a survival situation.
A few more suggestions of comforts in crisis could be but not limited to: herbal tea, Jolly Ranchers, Snicker’s Bar, Mountain Dew, Coca-Cola, or even beef jerky. What ever is a normal meal, drink, or treat for you during your day and/or weekly operation is a comfort in crisis. Take the time to prep these items and store them up because these minor preps can be major game changers when a crisis hits. Remember it is not a question of if a crisis will hit but rather a question of when. It is when this crisis comes that you will need to have some form of comfort to make sound decisions for you, your family, and your future. Comforts in Crisis can make all the difference.
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There was one major event that happened in my life that changed my perspective of being prepared and caused me to view the world in a different light. That event was Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, I lived in the southern part of the State of Mississippi U.S.A. and was working for a very prominent environmental company. It was that year that Hurricane Katrina hit the coastlines of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. During this time, I was exposed to what social breakdown, martial law, and corruption in its purist form really looks like. DHS, FEMA, and United States Military were all active during this disaster and I was able to work shoulder to shoulder with them due to my oversight of post storm oil spill cleanups.
During this time, I gained a great appreciation for comforts in crisis. My personal favorite comfort in crisis is coffee. It was over the next several months, after the storm hit, that I became a coffee fiend. The facility that we were working out of had hired in a massive catering company from the Midwest that was cooking three square meals a day with all the tea and coffee you could drink. It was these comforts in the midst of crisis that helped the tens of thousands of men that were involved in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast Regions. Mental stability and one’s emotional state are absolutely pivotal to success in a survival situation or social breakdown. Your mental state means everything.
Truth of the matter is that if you breakdown mentally or emotionally then your preps mean nothing.
So the question is what is your comfort in crisis? My personal three comforts in crisis are coffee, chocolate and sweet tea. Coffee is a stimulant that can assist in awareness, and mental alertness. This can be especially important if you have to operate a guard duty rotation in the case of unsavory characters running around. Chocolate can be used to lower nerves, calm children, and even be used as a major bartering item. And lastly, you can’t be Southern without liking a big glass of sweet tea. Of course it takes clean water, sugar, and tea bags to manufacture this little treat but the idea that the average person can just adapt and overcome in a disaster situation without any form of normalcy is an extremely ignorant and naive idea.
Even the men and women of the Armed Forces have to go through training to be able to handle high stress environments and that is training that the average civilian will never have. With that said, most civilians have never faced a social breakdown, natural disaster, or terrorist attack and they will not appreciate socials norms and comforts in crisis until they are faced with crisis. I have seen this reality first hand.
I would encourage each person who claims to be prepared to find two or three specific comforts that they can stock up on. Whether it is chocolate, or coffee, or chewing gum. Remember that the environment during a disaster can be extremely miserable, riven with anxiety, and can even lead to a horrendous state of depression. Anything that one can do to make one’s situation more comfortable and at least a little “normal” will make a huge difference in a survival situation.
A few more suggestions of comforts in crisis could be but not limited to: herbal tea, Jolly Ranchers, Snicker’s Bar, Mountain Dew, Coca-Cola, or even beef jerky. What ever is a normal meal, drink, or treat for you during your day and/or weekly operation is a comfort in crisis. Take the time to prep these items and store them up because these minor preps can be major game changers when a crisis hits. Remember it is not a question of if a crisis will hit but rather a question of when. It is when this crisis comes that you will need to have some form of comfort to make sound decisions for you, your family, and your future. Comforts in Crisis can make all the difference.
4 Daily Enjoyments that help assist in change:
- Chocolate
- Coffee
- Sweet Tea
- Pick your favorite special enjoyment and stash a little…
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