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Prepping Lessons Learned In Hawaii

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The featured article is one person’s learning experiences about prepping while living in Hawaii. Prepping is different in Hawaii than on the mainland United States for a number of reasons. First of course because it is a tropical climate, it’s an island, and even though part of the United States the native culture is indeed very different. Nancy does speak of some of these cultural differences as the author of the featured article but only touches on the differences between mainland and island preparations.

I do have personal experience within the Polynesian community although less Hawaiian and more the Samoan and Tongan cultures. I have found other than the cultural difference there is a huge difference in preparing for disaster while residing on an island than on the mainland.

In the linked article the author does speak of Spam (the potted meat rather than your email junk mail!) which many Americans wouldn’t eat unless starving, LOL. However, it is popular among the islanders because it is so storable. There aren’t a lot of herds of animals used as a food source roaming on the islands and in the past, all supplies used to be brought in by ship and that could take months.

After a large tsunami these small islands were literally cut off from all outside supplies and their vegetable and fruit crops destroyed. This makes stockpiling a more advantageous form of prepping in their situation. Help could be months away in some cases and by the time supplies were received by ship the protein products had gone bad. As many people in the earlier years died from the lack of supplies and contaminated supplies, as died from the storms themselves. So, if you live on an island you may want to consider stockpiling as a higher priority than you would in other areas.

For a peek at the lesson’s Nancy learned while living in Hawaii continue at the link below

9 Disaster Preparedness Lessons I Learned While Living In Hawaii

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