Story about preppers in Salina Journal - part 3 of 3

Gordon Fiedler at the Salina Journal has written a great 3-part series about preppers and APN. 

According to the Editor's note: "Today we begin our three-part series on "preppers," those who believe in being prepared for whatever calamity befalls us by setting aside food, water, emergency equipment and even guns. Preppers who spoke with the Journal did so with the understanding that their names would not be used for fear that their supplies might become targets."  

Bad times mean good times
by Gordon D. Fiedler, Jr - Salina Journal

A recent gathering of preppers at Ottawa County State Fishing Lake, north of Bennington, drew folks from all over the state. They were alerted to the "meet-up" because they are members of the Kansas Preppers Network, which is part of the American Preppers Network.

They go by such online names as Lionheart, Trekker, Kanman, MoEngineer, Guntech and High Hopes. They didn't want their real identities known for fear of home invasions by the unprepared and also, in some cases, to hide their efforts from suspicious employers.

As forum members, they can post questions and comment on queries from others, rant about current events and share an occasional joke among their prepper peers in every state and in all of Canada's provinces and territories. There are even groups in Britain, Italy and New Zealand.

APN's co-founder and current director is Tom Martin, who maintains the site from his Idaho home.

He launched the site in January 2009 and patterned it after online forums in Texas and Utah. Others began popping up and he and associates decided the time was ripe for a larger, more cohesive organization.

"We saw the writing on the wall some time ago," he said.

He could see ominous signs in the housing bubble, the federal debt and other events....

continue reading Part 3 of 3 on salina.com ... and join the discussion on APN


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