Why We Homestead: The Storm That Changed EVERYTHING | Idaho | Missouri
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- čas přidán 20. 01. 2024
- Most homesteaders can remember a catalyzing event that really kicked their drive to homestead fully into gear.
Here’s our story about the 2015 windstorm that stripped us of our misconceptions and got us to take preparedness seriously.
What’s your story? Please share it in the comments!
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The 2016 flood in Louisiana. Hurricane Laura in 2020 really solidified my resolve. Over the months and years, my grown children are slowly catching on. I am so proud of them!
I enjoyed fishing and camping as a hobby. I didn't expect this day to come: covid hit and I was appalled when I found the shelves bare of toilet paper (a luxury) and basic supplies like pancake mix for the first time. People fighting.. that shifted something in me and I became fascinated with fishing like our ancestors, to feed my family a little more. I wanted to become less dependent on supply chains like that and I continued to expand on various skills - germinating seeds from store bought veg, baking bread.. water basins - I appreciate your material as it helps my journey!
Yes totally. We experienced a lot of similar things through that timeframe as well. We found it interesting that many of the small very rural towns ran out of supplies less quickly than the big cities. People were used to relying on themselves a little bit more and having a little bit of a stock of supplies because they often got snowed in regularly during the winter anyway, etc.
I didn’t think we were quite ready for animals in early 2020, but everything that was going on motivated us to just jump in and that’s when we got our rabbits and chickens and did our first run of meat chickens for the first time.
Ours was moving up here and not wanting to rely on the grid and then it grew into homesteading. Even though I told Art we are NOT homesteading just moving to the mountains and here we are
Yes totally! We’ve always considered you guys to be much more hard-core homesteading than us anyway because of building your house from scratch! 🏡
Lol not that hard core you guys have made so many improvements with your homestead and its working well for you guys!
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Absolutely
2020 and not being able to go into some grocery stores sure played a part in our story. And supy chain issues.
For sure. It’s amazing how fragile our systems of convenience are when you really think about it or go through experiences like that.
As weird as it feels to say, I think this is one type of positive 2020 brought to us. It's nice to see I'm no alone.
Been raised to can food and to have a 2/3 month supply of essentials. The the ice storm in the 80’s that left us without power for 3 weeks in Iowa… true game changer. Was ever grateful that we had a gas cooking stove
Yeah that would do it! 😲 It’s amazing the things we don’t fully appreciate until we’re relying on them in an emergency.
It’s good you’re healthy enough for that lifestyle.
We’re very grateful. We didn’t talk about this in the video, but Sarah has struggled with food allergies almost her whole life, and that came to a crucial point in 2020-2022, where we had some major health scares and on and off struggles that eventually made it very difficult to find food she could eat. The kids also had some of this to deal with though not nearly as bad.
But last year God very powerfully answered our prayers and healed all of them completely! Now they can pretty much eat anything with wisdom & moderation. He is so good! 🤗
But all of that helped us realize all the more the importance of what we eat and where it comes from.
Hello from North Idaho, didn't know you all were here. Glad we found your channel :)
Wow 👌
Happy family
Good ⚘️ 👍 for you guys
You guys have a good one
Thank you! You too!
If you survive, hopefully you learn from the experience. Life lessons.
Welcome to Missouri I live in the cape girardeau area
Thanks! We’re in Oregon County
Thank you for sharing your video I enjoyed it.
You’re welcome, I’m glad you enjoyed it! We appreciate the comment, it helps CZcams know to share it with other folks so they’ll see it too!
I like your log splitter!
Thanks! Sure makes it easy.
I think in life we surely do have to have serious things happening to us to give us a slap or a kick in the butt either one to quickly and firmly realize that we need to get moving to handy way!! I mean anything can happen but if we did all we can to not to be in need at least nothing to regret.. like another big wind or snow or else that would come or a big flooding we have to think in ahead where to buy the best land for those circumstances and as well how to build with what and have enough of wood to feed the furnace for several months as well as canned food with sprouts we could use as vegetables ..
and I know almost no one will think of the livestock in those circumstances.. but there are things to do to try to protect the animals as building concerned..
like building sheds half way under ground with a very would roof and some day time light.. even it the climate gets worse try to build a tunnel going to your house to the animals building to feed them and plainly take care of them while the situation is awful…
I know yeah .. I haven’t heard ANYONE talking about protecting the animals if freezing or flooding or else…
So I just felt like I had to open my mouth about what others don’t think anything about.. hopefully bad weather won’t be everyday in the years to come.. but while the sun shines it’s better to do something to face it!!
I know that many people in the old days had some storm cellars around their house with food inside .. and had several j’attend with blankets and water they renewed every so and so in case! Cause when the storm is announced usually you don’t have that much time to turn around.. there so many things that a person has to think of better write it down!!
I have seen catastrophe movies where the things we take for granted was a trésor!! That’s why when I hear financial people saying BUY GOLD BUY BITCOINS GOLD GOLD!!
WELL I HAVE NEWS FOR THEM YOU WON’T EAT YOUR GOLD IF YOUR HUNGRY !!!
I'm from Southern Missouri
Nice, we love it down here. There are obviously aspects to every area that are not fully positives, but we really enjoy the climate and growing season down here along with many other things.
Thanks for the video! I’m trying to think if I had a catalyzing event. For me, it was just more of a gradual distrust of the tyrannical and incompetent systems that continually permeate and consume life, liberty, and the pursuit of goodness.
How did the wind-related event cause you to say that you were done with that area? Perhaps I missed that part where you made that connection.
Yep those are certainly some of our reasons as well. It’s amazing how tangled and far-reaching the web of control & deception is.
The windstorm wasn’t our catalyst to leave Washington necessarily, just got us motivated to be more prepared & not be so dependent on the grid, the supply chain, and the systems that give us a lot of convenience, but also allow us to be complacent & ignorant of how to meet our own needs.
We’ll get into more of the details & reasons for the move into Idaho soon, but a lot of it came down to the ridiculous laws WA was putting in place that were tying up people’s ability to use their own property.
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I heard that somewhere they were trying to stop people from collecting the water from their own roofs.
@@jakebredthauer5100 yes, as well as wanting to put meters on private wells so they could charge you for every drop of water you used from your own private well. And they also made a law that prevented people from drilling a well and using that well unless they had someone come in and conduct a study on how that well would potentially impact area streams and other peoples’ wells. Talking tens of thousands of dollars worth of studies that you would have to have done by some ecologist person. We had personal friends who owned rural property & were in the middle of building on it, and were held up for years because they were unable to legally use water from their own well, or were unable to drill a well for the house they had just built or were planning to build. This also tied up their ability to get housing and construction loans etc. because a lot of those require a well to be drilled ahead of time. Some of that nonsense finally got done away with so it’s slightly better now, but a lot of other crap has come in to take its place.
@@TomWylie Ugh...I hear you there. The "wild west" has certainly been tamed by government overreach in many ways. I'm glad you all were able to make it down this way.
Howdy from Oregon county
Howdy! 👋🤠
Hello neighbor I live in Christian County, Missouri
Howdy! 👋
By the way, bad weather happens everywhere. Tornadoes all year, not just spring. Flooding and fires. It’s everywhere. Homesteading won’t save you. Good luck though.
But at least they will have a place to stay and won’t be homeless..
Totally! That’s why when we moved here to Missouri tornado country, we installed a tornado shelter in the shop, and made sure we were as equipped as we can manage for power outages, ice storms, etc. Homesteading doesn’t make us immune to bad weather or natural disasters, but it sure makes it more pleasant/safer to live through them. With this good woodstove we can stay warm with no outside supply or infrastructure besides firewood, which we collect and process through the year. That’s a good feeling.