#completely disregard stuff packs for kits

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no bc ea has completely lost their minds…

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08 August

Another day, another croissant for breakfast. Today our pastries were collected by Clare and Cian. We ate our breakfast and drank the daily allocation of coffee (Jay managed to steal a few extra from the service trolley, so we can double our dose tomorrow!) We had a recovery plan and now needed to effect it. Jay called the RAC to find out if they would authorise a flight for him to the UK and get them to allow the garage to let us collect our belongings. On both accounts we were successful. Jay then booked the flight, ensuring that the enlisted assistance from his dad was secure. We also required some help from the extended Petch family; originally we were to visit from the 15th August. Our hope was that we might be able to arrive 2 days earlier. Once the admin aspect of the plan was as sorted as possible, we left the hotel. In the way past reception we asked if it would be possible to store some surfboards there - they very kindly obliged. Next on the list was to sort some additional luggage. All our kit was stored in drawers and cubbyholes in the van - there was no way of transporting it all without some bags. 2 x 80ltr hold-alls and a sponge sleeping mat were procured from the Decathalon that we visited yesterday. The garage was closed between 1200-1400hr so we used the time to get and eat lunch. By 1415hr Jay was using google translate to try and explain to the garage staff what we were there for. Eventually they allowed us to drive the hire car into the pound and alongside the Elgrand (which was unlocked and had the keys in the ignition!) It was baking hot, truly cooking! Every few minutes we had to stop and take shelter in the nearby shade - for a while we ran the Elgrand just so we could use the air-con (which was fine until she started overheating!) We soon realised that there was too much stuff for us to save all of it, sacrifices were needed. First on the abandon list were the mattresses and the table and chairs. A fair whack of food took a bullet, as did a number of books that had already been read. Beyond that, somehow we managed to cram most of our stuff in the car. Admittedly Nia and Cian had full foot wells and items on their laps, in addition we had items hanging from inside straps. The surfboards were strapped directly to the roof with just the camping mat to prevent scratches. The ratchet straps from the van served perfectly. When everything that could go in, was in, Jay went into the office and submitted the V5C document and handed the future of the van to the garage. With a single signature our lovely van was consigned to the crusher! We said our thanks and farewells. Then drove away, things tumbling around the car. Back in Bergerac we pulled up outside the hotel and unloaded onto the pavement. Strange looks received about the surfboards! Cian, Nia and Clare shuttled everything inside - the surfboards being placed in the hotel kitchen for safekeeping! Jay waited with the car on the lookout for traffic wardens. When everything was safely stowed, everyone piled back into the car (still very full, but not with the stuff we needed immediately.) we went and parked, the returned to the hotel. Jay now had swim shorts and, with complete disregard for French protocol, went and played in the pool with the other Haigskews. After the pool we had a video conference with the Petches who reassured us that an early arrival at Sal and Mikes should be OK. By 1900hr it was time to think about dinner. We had decided to go for pizza. Nia cut up some salad for us to take, Clare packed the wine, then we headed for a little take away that we had seen. The couple running the small restaurant were very friendly. They made us fresh pizzas as both parties stretched their respective knowledge of the others languages. Fully laden with food we made our way to the port area, found some shade overlooking the Dordogne and unleashed the banquet! We ate and drank and watched the sky turn pink. Nia and Cian leaped across the hay bales (still remnants from the Talisco gig). The lights of Bergerac came on and signalled that it was time for us to head to our beds. At the hotel we collapsed onto the beds. Forcing ourselves up to get changed and brush teeth so we could sleep. All exceptionally grateful for the air-con!

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Basic Stuff You Should Have in Your Make-Up Kit

Most ladies spend a fortune on excellence and restorative items and nobody will deny that by and large, they tend to overbuy magnificence stuff than what they truly need. At the point when a stunner item turns out in the market, everybody hurries to get a piece and very soon, the home dresser is stacked with make-up and other excellence devices that truly don't get utilized.

It is essential to comprehend what fundamental make-up stuff is important so you don't tend to overbuy and squander hard-earned cash on magnificence items. So here are a couple of tips to getting what's important for your shifting make-up needs.

In the first place, locate a pleasant coordinator or capacity box to hold each one of those little make-up compartments. One principle motivation behind why ladies purchase more make-up than would normally be appropriate is on the grounds that they will in general reserve an eyeshadow and rouge unit in addition to a couple of lipsticks in a single cabinet and totally disregard them, while the remainder of the make-up stuff are in another bin or bureau. So the most significant activity is to get everything sorted out!

For your home make-up unit, have the essential establishment and concealer that you will requirement for all events. You will likewise require an eyeliner, a lot of your preferred eyeshadow hues, some mascara on the off chance that you will in general have fine eyelashes, cheek become flushed, and a couple of lipsticks in different tones. A few ladies think that its important to have some lip sparkle, however don't pass up free powder to complete out the sparkle after you put eager for advancement up. The fundamental contraptions you ought to have in your home make-up unit incorporate a couple of tweezers, a lash styler, a lot of make-up brushes in addition to a lipliner and a lipstick brush. It is additionally fitting to put resources into a pleasant matte-finish under make-up lotion, some make-up remover or cream, a facial sunblock and some cleaning cushions.more info here instalash

To spare time and bother, it will assist with having a different in a hurry make up unit for any repairs you have to do in the workplace, at a social capacity or on any out of the house trips. Have some oil blotching cushions and a powder minimal for contact ups. Continuously convey your preferred lipstick or lip sparkle, since lip hues will in general grow dim throughout the day, particularly after you take a dinners. To save money on space in your make-up pack, attempt to buy those palette-type units which incorporate eye-shadows and cheek become flushed in a solitary holder.

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All In One Makeup Kit

A make-up pack is vital for each lady. It doesn't need to be that extravagant black box with different shades of eyeshades and lipsticks that you never truly like. It can simply be a case of your preferred decisions put together. All In One Make Up Kit what are the minimum essentials that your make up unit ought to contain?

I) Foundation

The Foundation isn't only the base that you work upon yet it is additionally the base of good make-up. On the off chance that you mess it up, whatever else you do will be nothing more than a bad memory. I for one lean toward mineral or powder based establishments. I don't care for the fluid ones as I generally feel they make me look cakey. Also, the brilliant guideline for the correct look is mix... mix... mix!

ii) Blusher

A great many people disregard the become flushed thus do I on typical days. Be that as it may, at whatever point I go out, particularly to party, I think that its vital. What's more, again here, I favor the powder based ones.

iii) Eye-shadow

The vast majority in India overlook the eye-shadow or stick to just pink. Pink looks incredible however I thoroughly consider its opportunity to break of the generalization. A year ago, for my brother by marriage wedding, I wore a delightful terrific pink saree. I completed my make up expertly at VLCC, Chennai.

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The above are the most fundamental necessities that you require. Aside from this, you additionally need appropriate apparatuses to apply this. My unit likewise has a kajal, eyebrow pencil, Vaseline and minimal other stuff.

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Transmission 2 Transcript

Intro

HOLLY:

If you're just now finding these transmissions, please start with transmission 1. 

MUSIC: "SOLITUDE" BY MUCIOJAD

SOUND: Morse (SOS SOS SOS SOS)

HOLLY:

This is Holly, broadcasting on all frequencies using protocol: MINISTER DELTA. This transmission is intended for Oak, last known location CAESAR casino in PRAGUE. All others please disregard.

Dead

SOUND: a busy McDonald's in the southeastern USA

HOLLY:

I love how you can learn all kinds of stuff from Google. For example, today I Googled myself and learned that I'm apparently dead.

HOLLY:

I know! It was news to me, too. Apparently, I overdosed on Xanax and alcohol the night of the tribunal. The worst part is that that's... frustratingly believable. I mean... this article in our local paper...

HOLLY:

(Reading) The woman's body was found Sunday, March 12th, when a concerned co-worker asked police to conduct a welfare check.

HOLLY:

"She wasn't answering any of my calls," the anonymous woman said. -That's probably Cami- "That wasn't too out of the ordinary for her, but she had promised to answer if I called her three times in a row. After three days of silence, I was worried."

HOLLY:

Another anonymous coworker, I assume Evergreen, said: "She seemed really distressed in court Friday. The cross-examination was pretty intense. They really dragged her through the mud. And that was before they announced she was facing criminal charges of her own."

HOLLY:

Oh look, there's a quote from you. It says they brought you home for the funeral, and... "I'm devastated to lose her. This didn't have to happen. Nothing can ever bring her back, but I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure she rests in peace."

HOLLY:

Maybe that's made up, but it sounds just like you. Are you in on this, or... do you really think I'm dead?

HOLLY:

It's just so believable. It's exactly how I would have done it. And Friday night was my low point. If I were going to do it, it would have been then. And it would have been that method.

HOLLY:

I can just imagine your face when you got the news. I know you must have been remembering the night you left—2am, me half-asleep in pajamas in the bathtub, you frantically pouring old prescriptions into the toilet while you packed your travel kit.

HOLLY:

I don't remember a lot about the past three months, but I do remember that, somehow, despite how drunk I was at the time. And you, you probably remember shaking the Xanax in my face to wake me up. You told me, "You have to promise me you won't do anything stupid with these," and I said, "I won't, I promise."

HOLLY:

You didn't believe me, but you put them back in the cabinet anyway. And then you left. I did actually keep my promise. You only think I broke it and washed the whole bottle down with vodka.

HOLLY:

But I'm not dead!  You can feel that I'm not dead, right?! We have a connection, I thought, you could... tell...

HOLLY:

I... I need a minute.

SOUND: Morse .- .-.. --- --- ..- .- ... -.. .-.. -.-

SitRep

HOLLY:

Situation report. Date: March 22nd. Time: 11:18 p.m. Weather: indecisive. It's been pretty cold and rainy most of the past week and a half. Not as cold as home, obviously, but cold enough that I've been holing up at the library and some 24-hour McDonald's.

HOLLY:

I'm kind of offended that I ended up somewhere without a Timmy's, tho. Honestly, who's dumb idea was that? I'd like to have a word with them.

HOLLY:

Anyway, it's starting to warm up now, but it's gone from below freezing to basically summer temperatures in a matter of days, which is especially annoying since I don't always have access to air conditioning. That's the downside of being hot-natured, I guess. I'm comfortable in Siberia, but not so much in Alabama.

HOLLY:

I don't want you to think I'm frivolously wasting money on food when I could be dumpster diving. I am doing that, sort of, sometimes... when I can stomach the idea of it. But after a certain point I was dehydrating myself trying to dumpster dive; it just made a lot more sense to go to McDonald's or the grocery store.

SOUND: morse .--- .--. -.-- --.- ..- ...- ..- -.-

HOLLY:

I don't know why I keep talking to you. Deep down, I don't really think you're listening. But... what else can I do? Even if you're not listening, I can't get through this ordeal without pretending you are. I'm only pushing through right now on the off chance that you'll hear this and... do something, if I just talk long enough. Or maybe if I keep talking to you, some other entity will overhear and take pity on me.

HOLLY:

Speaking of which, there are a few people I'd like to thank. First of all, Susan was kind enough to send me enough money for a bottle of acetaminophen.

HOLLY:

It's... a little complicated how I got the PayPal account and bank card to use the funds, but if being dead doesn't absolve you of a little cybercrime, what does? You can find the PayPal button on my Tumblr, which is OAKPODCAST.tumblr.com.

HOLLY:

Is it dramatic to say I wanted to kill myself a little less because of your gift? Well, dramatic or not, it's true. Being in pain makes it really hard to think, and that's kind of critical to my survival right now, so thank you so much for the acetaminophen, Susan!

HOLLY:

Susan wasn't my only donor this week. Adie has been helping me out with meals. Thank you, Adie. I feel completely horrible when my stomach gets too empty, so thank you so much for your help.

HOLLY:

Lastly, an anonymous person also pledged enough funds to get me two nights in the women's shelter. That's right-homeless shelters are not free here. I had no idea until I showed up there like an idiot with no money.

HOLLY:

And tonight I'm back to that same situation. No money, nowhere to go...

SOUND: MORSE --. ..- .--. --. .. -.. -.- ..-

Nuances and Dichotomies

HOLLY:

I wonder what these broadcasts sound like to someone who isn't you. I wonder if a casual eavesdropper would think I'm nuts, or leaving an extremely long voicemail, or praying, or... I'm not sure what.

HOLLY:

You always used to say that I'm smart with science and machines but dumb with people. I think that's a fair enough assessment. Although, in my defense, I'm pretty good at guessing what people will do. And why, even. I just don't understand why they're so stupid!

HOLLY:

I won't insult you and pretend that I've been handling this situation... maturely. Not all the time, anyway. I think we both know I've spent a lot of the past week or two regressing to some less-than-professional behaviors.

HOLLY:

I may or may not have had a meltdown over people being too noisy in the library while I was reading about my own death. So... I'm sort of steering clear of that library for now.

SOUND: Morse .--. .. .--. .-. .--. .--- .--.

HOLLY:

It's so hard to pretend to be a normal human when your life depends on it, especially when you don't have a safe, quiet place to retreat to. I don't even have a safe place to rub my rocks against my face, besides the washroom.

HOLLY:

I find podcasts help. Not the nonfiction ones you like so much. I get so agitated listening to people ramble. Which is hypocritical, I'm well aware, but it is what it is.

HOLLY:

When people are acting, they take on a different cadence. They cut out all the filler words that grate on my nerves, and the stories are a good distraction.

HOLLY:

So this week, I've started listening to a show called Jim Robbie and the Wanderers. It's... soothing. Very Jewish in philosophy, I think. Also, Tango reminds me a lot of you, and Charlie reminds me a little bit of me, so it makes me a little less homesick.

SOUND: Morse .- .--. -.- ...

HOLLY:

Most of the time, I just get so lost in my head that I forget I have a physical body. As far as I'm concerned, I don't have a gender or any other traits. I mean, I'm aware that people treat me differently, usually not in a good way because of how they perceive me, but internally? Whenever people call me a woman, there's always this moment of-

HOLLY:

(robot voice) "Yes, human, the pronouns you have assigned me are acceptable. My programming does not specify a preference."

HOLLY:

(laughing) I just got really weird looks for saying that.

HOLLY:

I do have to be careful about that. People mostly leave me alone, but I'm scared if I seem too "crazy..."

HOLLY:

I mean, I do have issues, obviously! But people don't really seem to care if you're mentally unwell if you're just sitting quietly, drinking your coffee and contemplating your own death. They only care if you start getting agitated or violent or you start talking to people who aren't there. Which... technically, I am? But you know what I mean.

HOLLY:

So far I've found that I get significantly fewer weird looks if I pretend like I'm talking on the phone while I record these, so... I guess that helps.

SOUND: MORSE .- .-.. - -.- ...

HOLLY:

Back to my incredibly exciting nuances and dichotomies, because who doesn't love talking at length about themselves?

HOLLY:

Let's see, for any strangers listening...

HOLLY:

Well, I'm the clumsiest person I know who still managed to pass Basic.

HOLLY:

Look, just because I've practiced running laps and firing guns and seducing heiresses doesn't mean it comes naturally. 

HOLLY:

I love horror movies, but I'm afraid to leave the house by myself. I'm also afraid to be inside the house by myself, so you see my dilemma over the past three months.

HOLLY:

Meh. I have rocks that are more interesting than me. I don't want to talk about myself anymore. Sorry, strangers! You'll have to learn my deepest darkest secrets through anonymous Tumblr messages, just like everyone else.

SOUND: Morse -.- ..- ..- --.

Inventory

HOLLY:

Inventory acquired since last transmission: One really worn-out backpack, several assorted plastic grocery bags, a few extra pieces of clothing from the shelter—and thank GOD, because let me tell you, the skirt suit Camellia picked out  was not the most comfortable thing in the world!—some assorted toiletries, one pair of earbuds from the dollar store, a large piece of unpolished quartz, and a smaller piece of pyrite.

SOUND: morse - --- -... ..- -.- ...

HOLLY:

I still don't have money for the papers I need. First thing tomorrow, I'm going to make a new sign and get back out there panhandling for it.

HOLLY:

Any money you can send would be a huge help, but I know I can't count on that, so... trying to be proactive.

MUSIC: Outro theme (Solitude by muciojad)

SOUND: morse -.-. ..- .. --

HOLLY:

All right, I desperately need to sleep. I'll report back soon.

SOUND: morse -.-- - .. ..- / ... ..- .--. .---

Outro

HOLLY:

Oak, please confirm receipt of my transmission. Find me on Gmail, social media, and Patreon under the username "oakpodcast." I would be really grateful for any money you can send to me, as things are getting more desperate every day.

HOLLY:

Patreon is also where I'll be submitting more secure transmissions for you.

HOLLY:

If you're eavesdropping on me without authorization, maybe you can make up for it by rating and reviewing this podcast to help my partner find it. End transmission.

SOUND: Morse -- .. ..- .--. --.- ..- / -.-. ..- .. -- / .--- ..-

MUSIC: Outro fades out

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<p>Self-Reliance, stockpiles, & Survival Skills -- How Some Women Are Preparing For Our Uncertain Future</p>

For the month of October, Bustle's #blessed series will investigate how young girls are trying to find meaning, finding connections to some higher power and navigating spirituality in 2017.

Kristen Tyler, a 36-year-old Portland resident who works as the director of recruitment for a software firm, has spent the past decade learning how to become a successful prepper. If a major disaster happens -- in her country her city, or the world -- Tyler would like to have everything she'd need to survive on her own. Contrary to popular belief, not all preppers are religious folks getting ready for an apocalyptic doomsday. In actuality, they are worshippers of intense and organization planning, who, rather than trusting in a higher power (including the higher power of authorities), place their faith in self-reliance, survival skills and stockpiles -- and many of them are women.

Every one to two months seals a new supply of foods such as quinoa, beans, and rice to eliminate moisture, a process that may extend the shelf-life of their supplies. She does the food for her two pups, a silver lab called a yorkie, Rhaegar and Winston. She also stashes cases of bottled water under the bed and in the closet (in addition to the five-gallon water jugs she keeps in the garage), keeps books on emergency field medicine convenient, and regularly buys new supplies to add to the extensive first-aid and trauma care kits she keeps around the house and in her car.

She then meticulously records everything she's in spreadsheets, which she keeps and in a bodily a binder she updates regularly, just to be safe. It is still a work in progress, but her ultimate goal is to have the ability to survive for a complete year with no outside help if needed -- mainly to be prepared in the event that "the big one" hits.

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Portland is adjacent to the Cascadia subduction zone fault line, which runs along the coast of California through Oregon and Washington, and into British Columbia's tip. Experts predict that a rupture -- which they they mostly agree is inevitable, though no one knows when it will occur -- would be catastrophic, causing a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that would last roughly five minutes and result in tsunamis along the shore.

"I wouldn't find all that where I live," Tyler tells Bustle, "but here in Portland it would nevertheless be a substantial quake that would take down trees and buildings and cause landslides and some pretty serious destruction."

Early in their relationship, Tyler, who also runs a side business as a photographer, sent articles about the Cascadia fault line to her boyfriend, 28-year-old Aaron. They also watched a documentary about it. However, it was not until the couple had to survive a mini-emergency that is scary together that Aaron became supportive of her efforts.

"It doesn't usually snow here," Tyler explains, "but last winter it did, and we were snowed in for several days."

"It was a reality check for both of us to realize even something as little as being snowed in for 48 hours can be quite scary if you're not prepared."

Aaron was worried that they couldn't drive anywhere. He took advantage of the weather and the time off work to do some snowboarding down their road. It was all fun and games until Rhaegar, who was still a pup at the momentand Aaron's snowboard, collided. The couple was alarmed when they understood his paw had been sliced open.

"It was before I had gotten really serious about first aid kits," Tyler says. "We couldn't leave, and we had this moment of complete panic realizing we had an injured animal and were running low on supplies to help him with. It was a reality check for both of us to realize even something as little as being snowed in for 48 hours can be quite scary if you're not prepared."

Rhaegar needed stitches. They managed to tend with antibacterial cream and gauze out of their small kit before the snow cleared and they could get him but they had trouble.

"After that," Tyler says, "Aaron was like, 'I am so happy to know that you've thought the majority of these things through so we'd be prepared if something bad happens.' He is definitely fully on board with my prepping now."

She adds that they added the spreadsheet column list their available first-aid supplies and 2 pet cones and a dog first-aid kit.

"I don't ever want to be in a position where I don't know what I'm going to feed my kid again."

At a time when the US has only seen multiple catastrophic hurricanes, and major earthquakes and other natural disasters have rattled many parts of the world, many preppers are admitting that they don't trust anyone but themselves, and are taking steps into their own hands to make sure they can look after their needs, including their food stocks, medical care and peace of mind, should tragedy strike.

For female preppers, near-disasters or little emergencies like a badly injured dog, provide the impetus for their desire to learn more about disaster preparedness.

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For Daisy Luther, who has authored several books about prepping and runs the website The Organic Prepper, the first scare that pushed her toward prepping was financial.

"When my oldest daughter was only a month old, my husband lost his job," Luther tells Bustle. "That was our sole source of income at the moment, and we had two weeks of complete bleak poverty while we were waiting for unemployment and he was desperately seeking a job."

"It really scared me," she says. "I thought, 'I don't ever want to be in a situation where I don't know what I'm going to feed my kid again. '''

Luther started out only that if something went wrong financially they have food and essentials like toothpaste and toilet paper, buying additional food and household equipment. They also started saving money so they have emergency funds available after her husband got a job again.

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In the summer of 2003, the entire eastern seaboard of North America experienced a power outage. By that time, the couple had two daughters and lived in Ontario, Canada.

"It was absolutely miserable," Luther says. "The children were so sexy and so uneasy. Our food spoiled. We had no backup plan for retaining any lights on or maintaining ourselves trendy. All we had was a few scented candles we were using at night."

Following that, Luther, who is now in her late 40s, started to take prepping. She started researching options for backup generators and water distribution and purification systems, growing and preserving her own organic food with the goal of keeping her children as healthy as possible in the case of an emergency, and making sure the family had all of their important documents within reach -- passports, proof of insurance, mortgage agreements -- just in case they ever had to leave town fast.

"You want to practice living without your everyday comforts as you've still got a working thermostat and a refrigerator full of food."

Luther's husband died unexpectedly at the age of 40, and her further encouraged to make sure she and her daughters would be prepared for the future, regardless of what came their way.

They raised goats and cows and lived off the grid with only a wood stove for heat in a cabin in North Central Ontario. Now Luther and her daughters, who are who are 16 and 21 years old, live in a little town in Virginia, where they keep a large garden, do plenty of food preservation, and regularly talk about what they would do in the event of various emergencies.

"Prepping is much more about doing stuff than storing stuff," Luther says. "You want to practice living without your everyday comforts as you've still got a working thermostat and a refrigerator full of food in case it doesn't go as planned. I remember one year, we only got three tomatoes from our garden and a single egg out of our chicken, so we certainly would have starved to death if we'd been relying on that."

Luther also keeps numerous firearms. She says she knows how to use them, and so do her daughters. In a emergency situation, she says, other people could turn into a threat.

"We're not as militant or aggressive as a whole lot of the preppers you hear about in the media." Luther says. "It feels like the ones who get the most attention have a tendency to be the loudest and most outrageous. I guess it's easier to disregard the ones that are out here growing our food and canning our tomato sauce. I believe my approach is very common sense."

"But," she adds, "We're still packing, pretty much everywhere we go. We're not going to be pushed around."

"I want to have a plan of action if or when my 'kind' becomes a target of another Holocaust or something."

"I am a democratic socialist, with specific libertarian factors, such as (mostly) supporting gun rights," Nikki (who requested to only be identified by her first name), 18, tells Bustle. Nikki, who resides with her parents in rural Michigan but is about to to move to a dorm to begin her freshman year of college, says she regularly practices with a bow and a rifle as part of her prepping activities, and sometimes visits a Reddit forum for liberal gun owners.

"I think the books are far more significant than the weaponry."

Since she's about to move into a tiny dorm room where it would be difficult to keep a big stockpile of supplies or food, the main element of her prepping involves analyzing and gathering books on survival skills.

"I think the books are far more significant than the weaponry," she says. "You could have an entire army under your command, but should youn't know how to clean a wound, or get new water, then you may as well be dead. I believe knowledge is far more valuable than any quantity of food or ammo."

Nikki, who is transgender, has been interested since she was 16, in prepping, but says she did not get really serious about it before Donald Trump got elected.

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"There has always been a whole lot of racism, transphobia, and homophobia where I live," she explains. "There was a church that was burnt down in the 50's for supporting civil rights, and the KKK was an active group here until 2008 or so."

She adds that she knows not all of Trump's supporters are racist or transphobic, but says she has seen her "fair share of harassment," and finds that things seemed to get worse for people of color and the LGBTQ community where she lives after Trump got elected.

"In the event that people such as Trump become increasingly extreme," Nikki says, "I want to have a plan of action if or when my 'kind' becomes a target of another Holocaust or something. I get that such a scenario is unlikely, but I'd rather be prepared and not have a issue, than not be prepared and be trapped in the middle of a genocide or atomic war."

Although Nikki may seem like an anomaly given the stereotypical image of a prepper (straight, male, middle-aged, politically conservative...), Daisy Luther states preppers actually are very diverse.

"It is a common misconception that all preppers are conservative, right-wing Christians," Luther says. "I know pagan preppers, Jewish preppers, atheists and agnostics -- it is a very wide spectrum. I of my friends share those beliefs. A good deal of us are sort of apolitical."

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"I would say preppers are more tight-lipped than tight-knit," Austin tells Bustle. "And there is a very good reason for that. Let us say the lottery is won by somebody. They wouldn't broadcast that they won a lot of money... because if they did, people would line up at their front door with outstretched hands, right? Same is true for preppers. Why announce that you've got a good deal of water or food, then when a catastrophe happens, guess who shows up at your door?" (This also explains why the girls interviewed for this story would not provide Bustle with photos of their stockpiles.)

Lots of preppers do use sites to connect together and exchange suggestions, often anonymously, though they could be tight-lipped. Austin is a fulltime homesteader with her husband in the Appalachian Mountains in Western North Carolina, but she grew up as a self-described "city girl" in Central Florida, also states the transition into self-sufficiency was somewhat lonely at first.

"In an emergency, your neighborhood will be the people in your immediate neighborhood, not people you know from the net."

"I'm a very social person by nature," she says, "and living up on a hill with 60 creatures who don't talk back was kinda tough originally for me. I get my energy from other people."

So she did what most people would -- she seemed for community online. She made the on Twitter in 2011 after having some trouble locating folks to connect with. Now, it remains one of the very hashtags on social media within the prepper community.

There's also a national network of communities called the American Preppers Network. Many people use their forums to connect online, but some chapters organize regular IRL meetups in their communities, rather than all preppers are secretive.

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"In an emergency," says Daisy Luther, "your neighborhood will be the people in your immediate neighborhood, not people you know from the net who reside across the country or even just too far from your house to walk into."

She points out that with Hurricane Harvey, "What you've seen is that all these men and women are helping their next door neighbors. The people who share a road are those looking after each other."

"They don't need to be preppers," she adds. "I just think it's important to find people you've got something in common with in your physical area."

"The most important component of survival is yourself."

The majority of the girls interviewed for this story just laughed, when asked if they've specifically sought out partners who prep.

While a few dating sites specific to preppers have cropped up over the years, most of them now seem to have expired domains, and Bustle couldn't track down anyone who'd ever used one -- although a couple of women did note that they'd said their interest in preparedness in their online dating profiles, mostly to avoid beginning a relationship with anyone who'd be inclined to give them a hard time about it down the line.

"If you really wanted to date another prepper, you would be better off going to meetups," Lisa Bedford, who has written several books on prepping, runs the website Survival Mother, and functions an internet preparedness school in partnership with Daisy Luther, tells Bustle. "But you can also just put in a dating profile that you're interested in gardening, camping, and hunting, and you may have a pretty good chance of finding someone like-minded."

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Bedford resides with her husband and two children in Texas, about an hour outside of Houston. The preparedness efforts of her family include maintaining a healthy savings account in the event of a emergency, keeping emergency kits and maintaining a food and water supply on hand that could last them a few months. In the end, though, she revealed what others told me -- that being emotionally prepared is more important than any of that.

"You could spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars getting prepared," Bedford says, "but I believe survival doesn't require all of those kinds of expenses as much as it takes some agility and nimbleness. We've got several months of food on hand, but what if we came home and it had been flooded? The most important component of survival is yourself."

"I don't plan on keeping my children on a tightrope expecting something bad to happen."

Bedford's children are homeschooled, and though the curriculum includes lessons in preparedness, she says she does her best to make sure they feel safer because of this, rather than afraid.

"We don't have things like atomic bomb drills, or anything like that," Bedford says. "We do spend time talking about potential scenarios every once in awhile, and focus on problem solving and quick decision-making skills. And while we do have some things in place in the event of more extreme scenarios so the stuff is there if we need it, I don't plan on keeping my children on a tightrope expecting something bad to happen."

While preppers are dismissed as paranoid, Bedford and many of the girls Bustle and pointed talked into the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, from hurricanes Harvey and Irene to recent events, to demonstrate they'd rather be safe than sorry.

"Preppers are teachers, moms, models, bank tellers, retail clerks, lawyers, and the list can go on and on," Jane Austin said. "Preppers are not an exclusive group or club...we are just people who understand a tragedy could occur at any moment, and prepare for it."

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