Dec 2, 2021
8 min read
The One Mistake Preppers Make
Moving out of the city in a crisis makes sense, but here’s why you need to move back.
When I was 10, I built a bunker in my backyard. After inundating myself with every library book on nuclear war, this frightened child lost faith in humanity and picked up a shovel. My mother foiled the plan just as I dug down over my head and started to tunnel inward, in peril of a wall collapse that would suffocate me.
