Iowa Preppers Network

I’m looking for a volunteer to act as the Iowa Prepperw Network State Coordinator. This job involves the duties of the state moderator, maintaining the IPN Blogs and Forums, assist in establishing meet up groups across the state, coordinate statewide meet ups, be the key person for the American Preppers Network in Iowa. Computer skills are required as well as some administrative or managerial skills. The State Coordinator reports to the APN Midwestern Regional Coordinator in the performance of his duties. This is a great way to help the prepper community. Please send me your name, phone number, email address, and write something about your skills and why you think you’d make a great State Coordinator. John Davis, APN Midwestern Regional Coordinator gaiusflavius@msn.com

Hi folks, I had a pretty bad accident yesterday and landed in the hospital and will be in physical therapy for a couple of weeks and can’t drive. As a result the statewide meet up is postponed. I encourage all of you to form local meet up groups for community. I will be available later in May to come help you set them up, if desired. John Davis

I live in SW IA in Fremont County. On Saturday a massive weather front barreled through our area for most of the day into Sunday morning. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning just in time for the people of Thurman (pop 250) to take cover. Prior to hitting the town it tossed 5 semi on the interstate about like toys injuring all the drivers and closed the interstate. In Thurman 75% of the town was destroyed and 15% more severely damaged. I wish there were some preppers there, or they had training. They were safe but have nothing to sustain them as all power and water is out and they can’t get into their homes. Makes you want to think.

Temps in the lower 48 were 8.6 degrees for March according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That breaks all previous records. The magnitude of how unusual the year has been has alarmed some scientists who have warmed against the effects of Global Warming. This was the 4th warmest winter on record. 7775 records were broke in March alone. The “Icebox of America” saw 70s for 5 days in March. Here in SW IA we had 5 days in the mid to high 80s. Here’s some sites to look at: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov and Hanson’s study on climate extremes at http://bit.ly/HQzxeq. Floods then high temps. What is next for the Midwest?

APN has established a meetup.com site for the preppers in the Quad City area. Just go to the meetup.com site and look up Quad City Preppers and join. These meet up pages have been very successful is getting the prepper message out and for people to communicate with each other. I hope all QC people join up.

John Davis, APN Midwest Regional Coordinator

I’ve gotten a email from a production company in CA that wants to do a documentary of a series of SHTF events. I’ve also gotten contacts from a tv station that wants to do a story about prepping. If you get contacted by the media and you do not feel comfortable talking to them, simply refer them to the APN via me direct. You can give them my email address and I will address their requests. I know that many of you don’t trust the media because of the Doomsday Preppers program, I don’t like the program myself. So just tell them to contact me and that way you don’t have to deal with them unless you want to. John Davis Email: gaiusflavius@msn.com

I’m happy to see that more and more people are posting on the Iowa forums, that many will be attending the statewide meet up, and have emailed me. From the records I have there are enough preppers in Iowa to start a local meet up group in NW IA, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and the Quad Cities area. If you desire to start a local meet up group, let’s get started! Please contact me direct and I’ll be happy to come out and help you get started. John Davis gaiusflavius@msn.com

Map of all American Preppers Network and Partner meetup groups.

Scroll past the map for a listing.

Des Moines: http://www.meetup.com/DesMoinesPreppers/

Just to let everyone know, this group is in no way affiliated with the American Preppers Network, the Midwest Regional Preppers or the Iowa Preppers Network. This is a group of survivalist looking to create community and have you pay for the privilege. They give no names or locations and want you give sign up and give them your money. If you are into that kind of thing, go ahead. But, if the read APN’s Core Values and “What is a Prepper” you will see that that path is not one we travel.

We are going to have Iowa’s first statewide meet up in the Des Moines area on April 28 at 4:00pm at the Golden Corral, 1312 S. Story St., Boone, IA. This is an easy meet up place to get to and I hope all Iowan preppers that can attend will attend. This is an important meeting so if you are going to attend so please contact me direct via PM or my email or post on the Iowa Prepper Network Forum. I am looking forward to meeting you all and sharing. John Davis, APN Midwest Regional Manager, gaiusflavius@msn.com