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Prepping consultant ready to face any disaster
Gainesville father stocks home with food, outfits house with solar panels
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Johnny Valentine and his wife, Lindsey, store food in mylar bags, which will keep the food fresh for years. The prepping consultant and solar energy expert recommends keeping a six-month supply of food on hand. The Valentines have two young children Elsa, pictured, and Elias.
National Geographic’s reality TV show “Doomsday Preppers” depicts people obsessed with the end of the world and spend a lot of money and time preparing for it. Bomb shelters, years worth of food stores, hidden caches of weapons and armored vehicles make regular appearances on the show. But according to local solar energy expert and prepping consultant Johnny Valentine, not all preppers are gun-crazed survivalists or loony conspiracy theorists.