Preppers don't have livestock
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I grew up in a part of Iowa where you can be driving down the road and you get this nagging sensation that something is wrong and then it hits you.
"Oh, right. None of these houses have wires."
Wires? You mean power lines?
Yes. Also phones.
In a few places where amish homes are bunched together the county has put up phones on poles that can just dial 911 in the hope that the amish will use them.
I recall maybe a decade ago a utility was trying to trench a fiber optic line along a road and every amish house they went past they had issues. The amish don't take kindly to concepts like utility easements along right of ways.
I always thought the Amish were just in Pennsylvania, since one of their nicknames is "the Pennsylvania Dutch."
There are major settlements in Ohio and Iowa. Generally the further west you get the more accepting individual communities become of technology. In Iowa, they'll own tractors, they might use gas for heating and cooking, and if non-amish mennonites offer a community van service, they'll use it.
It gets weirder. About half of them aren't even Dutch. The amish showed up before Germany was united, so the word Deutsch was pronounced differently by Kingdome. So they just all went by Dutch.