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Before COVID-19 became a global pandemic and people rushed to buy extra food, hand sanitizer and toilet paper, thousands of Americans were already prepared for such an event: "preppers."

Many have gradually stockpiled food, guns and even secret, remote motorhomes for years, creating complex survival and escape plans. Their beliefs are often rooted in theology more than fear and anxiety, and many resent media caricatures of preppers and the term itself.

In early March, Religion Unplugged Executive Editor Paul Glader and our Poynter-Koch reporter Micah Danney traveled to Colorado Springs, Colo. to meet Tim Bosh and his wife Tydae, who both trust in the Lord and ever since getting stranded in a snowstorm, love to stay prepared for disasters.