Posted on 09/07/2012 8:09:12 AM PDT by Kartographer
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True. You can always go back to being poor if you want but hard to do vice versa.
If the SHTF...I live in a rural subdivision and have a bug out location about 30 miles away in the Front Range NW of Denver.
If we have to relo to the bug out site which has natural water supply and acreage around the house, what is the best way to move our supplies of food and hardware?
Do you prepack things in 5gal buckets and plastic tote boxes? We have an SUV and car that we can pack.
Our first plan would be to shelter in place and only relo if water and electricity was cut off.
Thoughts?
Check out “After Armageddon” on the History Channel (a special, not a series). Some good info, but richest in showing the non-prepper mentality some realistic scenarios. Plus if one is trying to convince a reticent better half, or family, there is just enough realism to ease the point home.
Presume most folks here are actually “taking steps.” In the case of the family depicted in the show, they were woefully unprepared both mentally and logistically. It sort of shows how they grow up.......
Stay alert
In that case, I won’t pick the “safe” option. No point in investing in overrated junk bonds.
Prepping for poison oak. I’m looking at buying a property that has patches of poison oak on it. Back when I lived in Oregon I came down with a case and found some homeopathic pills that worked great. So I just ordered some, but the instructions say start taking them after exposure and itching starts. I’ve read on the net that you can eat the leaves and become immune. Others say don’t eat the leaves. I figure these pills might run out after SHTF. Anyone have experience with the eating of leaves? thanks.
I’m thinking, unless it’s a chem/bio attack, that it would be good to simply bug out when there’s word that we’ll default on some of our debt or the European economy is collapsing or some nasty virus is spreading in the city. By the time your utilities are cut off, everyone might be jamming the roads trying to get out.
Don’t eat the leaves. Ingesting all that urushiol oil could cause your body to blow up like a balloon and put you in a hospital, which for all I know, you may not be able to get to from your bugout location.
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Never ate the leaves. Funny thing when I was a kid we go camping everyone got posin ivy excepted me and my Dad, but a few years a go I was cleaning up a over grown yard of a rental we were living in at the time and I got case of Posin Oak that I had to got to the doctor for. Go figure.
Does anybody have a list of equivalent doses for antibiotics that you can buy over the counter from veterinary supply houses? For example, if I buy penecillin for horses how much wold I have to cut it down to be a dosage acceptable for people?
I'll tell you what I would do, Kartographer surely might do differently.
Right now, I'd put half or more of the storage at BO location. Then, if SHTF, right then I'd take the rest and head for BO location and stay there (instead of house), to see what happened.
I wouldn't stay at the house at all if SHTF because you might not be able to get to BO location later and having water at BO location makes it the place to be fast. You are taking a gamble on water if you stay at house. I wouldn't do that.
Marcella is right, you need to stock your BOL. You don’t know how much time you have to bug out and like always you will forget things! Also make sure of your route to your BOL and look for ‘pinch points’ and ways around them! And don’t just map them out DRIVE them. Maps don’t always show all!
Here’s what I did. You will know the mg of the tablets you get. Stick the name of the drug in “search” and there will be multiple medical sites that give you the dose to take for various problems. Print that off and keep it with the pills.
It sounds like your bug out location is close to where I live!
I once used bovine antiboitics for my cat, the bottle had the dose-per-weight, so I used that to do the math. That gives you a more accurate dose anyway, since, for example, a 250-pound body builder would need a different dose than a 90-pound middle school nerd.
“Does anybody have a list of equivalent doses for antibiotics that you can buy over the counter from veterinary supply houses?”
You can’t buy antibiotics for dogs over the counter now - have to have prescription. Not sure that is true for horses. You can still buy antibiotics for fish which are made by the same companies that make human antibiotics. I have the name of a web fish place that sells them all. Let me know if you want that. It was the only place I found Cipro.
As I wrote in another message to you, put the name of the drug in search for medial websites that give the dosage for various problems.
Grumblings of QE3 are becoming more and more likely. Just one more step of making the SHTF scenario more plausible.
/johnny
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