Posted on 09/07/2012 2:23:13 PM PDT by Kartographer
1. If something happens all I have to do is call 911.
2. All I need is a 72-hour kit with a flashlight, first aid kit, some food and water, and a radio.
3. My insurance policy will take care of everything.
4. Good preparedness is too expensive and complicated.
5. We can only form a neighborhood group through FEMA, the Red Cross or local law enforcement.
6. In a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) terrorist attack, we’re all dead anyway.
7. Nothing like that could ever happen here.
8. All I have to worry about is my own family.
9. If preparedness were really important it would be taught in school.
10. I can get free preparedness information on the Internet.
11. Full preparedness means I have to get a lot of guns and be a survivalist.
12. If something really bad happens, no one will help.
Preppers’ PING!!
Full preparedness means I have to get a lot of guns and be a survivalist.
Well, yes..
Please add me to your ping list.
In particular, I am hunting good ideas for purchased food to go stick in my cellar (dry, 50 degrees year around).
13 - have a battery-powered radio available so you can stay informed on what’s happening if the power goes out - during Hurricane Irene last year our power was off for fourteen hours but our battery radio was almost useless - except for sporatic bits of information on the storm, most radio stations kept on with their same inane programming of crappy music and occasional callins about what was going on in some guy’s local neighborhood - we finally managed to tune into the sound channel of TV channel 6, which is at the ultra low end of the FM band, and they were doing running updates of where the storm was and where it was going - so much for battery power.....
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf
NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
And that's a bad thing?
/johnny
I have a 1500W power inverter in my Jeep. Great for running a few things in an emergency.
/johnny
Find a radio with NOAA channels on it.
As a food service professional, and a cheap barstid, I suggest just buying more of what you normally buy, when it's on sale. Over the years, I've saved about 20% by buying in bulk on sales items that I'm going to use anyway.
It pays in 2 ways: Original savings on the sale price, and secondary savings over time, because you KNOW the price isn't going to go down on anything in the grocery store.
/johnny
SnakeDoc
A victim?
1. If something happens I could call 911. Of course, that might make the problem far worse. Whether to call 911 is a decision to be made based on whether an official response is more likely than not to be helpful.
2. I should start with a 72-hour kit with a flashlight, first aid kit, some food and water, and a radio. From that point, I should expand my preparations based on resources, needs, and anticipated emergency situations.
3. My insurance policy will take care of everything covered in the policy, eventually, and if the company is not overwhelmed by the situation.
4. Good preparedness is too expensive and complicated to do all at once, but small steps one at a time can add up to good preparedness.
5. We can only form a neighborhood group through contact with our neighbors. It is critical to know which neighbors will be helpful in defending the community and which are likely to pose an immediate danger to others.
6. In a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) terrorist attack, there will be survivors even near ground zero. In Japan, 597 people survived within 1 km of the detonation sites, including Akiko Takakura at 300 m. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was outside 1km but was burned and injured in Hiroshima before returning to his home in Nagasaki in time to be burned and injured in that detonation.
7. History repeats itself.
8. All I have to worry about is my own family, my friends, and especially those neighbors and strangers who are not my friends and are not moral people.
9. There are many really important things that are not taught in school, and since the mid-1960s preparedness has been one of them. Fortunately, the Boy Scouts teach many aspects of preparedness and will continue to do so despite liberal hatred for moral values and for independence.
10. I can get free preparedness information on the Internet. [This one - not a myth - was right!] One of the best sources is http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf from Kartographer.
11. Full preparedness means I have to get the right guns or self-defense equipment and be ready to respond as necessary to violence or evil in order to survive.
12. If something really bad happens, some people will help, but it may not be quick, it may not be the government or others some would expect to see helping, and we will not get help or even neutrality from everyone we encounter.
Why isn't it?
“What exactly is the opposite of a survivalist?”
A fatalist.
Canned goods will last 25 years in that environment. If you you doubt me I will send you statements from canned foods producers.
canned white potatoes
canned vegetables
canned chicken
canned beef (http://keystonemeats.com) good products
canned corned beef
canned mushrooms
canned soups (ready to eat, not reconstitute)
canned beans (black, refried, etc.)
[airtight containers: ball canning jars are very good]
white rice stored in airtight containers (indefinitely)
oatmeal in airtight containers (very long time)
Dried beans in airtight containers (very long)
Pasta in airtight containers (very long)
Rice noodles in airtight containers (very long)
Pilot crackers (canned - 30 year shelf life)
Peanut butter (several years, easy to rotate)
Juices bottled in *glass* (several years at least)
You would be surprised how cheap 6 months of food will be using these types. Maybe a little boring after a few weeks, but in the crunch you won’t complain.
First aid supplies, antibiotics, cigarettes, booze, feminine hygiene products all make for good storage and make great trade bait. Most people forget they need these basics. When the zombies come you will need surplus to barter with.
Tell us more!
What kind of wax does she use to coat what kind of cheese and where does she store it afterwards?
Thanks!
That's close to a fatalist who believes everything that happens is preordained to happen and one can't change it.
There are going to be a lot of dead people in both categories (and I don't care ‘cause I can't change them beforehand and don't have enough to feed them afterward).
I will feed my extra liberal sister-in-law and her husband because they helped me so much when my husband was very ill. I love them but they are to the left of Stalin and admit it. They know I am a prepper and think I'm nuts. They live on the coast and have NO preps of any kind.
It's a given they'll be the first ones knocking on your door.
“A Zombie! ;-)”
That’s a better answer than my brainy one of “fatalist”.
I was watching the show and reading my iphone at the same time, but I think I remember she used a special cheese wax and dipped it or brushed it with a natural boar’s bristle brush. She gave a recommendation of the product on her site, and it was from a specialty cheese store. Then she recommended hanging it in a cool space, like a basement, where she has them in nets hanging from the rafters. I think they need air circulation. They do get more ripe, but they don’t spoil. I remember eating a guoda-type cheese in the Philippines, and we didn’t refrigerate the new product. Hard cheeses are the ones she puts-up-—literally. Isn’t that exciting? Helps round out your need for protein in your preps. I found her site kind of hard to navigate. There is a search box, but no where to find what was already posted.
The last time they were here a number of months ago, they told me they aren’t worried about the future until global warming stops food growing in their area of south Texas, then they will go to California where his brother is because that place will be fine. I said nothing, just nodded my head like they were right.
They are coming to visit either this coming Sunday or next Tuesday and be here several days. They sleep in a bed under which is mountains of Rainey Day food. They don’t know how lucky they are that I would save their liberal lives.
The last time they were here a number of months ago, they told me they aren’t worried about the future until global warming stops food growing in their area of south Texas, then they will go to California where his brother is because that place will be fine. I said nothing, just nodded my head like they were right.
They are coming to visit either this coming Sunday or next Tuesday and be here several days. They sleep in a bed under which is mountains of Rainey Day food. They don’t know how lucky they are that I would save their liberal lives.
Wrong kind of battery powered radio - I prefer mine to tune from 144Mhz to 148Mhz ;-) It also helps if you have a decent antenna - a car mount works.
Tuck your head between your legs, ..............
Bless their hearts.
Yep. That and "Duck and Cover".
Ammo will be the new money.
A democrat.
Wowza. I'm thinking new pants might be in order after that ka-boom.
I didn't know anyone survived that close. Thanks for the data.
/johnny
Booze - I’m getting a small still. About 10L worth should provide a couple of liters of white lightening. Sugar and yeast and some water on the fire. Been reading up on it and it’s not all that complicated really. JRTFM!!
They will have to get to where you are... in a real emergency, that might not be so easy to do without a plan, firearms, and tools.
You might not have to feed them after all.
If you do, make them work for it. I don't know if you remember the old bumper sticker from hitchhiker days "Gas, grass, or @$$, no-one rides for free"
/johnny
/johnny
In my world... that phrase, said by an older southern lady is an ominous thing. ;)
/johnny
Hey. I just checked them out. Not just for the canned meat. This steak package comes in at about $4.30 a pound.
Steak Box I - 14 lbs.
2 Ribeye Steaks
2 New York Strip Steaks
2 Sirloin Steaks
2 Rib Steaks
3 lbs Cube Meat
2 T-Bone Steaks
2 Porterhouse Steaks
Price: $59.95
Oh jeez. Each of these bullet points needs a page or two of footnotes, additions and exceptions. Let me add a few:
13) Don’t be stupid.
14) Be stubborn only when it matters. Change your mind when proven wrong.
15) In an emergency situation or a defensive position, if you are not improving your situation you are wrong.
16) Keep your perspective and do not waste your strength. “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” - G.S. Patton
17) Contamination conquers determination, so keep it clean.
18) Murphy’s Law: “If anything can go wrong, it will, and at the worst possible time.”
19) Cheops’ rule: “Nothing is done on time or under budget.”
20) The fourth law of thermodynamics: “There is never enough of the right kind of fuel and energy.”
Amen on keeping it clean. More people died in WWI from disease than from the fight.
/johnny
I want a crank radio with NOAA on it....anybody know where to get them?....I have a plain crank/solar radio already....
the solution may be worse than the initial problem...
My suspicion is that our money will fade due to high inflation. Why make people personally angry by taking their money, when you can inflate all money in circulation and achieve the same goal impersonally.
“I prefer a radio (several radios) that tune from DC to daylight, and can transmit.”
Ahh, got radios. Must have three emergency ones, and the latest one, several months old, is a Sony for hearing ham operators.
That’s another reason I have to save my liberal kin. The husband is a ham operator, a licensed electrical engineer, and when he comes in my house, he wants a list of items that need to be fixed. He works every second he is here or he isn’t happy. Wears his gun in his fanny pack. In his van, Carries everything he needs to fix anything on earth.
AND, HE LISTENS TO EL JAZEERA NEWS - SAYS THAT IS THE ONLY ONE THAT TELLS THE TRUTH - but, I can’t refuse to feed him because he’s a communist, ‘cause he could save my life - he would kill anything that came near me without batting an eyelash.
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