Posted on 11/01/2012 10:46:33 AM PDT by Joseph Harrolds
I’m probably a 1.5.
The next purchase will be a whole house generator on auto stand-by.
I am at 2 with the goal of getting to 2.5 or so. Eventually, I’d like to store food, water and medical supplies for 4 months or so.
I think that’s a financially prudent, life-style compatible, and psychologically healthy level at which to prep.
I guess I am somewhere between 2 and 3. I keep thinking I am going to stock up on long lasting food but have only got to the point of a few bags of rice and a few cans of spam.
I could make it about indefinitely in my rural location except for food. I guess I will add a few more food items each month.
I am at 2 with the goal of getting to 2.5 or so. Eventually, I’d like to store food, water and medical supplies for 4 months or so.
I think that’s a financially prudent, life-style compatible, and psychologically healthy level at which to prep.
I guess I am somewhere between 2 and 3. I keep thinking I am going to stock up on long lasting food but have only got to the point of a few bags of rice and a few cans of spam.
I could make it about indefinitely in my rural location except for food. I guess I will add a few more food items each month.
Check with Bill O'Reilly. His didn't work.
Seriously. Our lectric and Gas utility used to offer those, and they quit. I think too many of them failed. I have a small generator, but it's not hooked up. I've used it once, and it was most impractical. It has to reside outdoors with a cord coming in the house. In an emergency, I couldn't close the outddor door where the cable lcame in. Therefore, fumes from the generator flowed into the house. Not pleasant and very dangerous.
Maybe after Romney is President, he will publish outlines for all of us as to what we need. Mormons are experts on disaster prep. It is part of their faith. Seriously.
Thanks
I’m usually at 2.5, but during a prolonged period of unemployment my teenage son ate his way through most of my food supplies. I’m back working now but at a much reduced pay so it’s hard to restock. Generally, I have weapons I know how to use, have considered home security carefully, have worked out contingency plans, have escape routes and fallback positions established, know where I can go if things get bad here, have a go-bag for personal, car, and horse use, have stocks of medications, keep extra gas and firewood around, and am in good enough shape to get where I need to go on foot or ride hundreds of miles on horseback if necessary. I have a place to shelter a dozen miles from my house, and if the entire Eastern seaboard is ruined, I have a place in the countryside of the Midwest I can go to. Am hoping that before that happens I can sell this suburban house and move to a few acres in the Virginia Piedmont.
I’m a 3, which puts me into 4. People who are comfortable in staying alive a year, are part of whatever the new situation is after the confusion, and chaos, and dying off, had shaken out.
In order to find out, I plan to do a full practice later this year. It will last maybe four days or so to see where the weak spots are particularly with respect to generator usage, water supplies, and cooking.
Just to make it more realistic, I wonder if I should spring it on the family unexpectedly.
Bio-terrorism. The anthrax attacks. It happened here in the US.
Hyper-inflation.... has happened several times before the civil war. You know. That civil war that killed a noticable percentage of the US?
Perhaps you should read a little history about what things HAVE happened to the country, that maybe happened before you were born.
/johnny
It's more complicated than just acquiring a few foodstuffs each week.
They need to be protected just like any other generator.
My current one sits in my shed and I run a 220 capable line from the shed to my house. It’s only 2400 watts but it’s enough to run my sump pump, fridge and a cellphone charger.
The reason I want one of the big ones is so I can run it off propane like my heat and hot water. That way I avoid the gas lines like you are seeing now in NY and NJ.
I would build a shelter over it so that it would be protected from the elements. That’s probably why his failed.
If you are skilled enough to handle emergency wiring, why not feed your main power panel and keep the main off. Then you can selectively use anything in the house.
I did this during hurricane Ike and the 5 days without power on a 5.5kW generator. We did not run the A/C, Oven or stove. But then we could flip on the lights when we needed them, watch TV, use the ceiling fans, etc.
2.5 given that it’s hard to supply more than 6 months of water at home.
Those with 2nd location, out of town, consider how difficult it will be to get there, presuming no warning.
When I said “big box stores” I meant Costco and Sam’s Club. You can access their emergency stock food supply kits on-line.
Level 2+
I’d have to move to get to Level 3, but I’m working on it.
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