Posted on 11/13/2012 11:17:38 AM PST by Kartographer
I have found that when starting your preparedness measures, it is best to start at the beginning in order to ensure you have everything you need to build up your foundation. Start your preparations with a 72-hour kit and then create a vehicle 72-hour kit. Once that is complete, you can begin ensuring your basic needs are met for longer periods or begin targeting other layers of preparedness. The 52-Weeks to Preparedness series offers a complete list of getting your home and family ready for unexpected disasters.
Having multiple emergency plans is another example of layering up. Not only do you always need a Plan B, you need Plan C, Plan D and on through the alphabet for every situation. Keep the following tips in mind when beginning your preparedness foundation:
Keep family members and any medical or special needs in mind when planning Don’t forget your pets Continually adding onto your layers will makes for a more economical approach to preparing Many preps have multiple uses and can be used for multiple disasters Let’s look at some other examples of how you might layer your preparedness.
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Johnny has made post after post about actually surviving on a mountain using his skills to feed himself, build a dwelling, etc. He is the best, I think, at surviving “in the wilderness” as he has done it for a long period of time. With each post, he reminds us it is a hard life to live that way. If you had nothing but Johnny with you in a wilderness situation, and he had nothing, either, you would live due to his great knowledge and expertise.
Thanks to Kartographer and his excellent material, we have access to the knowledge he has. Kart will make it in excellent style and safety and one wouldn't have to worry about living and surviving with him around.
Johnny, you said: “Preparing for a complete collapse of government and infrastruction... as the 20th century taught anyone awake, is probably not a bad idea, that scenario has happened with disturbing regularity all around the world, and always caused by governments.”
Yes, I think the country is going down fast and think an economic collapse is coming soon. I talked about the solar flare (EMP) because that high flare time period is next year. I don't know how long it will take for an economic collapse to happen, but I know this: When trucks stop, whatever makes them stop (economic collapse, sun flare, etc.), means no power, no water and no food.
Our life depends on trucks - when you see a big truck loaded with food going to a grocery, consider your life depends on that truck - do you trust that truck to always be there? No. I trust the food stored in my house to be there - not that truck. I trust the provisions I made to have good water much more than I trust the faucet to have water.
Several weeks ago, there was a notice on my door - the city water company was shutting off the water for 6 hours for repairs. Did I care? No, I have plenty of water at my fingertips and always will have.
To the person who said starting to prep is overwhelming, if you go to my articles, I designed that to start a person prepping from the beginning so the overwhelming aspect would be less. There is also some humor there so you can laugh as you go along, which helps diffuse the anxiety of beginning to prep.
Absolutely. Sh*t can be stolen or confiscated - knowledge and abilities can't.
Actually, I’m lobbying for chickens ..... we have plenty of room for them. Love goats, but we’d have to do some fence repair ..... just for kicks, take a look at the pregnant goat at this link (poor thing, but I had to laugh): http://chickensintheroad.com/barn/the-big-question/
Nah, it'll be like in the Star Wars movie when Padmé says, "So this is how liberty dies: With thunderous applause."
/johnny
>>You prep the way you wanna prep, I’ll prep my way. I’m more focused on really having skillsets, and experience than having ‘stuff’.
Stuff is nice to have, and I’ve certainly got a lot, but the skillsets, and experince with them, are more important to me.<<
Which is why I added the Boy Scout Manual to Kartographer’s excellent (if partially impractical) list.
I think we are seeing the “end” differently. Natural disaster, heck yeah. Man-made TSHTF — not noticed until it is too late.
Smarts make stuff. Stuff is just stuff. I am really glad when I was a kid I taught myself electricity, plumbing, carpentry, auto mechanics, etc. I was a young “Mr. Fix It” and those skills served me through all the earthquakes: Not just the knowledge but the improvisation thinking that backs them up.
>>Nah, it’ll be like in the Star Wars movie when Padmé says, “So this is how liberty dies: With thunderous applause.<<
A most excellent observation. In 2008 they applauded and last Wednesday they applauded.
But insurrection has not happened and it probably won’t. Sadly, TS won’t HTF.
Heinleinian, eh?
I'm on my way -- what's for dinner???
;)
I have yet to see anyone mention a ‘blackout room or rooms’ for your house. If you use a coleman lantern inside when the power has been down for any length of time, it is very noticeable from outside and from a long way away. To counter this and allow you to have a brightly lite room inside where you can have even rudimentary comforts like readsing at night, figure out how to ‘black out’ the windows and glass panes on doors, so that a central area inside is not going to allow light out for tipping off roamers looking for that one lite house among a neighborhood of darkened dwellings. Duct tap and layers of tarps works. If there are spare blankets which can be hung over the tarps or black plastic bags taped to windows from the inside, this is a bonus because it airs the blankets when hung up.
My teenaged kids saw the connection between that and our country when the movie first came out.
One of my first indications that I did something right raising them and they were going to be turning out alright.
there is a popular TV show called Revolution and the story takes place 15 yrs after ALL electricity is "knocked" out.
There is a scene on one episode where a former Google executive told someone,"before all this started I had $50 million in the bank,I would give it all up for one roll of toilet paper.
Kartographer, if you’re maintaining a prepper’s list, could you please add me to it? Thank you!
I've cooked wood ash, fermented wild berry, and wild mustard seed bread on a stone.
It gave me heartburn and tasted not so great - but I did NOT die. LOL.(Warning: Do not try this one at home).
Maybe some other kind of seed would have been less painful.
I have something better.I call it a charcoal chimney. you put the charcoal you need in the top and two sheets of newspaper in the bottom light the paper. The burning paper will get the charcoal going.
>>One of my first indications that I did something right raising them and they were going to be turning out alright.<<
We have disagreed on minutiae in the past but MM I am 100% sure your kids are great Americans with all that entails.
My mom was great and can’t be replaced in my heart but I am sure many people would do REALLY well with you as a mom.
:)
Dinner tonight is a pork roast (on sale, $0.98lb) trimmed and with a brown sugar and clove rub. I just got it cooled enough to slice.
I haven't decided on service style yet, I've already thin sliced it, and may have it as mini sammiches on home-made biscuits with a little melted cheese... Or I may just keep grazing on it to the extent that there won't be an official meal.
/johnny
If that becomes an issue, I'll leave a light buring, and go to one of my hunt spots and resolve that little problem.
I don't put up with criminal crap in the neighborhood now, why would I do it any other time?
/johnny
>>Dinner tonight is a pork roast (on sale, $0.98lb) trimmed and with a brown sugar and clove rub. I just got it cooled enough to slice.<<
Cheap and tasty (write your own ex-wife joke here)!
I don’t have to worry about finding you — I’ll follow my nose (it is your dang fault I am now really hungry!)
FRiend, the globalists will program your children and grandchildren so well that they will believe the oligarchy has made them more secure, so they will not miss what they didn't value to start with. If your grandchildren and great grandchildren are among the fortunate small percentage allowed to live once Agenda 21 is firmly in place, then their loyalty to the oligarchy will be secured and they will not realize that they are very at risk for their life hangs on the whim of the oligarchs, not on their ingenuity.
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