Posted on 11/25/2012 3:37:35 PM PST by Indy Pendance
What's in your bug out bag? My eldest calls them Good bags, Get out of Dodge. My second daughter (see home page) calls it her apocalypse crate, a rubber maid container filled with all the stuff she'll need, and has it in her car. It has all her old army stuff that couldn't be returned. For example, gas masks, mre's etc.
Ours has the normal stuff, blankets, food, flashlights, water, clothes, fire, ammo, etc. It might be a good thread to have input, suggestions, what's good, what's frivolous.
One thing most people forget is toilet paper. Bring a few rolls.
Care to elaborate more? Which bag did you choose, and what do you have in them?
Well done.
**No-one can know what they will do until it happens, whatever “it” is.**
Exactly. Prepping is a good idea, but don’t tell anyone that you are. TELL..NO....ONE.
As far as martial law goes, if you don’t respond to ‘roll call’, they will hunt you down, since you’re obviously an ‘enemy’ of the state.
I don’t doubt that the nu wurld ordur bunch has plenty of strategeries for dealing with ‘renegades’. There are likely people that spent most of their day working to bring their global plan to fruition, along with the tactics to arrest the uncooperative slaves.
Think about being stranded in your car and without regular communication, and needing to hike to wherever. A roll of extra wide masking tape and a permanent marker in your car will let you leave a note that won’t blow away or get washed out right away. Just write on the the tape itself with the permanent marker and then attach the tape to a surface.
We are staying put, since we do our own power normally, also
we have a well, put in a large garden every spring, we can and freeze food (probably not enough). We need to put diesel in a 50gal. drum as well as a 50gal. drum of unleaded for our generator. We live in a steel stud house
with a metal roof and fireproof siding. I need to get more ammo for my pistols and I plan to buy a rifle. I feel that we are fairly well prepared.
I know we all have flashlights in our survival kit, but do you have the right kind?
I recently bought a double AA-cell LED light from Maglite. Last week I was using it to find something in my basement and when I was done, I forgot about it and left it where I last used it in the ON position. When I was down there again 3 days later, it was still bright enough to read by. That’s 72 hours of continuous use. I’ve never had a normal flashlight run 3 days continuous before.
I don’t know the exact deal with basements in the Hill Country. When I built my house, I was told it was due to some instability of the caliche soil. Since no one else in the area has them, I figured it was an intel indicator to forgo building one myself.
“>>Are you hooked up with like minded people in your neighborhood?<<
Montgomery/Grimes county Texas area....any folks round these parts interested in having lunch?”
Sugar land/Richmond here. Let’s put something together...
Okay but do you have a head light? You know, you wear it on your head so your hands will be free. We got one at a gun show for 20 bucks. Very handy. One hundred lumens.
Okay but do you have a head light? You know, you wear it on your head so your hands will be free. We got one at a gun show for 20 bucks. Very handy. One hundred lumens.
Actually I do have a head light, but I don’t particularly use it unless I am working on overhead electrical wiring.
Since I live in a desert region, one particularly useful light to have when out and about at night is an LED UV flashlight, because scorpions fluoresce. As does petroleum jelly and urine, if you want to leave otherwise invisible road and path markers.
You might want to look at a dehydrator. They are perfect for certain foods and store well.
Have you tried those shakeable batteries? I’ve been thinking about them.
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