Is your family prepared for a lengthy period of martial law or civil war without power or water?
During such times, the difference between a helpless family and one that thrives can be a matter of $100 worth of supplies, a bit more if you don't already own a gun.
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Buy a gun and learn how to use it ~ here's a great guide for cheap and reliable guns. If you can't afford a gun then buy a long-handled hammer or an aluminum baseball bat.
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Have an agreed meeting place for your loved ones if the mobile phone network fails.
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You can make a first aid survival kit for about $35 if you buy all of this stuff separately and it will be superior to most $300 kits! Most hardcore preppers and medical students will throw a conniption fit over cutting corners for medical supplies, but having the basics is far better than nothing at all!
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Bottled water lasts forever and large water containers can be filled from river or rainwater. Refer to this official CDC guide for using bleach to treat contaminated water. A standard bottle of bleach will treat up to 4,500 gallons of water or 12 years supply for one person. Add food coloring to treated water so there's never any confusion. LifeStraw Family cost $69 and will purify 4,755 gallons / three years of water needs for a family of five - see this demonstration video. Adults need about a gallon of water per day. These are also possible sources of emergency water.
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Do you have long-life rations? You don't need fancy stuff - just food with long expiry dates that you'll use anyway. These non-perishable foods will last forever if stored correctly... just make sure you have a non-powered can opener! Dehydrated beans and rice make a perfect meal that can be prepared only with water and without heat.
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Do you have plenty of extra blankets to keep warm on cold nights if the power is out? Don't forget about your old camping sleeping bags which are great when it's cold!
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Are you stocked-up on meds that your family depend on, such as diabetic medication or heart pills? If not, get extra - you'll use it so the peace of mind won't cost you a cent. If anyone frowns at you, tell your doctor you lost the last script and tell your chemist you're stocking up for a 3 month vacation in India. Pet stores sell fish and bird antibiotics with precisely the same ingredients as human antibiotics.
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Do you have candles, matches, stove-lighters and a couple of $5 LED hand-crank torches? Tealight candles can provide eight hours of light and costs about 20 cents each. Your family's morale will be boosted if they aren't forced to sit in total darkness. Put tealights in a glass for safety. Solar powered Christmas lights are cheap and effective too - leave 'em outside to charge and bring them in at night. Removing the stems from solar garden lights and keeping them near windows to charge during the day is effective too.
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Do you have a full BBQ gas tank and a cooker to fit it? You can connect a small camping stove to a large 20 Lb propane tank using an adapter cable that'll provide 70 hours of cooking at maximum heat. This video explains how.
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Hand-crank or solar USB rechargers for your iPhone or hand-crank or solar radio will allow you to listen to President Trump's emergency broadcasts if the power is out. Ear-buds will extend the length of the battery charge but not all emergency radios have headphone jacks. WARNING: "cheap" USB chargers likely won't work with the newer smartphones because despite providing 5 volt, newer smartphones require a full ampere of charge which the cheaper USB rechargers don't provide.
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Children need structure. Cheap iPhone speakers and a USB recharger can provide your family with thousands of hours of entertainment. Fill your iPod with award-wining audio-books, short-stories and podcasts your family will enjoy. My sons love science fiction and creepy stories, so I downloaded 10,000 hours of Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM shows, Doctor Who audio-books and classics short stories. Your kids will LOVE an hour of candlelit classic storytelling before bedtime! Board games are also awesome if there's enough light.
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Isolationism isn't ideal because your community will wonder what resources you are hiding. Conceal what you have but remain informed by being socially active. Wait in line for humanitarian supplies as if you are starving and have nothing (worth stealing).
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Finally, don't allow apocalyptic scenarios to dissuade you from sensible prepping. Water and power failure is far more likely than civil war which is more likely than nuclear holocaust. Start small by preparing for two weeks without food, water and power and expand when you're ready. Also remember to buy extra toilet paper, toothbrushes and feminine hygiene products!
These are just some of the bare basics that will dramatically increase your family's ability to survive.
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Here's a fantastic bush-craft video on how to start a fire using a ferrocerium rod.
Here's a fantastic bush-craft video on how to cook a simple stew.
This. Having close ties with your neighbors will be a huge factor in your family’s survival. When the SHTF, you want to be already connected with 20-30 fit males from nearby families. Men nearby who you may not know super well, but you know them enough to instantly come together in crisis time.
When the SHTF is not the time to start knocking on doors looking for others to come together for defense.
Love your neighbors, God said.
Well I am going to get raped for sure. My neighbors are all socialist democrats and their wives hate me for the way I look and that I never got fat and gave up.
If things go down, I will have to bug out immediately.
Gotta disagree, part of the militia paradigm is being self sufficient and hoarding as we can, not just foods but also weapons.
So while I sit here on good water with abundant foods and supplies I also stockpile enough weapons to outfit a squad of light infantry. You are correct in that we must have community, so we must therefor plan on patrols to protect it and not just sit at the house behind a scope. I'm not going to have to travel, I am where I will fight. I'm too old to march 20 miles with a 90 pound pack and then engage in a battle....but come too close and it'll get exciting.
I'll do patrolling if needed, man defense up the road as we need to, check on my neighbors and protect my community, so too will the other Vets and most of the others near me. But you have to be stocked up on supplies to do any of that.
Prep as best you can, we expect the troubles to be short term but any of us could be without infrastructure for a good while. I'm not going to give examples but cities are fragile, you can screw up daily life for millions quite easily, really.
I remember many years ago the Soviets infiltrated a Spetznatz team, they rented cars and used them to line up across all lanes of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stopped them in rush hour traffic, then escaped in another vehicle. Messed up the city/cities for hours...harmlessly, a test or exercise, no real destructions done but damages yeah.
Anyhow, yes we should all prepare for the Storm. POTUS old us years ago to prepare because the Storm was coming, now it is here.
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Well no but thanx for trynna be a dick. I certainly 'can' do that but I worked hard to build this place and I ain't leaving.
What you call laziness I call strategic planning, and where you fear having a coward's ass I fear nothing.
Adios.
Lmao the looter fantasy. Ok bruh, have fun looting when you're dead from starvation
I agree and crowd sourcing things like food and water with a trusted community is the only real answer. It helps production and defense of the resources.
False.
Many preppers have remote bug-out bunkers, away from their residential location.
There is nothing retarded about having enough supplies to feed and defend your family.
That said, you have my permission to remain completely unprepared to protect your family against the slightest crisis, including power outages, hurricanes and floods. Good luck with that and your begging for help.
You rotate it in.
And 25+ year shelf life food doesnt really go bad that quickly.
Buying food isn't a bad idea unless you are buying low quality food.
Your posts are pretty retarded. A good system will be mobile and ready for boogaloo. Prepping isn't just about bunkering in place. You are trying to justify your own lack of preparedness by mocking those that are prepared. Sad.
Dicks out yall