Replies

Gasoline can be stored for up to 5 years by using Stabil which was designed for that very thing. The ethanol will evaporate off after awhile.

You should have 12 months of food reserves. Don’t forget water. And don’t go telling everybody in your bridge club. If you can last 12 months after an “event” you will have a chance that things will get back to some sense of normalcy. It does not have to be fancy. Rice and beans will keep you alive. If you have $209 to spare buy yourself a Big Berkey water filter. We just got one and it rocks. It will turn pond scum into 99.99% pure water.

For storing quantities of grains and beans we get the food grade buckets for $1 each from the nice ladies at the grocery store bakery. Instead of throwing them away they hold the buckets for us. We have used the mylar bag liners and dry ice to deoxygenize. Don’t do that its a pain use the oxygen absorbers. You can order them online at Country living.

Almost any prescription medicine can be ordered in quantity online through the Canadian pharmacies. I’m talking antibiotics, pain killers, thyroid, high blood pressure, cholesterol drugs etc. You can order a years worth at a time. They will be effective past their expiration dates you might just have to take a little more of it at some point. The only drug I know of that actually goes toxic after a time is Tetracyclin. Don’t buy it.

Weapons: Get one or two or three. A high capacity semi-auto handgun like a Springfield Armory .45 ACP, a shotgun and a AR-15 or AK assault rifle come to mind. Make sure you have about 1000 rounds of ammo for each of them. And yes you may have to actually kill somebody. If you live in the burbs you will be fending off every neighbor who didn’t bother to buy an extra can of soup not to mention the denizens of the inner city who may make it out your way. Make that 2,000 rounds of ammo for at least the AK. Don’t worry too much about the food police. Their life expectancy will be less than 48 hours. If they show up at your door weeelllll you have a decision to make.

Get your whole family together in one place and make sure they all have a weapon. The reason its called survival is because your only objective is to still be alive 12 mos after the SHTF.

If you can afford to buy even a small retreat no farther than 1 tank of gas from where you live now do it. The folks that are out in the country will be OK. The burbs and in-town areas will be extremely hard to survive in. We came to the decision some time ago that even with excellent weapons and a bad attitude our home in the burbs is basically not defensible. We are one foot out the door to the mountains.

Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.