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To: Kartographer
Electricity is nice, but it's not a necessity for those who are prepared. Shelter, water, food, security, medicine, and a way to replenish your supplies - these are the real necessities.

We only use approximately 42 gallons of water per day, and that assumes we flush the toilet every 2 hours (we don't). If we switched to camp style dish-washing, laundry, and bathroom, we wouldn't need that much.

Since we have a well, and several backup ways to access it, we have a water supply, in addition to our 22 gallons of bottled water we have 2000 gallons of rain water and the supplies we need to make it potable.

We have a year's supply of most basic food staples, and are working on getting a year's supply of everything else. The least we have is 3 months for some items (not considering fresh perishable stuff).

Plenty left to do. We have always stocked up for emergencies, since we have power outages and tornadoes pretty often. It is hard to believe that there are people who do nothing to prepare for the chance of an emergency.

Did anyone see that woman in New York area after hurricane Sandy, standing on a street corner, yelling President Obama, we need help, we are dying out here? I don't know about you, but begging Zero for help, is not part of my preparedness plans.

56 posted on 04/07/2014 11:35:24 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes
"I don't know about you, but begging Zero for help, is not part of my preparedness plans."

I don't know its as good a plan as some on FR have, two for which is to expect preppers to 'share' and to rob preppers. Of course even on FR we have people who flat out told me that prepping was not needed because help always comes flooding in from else where when ever there is a disaster.
58 posted on 04/08/2014 6:26:53 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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