Posted on 10/12/2014 6:20:37 AM PDT by BobL
Make your own bleach using Calcium Hypochlorite (pool shock). Calcium Hypochlorite has a long shelf life and one pound will make gallons of bleach.
Better than Bleach: Use Calcium Hypochlorite to Disinfect Water.
http://survivaltopics.com/better-than-bleach-use-calcium-hypochlorite-to-disinfect-water/
Preppers’ PING!!
It is your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
The world is dry tinder just awaiting the right spark maybe mother nature has decided it is time to shuffle the deck.
So listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3
Selco covers this in this article many times people just can not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why dont they realize it? Its caused by a condition called Normalcy Bias a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
A good article on Normalcy Bias is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their serf. Me I dont want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly dont want to have to kiss some gubberment third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I dont want some jack booted thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I dont want to be shut up in with a bunch of zombies and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Just getting started or an old hand you might find my Preparedness Manual helpful. You can download the manual at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who havent started already its time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.
Again I like to recomend FReepers ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
And More
Also there is Ferfals Blog a survivor of Argentinas first collapse:
And there is Selcos Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:
There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.
Thanks Karto, but one question. A while ago I bought some at Walmart that is 48%, and at the time I was very careful to buy what I thought was the right concentration and that it didn’t have any other cute chemicals in it. Now I see 78% as the minimum. I plan to keep it still as my backup for chemical purification, in case my brand new bottle of bleach gets too old. Any thoughts?
Honestly, if you’re just raising your preps level NOW, you’re already well behind the power curve.
We’ve just done our usual fall stock-up for the winter, as the wife hates driving in snow (and isn’t particularly good at it, either). Our actual worry is a the worse-than-usual forecast for the winter: we were snowed in for 10 days during the “Snowpocalypse” here in the DC area. . .
“Selco covers this in this article many times people just can not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why dont they realize it? Its caused by a condition called Normalcy Bias a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.”
Ebola didn’t just “appear” to the world last week, it was out there FOR YEARS, but when our, literally, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE involved with disaster planning needed to show they were ready, they were totally hopeless.
A classic case of NORMALCY BIAS.
Good analogy. Pretty much sums up what will happen if this spreads. But you need a bigger condom, one that fits over a house.
“Honestly, if youre just raising your preps level NOW, youre already well behind the power curve. Weve just done our usual fall stock-up for the winter, as the wife hates driving in snow (and isnt particularly good at it, either). Our actual worry is a the worse-than-usual forecast for the winter: we were snowed in for 10 days during the Snowpocalypse here in the DC area. . .”
I agree...I’m pretty-much always ready for a hurricane, and riding out 60 days of house-confinement is a walk in the park for me. But for others...it’s Katrina again.
I just checked this. I have a bottle of Clorox-brand, stamped as indicated.
The stamp reads E614077.
So, the plant is E6, the last digit of the year is 1, made on the 407th day of the year?
Close...the year is “14” and the bottle was filled on Day “077” about the middle of March. So it’s time to replace it now (while it’s still available).
That advice is ALWAYS SMART, and includes co-workers. Figure that anyone you disclose your prepping plans to will show up at your door if that day comes, just as happened on Twilight Zone.
1st Rule of Prep Club: You do not talk about Prep Club.
2nd Rule of Prep Club: You DO NOT talk about Prep Club.
3rd Rule of Prep Club: If someone says SHTF, do a shot.
4th Rule of Prep Club: No more than two people to a retreat; one must be a buxom blonde coed for repopulating the human race.
5th Rule of Prep Club: One BOL at a time.
6th Rule of Prep Club: No tie-dye shirts, no socks with sandals, no ponytails, no drum circles.
7th Rule of Prep Club: Prepping will go on as long as it has to.
8th Rule of Prep Club: If this is your first post to Prep Club, you HAVE to buy all other preppers a shot.
So where’s Quark’s Theorem?
There are two essential factors to consider with Ebola.
1) The timetable of the disease. If you can break its timetable, with one exception, the disease is over.
To start with, an infected person may have from 2 to 21 days before their symptoms emerge, leaning towards sooner, so practically within 4 days. So about one month is the maximum time needed for an absolute quarantine.
And a real weak point of Ebola is that it is only marginally infectious until the infected person is showing symptoms. From that point, it is about 10 days before they die. And for 5 of those days, they are probably flat on their back.
So the functional time limit for an infected person to spread the disease to other than medical people and those that dispose of their remains is just five days.
Let’s say that you are buttoned up in a safe place. Somebody pays you a visit, so you insist that they spend a week in a guest house, communicating electronically, before they meet a living person. If things are really bad, they can be your visitor for a month before you greet them.
2) The exception to the rule is physical contamination, which for Ebola can last longer than it can within a person.
Fortunately, Ebola is not a hardy virus, so can be killed with most disinfectants, and even UV light. Which means that a UV light is a very important piece of equipment.
Yup, I totally agree. Things are going to be taking a very bad turn.
It still comes down to being very healthy. The weak will die from infection.
Be sure to get rest, be hydrated, well fed, walk/run/jog to help ensure the cardio system is up to the task of being infected, and simply assume you will at some point become infected. Be prepared to handle secondary infections such as bacterial infections and the usual stuff like stuffed up noses.
It is best to buy Calcium Hypochlorite (Pool Shock) at Wal-Mart for $24 for 5 1-pound bags. It only takes a hair of the stuff to treat water. Clorox goes bad within 6 months, but this stuff is good for a long time.
Google for Calcium Hypochlorite. 1 pound treats about 10,000 gallons for drinking water. (If I remember that right!)
P.S. Calcium Hypochlorite can also be used to treat water for cleaning and wiping down surfaces. Unless you buy boatloads of cleaning supplies at a pretty significant cost, this stuff will do nicely to wipe down surfaces. Just concentrate it more than you would for drinking water. There are recipes out there for this.
My closets are full of meals like spaghetti and meat sauce, Rice and beans, beef stew, chicken and stuffing, mac and cheese, chicken noodle soup, potato cheese soup, cream of chicken, mushroom and broccoli soup base for soup or for casseroles, cookie, cake, cornbread, biscuit and pancake mixes and fruit cobbler mixes. I also dehydrate herbs from my herb garden so the food will not be bland. I make my own tomato powder, onion powder and garlic powder.
The only thing I purchase is freeze dried meats. The dehyrdtated doesn't have a long shelf life and it seems safer to leave the meat to the experts. The only special equuipment I have is a FoodSaver and I use oxygen absorbers. There is a lot of information out there on the internet on how to do this.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.