Posted on 10/12/2014 6:20:37 AM PDT by BobL
I really like Susan’s Imstillworking because she works through the kinks and explains the why and why not.
Never to late to start! Each prep gives you time to endure whatever the scenario is. Buys you time to come up with solutions to future and current problems. A day is better than nothing. A week is better than a day. A month is better than a week .... No one is going to hide for a lifetime. That’s insane. We trade preps for time to come up with both short/long term solutions.
NEVER TOO LATE.
Linda's pantry does the same thing, although she takes a bit longer to get through it all.
have you tried Imstillworking's meatless sausage patties? I made some and my guys could not tell that it wasn;t meat and thought they were pretty good.
quote—However, most fail to realize that bleach+water is good only for one day. It still smells ‘bleachy’ after a day, but is not an effective sanitizer. It must be remade every day.—end quote
I didn’t know this,loungitude, about the bleach and water—thank you!! Will file for future reference!!!
Yeah, I remember Twilight Zone, I assume you are referring to the Bomb Shelter episode.
Everyone in the neighborhood knew the MD was building one in his basement, and they all laughed at him-until it looked like they were gonna be bombed, then everyone insisted he admit them. Great episode, and even though I was only 8 or 9 at the time, I remember the episode well...and I guess, I learned something from it!!!
Dunno. It’s interesting, and thanks for the link.Further reading is necessary!!!!
When I suggested keeping some aspirin around, I wasn’t even thinking about using it to help with Ebola, just that it’s something that would be good to have around in case the SHTF..it’d be a bummer to get a rotten, garden-variety headache and need to leave home to get aspirin, and possibly expose oneself to who-knows-what!!! :)
Thanks for that info.
I bought some Steramine Quaternary Sanitizing Tablets from Amazon. One pill in a gallon sanitizes. It is used in restaurants and many other places.
Interesting. Every bottle of “Clorox”-brand bleach I’ve seen on the west coast has the date code indicated. If I were you, I’d contact Clorox via that site and inquire.
The non-Clorox brand bleach has a date code I haven t been able to decipher
Thanks. I just looked her up. I like her videos.
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“I think that water storage in the trash cans/bags would still come in handy for washing dishes/clothes/hands, flushing toilets, etc. You wouldn’t have to worry about contamination for those jobs.”
I guess we think differently here. I come from the pesticide world. Companies in that business know certain products are perfectly safe for humans, but now they have to also PROVE that they’re safe, no different than drug makers. So they simply stopped marketing them, rather than go through the expense, and now we have an explosion of bed bugs.
I have serious doubts as to whether short-term storage in bags that come out of the factory in sterile condition are a threat. I realize that, over time, and especially given warmer temperatures, chemicals can (and probably will) leach out. But I suspect those chemicals are unknowns (rather than toxins), especially in the microscopic quantities that we’re talking, and also because short of ingesting dioxin, we really don’t know much about what causes cancer and what does not (in other words, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of today’s “safe plastics” get proven otherwise in the next couple of decades).
But even so, you guys have made me think a bit and one thing I will not do is fill up bags and then store them for months (or years) expecting to have perfect water. So I’ll fill them when the time comes and then either use them in short order, or empty and refill again. But I will still use them, since I have about 100 gallons of capacity and I’m not about to let that capability go unused.
In the end, hopefully, we can keep clean water flowing and this will all go away, but in the meantime...
“Yeah, I remember Twilight Zone, I assume you are referring to the Bomb Shelter episode.”
Yep, and here it is!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIJMXXbh54A
It was an INCREDIBLE PLOT and anyone who laughs at preppers should see it.
You are assuming that there will a sufficient number of troops/leo’s to contain the roving bands of criminals, aka zombies.
Here in Texas most people won’t need their help.
Here in Texas most people won’t need their help.
Same here in Oklahoma,but you said that there would not be that many zombies walking around due to being contained by the authorities. I anticipate that the authorities will be spread too thin.
That’s fair...my only point is that it’s different from post-hurricane zombies (which I saw here after Rita - one tried to muscle into our motel room, based on being the same [non-white] ethnicity as my wife). They were all over San Antonio that night.
Stumbled on this story too. Seems that virtually no prepping was done here, even though it would have cost next to nothing to do so.
Don’t get me wrong! I don’t think I’d have a problem using the water stored this way at all. Actually, I think it is very smart. I mentioned it to my husband right away since we have a couple of containers that aren’t being used. I was just considering other uses for the water for those that might worry about stuff like that. Thank you for the suggestion!
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