Posted on 07/09/2012 4:27:31 PM PDT by Kartographer
#1) The power grid is ridiculously vulnerable to disruptions and failure
#2) Without electricity, acquiring food and water in a major U.S. city can become a difficult task
#3) Most people are simply not prepared and therefore worsen any crisis
#4) Cell phones are a fragile technology that can't be counted on in an emergency
#5) The internet is wildly vulnerable to natural disasters
#6) Many people have no clue what to do in an emergency
#7) 911 and other emergency services are quickly overwhelmed or completely offline
#8) A national grid-down situation would be far more complex to repair
#9) Modern cities are built on systems that have little redundancy
#10) Mother Nature will humble humanity
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalnews.com ...
Sounds good, but how do you get gas when the gas station pumps have no power?
5-Have LOTS of *protection* at-the-ready.
Water is the absolute hardest thing to prepare IMO. I can’t come up with good ideas for water storage for long periods of time. A week maybe...forgetting about anything but basic washing, of course.
Rendering plant? Better a butchery for making meat pies which can be used as barter.
Plan your survival near a stream or fresh-water lake.
-PJ
Prepper ping
I went through the snowstorm in new England last October/November. We went about ten days without power.
We learned our lesson.
We got a generator large enough for the house. We always have extra fuel. Every week I change out 1 five gallon contain into the truck and get it filled with new gas. Never more than four weeks old.
We always had plenty of food. But now we have radios, batteries, and extra lights.
Sometimes you learn easy, sometimes hard.
One Second After was a shock. About 95% of Americans dead.
Need recommendation on a solar generator that’s at least 1800 kw.(1800, 1801 whatever it takes). Can work inconsistently with sunlight, but needs to be relatively inconspicuous. Is there one like that?
Cell towers in FL now have generators. Might be something to look into for your local communities.
Thank you for sharing that, but it suggests a gross oversimplification. If you truly know about this topic, can you be more specific?
If in fact that rechargeable battery is all that would maintain telephone service, we all have the option to provide as big a battery as we want, to maintain service for days, weeks or months if we so decide.
No?
Storage is tough for several reasons. Space & water just doesn’t store will for extended periods.
Look at this:
http://www.drinkwell.com.au/
I am going to contact the mfg, see what shipping cost is like to the states.
This will purify a LOT of water and is designed to draw so little power you could run it with a small solar powered generator.
The electronic treatment of water can be used to both capture the pollutants and disinfect water. It also liberates gas bubbles and under the right circumstances, these can float the captured pollutants to the surface, leaving the water crystal clear. Dr Vivian Robinson and his team at DrinkWell have developed a way of combining all these properties into a small, light weight, portable system that can fulfill all the goals of treating water at any turbidity, removing a wide array of chemical pollutants and disinfecting the water. All of this is available at the press of a button.
A complete system consists of a container, a plate set, the electronics controller and a power supply. It uses so little electricity that a 200 gram rechargeable battery pack could clean some 40 liters of quite muddy water (200 NTU) before the batteries would need recharging.
The result is a portable lightweight system that can clean contaminated water to a better quality than would be obtained by conventional large scale treatment plants if they treated the same water.
DrinkWell is not affected by the initial startin turbidity, it can be in excess of 2,000 NTU, and will get it to below 1 NTU if required. And even our smallest unit will do this for many thousands of liters.
Why would anyone, under conditions of social duress want to drive anywhere, for any reason, without an armed escort?
It’s fraudulent.
If you want some safe procedures to purify water, research through the AWWA and ASCE and NSF.
Water is the easiest thing to prepare.
Focus on surface and ground water,...just like our present water supplies.
Store them in above ground storage tanks or simply save 5-10 gals in jugs with a drop of bleach, then replenish them once a year.
Bottled water at the store lingers for months without any treatment, by less standards than tapwater.
can you be more specific as to why you say this?
If you have a pool, invest in a lightweight pool cover, and a heavy-duty water purification kit.
If you don't have a pool, make a deal with the neighbor who does, like perhaps providing the cover and his own purification kit.
Evaporation is the highest source of water loss for pools, particularly in hot climates.
Can’t you just push it backwards to wind it up? ;-)
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.