I sent out a basic supply list when this news first hit.
This weekend some relatives and friends asked me to re send my list. Here is our basic list:
“Debating if I need to start prepping in case this virus goes full blown.”
We had a few relatives in the midwest and eastern states ask us since we live in the land of disasters, aka California, with year round disasters:. Fires,earthquakes, floods and ????.
What type of preparations should they think about. So we put this together yesterday as a semi joke. We got thank you’s back from many relatives and friends some good suggestions. Which we added.
With the modern curse of next day delivery of food, water, medicine and other necessary items, There are no basic inventories past a couple of days before outages.
My wife has 40 plus years of being an RN, and I can spell MBA.
Here is our modest prep plan for even Californians:
What, would happen if your community was basically shut down for 2-4 weeks due to a quarantine.
No one could leave or get into your community for 2-4 weeks.
What you and your family eat and drink
When would you have power failures and maybe natural gas shutoffs. Cooking might be impossible without power. Keeping food fresh and edible in refrigerators and freezers becomes a 24/7 challenge.
Living in California, besides our grab/go bags, we keep enough water and food for 2-3 weeks. Also, food that doesn’t have to be refrigerated or frozen.
Food that is in our combo refrig/freezer lasts for 2-4 days to a week if we get in and out quickly. The freezer on the bottom has frozen bottles of water on the top shelves. Food is still edible after a few days.
Our standing freezer with frozen water bottles on top inside shelf, has kept food frozen for 5-7 days with the get in and out quick action.
So, you eat your refrig food first, your freezer food next and then your non refrig/freezer food.
If this thing goes full viral, you need to have 2-4 weeks of food and water handy.
You, also, need to have 2-4 weeks of your important Rx medicines and that minimum for your daily otc meds. The same goes for tooth paste and similar items.
Keep at least a half tank of gasoline in your vehicles. Good luck with any solar vehicle that has to have its batteries charged to get out of your driveway.
Home and self defense needs to be considered.
Pretty much if you’re prepared for a zombie apocalypse then you’re also prepared for potential and very real natural and man made calamities.
Our family is not Mormon but we have adopted Mormon guidelines on having a year’s supply of food on hand for an emergency. We also have blended various prepper ideas and ideas from FEMA to create a plan that best fits our family and our location.
We even have a plan to evacuate from the ranch within 60 minutes if we need to leave due to the Yellowstone supervolcano erupting. In that even we grab some basics hook up our trailers and head due north to Montana and maybe even Canada as fast as we can.
The Sun does not care who is in office.