10 Things Every Home Should Have For Short-term Survival

Human events ^ | 12/07/2010 | Skip Coryell

[Doctor Prepper]

1. Guns! Shotgun – most commonly a simple 12-gauge pump (20-gauge if weaker-statured people will be using it.) Pistol – If you live in a state where it’s legal to own/carry a pistol for self defense, then you should be doing it. Battle Rifle – We’re talking those mean, state-of-the art, misnamed “assault” rifles. Mine’s in .223 caliber, and I make no excuses for it. It’s accurate out to long distances, accepts a 30-round magazine, and puts out a high rate of suppressive fire. And make sure you have plenty of ammo. (We’re talking thousands of rounds. No one ever came out of a firefight saying “Darn, I wish I’d had fewer bullets!) 2. Water 3. Heat 4. Food 5. Medical supplies 6. Power and Lights 7. Communications 8. Transportation 9. Entertainment 10. God

[thackney]

In survival mode, your dog is meat. My dog is a sharing hunter.

Not a time for polite pleasantries, but survival times.

I would eat the deer, squirrel and opossums first. But if they are gone I’m not going to starve.

[MalPearce]

You really haven’t thought this through.

“Short term”. That means you need a healthy stock of beer, vodka and pork scratchings.

Apart from anything else, these would mean you could recruit more survivalists (as long as they bring some more), pool your ammo with theirs, shoot at more targets in one go, compare your firearms, and enjoy some conversation in the quiet moments.

I pity the fool who’d rather chance it against a whole crowd of boozed-up survivalists playing “my gun’s better than your gun” than try his luck against one sober survivalist.

There’s your “entertainment” for the perfect ten.

[goat granny]

LOL the truth hurts....I love my dog....

[Lurker]

Do they work on the regular hand held channels too?

No they don't. They're VHF units, basically line of sight. I decided to keep them around after selling my boat because almost no one, other than boat owners, have them. It's a crude form of COMSEC.

They've also got the Weather freqs built in, which is handy to have. They're a bit more expensive than those blister pack FRS/GMRS units but they're also more rugged and weather resistant.

Add that to the fact that in my area the channels have almost no traffic on them and I thought they made a great deal of sense.

Best,

L

[NavyCanDo]

Another good one.

http://thesurvivalmom.com/

[Huck]

Thanks for the recommendations. Appreciate it.

[hoyt-clagwell]

Thanks for the info.

[Paisan]

Coffee, tobacco, chocolate.

Agreed. Add whiskey and CASH. The ATM’s won’t be working - short term - and some stores MAY be still open. Go for the canned MEAT and DRY starches...

[little jeremiah]

West of the Rockies, MHGinTN. No nuke plants (or very few, only in Southern CA) that go bottoms up.

I live in a very defensible rural valley more than a tank of gas away from any large city. Property is cheap (for the west coast), a lot of OWC since nothing is selling. Freepmail me if you want more info, seriously! Everyone is armed here, even most of the hippies.

;-)

[Red in Blue PA]

There is just that sick feeling I always get that there is something i’m missing

Indeed, that is true.

Once you begin prepping, you always see deficiencies in your supplies.

[Paisan]

Also, another good source is to be found on the Life After the Oil Crash forum:

http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php

lots of good info and links to all the things discussed here...

[The Comedian]

11. A smokin' hot wife that cooks better than most professional chefs, loves on demand, and can shoot better than me, damn it. I am the luckiest guy on earth...

Got distracted, sorry.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Billthedrill]

I think I have the perfect plan. These threads always give me a good idea of what I'm going to need, so I write down the items on a list I keep stuck to the refrigerator. When TSHTF, I'm gonna take it down, log onto the Cheaper Than Dirt website, whip out the plastic and wait for the FedEx guy to bring me my survival kit.

I can't think of a flaw in that plan...

[HairOfTheDog]

In survival mode, your dog is meat. My dog is a sharing hunter.

Not a time for polite pleasantries, but survival times.

This thread, and this list, is for short term survival right? I understand the need for survival, but let's not go eating the neighbor's dog until a few hours have passed, whatdoyasay? ;~)

[Doomonyou]

so loud that it will scare away people

But that does attract Zombies...

[CactusCarlos]

God should be first on that list.

[moobot]

Good idea. And the SAS survival book. Loads of great tips in there that might help you survive anything! ha

[ReverendJames]

I have over 500 rounds of .30cal so I guess that should do.

[ReverendJames]

I have a Remington 710 in 30-06 so I should be ok with that.

[Professional Engineer]

The ham radio guys did know. Tje events affected the ionosphere for days/weeks afterward.

The difference was vacuum tubes.