Preppers’ PING!!
Been there done that. At the beginning of July our town was shutdown by a storm for almost a week.
No electricity, Water was unusable (the Water Works couldn't run properly due to the power outage.)No gas stations worked. Stores were closed. We managed fine with our stores of food and water and used my "water still" to get us drinkable water and we had enough stored water to wash with. We didn't activate our rain storage system but we were getting close.
And the large outdoor woodburning adobe oven is coming along nicely. I have spent exactly $0 on it so far. All materials are off the property, plus my labor.
I can't wait for the first loaves of bread out of it.
/johnny
I’m in better shape than most people, but I fall short in this test.
Sigh, back to work.
But, I think this test is missing something vital. Security. Can you protect your family if law enforcement is unavailable for 72 hours or more? If you have any weapons, are you properly trained in their use? Do you periodically use them to maintain your proficiency?
I was living in Central Florida when Andrew hit. The news reports of Dade County afterwards were ugly. A few smart people saved themselves a lot of grief by sitting on their front porches holding shotguns.
Keep the car filled up, too. We're near a nuclear power plant.
Pick up the loose stuff in the yard and (Maybe) put up the shutters...done/ready!
Good Stuff Kart! We had a snow storm a few years ago that shut the entire city down for a week. We did good but one thing I didn’t prepare for was that with no electricity we had to eat every thing in the freezer. Some still spoiled.
Below is my comment to the writer of the subject article, but it applies equally to you, Kartographer:
Gee, thanks a lot for showing me how UNprepared I am, and how much stuff I have to buy.
Seriously, thank you! We all have holes in our preps, and this article illustrates them for anyone who cares to read it. This is a big wake-up call.
For those that find this article insufficient motivation to do more (especially getting in shape and storing more food & water), I’d suggest a read of “One Second After.” I just re-read it this weekend, and it produced that same punch-in-the-gut feeling that I had after the first time I read it.
