Posted on 03/24/2020 5:14:41 PM PDT by CottonBall
This is our ongoing prepper thread, re-invented to be more specific to prepping for, and of course during, pandemics.
Where gave you found your preps have withstood this test? What would you like to have done differently? What are your current prepping plans?
That’s a problem with many preppers, is spouting off about how much food and other necessities in is their stash. So the guys with guns can take it when a crisis hits.
Liquor store is open here tomorrow but I think I’ll prep there just in case. We are sharing work load so only 32 hours next few weeks, need to use my time wisely. Haven’t had a spring break in forever. Wonder if my swim mask will stop COVID-19? May just wipe down my throat every 10 minutes or so.
Beau was getting some canned ingredient to help make supper the other night and asked me, “Why is there Ammo in the Pantry?”
I said, ‘Because the Gun Safe is FULL!’ ;)
Glad I have nothing...
That’s quite alright. Should you attack me, and I evade your firepower well enough to get close to you, I’ll just open up your carotid and spleen with my Ka-Bar. :-D
That is an easy fix....buy another gun safe or two ;)
I may run out of horse shoes and mule shoes. It depends on how much I have to use them.
I could do with another dozen cans of coffee.
I don’t really consider us preppers we just live way out in the middle of nowhere and it is a long ways to town and back. In the winter is snows and I have to plow a dozen miles to get a vehicle out.
So. Our pantry is 16X14 we have 4 freezers, make our own power have a private water source and an additional 50 head of livestock still eating on the pastures.
You re on, and thanks for the great ideas on storing fuel.
“The only thing we did not foresee with THIS crisis, did we stock up enough on toilet paper? Who knew that would be a major deal>?”
Especially since this is a respiratory flu!
I never even considered that I was stocking toilet paper for long-term future use. I just happened to find big packages of it at Sam’s Club on sale. So I bought two of them.
But as far as prepping and storing it, I’m not sure how well paper does. It would have to be in a moisture-proof environment. Not sure I could do that here with all the humidity.
“I have .29 acres and am planting ALL of my backyard with vegetables this year....”
Excellent! Keep us apprised as you move forward with this.
When we moved to Tennessee, I found out I don’t actually have a brown thumb. Things actually grow quite easily here! So I’ve really enjoyed learning about gardening, pests, fertilizing, weather, harvesting crops, and keeping them away from predators. The first year deer ate the corn. The second-year crows. This year coyotes of all things. They loved it apparently. They would take down a whole stalk and carry it off into the forest and eat every little kernel.
I think perhaps you have been a bit overwhelmed lately? LOL.
I think you’re right. I think they’re still just as many Preppers here but it’s not an issue first and foremost on our minds. Not until now.
I’ve always enjoyed the Apocalypse books that were based on a biological premise. Didn’t think I would really be in one.
DH and I drink a lot of milk. He can handle powdered and evaporated, I would only in a nuke war. We usually buy 6 or 7 gallons at a time and put in freezer, as is. Then unfreeze as we need, works well. From now on, I will use the extra fridge and freeze a lot more milk.
No fresh veggies is the worst, we have home canned fruit which is an acceptable alternative to fresh. But I would love oranges, drool...
Since I always buy bulk stuff; mostly from Azure Standard (delivered to drop off points once a month), I always have enough grains, legumes, cereals, flours on hand. Azure has been out of stock of more things lateyl, even before China virus but they have very good customer service and good prices on bulk items.
Link in case anyone wants it, the family who started it are Seventh Day Adventists who grew wheat in NE Oregon, then started selling their flour, and diversified from there. I’ve ordered from them for years.
https://www.azurestandard.com/
We also live rural and have a well, and a 2500 gallon tank. The problem is running well if there is no electricity for a protracted time. DH got a solar well pump but has not set it up yet. We have many very tall trees but he can cut some (more) or find a spot with more sunlight.
“Proper prepping prevents panic!”
It does! As our neighbors were running in circles with their arms waving and complaining that the stores were all out of bread and toilet paper, my husband asked me if we had everything we needed. (He’s the weapons and fuel prepper, I do the rest) I told him we were fine so he just went back to the barn to work on stuff.
Yes it is very relaxing to think that my years of prepping have perhaps paid off a little right now.
Especially feel grateful that I just canned several cases of pork butt, chicken, and bacon - a southern necessity.
“Very few farms raise
wheat around here, might check with the Amish. A 10 or 15
gallon poly sealed drum filled with CO2 would make a good long turn storage. A standard blender will grind grain into flour.”
I planted a little area with wheatberries, just to see how it goes. Mainly because I have a super pale of wheat berries that went Rancid. Just a word of warning, don’t buy from Emergency Essentials! They also don’t back up their products one bit. Anyway I tested and they sprouted at least, so I figured I could use them for seeds.
I bought family Grain Mill. Mainly because it has both hand crank and powered option. Didn’t know that about a blender!
I found that watching the news carefully and keeping ny anntenae up had me 2 to 3 weeks ahead of everyone else’s panic.
Advice? ANTICIPATE.
“Now I live by my self and don’t use toilet paper. I just wash my self off thoroughly in the shower. I then spray the shower down. I have been doing this for years.”
Uh, TMI??
LOL
I barely survived the Great Purge of 2016.
20 Years and still FReeping!
We have about .05 of an acre intensively planted with fabulous soil and raised beds. We don’t buy any veges from April to November. We are fully self sufficient in garlic and jam. Just gotta plant carefully, intensively, and maintain.
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