Posted on 12/07/2008 8:09:30 AM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Everything in my town, even next to a large city, is trucked in. If there is a stoppage, even for a short period, would bring about food riots in the area.
How is your area? Are you truly independent from the rest of the economy?
Utah Girl wrote this article on 9-15-2001.
This is simple COMMON SENSE.
Thanks for posting.
Utah Girl is one smart lady! :-)
Bump for later study
PING! :-)
Don’t forget to also have a tinfoil hat handy.
None of us were Mormons, but my mother always had a supply of food around. And it was always good food, mostly home grown. They went through the depression and were never unprepared. I’m ready.
We just paid off our farm and there’s a small house with a heatalator, a 1 1/2 acre pond, a huge shop building with a wood burning stove, lots of standing timber, and its remote, on a gravel road that doesn’t go anywhere. We’ve been talking about doing this and this makes sense. I do want to know how long I can store food though.
Plan won't work without them.
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Fishing tackle might come in handy.
“Don’t forget to also have a tinfoil hat handy.”
You go ahead and do that and see how far it gets you. An emergency can happen anywhere, anytime. Last winter I was snowed in for 6 weeks....I was warm, happy, and well fed.
Good stuff, especially in these difficult economic times. Thanks for posting. Ignore the “tinfoil” detractors. There are those who get it, those who are beginning to get it, and those who will never get it. No point in wasting your time on the last group.
Good for you!
Well, my parents were smart. I was just lucky enough to learn some things from them. So far, politically, socially, they’ve never been wrong.
Ping for later thanks
Even FEMA and Homeland Security have told us to be able to take care of ourselves for 3 days.
From the Department of Homeland Security:
http://www.ready.gov/america/_downloads/trifold_brochure.pdf
They found some wheat in ancient Egyptian burial vaults that was 2,000 years old. They were able to germinate it.
They ground some of the wheat and baked it into bread.
Everyone who ate it turned into mummified zombies.
George A. Romero used many of these people in his movies.
Always be careful of anything old you find and eat. You don't know where it's been.
We’ve seen over and over how communities suffer because people don’t prepare. A few years ago, I was invited to Thanksgiving dinner at friends house. They have NO extra provisions....I couldn’t make gravy because they didn’t keep flour. They shop for every meal. I’m afraid that’s the rule rather than the exception.
This point was driven home during the big hurricane in New Orleans a few years ago (Katria). Hundreds of thousands of able-bodied young people lounged helplessly in shelters and bitched about how slow the government was in coming to help them.
Now I know that we all made much sport over the "Heineken guy" who was wading down the street with a tub of Heinekens, but he was one of the few people who actually got off his butt and did something for himself.
I don’t know about a year, but I do know from experience that the three day requirement is laughable.
I have at least three months supply. Water is something you really need lots of in an emergency situation. You need drinking water, but most of all you need water for sanitation, flushing the johns, washing, cleaning up. Trying to sort through a disaster is bad enough, but not being able to wash is really disheartening. We store our washing water in five gallon water jerrys. Water for the johns is in five gallon buckets of any type. Drinking, food prep and clean up is in storage containers of food grade quality.
Figure on five gallons per day per person.
I have a well so I’m lucky there. I just can use a generator to pump it, but even then you have to be sparing because if the power is out, gas stations don’t pump and you can wind up with a generator and no gasoline to power it.
You can also buy, online, a five gallon bucket with seat and lid, liner bags and sanitary gel to place inside the bags for about $50. Works well when sanitation is gone.
And a plain old rotary phone or just one that isn’t digital to plug in. Cell phones don’t work when the power is out. The cell towers are out too.
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