Posted on 04/21/2009 5:45:18 PM PDT by appleseed
For safety, use super saturated potassium iodide. (AKA SSKI)
It can be hard to find, but is totally effective, and leaves the water fairly palatable.
If you can’t find it, go to a compounding pharmacist to have it prepared. a little goes a long way.
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<This isn’t survivalist mentality as much as it is common sense. Stuff happens. Be prepared.
Yep. I used to tell this to my girl friends. They already thought I was a little weird for being conservative, and would shake their heads when I mentioned stockpiling stuff for emergencies. What I tried to tell them was that emergencies happen all the time. The power goes off, sometimes for days if its an ice store. People get sick and can’t go to the store. Sometimes you need cash, even in this debt/credit card/ATM society.
As a bunch of single women, most of us didn’t have anyone near we could count on to bring us food, etc. I don’t know why keeping a little stash (we won’t even talk about weapons) of household goods made me the weird one.
among to many items to discuss here, both my immediate ‘G.O.O.D.’ bag, and my retreat locale have air rifles for those squirrels you mentioned. I can’t hit anything with a slingshot, even tho I do have a very nice one as a back up. I agree that cash is going to be needed bad initially and gold is not going to be the save all as some think, but a person or their group had better have some silver, in fractionals on board also. just a few thoughts.
Preppers are regular people with regular jobs who decided after Sept. 11, after Hurricane Katrina or when their 401(k)s tanked that they can’t rely on someone else to help them if something goes awry.
Why, I’ve always believed they were called Americans,
cause that is what Americans DO.
pinging you, Do you still have room under the bed?
Laughing.
You remembered!
If anyone wants a reminder of how fragile society is, read “One Second After” by William R. Forstchen. The US, Russia, Japan and S. Korea are hit by EMP weapons.
It’s all downhill from there. Scary.
He had a kid when he was 18?
Hey survivalists....get a typhoid prescription...available at the public health and CVS has them 58 bucks
I’ve lived through a major hurricane, earthquakes, several blizzards, and an 8 day power outage in below zero weather.
Not all in the same place, of course :)
The hurricane was the first disaster I’d ever faced as an adult, and was a real eye opener. I was raised to apply common sense to things, and stocked up when we moved to hurricane country.
Thus, I thought people knew that you were supposed to have a non-electric can opener, for example. And batteries. And water. And food.
Like your friends, most people don’t know it, or won’t admit it to themselves.
I saw people unable to do much of anything in the aftermath. It was sad and frightening.
Thanks. They’ve got a wide spectrum of products there don’t they.
I hope for his sake that he is keeping that gas he has stored well treated with a fuel stabilizer. The current ethanol blend fuels are not nearly as storage-friendly as the old gasoline was.
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Link from the article:
How to can your own butter which lasts for 3+ years.
Cyber warfare (Attck on banking system).
General supplies - Long term storage.
Does your preparedness include a no power option?
Etc...
God’s gift to those who love good food and the outdoors:
Why pay $35+ a pound for these in a grocery store when a little hard work out in the woods is all it takes.
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The Mountain House and Provident Pantry #10 cans can last up to 25 years if stored properly.
No problem.
I started reading some of the survival sites and found them very alarmist. I don’t have a problem with that (I AM alarmed) but I wanted my girls involved, but didn’t want to have them fretting all the time. That site is great.
We got our strawberry and tomato plants yesterday. We’re ready to roll!
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