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Absolutely. Thanks for the post. We made out pretty well with the April sales for the Ready store. We’ve got a nice stash prepared should something bad happen. More than 3 months and I’d probably be inclined to put my fluent Portuguese and Spanish for the test long term.
Is she gonna make Hawaiian music?
A good component of a survival kit would be 144 cases of corn whiskey, 12 cases fine wine, and as much tequila and vodka you can get your hands on.
She better have firearms or she won’t hold on to the rest of that stuff after the brown stuff hits the rotating blades.
“They both live in rural areas, grow their own food and could live without the grid indefinitely.”
...I live in a rural area too...if TSHTF I’m headed towards a small fortified village....no way my isolated farm could hold off roving bands of crimnals...law and order will breakdown first...remember Katrina where cops abandoned their posts and thieves began looting before the storm even made landfall....for safety, we’ll all have to live in groups and pull pickett guard duty.
It isn't that difficult. Just yell "I love your Vespa" and watch their heads explode all by themselves.
Seriously, the lady is missing the sine qua non of survival: the willingness to defend herself and her family. She is far more likely to encounter intimidation and robbery than starvation in a survival situation, especially if she is known to have a stash of supplies. And the people who come after it won't be starving. During Katrina there were wandering punks after generators, attracted by the lights. They didn't want them for light, they wanted to steal them to sell. The people who were armed were able to decline politely. The people who weren't, weren't.
...this site is interesting to poke around in...it concerns life after oil runs out.
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
This is definitely a rhetorical question... but you know all those “Public Service Announcements” the government pays for???? WHY don’t they make a PSA about getting ready for disaster, whether it be a winter power outage or tornado or WTSHTF????
I added another 50 pounds of chicken layer rations (sealed in buckets) to the outside larder. Our flock is stable at six hens, and we expect our first eggs in June, with full production by September. I expect at least four eggs a day out of the coop for at least 2 years with these hens...
OBTW...Home Depot stocks quarter-mile reels of barbed wire for about $65 a spool. That’s a standard length, and about as much as one person can lift comfortably. You’ll look like a hero when you offer a couple of those up at the proper time...
...we keep two 50 pound salt blocks on hand...one is out for the deer; one in reserve...you can get them at your local farm&feed store...get the plain salt...you don’t need the mineral/salt block....cattlemen buy that...salt might come in handy for food preservation and for trade bait.
...knowing how to cache a firearm/ammo might be useful...here’s a guy that actually stashed one for 15 years:http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/wood115.html
PS...notice he begins by getting his gun thru a PRIVATE sale.
We could get by with what we have in place for maybe a year and a half if we didn’t have to go to work or travel every day etc ....... A few home improvements such as massive insulation efforts, a wood stove with 12 full cords of wood stored securely . Rainwater collection , Small portable “sun jars” made from small solar yard lights and used indoors at night augmented by oil lamps and candles etc ... a small barking pup and a shotgun or 3. All this is basic and such as a bicycle will go a long way for getting around your local area without burning fuel.
We also put large capacity fuel storage bed tanks in each of our trucks so they have at least 200 gals in em at all times or just shy of as we keep em topped off each week.
Our whole house kohler emergency gensets use propane stored on site for one of them and the other is plumbed to the natural gas line to the house.
Steps we have taken due more to recent storms in the past few years that have shut our small town down due power loss and all services being down for weather related reasons.
A well stocked pantry that uses a rotational use system to keep the inventory fresh as possible using oldest first as well as gardens and a small backyard greenhouse to keep fresh veggies on the menu well into the winter......makes it routine for us versus any really special effort to be ......ready for any kind of storm that may make life slow down a bit.
Just what we do........Stay safe !
btt
THANKS.
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Great place to do research and buy especially when they have their sales.
Believe it or not the Mountain Home freeze dried food is really good especially in an emergency situation your family would be eating like a king.
They have pre-packed kits for different situations most of the items are really good, I would upgrade some of their flashlights, box cutters, etc but they certainly would work fine in a short-term situation.