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Yes and a way to distill water. Simple boiling just won't cut it. Luckily a tea kettle some tubing and something to catch the water in is all that you really need.
Oh yeah. Never drink random water. If you have a clean poncho and can make a makeshift rain-catch, you may be able to use that. Also a little M8 / M9 paper and maybe a couple M291 and an M256 kit.
We have regular tornadoes here, and I’ve had two really close calls. Touch downs just across the street in two separate occasions, and a flyover.
I keep a bag with short term needs at the basement stairs with pet food, water, portable power for my phone, and dog crates and a bird cage in the basement. That’ll get me by if worst comes to worst and I survive until I can be dug out.
I’m not going to go full zombie apocalypse prepping or ready myself for World War III or the even if a nuclear ‘incident’ - I live too close to the power plant to think I’d have a chance at running by the time those idiots running it knew there was a problem, and told us to go.
Honestly, the world sucks too much already and I have no desire to even live if it gets any worse.
Tornadoes I could sort myself out after, apocalypses, no thanks, I’m out.
I keep a bag with short term needs at the basement stairs with pet food, water, portable power for my phone, and dog crates and a bird cage in the basement. That’ll get me by if worst comes to worst and I survive until I can be dug out.
I’m not going to go full zombie apocalypse prepping or ready myself for World War III or the even if a nuclear ‘incident’ - I live too close to the power plant to think I’d have a chance at running by the time those idiots running it knew there was a problem, and told us to go.
Honestly, the world sucks too much already and I have no desire to even live if it gets any worse.
Tornadoes I could sort myself out after, apocalypses, no thanks, I’m out.
I agree wholeheartedly. In any emergency, nothing beats Charmin on the priority scale. No point in living if you can't wipe comfortably.
I was thinking more of what form my personally most common “5 minute warning” generally takes these days. You make a good point though.
Believe me, I've thought about buying some type of firearm. I used to have a deer hunting rifle (inherited) but gave it to my nephew. It was old with a wood stock and very heavy.
The kit isn't really a natural/artificial disaster kit. In that case I probably wouldn't survive long at my age. It's more of a minor emergency thing, in case I get stranded somewhere, due to a vehicle breakdown, accident or freak weather incident.
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Lmao! -fyi,,, toilet paper and hurricane,,, just before I knew a hurricane was coming I bought a lot of groceries. A huge pack of TP was in that haul. .. Turns out TP will hold a lot more water/pee than you might expect,,, to this day I am reminded of ike when I buy TP ,,, and never more than a 8pack.
Did you read the whole post?So ... you took the juice and spare batteries but didn't you forget your wife?
I was cooking and waiting on hubby to get home
I have a bag under my bed with a pocket knife, spare underpants, some pens/pencils & notebook, granola bars, caffeine pills, and a sealed, never-opened 2009 Victoria secret magazine. In Omnia Paratus - Ready For All Things.
When we prepared to bugout for ike.. Hubs gave me a hard time for packing about a weeks supply of clothes..he was to pack his own after that... Ike comes and goes..so does our home with all of his underwear..he packed 1 shirt +1 jeans...he had to wear same undies for 6 weeks then had to settle for some that were way too big once walmart opened with supplies. To this day when I pack our clothes for a trip I look at him funny..he then says "stop it. Pack whatever you think we need!"
So ... you took the juice and spare batteries but didn't you forget your wife?
"There's gonna be one speed... mine. If you can't keep up, don't step up. You'll just die."
I had everything packed away when Irma was about to hit in 2017. The family and I were going to ride it out till they started reporting it could hit us at a category 4. It was then I decided to send the wife and kids with her brother and his family to Alabama. I decided I was going to stay and ride it out with the pets.
It was about 2 o'clock that they started saying it was going to be a category 5 and I realized I made a mistake staying back. I quickly loaded up my German Shepherd, Cat, and about 20 turtles I breed in my Tundra and hit the road. As I got about a mile away from my home, heading towards I-75, I realized just how bad it was for me being on the road. I was the only vehicle for the first 75 miles I drove. That Tundra was getting blown all over the place, and I white knuckled it the whole way. I would estimate the winds were at a minimum 40 mph and those gusts were brutal.
I was in total awe at the site of about 30 huge public works trucks from Alabama all steaming ahead at full speed back into the storm.
As I got into Jacksonville I got a call from a friend in Miami. The first words out of his mouth were, "Please promise me you will not turn around". He then told me the hurricane was hitting my spot at a category 2 storm. The traffic coming back was horrendous due to all the other evacuees coming back at the same time. It took 27 hours from Mobile to Clearwater, which is normally an 8 hour drive.
Something odd and strange, my Tundra gets 17 miles to the gallon max on the highway. That day going to Alabama I got 21 miles to the gallon.
It was about 2 o'clock that they started saying it was going to be a category 5 and I realized I made a mistake staying back. I quickly loaded up my German Shepherd, Cat, and about 20 turtles I breed in my Tundra and hit the road. As I got about a mile away from my home, heading towards I-75, I realized just how bad it was for me being on the road. I was the only vehicle for the first 75 miles I drove. That Tundra was getting blown all over the place, and I white knuckled it the whole way. I would estimate the winds were at a minimum 40 mph and those gusts were brutal.
I was in total awe at the site of about 30 huge public works trucks from Alabama all steaming ahead at full speed back into the storm.
As I got into Jacksonville I got a call from a friend in Miami. The first words out of his mouth were, "Please promise me you will not turn around". He then told me the hurricane was hitting my spot at a category 2 storm. The traffic coming back was horrendous due to all the other evacuees coming back at the same time. It took 27 hours from Mobile to Clearwater, which is normally an 8 hour drive.
Something odd and strange, my Tundra gets 17 miles to the gallon max on the highway. That day going to Alabama I got 21 miles to the gallon.
Yeah, those survival guides are just too bulky to carry around in an emergency. Better to just have the essentials.
No one shake Plumes hand after a disaster.
since i won't bug out, i keep 225 gallons of water in the house.
i'm in a semi arid area with little surface water.
got food n guns too.
i'm set.
i'm in a semi arid area with little surface water.
got food n guns too.
i'm set.
Probably best. Put a wife in a small closet in the basement and you get in trouble. It’s not even safe to do with kids. The kids at least won’t kick your ... later.So ... you took the juice and spare batteries but didn't you forget your wife?
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