For the people who have seatbelt cutters and window breakers...I'm curious where you keep these in the car.
Mines actually a knife/seatbelt cutter/ window smasher that was issued as part of my gear with the fire department so it's smaller than most. I keep it in the center console.
I think I may be. Are we talking like Russians hacking the power grid or something?
Power losses are not uncommon already in some areas. A loss oil/gas deliveries can quickly disable an area. Running. To Target was 10s of thousands of people are going for the same necessity items is not a good backup plan.
I get that cost and storage area is an issue for many.
I live in FL. We have a generator that runs our whole house. Also plenty of flash lights and basic first aid supplies. We would be a little screwed in the food department because we really don't keep more than a weeks worth on hand, if that.
Post by lupineaura on Feb 19, 2017 15:09:48 GMT -5
I'm thinking rocksforludo 's comment was basically TIC.
But add me to the list of people who have done none of this. I mean, I have a battery operated lantern in my front hall closet and a mini first aid kit in my diaper bag.
Now I'm all paranoid I'll need a seatbelt cutter and my last thought will be all you birtches were right.
The bike helmets in case of sheltering during a tornado is a great idea. Thanks to whoever posted that.
We kept DS's bucket seat for a bit after he outgrew it because it would give him a little better protection. Once he outgrew that we started grabbing helmets.
So many injuries and deaths are due to head trauma. It won't prevent them all, but it can help.
Almost everything I have would work for fixing stuff around the house, going camping with the family, extra batteries for the kid stuff (Big lots has had the BEST prices on batteries in the last several months)
The food stuffs is stuff we already would eat, rounding up a little extra in the budge every week for an added shelf stable food item. plus the mre's were gifts from a military friend who had extras.
I'm not running out and buying a boatload of stuff all at once to prep.
If you are poor it can work as your emergency back up for loss of job, where some extra food or water bottles or batteries can come in handy for that as well as a natural emergency.
I'm thinking rocksforludo 's comment was basically TIC.
But add me to the list of people who have done none of this. I mean, I have a battery operated lantern in my front hall closet and a mini first aid kit in my diaper bag.
Now I'm all paranoid I'll need a seatbelt cutter and my last thought will be all you birtches were right.
I sense a midnight Amazon spiral in my future.
Be that as it may, it is a very real way people view things. We tend to be a very reactive society as opposed to a proactive society. People assume their local stores will constantly be getting fresh supplies on the regular.
And when I'm talking infrastructure, I'm not talking necessarily power issues or even road/delivery issue. Contaminate the water supply for a major metropolitan area. How much water is that going to require? Sure, some will be donated. Then again you run into distribution issues and people being panicky assholes.
Buy a couple gallons and shove it in on out of the way corner (linen closet maybe) if you do nothing else. That's all I'm saying. If you have an infant, a couple days worth of RTF formula isn't a terrible idea.
I'm thinking rocksforludo 's comment was basically TIC.
But add me to the list of people who have done none of this. I mean, I have a battery operated lantern in my front hall closet and a mini first aid kit in my diaper bag.
Now I'm all paranoid I'll need a seatbelt cutter and my last thought will be all you birtches were right.
I sense a midnight Amazon spiral in my future.
Be that as it may, it is a very real way people view things. We tend to be a very reactive society as opposed to a proactive society. People assume their local stores will constantly be getting fresh supplies on the regular.
And when I'm talking infrastructure, I'm not talking necessarily power issues or even road/delivery issue. Contaminate the water supply for a major metropolitan area. How much water is that going to require? Sure, some will be donated. Then again you run into distribution issues and people being panicky assholes.
Buy a couple gallons and shove it in on out of the way corner (linen closet maybe) if you do nothing else. That's all I'm saying. If you have an infant, a couple days worth of RTF formula isn't a terrible idea.
I was actually living in Northridge when the 94 earthquake happened. I was still in grade school at that time. Our house was unlivable so we had to stay in a gym for a few weeks. So I have an earthquake kit in my closet. I think this is where my minimalism started because we lived off of one backpack each during that time. I live in an apartment so we can't really store much. My parents do have a lot of stuff and I live close so I've been told I can always go there for food and whatnot.
I have a couple portable phone chargers I got in Amazon for $12 each. They work with regular batteries. They've been helpful for those times our power has gone out.
Holy crap. That must have been intense. I was about 45 min from the epicenter and it was still so strong.
If the infrastructure goes, I'll just go with it. Like, I'm really fine if I don't survive the apocalypse.
It could easily be a short term thing for a couple weeks.
I guess if you are good with not even trying because things get a little hard,...
I have water and canned food and basic first aid. If a weather event is coming we get some extra stuff. We live in a townhouse and within walking distance of a bunch of stuff. I am being TIC... a little. I mean it, though, if it's an end of world kind of thing. Like I'm not doomsday prepping.
@miawallace - the Northridge quake was my quake too! I was... 6th grade? I was in Granada Hills, so close, but we were back in the house within a couple weeks. The whole neighborhood did tents on the lawn and my mom's boyfriend was able to pull his motor home out of storage after the first few days, so that was nice.
Post by seadragon2013 on Feb 19, 2017 19:55:16 GMT -5
My mom does all my prepping for me. Every year she gives us some safety equipment (along with fun things). We have the seatbelt cutting/window breaking tool, medical kits, emergency blankets, bags of hats/gloves/scarves, flashlights, flares, water packets, and emergency rations in each car. At home, we have flashlights, batteries, candles and a butane torch, windup flashlights and radios, medical kits, sleeping bags, bottled water, and canned foods. She bought us four different earthquake preparedness books when we lived in CA...
I'd be a very poorly prepared prepper if it weren't for her. 😉
Post by fancynewbeesly on Feb 19, 2017 21:01:16 GMT -5
We have tons of canned goods-corn, tuna, salmon, chicken. We also have olive oil jugs. Water. Ramen soup. DH buys a can of food here or there.
We also have a hand crank lantern and radio.
Most of the stuff we keep in just a big tupperware container in the basement closet.
We also are coastal NJ---During Sandy our street was pretty much the only one in our town that didn't lose power. Most people lost power for 7-10 days.
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