Preppers

[Ms Bev]

Just curious.......are there any (or many) preppers here.......and what are you doing?
(No....I'm not.  Not so much, anyway)

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

están muy mal de la cabeza

[Devlyn]

Da end of da world!

[Devlyn]

Sigh, I'm still eating green beans from Y2K. And sitting on a crate of SARS masks.

[Kevin Peña]

Some of the lyrics are wrong. 

Anywho, if the world ends, I'd rather just go out with the apocalypse than go through the effort of having to rebuild from nothing, with chances being that the survivors will fail.

[Rebekka]

i myself am attempting to put together a bug out bag and a stack or two of molle gear. Not sure if i would/will (or even could) do the whole minuteman thing, but a set up like that seems to be fairly well covered for the inevitable mad max-ing of the world.

[Elis]

I've been thinking for a few yeaes that if I had the money I'd build myself a nucleur bunker just in case. Not sure if I'll ever need to use it; but it'll make me feel more reassured.

[Beth Andrea]

Category 1 "gear queer" here...enough supplies to outfit almost an entire squad for a month.

Now if I just had any friends within 300 miles...

[KathyLauren]

Having lived for several years on an island that was 100% dependent on a ferry and was therefore vulnerable to being cut off from civilization, we have learned to be prepared.  We used to keep enough groceries and supplies in the house to last a month.  Now that we live on the mainland, we only keep a couple of weeks worth on hand.

We lived through an 8-day power failure on the island, so I learned to appreciate the value of a generator.  (For you city-slickers, rural residents have no running water without electricity.)  When we moved here, one of the first things I did was have a transfer switch wired in for the generator.  I keep two jerry cans of stabilized gas on hand in addition to the fuel in the generator's own tank.

We keep a 2-year supply of firewood on hand in the woodshed.  It not only ensures we always have dry wood, but it gives us a buffer in case we get a long, hard winter.  Staying warm is not a problem.  We have a Coleman stove for cooking when the power is out.

None of which will do a lot of good in the event of an apocalypse (zombie or otherwise).  But it will allow us to ride out a week-long blizzard or a hurricane.

[FTMax]

I've got a few different bags prepared, enough food and water stored for two folks and a dog for several months, and other supplies hanging around. The only thing I'd like to do preparedness-wise that I haven't been able to do and am currently unable to do is home ownership. After I pay the bills from SRS, that is next on my to do list.

[Kylo]

Let's just say I know if the crap hits the fan it's going to be hard to get supplies where I am, and since 2014 I've been making sure I've got the means to deal with it.

In the event of a nuke strike I'm screwed because I live near a particular place a potential enemy would really want wiped off the map first.

In the event of shortages... I'll be ok. I'm a good hunter.

[Dena]

I have always been a Prepper lite. Living in the Los Angles area, they tell you to be able to care for your self for three days after an earthquake. Seeing how the government as responded after disasters I wouldn't expect to see them for a couple of weeks. I take a different approach where I keep a well stock pantry and rotate the stock to keep it reasonably current. The frozen food would go first and I have a good stock of charcoal (all electric house) to cook with. I also have paper plates and plastic wear to eat with and batteries/candles for light. The big bottle neck is water but in a pinch, I have a 50 gallon water heater that can be milked for a while. I have a land line and cell phone with a car charger so there is communication along with a radio for entertainment and news. While I would like a generator, I don't have the room for it and fuel storage would be an issue.

[Laura_Squirrel]

I live in a one bedroom apartment. So, I have no place to store anything. Meh. If something catastrophic happens, I hope that I die quickly anyway. I'm ready to shuffle off this mortal coil as it is.

[zamber74]

I have a few things, mostly for camping though.  Propane stove, a few ice chests, propane lantern, I have a lot of candles,   we always have enough food in the house to get us through at least a week, being well fed and enjoying our meals- we could potentially stretch it to a month, but it would not be pleasant in the least bit.  I also have a pretty big solar panel, and a deep cycle battery to keep all of my electronics charged up if we were to lose electricity.  Alternatively,  I own a Chevy Volt, so if gas prices go astronomical I will be able to get by on electricity alone.  I'm currently getting about 600 miles per gallon, with no added electricity to my monthly bill - so I'm already saving a lot.  If gas gets back up to $5.00 a gallon, I will be saving a small fortune. 

We are pretty well situated in the event that things went bad for a week or two.

If shtf, I would not want to live in that world.  Nuclear strikes, a massive plague, something that decimates society as a whole, no thank you.  As the such, I don't plan for a major catastrophe. 

[Janes Groove]

I don't prepare for that sort of thing.  My thoughts are that people are basically good.  When catastrophe strikes we tend to circle the wagons and help each other out.  We are social creatures.  As a species it's why we have been so successful.

On the other hand. I am fascinated by survival techniques in the wilderness and have spent a lot of time watching videos and reading material on how to survive in the wilderness in a scenario of being lost without any food or shelter.

[Kylo]

Yeah, I would not particularly want to live in some post-apocalyptic crapsack of a world. Not even a Mad Max one with a nice set of wheels.