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Expanding on some of this, as a guy who's gone through 3 major floods, countless weather-related power outages, and the COVID-19 pandemic: 1) Double that(2 gallons/person/day), and remember your pets. Cats and small dogs count as half a person, large dogs count as a full person. The WaterBOB is a cool way to conserve water if you have a bathtub and a little advance warning that your water is about to go out. Those milk jugs degrade and leak. Use a couple camping jugs, and just pour out and refill every month or three. 2) Again, remember your pets. Try and keep your diet as close to your normal as you can; this is not a good time to shock your digestive system with a new diet(more on this later). Eat the perishable stuff in your fridge first, but limit opening your fridge/freezer door if the power is out to conserve as much cold as you can. Remember you will still want some means of cooking, so a barbecue or camp stove on your patio is a wise idea. I prefer a camp stove because I like the little green propane canisters, which are more easily moved around. Keep in mind that propane doesn't aerosolize as readily in the cold, so keeping it indoors when it's not in use might be smart. Remember that you may have limited water to wash up, so mind your dishes(disposable plates/bowls and cutlery aren't a terrible plan). 3) Your mileage may vary. I've never found one that works worth a damn for any length of time. 4) A first-aid kit is only as good as your training. Seriously, take a first-aid course. Add some painkillers and any other stuff in your medicine cabinet, including a few days worth of prescription medications. 5) I'm sure N95 masks will appear in every household in North America after COVID-19. 6) I'm less worried about nuclear war and more concerned with the tree branch that a nasty storm blows through my kitchen window. A decent proactive option here is that 3M(?) security window film, but duct tape and plastic sheeting aren't terrible ideas. 7) A roll(or 1000) of good old-fashioned TP is a good plan. I'm sure everyone has lots left after COVID-19. Some grocery stores use a larger size plastic bag that fits nicely on a 5-gallon bucket camp toilet, and everyone saves those anyway. Include some kitty litter in there as well; it's a lot nicer handling a small bag of kitty litter than a plastic bag filled with warm piss. If you're using an emergency toilet indoors, you might also be happy to have some decent air freshener, and hand sanitizer(probably left over from your COVID-19 panic shopping) will save you some water for cleanup. 8) Again, don't wait until you need to know to figure out where your water and gas shutoff valves are. Go find them right now; I'll wait. Same goes for your tools. If you're going to spend money on it, you may as well learn how to use it. 9) Get a mix of flashlights, lanterns, and headlamps. Take a guess as to how many spare batteries you'll need. Now double that number. Keep in mind that the super high-powered Surefires and Streamlights will chew through batteries way quicker than some of the cheapo options. Candles are a great idea for static lighting, and you can use glass covers to spread that light a little more and protect it from drafts. Maybe a scented one for the bathroom... And the add-ons: 1) An ABC fire extinguisher(or two). Remember these things expire every 5(?) years. ABC means that it's good for all different types of fire. Keep it near your camp stove or room filled with candles. 2) Stuff to do. Remember, power outage means no TV or Internet. Books, colouring books, crosswords, deck of cards, board games... you're going to get bored. 3) In the event of an evacuation(due to flooding, for example), think about what you need to take with you. Change of clothes, important documentation, prescription meds... The important thing is to list out the stuff that you need and where it is, because if you only start thinking about it when you're flustered and trying to hurry out the door, you'll forget stuff and/or won't be able to find it. That was a long one. Hopefully it helps somebody.
For people with larger private yards with many trees and shrubs it is very doable to compost human waste with yard waste but do it safely. Start learning now and keep those 5 gallon buckets handy. You’ll be glad you did because there is no odor and its perfectly safe to dispose of around the landscape for even longer term. For cats think of starting an equine pine bedding for a pellet litter system now. The pellets are CHEAP, lightweight will last about 6 mos for under $10. and Used pine litter waste can be put safely around trees and shrubs.
Great advice! I need only to look where to shutoff my natural gas. I bought a 400 gallon water tank last year for 200bucks. My neighbors think it's full of miracle grow added to the water for my garden. Nope it's pure clean water I use in the garden and keep topped off. Keep a running inventory of everything you will need and where it's at. You'd be amazed at what I fit into my master closet. It's now my prepping pantry. Be prepared for anything. God bless.
Backpack, knife, firestarter kit, pepper spray, blood stopper med. (Powder) wet wipes. Flu meds, pain meds,warm hat to hold in heat. Save junk mail paper for fire starter source. Lamp oil,oil lamps. Head lamps Alcohol to clean and alcohol to drink.lol
Forget the water filter and buy coffee filters and a gallon of bleach. The little gas stove is also a waste. Buy a 20 pound propane tank and a little buddy space heater. It will keep you from freezing and boil water for two weeks. The cheap plastic electric crap is worse than nothing. They will break when you need them. A gallon of vegetable oil and a cotton wick will give light and heat for a long time. Small solar panels are cheap now, get two. And an inverter and lithium battery. Surefire lights will work even when wet or run over by a truck. Keep your electronics in a old metal ammo can. That way they will be good to go. A good tarp and mylar blankets will keep you dry if you are outdoors or your roof is leaking. Sleeping bags should be in every car. 50 pounds of rice and 25 pounds of beans will cost relatively little but go a long way. Via con Dios.
I've seen a number of prepper videos that recommend pool shock (crystalline calcium hypochlorite) rather than bleach (liquid sodium hypochlorite) because the pool shock has a much longer shelf life than bleach, which loses effectiveness after 6 months. The bleach would work if you have the discipline to rotate your stock.
A camping tent large enough for your family to sleep in can be pitched inside your house or apartment. It’s much easier to keep warm at night than heating the entire room. Heat from the occupants supplies some of the heat. If large enough, even your dogs could sleep with you. A small candle is useful as a night light and heat source, like the UCO lantern. Practice ahead of time. The kids will find it an adventure and it’s not alarming to them.
I've been prepping for five years or so, and recently bought an RV, which I live in half the time. A motor home in the driveway is the absolute most effective prepping item I have. I keep my 20gal fresh water tank sanitized and at least half full at all times; it has waste water tanks that will support my family of 4 for 3 days before it needs to be emptied; it has an onboard generator and large batteries in case of power outages; I can run the heat, cooktop, and oven off the onboard propane tank or from auxiliary 20lb tanks; and in the event of an evacuation order, I can pack up and roll out in 30 minutes or less. Plus, family vacations and camping trips are so easy now. Obviously it's not an option for everyone, but if you have the means, I can't imagine a better investment in the event of a disaster.
I live where the temperature has been in the triple digits for 8 months now. My air conditioning went out on a day when it was 117 degrees and it was a long wait for a very busy repairman! The next day at Walmart, I met two other people, while getting filter replacements, and we exchanged war stories about our experiences! 😹
It might be good for a man’s hair but you can’t wash a woman’s hair with a baby wipe. Women’s hair is a lot longer, and you can’t wipe hairspray out of a woman’s hair with a baby wipe
There are liquid hair soaps not requiring rinsing that hospitals use for patients but I've not noticed them for sale in the big box stores -- but wasn't looking for them either.
@@Livetoeat171 Try Campsuds! It's super concentrated so a 6oz bottle can last a week. As long as you got some basic water, it'll keep you clean, and everything else clean too.
I would also include: a copy of important papers, copy of keys, extra perscription meds and spare pair of eye glasses. I would suggest putting together a "Lights Out Bag". In a bucket put flashlights and batteries, candles and matches, hurricane lamp and unsented oil. If you put a lamp or candle in front of a mirror the light will be reflected and magnified.
A lot of people would not think of it but you could use the water in your hot water heater Hot water heaters have a drain valve in the bottom to get the water from. Some hot water heaters can have 40 to 50 gals in them. Also I learned that I have used my solar garden light for lighting in you house. I put them on my ceiling fan and it lights up the room. Just put them back outside to recharge for the next night.
When Hurricane Rita hit in 2005 I was the only person in my neighborhood with a can opener. Everyone stocked up on food but didn’t consider that their electric openers would be dead.
And I don't know many people today who know how to open a can otherwise: Rub the top or bottom vigorously against a brick or concrete block until the seal's broken.
@@marycastronova4973 - A strong, intact can will just take a little longer for the seal to break. Wouldn't advise it for cans that might be a bit rusty on the outside bc no way to ensure no contact with the food. But if a can's only lightly rusted outside and I DO have an opener, I just empty the contents and rinse out the can to double check whether the rust went all the way through and touched the food. If not, then still safe to eat. At least for most people. Remember, cans rust from the outside in, not vice versa.
I’ve been a prepper for 15 years and have made kits for my kids as they’ve moved out. We survived in comfort throughout 3 hurricanes that left us with water and electricity outages. Have a solar pack, kindle and pop tent… boredom and full hotels are really important consideration.
It's odd.. Having just suffered through Hurricane Ida, I can attest to the camp stove since when tap water was re-establish we had a boil order in place. After the water cooled I would run it through a pitcher filter since that is my standard procedure anyway. Also cash was essential when the phone lines were down even after power was restored and the credit card scanner would not work. The flashlight/radio/windup thingy was extremely handy. Helping neighbors also kept sanity in check. Thanks for helping people prepare. 😎
@@tater4ever I actually have two of them but for cooking / making tea and other things around the house I feel like I am better off boiling. I save the life straw for traveling. Like a hike or something. Even then I will boil when I can. Filters can fail. It is great for a backup plan.
@@jonstone2466 probably because people in general are ignorant. Any calamity can be made worse by people that don't know how to safely use something involving fire. Training however is a wonderful cure for ignorance.
Rule Number 1. dont let anyone know you have this stuff because your unprepared neighbors will come and steal yours and might even do u harm to get it.
Back in '93 I was in a ice storm. I had 2 weeks of canned food, a dual fuel stove, and a heater. I thought i was prepared. The power went out like it was supposed too but i was ready. Then it came time to fix dinner. I realized my can opener was electric. Amazing how creative you can get, getting into a can when hungry. To this day I will not have an electric can opener.
I used to have an electric can opener, till I decided I didn't want to waste precious counter space on one. Then I got one of those wall mounted rechargeable can openers. And this was fine, till it suddenly stopped working one night and I had no way to open a can, that I needed for making dinner that night. So, I bought a manual can opener and for awhile, that's what I used. But my lefty handed destroy machine hubby did what he does best, and wrecked my can opener. So, now I have THREE manual can openers, one for each family member, and nobody is allowed to use another person's can opener. Mine is a Swing-Away, with the crank. Daughter's is a regular Swing-Away with the twist knob. Hubby's is a left handed can opener and he is NEVER allowed to use either of ours, not even in an emergency where his is broken. He has to ask us to open the can for him, instead.
@@app103You can buy those tiny cheap camp.Can' openers for about a dollar apiece.And they're slow.With their work well and don't require any electric power.
@@thesidsss I'm 62 and I get that! Swing-away can openers, especially the older ones, are built like a tank! 😀 At my age with an injured shoulder and right arm, I need an electric can opener and am about to get one that doesn't leave a sharp edge. But I have two swing aways, and Oxo, and two other kind. I keep one my car, one in a lunch box, one in the house, and one with my prep things. The electric one will be so I can open things on normal days when my arm hurts too much. I plan to get a battery powered one if I can find it, if it still exists. It was great to keep in your camping gear was very small in the palm of your hand. I don't know why some of us including me in the past get in a mindset that we're only allowed to have one can opener in life lol 😅
Ideally, it is best to buy and store 3 months of food that you normally eat. This can prove very helpful not just in disasters but with “more common” problems such as loss of job, illness, accident. Problems that come our way are bad enough without having to dramatically change how and what we eat. A good way to do this is make a list of 6-9 meals you commonly eat, than list the ingredients and then buy enough for your family to eat for 3 months. After this you can add more “long term storage” such as wheat, rice, beans,sugar, oatmeal, freeze dried meals, etc. If packaged and stored correctly, these foods can last for 15-25 years. Good luck. God will bless your efforts and multiply your resources so you can care for your family and help those around you.
I live in a college town. When the kids leave for the summer they often leaver their Igloo coolers behind. I wash them thoroughly and then disinfect them. Place them in the direct sun for a few days to make sure they are totally dry. Ours are filled with beans, rice, brown sugar, flour (white and corn), pasta, etc. They are air tight and sturdy with handles that are designed to carry them full of water and beer. They also stack well. I have about a dozen of them full of shelf stable food. Should stay edible for a decade. Store a mixture of foods in each one in case you have to leave a couple behind. Plus obtain a dozen Augusson Farms #10 cans with dry milk, eggs, and butter. We are prepped and could probably go 9 months without having to go to the store.
My problem with that is that most of those 6-9 meals require fresh or frozen vegetables. I have yet to see baby bok choy or iceberg lettuce in dehydrated form. And if I found it I doubt they would make a very good salad or stir fry. Unless I want to permanently change my diet to that of a refugee in some dystopian society, I will absolutely have to dramatically change my diet in an emergency.
If there's a God he clearly gets off watching us play Hunger Games Kills plenty of praying Christians every day If they are there, I still wouldn't count on it
Heat wraps (the kind people use to ease back pain) can help you sleep warmly in a winter power failure. We put them in our sleeping bags or in our coats at night when our power was out for a week.
I read lots of great additions to the fema list and I would add a few more. Rope, eye goggles that seal, magnesium fire starters that work in wet/rain conditions, sharp survival knife, hatchet, small shovel, sleeping bags and tent, think about the basics food water shelter and safety. If you cover the basics you’ll survive. Safety equals guns/ammunition. Try camping in a remote area with no services to see how well you are prepared and discover what you do and don’t need. The small denomination cash is an absolute necessity.
cash. might not be worth more than tender for a fire. one can go crazy with all this. but best to just have a bug out bag in your trunk. three days for just you. and at least three months at home. just do not let others know about it. as the feds do plane on confiscations from "hoarders".
I made my own first aid kit with one of those soft zippable lunch boxes. It has all manner of good stuff in it. Bandages, plasters, wound spray, mercurachrome (I spelt that wrong...) hydrating solution, bacterial wipes, small zip shut bags that hold 600mls water each. It even has a little 250 bottle for the hydrating solution. I keep insulating tape in it and two kinds of pain killers. I need to get bandage clips...
Dude I was laughing about it big time. I buy toilet paper in bulk about twice a year and I was lucky to have a fresh supply back in February. I'm discovering that my usual count was only for when I'm using the toilet at work during the day so my whole count is off and now I'm getting nervous lmfao
T. Nic Young I did a calculation on toilet paper usage. If one individual bought a 30 roll pack of toilet paper with each roll containing 1,000 sheets( 30,000 sheets total)how long would it last? If said individual used 20 sheets per day, the 30 roll pack should last approximately 4.1 years!
A large can of Crisco and a couple of taper candles to stick into it, will provide heat and light for several days of constant use. I learned to make hobo stoves at camp as a kid. I decided to keep my tuna and chicken cans to make these with paraffin and my constant supply of cardboard boxes.
Back in the old days, when people first started using Crisco candles in emergencies, the product was packed in metal cans that you needed a can opener to get into. Today, it's packed in plastic containers with a peel off seal. Just another thing ruined by the invention of plastics. You'd be better off transferring your Crisco out of its original plastic container into something that won't burn or melt, such as metal coffee cans (Chock Full O' Nuts still comes in metal cans). The last thing you want during an emergency is to create a need for first responders to pay you a visit, because you did something stupid, like jamming candles into a plastic container of Crisco and lighting them.
Experience is the best teacher. Asian nations that were hit by SARS in 2003 were better prepared to face this one, and not least because they took it seriously from word one.
You sure? I hope your family owns firearms or weapons. You can have all the essentials but if you dont have the means and will to defend it you might as well have nothing
@NOAH GREATHOUSE - STUDENT you can be the one taking resources if all you have is guns 🤣 be wary of the one only stocking guns, those are the ones that will be coming for everyone’s resources
I'm a moderate Democrat and I agree 100% when things go bad people will try to take anything they can. A pile of bodies at my front door should be a deterrent...you think ? I do. As far as I'm concerned the 1968 Gun Control Act is unconstitutional. Criminals don't follow the law and the government doesn't have the right to take away a person right to defend themselves. The reason I don't go GOP is because I believe in regulations to protect our natural resources; without regulations animals will be hunted to extinction, fish will disappear, water and air will be polluted. If your into hunting, fishing and whatever outdoor thing you do will be gone.
@@JohnDoe-ce8hy You mentioned wild life and the Earth, do unborn Babies count on your list as well? The reason I say is that Republicans don't run out and try and destroy everything in the Environment like they are accused of. I see people like whale wars and they care more about a Baby whale than a human being. And the Democratic Party votes and defends Early, Mid and Late term Abortions as well as Infanticide. If a child somehow survives a late term abortion they take the baby in the other room and let it die. Democrats under Trump voted against laws that would protect these Babies. I take it very personal when people claim to care about Earth and the Environment, but don't care about Children.
I was in Santa Cruz, California when the 1989 earthquake hit. 7.1 and everything was out for about a week. No gas stations open 5 bridges down. Make sure you keep your gas tank full at all times
@@suezbell1 Agreed, we had a derecho here in the midwest in 2020. Many were scrambling for fuel initially. I still had a rough 10 gallons in gas cans that I normally used for the mower, trimmers, etc. I still needed fuel later, but I was able to get things stablized for me by then.
Plastic sheeting and duct tape can be used to fashion an emergency shelter outside, as ground cover, to temporarily patch a roof, temporarily replace side or rear windows in your vehicle, make a rain poncho, cover your salvaged belongings, and more.
I'll take it one step further. When texas had that artic freeze, we were unable to use our toilet for 3 weeks. I found that, unless you're replacing that plastic liner every time you use the toilet, you're going to need so.ething to cover the smell. I used my cat litter to put in the liner to cover and/or absorb the waste. I will also tell you to try using horse bedding pellets for cat litter. This stuff sells for about $7-8.00 for a 40 lb bag. It covers the cat smell better than cat litter, and it absorbs the urine. Same principle for human waste. Check out youtube videos for more info. about the litter usage.
Northridge in 94 here too! Did the same thing. (Devonshire and Reseda Blvds for me?) Power out for 3 weeks, water for 3 weeks, gas for 5 weeks. Also had 25 gallons of gasoline stored. Rode my dirt bike to work and around the valley for a month, just cuz it was practical. Cops didn't care...they had better things to do.
I live in Texas and we have disasters every year. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and move recently, arctic freeze that crippled power grid and water system. I had enough for a few days but I need more.
California here....we are in the land of Fires, Floods and never any power ....I am also the daughter of the one time head of the State “disaster office”, Now OES, OR OEM. I went on many disasters with my dad...Riots, quakes, floods, heavy pile ups related to Fog, airplane disasters, building collapses, etc. yet from the mid 60s thru the mid 80s...we never had to prepare for the BS of today’s world,..never had wildfires that obliterated cities ...especially those 30miles from the origin...the power grid was easily backed up within days from quakes and storms...the water supplies were never threatened to be contaminated by terrorists... all of this makes me wonder what PROGRESS have we made? It seems more like REGRESSION THAN PROGRESSION....and depression is the outcome.
@@kittygonzalez2827 In the past we didn’t have direct energy weapons, HAARP to mess with the weather. Look them up. It’s the Elites method of population control. They hate us- the useless eaters.
That was the most traumatic experience of my life.Absoulty unreal. No heat and no water....and had to get my children and myself to a warming center.It took that to get me to understand I must learn how to make these bags
You actually needs minimum of of two gallons of water per person per day ( my urologist has told me that one gallon to drink per day) so, with that said one gallon for drinking and one gallon for cleaning and cooking!
Even 2 weapons will save you and/or your loved ones- a . 340 and a 16 ga. pump shotgun. Don't laugh at the .380. Unless you're REAL good, anything large is something they will take and use on you. The bullet enters and exits leaving a hole that 80% of the time doesn't hit a major organ or artery. Death is NOT insured. While a .340 won't rip out any flesh leaving the body, it WILL ricochet off bones and continue it's path INSIDE the body until it stops ripping the kidney, arteries, veins, intestines and groovy stuff like that. A shotgun with double ought buckshot takes Bill Gates at his word- "just point and click" Besides ripping humans in half the shotgun makes an unmistakable sound as it's being racked..that sound tells ANYONE that hears it that you have one in the chamber and not scared to use it.
Fill empty jugs, put a drop of bleach in them, and mark them non potable for toilet flush, cleaning, and washig. Do not use your drinking water for all the other purposes besides drinking.
@@VictoriaNakaraKizer My Sister-in-law fills the bathtubs and all of the sinks before storms and puts ziplock bags filled with water in the freezer. A portable UV sterilizer will kill everything. The sun will work but it may take a few days to fully kill everything.
-Seychelle filter water bottles can filter everything up to and including nuclear waste, depending on which one you buy -WaterBob plastic water bladder for your bathtub (if you’re sheltering in place and worrying you’ll lose access to water. Don’t forget to purify as needed, if you think your pipes are compromised) -buy long term water storage containers and store 3 gallons per person per day for at least two weeks, if you can, plus up to a gallon a day per animal, depending on size. 1 gallon for drinking, and 2 for cooking, cleaning and hygiene purposes including toilet flushing. This is erring on the side of caution. -Bleach goes bad after six months. Water purification tablets last longer. -diversify. Have multiple fuel sources (ie a camp stove that takes charcoal or wood, and a propane stove if you can). Keep both matches and a flint set. Keep firestarter and kindling. Keep 100 hour liquid wax emergency candles AND battery powered LED lanterns. -for your emergency kit, try to get coin towels. They weigh hardly anything, expand and turn into a small towel when wet, and can potentially be reused. Much easier to carry than big packs of wet wipes if you have to leave home in a hurry. -get a plastic bin for your trunk and fill it with a blanket, an outfit, a cheap fleece jacket, anything you might need if you get stranded overnight, including flares and cat litter to help your tires get traction. Check out RoseRed Homestead’s YT channel. The water info came from her, and some more. She and her husband are preppers and she shows what they have in their bug out buckets.
i know with bleach going bad (6 months you say) but do not throw it out. it does not turn to drinking water it still has use. wipe down equip. counter tops, on molded areas, think of more in this mode. use everything as you can if things go ballistic then stuff will be hard to get so think of other usages for stuff. (strike a match) do not throw away use as fire kindling. etc. cotton balls used to wipe wounds use as fire kindling or patch small holes with tape. you get my drift.
Overall, not bad. Just a couple of things I'd like to mention: 1. People should prepare emergency supplies and stores for their region and climate. For instance, some people may be more remotely located than others, and some may live in very cold climates. In general, people should prepare for all eventualities, and seasons. 2. Three days of supply is not enough. A month's supply is how I regularly shop for groceries. My goal is to have 3 month's worth of non-perishable foods, which I can use over time, replenishing and rotating what I use. On top of that, I want to keep another 6 month supply of freeze-dried meals. These can also be taken with you, if you have to evacuate. I'm not wealthy by any standard, but over time I have built up a couple of month's supply. After the pandemic, I will look to starting my freeze-dried food stores. 3. The plastic sheeting can also be used as a makeshift shelter from the elements. If you have some heavy poly (6 - 10 mil.), it can be used to create cover from snow or rain, as well as blocking wind. 4. Make or buy a honey pail. It's essentially a toilet seat on a 5 gallon bucket. Find garbage bags that will fit the bucket so you can put it outside. This too can be taken with you, if needs be. 5. Flashlights - you can get any number of lights and battery options. Whatever you get, include a watertight, crank powered flashlight. This can be cranked just like your radio...no batteries needed. 6. First-Aid - a first aid kit is no good if you don't know how to use it. Get, at least, your first-aid certificate to be able to properly assess and treat injuries, or at least keep someone alive until medical aid arrives. 7. Heating and cooking - many people, especially families have a BBQ of some sort at home. Fire Pits and fireplaces can also be utilized. Make sure you do have an option, like he says. Get out the camping stove. 8. Communications - having a way to communicate with authorities can be very helpful in crisis situation. Purchasing a two-way radio with multiple channels could not only help you but your entire neighborhood or area. Reporting critical casualties could save lives, or, if everyone is okay where you are, rescue efforts can be concentrated elsewhere, possibly saving others lives. Not everyone can afford these items, but it would be a good idea, if you can. Prepare for longer emergencies if you can. The world is a strange place, and anything can happen.
1. might be the most important. Being stranded in a vehicle with no way to keep warm could be fatal. ''Under the right conditions, being cold can make your body expend as much as 400 extra calories an hour." Being cold like that even at home with no heat will burn up 4 times more calories needing 4 times more food supply.
@@barneyrubble4827 Perfect. We are slowly getting hand-crank radios and lights added to our survival kits too. Remember to test them every once and a while. Warranty means nothing when your trapped in a crisis situation. Schedule regular battery replacement too. It sucks when the batteries dies after an hour. Cheers.
I just added a few items to my pandemic supplies. I bought a big yellow sign that says "Danger - Quarantine Area." I also ordered some 3" wide yellow "crime scene" tape. I didn't buy these things to use in case of illness or a crime. I bought them to discourage thieves from breaking into my house in the event this virus results in civil unrest.
@@outbackeddie .. When it doesn't match the signs used by government officials (and I know people are trying to use this trick), I most certainly would take that chance.
What you wanna do is make your home look like it's not worth robbing. Some old vehicles or appliances, not landscaped, peeled paint or siding. Keep the inside as nice as you want. And remember to keep up with your rodent and pest prevention.
Measure all the apertures (windows, doors, vents, etc.) which you will need to cover and seal with plastic sheeting. Pre-cut all the plastic sheeting (4-6 mil) and label the pieces. You may want to put some lengths of duct tape onto the pieces of plastic sheeting so that it is immediately available. (You will have much less trouble with putting the plastic sheeting in place by yourself if all the pieces are precut as well as the duct tape.) Keep the plastic sheeting in zip-lock bags to ensure the duct tape does not dry out.
I have never met a piece of duct tape that didn’t stick to itself the first time you blink your eyes. Measuring the plastic is a good idea but you can lay the plastic out, tear off a piece of tape for the top, hang it and then put the rest in place.
If perchance some extreme weather event does catch a person off guard and/or a tape measure or ruler simply can't be found, it's easy for women at least to make a pretty close guess of what makes a yard's length: the distance from the tip of the nose to the end of outstretched fingers on one hand stretched straight out toward the side will generally come out at 36". Women have been guesstimating fabric yardage this way for ages. As a tiny one, I bend my arm backward just a bit to make up the 1-2" I might be off. Men would probably be well advised to add perhaps an inch. And for God's sake don't try to copy behaviors from Disney wilderness movies. A lot of those are so far off the beam as to be terribly dangerous in real life.
You're under estimating plastic sheeting. It's commonly used in cold areas to seal windows in winter to block drafts. It could also be used to create a micro climate in your home. You could use it to protect you from something contaminated in your house. You could use it to make a stretcher, ground sheeting, shelter. Etc. Plastic sheet is smart.
The plastic wrap (though great for protection against pathogens) is probably on the fema list for more likely weather events like power outages during cold. Sealing up doors and windows with plastic will help insulate them and prevent heat loss (also works to keep cooler air in during a hot weather emergency). Also, to use plastic like this, I recommend keeping a role of blue painters tape with your duct tape. This will prevent tape damage on your walls for when it’s time to take the plastic down.
In cases of natural disasters that can break windows, having plastic sheeting and duct tape will allow you to make temporary repairs to protect you from any weather issues.
@labtechmom this is what I was going to comment. 11:48 Absolutely used for broken windows, doors and even holes in roofs. Also in cold weather climates it can be used to close off doors and halls to contain the heat from an emergency source from escaping.
A small tent is great to have on hand to set up indoors in case the heat is out in the winter. You can set it up on your bed for extra insulation from cold and to hold in heat from body temps.
In addition to the mentioned flashlight and. “Omni directional flashlight”, add a headlamp to your kit. They are far more handy at night when you are trying to work with your hands, like change a tire, pitch a tent in the dark, or rummage through your basement for your emergency lantern.
Had them in our aid station in the Army back in the ‘80’s. Gives you two hands to work with. Keep a few tucked in handy places with extra batteries. LEDs now make it so you don’t have to worry about spare bulbs. Speaking of which, if you do have lights that use bulbs, don’t forget extra ones.
Being raised and originally from Orlando, FL, during hurricanes, my Daddy emptied our toilet, lined it with a 30 gallon lawn/leaf bag and filled it with Cat Litter and Baking Soda, in one bathroom.....just in case. We even had a "poop scoop". Lol. When it was all over, he pulled the bag & contents, and refilled the toilet bowl. Voile'....bathroom needs all take care of. I still use that method, today. Works great, every time, especially now with clumping cat litter.
Good for sealing your windows and doors if you live in an drafty place like mine is. In winter i hang it over the door and put an old towel along the bottom to kerp it in place as wind blows in around the door
Also read something about don't let the same ends touch -- store them in a tray or box side by side rather than letting them drain each other. Plastic fishing tackle and/or craft trays can work well for this for the more frequently used battery sizes: AA AAA C & D
The plastic sheeting and duct tape could be useful if you need to patch up a broken window or roof as well during a hurricane or tornado. So while it seems unlikely to use it for a nuclear attack, using plastic to cover a broken window after a storm seems far more feasible. Thanks for the great video.
Small correction. On the FEMA check list, one might want to change the 72hour option to 90days. You can always take 72hours worth of supplies if you really want it but I got a feeling this will be "updated". ;-)
When I lived in the Seattle, WA it was common every other year for a big storm to knock the power out during the winter. I would recommend 10 days worth of supplies minimum. Biggest issue I encountered was staying warm enough to sleep. The other was bathing for which I would say wet wipes as back up.
Every time we have a big storm in Sydney the State Emergency Service volunteers go out with heavy plastic sheeting or tarps (with cord and duct tape) to provide temporary repairs to peoples homes and businesses. We don't tend to have tornados either. I think FEMA are right in this respect.
None of these items would have helped us in the 2018 Hawaii volcano disaster. My rental in paradise, it's contents and my car covered with 30ft of lava! We had 15 minutes to evacuate. FEMA was WONDERFUL. Forever grateful🌺
@@patjones4250 The people that find themselves in attics are usually the poor and elderly. In particular, the poor elderly. I'm sure if kayaks were in the cards, they would use them.
Read a story about one of the few people that didn't evacuate and survived a Galvaston hurricane. As the water was rising he took and axe and made several holes in the floor. The water rose inside his house, and kept it stable. The other houses got blown away. Same thing applies in a tornado. If you close your windows you create a pressure difference between the outside and inside and the house can get sucked up. If you keep the windows open and let the pressure equalize.
I wasn't much prepared until we had a big ice storm and much of the city was without power for up to a week. I was lucky, but it prompted me to start planning ways to stay warm, fed and comfortable for next time. Until the pandemic, I hadn't thought about keeping sufficient toilet paper in my preparation supplies. That's changed. I also got disposable plates/cutlery in case water is off and I don't want to waste water washing dishes.
One of my emergency radio's is located in the dash of my vehicle. A vehicle in good operating condition with a full tank of gas is one of your best survival tools as it can provide safe shelter, air filtration, heat, air conditioning, protection from the elements, radio, 110 AC Voltage with cheap $30 inverter, lighting, reclining seats for sleep, and the ability to get to a safer area. On the other hand, a better solution is a mororhome with a full tank of gas as it is a completely off the grid home and you literally have a fully self contained home that you can comfortably live in for 30 day with a full tank of gas, propane, water and food. ( 30 to 10 days depending on how many people ) Solar panels on the roof of your RV allows you to charge your RV house and engine batteries therefore, a virtually endless supply of electricity granted there is available sunlight. The hand crank raido is a great thing to have when everything else has failed and some have a USB port to charge your mobilephone. These TH-cam survival / preper videos are extremely usefull and can provide extremely important detailed information 👍
And the second one may be in your cell phone. Most Android phones have an FM radio chip in them. But they lack the app to control it. The app is in the Google Play store. This doesn't apply to iPhones. Yes, I know that the cell phone system will be down. But, the FM radio chip does not require the a working cell system to work.
@@gordonreeder3451 Great point 👍Also, most people dont know that the FM Android Mobilephones only operate with a wired headset because the mobilephone uses the wires in the headphones as the FM Receiving Antenna. Therefore, the FM raido won't work with a bluetooth headset.
This was incredibly helpful! I keep a carrier on hand for each pet. Each carrier has collapsible plastic bowls attached that I can use to give them food and water. I store canned food for my pets for emergencies, since it won't expire as quickly as dry food.
I keep a small, single burner Colman fondue fuel stove. It's fuel can be stored indoors for long periods of time. Very clean burning. No pressure tanks to worry about. Their only minor weakness is they have to be hand pumped to keep the fuel resovior pressurized. They are also reliable in extreme cold conditions having used one on a winter camping trip. It's handy for heating opened cans of food, boiling pasta, making coffee, or making mac n cheese. I have rescued lots of food from a powerless freezer with this stove. I store it under my sink with my bottled water and fire extinguisher.
I have a small composting toilet for those emergencies. Also, I have a white gas two burner stove, and a white gas lamp, from the 80s, that still work. Used both last on power outages during Helene, and battery operated flood lights that can dim. As a backup to the backup, I have a single burner proppane stove as the one shown, and a two burner propane stove, plenty water, water purification tablets, and much more. We don't get hit much with disaters, but it's best to be ready for the unforseen. And, of course one 2000W generator for mostly the fridge. Great video indeed.
I built an off-grid, self-sufficient homestead micro-community (scientists, engineers, MD/DVM) when I emigrated to the mountains of Alberta. We have years of backup supplies in 40' seacans (food, medical, mechanical, etc.), based in part on government survival bunkers, which we haven't had to touch in the 6 years we've been here. I didn't do this because of emergency preparedness. I just wanted to be 100% self-sufficient and live with like-minded people. The world could end and we could carry on indefinitely. Being prepared in case the SHTF is just a bonus. Everyone should have necessary basics, especially in the USA. You don't need to go extreme. Start out with what you can and add to it as time passes. In case you're wondering, we do research and Animal rescue.
Thank you! I've been a pretty hard core naturalist, camping, prepping enthusiast all of my adult life (62 y/o now). I have been wanting the perfect emergency radio for me. I just ordered the Voyager, and I can't wait to get it! Thank you, so much, for this video! I
The plastic sheeting can be used to keep heat in several sections of the house in a very cold environment. I.e. sub zero weather with no power, no heat. Can be used to double insulate windows. Like in Texas.
good point, we used to hang blankets in the hallways to section the house off to keep the living room warm. we were without power for 3 weeks once and it made a huge difference.
i used to think i was prepared enough. but i had never experienced grid failure and water failure and gas failure in the middle of record cold temps in Texas yet. Its a whole different animal from hurricane power outages that usually don't impact water or gas, and hurricanes usually happen in the warm months so life threatening cold is not an issue. definitely reassessing my survival necessities now, as this experience has shown me just how much we rely on municipal infrastructure even if we think we dont. Now my SHTF scenario is: "ALL services are shut down and not coming back for the foreseeable future. plan accordingly." A Wood gasifier is in the works, as well as some solar and some reverse osmosis water filtration equipment. lol
Agree 100%. You can know more about someone by the quality of folks they rely on and whether they can accept input and criticism. Having many inputs with differing points of view is critical.
Emergency light bulbs. You put them in a lamp or your ceiling fan and when the power goes out they stay on for about 3 hours. They're not long term but they've helped me out a few times.
A nuclear attack. I can remember when I was in junior high school back in 1965 and we asked our science teacher what they would do if "the bomb" was dropped while we were at school. He answered, "We'd probably send you home to die there". A stark, but honest answer.
@Paco I know what they are but I don't ever remember having one. I do remember regularly having fire drill those and how we always would hope they wouldn't happen in the winter or cold weather.
I have a lot of these items in camping gear. Plastic can also make a tent to keep body heat in . Plus if you live near railroad or interstate trucks and trains carry poisonous things and people are evicted from areas. But before you leave cover the AC unit and windows.
I keep my weather radio charged by simply leaving it near a window. I also recommend solar power banks that you can just hang in a sunny location in your home. My weather radio can also charge phones, run a USB fan, and has a flashlight and a crank to charge it if need be. My power bank also doubles as a flashlight. I'm responsible with candles. I have candle sconces in every room, and after the last hurricane, my house seemed to be the only one with adequate light. Just remember to put them out before retiring for the night!
Lots and lots and lots of good ideas..... the whistle excellent I have one but I didn't think a deploying it in the nurse quake ect... if I may add you can open up cam Goods by holding them to a cement wall Road anything and lightly sanding in a circular motion and within minutes you will sand through the seal and have chicken soup........ my family and I've been prepped since 1974 but you can always learn something thank you
A good addition (specially in winter) might be clay flower pots (those with a hole in the bottom). If you need additional warmth, turn such vase on top of a candle (even a tea candle). The clay pot will heat up a small room in no time.
I figured they would include plastic sheeting and duct tape for if a window gets busted by debris in a tornado or hurricane. It's a lot more boring than a biological or nuclear threat, but also a lot more likely.
Patch O'Possum, you could also plastic tarps to keep out the weather. If there is a refinery, chemical plant or metal recycling plant fire or flare up & you need to “shelter in place” you want to tape the plastic over windows & doors... much more likely than a nuke melt down or bombing.
Don't forget that plastic, tape, and tarps can be used for isolation of a sick or infected person, temporary repairs after a storm or explosion, basic chemical/biological sealing, water collection... LOTS of uses.
Great vid as always. Just 1 tip I learnt from emergency services; don't use black gloves. In the dark/low light you won't be able to see if you have blood on them 👍
There are camp stove for people who don't like propane, like the Sol or Patriots makes ones that you can use twigs, wood pellets, or you can get a container where you can burn fuels. Having versatility and redundancy is so important. You can also get a solar cooker or make one. Or a Candelier (which can boil water over of its 3 candles and put out 1000 to 5000 BTU's of heat) There are sterno cans, etc. All are useful.
I recently bought a Radio Shack Radio. It is AM FM , weather alarm, Solar panel, crank, and bright light a day USB outlet. I think it was $29.. I just wanted to replace my other small radio and I’m so happy with this for bug in or out.
Good video but let me add 2 usages. In the event of the building collapse there may be water dripping in from above from rain or pipes. The plastic sheeting may help keep you dry. Also the trash bags, with a slit for your head and one for each arm that make a gair rain protector. If you wear one over your shirt and under a light jacket they keep you dry and block the wind so you get much better insulation from light clothing.
One additional tip in regards to emergency water is don't forget the uncontaminated water you'll have stored in your hot water heater, should your water mains become damaged. Also, if you live in an apartment complex or have one at your house, you can avail yourself of the water in your swimming pool, although if you want it to drink, you'll need a portable water purification system!
Without power or internet for over 2 weeks small denomination bills were vital, as very few stores were able to process cards. Plus most banks had major damage to their branches/atms and were not functional for an extended during Hurricane Laura recovery. Great run down, so many things people forget when packing thinking everything will be okay when they come back. Definitely need those important papers as well just to be safe.
@@banhammer3904I've been in a natural disaster where stores closed, but restaurants in other cities were open. Electronic transfers of funds including credit cards were not working, but cash did. Also, strangers will sell food from their kitchen for cash.
Some items you might want to think about are as followed. Headlamp, gloves, if you have weak lungs you can use a air horn instead of a whistle, and let's not forget personal security whatever that might mean to you. There is a company in California that does canned water and it is supposed to have a shelf life of 25 years I think. Of course there are many other things so don't be afraid to think outside the box.
I have used Sterno, or store brands of food warmer fuel cans for heating up canned foods. I sat the heating fuel can in a table-top grill and set the food grate above it. Then heated the food in a sauce pan. After cooking, replace the lid on the fuel to preserve the rest for the next meal. Gordon's Food Service has them in a six pack fairly cheap, and they also have glass votives with candles, as well as replacement candles. If you do preps on a larger scale, they can get 50 pound bags of dry beans if you ask. They also carry 25 pound bags of flour, salt, and sugar. 👍 Good luck out there.
omni-directional flashlights are great to light up a room, but if you only have one flashlight make sure it's uni-directional. a great tip is to put the uni-directional flashlight face down on top of the cap of one of your water bottles and it will work great to light up the whole room (or picnic table if you are gathering out-doors)
Very useful video. Thank you. I would like to add thermal blankets. If your house is in bad condition and it is bad cold weather, those would come in very handy. And they are not taking much space. And perhaps a small camping tent and inflatable stuff that is not gonna take lots of space in your emergency suplies bag. And if you are sleeping just with your panties like me, a set of seasonal clothes might be helpful. Because if earthquake strikes while you are sleeping and you are trying to reach your survival triangle, ain't nobody got time to put on clothes first while your house is collapsing. So that after somehow managing to survive a very bad disaster with access to your emergency kit, you won't freeze to death.
I like the idea of plastic sheeting as someone who lives in an apartment at tree top level with a lot of windows, I can forsee a storm type emergency where my windows might get smashed by flying branches. I have wooden sills so I think that a staple gun is also going on my list so I could easily tack the plastic up.
Living in hurricane prone area, the plastic sheathing comes in handy in the event of tree damage or wind damage that rips parts of your house open you can seal the damaged part off keeping snakes and rodents seeking dry ground out
Everyone has different needs and environments, its probably difficult now with the current epidemic but they should cut their hiusehold off the grid for a week or so to really test group and individual set ups.
You mean "live ready to prepare ultrafresh meals"? Of course! Also make sure you have a copy of "Improvized Emergemcy Gourmet Cooking", it shows you how to make great dishes like Cocker Spaniel au Vin and many others 😁😁😁
Hi "Survival know how" and everyone! Two questions, between fresh dried food and MREs which do you recommend? Also can i use cold water to prepare both? do I need water at all? Can I just eat it as it is?
Keep an extra supply of the food you normally eat and use it first in first out is much less expensive than freeze dried. In a crisis you can eat freeze dried food, but it will suck water from you body to be digested leaving you somewhat dehydrated. Realistically it needs water and heat to be reconstituted. But a can of tuna and a can opener will keep you going for a while. Now for the extra info because I care about you and see possibilities in you. Most people will lose the food they have in their refrigerator and freezer if the outage lasts longer than 48 hours and they keep opening the doors. A four hundred dollar generator will pay for itself if you have fuel and extension cords. I keep my chained up pretty well when it is in use. And actually, you only need it a few hours a day to maintain the fridge and freezer, so it can be shared among a few neighbors if you have a siphon to remove gasoline from their vehicle. So, generator, 12 gauge extension cords, chain, lock, gas can and siphon, pays for itself in a medium crisis. Most Americans have 3 to 8 days worth of food in the house. Preppers have a pantry. Ours could stock a bodega. The thing about having a larger than typical American pantry is this. To stock it you buy in bulk and on sale. A sale on pasta? by a dozen boxes. A sale on tuna? Buy a case. Do this for a few months and you have a very well stocked pantry. Vegetable oil, sure, you can buy little 12 or 16 ounce bottles of vegetable oil, but it is so much less expensive per ounce if you buy it by the gallon or five gallon bucket. Now after you have that pantry set re-supply limits, when the tuna which you bought a case of 24 real cheap gets to 10 or so on the shelf ,you start looking for it on sale again. If it gets to four cans before you bought more, find some other fish, maybe canned salmon, or something that isn't fish, spam, or something and buy that on sale. If you run out, next time it is on sale buy two cases. But shopping like this, just getting things that are on sale and eating out of the pantry and replacing it with on sale bulk purchases will save you at least 20% maybe more on your grocery budget. It works for other things, laundry detergent, dish soap, toothpaste, bar soap, and so on. And buy things at the end of the season. Any day now charcoal will be on sale somewhere. And in April the ice melt goes on sale for half off. Does that make sense? Learn some home skills, learn to save money by cooking from scratch rather than mixes, Learn to bake from scratch. At our home, until the garden harvest got so busy for freezing, canning, dehydrating and so on, my wife made one or two loaves of sourdough bread every four days. She also made sourdough rolls, pancakes, and biscuits sometimes. She had the same sourdough starter going from December to June. That probably saved us 100 bucks in 25 weeks. And my calculations on the 100 bucks includes the ingredients and even running the stove. If I make pancakes I don't grab a mix, I use flour, baking soda, an egg, a bit of oil, maybe some berries or raisins and a bit of spice. And it is cheaper than the mix by 60% and only takes 30 seconds longer to make it. Right now, we have two batches of vinegar fermenting in the kitchen. We've juiced our fruit or berries, fermented it to a horrible tasting wine, then second fermented it to a great tasting vinegar. And it gets used to pickle cucumbers and beets from our garden. Yes, we still buy things like meat and even cold cuts, but our garden, our fruit trees, berry bushes contribute greatly to our pantry. Skills in the kitchen will save money for prepping. Having a garden will save money for prepping. Cooking, baking, gardening, not easy skills, but 100 years ago just about every 12 year old could cook from scratch, do some baking and help in the garden. We modern people we've gotten away from those skills, parents don't know them, so they don't teach them, or they are too busy to teach them. These days most 12 year old kid knows every game on the cell phone, but has no idea how to bake even a simple thing. Gardening, preppers will say store seeds, but learning how to garden, because it takes a growing season to find out if you were successful takes a few years to learn and get out of the beginner stage. To get really good without a good teacher, even with books and videos can take ten years or more. Other skills, that we know or are learning in our house, we both read a lot, tend grape vines, fruit trees and berry bushes, bricklaying, carpentry, basic electrical, basic plumbing, shooting, reloading ammo, interior painting, wallboard mudding and textured finishing on walls and ceiling, sewing, bicycle maintenance, small engine maintenance, fishing, filleting fish, dehydrating fruits and meats, canning fruits, vegetables, meat, fish and jams, meat cutting (buying those big pieces of meat, turning them into serving sizes and packaging them) small animal butchering, sharpening knives and tools, advanced first aid, project planning including layout drawings, supply lists, equipment lists and labor hour estimates. My wife has been an assistant chef and a restaurant and bakery manager, an EMT, worked hospice and dialysis. I've worked in manufacturing on factory floors, as a dishwasher then short order and prep cook, as an engineer in sales and manufacturing and as a teacher. We also have time for art, music and exercise. Today I threw on a 25 pound pack and walked the dog four and a half miles. I missed the evening music session because I had to give the dog a shower. Learning new skills is hard and takes time. But these skills bring great joy when a something is completed, save money and may save a life. Please learn some skills for your home and your life. I wish you peace and prosperity. Phil
During hurricane Ike I used sheets of plastic under a roof leak to prevent damage inside my house. They work well to cover a broken window, due to flying debris for example. If you have to recover the body of a human or pet you can wrap them up in the plastic,
I don't live in an area with any natural disasters ... But ... If thats a problem ... I would keep a 5 gallon bucket stored with some clothes in ziplock bags Ijs
I wouldn’t waste my precious gallon of water for washing up. If you’re creating a stock pile, add water free bath wipes. You can completely wipe down with one packet or you can get a large packet and just use a few. If you are boiling water, add a small amount to the wipes if you want them warm. Or just use one or two to freshen up. Great ideas! Thanks for sharing!!
We live in a 45ft. Motorhome. We always have 40 gallon of drinking water. We have a 12.5 kw generator 150 gallon of diesel Lots of food, tools, 2 forms of heat etc.etc. Hope we never need this for an emergency. Right now we are hiding out avoiding people. On a 5 acre family lot. Well water Sewer 600 yds from nearest neighbors. 300 yds from rd.
soillife1 if you can tell us your exact location like gps coordinates that would great. This way we’ll have a better visual for example purposes. Hehe jk :-p
If you forget a can opener, just flip the can upside down and rub back and forth against the cement. It breaks the metal seal around the edge and you can remove the top portion. I had to practice a few times but now it’s pretty easy to do.
I would mention that having items to collect rainwater is invaluable as well as having a decent sized wood burning hobo stove although it should be operated outside and maintain a supply of fire wood.
I have a rainbarrel by the garage. That water can be filtered and/or boiled. But it is emptied after the first hard frost - no good to have a split barrel! Also have a firepit with cooking grid, and a supply of small sized seasoned wood under cover. I grab small limbs/branches at curbs and process it. Most propane/charcoal grills can also burn wood in an emergency.
I have done this for a long time. Here in the southern Appalachians it's common to lose power for up to a week .It was so sad seeing the folks in Texas so desperate.
Of the two, water is much more important than food, so be sure you have enough and cycle it regularly. If you have a water source nearby (stream, lake or well), it's worth buying a decent, backpacker type water filter as a backup to your water storage in case things go sideways for longer than expected. You can get one for about $20 at Walmart. Food is pretty easy. For the most part, it's just a matter of buying more of the stuff already in your pantry, but with an eye toward things that require little or no extra water. Canned stew and non condensed soups top the list, since you can even add ramen or instant rice to stretch them, if need be, without needing to add water. Canned or jarred pasta sauce is also good (in a pinch, you can cook pasta in the sauce with just a little extra water). That said, tomato based sauces need to be rotated regularly due to their acidic nature, so get what you will use, even if it isn't the zombie apocalypse. Also on the list is any pasta side or mac and cheese that requires just enough water to make it without draining. Pro tip- this is where some cans of tuna or chicken can come in handy. Lastly, dry, non perishables like oatmeal, rice and pasta are great (Bear Creek dry soups and pastas rock), but remember that you will need water for those.
Plastic sheeting can be made into raincoats, shelter, patch a hole/window/door etc. The rain protection alone is worth having plastic sheeting or garbage bags. If you crumpled up dry paper and put that under the plastic you can get incredible amounts of insulation. When wet cotton(the most common fabric of clothes) loses the air pockets that insulate you. You can catch hypothermia in mild weather if your clothes are cotton and wet. This is compounded at night and when there is wind. In some cases wet cotton clothes are worse at keeping you warm due to it's ability to wick water. Water can hold a lot of thermal energy.
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Expanding on some of this, as a guy who's gone through 3 major floods, countless weather-related power outages, and the COVID-19 pandemic:
1) Double that(2 gallons/person/day), and remember your pets. Cats and small dogs count as half a person, large dogs count as a full person. The WaterBOB is a cool way to conserve water if you have a bathtub and a little advance warning that your water is about to go out. Those milk jugs degrade and leak. Use a couple camping jugs, and just pour out and refill every month or three.
2) Again, remember your pets. Try and keep your diet as close to your normal as you can; this is not a good time to shock your digestive system with a new diet(more on this later). Eat the perishable stuff in your fridge first, but limit opening your fridge/freezer door if the power is out to conserve as much cold as you can. Remember you will still want some means of cooking, so a barbecue or camp stove on your patio is a wise idea. I prefer a camp stove because I like the little green propane canisters, which are more easily moved around. Keep in mind that propane doesn't aerosolize as readily in the cold, so keeping it indoors when it's not in use might be smart. Remember that you may have limited water to wash up, so mind your dishes(disposable plates/bowls and cutlery aren't a terrible plan).
3) Your mileage may vary. I've never found one that works worth a damn for any length of time.
4) A first-aid kit is only as good as your training. Seriously, take a first-aid course. Add some painkillers and any other stuff in your medicine cabinet, including a few days worth of prescription medications.
5) I'm sure N95 masks will appear in every household in North America after COVID-19.
6) I'm less worried about nuclear war and more concerned with the tree branch that a nasty storm blows through my kitchen window. A decent proactive option here is that 3M(?) security window film, but duct tape and plastic sheeting aren't terrible ideas.
7) A roll(or 1000) of good old-fashioned TP is a good plan. I'm sure everyone has lots left after COVID-19. Some grocery stores use a larger size plastic bag that fits nicely on a 5-gallon bucket camp toilet, and everyone saves those anyway. Include some kitty litter in there as well; it's a lot nicer handling a small bag of kitty litter than a plastic bag filled with warm piss. If you're using an emergency toilet indoors, you might also be happy to have some decent air freshener, and hand sanitizer(probably left over from your COVID-19 panic shopping) will save you some water for cleanup.
8) Again, don't wait until you need to know to figure out where your water and gas shutoff valves are. Go find them right now; I'll wait. Same goes for your tools. If you're going to spend money on it, you may as well learn how to use it.
9) Get a mix of flashlights, lanterns, and headlamps. Take a guess as to how many spare batteries you'll need. Now double that number. Keep in mind that the super high-powered Surefires and Streamlights will chew through batteries way quicker than some of the cheapo options. Candles are a great idea for static lighting, and you can use glass covers to spread that light a little more and protect it from drafts. Maybe a scented one for the bathroom...
And the add-ons:
1) An ABC fire extinguisher(or two). Remember these things expire every 5(?) years. ABC means that it's good for all different types of fire. Keep it near your camp stove or room filled with candles.
2) Stuff to do. Remember, power outage means no TV or Internet. Books, colouring books, crosswords, deck of cards, board games... you're going to get bored.
3) In the event of an evacuation(due to flooding, for example), think about what you need to take with you. Change of clothes, important documentation, prescription meds... The important thing is to list out the stuff that you need and where it is, because if you only start thinking about it when you're flustered and trying to hurry out the door, you'll forget stuff and/or won't be able to find it.
That was a long one. Hopefully it helps somebody.
For people with larger private yards with many trees and shrubs it is very doable to compost human waste with yard waste but do it safely. Start learning now and keep those 5 gallon buckets handy. You’ll be glad you did because there is no odor and its perfectly safe to dispose of around the landscape for even longer term. For cats think of starting an equine pine bedding for a pellet litter system now. The pellets are CHEAP, lightweight will last about 6 mos for under $10. and Used pine litter waste can be put safely around trees and shrubs.
Brad, thank you for taking the time to share all of that info. Excellent info!
@@AcornHillHomestead I recently got chickens. The pine chips and chicken droppings I used as mulch did wonders for my elderberry bushes.
Great advice! I need only to look where to shutoff my natural gas. I bought a 400 gallon water tank last year for 200bucks. My neighbors think it's full of miracle grow added to the water for my garden. Nope it's pure clean water I use in the garden and keep topped off. Keep a running inventory of everything you will need and where it's at. You'd be amazed at what I fit into my master closet. It's now my prepping pantry. Be prepared for anything. God bless.
Thanks, I was wondering about how much water I would need for my pets as soon as he said per person.
0:33 water
1:35 food
2:44 radio
4:06 first aid
4:38 whistle
5:13 dust mask
6:38 ductape
7:52 garbage bags
8:23 tools
8:53 map
10:35 cash
11:10 water filtration
11:43 rubber gloves
12:11 fire
Thank you for the list.
Substitute GORILLA TAPE for duct tape. . .
Dont forget your camp gear
Backpack, knife, firestarter kit,
pepper spray, blood stopper med. (Powder) wet wipes. Flu meds, pain meds,warm hat to hold in heat.
Save junk mail paper for fire starter source. Lamp oil,oil lamps. Head lamps
Alcohol to clean and alcohol to drink.lol
This was really great list you have. Love it. Also something for kids to play with and phone chargers
The best prep is knowledge.
Knowing how to improvise with what you have!
Absolutely
absolutely this. you can have all the bug out supplies in the world, but die because you dont know how to do things
Having plenty to improvise with just as important
Forget the water filter and buy coffee filters and a gallon of bleach. The little gas stove is also a waste. Buy a 20 pound propane tank and a little buddy space heater. It will keep you from freezing and boil water for two weeks. The cheap plastic electric crap is worse than nothing. They will break when you need them. A gallon of vegetable oil and a cotton wick will give light and heat for a long time. Small solar panels are cheap now, get two. And an inverter and lithium battery. Surefire lights will work even when wet or run over by a truck. Keep your electronics in a old metal ammo can. That way they will be good to go. A good tarp and mylar blankets will keep you dry if you are outdoors or your roof is leaking. Sleeping bags should be in every car. 50 pounds of rice and 25 pounds of beans will cost relatively little but go a long way. Via con Dios.
Agree MRE’s are good to but Expensive
Thank you for sharing this, you have given out very good advice.
Via con Dios Tambien Hermano
It's vaya con Dios.
I've seen a number of prepper videos that recommend pool shock (crystalline calcium hypochlorite) rather than bleach (liquid sodium hypochlorite) because the pool shock has a much longer shelf life than bleach, which loses effectiveness after 6 months. The bleach would work if you have the discipline to rotate your stock.
A camping tent large enough for your family to sleep in can be pitched inside your house or apartment. It’s much easier to keep warm at night than heating the entire room. Heat from the occupants supplies some of the heat. If large enough, even your dogs could sleep with you. A small candle is useful as a night light and heat source, like the UCO lantern. Practice ahead of time. The kids will find it an adventure and it’s not alarming to them.
Why a tent ? Your in your home ?😊
@@bartmanxoxo Having a tent inside your home or apartment is good because there is less space to heat inside it in the event of a power outtage.
Blankets?
@@bartmanxoxo He just told you, Stupid. Pay attention....
I've been prepping for five years or so, and recently bought an RV, which I live in half the time. A motor home in the driveway is the absolute most effective prepping item I have. I keep my 20gal fresh water tank sanitized and at least half full at all times; it has waste water tanks that will support my family of 4 for 3 days before it needs to be emptied; it has an onboard generator and large batteries in case of power outages; I can run the heat, cooktop, and oven off the onboard propane tank or from auxiliary 20lb tanks; and in the event of an evacuation order, I can pack up and roll out in 30 minutes or less. Plus, family vacations and camping trips are so easy now.
Obviously it's not an option for everyone, but if you have the means, I can't imagine a better investment in the event of a disaster.
I live where the temperature has been in the triple digits for 8 months now. My air conditioning went out on a day when it was 117 degrees and it was a long wait for a very busy repairman!
The next day at Walmart, I met two other people, while getting filter replacements, and we exchanged war stories about our experiences! 😹
Baby wipes are good for washing your hair and bathing. Unscented are best.
It might be good for a man’s hair but you can’t wash a woman’s hair with a baby wipe. Women’s hair is a lot longer, and you can’t wipe hairspray out of a woman’s hair with a baby wipe
They're very handy!
There are liquid hair soaps not requiring rinsing that hospitals use for patients but I've not noticed them for sale in the big box stores -- but wasn't looking for them either.
@@suezbell1 I( remember a product that was a spray powder you could use for cleaning your hair.
@@Livetoeat171 Try Campsuds! It's super concentrated so a 6oz bottle can last a week. As long as you got some basic water, it'll keep you clean, and everything else clean too.
I would also include: a copy of important papers, copy of keys, extra perscription meds and spare pair of eye glasses. I would suggest putting together a "Lights Out Bag". In a bucket put flashlights and batteries, candles and matches, hurricane lamp and unsented oil. If you put a lamp or candle in front of a mirror the light will be reflected and magnified.
If you put a tea light in a white bowl of water it almost tripled the light.
Thanx!!
I vacuumed sealed a copy of my papers and needed information.
Hard to get extra prescriptions so start now.
Get lots of Bic lighters they are priceless. Also water purification straws and lots of bleach.
A lot of people would not think of it but you could use the water in your hot water heater Hot water heaters have a drain valve in the bottom to get the water from. Some hot water heaters can have 40 to 50 gals in them. Also I learned that I have used my solar garden light for lighting in you house. I put them on my ceiling fan and it lights up the room. Just put them back outside to recharge for the next night.
Toilet tanks
I don't view the water in toilet tanks or water heaters as potable. It's ok for sanitation but definitely second on the list for drinking or cooking.
When Hurricane Rita hit in 2005 I was the only person in my neighborhood with a can opener. Everyone stocked up on food but didn’t consider that their electric openers would be dead.
And I don't know many people today who know how to open a can otherwise: Rub the top or bottom vigorously against a brick or concrete block until the seal's broken.
@@frostyfrances4700 I heard that but does it work if the can is strong, I know some cans and lids feel thinner now.
@@marycastronova4973 - A strong, intact can will just take a little longer for the seal to break. Wouldn't advise it for cans that might be a bit rusty on the outside bc no way to ensure no contact with the food. But if a can's only lightly rusted outside and I DO have an opener, I just empty the contents and rinse out the can to double check whether the rust went all the way through and touched the food. If not, then still safe to eat. At least for most people. Remember, cans rust from the outside in, not vice versa.
From living out of town growing up, our power always went out. I don't own an electric can opener and probably never will 🤷♀️😂
Fortunately...A lot of canned goods now come with pop-top-lids
I used to think preppers were crazy until this year.
I use to think non preppers were crazy. I still do.
Im a prepper and I felt it was a bit odd when I told anyone , until the past year.
@@asmallwhitedog0479 This is the category I’m also in.
@@johnnyhotrod2608 Then when you realize that the entire worlds population were "preppers" up until the invention of refrigeration?
@@billewilde1 What does prepping have to do with refrigeration???
I’ve been a prepper for 15 years and have made kits for my kids as they’ve moved out. We survived in comfort throughout 3 hurricanes that left us with water and electricity outages. Have a solar pack, kindle and pop tent… boredom and full hotels are really important consideration.
It's odd.. Having just suffered through Hurricane Ida, I can attest to the camp stove since when tap water was re-establish we had a boil order in place. After the water cooled I would run it through a pitcher filter since that is my standard procedure anyway. Also cash was essential when the phone lines were down even after power was restored and the credit card scanner would not work. The flashlight/radio/windup thingy was extremely handy. Helping neighbors also kept sanity in check. Thanks for helping people prepare. 😎
Look into
Lifestraw and you don’t have to boil the water
@@tater4ever I actually have two of them but for cooking / making tea and other things around the house I feel like I am better off boiling. I save the life straw for traveling. Like a hike or something. Even then I will boil when I can. Filters can fail. It is great for a backup plan.
The stove is essential. Puzzled why it is not on the FEMA list.
@@jonstone2466 probably because people in general are ignorant. Any calamity can be made worse by people that don't know how to safely use something involving fire. Training however is a wonderful cure for ignorance.
Rule Number 1. dont let anyone know you have this stuff because your unprepared neighbors will come and steal yours and might even do u harm to get it.
They steal anything that's not locked down already ...🥺
Get a gun, so you can just take other people's stuff
... or, at the very least, seek to "borrow" it.
@@mannyechaluce3814 you won’t be around very long with that attitude... most preppers are ready for the kind who think like you
Back in '93 I was in a ice storm. I had 2 weeks of canned food, a dual fuel stove, and a heater. I thought i was prepared. The power went out like it was supposed too but i was ready. Then it came time to fix dinner. I realized my can opener was electric. Amazing how creative you can get, getting into a can when hungry. To this day I will not have an electric can opener.
Me too...Memphis Tn.
I bought a swing-away can opener when I moved out at 18 years old, 66 now and still have it!
I used to have an electric can opener, till I decided I didn't want to waste precious counter space on one. Then I got one of those wall mounted rechargeable can openers. And this was fine, till it suddenly stopped working one night and I had no way to open a can, that I needed for making dinner that night. So, I bought a manual can opener and for awhile, that's what I used. But my lefty handed destroy machine hubby did what he does best, and wrecked my can opener. So, now I have THREE manual can openers, one for each family member, and nobody is allowed to use another person's can opener. Mine is a Swing-Away, with the crank. Daughter's is a regular Swing-Away with the twist knob. Hubby's is a left handed can opener and he is NEVER allowed to use either of ours, not even in an emergency where his is broken. He has to ask us to open the can for him, instead.
@@app103You can buy those tiny cheap camp.Can' openers for about a dollar apiece.And they're slow.With their work well and don't require any electric power.
@@thesidsss I'm 62 and I get that! Swing-away can openers, especially the older ones, are built like a tank! 😀
At my age with an injured shoulder and right arm, I need an electric can opener and am about to get one that doesn't leave a sharp edge. But I have two swing aways, and Oxo, and two other kind. I keep one my car, one in a lunch box, one in the house, and one with my prep things. The electric one will be so I can open things on normal days when my arm hurts too much. I plan to get a battery powered one if I can find it, if it still exists. It was great to keep in your camping gear was very small in the palm of your hand.
I don't know why some of us including me in the past get in a mindset that we're only allowed to have one can opener in life lol 😅
Ideally, it is best to buy and store 3 months of food that you normally eat. This can prove very helpful not just in disasters but with “more common” problems such as loss of job, illness, accident. Problems that come our way are bad enough without having to dramatically change how and what we eat. A good way to do this is make a list of 6-9 meals you commonly eat, than list the ingredients and then buy enough for your family to eat for 3 months.
After this you can add more “long term storage” such as wheat, rice, beans,sugar, oatmeal, freeze dried meals, etc. If packaged and stored correctly, these foods can last for 15-25 years.
Good luck. God will bless your efforts and multiply your resources so you can care for your family and help those around you.
Just be aware that if the electricity goes out, you may lose all the food in your fridge and/or freezer unless you have a backup power source.
This is the dumbest tip lmao
I live in a college town. When the kids leave for the summer they often leaver their Igloo coolers behind. I wash them thoroughly and then disinfect them. Place them in the direct sun for a few days to make sure they are totally dry. Ours are filled with beans, rice, brown sugar, flour (white and corn), pasta, etc. They are air tight and sturdy with handles that are designed to carry them full of water and beer. They also stack well. I have about a dozen of them full of shelf stable food. Should stay edible for a decade. Store a mixture of foods in each one in case you have to leave a couple behind. Plus obtain a dozen Augusson Farms #10 cans with dry milk, eggs, and butter. We are prepped and could probably go 9 months without having to go to the store.
My problem with that is that most of those 6-9 meals require fresh or frozen vegetables. I have yet to see baby bok choy or iceberg lettuce in dehydrated form. And if I found it I doubt they would make a very good salad or stir fry. Unless I want to permanently change my diet to that of a refugee in some dystopian society, I will absolutely have to dramatically change my diet in an emergency.
If there's a God he clearly gets off watching us play Hunger Games
Kills plenty of praying Christians every day
If they are there, I still wouldn't count on it
We found good old charcoal and matches to be a life saver.
I like to put each briquette in an empty cardboard egg carton with tinder such as dryer lint or newspaper, or my favorite, woodstove pellets.
Heat wraps (the kind people use to ease back pain) can help you sleep warmly in a winter power failure. We put them in our sleeping bags or in our coats at night when our power was out for a week.
0:33 - Double that amount of water to TWO gallons of water per day per person for 14 days!
I read lots of great additions to the fema list and I would add a few more. Rope, eye goggles that seal, magnesium fire starters that work in wet/rain conditions, sharp survival knife, hatchet, small shovel, sleeping bags and tent, think about the basics food water shelter and safety. If you cover the basics you’ll survive. Safety equals guns/ammunition. Try camping in a remote area with no services to see how well you are prepared and discover what you do and don’t need. The small denomination cash is an absolute necessity.
cash. might not be worth more than tender for a fire.
one can go crazy with all this. but best to just have a bug out bag in your trunk. three days for just you. and at least three months at home. just do not let others know about it. as the feds do plane on confiscations from "hoarders".
Really thick extra large clear plastic bags could substitute for plastic sheeting and have more uses.
@@larryjanson4011during the P quarantine the County Health Dept. Contacted a nursing home under an order to record the PPE within.
I made my own first aid kit with one of those soft zippable lunch boxes. It has all manner of good stuff in it. Bandages, plasters, wound spray, mercurachrome (I spelt that wrong...) hydrating solution, bacterial wipes, small zip shut bags that hold 600mls water each. It even has a little 250 bottle for the hydrating solution. I keep insulating tape in it and two kinds of pain killers. I need to get bandage clips...
You can't buy Mercurochrome in the U.S anymore.
Im just an ole county boy,but I've kept these things all my life.
Great, help your neighbors if you can......
@@rhondapelletier2141 in my neck of the woods,neighbors been helping neighbors for years.
Old country boy. You say that as if youre proud of it omg lmao 👌
I have kept most of them for better than 30 years.
When the recent pandemic hit, I learned that apparently you also need 6,000,000 rolls of toilet paper.
I'm looking for frugal recipes to use up my toilet paper hoard.
Dont forget about 500,000 ventilators.
Dude I was laughing about it big time. I buy toilet paper in bulk about twice a year and I was lucky to have a fresh supply back in February. I'm discovering that my usual count was only for when I'm using the toilet at work during the day so my whole count is off and now I'm getting nervous lmfao
T. Nic Young I did a calculation on toilet paper usage. If one individual bought a 30 roll pack of toilet paper with each roll containing 1,000 sheets( 30,000 sheets total)how long would it last? If said individual used 20 sheets per day, the 30 roll pack should last approximately 4.1 years!
James Brownmiller I go through a roll a week, but I’m regular. 😂
A large can of Crisco and a couple of taper candles to stick into it, will provide heat and light for several days of constant use.
I learned to make hobo stoves at camp as a kid. I decided to keep my tuna and chicken cans to make these with paraffin and my constant supply of cardboard boxes.
Back in the old days, when people first started using Crisco candles in emergencies, the product was packed in metal cans that you needed a can opener to get into. Today, it's packed in plastic containers with a peel off seal. Just another thing ruined by the invention of plastics.
You'd be better off transferring your Crisco out of its original plastic container into something that won't burn or melt, such as metal coffee cans (Chock Full O' Nuts still comes in metal cans). The last thing you want during an emergency is to create a need for first responders to pay you a visit, because you did something stupid, like jamming candles into a plastic container of Crisco and lighting them.
After going through Katrina in New Orleans, you don’t have to tell me twice to be prepared. Definitely the cash part.
Experience is the best teacher. Asian nations that were hit by SARS in 2003 were better prepared to face this one, and not least because they took it seriously from word one.
Southeast Florida.
Janine Lew aww im so sorry about that! That broke my heart!
@@Hackenberg Florida Miami living getting Ready every year for Hurricane. Learn how to survived.
You sure? I hope your family owns firearms or weapons. You can have all the essentials but if you dont have the means and will to defend it you might as well have nothing
Guns, Ammunition and Fishing Tackle is Mandatory- without a gun during a Country Meltdown, Thieves who did not Plan will Take what you Have!!!
@NOAH GREATHOUSE - STUDENT you can be the one taking resources if all you have is guns 🤣 be wary of the one only stocking guns, those are the ones that will be coming for everyone’s resources
very difficult to get a permit in my country, so I just have a crossbow. It should get the job done.
@@bobzeepl Buy a used shotgun (ammo) from a neighboring state and don't tell ANYBODY
I'm a moderate Democrat and I agree 100% when things go bad people will try to take anything they can. A pile of bodies at my front door should be a deterrent...you think ? I do. As far as I'm concerned the 1968 Gun Control Act is unconstitutional. Criminals don't follow the law and the government doesn't have the right to take away a person right to defend themselves. The reason I don't go GOP is because I believe in regulations to protect our natural resources; without regulations animals will be hunted to extinction, fish will disappear, water and air will be polluted. If your into hunting, fishing and whatever outdoor thing you do will be gone.
@@JohnDoe-ce8hy You mentioned wild life and the Earth, do unborn Babies count on your list as well? The reason I say is that Republicans don't run out and try and destroy everything in the Environment like they are accused of. I see people like whale wars and they care more about a Baby whale than a human being. And the Democratic Party votes and defends Early, Mid and Late term Abortions as well as Infanticide. If a child somehow survives a late term abortion they take the baby in the other room and let it die. Democrats under Trump voted against laws that would protect these Babies. I take it very personal when people claim to care about Earth and the Environment, but don't care about Children.
I was in Santa Cruz, California when the 1989 earthquake hit. 7.1 and everything was out for about a week. No gas stations open 5 bridges down. Make sure you keep your gas tank full at all times
Try to keep your gas tank full because of the power goes out you’re not pumping gas either!
Good reminder..thanks
I keep a couple of cans full.
The last thing you want is to be fighting for fuel
... and refill the mower can at the end of the season ... just in case.
@@suezbell1 Right, because you never know when you might need to do some emergency mowing! lol
@@suezbell1 Agreed, we had a derecho here in the midwest in 2020. Many were scrambling for fuel initially. I still had a rough 10 gallons in gas cans that I normally used for the mower, trimmers, etc. I still needed fuel later, but I was able to get things stablized for me by then.
Plastic sheeting and duct tape can be used to fashion an emergency shelter outside, as ground cover, to temporarily patch a roof, temporarily replace side or rear windows in your vehicle, make a rain poncho, cover your salvaged belongings, and more.
I would add that you can section off a smaller area to hold in heat say around a bed or in the middle of a room for a family tent.
Also for wrapping up dead bodies in the worst case
Lining our toilets with plastic bags was one of the best disaster tips we used after the Northridge quake in 1994 (Southern CA).
I'll take it one step further. When texas had that artic freeze, we were unable to use our toilet for 3 weeks. I found that, unless you're replacing that plastic liner every time you use the toilet, you're going to need so.ething to cover the smell. I used my cat litter to put in the liner to cover and/or absorb the waste. I will also tell you to try using horse bedding pellets for cat litter. This stuff sells for about $7-8.00 for a 40 lb bag. It covers the cat smell better than cat litter, and it absorbs the urine. Same principle for human waste. Check out youtube videos for more info. about the litter usage.
Northridge in 94 here too!
Did the same thing.
(Devonshire and Reseda Blvds for me?)
Power out for 3 weeks, water for 3 weeks, gas for 5 weeks.
Also had 25 gallons of gasoline stored.
Rode my dirt bike to work and around the valley for a month, just cuz it was practical.
Cops didn't care...they had better things to do.
I live in Texas and we have disasters every year. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and move recently, arctic freeze that crippled power grid and water system. I had enough for a few days but I need more.
California here....we are in the land of Fires, Floods and never any power ....I am also the daughter of the one time head of the State “disaster office”, Now OES, OR OEM. I went on many disasters with my dad...Riots, quakes, floods, heavy pile ups related to Fog, airplane disasters, building collapses, etc. yet from the mid 60s thru the mid 80s...we never had to prepare for the BS of today’s world,..never had wildfires that obliterated cities ...especially those 30miles from the origin...the power grid was easily backed up within days from quakes and storms...the water supplies were never threatened to be contaminated by terrorists... all of this makes me wonder what PROGRESS have we made? It seems more like REGRESSION THAN PROGRESSION....and depression is the outcome.
@@kittygonzalez2827 In the past we didn’t have direct energy weapons, HAARP to mess with the weather. Look them up. It’s the Elites method of population control. They hate us- the useless eaters.
That was the most traumatic experience of my life.Absoulty unreal. No heat and no water....and had to get my children and myself to a warming center.It took that to get me to understand
I must learn how to make these bags
@@kittygonzalez2827
It's all by design. Be prepared. The best survival tool you'll ever carry is knowledge.
@@WTF_BBQ how right you are!
You actually needs minimum of of two gallons of water per person per day ( my urologist has told me that one gallon to drink per day) so, with that said one gallon for drinking and one gallon for cleaning and cooking!
Even 2 weapons will save you and/or your loved ones- a . 340 and a 16 ga. pump shotgun. Don't laugh at the .380. Unless you're REAL good, anything large is something they will take and use on you. The bullet enters and exits leaving a hole that 80% of the time doesn't hit a major organ or artery. Death is NOT insured. While a .340 won't rip out any flesh leaving the body, it WILL ricochet off bones and continue it's path INSIDE the body until it stops ripping the kidney, arteries, veins, intestines and groovy stuff like that. A shotgun with double ought buckshot takes Bill Gates at his word- "just point and click" Besides ripping humans in half the shotgun makes an unmistakable sound as it's being racked..that sound tells ANYONE that hears it that you have one in the chamber and not scared to use it.
I'm emergency management trained and it is actually 3 gallons per day per person. They updated it a few years ago.
@@DJRenee good to know, I also have a BS in Emergency Management and Planning.
Fill empty jugs, put a drop of bleach in them, and mark them non potable for toilet flush, cleaning, and washig. Do not use your drinking water for all the other purposes besides drinking.
@@VictoriaNakaraKizer My Sister-in-law fills the bathtubs and all of the sinks before storms and puts ziplock bags filled with water in the freezer. A portable UV sterilizer will kill everything. The sun will work but it may take a few days to fully kill everything.
-Seychelle filter water bottles can filter everything up to and including nuclear waste, depending on which one you buy
-WaterBob plastic water bladder for your bathtub (if you’re sheltering in place and worrying you’ll lose access to water. Don’t forget to purify as needed, if you think your pipes are compromised)
-buy long term water storage containers and store 3 gallons per person per day for at least two weeks, if you can, plus up to a gallon a day per animal, depending on size. 1 gallon for drinking, and 2 for cooking, cleaning and hygiene purposes including toilet flushing. This is erring on the side of caution.
-Bleach goes bad after six months. Water purification tablets last longer.
-diversify. Have multiple fuel sources (ie a camp stove that takes charcoal or wood, and a propane stove if you can). Keep both matches and a flint set. Keep firestarter and kindling. Keep 100 hour liquid wax emergency candles AND battery powered LED lanterns.
-for your emergency kit, try to get coin towels. They weigh hardly anything, expand and turn into a small towel when wet, and can potentially be reused. Much easier to carry than big packs of wet wipes if you have to leave home in a hurry.
-get a plastic bin for your trunk and fill it with a blanket, an outfit, a cheap fleece jacket, anything you might need if you get stranded overnight, including flares and cat litter to help your tires get traction.
Check out RoseRed Homestead’s YT channel. The water info came from her, and some more. She and her husband are preppers and she shows what they have in their bug out buckets.
i know with bleach going bad (6 months you say) but do not throw it out. it does not turn to drinking water it still has use. wipe down equip. counter tops, on molded areas, think of more in this mode. use everything as you can if things go ballistic then stuff will be hard to get so think of other usages for stuff. (strike a match) do not throw away use as fire kindling. etc. cotton balls used to wipe wounds use as fire kindling or patch small holes with tape. you get my drift.
Overall, not bad. Just a couple of things I'd like to mention:
1. People should prepare emergency supplies and stores for their region and climate. For instance, some people may be more remotely located than others, and some may live in very cold climates. In general, people should prepare for all eventualities, and seasons.
2. Three days of supply is not enough. A month's supply is how I regularly shop for groceries. My goal is to have 3 month's worth of non-perishable foods, which I can use over time, replenishing and rotating what I use. On top of that, I want to keep another 6 month supply of freeze-dried meals. These can also be taken with you, if you have to evacuate. I'm not wealthy by any standard, but over time I have built up a couple of month's supply. After the pandemic, I will look to starting my freeze-dried food stores.
3. The plastic sheeting can also be used as a makeshift shelter from the elements. If you have some heavy poly (6 - 10 mil.), it can be used to create cover from snow or rain, as well as blocking wind.
4. Make or buy a honey pail. It's essentially a toilet seat on a 5 gallon bucket. Find garbage bags that will fit the bucket so you can put it outside. This too can be taken with you, if needs be.
5. Flashlights - you can get any number of lights and battery options. Whatever you get, include a watertight, crank powered flashlight. This can be cranked just like your radio...no batteries needed.
6. First-Aid - a first aid kit is no good if you don't know how to use it. Get, at least, your first-aid certificate to be able to properly assess and treat injuries, or at least keep someone alive until medical aid arrives.
7. Heating and cooking - many people, especially families have a BBQ of some sort at home. Fire Pits and fireplaces can also be utilized. Make sure you do have an option, like he says. Get out the camping stove.
8. Communications - having a way to communicate with authorities can be very helpful in crisis situation. Purchasing a two-way radio with multiple channels could not only help you but your entire neighborhood or area. Reporting critical casualties could save lives, or, if everyone is okay where you are, rescue efforts can be concentrated elsewhere, possibly saving others lives.
Not everyone can afford these items, but it would be a good idea, if you can. Prepare for longer emergencies if you can. The world is a strange place, and anything can happen.
1. might be the most important. Being stranded in a vehicle with no way to keep warm could be fatal. ''Under the right conditions, being cold can make your body expend as much as 400 extra calories an hour." Being cold like that even at home with no heat will burn up 4 times more calories needing 4 times more food supply.
No mention of arms and ammunition?
Picked up a handheld RS cb radio for $10. Works great also have a scanner so I know whats goin on
@@barneyrubble4827 Perfect. We are slowly getting hand-crank radios and lights added to our survival kits too. Remember to test them every once and a while. Warranty means nothing when your trapped in a crisis situation. Schedule regular battery replacement too. It sucks when the batteries dies after an hour. Cheers.
I just added a few items to my pandemic supplies. I bought a big yellow sign that says "Danger - Quarantine Area." I also ordered some 3" wide yellow "crime scene" tape. I didn't buy these things to use in case of illness or a crime. I bought them to discourage thieves from breaking into my house in the event this virus results in civil unrest.
Smart
Not so smart. Now that you've told everyone, thieves are not going to be detoured.
@@dwightstewart7181 Would you take the chance that a sign was bogus? I sure wouldn't.
@@outbackeddie .. When it doesn't match the signs used by government officials (and I know people are trying to use this trick), I most certainly would take that chance.
What you wanna do is make your home look like it's not worth robbing. Some old vehicles or appliances, not landscaped, peeled paint or siding. Keep the inside as nice as you want. And remember to keep up with your rodent and pest prevention.
I have a crank flashlight.
It is over ten years old.
I have saved sooooo much not having to buy batteries.
Good for the environment too!
Measure all the apertures (windows, doors, vents, etc.) which you will need to cover and seal with plastic sheeting. Pre-cut all the plastic sheeting (4-6 mil) and label the pieces. You may want to put some lengths of duct tape onto the pieces of plastic sheeting so that it is immediately available. (You will have much less trouble with putting the plastic sheeting in place by yourself if all the pieces are precut as well as the duct tape.) Keep the plastic sheeting in zip-lock bags to ensure the duct tape does not dry out.
What do you do when the duct tape sticks to itself when you try to unfold the sheeting?
Good tips!
If you can find it and or affird it Alien Tape is good. It comes right off dont peel or damage you paint or paneling and can be rinsed and reused .
I have never met a piece of duct tape that didn’t stick to itself the first time you blink your eyes. Measuring the plastic is a good idea but you can lay the plastic out, tear off a piece of tape for the top, hang it and then put the rest in place.
If perchance some extreme weather event does catch a person off guard and/or a tape measure or ruler simply can't be found, it's easy for women at least to make a pretty close guess of what makes a yard's length: the distance from the tip of the nose to the end of outstretched fingers on one hand stretched straight out toward the side will generally come out at 36". Women have been guesstimating fabric yardage this way for ages. As a tiny one, I bend my arm backward just a bit to make up the 1-2" I might be off. Men would probably be well advised to add perhaps an inch. And for God's sake don't try to copy behaviors from Disney wilderness movies. A lot of those are so far off the beam as to be terribly dangerous in real life.
I would strongly recommend a solar USB charger, and devices that can charge from it. Free power as long as the sun shines.
Get one with a light ,both light and charge your phone.
Amen God is good
My mom bought 4 of just before the arctic blast that hit Texas.
All power comes from sun
If you like solar use a Rodin coil.
You're under estimating plastic sheeting. It's commonly used in cold areas to seal windows in winter to block drafts. It could also be used to create a micro climate in your home. You could use it to protect you from something contaminated in your house. You could use it to make a stretcher, ground sheeting, shelter. Etc. Plastic sheet is smart.
Things to keep you're mind/emotions positive.
Jellybeans, books, puzzles, crafts whatever.
C S a beautiful view of a green pasture
C S Rolling papers I have heard are very important trade item. Who knew?
MED'S THAT WORK GOOD FOR CALMING YOU.SEE YOUR DOCTOR..
SOCK YARN!! other yarn for hats, scarves and mittens. A sense of accomplishment is great for your mind.
Candy beansies !!!😆😆😆
The plastic wrap (though great for protection against pathogens) is probably on the fema list for more likely weather events like power outages during cold. Sealing up doors and windows with plastic will help insulate them and prevent heat loss (also works to keep cooler air in during a hot weather emergency). Also, to use plastic like this, I recommend keeping a role of blue painters tape with your duct tape. This will prevent tape damage on your walls for when it’s time to take the plastic down.
You can also use it for rainwater collection.
If the shit hits the fan like it probably will you won’t have to worry about the paint on your walls
In cases of natural disasters that can break windows, having plastic sheeting and duct tape will allow you to make temporary repairs to protect you from any weather issues.
@labtechmom this is what I was going to comment. 11:48 Absolutely used for broken windows, doors and even holes in roofs. Also in cold weather climates it can be used to close off doors and halls to contain the heat from an emergency source from escaping.
The plastic wrap is for chemical, biological, and radioactive attacks... Not keeping your butt warm
A small tent is great to have on hand to set up indoors in case the heat is out in the winter. You can set it up on your bed for extra insulation from cold and to hold in heat from body temps.
Not three days ...
3weeks....
And if you want to survive.....3 months.
Don’t forget prescription medicine
either hunt root or do without.
He discussed Rx meds in another video
YOU CAN BUY LOT OF MED'S FROM THE ONLINE ''MEXICAN PARMACY''IN TJ)
A brake bleeder will make a good seal on mason jars for grid down
Don’t forget your pets food also
In addition to the mentioned flashlight and. “Omni directional flashlight”, add a headlamp to your kit.
They are far more handy at night when you are trying to work with your hands, like change a tire, pitch a tent in the dark, or rummage through your basement for your emergency lantern.
I have one and I love it. Makes things much easier. No fiddling around with only one hand.
Had them in our aid station in the Army back in the ‘80’s. Gives you two hands to work with. Keep a few tucked in handy places with extra batteries. LEDs now make it so you don’t have to worry about spare bulbs. Speaking of which, if you do have lights that use bulbs, don’t forget extra ones.
Being raised and originally from Orlando, FL, during hurricanes, my Daddy emptied our toilet, lined it with a 30 gallon lawn/leaf bag and filled it with Cat Litter and Baking Soda, in one bathroom.....just in case. We even had a "poop scoop". Lol. When it was all over, he pulled the bag & contents, and refilled the toilet bowl. Voile'....bathroom needs all take care of. I still use that method, today. Works great, every time, especially now with clumping cat litter.
The plastic sheets are good sealing off your house if you lose power during the winter.
And rope
You can pitch a small pup tent in the house or even on your bed to hold in body heat.
Lol he thinks it's for a nuke nah it's just for blocking out cold weather or like bugs in the middle of summer.
Good for sealing your windows and doors if you live in an drafty place like mine is. In winter i hang it over the door and put an old towel along the bottom to kerp it in place as wind blows in around the door
what about fire places or wood stoves?
Batteries should be stored out of the flashlight in case of leakage.
Or don’t be cheap and buy lithium batteries
@@blakedavis2447 you'll need power banks to charge the batteries.
Also read something about don't let the same ends touch -- store them in a tray or box side by side rather than letting them drain each other. Plastic fishing tackle and/or craft trays can work well for this for the more frequently used battery sizes: AA AAA C & D
We don't have Fema in Canada but that list is just common sense for most rural households and even not enough for a Canadian winter.
Omni-directional flashlights are typically just called a lantern.
Lol
lmao!
Thats the air force for you 😆
allemander *dies laughing
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The plastic sheeting and duct tape could be useful if you need to patch up a broken window or roof as well during a hurricane or tornado. So while it seems unlikely to use it for a nuclear attack, using plastic to cover a broken window after a storm seems far more feasible. Thanks for the great video.
I agree, broken window, leaking roof, water collection. lots of uses.
Seems likely now ☢️
A metal colander with a grill on top can become a good stove using twigs, charcoal, or anything. Be sure to secure it so it doesnt get knocked over.
Small correction. On the FEMA check list, one might want to change the 72hour option to 90days. You can always take 72hours worth of supplies if you really want it but I got a feeling this will be "updated". ;-)
When I lived in the Seattle, WA it was common every other year for a big storm to knock the power out during the winter. I would recommend 10 days worth of supplies minimum. Biggest issue I encountered was staying warm enough to sleep. The other was bathing for which I would say wet wipes as back up.
Best buy I ever made was a good Leatherman multitool.
Every time we have a big storm in Sydney the State Emergency Service volunteers go out with heavy plastic sheeting or tarps (with cord and duct tape) to provide temporary repairs to peoples homes and businesses. We don't tend to have tornados either. I think FEMA are right in this respect.
None of these items would have helped us in the 2018 Hawaii volcano disaster. My rental in paradise, it's contents and my car covered with 30ft of lava! We had 15 minutes to evacuate. FEMA was WONDERFUL. Forever grateful🌺
If you live in a flood prone area, put an escape tool in the attic. Axe, pickaxe, prybar, etc.
Know how to get out of your window if you have a window AC unit installed. May need tools to remove the AC
Maybe a kayak?
@@patjones4250 The people that find themselves in attics are usually the poor and elderly. In particular, the poor elderly. I'm sure if kayaks were in the cards, they would use them.
Read a story about one of the few people that didn't evacuate and survived a Galvaston hurricane. As the water was rising he took and axe and made several holes in the floor. The water rose inside his house, and kept it stable. The other houses got blown away.
Same thing applies in a tornado. If you close your windows you create a pressure difference between the outside and inside and the house can get sucked up. If you keep the windows open and let the pressure equalize.
@@ppumpkin3282 It doesn't take very much flowing water to sweep away a car. Natural forces aren't something to mess around with.
I wasn't much prepared until we had a big ice storm and much of the city was without power for up to a week. I was lucky, but it prompted me to start planning ways to stay warm, fed and comfortable for next time. Until the pandemic, I hadn't thought about keeping sufficient toilet paper in my preparation supplies. That's changed. I also got disposable plates/cutlery in case water is off and I don't want to waste water washing dishes.
One of my emergency radio's is located in the dash of my vehicle.
A vehicle in good operating condition with a full tank of gas is one of your best survival tools as it can provide safe shelter, air filtration, heat, air conditioning, protection from the elements, radio, 110 AC Voltage with cheap $30 inverter, lighting, reclining seats for sleep, and the ability to get to a safer area.
On the other hand, a better solution is a mororhome with a full tank of gas as it is a completely off the grid home and you literally have a fully self contained home that you can comfortably live in for 30 day with a full tank of gas, propane, water and food. ( 30 to 10 days depending on how many people )
Solar panels on the roof of your RV allows you to charge your RV house and engine batteries therefore, a virtually endless supply of electricity granted there is available sunlight.
The hand crank raido is a great thing to have when everything else has failed and some have a USB port to charge your mobilephone.
These TH-cam survival / preper videos are extremely usefull and can provide extremely important detailed information 👍
And the second one may be in your cell phone. Most Android phones have an FM radio chip in them. But they lack the app to control it. The app is in the Google Play store. This doesn't apply to iPhones. Yes, I know that the cell phone system will be down. But, the FM radio chip does not require the a working cell system to work.
@@gordonreeder3451
Great point 👍Also, most people dont know that the FM Android Mobilephones only operate with a wired headset because the mobilephone uses the wires in the headphones as the FM Receiving Antenna. Therefore, the FM raido won't work with a bluetooth headset.
@@gordonreeder3451 I didn't know that. Cool!
This was incredibly helpful! I keep a carrier on hand for each pet. Each carrier has collapsible plastic bowls attached that I can use to give them food and water. I store canned food for my pets for emergencies, since it won't expire as quickly as dry food.
The USB port on the radio is to charge devices like cell phone using the stored power or the dynamo crank handle.
I keep a small, single burner Colman fondue fuel stove. It's fuel can be stored indoors for long periods of time. Very clean burning. No pressure tanks to worry about. Their only minor weakness is they have to be hand pumped to keep the fuel resovior pressurized. They are also reliable in extreme cold conditions having used one on a winter camping trip. It's handy for heating opened cans of food, boiling pasta, making coffee, or making mac n cheese. I have rescued lots of food from a powerless freezer with this stove. I store it under my sink with my bottled water and fire extinguisher.
I have a small composting toilet for those emergencies. Also, I have a white gas two burner stove, and a white gas lamp, from the 80s, that still work. Used both last on power outages during Helene, and battery operated flood lights that can dim. As a backup to the backup, I have a single burner proppane stove as the one shown, and a two burner propane stove, plenty water, water purification tablets, and much more. We don't get hit much with disaters, but it's best to be ready for the unforseen. And, of course one 2000W generator for mostly the fridge. Great video indeed.
I have one of those Radios, due to the Fact it has NOAA, Short Wave, AM/FM Channel for local News. Love it
I built an off-grid, self-sufficient homestead micro-community (scientists, engineers, MD/DVM) when I emigrated to the mountains of Alberta. We have years of backup supplies in 40' seacans (food, medical, mechanical, etc.), based in part on government survival bunkers, which we haven't had to touch in the 6 years we've been here. I didn't do this because of emergency preparedness. I just wanted to be 100% self-sufficient and live with like-minded people.
The world could end and we could carry on indefinitely. Being prepared in case the SHTF is just a bonus.
Everyone should have necessary basics, especially in the USA. You don't need to go extreme. Start out with what you can and add to it as time passes.
In case you're wondering, we do research and Animal rescue.
@@southerncatlady6680 it's not about bunkers. It's about selfreliance and living with Nature - at least for us.
@@southerncatlady6680 definitely
Where is John Galt?
@@literacyteacher1966 no clue you tell me
Thank you! I've been a pretty hard core naturalist, camping, prepping enthusiast all of my adult life (62 y/o now). I have been wanting the perfect emergency radio for me. I just ordered the Voyager, and I can't wait to get it! Thank you, so much, for this video! I
The plastic sheeting can be used to keep heat in several sections of the house in a very cold environment. I.e. sub zero weather with no power, no heat. Can be used to double insulate windows. Like in Texas.
good point, we used to hang blankets in the hallways to section the house off to keep the living room warm. we were without power for 3 weeks once and it made a huge difference.
i used to think i was prepared enough. but i had never experienced grid failure and water failure and gas failure in the middle of record cold temps in Texas yet. Its a whole different animal from hurricane power outages that usually don't impact water or gas, and hurricanes usually happen in the warm months so life threatening cold is not an issue. definitely reassessing my survival necessities now, as this experience has shown me just how much we rely on municipal infrastructure even if we think we dont. Now my SHTF scenario is: "ALL services are shut down and not coming back for the foreseeable future. plan accordingly."
A Wood gasifier is in the works, as well as some solar and some reverse osmosis water filtration equipment. lol
After the winter storm in Texas...I bought rechargeable heated gloves and jacket!
Agree 100%. You can know more about someone by the quality of folks they rely on and whether they can accept input and criticism. Having many inputs with differing points of view is critical.
Emergency light bulbs. You put them in a lamp or your ceiling fan and when the power goes out they stay on for about 3 hours. They're not long term but they've helped me out a few times.
A nuclear attack. I can remember when I was in junior high school back in 1965 and we asked our science teacher what they would do if "the bomb" was dropped while we were at school.
He answered, "We'd probably send you home to die there". A stark, but honest answer.
@Paco I never remember ever doing the duck and cover drill in school even though I started kindergarten in 1957.
@Paco I know what they are but I don't ever remember having one. I do remember regularly having fire drill those and how we always would hope they wouldn't happen in the winter or cold weather.
Back when teachers were allowed to tell the truth.
@Paco I remember that... I also remember thinking how useless it would be if a nuke hit.
@Paco
Duck and cover under the desk.
I have a lot of these items in camping gear. Plastic can also make a tent to keep body heat in . Plus if you live near railroad or interstate trucks and trains carry poisonous things and people are evicted from areas. But before you leave cover the AC unit and windows.
I keep my weather radio charged by simply leaving it near a window. I also recommend solar power banks that you can just hang in a sunny location in your home. My weather radio can also charge phones, run a USB fan, and has a flashlight and a crank to charge it if need be. My power bank also doubles as a flashlight. I'm responsible with candles. I have candle sconces in every room, and after the last hurricane, my house seemed to be the only one with adequate light. Just remember to put them out before retiring for the night!
Lots and lots and lots of good ideas..... the whistle excellent I have one but I didn't think a deploying it in the nurse quake ect... if I may add you can open up cam Goods by holding them to a cement wall Road anything and lightly sanding in a circular motion and within minutes you will sand through the seal and have chicken soup........ my family and I've been prepped since 1974 but you can always learn something thank you
A good addition (specially in winter) might be clay flower pots (those with a hole in the bottom). If you need additional warmth, turn such vase on top of a candle (even a tea candle). The clay pot will heat up a small room in no time.
I figured they would include plastic sheeting and duct tape for if a window gets busted by debris in a tornado or hurricane. It's a lot more boring than a biological or nuclear threat, but also a lot more likely.
Patch O'Possum, you could also plastic tarps to keep out the weather. If there is a refinery, chemical plant or metal recycling plant fire or flare up & you need to “shelter in place” you want to tape the plastic over windows & doors... much more likely than a nuke melt down or bombing.
This was my understanding of the reason for those things as well.
Don't forget that plastic, tape, and tarps can be used for isolation of a sick or infected person, temporary repairs after a storm or explosion, basic chemical/biological sealing, water collection... LOTS of uses.
It came in handy when someone broke into my car and I had to use it in a pinch to replace the window until it came in. Logical idea.
You can install a window fan to blow in with a hepa filter to create positive pressure in the house and thus prevent bad air from outside seeping in.
Great vid as always. Just 1 tip I learnt from emergency services; don't use black gloves. In the dark/low light you won't be able to see if you have blood on them 👍
Always assume that your gloves are contaminated!
Grim (but a good tip).
Yeah IFAKs also have white gloves
Black is good so u can notice tear
Or see your hands at all...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There are camp stove for people who don't like propane, like the Sol or Patriots makes ones that you can use twigs, wood pellets, or you can get a container where you can burn fuels. Having versatility and redundancy is so important. You can also get a solar cooker or make one. Or a Candelier (which can boil water over of its 3 candles and put out 1000 to 5000 BTU's of heat) There are sterno cans, etc. All are useful.
I recently bought a Radio Shack Radio. It is AM FM , weather alarm, Solar panel, crank, and bright light a day USB outlet. I think it was $29.. I just wanted to replace my other small radio and I’m so happy with this for bug in or out.
Good video but let me add 2 usages. In the event of the building collapse there may be water dripping in from above from rain or pipes. The plastic sheeting may help keep you dry. Also the trash bags, with a slit for your head and one for each arm that make a gair rain protector. If you wear one over your shirt and under a light jacket they keep you dry and block the wind so you get much better insulation from light clothing.
One additional tip in regards to emergency water is don't forget the uncontaminated water you'll have stored in your hot water heater, should your water mains become damaged. Also, if you live in an apartment complex or have one at your house, you can avail yourself of the water in your swimming pool, although if you want it to drink, you'll need a portable water purification system!
Without power or internet for over 2 weeks small denomination bills were vital, as very few stores were able to process cards. Plus most banks had major damage to their branches/atms and were not functional for an extended during Hurricane Laura recovery.
Great run down, so many things people forget when packing thinking everything will be okay when they come back. Definitely need those important papers as well just to be safe.
@@banhammer3904I've been in a natural disaster where stores closed, but restaurants in other cities were open. Electronic transfers of funds including credit cards were not working, but cash did. Also, strangers will sell food from their kitchen for cash.
Some items you might want to think about are as followed. Headlamp, gloves, if you have weak lungs you can use a air horn instead of a whistle, and let's not forget personal security whatever that might mean to you. There is a company in California that does canned water and it is supposed to have a shelf life of 25 years I think. Of course there are many other things so don't be afraid to think outside the box.
I have used Sterno, or store brands of food warmer fuel cans for heating up canned foods. I sat the heating fuel can in a table-top grill and set the food grate above it. Then heated the food in a sauce pan.
After cooking, replace the lid on the fuel to preserve the rest for the next meal.
Gordon's Food Service has them in a six pack fairly cheap, and they also have glass votives with candles, as well as replacement candles.
If you do preps on a larger scale, they can get 50 pound bags of dry beans if you ask. They also carry 25 pound bags of flour, salt, and sugar. 👍
Good luck out there.
omni-directional flashlights are great to light up a room, but if you only have one flashlight make sure it's uni-directional. a great tip is to put the uni-directional flashlight face down on top of the cap of one of your water bottles and it will work great to light up the whole room (or picnic table if you are gathering out-doors)
Very useful video. Thank you. I would like to add thermal blankets. If your house is in bad condition and it is bad cold weather, those would come in very handy. And they are not taking much space.
And perhaps a small camping tent and inflatable stuff that is not gonna take lots of space in your emergency suplies bag.
And if you are sleeping just with your panties like me, a set of seasonal clothes might be helpful. Because if earthquake strikes while you are sleeping and you are trying to reach your survival triangle, ain't nobody got time to put on clothes first while your house is collapsing.
So that after somehow managing to survive a very bad disaster with access to your emergency kit, you won't freeze to death.
I like the idea of plastic sheeting as someone who lives in an apartment at tree top level with a lot of windows, I can forsee a storm type emergency where my windows might get smashed by flying branches. I have wooden sills so I think that a staple gun is also going on my list so I could easily tack the plastic up.
Living in hurricane prone area, the plastic sheathing comes in handy in the event of tree damage or wind damage that rips parts of your house open you can seal the damaged part off keeping snakes and rodents seeking dry ground out
Everyone has different needs and environments, its probably difficult now with the current epidemic but they should cut their hiusehold off the grid for a week or so to really test group and individual set ups.
You can also use it to gather dew for drinking water.
Don't forget your pets!
Praise you for saying that....my dog food keeps coming up missing...I know the neighbors dog is eating well.....😯😡
Good point, you can always eat your pets
You mean "live ready to prepare ultrafresh meals"? Of course! Also make sure you have a copy of "Improvized Emergemcy Gourmet Cooking", it shows you how to make great dishes like Cocker Spaniel au Vin and many others 😁😁😁
@@coolbuffdad always store sauce
@@rondarawson6236 or some rats or raccoons or another critter❤😀
Hi "Survival know how" and everyone!
Two questions, between fresh dried food and MREs which do you recommend?
Also can i use cold water to prepare both? do I need water at all? Can I just eat it as it is?
Keep an extra supply of the food you normally eat and use it first in first out is much less expensive than freeze dried. In a crisis you can eat freeze dried food, but it will suck water from you body to be digested leaving you somewhat dehydrated. Realistically it needs water and heat to be reconstituted. But a can of tuna and a can opener will keep you going for a while.
Now for the extra info because I care about you and see possibilities in you.
Most people will lose the food they have in their refrigerator and freezer if the outage lasts longer than 48 hours and they keep opening the doors.
A four hundred dollar generator will pay for itself if you have fuel and extension cords. I keep my chained up pretty well when it is in use. And actually, you only need it a few hours a day to maintain the fridge and freezer, so it can be shared among a few neighbors if you have a siphon to remove gasoline from their vehicle. So, generator, 12 gauge extension cords, chain, lock, gas can and siphon, pays for itself in a medium crisis.
Most Americans have 3 to 8 days worth of food in the house. Preppers have a pantry. Ours could stock a bodega.
The thing about having a larger than typical American pantry is this. To stock it you buy in bulk and on sale. A sale on pasta? by a dozen boxes. A sale on tuna? Buy a case. Do this for a few months and you have a very well stocked pantry. Vegetable oil, sure, you can buy little 12 or 16 ounce bottles of vegetable oil, but it is so much less expensive per ounce if you buy it by the gallon or five gallon bucket.
Now after you have that pantry set re-supply limits, when the tuna which you bought a case of 24 real cheap gets to 10 or so on the shelf ,you start looking for it on sale again. If it gets to four cans before you bought more, find some other fish, maybe canned salmon, or something that isn't fish, spam, or something and buy that on sale. If you run out, next time it is on sale buy two cases.
But shopping like this, just getting things that are on sale and eating out of the pantry and replacing it with on sale bulk purchases will save you at least 20% maybe more on your grocery budget. It works for other things, laundry detergent, dish soap, toothpaste, bar soap, and so on. And buy things at the end of the season. Any day now charcoal will be on sale somewhere. And in April the ice melt goes on sale for half off.
Does that make sense?
Learn some home skills, learn to save money by cooking from scratch rather than mixes, Learn to bake from scratch. At our home, until the garden harvest got so busy for freezing, canning, dehydrating and so on, my wife made one or two loaves of sourdough bread every four days. She also made sourdough rolls, pancakes, and biscuits sometimes. She had the same sourdough starter going from December to June. That probably saved us 100 bucks in 25 weeks. And my calculations on the 100 bucks includes the ingredients and even running the stove. If I make pancakes I don't grab a mix, I use flour, baking soda, an egg, a bit of oil, maybe some berries or raisins and a bit of spice. And it is cheaper than the mix by 60% and only takes 30 seconds longer to make it. Right now, we have two batches of vinegar fermenting in the kitchen. We've juiced our fruit or berries, fermented it to a horrible tasting wine, then second fermented it to a great tasting vinegar. And it gets used to pickle cucumbers and beets from our garden. Yes, we still buy things like meat and even cold cuts, but our garden, our fruit trees, berry bushes contribute greatly to our pantry.
Skills in the kitchen will save money for prepping.
Having a garden will save money for prepping.
Cooking, baking, gardening, not easy skills, but 100 years ago just about every 12 year old could cook from scratch, do some baking and help in the garden. We modern people we've gotten away from those skills, parents don't know them, so they don't teach them, or they are too busy to teach them. These days most 12 year old kid knows every game on the cell phone, but has no idea how to bake even a simple thing. Gardening, preppers will say store seeds, but learning how to garden, because it takes a growing season to find out if you were successful takes a few years to learn and get out of the beginner stage. To get really good without a good teacher, even with books and videos can take ten years or more.
Other skills, that we know or are learning in our house, we both read a lot, tend grape vines, fruit trees and berry bushes, bricklaying, carpentry, basic electrical, basic plumbing, shooting, reloading ammo, interior painting, wallboard mudding and textured finishing on walls and ceiling, sewing, bicycle maintenance, small engine maintenance, fishing, filleting fish, dehydrating fruits and meats, canning fruits, vegetables, meat, fish and jams, meat cutting (buying those big pieces of meat, turning them into serving sizes and packaging them) small animal butchering, sharpening knives and tools, advanced first aid, project planning including layout drawings, supply lists, equipment lists and labor hour estimates.
My wife has been an assistant chef and a restaurant and bakery manager, an EMT, worked hospice and dialysis. I've worked in manufacturing on factory floors, as a dishwasher then short order and prep cook, as an engineer in sales and manufacturing and as a teacher. We also have time for art, music and exercise. Today I threw on a 25 pound pack and walked the dog four and a half miles. I missed the evening music session because I had to give the dog a shower.
Learning new skills is hard and takes time. But these skills bring great joy when a something is completed, save money and may save a life. Please learn some skills for your home and your life.
I wish you peace and prosperity.
Phil
Got em both. Always had a portable toilet due to caregiving my parents. And I prep. Thank you for sharing.
Tornado or hurricane removes roof. Wet people can equal hypothermia. Sheet plastic and duct tape equals dry shelter. Not dumb.
except that duct tape doesnt work when wet. use gorilla tape, it does.... for a while anyway.
The plastic can also serve as a temporary shelter. Which could keep a couple of people dry.
Also for a temporary repair to a roof or temporary patch on a roof.
During hurricane Ike I used sheets of plastic under a roof leak to prevent damage inside my house. They work well to cover a broken window, due to flying debris for example. If you have to recover the body of a human or pet you can wrap them up in the plastic,
I don't live in an area with any natural disasters ... But ... If thats a problem ... I would keep a 5 gallon bucket stored with some clothes in ziplock bags
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I wouldn’t waste my precious gallon of water for washing up. If you’re creating a stock pile, add water free bath wipes. You can completely wipe down with one packet or you can get a large packet and just use a few. If you are boiling water, add a small amount to the wipes if you want them warm. Or just use one or two to freshen up. Great ideas! Thanks for sharing!!
His useful advice last year especially regarding a radio and water = real life scenario last week via _TEXAS!_
We live in a 45ft. Motorhome.
We always have 40 gallon of drinking water.
We have a 12.5 kw generator
150 gallon of diesel
Lots of food, tools, 2 forms of heat etc.etc.
Hope we never need this for an emergency.
Right now we are hiding out avoiding people.
On a 5 acre family lot.
Well water
Sewer
600 yds from nearest neighbors.
300 yds from rd.
soillife1 if you can tell us your exact location like gps coordinates that would great. This way we’ll have a better visual for example purposes. Hehe jk :-p
@@omarm.7707 hello Omar M.
I can say Western Maryland.
Cose to Pa and West Virginia 😁
One should have 1 gallon of water per foot of motor home. Your Short 5 gallons
You need a dog.
@@christagardens3948 we have laying hens
Does that count ?
If you forget a can opener, just flip the can upside down and rub back and forth against the cement. It breaks the metal seal around the edge and you can remove the top portion. I had to practice a few times but now it’s pretty easy to do.
I would mention that having items to collect rainwater is invaluable as well as having a decent sized wood burning hobo stove although it should be operated outside and maintain a supply of fire wood.
I have a rainbarrel by the garage. That water can be filtered and/or boiled. But it is emptied after the first hard frost - no good to have a split barrel! Also have a firepit with cooking grid, and a supply of small sized seasoned wood under cover. I grab small limbs/branches at curbs and process it. Most propane/charcoal grills can also burn wood in an emergency.
Now they say have 2 weeks of food and water for each person
I have done this for a long time. Here in the southern Appalachians it's common to lose power for up to a week .It was so sad seeing the folks in Texas so desperate.
Of the two, water is much more important than food, so be sure you have enough and cycle it regularly. If you have a water source nearby (stream, lake or well), it's worth buying a decent, backpacker type water filter as a backup to your water storage in case things go sideways for longer than expected. You can get one for about $20 at Walmart.
Food is pretty easy. For the most part, it's just a matter of buying more of the stuff already in your pantry, but with an eye toward things that require little or no extra water. Canned stew and non condensed soups top the list, since you can even add ramen or instant rice to stretch them, if need be, without needing to add water. Canned or jarred pasta sauce is also good (in a pinch, you can cook pasta in the sauce with just a little extra water). That said, tomato based sauces need to be rotated regularly due to their acidic nature, so get what you will use, even if it isn't the zombie apocalypse.
Also on the list is any pasta side or mac and cheese that requires just enough water to make it without draining. Pro tip- this is where some cans of tuna or chicken can come in handy.
Lastly, dry, non perishables like oatmeal, rice and pasta are great (Bear Creek dry soups and pastas rock), but remember that you will need water for those.
Yes, and I’d say to stock 2 gallons per person per day ( I drink a gallon daily )
@@wickednwyld the fed gov did it to Texas
@@dknowles60 Ummm, the federal Gov't did *what* to Texas?
Plastic sheeting can be made into raincoats, shelter, patch a hole/window/door etc. The rain protection alone is worth having plastic sheeting or garbage bags. If you crumpled up dry paper and put that under the plastic you can get incredible amounts of insulation.
When wet cotton(the most common fabric of clothes) loses the air pockets that insulate you. You can catch hypothermia in mild weather if your clothes are cotton and wet. This is compounded at night and when there is wind. In some cases wet cotton clothes are worse at keeping you warm due to it's ability to wick water. Water can hold a lot of thermal energy.
Have more than 3 days of food. Look at a least 3 weeks
Nuts. Both nuts and raisins, properly stored, can keep well.