Thinking about 2024: What is Reasonable Preparation?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- This is a longer and more serious video, talking about what makes sense when we think about building resilience for the near future. I share the scenarios for which I prepare, my mindset behind my preparations, and the sort of goals I recommend for people who are just starting out.
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One of you most important and urgent videos you have made yet!
Everyone can learn about the local Community Emergency Response Team, CERT, or take their free classes to learn about how to respond to emergencies. Learning basic skills helps you understand local threats and what you can do.
@All-is-1 I always appreciate hearing you- and thank you for this excellent suggestion, I'll pin this comment.
I really love and appreciate how you approach this topic. It's astonishing how many folks ignore the behavioral and morale components, media consumption, etc.
Thank you! Concrete physical preparation matters, but it always possible to lose such things in a disaster. The internal work is central to successful response to adversity.
Thanks for this topic! Just hearing it being talked about will help make disaster coping more familiar!
Thrift Stores! I always shop the candle isle. Thrift stores are a great place to shop because you can find important items that you will save money on and you will not be adding to the consumer junk that's killing the planet.
Tents, tools, mud boots, rope, tarps etc. Go often and have fun!
@stephanienelson those are great suggestions. I buy most things secondhand. Or, (even worse!) I get stuff people are throwing away. You made me think of it because that's where I got my best tent. 6-person tent, retailed for like 400, someone threw it out apparently because it had one snagged zipper. A lot of my tools are from estate sales. Best place to get solid metal tools, and I feel like people want their tools to keep going, you know?
I love this! Thank you so much. We had 3 months of supplies when we were in Texas as a response to the early days of the pandemic. That supply served us well during the 2-weeks of the Texas Freeze of 2021. When we moved to Michigan, we had to put our belongings in storage where no food was allowed. Now that we've settled in a new home, we need to resupply and re-prepare everything. Your advice to get together even a flimsy preparation plan and supplies is so helpful because I had a mindset of 3-months or nothing, but two days would be a good start, and indeed, in Texas it took several months for us to build up to a 3-month supply. I know we're in for a strong winter up here, and being from Texas, I've got a learning curve, but I want to be ready. I super appreciate this video and you being a beacon in the chaos and despair of our times.
@ProfessorDesiree, I'm so glad this was helpful to you. Avoiding that all-or-nothing mindset is really important. You've got this!
I love a person with a head full of good ideas and her feet on the ground..
The 3-day, 3-week, 3-month framework is the best approach for prepping that I've run across so far. This video really helped me organize my thinking around where to start getting ready.
I also loved that by the time we get to the 3-month level, it's not about individual survival anymore. The focus really shifts to how we can contribute to the community so we can all survive together. Rugged individualism is OK as far as it goes, but a strong community is more than the sum of its parts.
Excellent food for thought!
Thank you for these kind words! I'm so glad this framework is helpful to you.
This is excellent -- listen to this now -- set the mindset, then do simple things to prepare.
@rapauli I think moving away from a fear-based mindset is the most important part.
This is a topic I've been struggling with for the past year- how to prepare and what is reasonable? I really needed someone like you to put together a basic list of skills/physical goods that can start my family's e-prep process in a reasonable, thoughtful way.
Thank you!!
@pendragon_cave1405, thanks so much for this comment. When I made this video that's exactly what I hoped someone might get out of it, I'm so glad it was useful to you. Wishing you and your family the best!
Thank you, great videos!
Glad you liked this one!
Solar ovens are honestly awesome. I use them all summer. Winter in the Midwest, they don't work well at all. Conditions matter too. You gotta practice under less than ideal conditions too.
@sg8953 great points! Total reliance on any one method, you're asking for trouble. And it's always worth thinking about what it would be like to set things up under stress. What's delicate, what shouldn't be done when you're very stressed.
Rotate your dried beans. Old, dried beans are hard to get soft when cooking. Rice should be stored so that mice canned nibble into it. Put the rice into a larger plastic container. Also, the pandemic taught me that peanuts and peanut butter do expire. Even canned good should be rotated.
Great point about beans! I learned a lot about how long stuff lasts during the pandemic. It was surprising to me how short the time is for many canned goods, and, that those best by dates can be serious. Expired canned pickles were DEFINITELY not best by the date we opened them :-P
This was a very helpful overview, thank you!
I'm so glad it was helpful!
Thanks!
@lennsisson, thank you so much!
Friendly reminder that using "lame" is ableist language... Could easily be substituted with "ideal"
Appreciate the info
@MarneeMadsen I'm taking this in- thank you
Girl your to optimistic. Better to prepare for what might happen, than NOT be prepared for what DOES happen
@globalwarming382 I dunno man, I've seen a lot of people go down a bad road with too much prep, and I've got that hording trait in my family... enough prep for a bad season, I figure maybe that's the right amount to keep me out of serious trouble both ways, if you know what I mean.
Girl at 24:56 you think that you are talking to intelligent ppl like yourself. But the ppl out here will not be prepared for any disaster of 1 week or more.
You know, it's probably different in different areas. But I've seen how my area performs under a week without power- most people here are pretty together, really helped shape my thinking. I'd much rather be out here than in a city if things get cray cray