I retired at 63, an 69 now. Did very little exercise for 6 years. My one neighbor had an accident and I had to go over a 6ft wall to help, adrenaline kicked in and going over was no problem. Then when I had to come back I discovered that I had lost a lot of my strength, not good. I started the 100 push ups challenge until I had 5 times 20 push ups. I ordered weights and they arrived and now I am going to become strong again, maybe even stronger, exercise a lot or get caught out like I did.
You said adrenalin kick in & that got you over the fence. You couldn't get back over because you relaxed when problem was solved. Hope you neighbor is doing good now. High fences make good neighbors is only good if you don't get along with neighbors. You prooved that's not the case. Thanks for caring about them.
I took up hiking to get back in shape in my mid fifties. Now 64 almost. I took up foraging for medicinal mushrooms , which can be heavy. A fifty to sixty pound pack is not unusual. Around 59 my knees were so bad ever step was painfull. You know what I did? Kept walking.
Pro activetivity with a clear purpose is key. I'm sure there is lots of ways us "oldies" can be fit enough, savvy enough to defend ourselves to survive. Keep it up and thanks for the motivation.
@@rachelheyth3645 It's all going to depend on where your at when the shtf. If you're sittin pretty age can be an advantage. Many youngsters are impatient and some a little spoiled imao.
“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Nice quote, but in almost all of the readings of Dostoevsky, not once do I recall this. After doing some research, this quote is understood to be made-up.
Another problem was thinking you’re gonna take stuff from others is the anyone who is prepared with stuff worth stealing, is going to be prepared to defend it
Many will , but beware, where I live most are not preppers ( Ithink) but are heavily armed. I live in a rural area and I don't think you'd get far before a posse catchs up.
I been preaching this for years. My friends think I’m just being over prepared when I tell them I’m a prepper raised from birth by preppers, and x army airborne infantry. I stay in top shape and I warn them that even I wouldn’t survive on my own. You can’t stay awake 24/7, and you can’t move through towns and cities with 360 degree awareness. I say this to friends who think they will go lone wolf or take their family and disappear into the woods or mountains.
@Ni-dk7ni I lived in alaska. I did survival training in alaska up near the Arctic circle. Even the people that “live off grid” and have a life established wouldn’t survive. The majority of them rely on resupply from their nearest market for basics, and your not taking into account thieves, raiders, extreme weather conditions, wildlife, natural disasters like forest fires, avalanches, flash floods, volcanic eruptions, and earth quakes. All of which will no longer have pre warnings due to apocalypse/system down. And all of which have a good potential to cause death and medical emergencies. I guess what I’m saying is it is possible for maybe .01% of the population, but realistically for everyone it’s a death sentence. You have to have a reliable network of people who can sow you up and protect from infection, and diplomatic friends who are on good terms with your local enemies and can help smooth things over to prevent blood shed in most events, logistics experts, mechanics, pilots, experienced local hunters/fishers, farmers/ranchers, radio experts, builders, electricians/plumbers, etc. the more you have in your network the better chance you will have to survive and secure a safer future for your families.
@@ErrorOptik Bloody Nora!! Given all that I can't help but worry. AND wonder how 750 million generations of our ancestors managed to get down to breeding such clever pessimists in 2023!
@Ni-dk7ninope you need some help. Alone is tough. As he mentioned if you get injured. Broken leg or whatever. You will die sooner or later from infection.
In the 1800’s the “mountain men” of California went into the hills with two horses, a couple of dogs, rifles and ammo, 100 pounds of flour, 25 pounds of sugar, 10 pounds of Salt. Their average age at death was 33. Because one person can only do so much. Challenging them was a set number daylight hours, days or weeks of illness, accidents, weather, insects et cetera. The more companions the more division of labor, you get the wood and start the fire, I’ll get the water, and set camp.
You're exactly right. I'm a museum curator. The idea of being completely self-sustainable in perpetuity is extremely difficult to say the least. Yes, a person can make his or her own leather, find a salt-lick, make lye, fire simple pottery, maybe even make saltpetre or refine some ore. Hard work but possibly doable in your 20s or 30s, but just one accident or simply the passing of time and what used to be easy isn't so easy anymore. Plus people overestimate how easy it is to really live completely off a garden. One bad spring, and the crop's late or not at all. People back then had much more extensive trade networks than what we might think, and they relied on being able to occasionally tap into civilization for more lead, etc. Even things like sheep shears and needles were were being imported in the 18th century.
Recently listened( audiobook) to the Little House in the Prairie books for the first time Never realized how they truly were an auto biographical history and then descriptions of what we all as a society. should know The Long Winter is a first hand survival account of the historical 1880s deadly winter And that's without modern meteorology or gas and electric Supply trains( trucks) not able to come for months These people had guts
Consumption, Dysentery, Yella fever, Typhoid, Cholera, Small Pox, Flu, rattlesnake bite, a broken wagon wheel, or broken axel, an "un-alive" Oxen... These things could all spread quickly thru the entire wagon camp before you made it to Oregon and finished the game. 😔🙏 R.I.P.- Ma, Pa, Paw Paw, NeeNaw, Jebbadiah, Sissy and Quandisha... 😭
What we learned from the siege and encirclement of Mariupol that happened within just 20 days is, you have 20 days to stay put or leave. And your bunkers won't help. Also, if you stay, you will find that this is when good people become better and bad people become worse.
Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning described the human atrocities of war ravaged Germany during the Holocaust. That is what I expect to see when SHTF.
@@megandonahue9220 To me I'm not so much preparing for SHTF, but WORL, which is what some places in the US are dealing with right now. Like the government still exists, but they are on the side of criminals so you can't necessarily overtly fight and yet you also can't just be passive to thieves stealing your business products or assaulting you. I guess the comparison would be like socialist Venezuela. Like you got resources available, but everything is getting more expensive and harder as time goes on. On a lighter note, Merry Christmas guys.
I live on a Social Security check of less than $1000 and $125 in EBT per month, yet I'm very well stocked up. I figure I've got at least 3 months of food, 2 years' worth of toilet paper, 3 different ways to ensure I have access to clean drinking water etc. If I can do it, you can do it.
I keep thinking how hard it is because I have a family of 9 with one paycheck. And apparently we make too much for food stamps. But if you can do it, so can we.
I've been thinking a lot about this lately and as a carpenter I've been thinking about rounding up a bunch of hand tools that don't require electricity there's a huge selection from yesteryear that are available at flea markets and anybody can outfit themselves for cheap with drills and saws and chisels hand planes and axes that will really come in handy when it comes time to rebuild or just to build. I lived in the Colombian Andes for 6 years and I learned so much there, when the s*** hits the fan they're going to be just fine because they don't rely on any of this modern stuff that we do.
Think about mountain man tools. Folding shovel, hatchet, auger hamd drill, chisel, gouge, folding saw. Learn to build hidden dwellings that match the landscape. Learn to setup audible or visible only to you trip wires. Find a community of people who you get along with. There are home preps and bug out preps.
It seems so OBVIOUS, doesn't it? I suspect the panic about 'the grid going down' and 'supermarkets closing etc. is being engineered/driven by people who are expecting to profit from the panic. (I can rememeber when the 'aluminium-hat producers made a huge profit by pushing the 'space-men are reading your mind' rumour! (among many others!) Was it Einstein who said something like: The concept of infinity can be defined by the depth of human stupidity. (My memory is failing; but one of my favourite authors did say something of the kind.
This SHTF scenario your describing, during the depression era, this was just life and people survived it without turning feral because society had then what we don't have now. Each other.
There are quite a few people that remember how this is done and have to implement it. Teaching people how to can and preserve food. It may not be necessary today but I have to teach my children son they can teach their children..etc...we can do this. We have to start on a small scale.
@@constancefenton5336 My kids , for the most part didn't give a hoot about my wife and I's "hippy" do-it -yourself lifestyle. I'm teaching my grandsons now who are quite young but far more receptive. Yesterdays lesson making maple syrup. Another prepper video suggested books. Good advise. We just had a 4 day power outage. None of my children could've thrived through that. Minor inconveniance for my wife and I.
As more of a lone wolf, the werewolf method would be disastrous within the first 90 days after SHTF. Most won't make it to 90 days, so there shouldn't be a lot of solo/couples left. After that, you may not have much choice unless you can get to an open area and survive with bushcraft or get with a group. One thing I've noticed nearly every prepper channel missing is paperback instruction guides and books. Hunting, foraging, bushcraft, survival, maps, etc.
@Ni-dk7ni Oh I know. Not much by choice. Moved out to West TX from Cali in 2020. The closest family is about a 4-hour drive at 75mph. Small towns, and cities here are so spread out unless there are cars, there will be no roaming from the main cities to the smaller ones. The weather here is brutal, water sparse, lethal wildlife, and it's hundreds of miles between towns. It's not ideal, but it's better than a lot of other options like staying in CA.
Any lone wolf SHTF fantasies are just that...delusional. It only takes 2 or 3 people to wait out one very prepared and armed person. Sleep in shifts and wait...that person will succumb to exhaustion. The most important resource in a SHTF or WROL is a trusted network of people that have their own supplies. Even just 4 or 5 armed people will discourage all but the largest of groups to find easier prey
I've been gardening for 35+ years. It's not really all that hard. 1. Know your growing zone 2. Have great soil. 3. Read some books on gardening and follow what is written 4. keep up with the weeding 5. preserve your harvest 6. Share with neighbors and/or less fortunate.
All true but the problem most will have will trying to garden is they won't start until the emergency hits. They will never have the time to wait for their first harvest.
@@michaelholt8590 your leafy type veggies spinach and lettuce, other greens and root type veggies, produce greenery even on a beginning set will sustain until other crops harvest time. start with your fast grow crops radishes can be grown year round (florida) the leaves of radishes don't taste bad and a few leaves can make a soup. we have a thorny vine here in florida that grows wild, climbs trees and fences and the new growth stalks/shoots when new are tender and tasty.
@@commiekazi6769 I grew up on a farm and all you say is true but there is a big difference between growing a little garden to supplement your food and growing enough to fully sustain you all year. Certain factors will be out of your control depending on where you live, like soil type, climate, regional geography and water availability. It's a big jump in scale too. There will be some trial and error along the way and you need a fair amount of luck to get a good harvest. Then you must know ways of preserving the food thru the winter. My grandmother had a basement full of canned vegetables every fall that lasted them thru to next harvest and papaw had a large smokehouse that preserved the beef and pork. Of course it can be done and humans did it for thousands of years but it was very hard and everyday was lived on the edge of disaster if you are totally independent. All it takes is a bad storm or a barn fire or not enough rain or even too much rain. One bad harvest is all it takes to not have enough food to make it thru a bad winter and you are screwed.
As a kid our family homesteaded in Alaska before it became a state. We were off grid..no plumbing,heating,phone,electricity. Both parents had been raised on farms in the Mid West with large families,by parents born before 1900. They were used to that life style so, it was not a real big adjustment. We hunted, raised a garden( root vegetables only..it was Alaska after all), picked mushrooms, berries, fished, smoked fish, canned food, had a root celler. We ordered groceries a couple times a year from Seattle, where they were shipped by boat to our local general store. We packed in our groceries. Mom sewed on a treadle machine. There were similarities to what our long ago ancestors experienced & yet because it was the 20th century, there was modern aspects too( when we got out from the homestead into a more modern setting). I feel that due to that I might fair better than 90% of my more near family & neighbors. I feel for modern civilization not because they might not adapt but because of the very nature/ mind set of modern society & the public's attitude.
Gardening was harder than when I was younger. We did pretty good this year but learned a few things too. We are 70. Life is much harder anyway. We are prepped the best we can be. Money is pretty tight at present. It will only get worse. Stay safe everyone. I need to shoot my firearm and get better. 😉
I'm 70 now, last of 7 children via my Dad who was born in 1903. He considered moving to Alaska, but stayed in KY to support his Mother, and little sisters and brother. Too young for WWI, so he dug coal at night, and ran traps during the day. Fished out of the Green River via trot lines, scrambling to feed, cloth, and exist. He married at 26 to his 17 year old bride, then they walked right into the Depression. His choice of a farm that had historic fruit trees, 3 wells, and various small game, allowed them to sell truck patch items, the fruit and fresh skinned game to stores and passerbys. He also used his mules to pull freight wagons from the River Ferry. He and his younger brother were a full time service team, day or night, and they were noted for be fair and square traders/people of trust. As children came along, his farm florished and it never should down till his death in 1984. All of us children did everything the old way, manual tools, mule implements, cross cut saws, the alike. We live across the way from a Chruch and the school was 2 miles away. We got learning as needed, and moral as taught. All hunted and shot game, plus grew polting hens, turkeys, goats, and such. Had there been bears, etc., we would have dealt with those, have an old SMLE in 303 post ware. Ilve gotten soft but fell I could pick that life style back up again. Not sure where we would get our medicines. My wife can sew, and can bake well. We'd do much better than some; I could bring in deer pretty regulary even right here in town.
Sadly, I'm stuck in the lone wolf mode. I never fit in any friend group growing up even if I tried to be like them just to have friends. I just went lone wolf after being sick of trying to fit in. I know a community is key to survival and I'm trying to build a tribe. For now, I have to protect my family alone.
@@PracticalPreparedness I'm a 78-year old widower, no family and almost no friends due to having no longer being a Mormon. I have no worry about most disasters. Wildfires are the only concern. I've been a survivalist since the 60's. During SHTF, disease and infection will be a problem. Ten years ago I took a non-certification 6-week EMP/search and rescue class and I keep up as much as I can online and in a book. During such a stressful time, accidents will be a problem. Most of my neighbors are older than I am. I can probably get some help if needed from a neighbor with 8 kids and most of my neighbors are preppers. One prepper is hated by neighbors so he is someone to watch, but I and many of my neighbors are tactically trained with firearms. Winter is the hardest psychologically for me. Snow on the ground keeps me inside. In spring, outside work and target practice and walking even with my bad knees keeps me thinking about other things. Spring comes, I fall a couple of trees and cut them up and take them to my splitting area. Things to do keep me sane. Today I will drive to my closest town--700 population. Watching another site, I ordered solar motion detector lights and a couple alarm sensors. If the grid is down, I will sleep outside in a bivy bag/Wiggie sleeping bag and pad where I can see trouble at or near my front door. Being very prepared is the best protection, but stress will be a big problem for many, including me. Although I can see some houses from a few vantage points, I live 5 driving hours in two directions from metro areas of 450,000 which should slow down the hordes of mean hungry refugees. And I live a hundred miles from the nearest Walmart and Costco. Today, outside temp. 30 degrees (Last month got to -10) with a couple inches of snow. Elevation 2700 feet. Last month got snowed in for 10 days and frozen water line. Break with a hydraulic line on 20hp tractor and couldn't plow road and get out to buy another hose. I get my water from my roof so I was OK. Walked for mail, but it was stressful not being able to do much outside. So for me, stress can cause accidents and SHTF will be stressful.
#2 is so huge. I've had seeds for a while thinking I was prepped and ready, well this past spring I planted some to get practice and half of my plants did not yield any food. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU NEED IT TO LEARN. Start small and start now. Do some potato buckets, you can do that indoors if you need to. Start a small garden if you have room. Trust me there is a learning curve.
Also, seeds expire! You have to keep growing them and harvesting fresh seeds to keep a good quality stockpile. They aren't something you buy once and stick on the shelf for a few years.
It is not just about planting, you need to give it water when it needs water but do not over water, squirrels, birds and mice can eat your produce before you do, the bees do not pollinate, or maybe you get a blight. What do you do in these situations? if you do not know, you have to learn the hard way. It is far better to fail while the grid is still up.
Squirrels are tasty, and some other critters can be slewn and stewed...When your hungry, you will eat what you get...I here Werewolves are mighty tasty, especially the heads, and ribs...Sounds like an opportunity to get that smoker and mesquite rockin' and a Rollin'... Har har har...The "long pig" is an historical fact, as disgusting as it may seem...
Well, I should be a genius by now because I have had some fails. This will be my third year gardening. I just found out from a man in another comment section that my green beans need slightly acidic soil. Slugs were another problem. Was told to use diatomaceous earth around my tomato plants. I am looking forward to this spring. I pressure can so I try to stick with vegetables that are can-able. I did have to water for a few weeks but, in upstate NY, we had a lot of rain last year. I need to get another pound or two of ibuprofen so I can get through the planting and weeding. (I'll be 70 during harvest). Good luck everyone and have a Merry Christmas!
One of the most overlooked, inexpensive, food sources is sprouts. Gardening in the winter can be expensive and difficult. Sprouts are nutritious, inexpensive per serving and easy for most anyone whether they live in a farmhouse or an apartment in any season. As a bonus, organic sprouting seeds can also be planted in their proper growing season which makes them replenishable.
The going it alone part, also being the only one working. If you want to eat, you work. Even if it is the 87-year-old grandmother reading to the kids, everyone is able to do something. I have relatives that will be pissed when forced to work to eat, and I do not care. People will learn real quick it is a different life.
Yeah my relatives can keep on going. I'm not helping anyone that wasn't there when I needed someone's help. No I'm not invincible but I'm petty and I would rather burn everything than let someone take it from me.
@@joshdaniels5970 I understand your sentiment. I find it a little rough...BUT I understand 100 PERCENT, some folks say "IF something happens then I will ..." so they intend to wing it, take, beg, steal, PERHAPS work for what they need all the while knowing they could have done more ahead of time, and more than likely will STILL have an attitude of entitlement as they have no preps of their own. Unfortunately I am in a big city, but its Oklahoma, so there won't be any free for all here, until things get really bad. Oklahoma has some of the least strict defense platform rules. So the come and take game plan will be perilous to say the least. God protect you and yours!!!
Since I’m an Emt and former medic, I decided to augment my skills by stocking medical supplies I know how to use. I also have some advanced medical equipment in case a higher trained person joins us. I spent a few years on the farm so growing food is easy to me. So I have a solid balance of skills and supplies. I also have a group of 9 other people with various skills. Just got to stay low and learn to barter. Bartering is our weakness.
I just learned a valuable thing , build a get home bag and keep it in your car. Like a bug out bag, but if you get stranded away from home , you can get back.
Gardening is important, but like stock piling, keep it to yourself as much as possible. I had a small garden stand for a few years but had to stop due to theft. Now neighbors know I can grow, so I expect my gardens to be raided in a SHTF. My hope is that the right person/s will come on board to help protect the gardens. I will likely lay low & live off stored food as long as possible in hopes that the unprepared will move on eventually. I live in a heavily populated area where 99% of people won't prepare. It won't be fun...for them especially.
"No longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” Woodrow Wilson, deathbed confession
Yeah, but to be fair, Woody had had a MASSIVE stroke not too long before that so he was either tripping balls off that stroke damage or Edith attributing what she was actually experiencing running the office of President to her favorite busted-up volley ball. ✌
I like this kind of video. There are a lot of "prepper" videos out there, but most of them all say the same things: stock up on dollar store food, buy guns, ammo, and gear. (Naturally, they selling stuff too) I live with very modest means and do what I can with what I have. I like having the knowledge of the old ways, making my safe place safer without spending tons of money. More on being the grey man would be useful, not just me, but my home and my small farm not being noticeable. I'm not a lone wolf, but have lived in the middle of nowhere solo for 20 years, I just don't want to be a target.
I love that you are a person and not some AI thing. I've spent so much time encouraging others to please prep. I'm called doom and gloom. I explain that for everyone I can encourage it is one less person who will suffer. I pity anyone who thinks they'll walk through my door. They nicest person who begins to go through starvation will become someone that seemed impossible they could ever be. If they have a child to feed, they won't make it.
@@konilee7015I wish I had that response from folks. Most roll their eyes and say "you can't worry about everything ", prepping is not worrying. When the worrying starts, LORD knows i mean no harm, but please don't come here with a "take" mentality. Because what I'll be willing to give then ,may not be preferred!
When people's eyes glaze over, you're wasting your time. You can try, of course, but survival isn't just a philosophy, isn't just muscles, isn't just skills. It's intent, it's determination, it's heart and mind. It's the ability to assess and learn. Some people just don't have that.
I've been preparing for the unknown for over 30 years. Gardening, greenhouses alternate power sources. Water storage, defense. No matter what, my wife and I still learn new tricks. We preserve our own harvests and a freeze dryer was a real game changer for us.
May I suggest that you create a list for us- with regard to a disaster scenario. **The electric grid had been obliterated, what do we do?** 1. Have multi-gallons of kerosene. 2. Have multi-cylinders of cooking gas. 3. Dry meat, beans, spices. 4. Blankets, warm clothes, clean socks, winter boots, rain coats, etc. 5. 2-3 generators/ multi- gallons of gasoline. 6. Secure doors and install iron bar windows. 7. Well rehearsed escape routes and meeting points. 8. Water. 150 -300 gallon drinking water tanks. 9. Rifles. Both for hunting & protection. 10. Tinder/wood for when your kerosene, gas for generator runs out. Finally, pray to God and repent for all your sins, ask for strength and guidance. If it's not from the heart- don't bother. Merry Christmas everyone!
All that shit runs out. Then what? You die. Plus, you gotta store it and it becomes a target. Static positions are always overrun eventually. If you got it, you gotta keep it safe from everyone else. Do people even think about how hard that will be? How long do you think the wildlife will last? It will be eaten to extinction really fast. Then you have the cannibals hunting for you. We are the food. Go ahead light that fire and cook that food. Its a dinner bell for the hungry and you are on the menu too. Hungry people are worse than a zombie apocalypse.
#1... faith in Christ. Is first on any list. Then do actions, All done in faith, which is when we actually do things, like Noah, go build and stock up. God told him get ready, because trouble was coming... it's the same narrative of warning messages given today, not to expect (peace and safety) that nothing could ever happen. Actions...are required. Move away or remote, with less people around it's better then, just staying/living in a higher population area. For work, hospital care, nice store's....excuses. Empty land, water source, tree's for fuel. Then start with a RV/TRAILER unit, if no house or cabin is on the land. These are most important physically, it's land and shelter, a water source. Then add items. Weapons. Headlamp unit's, with AAA batteries galore. These are for keeping handsfree operation at night, with no power. Most will do nothing. Most think MAGA. Most are busy making money, living for job's. Most can't leave family who think it's crazy to get out of dodge. Blessing to you in Christ chiefly.
@@scottystiffchicken The grid will crumble, the internet won't matter to much. Eating, drinking, shelter. Back to the 1800's for most except the elites in power.
Great video. The understated non-hysterical presentation is appreciated. Prepping is a slow steady progression that is a way of life not something done in a panic. Skills are equal or more important than stuff. Addressing "Werewolf Preppers" ,first time I've heard the expression, I can say they will have very limited success. In the early 90's the rural Pacific Northwest town I live in had a very bad gang problem with almost daily drive by shootings. The gang types were mostly young from California. I got active putting together numerous neighborhood watch programs. A large meeting was considered 6 - 8 people. I had a few meetings close to100. During a couple meetings it became apparent the large majority of the people were older folks who grew up in the Great Depression and fought in WW2 with a bunch of combat veterans of Vietnam. They were mostly in the mood to organize a Vigilance Committee they had a rope and a gun and they knew where the gang types were right at that moment. The worst were a couple of old ladies. It took me a little time to cool things down. I realised then that if the gang types thought they could frighten a community they are sadly mistaken. Everyone in the crowd would give you the shirt off their back to help you out but try to steal or attack someone would be counterproductive for the bad guys. I should note we have very few gun laws and aside from the brief period in the 90's there is very little firearms crime. Bad guys are still here and better organized but smart enough to keep a low profile. Bet it's the same most other places in America.
I believe that as long as there is a higher authority, folks are more likely to not be singled out into violent defense, unless it is put upon them. But the very moment that they think that "no one is coming", they band together and the niceties drop. Necessity replaces meakness, choices must be made. So good people will partner with good people and team up with a team concept. The chink in the armor for the bad guys is that they have no cohesion. All the "old folks" (which means over 35 for the werewolf thinkers) have a lifetime of experience, skills, grit, and are just going to be very grumpy-with-skills. Old folks are decisive as well. It won't go well for the predators. Their survivors will just move on to softer targets.
Great content brother you're gonna be literally saving people's lives with these videos.. also, I suggest getting some faraday bags or making your own faraday box out of the fabric.. fabric made in the USA not Chyna bs that requires multiple layers.. + print a paper / write out step by step exactly what you are going to do when sht officially does hit the fan, and be sure to involve a reliable/dependable friend of yours that you know will have your back.. also, print out the highway systems and mark down where certain distribution centers are/grocery stores etc even for us stock pilers, there's no such thing as having enough.. gather ALL that you can and also utilize food pantrys NOW while they're available and make sure to vacuum seal alot of the goods too.. Also go get some 3/4 treated plywood pre-cut them to board up your windows, along with signs posted "if you come anywhere near me and my family, with a heavy heart, I will not hesitate to kill you"
People from the city that think they'll be able to go live in the woods need to understand there will be millions thinking the same thing and the fact someone already own most of those woods and want take kindly to someone coming in shooting,stealing their resources. A lot of those people have family that live in the cities that will be coming in to help protect those woods,property,wildlife,their resources. Most people who have never been out in the woods much at night time will probably have a very hard time when they start hearing all of the sounds of things ,animals moving,walking around, birds,deer ,opossum, raccoons screaming,hollering 😂. I go sit out in the woods a lot at night in one of my blinds and I swear there's some kind of bird,I think it's a male limpkin that sounds just like a woman screaming I hear sometimes 😂 . As much as I've heard it and know it's a bird I still jump when it does it's scream 😂🤣 and there's several little red and grey fox and they have a wild sound also. 🤣
Foxes scream like that too...I heard this from my back yard one night...it sounded like a Banshee or a witch was back there....and I live in a the subs
Just a note. The roads, highways streets will be full of people busily going nowhere. Traffic jams will be a nightmare. Gas stations will run out of fuel and eventually so will the cars stuck on the roads. Now these people are in an even worse position, with truck or car load full of bug out gear and no way to take it all. Completely defenseless out in the open. As the situation worsens animal life world be decimated, even sparrows will be gone...everywhere. Your home is your best defense, your neighbors are your best defenders. Choose a place that the people mirror your beliefs, that you can rely on and can not only provide for themselves but can help you. Learn a trade that is valuable, that you can enhance the community with.
Thanks! That was great information. My son has your mindset but I don't push him for information because he was at route 91 and I don't want to trigger him and take him back there. I have been accumulating for awhile to be prepared you are taking me to the next level. Which is good. What I am wondering is how do we deal with intruders that don't make it after they try to enter my home. And toilet set up for family members. Also, how do you organize all your things? Meds, first Aid, duct tape/ batteries. My stuff is in a thousand different areas. Thank you, so glad I found your video.
THANK YOU! I'd use bags or bins to organize. Label with a label machine and size the bins according to what you need. You should always have A BAG that you can grab and go that has the essentials for a couple to few days min to get to another planned location. More food and water if you haven't built up skills. Can organize food procurement with hunting/trapping/fishing items etc. Water Procurement/storage in another bin. Just an idea. If you had to deal with an intruder and there was no authorities to handle it, you'd have to do what you needed to in order to get it out and away from your home. Not going to explain much further for a couple reasons. You could use a bucket or camping potty that uses a garbage or disposable baggy for waste in a pinch. Had to use the 5-gallon buckets before and they work just fine. You can also dig a cat hole and go to the bathroom in that in the ground and cover it up.
You hit the nail on the head. What can you produce??? If you can't produce, your survival time will be short. Stockpiling is recommended, but eventually your stockpile will be depleted. Learn the skills, practice them, and plan ahead. Even if you're handicapped, old, or sick, you can teach, coach, council, and lead others to produce... If you have the knowledge and the skills.
The biggest thing you have keep in mind is what you're preparing for. Depending on where you live and your financial situation it may not be practical or even possible to have enough food production to sustain yourself forever if society collapses completely and never comes back, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't bother to prepare at all because that's not the only or even most likely scenario. There's a much higher probability of some local or regional disaster where help is eventually coming but you may have to survive on your own for a few days or weeks until it gets there. In that case a few dozen gallons of clean water, a month supply of food, and some warm blankets might be enough to get you through. Cover the most likely scenarios first, then move on to the more extreme ones that require lots of additional preparation when possible.
Prepping for a certain event, ala, "Doomsday Preppers" is trap. As Steven Harris said, "If once you start down the EMP path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will." Instead, it is far better to prepare for the commonalities of MANY emergencies. I prepare with 'the trucks will stop rolling' in mind. That commonality covers most emergencies, from a trucker strike to an asteroid strike. This method gets you out of the trap of preparing for a certain event to the exclusion of others. Since trucks deliver everything, once they stop rolling, what is on the shelves is all there will be. No more fuel, no more food, no more anything. Prep for that reality, and you will be covered for most anything that is survivable.
I agree with not getting tunnel-vision on 1 thing. I also think generally preparing will leave you open to more specific needs. Need balance, like with everything else IMO. I like the EMP option personally for the sole reason it prepares you for focus without power, vehicles, markets, etc.
Honestly, I'm not sure your video is properly titled but I like the production vs stockpile and skills vs gear. Great points and thought process! I think physical fitness is a top lister. Not being able "to go the distance" or operate under stress is critical. Fine motor skills suffer when people are under stress as does their ability to think. This is the more human side of things versus the consumable/commercial side of things which deserves utmost attention imo.
@@PracticalPreparednessthanks for your reply! Apologies I should've explained my response more, but the initial thought that one will be a wolf pepper and go take things from everyone else is definitely something NOT to do as was the one man army concept. I felt as though the video then was instructional pointing towards more of what to have and know after SHTF. No question, your video is encouraging and I appreciate that! I guess I interpret your video to be more about things that will tip the scale in ones favor after SHTF: stock seeds, learn skills, learn to produce, be part of a community, etc. I meant no disrespect and I hope this helps. 🙂 I never intend to discourage as I think putting yourself out there and providing such guidance is critical for so many people. Thanks again for posting. I'll be following your channel. Stay practical! 💪
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and Government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." -- Thomas Jefferson
Yup how right you are. Only go lookup democide. Governments killed more then 250 million people in only the last 100 years. Not even counting wars. This is insane.
Im the opposite of the last one you mentioned. As a kid I was a hunter/fisher that helped my mom and gramma in the garden. I also learned 3 different martial arts (karate, judo, boxing) as a kid and was a boyscout. As an adult i got military experience and kept up with the old hobbies of hunting, fishing, shooting, gardening, bushcraft, martial art and also got into ultralite backpacking. In 2020 I started Stockpiling and now im a "prepper"
@@davidsto9064 I wasn't preparing for anything though those things were just hobbies and up until 2020 I only ever kept enough food and stuff in the house to last week to week. In 2019 I kinda had a friend I thought was a nut job telling me that COVID was gonna cause lock downs with food shortages and we'd need passports to leave our house. I told him he was insane. He ordered me like 5 10# cans of tuna beans and vegetables and said if they come handy pay him back and if they don't then he'll be fine with being wrong. I ended up eating tuna for a week because there was no meat at my local grocery stores and so many people that possibly had covid. No toilet paper, no baby wipes for my baby. No formula for my baby we had to transition him over to baby food and rinse his but in the tub for poop and with a rag for pee. Now I keep 3 month supply of everything. My military/hunting background made me go overboard on guns and ammo which I regret but I'm fixing it now
Learn stealth gardening / guerilla gardening so your food can't be stolen as easily. Also learn the edible and medicinal wild plants in your area and study traditional animal trapping along with primitive and poaching type methods of catching game because trapping requires the least amount of energy and it's usually not making a lot of noise like hunting with a firearm does. You can set a dozen animal traps one night and they'll supply you with food on pretty much a constant basis. All you have to do is check them when it's safe, typically when it's dark outside. There are several good books. One of my favorite is a 2 volume book titled " Walk With the Wild Man - A Poachers Journey " because it tells dozens of different short stories about how easy it can be to put food on the table when you really need to. I'm not advocating anyone break the law in normal times, but after SHTF you aren't going to worry about being caught by the game warden / possum police and you're just wanting the quickest, easiest and safest way to put food on the table.
@@PracticalPreparedness Yeah, it's a really good series of books. I first heard about it from The Meat Trapper on youtube. He's got a great youtube channel to learn a lot from when it comes to trapping. I just realized there's now a 3rd volume to the Wildman book series. I'm gonna order that one now. My girlfriend likes me to read one of the stories each night to her as we lay in bed before we go to sleep. I've already read through the first 2 books a few times, but there's so many stories it's something you pretty much never get tired of reading. There's 76 different stories in the first one and 89 different stories in the 2nd book.
@@PracticalPreparedness The Meat Trapper has a video on his channel about the Wildman books. It's titled " Poaching Manual " th-cam.com/video/89tB5BEkx-4/w-d-xo.html
Amazon sells foraging books based on the region you live in as well as ones for specific states. I also have an app on my phone call Picture This to identify plants and created an off line file on a thumb drive that combines the information from that with uses for each plant. I started that 2 years ago so now I have a really good idea where the food and medicinal plants are. David the Good has tons of videos on food forests and plants that are not common but great alternatives.
I think if we look at how WROL situations might pan out, I think a lot of preppers assume some kind of anarchy. I actually think you'll see something akin to inner cities now, where law isn't a massive factor. Gangs are more of a thing, with significant criminal organisations. In cities, offending someone can get you killed, travelling into the wrong part of town as the member of another group.
I think what you describe is only natural, and does and will continue to occur. Like you I think things can move slower rather than faster in most cases
@@TheNicestAssholeYouWillNvrMeet it's funny how we are talking about something that will get you deleted. I strongly suspect that the moment it is no longer illegal you'll become a memory sweet cheeks. By the way, your mum is a fool, as well as a massive butter ball
@@TheNicestAssholeYouWillNvrMeet Self governing isn't necessarily a good thing because then it's a matter of who can impart their will upon others. Basically just a transition to tyranny. For example in places in California where the police are defunded and basically non-existent (they won't even come if you call 911 even on violent crimes), it's not that people living there are free, they are now oppressed by whichever gang controls that hood. The reason the Constitution is so valuable is because it's a universal rule of law that is supposed to apply to everyone, and that's the ideal society, where the king is below the law, and not above it. Of course, the Constitution means nothing more than a red line in the sand. In the end it must be enforced by the people.
You hit the nail on the head. Been living off-grid almost 4 years. Have built community. Have sustainable Homestead with over 80 critters 🐖🐐🐇🦃🐓🦆and 4 very loyal farm dogs. We have the supplies, seeds, growing our own and those who think they can take it from us post-SHTF...my American Guinea Hogs will enjoy having them over for dinner 🍽...Hogs and Dogs will defend and deter.
@@Utah_Mike off-grid doesn't mean we don't go to town...but they get a lot of chicken, pork, rabbit and wild game along with dry food. Recently we processed a bunch of meat chickens. The dogs get the hearts, livers and gizzard. Occasionally a lost door-to-door salesman or politicians gets added to the kibble 😁😁😁😁
There's an old saying, "Never make an enemy by accident." If you've had a tough day, exercise some grownup self-discipline and refrain from taking it out on the people in vehicles around you on the road, the cashier at the grocery store, or the person crossing in front of you who's taking a little too long. Cool your jets, and take a deep breath. The other people you share your neighborhood/workplace/roadways with do not owe you comfort.
I'm a 65 year old single woman. I know for a fact that I won't survive alone. I've spent time building relationships with my neighbors. I need to have skills that can contribute to my neighbors, no one needs dead weight. You need to be real with yourself, stay fit and learn skills
You don't need major skills. Even knowing how to cook outside can help. Maybe learn how to dress a wound. Or administrator pain killers. I really don't want to sound like some idiot. But as in tv or movies. If a woman falls. Hurts her knee. Ankle whatever..it really brings down a whole group if you were on the move. I'm 68. But I can still literally climb a tree. And jump across 6 ft fences. I can still run no problem. But everyone needs to bring something to the table in a bad scenario
None of us get outta here alive, Toots. Just continue to enjoy yourself and don't count the cost. Oh, and don't underestimate 'strangers'. You can be SURPRISED! Where are you located? Get back to me if you wish. I'm one of life's 'strangers': and you'd be amazed by the MANY good friends I've made over the years. Take care.
I've found in life the braggarts are usually the cowards and in times of difficulty the quiet ones can be the ones to shock you. I would look out for trickery as well as the blatant violence stuff. Sending kids with a sob story to recce the place and let in the adults at night, if there's adolescent boys in your party an adolescent girl suddenly turns up, the helpless woman act, trades that are problematic or too good to be true, you get the picture.
I really appreciate you and your perspective...and recommendations. The wife and I have been prepping for about a year, and kitty by little we've been able to build a small resource. Now we need to learn to grow plants and practice foraging. Thanks. Keep it up.
Well, my advice to anyone stupid enough to go kicking in doors is this, just remember that there is no one more dangerous than a man defending his home and family. Get the message ?
True. People with the mindset to prepare are also preparing for doorkickers. We have already done an assessment of our AO, and we know the terrain. Those preppers with long experience in setting defenses and planning assaults have another advantage... we know what is coming, because we see it as a lifestyle, rather than an event. We know where they will stage, we know where they will surveil from, we know the likely avenues of approach, we know where they will stack, and we know how they will try to breach. When the doorkickers hit one of THOSE locations, a team of 20 will be lucky if they get away with 50% casualties. A team of 6 or less will be eradicated. All men defending their home are dangerous, but some are more dangerous than others.
Chaplain Chuck Army veteran, once the shooting starts school is out. You do not rise to the level of combat, you stoop to your level of training. If you do not practice and use your equipment you will be a fatality. That is why military training is redundant. What I was taught and trained for saved my life more than once. I wasn't a Chaplain then but prayer and training brought me home. Don't neglect your mental health, physical health, and spiritual well being.
Often overlooked or discounted is your current age and state of health. I'm in my early 70s with a compromised immune system. In a SHTF scenario, I do not expect to survive. However, I can be a stockpiler for my family/group unit. As long as I'm alive I can teach certain skills. This can be a significant addition to a family group. Food, seeds, tools, how-to books, and weapons can supplement the family group or serve as items of trade. Items of trade can be something as simple and inexpensive as heirloom seeds, sewing needles, thread, spices, soap, shampoo, bandages, alcohol, sugar packets, batteries, and reusable medical supplies such as splints, and tourniquets. Anything that you have can be used for trade or barter. Of course, you may want to wait until things are less volatile before offering these items and be selective about whom you trade with.
Things will not get better than now. One third of people are asleep and happy with what is happening. They cannot believe that there ever will be any problems (except for us extremists who fear violation of rights).
Here's 2 things I've thought about recently. I've noticed just how many people have reflective tags on their shoes. It might be a wise idea to keep a can of black spray paint in the vehicle and house. To cover the reflective tags while making your way safely back to homebase!!! The Other. Stock pile glow sticks. When the grid goes down. The power goes out. THAT means, NO NIGHT LIGHTS for the littles!!! IF YOU NEED THEM QUIET? Glow sticks work for 8 hours. Just Sayin'.
@Ni-dk7ni You'll obviously have to put a bit of effort into helping remedy the situation!!! Use blankets to create a FORT for the Littles to sleep in!!! BTW! I Hope you're gonna have blinds or curtains in your windows!!! My windows on the 1st Floor are covered with plywood on the interior!!! I have a sheet of 1/2" oak plywood 3 sheets of silver thermo~blankets sandwiched between another sheet of oak 1/2" ply wood. NO one outside can see the plywood because, between the plywood and the outside glass window?; Is Venetian Blinds! The outside sheet of plywood is painted black!!! Very Stealth!!!
Having a hard time is an understatement. Bologna sandwiches is my main meal 5 days a week. My main meal. This is starvation slowly. 80.00 a month on food stamps in a high rise old folks home. Disabled
I feel for you. I’m in the prime working years of my life and have a family of four to keep fed. The kids eat at school. I eat out. My wife skips lunch at work most of the time. I have spent no less than $700 on groceries this month, in the last 20 days and my fridge is mostly bare right now! My wife just went to the store and dropped another $50. Tried to get eggs and there are zero eggs there at the moment. Edit: There’s 9 days left this month. Will probably be two or three more grocery trips around $100. It’s just Fn ridiculous.
Absolutely been there with no government or family support, ramen every meal when I COULD eat! Please try to consider variation in a modest way If you can, if you can't get out ask others to purchase something like Peanut Butter, Sliced Cheese, and definitely Eggs. If you CAN get out, Food Banks and Church Pantries are great, but I was too prideful to use them, and got VERY sick for it. Finally, MANY areas have a Meals On Wheels type FREE service, and/or daily, weekly, or monthly senior community meals, including food gifts, often with fresh farm items. A rolling cart is helpful! PLEASE CALL UNITED WAY (OFTEN 211) AND YOUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO GET STARTED! And, if a Veteran, contact the VA for help. Doing this could even help the neighbors in your building get better, too! Best to you! ❤️🙏💞
One thing that people need to think about is their location. In a SHTF situation, some countries will be more civilized during the situation than others (short term). I live in Mexico and KNOW that when the SHTF, people are going to go feral within hours. Recently a Cat5 Hurricane hit Acapulco and people were robbing stores and killing each other over food and water, and the Cartels were first in line grabbing as much as they could and selling them at extremely high prices. We also saw the panic that happened when COVID started hitting countries and they were emptying supermarkets of stupid things like toilet paper. Panic will turn regularly nice people into lunatics really quick. Road travel would be suicide in a lot of countries as well. Shelter in place is really the safest option. Another thing is home security. In a lot of parts of the world, houses are really easy to get into, no exterior walls around the property, no security doors, no security windows, the house is like a kill zone. One thing about living in Mexico is that the vast majority of houses are fortresses. I always joke with my wife that Mexico is already set for a Zombie Apocalypse. You have to go through an outer steel security door in a 10 foot high (or higher) outer wall with glass embedded at the top of the wall, then go through another steel door to get into the house. All windows have security bars on them so nobody can get in through windows unless with a hacksaw or cutter and even then, it'd take them time to get through. One thing I envy the U.S. for is their access to firearms. Here, all the criminals have firearms and very few citizens have them. Getting a firearms license is extremely difficult and even if you do get one, you can only buy firearms through the military controlled stores of which there are only 2 in the entire country and the firearms are extremely over priced (around 2500 USD for a simple double barrel shotgun). So in a SHTF scenario, most probably, the Cartels will start going house to house and taking what they want and killing indiscriminately. My wife and I have talked about moving to the U.S. because things are getting crazier here by the year and we have our 5 year old to think about as well. But with the all of the issues getting Visas and her having to get re-licensed to work as a doctor in the U.S.(and as much as I try, her English level is a problem too) it will probably never happen unfortunately. Thanks for the video!
If you live in the city or an urban area, you will have problems from theft to flat out murder. People will want what you have and will do what they can to take it away. I personally have lost hope in America and the ability to for things to get better. If you live in the cities, get an exit plan and make sure you have a place to go. All this advice in the video is really good.
@@PracticalPreparedness I see it from the perspective of a veteran. So much evil, so much hate. When a nation is split this way, the divide among Americans, the world is in peril and on the brink of another world war. There is no amount of preparing that will brace you for what comes next.
@Ni-dk7ni The WEF along with the pussies running the UN need to get a room and play who's hiding the salami. I don't buy what they think they are shoveling.
Finding that the hardest part is finding the like minded individuals to grow a community before the day comes. This area has some very difficult weather cycles to overcome which I believe will hasten the culling but of course still be a threat to even the prepared.
Thank you so much. I needed to Re think/learn. It's 4am Christmas Morning. I'm grateful so the roof over my head, & the hope that all is well outside everyone's door wherever that may be. Godspeed & Merry Christmas 🎄 ❤
As always you bring great content. When it comes down to it we can only count on ourselves to do the best we can to take care of our families and each other. I'm 70 and over those years have gathered a lot of life survival skills from building to first aid and hunting. I'm hoping that I'm at a point that I have enough stocked for my Wife and I, but I still add to it each week. Lately I've also been buying 72 hour survival food kits to help others if possible. I hope people have their eyes open to the multitude of threats that are facing us and doing what they can to be prepared. I don't care if it's a can of food or two or a box of bullets a week, it adds up. God bless you all.
Yes , thanks for your comment , tou may be right. I been buying some weapons & ammo myself , cuz we don 't know what's ahead of us with all the foreigners that JB has allowed into this country. I' m really hoping DJT gets elected in NOV. , IF NOT our beloved USA will become a communist country with 4 more yrs of JB !!! 😢 ❤❤USA ❤❤IDF 2A ❤❤❤👍👍🙏🙏🙏
It boils down to having people in your camp willing and able to work and collect protect and mentally prepared for the truth at all times no one can be blue-pilled and survive what is coming.
The biggest thing is the difference between prepping and being prepared. You did touch on it but I don't feel that you stressed it enough. Too many preppers have huge stockpiles and all the gear but will not last to the end of their stockpiles because they don't know what to do with it and they've told all the wrong people. I agree that community is key and that going the path of the lone wolf is foolhardy. But even in community there are problems because there are people there. But the biggest thing I think that you missed is thinking that it will end. IF a major (continental or global) SHTF event were to occur, it won't be measured in weeks or months, it will be more like years or decades. In which case preppers may last til there stockpiles run out but the prepared will endure. I've lived through several local SHTF events in the last couple years and they all have one thing in common: they lasted longer than expected. Merry Christmas to all!
Great points. It really is more than just "getting stuff". You must know your skills. Location is paramount. Most think short-term and stop. Must think long-term
@Ni-dk7ni Solar flare/EMP been coming for years. They were talking about it in the 80s. I could foresee a 'fire sale' coming in the near future. Get ready for total grid down for years. Powered solar generators are at risk in an EMP. Get them shielded if you are depending on one.
Mutual Assistance Group and skills are important definitely. Many if not more people in wars or SHTF die from disease, lack of sanitation. When many start getting ready we do freedom seeds type things. As important not addressing medical and sanitation. My unique addiction to old phrase Beans, Bullets, Bandaids, BOWELS, and if all covered Bullion. Ty for channel
4:35 As a renter, I do alot of gardening in 5gal buckets. I grow tomatoes, radishes, hot peppers, garlic, ginger, rosemary, thyme, spinach and lemons. The thing is, ALL OF IT CAN BE TRANSPORTED - If SHTF and we need to move, everything can be thrown in the back of my truck and we'll have fruit, veggies and herbs wherever we end up. A simple tea of ginger, basil and lemon can be a great way to take a break AND get some much needed VitC. Wrap up a fish trap(coconut fronds work great), cook up your catch in some rosemary and garlic with a side of spinach... you're golden You can't plan on where the crisis hits and most of us know that an urban apartment isn't a good spot to shelter. Plan ahead, mark out SEVERAL spots to get to if/when it happens and ensure you have not just the protection you'll need but also a long-term plan for sustenance.
Some people, like myself have no group they are a part of. I'm a veteran who is disabled, and new the area I now live in. It isn't easy to find people trustworthy enough to share prepping ideas and goals with; especially if you are at least on the surface, appear to be more vulnerable than others. Oddly enough finding a group is not so easy to find. I have been prepping for a couple of years on a very limited budget, my only transportation is my electric mobile scooter. I do have some survival skills knowledge, but lack many of the physical abilities to perform them long term. So my choice is survive as long as I am able to. My main form of protection is my big dog, and what limited defensive skills I am still able to perform. I live in south central Kansas. Your Friendly Veteran
First of all would like to thank you for your service, I know how you feel. I am a 57-year-old totally blind and live by myself. I do the best I can I have a little dog that would ankle bite anybody, but my Guide dog would probably just lick somebody to death. Lol. Also, I would like to point out before anybody gets on here and asses me how I can do this with the messaging, I have voiceover, which is a screen reader, and I just put my finger on the phone and it tells me what it is
New to the channel and I have been preparing for a while now. I think that people don't really have a clue what's going on or what's about to happen. Maybe its just me but having water and filters will payoff in the long run. I have lived off grid for over a year and having water catchment systems is very important and away to filter is just important. Being able to make your own filter is beneficial as well. Yah bless you.
@@WalkinTheWay as far me and my house we serve Yahuah and having the testimony of Yahusha HaMashiach is the way and the truth and life and no man can come the Father except through Him. Blessings to you brother.
This is far out but fairly simple to prepare for. The last time Yellowstone blew, it dumped thirty feet deep of volcanic ash in Nebraska. If that ash falls on your roof, there goes your roof. I have two grain scoup shovels and a push broom. I have a ladder to get up on the roof and shovel, and brush it off. Yes, I know, it's far out.
Not much overhead and cost to prepare for. If it blow again I think it will be huge impact and block out the sun. Who knows. Keeping your roof intact seems sane to me. That is a ton of ash though.
The ash has a very fine grained crystal like structure, very sharp edges, that can blind you, you'll need goggles to work in it. Also it will be acidic and loaded with heavy metals, pond water or run off may be unfit for use. Just know you are not the only one who thinks about the far out. Forks, WA had two inch of Yellowstone ash from the last time she went off.
I remember watching a special on it blowing on history or national geographic. When it erupts anything down wind is dead anyway, all the way to the ocean east or west coast... those that survive have to deal with a no grid, possible multi year winter planet wide. You are talking about an extinction event. Remember that.
That ash isn't wood ash. The small silica particles will be inhaled, cut your lungs up, and then turn to a cement with the moisture in your lungs. You would need a heavy duty mash with 40mm filter and probably rated NBC just to be outside. It will get inside so you would also need filters for your inside space. Also, that ash is SUPER heavy. It is not like a foot of snow on your rood and if it rains....it will absorb the moisture and, you guessed it, you now have tons of cement on your roof. If Yellowstone erupts do not go outside to clear your roof. Go outside and try to get away. Your car will probably die though so...there is always prayer.
Keeping the room from caving would be less of a concern than the likely extinction level events about to unfold. I also wouldn’t be planning on leaving once the ash began to fall. Car air filters wouldn’t last long and your lungs would be destroyed as previously mentioned.
I say you would be best served by hunkering down with supplies and water . Don’t count on neighbors that did nothing to prepare. Work on a group that think as you do . Start up a conversation with neighbors, friends, at church, or at your local gas station . You might even try a VFW hall or grocery store. Make hard decisions now before it’s hard times. Safety is in numbers !
Excellent points! Many will think they have the 'skills' to cope in a survival situation when they are actually relying on 'things'. Much better to have the right mindset, then gain knowledge and develop your skills from there.
This is going to sound silly, but imagine the world has completely stopped, if factories aren't running, you'll have to turn to Old world technology. Consider chainmail armor. It's lightweight and prevents slashes. You can make chainmail at home with pop tabs. This obviously isn't as good as bulletproof armor, but this is thinking of the long game.
This man speaks the absolute truth. I have a few friends that are always talking about "bugging out" when disaster strikes. I say to them where are you going to bug out too? Not me, i know my home and land better than anybody and I will stay put as long as possible. As far as these werewolf predators I will stack bodies as tall as my roof if they want to try it. I am prior military and still know how to do the things i used to do.
You are so right. So many things people need to know that they don't. As an example, if you are trying to grow food wild birds or your own chickens will eat every shoot that comes up. You'll have to be prepared to deal with that.
Your chat reminds me of poor communitys in the uk, my grandparents understood these principles, we take so much for granted now. Your correct in saying community's work better than lone wolf. My grandparents were minners and those comunitys were poor and stood together to survive.🏴✌
Of all these things, lacking skills and determination will surely get you into deep shit. Getting started can be daunting, but it's not nearly as bad as never starting. Merry Christmas to all.
I am glad I found your channel. I subscribed after a few videos. I think you point out some very real concerns that more people should severely consider. Those people that you mentioned whose plans are to just take what they want will perish very quickly, and in my opinion they should. Those who think that way should consider the short lived golden age of the Vikings. There is a reason their reign was only a few centuries long compared to most all earlier civilizations. Coming from a military background, I say less is more. You do not want to be loaded down with excessive gear, and have to be on the move constantly. Train, train, and train. Become proficient with very little, and hone those skills. Not only are you more valuable to yourself, your worth goes up with those who see what you can do. Networking, and raising numbers is what got us so far as a race. MAKE YOURSELF VALUABLE! Also, I do this in my personal life, and I think everyone should. Learn how to go out, and stay out for days in inclement weather. You need to learn how to be comfortable in uncomfortable circumstances. Not only will the individual become stronger, but would be enemies are less likely to find you if you are positioned in areas no normal person wants to be, like swamps for instance. Start small, and work yourself up, and really learn to improvise, adapt, and overcome. There is always an answer to every obstacle. Probably my biggest belief that I see ignored over, and over again is fitness. You should first keep your body in the best physical condition you can be in. You want to be plenty strong, but endurance may even take priority in a world of survival. It concerns me greatly how little emphasis is placed on this. It's easy to get the impression people think when it happens they will magically turn fit. It just doesn't happen that way the same way people buy gear, and never get to know it. The knowledge will not just come because you need it to. I did not mean to take up so much space. I am just so passionate about these things, and I witness people being mislead by bad teaching or by self deceiving themselves. How bad do you want it? How bad do you really want to live? Spend time dwelling on these thoughts, and go out, and test yourself. Practice makes better without fail. Thank you for the video! I am going to go through all of them, and now with the subscription I will know when new ones drop. Good stuff.
Thumbs-up! Thanks for encouraging people to garden and be independent instead of robbing others for their hard work. Gardening is what I'm good at. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent information! Community, good people with skills! A dead end road, all farm raised, hunters. Mechanics, carpenters, and some vets. GARDENS! even the one legged vet gardens!
I bought a can or 3 every time I went to the store when lockdowns started for cv19. I had a cpl emergency WISE foods buckets prior to that & about a weeks worth of water. I know have a pantry we rotate of meats, veggies & fruits, as well as month of water. I had always prepared for a bug out scenario but cv19 switched my mind set to a bug in scenario instead. The last thing we wanna do is leave unless we have to. Some ppl say they’ll bug in & thats that, others that they’ll bug out & take what they’ll need. It’s of my opinion that both these frames of mind are dangerous. The bug out & steal will be met with the up most hostility can manage. The bug in & now has nothing bc they never prepared to bug out, will be met with the upmost of hostility I can manage.
As to seeds. I did the math. The amount of space to create a set of seeds for popcorn to plant an acre is only 20-25lb or what you can get planting only 100sqft. If you plant consistently then you have a constant supply of fresh seeds with getting popcorn for your regular usage. Just need to offset by a year.
How about transportation? An obvious solution would be to have a good bicycle, equipped with baskets of some sort for carrying things. Equally important would be to train yourself to be in good-enough shape so that you can actually *make use* of that bicycle. It obviously won't do you any good if you can only ride a few blocks before having to rest. Consider also whether you should have a helmet, mirrors, lights, reflectors, rain gear for yourself (suppose you have to go some where in the rain?)
I have a folding wagon in my car. I figure I rarely go more than 15 miles away from my home and it takes maybe 7 hours walking depending on the route from the farthest point.
Great video. Thanks for reminding us. I find it's a lot tougher than one might think. Just when I think I've thought of everything, there's 5 other things....
I started raising chickens this year. not because I need to, but because I think its a good skill to have. I'm a bit limited with what I can do at home, but I have a larger coop mostly built at the country property.
Chickens will be the first livestock on Mars because they provide reoccurring protein in the form of eggs. Also they are livestock that require the least amount of resources, as opposed to cows that require the most.
When stocking up on canned goods there are some things to remember. Always rotate your stock. When canned goods go on sale they are often getting close to their expiration date. Old canned goods can kill you.
Canned goods last decades if stored properly. If the can isn’t leaking, swollen or very rusty, it’s good. The only ones that have a shorter life are canned fruits because of the acidity.
Your kidneys start to shutdown after 3 days without water. 60 days without food - may not have the energy to forage after 14 though. Shelter with heat or heat retention might rank first, if it is cold out. Protection - club, knife, gun yep. Careful with communication may just hear someone whining about how hard it is and pleading for help. Don't get depressed, you can not save everyone. Look to you and yours to save.
Learn gardening, which crops grow best in hot weather, and cold weather. Learn canning and preserving. Have a way to process lots of water. Have guns and ammo. Stay ahead on medication. Stock up on spices. Get lots of quality whiskey and vodka for bartering and an occasional drunk. All great ideas. I liked your video.
Regardless of accurate or not, i LIKE that u said #1 because it _is_ true plus humanity has ALWAYS survived & thrived more when working together. Taking from others, is worse than a zero sum game!
Hello. Well said and explained. No extra bs wording and talk that drags on boring well myself. Just the facts,straight out and then drop the mic. I have done a few of the things you mentioned. Hell I was a prepped before even I knew I was a prepped. Several instances over the years I could tell but I don’t write short stories I just read them. Ok well like the one time in that place full of sand sun bombs and zero bikinis! Extra mags and 2camel banks ;) I’m subscribing hooaah!!!
If people don’t plan to; “ abandon ship“ The Navy puts so much effort into fighting for a reason. Without water pressure defending your home from fire is going to be very difficult. Your preps aren’t worth dying for. Don’t let them become an anchor. Live to see another day. Stuff doesn’t matter, mentality does.
If you are solo, you have to be on the move constantly...Being a Lone Wolf, you would need to think as one trained in Escape and Evasion. It is very stressful and exhausting...
Why move, why burn the calories, why take the risk. Sit tight and keep watch. Every day, there will be a smaller number of survivors alive to deal with.
1) If you are going to do a backup generator, go dual fuel. (Propane and Petrol) Propane is almost indefinite, while gasoline is only 10-14 months. 2) Waterproof paper maps and a compass would be my other recommendation. (You might need to travel and avoid roads, or shorten the distance if on foot) 3) Know the eatable plants in your area or region, I have even grown some of them. 4) If you have a firearm, learn how to use it effectively. Just having one is not an intelligent plan.
Let me know the top things you feel I missed.
Thanks for watching!
Water and shelter and hope (name your AR Hope)
Any new Community will get you killed when shtf
I have the same Amazon sold corner stand behind you.
Heck yeah good idea I like it, I'm going to use your plan if cool. Stay frosty my brother
If you can't garden if your life depends on it, grow fruit trees that are native to your area, barter fruit for vegetables.
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”Selwyn Duke
This one hits home. Very true
Wasn't it Epicurus, or some other classic Stoic who originally said that?
Another great quote.2 things are infinite stupidity and the universe, not to sure about the latter....albert einstein.
Like he side "Live by the sword die by the sword.
@@keithknechg3217einstein was a pathetic communist hack that was hated by real intellectuals. Can't believe simpletons still quote that fraud..
I retired at 63, an 69 now. Did very little exercise for 6 years. My one neighbor had an accident and I had to go over a 6ft wall to help, adrenaline kicked in and going over was no problem. Then when I had to come back I discovered that I had lost a lot of my strength, not good. I started the 100 push ups challenge until I had 5 times 20 push ups. I ordered weights and they arrived and now I am going to become strong again, maybe even stronger, exercise a lot or get caught out like I did.
You said adrenalin kick in & that got you over the fence. You couldn't get back over because you relaxed when problem was solved. Hope you neighbor is doing good now. High fences make good neighbors is only good if you don't get along with neighbors. You prooved that's not the case. Thanks for caring about them.
Same here, easy to let yourself go, do not let yourself get weak, the strong survive, the weak die, mother nature rules in times of conflict!
I took up hiking to get back in shape in my mid fifties. Now 64 almost. I took up foraging for medicinal mushrooms , which can be heavy. A fifty to sixty pound pack is not unusual. Around 59 my knees were so bad ever step was painfull. You know what I did? Kept walking.
Pro activetivity with a clear purpose is key. I'm sure there is lots of ways us "oldies" can be fit enough, savvy enough to defend ourselves to survive. Keep it up and thanks for the motivation.
@@rachelheyth3645 It's all going to depend on where your at when the shtf. If you're sittin pretty age can be an advantage. Many youngsters are impatient and some a little spoiled imao.
“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
That is already happening I'm afraid.
Exactly
😊 True!!
Nice quote, but in almost all of the readings of Dostoevsky, not once do I recall this. After doing some research, this quote is understood to be made-up.
we are already there.
Another problem was thinking you’re gonna take stuff from others is the anyone who is prepared with stuff worth stealing, is going to be prepared to defend it
Bingo
I@@PracticalPreparedness
Perhaps
Soo oo o you're talking about killing people to protect your "stuff". You're preparing to be animals.!!
Many will , but beware, where I live most are not preppers ( Ithink) but are heavily armed. I live in a rural area and I don't think you'd get far before a posse catchs up.
I been preaching this for years. My friends think I’m just being over prepared when I tell them I’m a prepper raised from birth by preppers, and x army airborne infantry. I stay in top shape and I warn them that even I wouldn’t survive on my own. You can’t stay awake 24/7, and you can’t move through towns and cities with 360 degree awareness. I say this to friends who think they will go lone wolf or take their family and disappear into the woods or mountains.
Think it's wise advice, most won't listen from my experience
@Ni-dk7ni I lived in alaska. I did survival training in alaska up near the Arctic circle. Even the people that “live off grid” and have a life established wouldn’t survive. The majority of them rely on resupply from their nearest market for basics, and your not taking into account thieves, raiders, extreme weather conditions, wildlife, natural disasters like forest fires, avalanches, flash floods, volcanic eruptions, and earth quakes. All of which will no longer have pre warnings due to apocalypse/system down. And all of which have a good potential to cause death and medical emergencies. I guess what I’m saying is it is possible for maybe .01% of the population, but realistically for everyone it’s a death sentence. You have to have a reliable network of people who can sow you up and protect from infection, and diplomatic friends who are on good terms with your local enemies and can help smooth things over to prevent blood shed in most events, logistics experts, mechanics, pilots, experienced local hunters/fishers, farmers/ranchers, radio experts, builders, electricians/plumbers, etc. the more you have in your network the better chance you will have to survive and secure a safer future for your families.
@@ErrorOptik Bloody Nora!! Given all that I can't help but worry. AND wonder how 750 million generations of our ancestors managed to get down to breeding such clever pessimists in 2023!
@@dabbbles well they did it with the security of a group
@Ni-dk7ninope you need some help. Alone is tough. As he mentioned if you get injured. Broken leg or whatever. You will die sooner or later from infection.
In the 1800’s the “mountain men” of California went into the hills with two horses, a couple of dogs, rifles and ammo, 100 pounds of flour, 25 pounds of sugar, 10 pounds of Salt. Their average age at death was 33. Because one person can only do so much. Challenging them was a set number daylight hours, days or weeks of illness, accidents, weather, insects et cetera. The more companions the more division of labor, you get the wood and start the fire, I’ll get the water, and set camp.
Great breakdown. Unbelievable to imagine death at 33. Crazy
You're exactly right. I'm a museum curator. The idea of being completely self-sustainable in perpetuity is extremely difficult to say the least. Yes, a person can make his or her own leather, find a salt-lick, make lye, fire simple pottery, maybe even make saltpetre or refine some ore. Hard work but possibly doable in your 20s or 30s, but just one accident or simply the passing of time and what used to be easy isn't so easy anymore. Plus people overestimate how easy it is to really live completely off a garden. One bad spring, and the crop's late or not at all. People back then had much more extensive trade networks than what we might think, and they relied on being able to occasionally tap into civilization for more lead, etc. Even things like sheep shears and needles were were being imported in the 18th century.
Recently listened( audiobook) to the Little House in the Prairie books for the first time
Never realized how they truly were an auto biographical history and then descriptions of what we all as a society. should know
The Long Winter is a first hand survival account
of the historical 1880s deadly winter
And that's without modern meteorology or gas and electric
Supply trains( trucks) not able to come for months
These people had guts
I can't believe i lived past 33
Almost 60@@PracticalPreparedness
Consumption, Dysentery, Yella fever, Typhoid, Cholera, Small Pox, Flu, rattlesnake bite, a broken wagon wheel, or broken axel, an "un-alive" Oxen... These things could all spread quickly thru the entire wagon camp before you made it to Oregon and finished the game.
😔🙏 R.I.P.- Ma, Pa, Paw Paw, NeeNaw, Jebbadiah, Sissy and Quandisha... 😭
What we learned from the siege and encirclement of Mariupol that happened within just 20 days is, you have 20 days to stay put or leave. And your bunkers won't help. Also, if you stay, you will find that this is when good people become better and bad people become worse.
I like how you put this. Good will become better and bad will be worse
Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning described the human atrocities of war ravaged Germany during the Holocaust. That is what I expect to see when SHTF.
@@megandonahue9220 To me I'm not so much preparing for SHTF, but WORL, which is what some places in the US are dealing with right now. Like the government still exists, but they are on the side of criminals so you can't necessarily overtly fight and yet you also can't just be passive to thieves stealing your business products or assaulting you. I guess the comparison would be like socialist Venezuela. Like you got resources available, but everything is getting more expensive and harder as time goes on.
On a lighter note, Merry Christmas guys.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj Heck is WORL?
@@AutitsicDysexlia WithOut Rule of Law.
I live on a Social Security check of less than $1000 and $125 in EBT per month, yet I'm very well stocked up. I figure I've got at least 3 months of food, 2 years' worth of toilet paper, 3 different ways to ensure I have access to clean drinking water etc. If I can do it, you can do it.
Every person can and should too
You’re an inspiration. 🙏🏻❤️
I keep thinking how hard it is because I have a family of 9 with one paycheck. And apparently we make too much for food stamps. But if you can do it, so can we.
Exactly.... There is no excuse.
I'm just like you on SSI and food card. We take $200 monthly and it goes to food water ammo. Gotta budget but it's doable ❤
I've been thinking a lot about this lately and as a carpenter I've been thinking about rounding up a bunch of hand tools that don't require electricity there's a huge selection from yesteryear that are available at flea markets and anybody can outfit themselves for cheap with drills and saws and chisels hand planes and axes that will really come in handy when it comes time to rebuild or just to build. I lived in the Colombian Andes for 6 years and I learned so much there, when the s*** hits the fan they're going to be just fine because they don't rely on any of this modern stuff that we do.
What an awesome experience!
Think about mountain man tools. Folding shovel, hatchet, auger hamd drill, chisel, gouge, folding saw. Learn to build hidden dwellings that match the landscape. Learn to setup audible or visible only to you trip wires. Find a community of people who you get along with. There are home preps and bug out preps.
It seems so OBVIOUS, doesn't it? I suspect the panic about 'the grid going down' and 'supermarkets closing etc. is being engineered/driven by people who are expecting to profit from the panic. (I can rememeber when the 'aluminium-hat producers made a huge profit by pushing the 'space-men are reading your mind' rumour! (among many others!) Was it Einstein who said something like: The concept of infinity can be defined by the depth of human stupidity. (My memory is failing; but one of my favourite authors did say something of the kind.
I have cordless, and everything is on battery already. Running tools shouldn't be an issue if you have solar
Do it dont wait
This SHTF scenario your describing, during the depression era, this was just life and people survived it without turning feral because society had then what we don't have now. Each other.
We are much more divided now, agreed.
Yeah society was also 95% white
People today are only out for themselves. If SHTF, most are screwed and it will be complete violent chaos.
There are quite a few people that remember how this is done and have to implement it. Teaching people how to can and preserve food. It may not be necessary today but I have to teach my children son they can teach their children..etc...we can do this. We have to start on a small scale.
@@constancefenton5336 My kids , for the most part didn't give a hoot about my wife and I's "hippy" do-it -yourself lifestyle. I'm teaching my grandsons now who are quite young but far more receptive. Yesterdays lesson making maple syrup. Another prepper video suggested books. Good advise. We just had a 4 day power outage. None of my children could've thrived through that. Minor inconveniance for my wife and I.
As more of a lone wolf, the werewolf method would be disastrous within the first 90 days after SHTF. Most won't make it to 90 days, so there shouldn't be a lot of solo/couples left. After that, you may not have much choice unless you can get to an open area and survive with bushcraft or get with a group. One thing I've noticed nearly every prepper channel missing is paperback instruction guides and books. Hunting, foraging, bushcraft, survival, maps, etc.
I think most cover but they are spread across diff videos. Great add
@Ni-dk7ni I wouldn't want to try and lone wolf in any way in a city. Actually, I question your sanity if you're still in a major city. 🤣
@Ni-dk7ni Oh I know. Not much by choice. Moved out to West TX from Cali in 2020. The closest family is about a 4-hour drive at 75mph. Small towns, and cities here are so spread out unless there are cars, there will be no roaming from the main cities to the smaller ones. The weather here is brutal, water sparse, lethal wildlife, and it's hundreds of miles between towns. It's not ideal, but it's better than a lot of other options like staying in CA.
Any lone wolf SHTF fantasies are just that...delusional. It only takes 2 or 3 people to wait out one very prepared and armed person. Sleep in shifts and wait...that person will succumb to exhaustion. The most important resource in a SHTF or WROL is a trusted network of people that have their own supplies. Even just 4 or 5 armed people will discourage all but the largest of groups to find easier prey
Werewolf’s should be safe not many silver bullets around
I've been gardening for 35+ years. It's not really all that hard. 1. Know your growing zone 2. Have great soil. 3. Read some books on gardening and follow what is written 4. keep up with the weeding 5. preserve your harvest 6. Share with neighbors and/or less fortunate.
I envy you. I've been hit with blight more often than not, but getting there
All great advice also learn to eat things you usually wouldn’t-from the garden of course)
All true but the problem most will have will trying to garden is they won't start until the emergency hits. They will never have the time to wait for their first harvest.
@@michaelholt8590 your leafy type veggies spinach and lettuce, other greens and root type veggies, produce greenery even on a beginning set will sustain until other crops harvest time. start with your fast grow crops radishes can be grown year round (florida) the leaves of radishes don't taste bad and a few leaves can make a soup. we have a thorny vine here in florida that grows wild, climbs trees and fences and the new growth stalks/shoots when new are tender and tasty.
@@commiekazi6769 I grew up on a farm and all you say is true but there is a big difference between growing a little garden to supplement your food and growing enough to fully sustain you all year. Certain factors will be out of your control depending on where you live, like soil type, climate, regional geography and water availability.
It's a big jump in scale too. There will be some trial and error along the way and you need a fair amount of luck to get a good harvest. Then you must know ways of preserving the food thru the winter. My grandmother had a basement full of canned vegetables every fall that lasted them thru to next harvest and papaw had a large smokehouse that preserved the beef and pork.
Of course it can be done and humans did it for thousands of years but it was very hard and everyday was lived on the edge of disaster if you are totally independent. All it takes is a bad storm or a barn fire or not enough rain or even too much rain. One bad harvest is all it takes to not have enough food to make it thru a bad winter and you are screwed.
As a kid our family homesteaded in Alaska before it became a state. We were off grid..no plumbing,heating,phone,electricity. Both parents had been raised on farms in the Mid West with large families,by parents born before 1900. They were used to that life style so, it was not a real big adjustment. We hunted, raised a garden( root vegetables only..it was Alaska after all), picked mushrooms, berries, fished, smoked fish, canned food, had a root celler. We ordered groceries a couple times a year from Seattle, where they were shipped by boat to our local general store. We packed in our groceries. Mom sewed on a treadle machine. There were similarities to what our long ago ancestors experienced & yet because it was the 20th century, there was modern aspects too( when we got out from the homestead into a more modern setting). I feel that due to that I might fair better than 90% of my more near family & neighbors. I feel for modern civilization not because they might not adapt but because of the very nature/ mind set of modern society & the public's attitude.
Well said. Merry Christmas!
Gardening was harder than when I was younger. We did pretty good this year but learned a few things too. We are 70. Life is much harder anyway. We are prepped the best we can be. Money is pretty tight at present. It will only get worse. Stay safe everyone. I need to shoot my firearm and get better. 😉
I'm 70 now, last of 7 children via my Dad who was born in 1903. He considered moving to Alaska, but stayed in KY to support his Mother, and little sisters and brother. Too young for WWI, so he dug coal at night, and ran traps during the day. Fished out of the Green River via trot lines, scrambling to feed, cloth, and exist. He married at 26 to his 17 year old bride, then they walked right into the Depression. His choice of a farm that had historic fruit trees, 3 wells, and various small game, allowed them to sell truck patch items, the fruit and fresh skinned game to stores and passerbys. He also used his mules to pull freight wagons from the River Ferry. He and his younger brother were a full time service team, day or night, and they were noted for be fair and square traders/people of trust. As children came along, his farm florished and it never should down till his death in 1984. All of us children did everything the old way, manual tools, mule implements, cross cut saws, the alike. We live across the way from a Chruch and the school was 2 miles away. We got learning as needed, and moral as taught. All hunted and shot game, plus grew polting hens, turkeys, goats, and such. Had there been bears, etc., we would have dealt with those, have an old SMLE in 303 post ware. Ilve gotten soft but fell I could pick that life style back up again. Not sure where we would get our medicines. My wife can sew, and can bake well. We'd do much better than some; I could bring in deer pretty regulary even right here in town.
You should be teaching this
Hopefully you will never have to return to that.
Sadly, I'm stuck in the lone wolf mode. I never fit in any friend group growing up even if I tried to be like them just to have friends. I just went lone wolf after being sick of trying to fit in. I know a community is key to survival and I'm trying to build a tribe. For now, I have to protect my family alone.
Family is the best tribe there is friend
That's where I am.
Haha it’s funny because I do fit in but prefer being alone, but I talk and argue with myself so technically I’m never alone👀🤷🏻♂️🤪
@@PracticalPreparedness I'm a 78-year old widower, no family and almost no friends due to having no longer being a Mormon. I have no worry about most disasters. Wildfires are the only concern. I've been a survivalist since the 60's. During SHTF, disease and infection will be a problem. Ten years ago I took a non-certification 6-week EMP/search and rescue class and I keep up as much as I can online and in a book. During such a stressful time, accidents will be a problem. Most of my neighbors are older than I am. I can probably get some help if needed from a neighbor with 8 kids and most of my neighbors are preppers. One prepper is hated by neighbors so he is someone to watch, but I and many of my neighbors are tactically trained with firearms. Winter is the hardest psychologically for me. Snow on the ground keeps me inside. In spring, outside work and target practice and walking even with my bad knees keeps me thinking about other things. Spring comes, I fall a couple of trees and cut them up and take them to my splitting area. Things to do keep me sane. Today I will drive to my closest town--700 population.
Watching another site, I ordered solar motion detector lights and a couple alarm sensors. If the grid is down, I will sleep outside in a bivy bag/Wiggie sleeping bag and pad where I can see trouble at or near my front door. Being very prepared is the best protection, but stress will be a big problem for many, including me. Although I can see some houses from a few vantage points, I live 5 driving hours in two directions from metro areas of 450,000 which should slow down the hordes of mean hungry refugees. And I live a hundred miles from the nearest Walmart and Costco. Today, outside temp. 30 degrees (Last month got to -10) with a couple inches of snow. Elevation 2700 feet. Last month got snowed in for 10 days and frozen water line. Break with a hydraulic line on 20hp tractor and couldn't plow road and get out to buy another hose. I get my water from my roof so I was OK. Walked for mail, but it was stressful not being able to do much outside. So for me, stress can cause accidents and SHTF will be stressful.
@@PatrickThreewitsounds like you gotta great plan
#2 is so huge. I've had seeds for a while thinking I was prepped and ready, well this past spring I planted some to get practice and half of my plants did not yield any food. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU NEED IT TO LEARN. Start small and start now. Do some potato buckets, you can do that indoors if you need to. Start a small garden if you have room. Trust me there is a learning curve.
Bingo, well said. It takes time and mistakes to learn the things that matter most
Also, seeds expire! You have to keep growing them and harvesting fresh seeds to keep a good quality stockpile. They aren't something you buy once and stick on the shelf for a few years.
My learning was that deer and wild hogs LOVE potato tops! OTOH, Deer and Hogs are worth more than taters.
I’ve had great success with hot peppers …. That’ll get me through a day before I run out of water. I’m working on other plants now.
True the only crops i really had success with here in the UK was potatoes.
It is not just about planting, you need to give it water when it needs water but do not over water, squirrels, birds and mice can eat your produce before you do, the bees do not pollinate, or maybe you get a blight. What do you do in these situations? if you do not know, you have to learn the hard way. It is far better to fail while the grid is still up.
Bingo! Learn now while times are good.
Squirrels are tasty, and some other critters can be slewn and stewed...When your hungry, you will eat what you get...I here Werewolves are mighty tasty, especially the heads, and ribs...Sounds like an opportunity to get that smoker and mesquite rockin' and a Rollin'...
Har har har...The "long pig" is an historical fact, as disgusting as it may seem...
Well, I should be a genius by now because I have had some fails. This will be my third year gardening. I just found out from a man in another comment section that my green beans need slightly acidic soil. Slugs were another problem. Was told to use diatomaceous earth around my tomato plants. I am looking forward to this spring. I pressure can so I try to stick with vegetables that are can-able. I did have to water for a few weeks but, in upstate NY, we had a lot of rain last year. I need to get another pound or two of ibuprofen so I can get through the planting and weeding. (I'll be 70 during harvest). Good luck everyone and have a Merry Christmas!
@cjquinn729 I'm so glad I'm not the only person thinking that anyone breaking into my house would be potential BBQ.
Nature does not give you the time to learn. Learn the way a little at a time every day.
One of the most overlooked, inexpensive, food sources is sprouts. Gardening in the winter can be expensive and difficult. Sprouts are nutritious, inexpensive per serving and easy for most anyone whether they live in a farmhouse or an apartment in any season. As a bonus, organic sprouting seeds can also be planted in their proper growing season which makes them replenishable.
Sprouts are amazing!
But they taste like shite, if you are going to grow food make it at least something you want to eat.
@@ntal5859yeah but If it keeps you alive who cares about the taste. Use some salt.
@@ntal5859add hot sauce 😋
Sprouts can be good, but they have no calories.
The going it alone part, also being the only one working. If you want to eat, you work. Even if it is the 87-year-old grandmother reading to the kids, everyone is able to do something. I have relatives that will be pissed when forced to work to eat, and I do not care. People will learn real quick it is a different life.
Bingo. Play your strengths and everyone has something to offer
Yeah my relatives can keep on going. I'm not helping anyone that wasn't there when I needed someone's help. No I'm not invincible but I'm petty and I would rather burn everything than let someone take it from me.
That's my plan. But I am also aware, the same folks that are supposed to work to get food, will eventually try to take it...gotta plan for that also
@@joshdaniels5970 I understand your sentiment. I find it a little rough...BUT I understand 100 PERCENT, some folks say "IF something happens then I will ..." so they intend to wing it, take, beg, steal, PERHAPS work for what they need all the while knowing they could have done more ahead of time, and more than likely will STILL have an attitude of entitlement as they have no preps of their own. Unfortunately I am in a big city, but its Oklahoma, so there won't be any free for all here, until things get really bad. Oklahoma has some of the least strict defense platform rules. So the come and take game plan will be perilous to say the least. God protect you and yours!!!
Yep! Fortunately some of us have 'Been there,done that'. (and I for one enjoyed it !)
Since I’m an Emt and former medic, I decided to augment my skills by stocking medical supplies I know how to use. I also have some advanced medical equipment in case a higher trained person joins us.
I spent a few years on the farm so growing food is easy to me.
So I have a solid balance of skills and supplies. I also have a group of 9 other people with various skills. Just got to stay low and learn to barter. Bartering is our weakness.
I like balance here. Balanced skills is the foundation
I just learned a valuable thing , build a get home bag and keep it in your car. Like a bug out bag, but if you get stranded away from home , you can get back.
Gardening is important, but like stock piling, keep it to yourself as much as possible. I had a small garden stand for a few years but had to stop due to theft. Now neighbors know I can grow, so I expect my gardens to be raided in a SHTF. My hope is that the right person/s will come on board to help protect the gardens. I will likely lay low & live off stored food as long as possible in hopes that the unprepared will move on eventually. I live in a heavily populated area where 99% of people won't prepare. It won't be fun...for them especially.
Yes, a big garden would def catch eyes
When closer to harvesting you would have to have security 24/7.
"No longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” Woodrow Wilson, deathbed confession
Sad but true!!
Yeah, but to be fair, Woody had had a MASSIVE stroke not too long before that so he was either tripping balls off that stroke damage or Edith attributing what she was actually experiencing running the office of President to her favorite busted-up volley ball. ✌
We have entered that point. Woodrow was a prophet, an evil prophet
I like this kind of video. There are a lot of "prepper" videos out there, but most of them all say the same things: stock up on dollar store food, buy guns, ammo, and gear. (Naturally, they selling stuff too)
I live with very modest means and do what I can with what I have. I like having the knowledge of the old ways, making my safe place safer without spending tons of money. More on being the grey man would be useful, not just me, but my home and my small farm not being noticeable. I'm not a lone wolf, but have lived in the middle of nowhere solo for 20 years, I just don't want to be a target.
I think that's the best mix tbh. Know your stuff and don't become a target. Where you live matters bigtime
Agree. I also love the gathering of preppers and Survivalists here. Lots of good comments.
And then want to sell you a ton of gear. Love this guy. Just good ideas.
I love that you are a person and not some AI thing. I've spent so much time encouraging others to please prep. I'm called doom and gloom. I explain that for everyone I can encourage it is one less person who will suffer. I pity anyone who thinks they'll walk through my door. They nicest person who begins to go through starvation will become someone that seemed impossible they could ever be. If they have a child to feed, they won't make it.
Agreed! Starvation does horrible things to people
I've been called, "Chicken Little" as well as "Gloom & Doom.". Now, the people that mocked me or were on the defensive, are now stocking up on food.
@@konilee7015I wish I had that response from folks. Most roll their eyes and say "you can't worry about everything ", prepping is not worrying. When the worrying starts, LORD knows i mean no harm, but please don't come here with a "take" mentality. Because what I'll be willing to give then ,may not be preferred!
Thiese are the people who come knocking a week after SHTF. Don't let them in. They'll destroy you. Not worth it.
When people's eyes glaze over, you're wasting your time. You can try, of course, but survival isn't just a philosophy, isn't just muscles, isn't just skills. It's intent, it's determination, it's heart and mind. It's the ability to assess and learn. Some people just don't have that.
I've been preparing for the unknown for over 30 years. Gardening, greenhouses alternate power sources. Water storage, defense. No matter what, my wife and I still learn new tricks. We preserve our own harvests and a freeze dryer was a real game changer for us.
Awesome set up, lets you really extend that food
Well, that's ONE way of filling 30 years with pointless pursuits.
@@dabbbles what a strange statement, are you ok?
Great 👍
@@dabbbles, because expensive vacations, IPhones, speed boats, four wheelers, expensive cars, and so on are so much better choices.
May I suggest that you create a list for us- with regard to a disaster scenario.
**The electric grid had been obliterated, what do we do?**
1. Have multi-gallons of kerosene.
2. Have multi-cylinders of cooking gas.
3. Dry meat, beans, spices.
4. Blankets, warm clothes, clean socks, winter boots, rain coats, etc.
5. 2-3 generators/ multi- gallons of gasoline.
6. Secure doors and install iron bar windows.
7. Well rehearsed escape routes and meeting points.
8. Water. 150 -300 gallon drinking water tanks.
9. Rifles. Both for hunting & protection.
10. Tinder/wood for when your kerosene, gas for generator runs out.
Finally, pray to God and repent for all your sins, ask for strength and guidance. If it's not from the heart- don't bother.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Got it and noted!
All that shit runs out. Then what? You die. Plus, you gotta store it and it becomes a target. Static positions are always overrun eventually. If you got it, you gotta keep it safe from everyone else. Do people even think about how hard that will be? How long do you think the wildlife will last? It will be eaten to extinction really fast.
Then you have the cannibals hunting for you. We are the food. Go ahead light that fire and cook that food. Its a dinner bell for the hungry and you are on the menu too.
Hungry people are worse than a zombie apocalypse.
#1... faith in Christ.
Is first on any list.
Then do actions, All done in faith, which is when we actually do things, like Noah, go build and stock up.
God told him get ready, because trouble was coming... it's the same narrative of warning messages given today, not to expect (peace and safety) that nothing could ever happen.
Actions...are required.
Move away or remote, with less people around it's better then, just staying/living in a higher population area.
For work, hospital care, nice store's....excuses.
Empty land, water source, tree's for fuel.
Then start with a RV/TRAILER unit, if no house or cabin is on the land.
These are most important physically, it's land and shelter, a water source.
Then add items.
Weapons.
Headlamp unit's, with AAA batteries galore.
These are for keeping handsfree operation at night, with no power.
Most will do nothing.
Most think MAGA.
Most are busy making money, living for job's.
Most can't leave family who think it's crazy to get out of dodge.
Blessing to you in Christ chiefly.
A faraday cage big enough to hold/store anything with a motherboard.
@@scottystiffchicken The grid will crumble, the internet won't matter to much.
Eating, drinking, shelter.
Back to the 1800's for most except the elites in power.
Great video. The understated non-hysterical presentation is appreciated. Prepping is a slow steady progression that is a way of life not something done in a panic. Skills are equal or more important than stuff.
Addressing "Werewolf Preppers" ,first time I've heard the expression, I can say they will have very limited success. In the early 90's the rural Pacific Northwest town I live in had a very bad gang problem with almost daily drive by shootings. The gang types were mostly young from California. I got active putting together numerous neighborhood watch programs. A large meeting was considered 6 - 8 people. I had a few meetings close to100. During a couple meetings it became apparent the large majority of the people were older folks who grew up in the Great Depression and fought in WW2 with a bunch of combat veterans of Vietnam. They were mostly in the mood to organize a Vigilance Committee they had a rope and a gun and they knew where the gang types were right at that moment. The worst were a couple of old ladies. It took me a little time to cool things down. I realised then that if the gang types thought they could frighten a community they are sadly mistaken. Everyone in the crowd would give you the shirt off their back to help you out but try to steal or attack someone would be counterproductive for the bad guys.
I should note we have very few gun laws and aside from the brief period in the 90's there is very little firearms crime. Bad guys are still here and better organized but smart enough to keep a low profile. Bet it's the same most other places in America.
Good to know there is respect from the bad guys. We’re not all victims
I believe that as long as there is a higher authority, folks are more likely to not be singled out into violent defense, unless it is put upon them. But the very moment that they think that "no one is coming", they band together and the niceties drop. Necessity replaces meakness, choices must be made. So good people will partner with good people and team up with a team concept. The chink in the armor for the bad guys is that they have no cohesion.
All the "old folks" (which means over 35 for the werewolf thinkers) have a lifetime of experience, skills, grit, and are just going to be very grumpy-with-skills. Old folks are decisive as well.
It won't go well for the predators. Their survivors will just move on to softer targets.
Great content brother you're gonna be literally saving people's lives with these videos.. also, I suggest getting some faraday bags or making your own faraday box out of the fabric.. fabric made in the USA not Chyna bs that requires multiple layers.. + print a paper / write out step by step exactly what you are going to do when sht officially does hit the fan, and be sure to involve a reliable/dependable friend of yours that you know will have your back.. also, print out the highway systems and mark down where certain distribution centers are/grocery stores etc even for us stock pilers, there's no such thing as having enough.. gather ALL that you can and also utilize food pantrys NOW while they're available and make sure to vacuum seal alot of the goods too.. Also go get some 3/4 treated plywood pre-cut them to board up your windows, along with signs posted "if you come anywhere near me and my family, with a heavy heart, I will not hesitate to kill you"
Multiple great adds and tips in here. Packed full, thank you!!
People from the city that think they'll be able to go live in the woods need to understand there will be millions thinking the same thing and the fact someone already own most of those woods and want take kindly to someone coming in shooting,stealing their resources.
A lot of those people have family that live in the cities that will be coming in to help protect those woods,property,wildlife,their resources.
Most people who have never been out in the woods much at night time will probably have a very hard time when they start hearing all of the sounds of things ,animals moving,walking around, birds,deer ,opossum, raccoons screaming,hollering 😂.
I go sit out in the woods a lot at night in one of my blinds and I swear there's some kind of bird,I think it's a male limpkin that sounds just like a woman screaming I hear sometimes 😂 . As much as I've heard it and know it's a bird I still jump when it does it's scream 😂🤣 and there's several little red and grey fox and they have a wild sound also. 🤣
That’s nuts. Would keep me up all night with those sounds
Foxes scream like that too...I heard this from my back yard one night...it sounded like a Banshee or a witch was back there....and I live in a the subs
When i lived in the Berkshire mountains, i swear i heard a woman screaming as if on a loudspeaker - terrifying! Must've been a mountain lion...?
Just a note. The roads, highways streets will be full of people busily going nowhere. Traffic jams will be a nightmare. Gas stations will run out of fuel and eventually so will the cars stuck on the roads. Now these people are in an even worse position, with truck or car load full of bug out gear and no way to take it all. Completely defenseless out in the open. As the situation worsens animal life world be decimated, even sparrows will be gone...everywhere. Your home is your best defense, your neighbors are your best defenders. Choose a place that the people mirror your beliefs, that you can rely on and can not only provide for themselves but can help you. Learn a trade that is valuable, that you can enhance the community with.
Screech owls sound like a woman being murdered…🤣
Thanks! That was great information. My son has your mindset but I don't push him for information because he was at route 91 and I don't want to trigger him and take him back there. I have been accumulating for awhile to be prepared you are taking me to the next level. Which is good. What I am wondering is how do we deal with intruders that don't make it after they try to enter my home. And toilet set up for family members. Also, how do you organize all your things? Meds, first Aid, duct tape/ batteries. My stuff is in a thousand different areas. Thank you, so glad I found your video.
THANK YOU!
I'd use bags or bins to organize. Label with a label machine and size the bins according to what you need. You should always have A BAG that you can grab and go that has the essentials for a couple to few days min to get to another planned location. More food and water if you haven't built up skills.
Can organize food procurement with hunting/trapping/fishing items etc. Water Procurement/storage in another bin. Just an idea.
If you had to deal with an intruder and there was no authorities to handle it, you'd have to do what you needed to in order to get it out and away from your home. Not going to explain much further for a couple reasons.
You could use a bucket or camping potty that uses a garbage or disposable baggy for waste in a pinch. Had to use the 5-gallon buckets before and they work just fine. You can also dig a cat hole and go to the bathroom in that in the ground and cover it up.
You hit the nail on the head. What can you produce??? If you can't produce, your survival time will be short. Stockpiling is recommended, but eventually your stockpile will be depleted. Learn the skills, practice them, and plan ahead. Even if you're handicapped, old, or sick, you can teach, coach, council, and lead others to produce... If you have the knowledge and the skills.
Exactly, think long term too
The biggest thing you have keep in mind is what you're preparing for. Depending on where you live and your financial situation it may not be practical or even possible to have enough food production to sustain yourself forever if society collapses completely and never comes back, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't bother to prepare at all because that's not the only or even most likely scenario. There's a much higher probability of some local or regional disaster where help is eventually coming but you may have to survive on your own for a few days or weeks until it gets there. In that case a few dozen gallons of clean water, a month supply of food, and some warm blankets might be enough to get you through. Cover the most likely scenarios first, then move on to the more extreme ones that require lots of additional preparation when possible.
If society ever breaks down completely, few, if any, will live long enough to see a civilized one return.
Prepping for a certain event, ala, "Doomsday Preppers" is trap. As Steven Harris said, "If once you start down the EMP path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will." Instead, it is far better to prepare for the commonalities of MANY emergencies. I prepare with 'the trucks will stop rolling' in mind. That commonality covers most emergencies, from a trucker strike to an asteroid strike. This method gets you out of the trap of preparing for a certain event to the exclusion of others.
Since trucks deliver everything, once they stop rolling, what is on the shelves is all there will be. No more fuel, no more food, no more anything. Prep for that reality, and you will be covered for most anything that is survivable.
I agree with not getting tunnel-vision on 1 thing. I also think generally preparing will leave you open to more specific needs. Need balance, like with everything else IMO. I like the EMP option personally for the sole reason it prepares you for focus without power, vehicles, markets, etc.
@@jameshanna8762-well said and spot on!! Common sense stuff.
Elmateo-Exactly!!
Honestly, I'm not sure your video is properly titled but I like the production vs stockpile and skills vs gear. Great points and thought process! I think physical fitness is a top lister. Not being able "to go the distance" or operate under stress is critical. Fine motor skills suffer when people are under stress as does their ability to think. This is the more human side of things versus the consumable/commercial side of things which deserves utmost attention imo.
Yes, it’s why I feel practice is so important. Curious, what did you feel was off about the title? Thanks for watching
@@PracticalPreparednessthanks for your reply! Apologies I should've explained my response more, but the initial thought that one will be a wolf pepper and go take things from everyone else is definitely something NOT to do as was the one man army concept. I felt as though the video then was instructional pointing towards more of what to have and know after SHTF. No question, your video is encouraging and I appreciate that! I guess I interpret your video to be more about things that will tip the scale in ones favor after SHTF: stock seeds, learn skills, learn to produce, be part of a community, etc. I meant no disrespect and I hope this helps. 🙂 I never intend to discourage as I think putting yourself out there and providing such guidance is critical for so many people. Thanks again for posting. I'll be following your channel. Stay practical! 💪
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and Government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." -- Thomas Jefferson
Wow!
Criminals and the government? Aren't they the same thing😂
Yup how right you are. Only go lookup democide. Governments killed more then 250 million people in only the last 100 years. Not even counting wars. This is insane.
Community arguably is the most important. Good video!
True
Im the opposite of the last one you mentioned. As a kid I was a hunter/fisher that helped my mom and gramma in the garden. I also learned 3 different martial arts (karate, judo, boxing) as a kid and was a boyscout. As an adult i got military experience and kept up with the old hobbies of hunting, fishing, shooting, gardening, bushcraft, martial art and also got into ultralite backpacking. In 2020 I started Stockpiling and now im a "prepper"
I honestly hate the term "prepper". This should be common sense shared by all. Love your journey!
Lol. You were always a prepper. You just didn’t know. 😊 but I agree. With PP I hate the term too.
@@davidsto9064 I wasn't preparing for anything though those things were just hobbies and up until 2020 I only ever kept enough food and stuff in the house to last week to week. In 2019 I kinda had a friend I thought was a nut job telling me that COVID was gonna cause lock downs with food shortages and we'd need passports to leave our house. I told him he was insane. He ordered me like 5 10# cans of tuna beans and vegetables and said if they come handy pay him back and if they don't then he'll be fine with being wrong. I ended up eating tuna for a week because there was no meat at my local grocery stores and so many people that possibly had covid. No toilet paper, no baby wipes for my baby. No formula for my baby we had to transition him over to baby food and rinse his but in the tub for poop and with a rag for pee. Now I keep 3 month supply of everything. My military/hunting background made me go overboard on guns and ammo which I regret but I'm fixing it now
Prepper is a simple word. There is no need to be so sensitive about the name. just get the skills and prep as a way of life.
I've never been a prepper. I live that life as a survivalist.
Learn stealth gardening / guerilla gardening so your food can't be stolen as easily. Also learn the edible and medicinal wild plants in your area and study traditional animal trapping along with primitive and poaching type methods of catching game because trapping requires the least amount of energy and it's usually not making a lot of noise like hunting with a firearm does. You can set a dozen animal traps one night and they'll supply you with food on pretty much a constant basis. All you have to do is check them when it's safe, typically when it's dark outside. There are several good books. One of my favorite is a 2 volume book titled " Walk With the Wild Man - A Poachers Journey " because it tells dozens of different short stories about how easy it can be to put food on the table when you really need to. I'm not advocating anyone break the law in normal times, but after SHTF you aren't going to worry about being caught by the game warden / possum police and you're just wanting the quickest, easiest and safest way to put food on the table.
Checking this book out now. Haven’t come across this one.
@@PracticalPreparedness Yeah, it's a really good series of books. I first heard about it from The Meat Trapper on youtube. He's got a great youtube channel to learn a lot from when it comes to trapping. I just realized there's now a 3rd volume to the Wildman book series. I'm gonna order that one now. My girlfriend likes me to read one of the stories each night to her as we lay in bed before we go to sleep. I've already read through the first 2 books a few times, but there's so many stories it's something you pretty much never get tired of reading. There's 76 different stories in the first one and 89 different stories in the 2nd book.
@@PracticalPreparedness The Meat Trapper has a video on his channel about the Wildman books. It's titled " Poaching Manual " th-cam.com/video/89tB5BEkx-4/w-d-xo.html
Amazon sells foraging books based on the region you live in as well as ones for specific states. I also have an app on my phone call Picture This to identify plants and created an off line file on a thumb drive that combines the information from that with uses for each plant. I started that 2 years ago so now I have a really good idea where the food and medicinal plants are. David the Good has tons of videos on food forests and plants that are not common but great alternatives.
Foraging. Most will not eat weeds. Good. 😂
I think if we look at how WROL situations might pan out, I think a lot of preppers assume some kind of anarchy. I actually think you'll see something akin to inner cities now, where law isn't a massive factor. Gangs are more of a thing, with significant criminal organisations. In cities, offending someone can get you killed, travelling into the wrong part of town as the member of another group.
I think what you describe is only natural, and does and will continue to occur. Like you I think things can move slower rather than faster in most cases
Anarchy means to Self Govern, you fool.
@@TheNicestAssholeYouWillNvrMeet it's funny how we are talking about something that will get you deleted. I strongly suspect that the moment it is no longer illegal you'll become a memory sweet cheeks. By the way, your mum is a fool, as well as a massive butter ball
Spot on, this is exactly what I'm really preparing for and it is already a reality in several places in the US.
@@TheNicestAssholeYouWillNvrMeet Self governing isn't necessarily a good thing because then it's a matter of who can impart their will upon others. Basically just a transition to tyranny. For example in places in California where the police are defunded and basically non-existent (they won't even come if you call 911 even on violent crimes), it's not that people living there are free, they are now oppressed by whichever gang controls that hood. The reason the Constitution is so valuable is because it's a universal rule of law that is supposed to apply to everyone, and that's the ideal society, where the king is below the law, and not above it. Of course, the Constitution means nothing more than a red line in the sand. In the end it must be enforced by the people.
You hit the nail on the head. Been living off-grid almost 4 years. Have built community. Have sustainable Homestead with over 80 critters 🐖🐐🐇🦃🐓🦆and 4 very loyal farm dogs. We have the supplies, seeds, growing our own and those who think they can take it from us post-SHTF...my American Guinea Hogs will enjoy having them over for dinner 🍽...Hogs and Dogs will defend and deter.
Showed my wife a vid of a hog the other day. She had no idea how vicious they are
Living off grid What do you feed the farm dogs?
@@Utah_Mike off-grid doesn't mean we don't go to town...but they get a lot of chicken, pork, rabbit and wild game along with dry food. Recently we processed a bunch of meat chickens. The dogs get the hearts, livers and gizzard. Occasionally a lost door-to-door salesman or politicians gets added to the kibble 😁😁😁😁
Attack hogs that's a new one! Wild hogs yes but well trained attack farm hogs that's great!
@@PracticalPreparednessDon't worry the superhogs which are twice as big will take care of what's left over!
( Heard their invading from Canada?! )
There's an old saying, "Never make an enemy by accident." If you've had a tough day, exercise some grownup self-discipline and refrain from taking it out on the people in vehicles around you on the road, the cashier at the grocery store, or the person crossing in front of you who's taking a little too long. Cool your jets, and take a deep breath. The other people you share your neighborhood/workplace/roadways with do not owe you comfort.
Great points. I could benefit from your advice first
I'm a 65 year old single woman. I know for a fact that I won't survive alone. I've spent time building relationships with my neighbors. I need to have skills that can contribute to my neighbors, no one needs dead weight. You need to be real with yourself, stay fit and learn skills
Straight shooter and sound advice. Thank you and well done
You don't need major skills. Even knowing how to cook outside can help.
Maybe learn how to dress a wound.
Or administrator pain killers.
I really don't want to sound like some idiot. But as in tv or movies. If a woman falls. Hurts her knee. Ankle whatever..it really brings down a whole group if you were on the move.
I'm 68. But I can still literally climb a tree. And jump across 6 ft fences.
I can still run no problem.
But everyone needs to bring something to the table in a bad scenario
None of us get outta here alive, Toots. Just continue to enjoy yourself and don't count the cost. Oh, and don't underestimate 'strangers'. You can be SURPRISED! Where are you located? Get back to me if you wish. I'm one of life's 'strangers': and you'd be amazed by the MANY good friends I've made over the years. Take care.
ps. Sometimes 'just being there' is the only (and often best!) contribution you can make.
My plan is to add to my supplies every time werewolf preppers comes calling, I'm fully prepared for that.
Lol love this. It goes both ways!
Cats and dogs need meat, thanks for trying to rob me.
I've found in life the braggarts are usually the cowards and in times of difficulty the quiet ones can be the ones to shock you. I would look out for trickery as well as the blatant violence stuff. Sending kids with a sob story to recce the place and let in the adults at night, if there's adolescent boys in your party an adolescent girl suddenly turns up, the helpless woman act, trades that are problematic or too good to be true, you get the picture.
Less desirables and junkies will be the first wave, stock up on lime .
Strength in numbers, the boogie man usually comes at night.
I really appreciate you and your perspective...and recommendations. The wife and I have been prepping for about a year, and kitty by little we've been able to build a small resource. Now we need to learn to grow plants and practice foraging. Thanks. Keep it up.
That is awesome! You keep it up too
Well, my advice to anyone stupid enough to go kicking in doors is this, just remember that there is no one more dangerous than a man defending his home and family. Get the message ?
Couldn’t say it any better
Amen
All u end up doing is giving the home defenders a bunch of free gear....of ur dead body
True. People with the mindset to prepare are also preparing for doorkickers. We have already done an assessment of our AO, and we know the terrain. Those preppers with long experience in setting defenses and planning assaults have another advantage... we know what is coming, because we see it as a lifestyle, rather than an event. We know where they will stage, we know where they will surveil from, we know the likely avenues of approach, we know where they will stack, and we know how they will try to breach.
When the doorkickers hit one of THOSE locations, a team of 20 will be lucky if they get away with 50% casualties. A team of 6 or less will be eradicated. All men defending their home are dangerous, but some are more dangerous than others.
Gosh, that is just what he said 😊
Chaplain Chuck Army veteran, once the shooting starts school is out. You do not rise to the level of combat, you stoop to your level of training. If you do not practice and use your equipment you will be a fatality. That is why military training is redundant. What I was taught and trained for saved my life more than once. I wasn't a Chaplain then but prayer and training brought me home. Don't neglect your mental health, physical health, and spiritual well being.
Great add sir!
not gonna lie he gave off werewolf preparer vibes, and so did my neighbors when i watched this..
Often overlooked or discounted is your current age and state of health. I'm in my early 70s with a compromised immune system. In a SHTF scenario, I do not expect to survive. However, I can be a stockpiler for my family/group unit. As long as I'm alive I can teach certain skills. This can be a significant addition to a family group.
Food, seeds, tools, how-to books, and weapons can supplement the family group or serve as items of trade. Items of trade can be something as simple and inexpensive as heirloom seeds, sewing needles, thread, spices, soap, shampoo, bandages, alcohol, sugar packets, batteries, and reusable medical supplies such as splints, and tourniquets. Anything that you have can be used for trade or barter.
Of course, you may want to wait until things are less volatile before offering these items and be selective about whom you trade with.
Great points all around. Everyone can contribute, period
Things will not get better than now. One third of people are asleep and happy with what is happening. They cannot believe that there ever will be any problems (except for us extremists who fear violation of rights).
Checking in from south Los Angeles. It’s gonna be hell on earth when the light go out. People already living mad max in the best of times..
Amen, it's already seeming a bit like hell on earth. Imagine when the lights go out..
@@PracticalPreparedness great video and content btw
Here's 2 things I've thought about recently.
I've noticed just how many people have reflective tags on their shoes. It might be a wise idea to keep a can of black spray paint in the vehicle and house. To cover the reflective tags while making your way safely back to homebase!!!
The Other.
Stock pile glow sticks.
When the grid goes down. The power goes out.
THAT means, NO NIGHT LIGHTS for the littles!!! IF YOU NEED THEM QUIET? Glow sticks work for 8 hours. Just Sayin'.
Awesome idea on the stocks! Cards too for older kids/adults. Yea the show shiners are really annoying and dangerous in your example
@Ni-dk7ni
You'll obviously have to put a bit of effort into helping remedy the situation!!!
Use blankets to create a FORT for the Littles to sleep in!!!
BTW! I Hope you're gonna have blinds or curtains in your windows!!!
My windows on the 1st Floor are covered with plywood on the interior!!! I have a sheet of 1/2" oak plywood 3 sheets of silver thermo~blankets sandwiched between another sheet of oak 1/2" ply wood. NO one outside can see the plywood because, between the plywood and the outside glass window?; Is Venetian Blinds!
The outside sheet of plywood is painted black!!! Very Stealth!!!
Having a hard time is an understatement. Bologna sandwiches is my main meal 5 days a week. My main meal. This is starvation slowly. 80.00 a month on food stamps in a high rise old folks home. Disabled
I don’t think I could do bologna 5 times a week. That is not ok.
@@PracticalPreparedness no but today i got a dozen eggs and a loaf if bread.
I feel for you. I’m in the prime working years of my life and have a family of four to keep fed. The kids eat at school. I eat out. My wife skips lunch at work most of the time. I have spent no less than $700 on groceries this month, in the last 20 days and my fridge is mostly bare right now! My wife just went to the store and dropped another $50. Tried to get eggs and there are zero eggs there at the moment.
Edit: There’s 9 days left this month. Will probably be two or three more grocery trips around $100. It’s just Fn ridiculous.
Absolutely been there with no government or family support, ramen every meal when I COULD eat! Please try to consider variation in a modest way If you can, if you can't get out ask others to purchase something like Peanut Butter, Sliced Cheese, and definitely Eggs. If you CAN get out, Food Banks and Church Pantries are great, but I was too prideful to use them, and got VERY sick for it. Finally, MANY areas have a Meals On Wheels type FREE service, and/or daily, weekly, or monthly senior community meals, including food gifts, often with fresh farm items. A rolling cart is helpful! PLEASE CALL UNITED WAY (OFTEN 211) AND YOUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO GET STARTED! And, if a Veteran, contact the VA for help. Doing this could even help the neighbors in your building get better, too! Best to you! ❤️🙏💞
One thing that people need to think about is their location. In a SHTF situation, some countries will be more civilized during the situation than others (short term).
I live in Mexico and KNOW that when the SHTF, people are going to go feral within hours. Recently a Cat5 Hurricane hit Acapulco and people were robbing stores and killing each other over food and water, and the Cartels were first in line grabbing as much as they could and selling them at extremely high prices. We also saw the panic that happened when COVID started hitting countries and they were emptying supermarkets of stupid things like toilet paper. Panic will turn regularly nice people into lunatics really quick. Road travel would be suicide in a lot of countries as well. Shelter in place is really the safest option.
Another thing is home security. In a lot of parts of the world, houses are really easy to get into, no exterior walls around the property, no security doors, no security windows, the house is like a kill zone. One thing about living in Mexico is that the vast majority of houses are fortresses. I always joke with my wife that Mexico is already set for a Zombie Apocalypse. You have to go through an outer steel security door in a 10 foot high (or higher) outer wall with glass embedded at the top of the wall, then go through another steel door to get into the house. All windows have security bars on them so nobody can get in through windows unless with a hacksaw or cutter and even then, it'd take them time to get through.
One thing I envy the U.S. for is their access to firearms. Here, all the criminals have firearms and very few citizens have them. Getting a firearms license is extremely difficult and even if you do get one, you can only buy firearms through the military controlled stores of which there are only 2 in the entire country and the firearms are extremely over priced (around 2500 USD for a simple double barrel shotgun). So in a SHTF scenario, most probably, the Cartels will start going house to house and taking what they want and killing indiscriminately.
My wife and I have talked about moving to the U.S. because things are getting crazier here by the year and we have our 5 year old to think about as well. But with the all of the issues getting Visas and her having to get re-licensed to work as a doctor in the U.S.(and as much as I try, her English level is a problem too) it will probably never happen unfortunately. Thanks for the video!
Excellent advice. I always enjoy reading the comments on these channels too! Thanks!
You bet!
If you live in the city or an urban area, you will have problems from theft to flat out murder. People will want what you have and will do what they can to take it away. I personally have lost hope in America and the ability to for things to get better. If you live in the cities, get an exit plan and make sure you have a place to go. All this advice in the video is really good.
I had the same sense of hopelessness at first
@@PracticalPreparedness I see it from the perspective of a veteran. So much evil, so much hate. When a nation is split this way, the divide among Americans, the world is in peril and on the brink of another world war. There is no amount of preparing that will brace you for what comes next.
@Ni-dk7ni The WEF along with the pussies running the UN need to get a room and play who's hiding the salami. I don't buy what they think they are shoveling.
Yes please do more of these reality based videos! We gotta stay realistic and know what we’re up against
Will do!
Finding that the hardest part is finding the like minded individuals to grow a community before the day comes. This area has some very difficult weather cycles to overcome which I believe will hasten the culling but of course still be a threat to even the prepared.
Very likely as well..
Thank you so much. I needed to Re think/learn. It's 4am Christmas Morning. I'm grateful so the roof over my head, & the hope that all is well outside everyone's door wherever that may be. Godspeed & Merry Christmas 🎄 ❤
Merry Christmas!
I LOVE your videos. So level headed. Please keep doing them. I can see that you really are sincere. 😊
Thanks Debbie!
Great list. I would add talking and bragging about how they would be set up for SHTF. Showing too many of their cards too early
It's a slippery slope, agreed!
Pure well thought out logic.reminds me to get a BOOK of native food and medicinal plants.thanks for the kick in the ass.
Thank you for the support!
@@PracticalPreparedness going to subscribe.
As always you bring great content. When it comes down to it we can only count on ourselves to do the best we can to take care of our families and each other. I'm 70 and over those years have gathered a lot of life survival skills from building to first aid and hunting. I'm hoping that I'm at a point that I have enough stocked for my Wife and I, but I still add to it each week. Lately I've also been buying 72 hour survival food kits to help others if possible. I hope people have their eyes open to the multitude of threats that are facing us and doing what they can to be prepared. I don't care if it's a can of food or two or a box of bullets a week, it adds up. God bless you all.
It all adds up. Skills and Stuff too. And thank you!
Yes , thanks for your comment , tou may be right. I been buying some weapons & ammo myself , cuz we don 't know what's ahead of us with all the foreigners that JB has allowed into this country. I' m really hoping DJT gets elected in NOV. , IF NOT our beloved USA will become a communist country with 4 more yrs of JB !!! 😢 ❤❤USA ❤❤IDF 2A ❤❤❤👍👍🙏🙏🙏
It boils down to having people in your camp willing and able to work and collect protect and mentally prepared for the truth at all times no one can be blue-pilled and survive what is coming.
Rude awakening when you are the provider of your own needs
And then comes the problem of who they think is going to be the leader of the pack. The biggest guy, or the guy with the biggest gun.
This was good info and very well presented.
Keep making more like these in blocks of 5 to 7 items.
Very well done Sir!
Thanks, will do! Thanks for the input
The biggest thing is the difference between prepping and being prepared. You did touch on it but I don't feel that you stressed it enough. Too many preppers have huge stockpiles and all the gear but will not last to the end of their stockpiles because they don't know what to do with it and they've told all the wrong people. I agree that community is key and that going the path of the lone wolf is foolhardy. But even in community there are problems because there are people there. But the biggest thing I think that you missed is thinking that it will end. IF a major (continental or global) SHTF event were to occur, it won't be measured in weeks or months, it will be more like years or decades. In which case preppers may last til there stockpiles run out but the prepared will endure. I've lived through several local SHTF events in the last couple years and they all have one thing in common: they lasted longer than expected. Merry Christmas to all!
Great points. It really is more than just "getting stuff". You must know your skills. Location is paramount. Most think short-term and stop. Must think long-term
@Ni-dk7ni Solar flare/EMP been coming for years. They were talking about it in the 80s. I could foresee a 'fire sale' coming in the near future. Get ready for total grid down for years. Powered solar generators are at risk in an EMP. Get them shielded if you are depending on one.
Mutual Assistance Group and skills are important definitely. Many if not more people in wars or SHTF die from disease, lack of sanitation. When many start getting ready we do freedom seeds type things. As important not addressing medical and sanitation. My unique addiction to old phrase Beans, Bullets, Bandaids, BOWELS, and if all covered Bullion. Ty for channel
Thank you Cris. Sanitation is huge but boring topic for most. Not boring if you need the info though…
4:35 As a renter, I do alot of gardening in 5gal buckets. I grow tomatoes, radishes, hot peppers, garlic, ginger, rosemary, thyme, spinach and lemons. The thing is, ALL OF IT CAN BE TRANSPORTED - If SHTF and we need to move, everything can be thrown in the back of my truck and we'll have fruit, veggies and herbs wherever we end up. A simple tea of ginger, basil and lemon can be a great way to take a break AND get some much needed VitC. Wrap up a fish trap(coconut fronds work great), cook up your catch in some rosemary and garlic with a side of spinach... you're golden
You can't plan on where the crisis hits and most of us know that an urban apartment isn't a good spot to shelter. Plan ahead, mark out SEVERAL spots to get to if/when it happens and ensure you have not just the protection you'll need but also a long-term plan for sustenance.
Exactly, love this share. The bucket gardens are great, have one myself. Thanks for sharing
Some people, like myself have no group they are a part of. I'm a veteran who is disabled, and new the area I now live in. It isn't easy to find people trustworthy enough to share prepping ideas and goals with; especially if you are at least on the surface, appear to be more vulnerable than others. Oddly enough finding a group is not so easy to find.
I have been prepping for a couple of years on a very limited budget, my only transportation is my electric mobile scooter. I do have some survival skills knowledge, but lack many of the physical abilities to perform them long term. So my choice is survive as long as I am able to. My main form of protection is my big dog, and what limited defensive skills I am still able to perform.
I live in south central Kansas.
Your Friendly Veteran
First of all would like to thank you for your service, I know how you feel. I am a 57-year-old totally blind and live by myself. I do the best I can I have a little dog that would ankle bite anybody, but my Guide dog would probably just lick somebody to death. Lol.
Also, I would like to point out before anybody gets on here and asses me how I can do this with the messaging, I have voiceover, which is a screen reader, and I just put my finger on the phone and it tells me what it is
New to the channel and I have been preparing for a while now. I think that people don't really have a clue what's going on or what's about to happen. Maybe its just me but having water and filters will payoff in the long run. I have lived off grid for over a year and having water catchment systems is very important and away to filter is just important. Being able to make your own filter is beneficial as well. Yah bless you.
Bless you too. Most will be caught off guard agreed!
Being obedient to Yah --and clearly you know his name--is really Prep #1!! If He is with you who can be against you? Amen brother!
@@WalkinTheWay as far me and my house we serve Yahuah and having the testimony of Yahusha HaMashiach is the way and the truth and life and no man can come the Father except through Him. Blessings to you brother.
This is far out but fairly simple to prepare for. The last time Yellowstone blew, it dumped thirty feet deep of volcanic ash in Nebraska. If that ash falls on your roof, there goes your roof. I have two grain scoup shovels and a push broom. I have a ladder to get up on the roof and shovel, and brush it off. Yes, I know, it's far out.
Not much overhead and cost to prepare for. If it blow again I think it will be huge impact and block out the sun. Who knows. Keeping your roof intact seems sane to me. That is a ton of ash though.
The ash has a very fine grained crystal like structure, very sharp edges, that can blind you, you'll need goggles to work in it. Also it will be acidic and loaded with heavy metals, pond water or run off may be unfit for use. Just know you are not the only one who thinks about the far out. Forks, WA had two inch of Yellowstone ash from the last time she went off.
I remember watching a special on it blowing on history or national geographic. When it erupts anything down wind is dead anyway, all the way to the ocean east or west coast... those that survive have to deal with a no grid, possible multi year winter planet wide. You are talking about an extinction event. Remember that.
That ash isn't wood ash. The small silica particles will be inhaled, cut your lungs up, and then turn to a cement with the moisture in your lungs. You would need a heavy duty mash with 40mm filter and probably rated NBC just to be outside. It will get inside so you would also need filters for your inside space. Also, that ash is SUPER heavy. It is not like a foot of snow on your rood and if it rains....it will absorb the moisture and, you guessed it, you now have tons of cement on your roof. If Yellowstone erupts do not go outside to clear your roof. Go outside and try to get away. Your car will probably die though so...there is always prayer.
Keeping the room from caving would be less of a concern than the likely extinction level events about to unfold. I also wouldn’t be planning on leaving once the ash began to fall. Car air filters wouldn’t last long and your lungs would be destroyed as previously mentioned.
I say you would be best served by hunkering down with supplies and water . Don’t count on neighbors that did nothing to prepare. Work on a group that think as you do . Start up a conversation with neighbors, friends, at church, or at your local gas station . You might even try a VFW hall or grocery store. Make hard decisions now before it’s hard times. Safety is in numbers !
Great advice and important distinction between neighbors and like-minded folk
Excellent points! Many will think they have the 'skills' to cope in a survival situation when they are actually relying on 'things'. Much better to have the right mindset, then gain knowledge and develop your skills from there.
Exactly. Starts with knowledge, just make sure it doesn't end there
@@PracticalPreparedness : Touche!
It helps to imagine a world without myself in it, and how easily that comes to be...😮
No one lives forever
This is going to sound silly, but imagine the world has completely stopped, if factories aren't running, you'll have to turn to Old world technology. Consider chainmail armor. It's lightweight and prevents slashes. You can make chainmail at home with pop tabs. This obviously isn't as good as bulletproof armor, but this is thinking of the long game.
Hey, if things stopped like this, anything you can benefit and use, use it!
Do you know of any resources to get information on making chain mail armor out of pop tabs?
This man speaks the absolute truth. I have a few friends that are always talking about "bugging out" when disaster strikes. I say to them where are you going to bug out too? Not me, i know my home and land better than anybody and I will stay put as long as possible.
As far as these werewolf predators I will stack bodies as tall as my roof if they want to try it. I am prior military and still know how to do the things i used to do.
Absolutely correct. Everything you mentioned, alliance, skills in gardening, train in defence, prepare to travel light.
Be careful with community, but anything otherwise I feel is too risky
You are so right. So many things people need to know that they don't. As an example, if you are trying to grow food wild birds or your own chickens will eat every shoot that comes up. You'll have to be prepared to deal with that.
Nice add. You don't know these things usually until you learn the hard way
Your chat reminds me of poor communitys in the uk, my grandparents understood these principles, we take so much for granted now. Your correct in saying community's work better than lone wolf.
My grandparents were minners and those comunitys were poor and stood together to survive.🏴✌
I just don't see most lasting on their own
Of all these things, lacking skills and determination will surely get you into deep shit. Getting started can be daunting, but it's not nearly as bad as never starting.
Merry Christmas to all.
Better late than never
You nailed it . Many i know are going with gold for the SHTF scenario . Gold is not going to buy food when supplies are short .
I am glad I found your channel. I subscribed after a few videos. I think you point out some very real concerns that more people should severely consider. Those people that you mentioned whose plans are to just take what they want will perish very quickly, and in my opinion they should. Those who think that way should consider the short lived golden age of the Vikings. There is a reason their reign was only a few centuries long compared to most all earlier civilizations. Coming from a military background, I say less is more. You do not want to be loaded down with excessive gear, and have to be on the move constantly. Train, train, and train. Become proficient with very little, and hone those skills. Not only are you more valuable to yourself, your worth goes up with those who see what you can do. Networking, and raising numbers is what got us so far as a race. MAKE YOURSELF VALUABLE! Also, I do this in my personal life, and I think everyone should. Learn how to go out, and stay out for days in inclement weather. You need to learn how to be comfortable in uncomfortable circumstances. Not only will the individual become stronger, but would be enemies are less likely to find you if you are positioned in areas no normal person wants to be, like swamps for instance. Start small, and work yourself up, and really learn to improvise, adapt, and overcome. There is always an answer to every obstacle. Probably my biggest belief that I see ignored over, and over again is fitness. You should first keep your body in the best physical condition you can be in. You want to be plenty strong, but endurance may even take priority in a world of survival. It concerns me greatly how little emphasis is placed on this. It's easy to get the impression people think when it happens they will magically turn fit. It just doesn't happen that way the same way people buy gear, and never get to know it. The knowledge will not just come because you need it to. I did not mean to take up so much space. I am just so passionate about these things, and I witness people being mislead by bad teaching or by self deceiving themselves. How bad do you want it? How bad do you really want to live? Spend time dwelling on these thoughts, and go out, and test yourself. Practice makes better without fail. Thank you for the video! I am going to go through all of them, and now with the subscription I will know when new ones drop. Good stuff.
Dollar Tree has seeds and they are non gmo and many heirloom.
Didn't even think of Dollar Tree for seeds...
They were on clearance for 5 cents a packet. Might as well been free. All of their gardening stuff was marked down in October.
Great points. My struggle will be with friends and community. I have no family or friends
Do what you can with what you can IMO
Sad! Find a group of like minded people!
Same 😢 here 😞... I prep and family friends think I'm crazy
i started a couple cans extra, now i live in a grocery store...its nice
Some need to build slow and steady. IMO it’s the way to go. No rushing and overlooking
Thumbs-up! Thanks for encouraging people to garden and be independent instead of robbing others for their hard work. Gardening is what I'm good at. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent information! Community, good people with skills! A dead end road, all farm raised, hunters. Mechanics, carpenters, and some vets.
GARDENS! even the one legged vet gardens!
Awesome. Everyone should have this as the basics honestly
I bought a can or 3 every time I went to the store when lockdowns started for cv19. I had a cpl emergency WISE foods buckets prior to that & about a weeks worth of water. I know have a pantry we rotate of meats, veggies & fruits, as well as month of water. I had always prepared for a bug out scenario but cv19 switched my mind set to a bug in scenario instead. The last thing we wanna do is leave unless we have to. Some ppl say they’ll bug in & thats that, others that they’ll bug out & take what they’ll need. It’s of my opinion that both these frames of mind are dangerous. The bug out & steal will be met with the up most hostility can manage. The bug in & now has nothing bc they never prepared to bug out, will be met with the upmost of hostility I can manage.
Most will have to take to survive, agreed
As to seeds. I did the math. The amount of space to create a set of seeds for popcorn to plant an acre is only 20-25lb or what you can get planting only 100sqft. If you plant consistently then you have a constant supply of fresh seeds with getting popcorn for your regular usage. Just need to offset by a year.
More folks need to make the food they eat. Way it should be!
How about transportation? An obvious solution would be to have a good bicycle, equipped with baskets of some sort for carrying things. Equally important would be to train yourself to be in good-enough shape so that you can actually *make use* of that bicycle. It obviously won't do you any good if you can only ride a few blocks before having to rest. Consider also whether you should have a helmet, mirrors, lights, reflectors, rain gear for yourself (suppose you have to go some where in the rain?)
Absolutely. Bikes would be very useful in certain situations
I have a folding wagon in my car. I figure I rarely go more than 15 miles away from my home and it takes maybe 7 hours walking depending on the route from the farthest point.
Great video. Thanks for reminding us. I find it's a lot tougher than one might think. Just when I think I've thought of everything, there's 5 other things....
You will also need string or rope,many different size of lengths.Oldshoe strings will work plus needles & three to sew clothing.
I started raising chickens this year. not because I need to, but because I think its a good skill to have. I'm a bit limited with what I can do at home, but I have a larger coop mostly built at the country property.
I commend you for that, great experience and food too
Chickens will be the first livestock on Mars because they provide reoccurring protein in the form of eggs.
Also they are livestock that require the least amount of resources, as opposed to cows that require the most.
When stocking up on canned goods there are some things to remember. Always rotate your stock. When canned goods go on sale they are often getting close to their expiration date. Old canned goods can kill you.
Understand the signs of spoiled canned goods.
I know they’re expensive but I’m seeing where people are freeze drying almost expired canned food with great success.
Canned goods last decades if stored properly. If the can isn’t leaking, swollen or very rusty, it’s good. The only ones that have a shorter life are canned fruits because of the acidity.
Food , water , shelter , Heat, protection.
Secondary : communication.
Nailed it
Your kidneys start to shutdown after 3 days without water. 60 days without food - may not have the energy to forage after 14 though. Shelter with heat or heat retention might rank first, if it is cold out. Protection - club, knife, gun yep. Careful with communication may just hear someone whining about how hard it is and pleading for help. Don't get depressed, you can not save everyone. Look to you and yours to save.
Learn gardening, which crops grow best in hot weather, and cold weather. Learn canning and preserving. Have a way to process lots of water. Have guns and ammo. Stay ahead on medication. Stock up on spices. Get lots of quality whiskey and vodka for bartering and an occasional drunk. All great ideas. I liked your video.
Regardless of accurate or not, i LIKE that u said #1 because it _is_ true plus humanity has ALWAYS survived & thrived more when working together. Taking from others, is worse than a zero sum game!
Nobody wins really
Great advice!! Thank you for all your hard work in bringing us these interesting and educational videos!! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Hello.
Well said and explained. No extra bs wording and talk that drags on boring well myself.
Just the facts,straight out and then drop the mic.
I have done a few of the things you mentioned.
Hell I was a prepped before even I knew I was a prepped.
Several instances over the years I could tell but I don’t write short stories I just read them.
Ok well like the one time in that place full of sand sun bombs and zero bikinis!
Extra mags and 2camel banks ;)
I’m subscribing hooaah!!!
Amen, I appreciate the compliment. Will sling some more vids out like this
If people don’t plan to;
“ abandon ship“
The Navy puts so much effort into fighting for a reason.
Without water pressure defending your home from fire is going to be very difficult.
Your preps aren’t worth dying for.
Don’t let them become an anchor.
Live to see another day.
Stuff doesn’t matter, mentality does.
Homes will burn easily
I've prepared for those folks who think they're taking anything. My neighbors, family or anybody else who needs help. Love each other people
Love goes a long way. Not all about hiding and hating
Very helpful! Please continue to add additional topics/words of Wisdom!
If you are solo, you have to be on the move constantly...Being a Lone Wolf, you would need to think as one trained in Escape and Evasion. It is very stressful and exhausting...
There are definitely benefits to this. Will be harder with larger groups as you implied
Why move, why burn the calories, why take the risk. Sit tight and keep watch. Every day, there will be a smaller number of survivors alive to deal with.
1) If you are going to do a backup generator, go dual fuel. (Propane and Petrol) Propane is almost indefinite, while gasoline is only 10-14 months.
2) Waterproof paper maps and a compass would be my other recommendation. (You might need to travel and avoid roads, or shorten the distance if on foot)
3) Know the eatable plants in your area or region, I have even grown some of them.
4) If you have a firearm, learn how to use it effectively. Just having one is not an intelligent plan.