Finally! A reasonable voice for this complex and misunderstood topic. Your advice is spot on and brings sanity to a subject that so many people are afraid to address. As climate change grows, we'll need our preps more than ever. Thank you for such a warm and calm approach!
@1DigitalSherpa thanks so much for these kind words. I am always nervous to speak on these topics where it's really not coming out of my academic type background. So I especially appreciate your feedback that it is useful.
@purpledreams8017 we all have those drifting moments. This is a sad anniversary for me- just a difficult day on the calendar, I think for many families- and I struggled to post this video. But it helps because I can come and connect with people here, many I have been talking with for years now. Community helps me move forward. I appreciate the reminder to pray- I should go out in the sunshine and pray maybe, before I write.
This is some seriously good advice - not just for the physical prep, but also for the mental & emotional prep (like the dopamine withdrawal most of us will feel without constant access to technology). I think scheduling some low tech days is just as important as stocking up on food & water. Good stuff - great video!
Your nailing it. Resilience described by Dave Snowden is like an estuary. Capacity to return to one’s former self after inundated with massive changes. Robust being more like an oak tree - strong unyielding until topping over.
@Hadenought65 it's pretty clear no major power is willing to take the foot off the gas. Plenty of the '24 storms gave parts of the grid a good hammering. You're absolutely right they're likely to get worse, and soon.
One of the best things I did was to talk with neighbors who I trust about the frequency and duration of power outages. Where I live, most of those are caused by winter storms and summer thunderstorms. Winter outages can last 10 days or longer. Our longest summer outage was three days that gives you solid and historical events to help you plan.
@danamyrocket that's a great topic for conversation with neighbors. Clear, reality-focused, helps connect with people on a topic with evident need. Love it.
Thank you for this ❤ I hate admitting this but we were woefully under-prepared for Helene. It was a huge wake-up call and we've been stocking up since stores reopened. Finding room to store enough water for a family of 4 isn't easy. I LOVE the rain catchment system your friend has, that's the best way to collect and store large quantities of water. A good prepping rule is "3 uses" for everything, so items that have multiple uses are vital. Take Vodka for example, it's fuel, disinfectant, barterable(sp?), can be used for tinctures etc. A survival seed bank is also important, governments aren't telling people about the global crop failures we have been experiencing which is compounded by shipping routes being disrupted, Victory gardens are making a comeback and that's a good thing but growing conditions are constantly changing. We have a lot to get ready for ❤
@koicaine1230 water storage is challenging! Agreed that a rainwater capture like Ash has is ideal. But for indoor storage, for drinking water storage, I like Reliance aqua-tainers. Lot of people speak well of them. relianceoutdoors.com/products/aqua-tainer-4g-15l And thank you for mentioning vodka. If there's no one in the household who struggles where having alcohol in the house would be a problem, vodka is exceptionally useful.
@@astrocoastalprocessor I looked at non-plastic containers, and everything was just so far out of my price range.... so I figured, Reliance has a decent reputation, and that'll do for short term. Leveling up at my place, it's got to be more about supply than storage as far as I can see.
@robinschaufler444 Wooden? I think *most* woods are safe to use but some woods contain natural chemicals that can be detrimental but I'm not sure exactly which ones. I would think Oak would be fine but they have tannins that could affect acidity and taste ❤️ Basically, I don't know enough about the type of woods but I know people do use homemade wooden barrels ❤️
I deeply appreciate your dedication to informing us about climate change's minute complications. Thank you. These videos are helping me get grounded and set goals
Bicycles are great! Not only are they an efficient way to get around without burning fuel, but they are simple enough for the average rider with a basic set of tools to perform most necessary maintenance. An ebike can also be a great option. While they aren't quite as simple, they vastly expand the scenarios where a bicycle is practical. Mine is a large cargo bike and it still uses 1/10th as much electricity per mile as an electric car. It would be entirely reasonable to keep it charged up from a portable solar setup or occasional use of a generator. For the longest-term storage of flour, buy whole wheat berries and grind them when you need them. We have a Wonder Junior Deluxe hand-crank mill and it works fine. This might be overkill for a 3 month prep -- if you bake a lot, you can rotate through a 3 month supply of flour pretty quickly. Just putting it out there. Great video as always! Thanks for sharing.
I grind nut flour and coarse grain and legume flour with my grandma's nut and meat grinder. It has 2 patent dates embossed on the crank, 1897 and 1900. It might have been a wedding present c. 1916. I shopped for hand crank grinders online, and the design is still exactly the same. I want one with a stone grinder head for finer stone ground flour. It's easy and fun to use. I'm a senior with no grandchildren but I can imagine children having a blast taking turns at the crank.
I think it’s interesting that people in Norway were recently mailed information about having at least one week of food and water on hand after previously being told three days. They were also told to have iodine tablets which I have never bought before. Not necessarily because they expect a war, but when the Chernobyl disaster happened the radiation was first detected in Sweden because the Soviet government didn’t tell anyone outside of the immediate area. I do have a week or two of backpacking dehydrated meals that I liked, and a can of dehydrated eggs, but that is for a last resort. Mostly I keep one pound cans of chicken from Costco. They last a few years, but I rotate the older ones to the front and the new ones in the back of the cabinet and I write on the cans with sharpie so they don’t get close to expiring. They can be used for a lot of recipes. The longer term emergency is the hardest because I’m not good at gardening. I can occasionally plant things and remember to harvest them. One of my neighbors keeps a garden and another has chickens. I just have apple trees which I chose because the apples they produce are good for storage and I like them. After five years of hit or miss the trees have produced a huge amount. I live in a rainy area, so water is never an issue except in summer which is the dry season. Catching rain from the roof in barrels is great for watering the garden. I keep several backpacking filters because while I have two good sized rivers within a mile of my house and a spring fed creek three houses away, Giardia parasites are prevalent in a lot of the water. My Sawyer filter has a washable element, so you aren’t dependent on having to buy another. I can do three days, or three weeks on my own, but for three months, I think community is important.
@kenmcclow8963 there are so many skills besides gardening- and if we need to get serious about local food production, it's gonna be a community effort anyway. I think any community would want someone with your knowledge and skills even if your thumb is more of a moderate green. None of us can do everything. Thanks for bringing up that info about Norway. I knew a family from Ukraine when I was younger that was living in Kyiv at the time of the Chernobyl disaster. Both of the parents were engineers. They told people all the time, it was worth the tiny cost of keeping iodine tablets on hand. A small preparation, an inexpensive preparation, that I wish I had mentioned in the video.
Hi Dr Emily great video..As someone who is a 3 weeker going to 3 months it is tough to do.. it takes time and money and alot of thought.But the effort is worthwhile better to be prepared then have nothing..
@michaelschiessl8357 3 weeks is not small potatoes- nice job!!! 3 weeks is much more resilience than most people have- lets you take care of yourself, lets you help others in a disaster. I hope you feel good about the work you have done! Getting to 3 months is a significant investment in money and time and behavior. I think you have to do it over time to get into the right habits- because it's not like you're buying a bucket of stuff you stick in a closet. I feel like for me, continuing to learn is a big part of that 3 month way of being.
Excellent update! I have been working steadily on my preps for the past couple of years and constantly rotate items. I remember this how my parents lived back in the 70s and 80s so it has been an easy muscle to rebuild.
@stephenmkahler thank you! Rotation is key- and I like that connection to the past. It really wasn't long ago at all that many more people kept a deep pantry.
I’ve been working on this on and off for a long time. I enjoy living on the road in my SUV turned micro camper so I have a lot of basics but need to gather them together to be more organized in case of an emergency. Trying to dig around a dark garage if the power is out wouldn’t be fun and it d probably forget the important things.
@ddeuerme in a small space like that, organization is so important. I like the reminder here as well to keep emergency illumination really accessible- always good to know where a backup flashlight is, well enough to find it in the dark.
I have asked myself question 1 multiple times in the past week. I'm not sure if I'm appropriately responding to reality, because it's pretty new and genuinely unanticipated.
@OhWell0 I feel that. Even just from the climate information coming in, even ignore everything else which is so bonkers, sometimes I'm like oh. Maybe it is all a simulation, because this simulation is obviously super busted. The genuine weirdness of our reality right now, I think it is especially important we be able to be in touch with ourselves, with our feelings- and with the world around us. Anyone who isn't asking themselves question 1, how do you not just check out on some level? If you're not asking yourself if you're a nut, it seems likely to me that you may in fact be one.
Just an add-on comment re: a potential pandemic. I am fortunate to have an actual virologist in my circle of contacts and I questioned him a few days ago and asked for his assessment of the risk. This was part of his response: "Also yes 'more spread = more likelihood of a h2h mutation emerging' is generally true as each infection is like playing the lottery. That being said I think there are other equally/more important factors. For example: - Which host the virus is coming from: if there are massive bird-related outbreaks, the risk to us isn't necessarily higher than if there were smaller outbreaks in mammals. - What virus is spreading: if there are frequent outbreaks of a virus very poorly suited to infecting humans, the risk may be lower than occasional outbreaks of a more human-adapted strain. I think this is well illustrated by the 2009 pandemic-everyone was watching H5N1 because of how widespread it was in Asia, but the real pandemic was H1N1 swine flu in Mexico. Nowadays all eyes are on H5N1 again, but CDC rates a swine H1N1 virus in China as having more pandemic potential."
@janetdowell6005 excellent information. This supports the line of thinking that we should be keeping an eye on infections in pigs. The H5N1 infections in humans so far that were acquired through dairy farms have been very low mortality. I hear from some folks online who are already implementing massive H5N1 precautions and while I think their hearts are in the right place, and these issues are real, I don't see this as a reasonable time to be putting a lot of limits on ones life based on concern about H5N1.
@andreapinal5523 aw, you are so welcome! & seriously, if SHTF, anyone who wants to come over here is gonna find me making THE MOST beans & rice. We'll figure it out from there.
@LoveIsEverything2468 definitely any ID or passports. If you have a lease or a physical copy of your insurance policies, you want those- documents that establish your address. Those can be important for obtaining aid right after a disaster. For some families, you might want copies of marriage, divorce, adoption, or custody papers. For others, wills, legal power of attorney, or trust documents. If you have appraised valuables, it doesn't hurt to stick copies of appraisal documents in the go bag. If there's a document you own that establishes your identity, address, relationships, rights, or possessions, I would put a copy of that document in the stuff you grab for evacuation.
As someone who just turned 30, I'm lost on what to do. My friends and family are all in Florida and Im close to buying a house within the next year. Do I move to a place better suited for climate change in the great lakes region, or stick where my community is in a zone that is screwed? And this stuff gets to me and fills me with immense anxiety.
@DefThrone this is a seriously hard problem you're facing. First off, that's awesome you are close to buying a house. Congratulations! That is huge! Second, I wonder if there's a way to pull apart the problem a little differently, where it isn't so all or nothing. Depending on where you are in Florida, there are different levels of risk. Like, Gainsville is a totally different story than the Keys. Just taking Gainsville as an example, if I had multigenerational community there, a lot of good friends there, I'd probably choose to stay there and think about ways to build resilience in place. Community matters, and while there are parts of Florida that have very bad outlooks, that's not the entire state. And while you are correct that the great lakes region is a good bet, there's also a lot of resilience potential closer to home, in Georgia. Depending on where your people are in Florida, that might still put you in driving range to make it easy to stay connected with your community. I think it's perfectly natural to feel anxiety about these important decisions. Sometimes it helps to remember there's no perfect choice- there's no place that's going to have zero problems and it's going to feel like 2019 forever. I hope this response helps you a little, gives a little different perspective. You are smart to be considering these issues.
This has stressed me to my core for 7 years now. As a single mother of 3 boys I HAVE TRIED, but cant even afford our basic needs at present.. this is so depressing and feels so helpless. I dont have money for any of these things 😣
@TheMantaRae it is so hard to be in that position. When my older children were little I was very poor, I am sure you often do what I did and feed your boys before you give yourself anything. Seven years is a long time to experience such terrible stress. In your position, if it is at all possible- and I would certainly have empathy if you did not have the energy- you might be better off focusing on developing skills around gardening or sewing. I say these areas because the startup costs can be really low- you can get seeds with SNAP. I think it's also worth looking at the skills you already are developing that are intensely resilient. A woman who is caring for her children on her own, I know full well, tends to be a person who is very able to roll with whatever comes at her. Wishing you all the best- what we cultivate inside us can't be lost. Plenty of people prep and then a tornado takes out their place and they need to rely on their neighbors anyway! What's inside is what can't be taken away.
1-gallon bottles of water I keep in my car "leak"-they don't actually leak, but condensation forms when the temperature changes, and it makes the carpet wet.
@randalalansmith9883 I find this to be an issue, too- condensation is a really annoying part of water storage. Could get mold in the carpet, right? I keep my car stuff in an egg crate so that there's kinda more breathing room around it, but it's not a perfect solution.
Greetings Dr. Emily this is Maryam (PNW) This is a great video with information that's so much needed. I appreciate your calm, well rounded approach to preparedness, mental preparedness being as important as physical preparedness. Do you feel powdered vitamins are better than vitamin pills? Can you do more of these videos in the future ? Blessings to you and your family! Maryam
@smithsmith9510 thank you Maryam! It does seem like people are enjoying this video, maybe I should branch out and do more like it. I had my children with hospital-affiliated nurse midwives and they encouraged me to use liquid/powder rather than pill supplements because they are easier to digest. I also think the powders would be easier to divide if I needed to stretch them out or if I needed to supplement children's diets in an emergency situation.
The Mid-South was hit by seven earthquakes in just one day. The strongest earthquake - a magnitude three - was felt on Monday across parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and Kentucky.
@yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 thank you for telling me. Makes me feel uneasy, seems like a lot of this lately. This and those recent shakes in Nevada and off the west coast...
@@AmericanResiliency A damaging earthquake of magnitude 6 or greater occurs about once every 80 years in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The last one of that magnitude was a 6.6 event in 1895 near Charleston, Missouri - 129 years ago. Many dangers in the world.
@@yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 sometimes I just shake my head. How many things at once can be overdue, and so serious? We prepare as best we can, but at times like these, it is powerful how much we must rely on grace
@@AmericanResiliency The wisdom of Solomon, Ben Franklin, Tao Te Ching (Stefan Stenudd BEST), Budda, and many many more help to guide me. Mr. Webster says grace is unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification. I depend on what I know and can figure out to guide me. I pray to my God for guidance and the energy to move forward. He has not let me down. I seek to make the world better in all ways I can. The rest is out of my hands.
My prep includes talking about constituting ourselves as a global digital democracy, based on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter. That's reasonably unreasonable.
Thanks. People can google those documents for more information. One of my favorites is Article 12 of the UDHR, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with their privacy, family, home, or correspondence, nor to attacks on their honor and reputation."
It's so hard to focus on work or study when this is looming in the background. I would so much rather just work on building something, maybe a farmstead community to become more self-sufficient.
@Ashitaka255 Dancing Rabbit is a community I know of in Missouri where people are doing that. A friend of mine visited there recently, she said it was not too culty.
Bad as natural gas is, we have a gas generator. If a storm knocks the power out, the same storm is likely to flood the basement unless the sump pump operates. The sump pump requires electricity. Maybe we should have a battery bank too in case both power and gas get cut off. As long as gas flows, the generator provides for heating, cooling, cooking, device charging, and we can make these available to neighbors. I wish I knew of a non-polluting way to keep the basement dry. Flooding brings disease and pests, not to mention damage to house and contents. When electricity returns, flooding can elevate risk of electrocution or fire. We're far enough inland to be safe from sea level rise or ocean storm surge, but with lots of little creeks, the water table is high. People need to take indoor flooding seriously.
@robinschauffler444 I hope the solar generators will get good enough to replace gas, but they're just not there yet for most of us- so expensive still. For folks who have enough financial bandwidth to move emergency power away from gas, big backup batteries are starting to get more cost effective. Keeping the sump pump on is so important. Can't let perfect be the enemy of the good in that situation. The house I grew up in flooded from the water table up- total nightmare for my poor parents.
Can you please do one for India? I have a couple friends who come from India, and the opening of Ministry of the Future has a heatwave there kill a hundred million people.
Just to add to your point about dependencies, many if not most Americans have a caffeine addiction. You might be able to store a costco sized 3 week supply of coffee beans, but 3 months worth gets into the full nutjob territory. For a longer term (and also probably better for the planet) supply, you can locally supply your own caffeine with the native Yaupon holly plant. Its an evergreen, and the leaves can be brewed for a drink stronger than black tea, but not quite as strong as coffee (youd need to drink 4 cups of yaupon to equal 3 cups of coffee for those helpless caffeine addicts out there). It is very closely related to Yerba mate, and the flavor is somewhat comparable. The berries arent edible for humans, but many birds and other animals can eat them, and they are a traditional source of winter nutrition for our naticlve wildlife. Win for me and my caffeine addiction, win for the birds, stupid easy to grow. Whats not to love! Also, on your point about making it part of your usual rituals, I actually swapped from making espresso for myself on the weekends to doing Yaupon tea time. If i couldn't go to work in the morning and instead spent a few minutes preparing my tea, well, my brain would go "yay! Weekend!"
@mrbeansification ahhh! I have heard many people talk about the potential of yaupon holly as our native caffeine plant, and I know a few people who have tried the drink, but you are the first person I've heard from you is establishing a full ritual, with growth and consumption, around this plant. Thank you for sharing this, I hope folks will read this and feel inspired to grow in their practice- I know I do!
@AmericanResiliency I do the same with my mint to make mojitos on summer afternoons! If I get crazy, next season I might try sugar extraction from cane to add to it. Not crazy enough to try making the other ingredients for the mojito yet though, lol!
How do you feel about bird-flu risks now that there have been human cases, through animal exposure. With the Trump administration prohibiting federal health agencies from any external communications, this feels worrisome.
sorry! I don't have logos on the slides for other organizations and it's either an all or none for parity. When I redo the endcaps I will consider making this change
This is a healthy attitude I admire. Emily, how do you feel about Guy McPherson's conclusion that we should relax because we're well past the point of no return?
climate scientists say there are many tipping points. we can always pass more of them. there is potential in the short term to slow down that process. the longer we have to prepare/the slower the disasters come the more time we have to build resiliency.
also, having just googled McPherson, I think you would do well to take his predictions with several grains of salt. Human extinction by 2026? There's still time, but I doubt that lol
@internetfox I really like the way you put this. Also, @TahoeQ I see building resilience as an act of service as well as self-interest. I am fundamentally focused on biodiversity, though I certainly don't expect people to agree with me on everything I care about to want them to be able to access climate information. Everyone should be able to access climate information. Here's my point though. We are in an extinction event, we are in a bottleneck situation. How fast or slow it will go, I don't know. Let's say it goes really bad. If I can protect and nurture other life forms a little longer by building resilience, I live in an environment that is likely to have a higher percentage of lifeforms survive a Permian-type extinction than most. I'm in the center of a continent on deep soil. In a bottleneck event, small populations matter. Even in the worst case scenarios we can justify imagining, I see my resilience building as potentially contributing to the storehouse of life.
@@AmericanResiliencyThat's beautiful, Emily. It expresses the passion I've put into my nativized pollinator & rain gardens better than I ever could say.❤
Thank you thank you. So appreciate the creation of a common sense holistic approach to creating resilience!!
Finally! A reasonable voice for this complex and misunderstood topic. Your advice is spot on and brings sanity to a subject that so many people are afraid to address. As climate change grows, we'll need our preps more than ever. Thank you for such a warm and calm approach!
@1DigitalSherpa thanks so much for these kind words. I am always nervous to speak on these topics where it's really not coming out of my academic type background. So I especially appreciate your feedback that it is useful.
You are such a blessing. Truly. Whenever I start to drift and feel hopeless, you remind me to prepare and pray, not panic.
@purpledreams8017 we all have those drifting moments. This is a sad anniversary for me- just a difficult day on the calendar, I think for many families- and I struggled to post this video. But it helps because I can come and connect with people here, many I have been talking with for years now. Community helps me move forward. I appreciate the reminder to pray- I should go out in the sunshine and pray maybe, before I write.
@AmericanResiliency I am taking this moment to pray for you. May you be strengthened, comforted, renewed, and lifted. 🙏
This is some seriously good advice - not just for the physical prep, but also for the mental & emotional prep (like the dopamine withdrawal most of us will feel without constant access to technology). I think scheduling some low tech days is just as important as stocking up on food & water. Good stuff - great video!
@BlueJayinPA thank you! And I agree. In almost any SHTF scenario, you're gonna have an easier time finding food than a working internet connection
Your nailing it. Resilience described by Dave Snowden is like an estuary. Capacity to return to one’s former self after inundated with massive changes. Robust being more like an oak tree - strong unyielding until topping over.
@SnowyOwlPrepper beautiful metaphors- thank you
Better prep now , storms are going to increase in# and severity. Drill baby drill is getting us there quicker.
@Hadenought65 it's pretty clear no major power is willing to take the foot off the gas. Plenty of the '24 storms gave parts of the grid a good hammering. You're absolutely right they're likely to get worse, and soon.
One of the best things I did was to talk with neighbors who I trust about the frequency and duration of power outages. Where I live, most of those are caused by winter storms and summer thunderstorms. Winter outages can last 10 days or longer. Our longest summer outage was three days that gives you solid and historical events to help you plan.
@danamyrocket that's a great topic for conversation with neighbors. Clear, reality-focused, helps connect with people on a topic with evident need. Love it.
I'm going to chat with my neighbors about this! We have been affected by an increasing number of outages the last few years.
Thank you for this ❤ I hate admitting this but we were woefully under-prepared for Helene. It was a huge wake-up call and we've been stocking up since stores reopened. Finding room to store enough water for a family of 4 isn't easy. I LOVE the rain catchment system your friend has, that's the best way to collect and store large quantities of water. A good prepping rule is "3 uses" for everything, so items that have multiple uses are vital. Take Vodka for example, it's fuel, disinfectant, barterable(sp?), can be used for tinctures etc. A survival seed bank is also important, governments aren't telling people about the global crop failures we have been experiencing which is compounded by shipping routes being disrupted, Victory gardens are making a comeback and that's a good thing but growing conditions are constantly changing. We have a lot to get ready for ❤
@koicaine1230 water storage is challenging! Agreed that a rainwater capture like Ash has is ideal. But for indoor storage, for drinking water storage, I like Reliance aqua-tainers. Lot of people speak well of them.
relianceoutdoors.com/products/aqua-tainer-4g-15l
And thank you for mentioning vodka. If there's no one in the household who struggles where having alcohol in the house would be a problem, vodka is exceptionally useful.
water storage in non-plastic containers is absolutely mindboggling
@@astrocoastalprocessor I looked at non-plastic containers, and everything was just so far out of my price range.... so I figured, Reliance has a decent reputation, and that'll do for short term. Leveling up at my place, it's got to be more about supply than storage as far as I can see.
I found used wine casks outfitted to use as rain barrels online. Any thoughts on that idea?
@robinschaufler444 Wooden? I think *most* woods are safe to use but some woods contain natural chemicals that can be detrimental but I'm not sure exactly which ones. I would think Oak would be fine but they have tannins that could affect acidity and taste ❤️ Basically, I don't know enough about the type of woods but I know people do use homemade wooden barrels ❤️
I deeply appreciate your dedication to informing us about climate change's minute complications. Thank you. These videos are helping me get grounded and set goals
@ocaptmycaptain that makes me so happy to hear- thank you for telling me!
Bicycles are great! Not only are they an efficient way to get around without burning fuel, but they are simple enough for the average rider with a basic set of tools to perform most necessary maintenance.
An ebike can also be a great option. While they aren't quite as simple, they vastly expand the scenarios where a bicycle is practical. Mine is a large cargo bike and it still uses 1/10th as much electricity per mile as an electric car. It would be entirely reasonable to keep it charged up from a portable solar setup or occasional use of a generator.
For the longest-term storage of flour, buy whole wheat berries and grind them when you need them. We have a Wonder Junior Deluxe hand-crank mill and it works fine. This might be overkill for a 3 month prep -- if you bake a lot, you can rotate through a 3 month supply of flour pretty quickly. Just putting it out there.
Great video as always! Thanks for sharing.
@keegan854 excellent point about whole wheat berries!
I grind nut flour and coarse grain and legume flour with my grandma's nut and meat grinder. It has 2 patent dates embossed on the crank, 1897 and 1900. It might have been a wedding present c. 1916. I shopped for hand crank grinders online, and the design is still exactly the same. I want one with a stone grinder head for finer stone ground flour. It's easy and fun to use. I'm a senior with no grandchildren but I can imagine children having a blast taking turns at the crank.
@@robinschaufler444 stone grinder head is niiiice for long term use
Appreciate your calming narrative 🙂 as always, good reminder of the basics and our priorities 🙌
@denisefelton5207 thank you!
@@AmericanResiliency ❤️
I think it’s interesting that people in Norway were recently mailed information about having at least one week of food and water on hand after previously being told three days. They were also told to have iodine tablets which I have never bought before. Not necessarily because they expect a war, but when the Chernobyl disaster happened the radiation was first detected in Sweden because the Soviet government didn’t tell anyone outside of the immediate area.
I do have a week or two of backpacking dehydrated meals that I liked, and a can of dehydrated eggs, but that is for a last resort. Mostly I keep one pound cans of chicken from Costco. They last a few years, but I rotate the older ones to the front and the new ones in the back of the cabinet and I write on the cans with sharpie so they don’t get close to expiring. They can be used for a lot of recipes.
The longer term emergency is the hardest because I’m not good at gardening. I can occasionally plant things and remember to harvest them. One of my neighbors keeps a garden and another has chickens. I just have apple trees which I chose because the apples they produce are good for storage and I like them. After five years of hit or miss the trees have produced a huge amount.
I live in a rainy area, so water is never an issue except in summer which is the dry season. Catching rain from the roof in barrels is great for watering the garden. I keep several backpacking filters because while I have two good sized rivers within a mile of my house and a spring fed creek three houses away, Giardia parasites are prevalent in a lot of the water.
My Sawyer filter has a washable element, so you aren’t dependent on having to buy another.
I can do three days, or three weeks on my own, but for three months, I think community is important.
@kenmcclow8963 there are so many skills besides gardening- and if we need to get serious about local food production, it's gonna be a community effort anyway. I think any community would want someone with your knowledge and skills even if your thumb is more of a moderate green. None of us can do everything.
Thanks for bringing up that info about Norway. I knew a family from Ukraine when I was younger that was living in Kyiv at the time of the Chernobyl disaster. Both of the parents were engineers. They told people all the time, it was worth the tiny cost of keeping iodine tablets on hand. A small preparation, an inexpensive preparation, that I wish I had mentioned in the video.
healthy reality based sense of security. blessings to you and the AR community holding a culture together
@liamconsidine thank you
Thanks. Great reminders and prompts. And great attitude!
Rolling with the punches - tough to learn to do, but a great strategy!
One of your best yet, Emily.
@CS-ms2ip aw, thank you! That means a lot, I have a lot of faith in your judgement
Appreciate your posts. Thank you for your authenticity and your practability and badassery.
@erinmunoz3183 badassery?! sweet, I'm honored
Hi Dr Emily great video..As someone who is a 3 weeker going to 3 months it is tough to do.. it takes time and money and alot of thought.But the effort is worthwhile better to be prepared then have nothing..
@michaelschiessl8357 3 weeks is not small potatoes- nice job!!! 3 weeks is much more resilience than most people have- lets you take care of yourself, lets you help others in a disaster. I hope you feel good about the work you have done!
Getting to 3 months is a significant investment in money and time and behavior. I think you have to do it over time to get into the right habits- because it's not like you're buying a bucket of stuff you stick in a closet. I feel like for me, continuing to learn is a big part of that 3 month way of being.
Excellent update! I have been working steadily on my preps for the past couple of years and constantly rotate items. I remember this how my parents lived back in the 70s and 80s so it has been an easy muscle to rebuild.
@stephenmkahler thank you! Rotation is key- and I like that connection to the past. It really wasn't long ago at all that many more people kept a deep pantry.
I’ve been working on this on and off for a long time. I enjoy living on the road in my SUV turned micro camper so I have a lot of basics but need to gather them together to be more organized in case of an emergency. Trying to dig around a dark garage if the power is out wouldn’t be fun and it d probably forget the important things.
@ddeuerme in a small space like that, organization is so important. I like the reminder here as well to keep emergency illumination really accessible- always good to know where a backup flashlight is, well enough to find it in the dark.
This is incredible work!!
@LauraKayeChamberlain-vb7dd thank you!
Great show!!!!
@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse thanks Sandy!
Excellent prepping advice.
Thank you! What a sensible and useful video. 🙂
@MsLeenite, thank you!
I have asked myself question 1 multiple times in the past week. I'm not sure if I'm appropriately responding to reality, because it's pretty new and genuinely unanticipated.
@OhWell0 I feel that. Even just from the climate information coming in, even ignore everything else which is so bonkers, sometimes I'm like oh. Maybe it is all a simulation, because this simulation is obviously super busted.
The genuine weirdness of our reality right now, I think it is especially important we be able to be in touch with ourselves, with our feelings- and with the world around us. Anyone who isn't asking themselves question 1, how do you not just check out on some level? If you're not asking yourself if you're a nut, it seems likely to me that you may in fact be one.
Just an add-on comment re: a potential pandemic. I am fortunate to have an actual virologist in my circle of contacts and I questioned him a few days ago and asked for his assessment of the risk. This was part of his response:
"Also yes 'more spread = more likelihood of a h2h mutation emerging' is generally true as each infection is like playing the lottery. That being said I think there are other equally/more important factors. For example:
- Which host the virus is coming from: if there are massive bird-related outbreaks, the risk to us isn't necessarily higher than if there were smaller outbreaks in mammals.
- What virus is spreading: if there are frequent outbreaks of a virus very poorly suited to infecting humans, the risk may be lower than occasional outbreaks of a more human-adapted strain.
I think this is well illustrated by the 2009 pandemic-everyone was watching H5N1 because of how widespread it was in Asia, but the real pandemic was H1N1 swine flu in Mexico. Nowadays all eyes are on H5N1 again, but CDC rates a swine H1N1 virus in China as having more pandemic potential."
@janetdowell6005 excellent information. This supports the line of thinking that we should be keeping an eye on infections in pigs.
The H5N1 infections in humans so far that were acquired through dairy farms have been very low mortality. I hear from some folks online who are already implementing massive H5N1 precautions and while I think their hearts are in the right place, and these issues are real, I don't see this as a reasonable time to be putting a lot of limits on ones life based on concern about H5N1.
Can we move in with you?! ❤Thank you so much for sharing your brilliant philosophy, mind and heart with us all!
@andreapinal5523 aw, you are so welcome! & seriously, if SHTF, anyone who wants to come over here is gonna find me making THE MOST beans & rice. We'll figure it out from there.
Thank you. Can you expand on "Legal documents"?
@LoveIsEverything2468 definitely any ID or passports. If you have a lease or a physical copy of your insurance policies, you want those- documents that establish your address. Those can be important for obtaining aid right after a disaster.
For some families, you might want copies of marriage, divorce, adoption, or custody papers. For others, wills, legal power of attorney, or trust documents. If you have appraised valuables, it doesn't hurt to stick copies of appraisal documents in the go bag.
If there's a document you own that establishes your identity, address, relationships, rights, or possessions, I would put a copy of that document in the stuff you grab for evacuation.
As someone who just turned 30, I'm lost on what to do. My friends and family are all in Florida and Im close to buying a house within the next year. Do I move to a place better suited for climate change in the great lakes region, or stick where my community is in a zone that is screwed? And this stuff gets to me and fills me with immense anxiety.
@DefThrone this is a seriously hard problem you're facing.
First off, that's awesome you are close to buying a house. Congratulations! That is huge!
Second, I wonder if there's a way to pull apart the problem a little differently, where it isn't so all or nothing. Depending on where you are in Florida, there are different levels of risk. Like, Gainsville is a totally different story than the Keys. Just taking Gainsville as an example, if I had multigenerational community there, a lot of good friends there, I'd probably choose to stay there and think about ways to build resilience in place. Community matters, and while there are parts of Florida that have very bad outlooks, that's not the entire state.
And while you are correct that the great lakes region is a good bet, there's also a lot of resilience potential closer to home, in Georgia. Depending on where your people are in Florida, that might still put you in driving range to make it easy to stay connected with your community.
I think it's perfectly natural to feel anxiety about these important decisions. Sometimes it helps to remember there's no perfect choice- there's no place that's going to have zero problems and it's going to feel like 2019 forever. I hope this response helps you a little, gives a little different perspective. You are smart to be considering these issues.
This has stressed me to my core for 7 years now. As a single mother of 3 boys I HAVE TRIED, but cant even afford our basic needs at present.. this is so depressing and feels so helpless. I dont have money for any of these things 😣
@TheMantaRae it is so hard to be in that position. When my older children were little I was very poor, I am sure you often do what I did and feed your boys before you give yourself anything. Seven years is a long time to experience such terrible stress. In your position, if it is at all possible- and I would certainly have empathy if you did not have the energy- you might be better off focusing on developing skills around gardening or sewing. I say these areas because the startup costs can be really low- you can get seeds with SNAP.
I think it's also worth looking at the skills you already are developing that are intensely resilient. A woman who is caring for her children on her own, I know full well, tends to be a person who is very able to roll with whatever comes at her.
Wishing you all the best- what we cultivate inside us can't be lost. Plenty of people prep and then a tornado takes out their place and they need to rely on their neighbors anyway! What's inside is what can't be taken away.
Go once a month to the food bank and also food closets for non perishable food. Good luck
37 minutes instead of using tons toilet paper..learn to wipe as most of the rest of the world does…or a bidet!😊 GREAT information!!!!!!
1-gallon bottles of water I keep in my car "leak"-they don't actually leak, but condensation forms when the temperature changes, and it makes the carpet wet.
@randalalansmith9883 I find this to be an issue, too- condensation is a really annoying part of water storage. Could get mold in the carpet, right? I keep my car stuff in an egg crate so that there's kinda more breathing room around it, but it's not a perfect solution.
Let me recommend Che Guevara’s book ‘Guerrilla Warfare’. There’s STUFF in there
Greetings Dr. Emily this is Maryam (PNW)
This is a great video with information that's so much needed. I appreciate your calm, well rounded approach to preparedness, mental preparedness being as important as physical preparedness. Do you feel powdered vitamins are better than vitamin pills? Can you do more of these videos in the future ?
Blessings to you and your family!
Maryam
@smithsmith9510 thank you Maryam! It does seem like people are enjoying this video, maybe I should branch out and do more like it.
I had my children with hospital-affiliated nurse midwives and they encouraged me to use liquid/powder rather than pill supplements because they are easier to digest. I also think the powders would be easier to divide if I needed to stretch them out or if I needed to supplement children's diets in an emergency situation.
The Mid-South was hit by seven earthquakes in just one day. The strongest earthquake - a magnitude three - was felt on Monday across parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and Kentucky.
@yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 thank you for telling me. Makes me feel uneasy, seems like a lot of this lately. This and those recent shakes in Nevada and off the west coast...
@@AmericanResiliency A damaging earthquake of magnitude 6 or greater occurs about once every 80 years in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The last one of that magnitude was a 6.6 event in 1895 near Charleston, Missouri - 129 years ago.
Many dangers in the world.
@@yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 sometimes I just shake my head. How many things at once can be overdue, and so serious? We prepare as best we can, but at times like these, it is powerful how much we must rely on grace
@@AmericanResiliency The wisdom of Solomon, Ben Franklin, Tao Te Ching (Stefan Stenudd BEST), Budda, and many many more help to guide me.
Mr. Webster says grace is unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.
I depend on what I know and can figure out to guide me. I pray to my God for guidance and the energy to move forward.
He has not let me down. I seek to make the world better in all ways I can. The rest is out of my hands.
@@yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 I appreciated the chance to sit with this discernment- beautiful and powerful
My prep includes talking about constituting ourselves as a global digital democracy, based on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter. That's reasonably unreasonable.
@johnkintree763 drop some links if you like, I don't know if people reading know about or have access to those documents
Thanks. People can google those documents for more information. One of my favorites is Article 12 of the UDHR, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with their privacy, family, home, or correspondence, nor to attacks on their honor and reputation."
Woohoo! First to get WEIRD with a comment for the Algo boost!
@davidwatson7604 lol thanks man- hope you have a good day!
It's so hard to focus on work or study when this is looming in the background. I would so much rather just work on building something, maybe a farmstead community to become more self-sufficient.
@Ashitaka255 Dancing Rabbit is a community I know of in Missouri where people are doing that. A friend of mine visited there recently, she said it was not too culty.
Bad as natural gas is, we have a gas generator. If a storm knocks the power out, the same storm is likely to flood the basement unless the sump pump operates. The sump pump requires electricity. Maybe we should have a battery bank too in case both power and gas get cut off. As long as gas flows, the generator provides for heating, cooling, cooking, device charging, and we can make these available to neighbors.
I wish I knew of a non-polluting way to keep the basement dry. Flooding brings disease and pests, not to mention damage to house and contents. When electricity returns, flooding can elevate risk of electrocution or fire. We're far enough inland to be safe from sea level rise or ocean storm surge, but with lots of little creeks, the water table is high.
People need to take indoor flooding seriously.
@robinschauffler444 I hope the solar generators will get good enough to replace gas, but they're just not there yet for most of us- so expensive still. For folks who have enough financial bandwidth to move emergency power away from gas, big backup batteries are starting to get more cost effective.
Keeping the sump pump on is so important. Can't let perfect be the enemy of the good in that situation. The house I grew up in flooded from the water table up- total nightmare for my poor parents.
Candles and oil lamps!
Can you please do one for India? I have a couple friends who come from India, and the opening of Ministry of the Future has a heatwave there kill a hundred million people.
@thomasmazanec977 India would be a good one- complex AMOC modeling impacts for India
How about three bad years?
fuck yeah. ty
Just to add to your point about dependencies, many if not most Americans have a caffeine addiction. You might be able to store a costco sized 3 week supply of coffee beans, but 3 months worth gets into the full nutjob territory.
For a longer term (and also probably better for the planet) supply, you can locally supply your own caffeine with the native Yaupon holly plant. Its an evergreen, and the leaves can be brewed for a drink stronger than black tea, but not quite as strong as coffee (youd need to drink 4 cups of yaupon to equal 3 cups of coffee for those helpless caffeine addicts out there).
It is very closely related to Yerba mate, and the flavor is somewhat comparable. The berries arent edible for humans, but many birds and other animals can eat them, and they are a traditional source of winter nutrition for our naticlve wildlife.
Win for me and my caffeine addiction, win for the birds, stupid easy to grow. Whats not to love!
Also, on your point about making it part of your usual rituals, I actually swapped from making espresso for myself on the weekends to doing Yaupon tea time. If i couldn't go to work in the morning and instead spent a few minutes preparing my tea, well, my brain would go "yay! Weekend!"
@mrbeansification ahhh! I have heard many people talk about the potential of yaupon holly as our native caffeine plant, and I know a few people who have tried the drink, but you are the first person I've heard from you is establishing a full ritual, with growth and consumption, around this plant. Thank you for sharing this, I hope folks will read this and feel inspired to grow in their practice- I know I do!
@AmericanResiliency I do the same with my mint to make mojitos on summer afternoons! If I get crazy, next season I might try sugar extraction from cane to add to it.
Not crazy enough to try making the other ingredients for the mojito yet though, lol!
@@mrbeansification I haven't done a distillation since chem lab. Weird wines, though? I'm ready to go!
How do you feel about bird-flu risks now that there have been human cases, through animal exposure.
With the Trump administration prohibiting federal health agencies from any external communications, this feels worrisome.
Can you put in my new logo ? As one of your supporters.
sorry! I don't have logos on the slides for other organizations and it's either an all or none for parity. When I redo the endcaps I will consider making this change
This is a healthy attitude I admire. Emily, how do you feel about Guy McPherson's conclusion that we should relax because we're well past the point of no return?
climate scientists say there are many tipping points. we can always pass more of them. there is potential in the short term to slow down that process. the longer we have to prepare/the slower the disasters come the more time we have to build resiliency.
also, having just googled McPherson, I think you would do well to take his predictions with several grains of salt. Human extinction by 2026? There's still time, but I doubt that lol
@internetfox I really like the way you put this.
Also, @TahoeQ I see building resilience as an act of service as well as self-interest. I am fundamentally focused on biodiversity, though I certainly don't expect people to agree with me on everything I care about to want them to be able to access climate information. Everyone should be able to access climate information.
Here's my point though. We are in an extinction event, we are in a bottleneck situation. How fast or slow it will go, I don't know. Let's say it goes really bad. If I can protect and nurture other life forms a little longer by building resilience, I live in an environment that is likely to have a higher percentage of lifeforms survive a Permian-type extinction than most. I'm in the center of a continent on deep soil. In a bottleneck event, small populations matter. Even in the worst case scenarios we can justify imagining, I see my resilience building as potentially contributing to the storehouse of life.
Dr Emily great and on point video..I'm a 3 weeker but working on 3 months It takes time and money it is doable just have to do it👍👍
@@AmericanResiliencyThat's beautiful, Emily. It expresses the passion I've put into my nativized pollinator & rain gardens better than I ever could say.❤