I have one plastic bag that is full of other, crumpled plastic bags.
You would not believe how many more bags you can fit in that one bag if you fold them, rather than crumple them!
8 tb media back up. Most non essential shit ever lol.
Figure if we’re without water I’m dead anyway.
Fellow media collector here. I get it! :D
FWIW storing a few extra gallons of water is a very easy prep
i wonder if theres a market for a residential water battery… it would refresh itself as you use your house.
Like… a water tank?
Well, I live 5 meters under sea level. The most realistic disaster to happen to me would involve a giant crushing wave of water, and there’s not much you can do to get out of that.
But since I like backpack hiking, and buying in bulk is cheap, I have something like a month of food, some lifestraws, some water, extra cooking gear, etc.
Just all of my entertainment is stored locally, either on my NAS, or in the form of physical media (books, blu-rays, physical games), so I’m prepared for a long term internet outage. I can also run everything in the house from battery backups and a generator for about three days or possibly up to a week if I immediately turn off everything that’s nonessential. Longer, if I’m in a position to get additional fuel for the generator.
I also live in an area that’s prone to earthquakes so I have a total of two weeks worth of nonperishable food and water split between the bedroom, office, and main living area of the house. Along with first-aid kits, Tylenol, ibuprofen, emergency blankets, and spare cold weather clothes.
I’m generally pretty well prepared for the major emergencies that can happen in my region of the world. Those being prolonged internet/cell outages, power outages, and earthquakes.
question was for non preppers, you sound like a prepper.
Pretty sure the term “prepper” is just shorthand for “doomsday prepper” or something to that effect. People who think the collapse of civilisation is, if not imminent, a strong possibility within the next human lifetime and are preparing for that.
I am definitely not that. I just take precautions against the specific emergencies that occur where I live with a level of regularity.
Blizzards knock out power for hours sometimes into a day or two once or twice a year. We have multiple earthquakes a day, typically in the M1 to M3 range, but M7+ are once a decade events, M9+ are once are century events. Being ready for reasonable natural disasters isn’t prepping, it’s just smart
Where do you draw the line? I don’t even live somewhere where it would be reasonable to expect a major disaster, yet I’ve got some water and non perishables set aside “just in case” alongside a crank powered radio and that sort of stuff. It wasn’t that big of an investment, but if there’s some mega blizzard or whatever I’ll be much better off.
Well, it’s more than one thing but I don’t consider myself as a prepper.
- I have a few months’ worth of food both frozen and canned/dried/long lasting.
- I have enough of flour to bake a bread for a year.
- I have enough toilet paper, toothpaste, shower gel, soap, cleaning supplies, etc. to use it for 6ish months.
- I grow my own veggies. Between October and May I don’t buy any veggies and for the whole year I don’t buy spring onion, radishes and herbs.
- I know how to fix things.
- I know how to cook.
- I have several flashlights and radios with a crank (no battery needed).
- I’m about to install solar panels, wind turbine and rain water collector.
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Used to live in an earthquake zone right in front of the ocean, so tsunamis were always a risk.
So I kept a bug off bag with water, clothes, blanket, cereal bars, lights and a battery pack ready to go by my bike.
I did use it once and skipped all over the traffic going to the shelter. Fortunately the water didn’t rise enough to be a threat, but I thanks to the peace of mind the bag brought, I didn’t even stress during the evacuation
Like… where do you draw the line?
I’ve got water, a purchased “bug out bag”, camping gear, extra clothes and water in the car, batteries, ham radio, and a crowbar.
I’m not a prepper but I consider myself somewhat prepared
This is a good idea, as is first aid, for every day life. I keep thinking I should do similar, as well as a stranded kit for my car, but it never quite comes together.
IMHO: water is the easiest and most important. Stash some bottles
I just discovered some leaking so I no longer have that. It really drives home the point that these need regular, if rare, attention. Also that plastic not only seeps into the water with time, but the jugs eventually degrade enough to leak
What happened to your supply to cause leakage?
Sure, plastic isn’t perfect, but it is cheap and easy to get. I have plastic gallons for my house and car. I’m willing to consume a bit of extra plastic in a disaster situation 🙃
No idea. A couple gallon jugs of water just started leaking. As far as I know, nothing happened to them, nothing was touching them. They were still upright and sealed
Maybe something related to sitting on a concrete floor or seasonal swings in temperature (and no, it hasn’t gotten to freezing here yet, nor has my basement ever frozen).
I think concrete actually reacts with plastic in some cases (I have read as much)
My parents made their house self-sufficient. They have a water pump, filters, and a photovoltaic on the roof that can power the whole house and an EV. They’re planning on using the car‘s battery for the house once it’s too weak to drive. They also installed a wooden stovetop which heats the whole ground floor. As for food, my dad‘s a hunter and inherited way too much ammo for a single lifetime when my grandad passed.
5x 5 gallon jugs of water. A few weeks worth of canned goods. A stack of fire wood. Solar panels and a few batteries to charge small devices like radios. A couple of GMRS radios and a couple of HAM radios. Propane tanks and propane heaters.
This but 2600 gal water, enough solar and battery to run all but my air con, plus an abnormal amount of bullets due to an amazing deal on Russian ammo proves a decade ago.
Also vehicles that can survive an emp.
I dont consider myself a prepper but my hobbies seem to put me in that side of the chart.
We prep based on whats happened or likely to happen.
The most common thing where I live is a power outage. Usually only lasts a half day. Once it was out for 3 days. We have a generator and the gas station isn’t too far away.
As for a water outage. Usually, we get a letter stating when the water will be out but not always. We have buckets to fill. A couple of times I’ve gone to the store and brought home a couple of water cooler jugs.
We always keep extra food on hand.
I mostly prep for digital disasters. Data loss, identity theft, internet outage.
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I keep a backpack in my car with at least two changes of clothes, allergy pills, ibuprofen, sunscreen, and deodorant, toothbrush, and first aid. Worst case I’m ready when shit hits the fan. Best case I’m always ready for a surprise slumber party.
I just like to be prepared for if I get stranded during a storm or my car breaks down
I would say fire, flood and no tap water for three days.
Those are the most probable things that people are not ready for and should be. If you leave in a city near a river, chances are high that the general population (you included) underestimate vastly the risk of flooding. I learnt it this year with the heavy rains in my area.
“General population” is probably what we’re not prepared for. Where I live has a low chance of disaster and I always naively thought that I have credit cards and enough charge on my EV to get 100+ more miles inland and find a hotel. That probably doesn’t work as well when everyone wants to do it at the same time
I’m from an area where the power will go down reliably for several days, up to a week due to either a hurricane or an ice storm. I keep enough pantry food such as rice, lintels, canned soup etc. to get through it, and I have a 72 hour bag I can just grab on my way out to the car should there be a need to evacuate.
I’m bought into the Craftsman V20 cordless tool system, I have a number of batteries and among the tools I have for that set is a chainsaw, a reciprocating saw, and an inverter. I have several different ways of cooking without electricity and 9 ways to start a fire.
I’m ready to wait for Duke Energy to fix what the storm broke.
I have a usb thumb drive
