Food Storage/Survival Kits/Emergency Preparedness

[JayBone]

Anyone on this site actually do this. Canned foods, water, fuel, etc for a year.

By the way: Guns are a givin.

It's very intresting to read about online or watch on youtube. I have watched Glen Beck and he says Food Storage should be done by everyone. It's something that has been talked about for years. Does anyone think were getting closer to a catastophy?


I'm not talking about when the Zombies attack cause we know that will happen!

[Mr_RPM]

every time I bring it up the family looks at me weird. I have a friend who has a grandfather who has guns buried properly all around in hidden spots and has everything needed to make black powder and cast his own lead balls. He lives on a farm out in the middle of no where so Im guessing he plans on farming if needed.

I guess their whole family already has it planned out and plans on going there.
my family...nothing. haha just a 12 gauge and a few hundred rounds. luckily i live in a good hunting area but...

[Dirtcrasher]

I agree about all of it. It won't take much to cut this population down pretty quick.......

Even canned goods have a shelf life, but I'd eat them in a bad situation - I already do :lol:

Guns - Claim them stolen and hide them. You may need them desperately someday.

I look forward to me on my 350X searching for gas and food (after I eat my cats :( ) I'd love to rule the streets!!

This country is just going to crap faster than I can crap...............

[ironchop]

my family thought I was nuts the first few years while i got prepared but after watching news all those years and whatnot, they are completely on board now and help me in every way.

The system we rely on here in this country is so precarious that like DC sed, it would take drop in the bucket to send us over the edge. The sheer amount of Americans who place all their faith and trust in this system to provide them with their survival is apalling....yank the rug out from under them like in Katrina and those who have no survival skills will be prone to prey on others and if you have no means to protect yourself and family, you are gonna be in dire straits.

since one can make white lightning out in the woods, could one use the same methods to make ethyl alcohol fuel for their (atvs) vehicles? This is my latest avenue of study

[sittinguy]

I'm not surprised to see this subject come up,,, even here. It just goes to show me how people are finally starting to wake up and see how fragile our oil driven lives are.

I have been preparing for almost 3 years now. And YES, I think we are on the edge of collapse of the dollar. I've become almost addicted to prepping. I look for pessimism porn everyday. And its easy to find loads of bad news about the economy. I have 2 little kids, I could at least stay home for 6 months, and never leave the house once.

[cattle-dog]

well it does not shock me to see this here, by the end of the coming year we will be able to heat our home, have 12 volt lights and power, i am in the process of putting up a 60x60 steel barn to keep tractors and cars locked up with a very large supply of diesal and gasoline,
there are foods available that have a 2 year shelf life, and we have 86 acres so i will grow alot of my own,
my livestock fenceing is all solar powered, we have a drinkable well and septic so no human waste issues, also have a sistern with a 12 volt rv water pump.
last but not least i have a 2 year supply of food for my horses and dogs. also 2 years for us. also have stocked up on seed for planting, my trade as a carpenter will allways be needed so bartering for things will be possible.
i have told my family to be prepared and they laugh, well if it does happen they have been warned and should have been ready, if it doesnt i have alot of food to eat !!!!!
am i a nut case? maybe i do ride trikes!!! cattledog

[sittinguy]

Mountain House freeze dried lasts 20 years.
And my family thinks I'm crazy too. I always get the chuckles when I bring it up. I try to hint around so not to totally let on what I have, so they don't come begging if TSHTF. I will turn them away.

[bigbadktm]

wow you guys are prepared, we hardly have food to get through the week, let alone a year. i do keep my 12 ga easily accessible and if obama takes our guns, mine was stolen, then I'm moving to AZ

[300rman]

Mountain House freeze dried lasts 20 years.
And my family thinks I'm crazy too. I always get the chuckles when I bring it up. I try to hint around so not to totally let on what I have, so they don't come begging if TSHTF. I will turn them away.

exactly. tell no-one what you have, because they will come looking for handouts. if people are too stupid to see that it wouldnt take much disruption at all to ruin their lives, then they dont deserve to survive, plain and simple. survival of the smartest.....if nothing happens, great! but if it did......

[harryredtrike]

i almost wish it would happen tomorrow,ive been ready and would love to see the whole thing come apart at the seams.but i hope it holds together for my kid,so she can have a normal life.

[ironchop]

i almost wish it would happen tomorrow,ive been ready and would love to see the whole thing come apart at the seams.but i hope it holds together for my kid,so she can have a normal life.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Me too, Harry....since around 1995 or so....you can only patch the ole barn six or seven hundred times before you have to burn the friggin thing down and start over

but that same year my daughter came along and then a son and another daughter and now knowing it has to come apart at the seams, it is mighty unfair that our kids have to pay the price one way or another

mighty unfair

[JayBone]

cattle dog,

It's awesome you have so much property, but just watch if you try to grow your own food. Monsanto company has gone around the world and grabbed seeds from plants then was able to get a patened on their genetically altered seeds. You all should watch "The corporation" on Hulu. It's about an hour long & very interesting. Monsanto has created seeds that will only grow one time. What does that tell you.

[sittinguy]

The coolest thing I got was a trifuel generator, it will run on gas/propane/natural gas. I was tierd of trying to store gas and rotate it. Propane doesn't go bad, I went out and got 12 bottles. So with a grill with a sideburner, and my generator, I should be good for a while. I recently got a solar cooker as well and it works awsome,, gets up to about 335 degrees

[Escanabajosh]

Big Brothers one step ahead of ya's on the grow your own food thing, check this link out

http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html

[Escanabajosh]

Got this as a email from a friend who must have read it somewhere on the net, check out the bottom I put * by them and spaced am out a little. Even big brother is packing up the food!





Skeptics who continue to assert that the economic plight of the United States has been overstated need not look further than the Pentagon to find out just how wrong they are. CNBC has learned that the Pentagon is currently playing out “war games” pertinent to an American economic meltdown. According to CNBC, “The Pentagon is planning for real economic threats to America.”
CNBC’s Business News analyst Eamon Javers explains:

Ever since the crash of 2008, the Defense Intelligence establishment has really been paying a lot of attention to global markets and how they could serve as a threat to U.S. National security interests. At one upcoming seminar that we’re going to see here next month, they’re going to be taking a look at a lot of the issues … [including] the use of sovereign wealth funds to manipulate markets, currencies; nation state economic collapse, sovereign default, nation state instability; U.S. Allies’ budgets, deficits, national security infrastructures.

Similarly, the Army has launched an operation called “Unified Quest 2011” in which it studies the “implications of ‘large scale economic breakdown’ inside the United States that would force the Army to keep ‘domestic order amid civil unrest.'” The Quest also trains the Army in how to “deal with fragmented global power and drastically lower budgets.”
In October, the United States Marine Corps visited J.P. Morgan to “study markets and the economy.”
Javers concludes:

All different parts of the Pentagon and Defense Intelligence establishment are looking at markets and looking at ways they can present a new kind of threat to the United States. These are the guys whose job it is to think of the worst possible things that could happen.

According to Wired.com, the Army hosts a Unified Quest every year, which entails “the Army’s chief of staff [instructing] talented mid-career and senior officers and senior enlisted (wo)men to evaluate where the service is falling short — and propose remedies.”
However, the 2011 Unified Quest lends truth to assertions that the United States is indeed not witnessing an upward economic recovery, as so many in our federal government have asserted. Soldiers are being trained in evacuation and detainment as a response to rioting, revealing the possibility that the United States military may resort to martial law in order to maintain order.
Unified Quest 2011 also prepares soldiers to act as diplomats in the event that there is a limited availability of diplomats at combat outposts, or on the streets contending with hungry and angry Americans. Wired.com writes, “There’s a strong consensus that negotiations ought to be part of the Army’s toolkit — something backed by a ream of recent doctrinal manuals and various short courses in negotiation at the Army’s many schools.”
Blacklisted News explains that the Pentagon’s war games are just one of many examples that show the direction in which the world is headed. Others include the decentralization of FEMA from a single distribution facility in Washington to 15 regional facilities across the nation.

*Blacklisted News also claims, “Anecdotal evidence indicates that the U.S. government has been the leading buyer of freeze dried foods for the last couple of years, and private emergency shelter contractors have reported a shortage in equipment and supplies for building personal-sized bunkers.”

*Other global powers are apparently preparing for “Doomsday” scenarios. Russia has reportedly been preparing for the development of 5,000 new underground bunkers for the city of Moscow, while the European Union commissioned the building of a “Doomsday Seed Vault” in a mountainside several hundred feet above sea level in 2006.

*Additionally, FEMA’s website recommends that American families have emergency preparedness supplies readily available, including food and water, for at least several weeks

[atctim]

My Neighbors are Amish - they already are 100% self sufficient. I will move into their community ad stud myself out for food and shelter!

[Bretmd94]

I'm hoping for zombies.

Rule #1 Endurance - Kite the zombies to buy time

Rule #2 Double tap - That second bullet is always worth it to make sure they are dead.

[sittinguy]

I'm kinda hoping it will happen before I get to old, and all my preps go to hell. I feel sad for my kids. It doesn't look like they will get the same life as we all had.

I was buying silver rounds back when they were $12, look at them now at $29. Oil is definetly going to go back to near of over $100.

Strangely things seem to be going along just fine. But I fear food inflation will begin to sneak in soon, and gas will go above $3 very soon.

Notice how we didn't see the normal hoilday jobs this year. And consumer debt is creeping back up.

[trikes4life]

I'm hoping for zombies.

Rule #1 Endurance - Kite the zombies to buy time

Rule #2 Double tap - That second bullet is always worth it to make sure they are dead.
Damn you beat me to it LOL

[tri again]

Think about it.

Most people will run out of food in a few short days, during Katrina, way less since it all got destroyed.

Doctors abandoned their hospital posts to be with their families with the threat of a cholera epidemic and nowhere near enough medications to control, well, ANY outbreak.

Did we learn anything?