The Definitive EMP Survival Guide

Items you will need - get some extra for barter - others will also need these "forgotten" items.

Clothes Lines: Since dryers may not work

Clothes Pins for above

Sewing supplies: for mending

Salt: for preserving foods, tanning animal hides and for nutrition - salt is required for nutrition (Need LOTS of salt)

Extra socks - they wear out fast

Shoes - new ones may not be available

Shoe laces

Alcohol - for wound cleansing and a little merriment

Coffee - Folks will crave this once it is gone

Sugar - average person eats 200 lbs a year but is not aware as its in so many processed foods. Its also a great preservative for canning. Also good in wound care.

Honey - never spoils and its is anti-bacterial

Tobacco - one of the top barter items to have

Heritage seeds to grow (and re grow) gardens (include medicinal herbs and tobacco seed)

Garden hand tools

Fertilizer - for the garden

Canned meat - last for years

Dried beans

Flour

Canned vegetables

Canned fruit

Oil for cooking

water purification tabs / systems

Composting toilet system - or an outhouse far away from the water supply - and error here will lead to typhus and cholera outbreak

Lots of toilet paper

Guns / ammo / related cleaning supplies

Vitamins

Wood heating system

Axes / sledge hammer and wedges to process wood for burning

Medicines needed for specific problems

Duct tape and thick plastic to repair broken windows and other issues that arise

Shovels to garden and bury the dead

Oil lamps - extra oil and wicks

books on hand to teach the forgotten skills, educate the children, entertain in the evenings on cold nights

heavy gauge garbage bags

Heavy dutch oven with tri-pod for cooking w/ accessories such as [link to www.amazon.com]

Tripod

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hot pads for above

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Spices for cooking

Nice video.

About a year ago, I bought some EMP resistant bags to put my lap top and basic radios in, and quickly realized two things. The stuff I put in EMP bags was stuff I wasn't using anyway. The stuff I was using, I wasn't going to be constantly taking out of protection and putting back. That includes my Ham radio set up which would be one of the best things to have after an EMP. That's the dilemma. I want to be able to use my Ham radio in an emergency, but I don’t want to have to unpack and reassemble it (and recharge the HT) to do that.

When an EMP does knock out the grid none of the normal day to day stuff will be protected because you can't EMP proof your whole house. Well you could, but who is going to do that? It would be a huge expense and undertaking. Best to pick key communications devices that don't rely on complicated outside tech to work and just stick to the basics. Good Ham radios are not cheap, but if you want to use one after an EMP you need to get a spare to store in a protected case. Right now that makes me a hypocrite, because I can’t afford spare Ham radios, but it’s something to think about.

If you make the box convenient enough you have to put your laptop and other things somewhere, right? That was my thought.

Not knocking your idea at all. It looks cool, should work, and will hold just about anything you want to use after an EMP attack. It is a good idea.

I was just saying that common use items are not likely to be stored somewhere between uses. For myself, the laptop stays next to me on the couch because it sees daily use and the Ham radio I set up for emergencies is bolted to the desk and wired to a battery and maintenance charger. I wasn’t thinking about EMPs when I set it up. My other Ham is a hand held and if I have it with me when the the sky pops, well, I had it with me and not in a box.

If the Lord gives us more time, I hope to set up a rough shelter at my farm and a box like what you built would be a great idea for a bug out location.