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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77046724 United States 02/15/2020 09:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You don't have to prep for 3 years, you only need to prep for about 6 months. By then 90 percent of the population will have starved to death and if you manage to survive that long you have the resources to yourself and anyone else who managed to survive. If you are close to a body of water, know the local edible plants and have shelter you can make it. Start reading up on survival now. SAP manual is good, also Wildwood Wisdom, and make sure you buy up lots of seeds and have a fishing rod, bow and arrow or crossbow, or a slingshot for weapons for hunting. Quoting: The voice of reason 78471573 Ok you bring numbers! Do you have links for this? Common sense does not require links. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75679511 United States 02/15/2020 10:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You don't have to prep for 3 years, you only need to prep for about 6 months. By then 90 percent of the population will have starved to death and if you manage to survive that long you have the resources to yourself and anyone else who managed to survive. If you are close to a body of water, know the local edible plants and have shelter you can make it. Start reading up on survival now. SAP manual is good, also Wildwood Wisdom, and make sure you buy up lots of seeds and have a fishing rod, bow and arrow or crossbow, or a slingshot for weapons for hunting. Quoting: The voice of reason 78471573 Survival mode, you have to throw all societal rules out if you want to make it. This is what kills me about preppers, they dont realize they will be the targets for the mobs....and a rifle isnt any match against a volley of flaming arrows. LOL better to be a prepper than a empty shit headed dumbf%ck little dishrag b#tch like you ya P@SSY Azz punk B#tch Hey dickhead, I am prepped, however I'm also a realist, and only throwing out one small scenario asshole. I also assure you the most organized horde will be the victors. |
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User ID: 78128369 United States 02/15/2020 10:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You do realize that if something like this Corona virus causes a spreading pandemic in your home town, lock down's will soon ensue. Eventually the government will break into your home, take you where they want (in the name of public safety), and later on down the line take whatever you have (in the name of helping others). Only strong groups in numbers have a very small chance of surviving this on their own. Prepping is good, but it can only hold you over for so long. If the government don't get you then the looters and marauder's will. The other thing is that you can run, but where can you really hide. If the powers that be don't get you there are many things that can happen in the wilderness. Enough said, but lots to consider. Watch how China is handling things. They are setting a precedent. I have preps but not 3 years worth. Last Edited by NOLAangel on 02/15/2020 10:17 PM |
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User ID: 77763753 United States 02/15/2020 10:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You don't have to prep for 3 years, you only need to prep for about 6 months. By then 90 percent of the population will have starved to death and if you manage to survive that long you have the resources to yourself and anyone else who managed to survive. If you are close to a body of water, know the local edible plants and have shelter you can make it. Start reading up on survival now. SAP manual is good, also Wildwood Wisdom, and make sure you buy up lots of seeds and have a fishing rod, bow and arrow or crossbow, or a slingshot for weapons for hunting. Quoting: The voice of reason 78471573 Boots, really really good boots. And if you have kids, get boots in incrementally larger sizes. Same with work pants, gloves. Pretend you're moving to Alaska to live in the wilderness. If this ends up being as bad as it looks now, we are going to be living an entirely different lifestyle for the rest of our lives. Gear up. [link to purelivingforlife.com] |
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User ID: 78128369 United States 02/15/2020 10:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know, I've been a prepper for a really long time. And yet, I am never anywhere near the level of preps that would make me feel "comfortable". I am certainly not comfortable with People far more intelligent than millennialsang virus that you can survive and then it comes back to give you a heart attack in a a couple of weeks. Quoting: Fluffy Pancakes This is nuts. And we do not have accurate data, which raises anxiety, which lowers the immune system, etc. So, the best advice I have is make sure you have at least a month's worth of food and water, get the needed meds, and do what you can actually do and leave the rest to the Creator. For the first time since I've been on GLP, we are seeing actual doom...Yet we don't know how lethal or far reaching this may be. Guaranteed to have serious economic effects though. So do what you can and be good to each other. Maybe from a distance! lol. ^^^Good post. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72601236 United States 02/15/2020 10:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I watched contagion last night . At the part matt damon is in line with the army handing out men's And they ruin out and the people are rioting and looting........ I ordered some freeze dried foods. Beprepared.com they did have a posting at the top of website saying delayed or out of stick items will be filled when they are back in stock. But nothing I purchased said out of stock. #10 cans of chicken beef and tvp beef and mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. If I do get an email saying my purchases are delayed I'll post back here about it. I should have bought that home freeze dryer. I still might while foods relatively cheap. What's a whole chicken 5 to 8 bucks. 30 days times 8 240 bucks extra for a month of chicken. It's like 50 bucks for a number 10 can of freezedried meat. I try buy tvp and real meats. Tvps like 17 a can. I might just bite the bullet and buy a home freeze dryer. Never have to throw a meal away. What say u glp. |
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User ID: 78324119 United States 02/15/2020 10:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What can some of us do who are partially prepped but have "THAT" neighbor who is always under-prepped and who even at the best of times wants to come over and beg a cup of sugar (finally gave the beotch a whole bag to keep her off our backs for a while) or other things like a roll of toilet paper or $5 for gas until her check comes? Very annoying and a master guilt tripper she is. GRRRR Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78474522 Maybe make up in advance some paper bags with an assortment of extremely cheap canned foods, stuff you wouldn't eat but you could hand someone if they needed it. And a box of kleenex, some crackers, jelly, generic peanut butter, whatever. Bag of stuff maybe cost you ten bucks if you went to the cheapest place and bought generic brands on sale. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72601236 United States 02/15/2020 11:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Need to break out the list I had my entire inventory. Total calories. For one person maybe 3 years. But maybe one with my 2 kids myself and 2 parents. I had all the math broke down. But I'm in rural iowa. Have a well that's electric though. There's a creek next door. Got afew water purifiers. One nice Jerry can with a hand pump cant remember how many tens of thousands of gallons it will filter also bought a replacement filter to it. Also my mom got into making soap afew years ago so have a butt load of bars stocked. I got disposable straight razor blades . 100 for 10 bucks got afew packs of those as well as a straight razor and stones for sharpening. Threw away old fish antibiotics and bought new ones. Plenty of deer to supplement food stocks. And afew # 10 cans of heirloom seeds in my deep freeze. I'm about as good as I can get without going full prepper mood. Just 500 here and there over the years adds up. Also buying books. Canning. Army manuals. Traps. Lots of things you'd want to know if no grid. Medical books. Etc. Mylar bags oxygen absorbers and rice and beans are cheap. Then freeze dried foods. I used to be nursing student and was dialysis technician. FWIW we used 1 to 1000 bleach for non blood soiled and 1 to 100 to wipe the machines between patients. So alittle cap full of bleach is really all u need . Just so u dont waste your stock pile of it up. But I'm single no mortgage or car note . Whatever happens happens . I'll be definitely adding to supplies. |
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User ID: 75784877 United States 02/15/2020 11:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I watched contagion last night . At the part matt damon is in line with the army handing out men's And they ruin out and the people are rioting and looting........ I ordered some freeze dried foods. Beprepared.com they did have a posting at the top of website saying delayed or out of stick items will be filled when they are back in stock. But nothing I purchased said out of stock. #10 cans of chicken beef and tvp beef and mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. If I do get an email saying my purchases are delayed I'll post back here about it. I should have bought that home freeze dryer. I still might while foods relatively cheap. What's a whole chicken 5 to 8 bucks. 30 days times 8 240 bucks extra for a month of chicken. It's like 50 bucks for a number 10 can of freezedried meat. I try buy tvp and real meats. Tvps like 17 a can. I might just bite the bullet and buy a home freeze dryer. Never have to throw a meal away. What say u glp. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72601236 The freeze dryers I've looked at were approaching 4k. I can buy a ton of foods and dry can them in the oven for that. Maybe your mileage will vary? Things are bad enough, there is no need to make anything up. ~Fluffy "Never interrupt an enemy in the process of destroying himself." Quercitin and zinc...Get it. Take it. Visit howbad.info...If you took the shot, for sure. |
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User ID: 76715874 United States 02/15/2020 11:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Need to break out the list I had my entire inventory. Total calories. For one person maybe 3 years. But maybe one with my 2 kids myself and 2 parents. I had all the math broke down. But I'm in rural iowa. Have a well that's electric though. There's a creek next door. Got afew water purifiers. One nice Jerry can with a hand pump cant remember how many tens of thousands of gallons it will filter also bought a replacement filter to it. Also my mom got into making soap afew years ago so have a butt load of bars stocked. I got disposable straight razor blades . 100 for 10 bucks got afew packs of those as well as a straight razor and stones for sharpening. Threw away old fish antibiotics and bought new ones. Plenty of deer to supplement food stocks. And afew # 10 cans of heirloom seeds in my deep freeze. I'm about as good as I can get without going full prepper mood. Just 500 here and there over the years adds up. Also buying books. Canning. Army manuals. Traps. Lots of things you'd want to know if no grid. Medical books. Etc. Mylar bags oxygen absorbers and rice and beans are cheap. Then freeze dried foods. I used to be nursing student and was dialysis technician. FWIW we used 1 to 1000 bleach for non blood soiled and 1 to 100 to wipe the machines between patients. So alittle cap full of bleach is really all u need . Just so u dont waste your stock pile of it up. But I'm single no mortgage or car note . Whatever happens happens . I'll be definitely adding to supplies. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72601236 In place of household bleach, which has a limited shelf life, you can purchase "pool shock" in your swimming pool section. Make sure the main ingredient is calcium hypochlorite. Make sure you store it in an air-tight container. A little goes a long way and just add a little to water for a quick batch of bleach when needed. EDIT: Also, for water purification, other options besides a tiny amount of bleach are potassium permanganate and iodine (crystals, not tincture). Read up on amounts used per gallon of water, and don't use too often if you have to resort to such methods as the last two above. Last Edited by Major Doom on 02/15/2020 11:30 PM DOOM is what you make of it. |
Vision Thing
User ID: 78324119 United States 02/15/2020 11:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is a great example of what one can achieve when necessity arises. Back in February 2015, A cold front with snow was moving in. While the wife and daughter slept, I stayed up all night working through the snow and built the structure in the image linked below. The framework was constructed with persimmon trees, the uprights placed into 3 ft holes. No nails were used in the frame. It was lashed together using jute twine. Old tin roofing panels were placed around it in the main section 3 levels high over the top of heavy, waterproof canvas. The section on the right was added one day later and it open on top where we cooked over wood as well as storage for wood, tools, etc. The green tarp was used as the door. Water was hauled in from a spring fed creek about 300 yards away, filtering was unnecessary. The land, being in a valley within the Oauchita Mountains not far from a 1600 ft mountain, provided an abundance of deer, hogs and turkey. Note, also, there is an antenna placed on the top center that provided reception to provide radio, the radio being a hand-cranked type or using solar cells for other purposes. Further, an outdoor toilet can be constructed using a potty chair with a 5 gallon bucket under it and something to cover the poop after use, such as sawdust, clay, dirt, etc. This is something we had to do while living here. This is what my family and I had done for 2 years, living like this. No electricity, no water, no cell phone service unless hiked the 2 mile path to the top of the mountains. There were difficulties, at times, but we overcame everything that came at us. If we can do this for 2 years, then three wouldn't be a problem. We have the experience to do it even if it is necessary to fall back to the stone age and knap my own arrowheads for hunting (which I did at that time), make cordage, chop wood, prepare food. And, there may be times when you don't have what you need and no way to get it. No problem, necessity is the mother of invention. A solution can be developed for any problem thrown our way. Quoting: Major Doom Here is the structure I build in less than 24 hours total building time (minus little modifications added when the need arose). [link to ibb.co (secure)] That's cool what you did for your family. Thanks for posting the picture. You might get a kick out of the youtube channel "Advoko Makes", he's a russian guy I think, he used pallet wrap, you know that clear plastic that comes on big rolls like giant rolls of saran wrap, to make shelters and a very serviceable kayak, over a frame of branches on site in the forest, it worked great, you might appreciate. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78428487 United Kingdom 02/15/2020 11:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I could do about 2 years, maybe 3 depending if the crops come in. You never know when your gonna be hit with blight and insects that totally destroy your crops in days. That's not including fickle weather that looks great and then you plant all your seeds, they begin to sprout, and a cold snap sets in to kill all your seedlings... Quoting: DuckNCover Plenty of meat for a year... Blanched carrots and string beans that will last a few months. Cases of quart mason jar canned beans with bacon...Yum!!! Plenty of pancake mix large sealed bags that should last at least 6 months or more... A variety of canned goods that will last at least 6 months... Might be restocking canned fruit salad, peaches, pineapple, and sweet potatoes depending on how bad it gets... Lots of Pasta and a big burlap bag of white rice... Have sugar to last at least 5 years or more all stored in Mason Jars... Also will be stocking up on cooking spray... Should be ok. Now I just need to get some tobacco seeds otherwise, I'll just go cold turkey on the cigs... Growing tobacco is very hard best you get the seeds asap and try to grow them first.. Not just hard to grow it’s almost impossible unless you have serious amounts of land in direct sunlight and time to nurture the plants as they require work. Ten plants might make a few roll your owns. You would be better off growing weed and smoking that neat instead. |
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Gee, Wally, It's 5G User ID: 75528071 United States 02/16/2020 12:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nope. Not prepped for 3 years. If everyone would leave us alone for that length of time, we could live, but we'd be super skinny. Quoting: Fluffy Pancakes Things are going to get bad and fast! the media and banks are delaying for now but very soon it will all crash... But how do you prep for 3 years? and what comes after that? GLP? Loose women. That's what will come. Some of you sad sacks will finally get laid.....if you have bic lighters, toilet paper, heavy socks,etc. The lead-up to the end of the world is going to be full of poontang for you wankers! Yeah, you'll be kings. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72601236 United States 02/16/2020 01:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I watched contagion last night . At the part matt damon is in line with the army handing out men's And they ruin out and the people are rioting and looting........ I ordered some freeze dried foods. Beprepared.com they did have a posting at the top of website saying delayed or out of stick items will be filled when they are back in stock. But nothing I purchased said out of stock. #10 cans of chicken beef and tvp beef and mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. If I do get an email saying my purchases are delayed I'll post back here about it. I should have bought that home freeze dryer. I still might while foods relatively cheap. What's a whole chicken 5 to 8 bucks. 30 days times 8 240 bucks extra for a month of chicken. It's like 50 bucks for a number 10 can of freezedried meat. I try buy tvp and real meats. Tvps like 17 a can. I might just bite the bullet and buy a home freeze dryer. Never have to throw a meal away. What say u glp. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72601236 The freeze dryers I've looked at were approaching 4k. I can buy a ton of foods and dry can them in the oven for that. Maybe your mileage will vary? Yeah its alittle pricey but I'm single and no mortgage or car note. |
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