On 2012-12-29, Wes wrote:
Ignoramus10903 wrote:

Then what would a "prepper" do? Not much. They are ****ed just like
everyone else.

I am not really against hoarding, and I have always been a bit of a
hoarder, but I wanted to show that hoarding has its limitations. There
is some important preparedness that goes beyond hoarding and spending
big $$$ on bulky perishables.


Prepping is a mindset that tomorrow may not be just like today and making some
preparations a head of time will greatly improve your comfort and ability to deal with
events at a future time.

Some of this is just little things like making sure you have enough food in the house so
that you can stay stuck at your home for a week. Make sure you rotate it though your diet
during the typical 2 year shelf life so you don't waste any.

Having a generator, transfer switch, and some gasoline so you can run the well pump, keep
the food in the fridge from rotting, charge cell phones, and maintain communications isn't
something that is way out there. For many it is dealing with periodic storms that one
never knows when it will happen but on average one knows it will happen. A prolonged
outage you are going to have to practice power managment as in the generator only runs for
short period of times.

Keeping your meds topped up if you are on life supporting meds. I keep 90 days minimum on
hand.

Making sure you have some water in your car, a shovel, some sand, a flashlight, just stuff
so you can take care of your self and get yourself out of a jam on your own.

Keeping the camping gear in good order, keeping spare mantels, coleman fuel, and the rest
of the outdoor gear ready for use.

Making sure the chain saw is ready for use. Spare fuel, chain, oil, gas.

I could go on.


March of this year we had a statewide snow storm that really made a mess of things. I
lost power for over a day, others near me up to 6 days. My portable radio had batteries
with a 2004 expiration date. That didn't last long. Pretty quiet in winter w/o power.

So I'm a bit of a preper now.

Wes

All great points Wes. To be prepared not exactly for the end of the
world, but for regular disruptions.

i