re: Doomsday Preppers - What Did You Stock Up On?

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#1. Water.
Can't make it only 3 maybe 4 days w/out H2O.

I keep several cases of bottled water, continually rotating it out. Bottled H2O will keep for 2 years.

I have a several Aqua-tainer for water storage(those big bulky square containers at Wall-marks).

I have a gallon of unscented liquid bleach to kill a lot of the nasties in water BUT liquid bleach begins to degrade after about 6 mths.

Go to a pool shop and get some pool-shock(calcium hypochlorite). A 5 lb bucket of that stuff will last many years to kill virues and bacteria in water.

A few vial of idodine would be good too have or water purification tablets. You can easily carry them in your pocket or BOB if you have to go mobile.
I have a ton of coffee filters but I also have several soft polishing clothes or 'cheese cloth'. That will filter out a lot the larger particles in water.

Get a good MANUAL water filtration system. Power or electricity may not be restored for weeks or months or maybe never(Mad-Max scenorio).

Sawyer is about the top of the line system you can buy. Other good systems are Big Berkey, Katadyn and Monolithic

A person can get extremely ill by drinking contaminated water so that is why is so important to.

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LINK

Sawyer is the best

Bookers

Thanks for that link, Z.

Got it, interim that makes sense. Real doomsday type scenario, brass and lead are the most valuable metals.

Hookers and blow.

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Doomsday Preppers - What Did You Stock Up On?

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Well, if you really mean Doomsday, one bullet for the self-inflicted head shot is good for me.

I am not what most of you would call a doomsday prepper. I live on own a 250 acre Pulpwood/Grass fed cattle operation that my parents have owned my entire life.

We have a small greenhouse because my parents like fresh herbs/veggies year round. Of course we have a big garden in the summer as well. My mom has always canned vegetables. We also put up beef we raise/deer we hunt in the deep freeze. I don't this type of lifestyle is weird, its just being normal country people. Its something we do in our summer routine, my mom has always taught school (and now I do) and my father (before he was disabled) ran his own business a Contractor/Repairman for Poultry Houses.

The only things we stockpile is ammo just because when we see a really good deal we like to get as much as we can so we don't have to worry about it. I have about 4k rifle (1k .22 and 3k 30-06) 3k shotgun (12 ga 4 shot, 6 shot, buck shot, and slugs) and 1k pistol (.357). It isn't a ton of it but its a good amount.

The only unusual purchase we have is when we did a big remodel on our farm about 5 years back we put in a Stand By system for our house, barn and main out buildings. It runs off Nat Gas, Propane, Solar, and Geothermal. It generates power, sterilizes and heats/chills water for home/farm use, and heats/cools the house. In regular operation the power we generate is connected directly to the power grid and instead of a power bill we get a monthly check from our rural electric co-op around 50-75 bucks a month depending on our usage. But if a bad situation happens (not nessecarily the end of the world, we used it both during the April 27th tornadoes and the winter storms a week ago) we shut off connection to the main grid and we generate all the power, water, heating/cooling, and water sanitation/heating our farm requires. And when we installed the system in 2009, the Feds kicked in a 30 percent tax credit.

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Let's hear it.

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Hmmm, that will not happen on the Poli Board until November 2016 when Bubba becomes first husband.