re: New DHS report: Citizens should prepare for prolonged period without electricity

This cannot be preached enough. ALL Americans should take not and prepare.

We've put away enough preps to go a year without electricity, gas, food from Grocery stores, etc.

Live by scrooster's rule of the Six Fs.

Fresh Water
Food
Fuel
Fire
First Aid
Fire Arms

Have redundant ways to provide plenty of fresh clean water. We've got three Wells on my property, a pond, we're near a lake, and we have a spring. We have several ways to purify water using chemicals (chlorine and iodine), mechanical filters and gravity filters, and boiling.

Food ... too much to list but 5 gal buckets vacuum packed rice, beans, protein, spices and condiments, soy sauce, etc., etc., etc.

Fuel ... mainly for generators but also for gas stoves. Also, firewood is a biggie. And we can distill on the property to make ethanol.

Fire ... have redundant ways to make fire and places to make fire. That means firewood as well.

First Aid ... extra prescription drugs, build up you cache. Have books that show you how to survive without a doctor. I recommend "When there is no Doctor" and "When there is no Dentist." Read them in advance and follow their advice for items to keep on hand. Lots of antibiotics ... did you know that you can use bovine, etc., antibiotics in an emergency and they could save your life.

Firearms and lots of ammo. Shotgun, pistol and rifle minimum and know how to use them.

Prep now ... it's insurance for your family.