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re: Anybody else brand new to doomsday prepping?
Posted on 9/14/26 at 5:56 am to Violent Hip Swivel
Posted on 9/14/26 at 5:56 am to Violent Hip Swivel
Get a gravity fed water filter that lasts 100,000 gallons. You don’t have to store water living in Louisiana.
Sawyer is a good brand.
Buy food you would eat anyway over time and rotate so they don’t expire.
Sawyer is a good brand.
Buy food you would eat anyway over time and rotate so they don’t expire.
This post was edited on 9/14/26 at 6:00 am
Posted on 9/14/26 at 6:14 am to Violent Hip Swivel
my neighbor is an obese prepper. I plan on taking his stuff if SHTF
Posted on 9/14/26 at 6:18 am to Flyin'Cajun
So maybe an EMP initiated by our own government to knock out the AI that’s become too powerful. Seems plausible
Posted on 9/14/26 at 6:47 am to Shamoan
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So maybe an EMP initiated by our own government to knock out the AI that’s become too powerf
My god, that’s going to be a shitty week.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 6:48 am to Loup
quote:maybe he should start stacking up Ozempic
my neighbor is an obese prepper
Posted on 9/14/26 at 6:50 am to UptownJoeBrown
The Berkey water filter is another great option. Buy some spare filters and you’re in good shape.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 6:59 am to Violent Hip Swivel
The nature of the AI doomsday predictions are such that, if they come to fruition, they aren’t merely transitory. You’d need systems in place for indefinite food, water, human waste disposal, and power, just to have a shot of survival.
I have the structure for all of that but not much is actually up and running for it. It’s a literal chicken and egg problem. We need the time to raise chickens and other small livestock and the system to keep them fed. But too busy working to make money to pay bills, put kids through school, save for retirement and end times.
You really have to be 100% committed and/or wealthy to truly prep for something like this. It’s not like a hurricane.
Eta: and the second half is perhaps just as important: being prepared physically and mentally to shoot intruders. We are fairly well fortified where we are, surrounded by dense forest, a river, very steep hills, and only one road in. But eventually they’re gonna gitcha.
I have the structure for all of that but not much is actually up and running for it. It’s a literal chicken and egg problem. We need the time to raise chickens and other small livestock and the system to keep them fed. But too busy working to make money to pay bills, put kids through school, save for retirement and end times.
You really have to be 100% committed and/or wealthy to truly prep for something like this. It’s not like a hurricane.
Eta: and the second half is perhaps just as important: being prepared physically and mentally to shoot intruders. We are fairly well fortified where we are, surrounded by dense forest, a river, very steep hills, and only one road in. But eventually they’re gonna gitcha.
This post was edited on 9/14/26 at 7:05 am
Posted on 9/14/26 at 7:05 am to Violent Hip Swivel
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Prior to the last few days I'd never been remotely worried about any potential catastrophe enough to the point that I started prepping, but tomorrow after work I'm going to buy a bunch of peanut butter and bottled water
You should alsways prep for short term emergencies. Keep a month's worth of stable food, a way to prepare that food and water.
Outside of that, do not try unless you have a good bit of land and a lot of time.
It takes at least 1 acre per person to grow enough food in a garden. Add to that grazing land for goats (for milk, cheese and some meat) and chickens. The seeds you need are heirloom seeds. Anything else will not result in fertile seeds once your first harvest is over. It takes about 2 years, on average, to see results from your food farming. Can you stockpile enough for 2 years? Nope, you cannot so you better start as soon as possible.
You also need to prep on rainwater collection and a way to filter that rainwater. You also need a source of heat and how to keep that source of heat fueled.
There is much, much more. Basically to be a real prepper, you have to learn how to live like a frontiersman circa early 1800's, but without routine visits to a settlement for tack and hardgoods.
This post was edited on 9/14/26 at 7:07 am
Posted on 9/14/26 at 7:07 am to Violent Hip Swivel
Depends on your situation. I live just south of Pittsburgh, but I grew up in WV where there is an entire community of people who have property and have hobbies that are excellent for doomsday stuff. I keep about 2 months of food and water on hand with a generator but if shite gets really bad it's a bug out bag to my sister's.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 7:10 am to McLemore
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and the second half is perhaps just as important: being prepared physically and mentally to shoot intruders
Yes and no.
Shooting anyone you deem "an intruder" sets you up for failure just as much as letting anyone in. To disallow all is to disallow anyone who has skills you may be lacking...unless you are a plumber, carpenter, electrician, engineer, doctor, etc all rolled into one.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 7:18 am to Violent Hip Swivel
Better be good with a gun or you'll just be prepping for the next guy
Posted on 9/14/26 at 7:28 am to UtahCajun
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You should alsways prep for short term emergencies. Keep a month's worth of stable food, a way to prepare that food and water.
Outside of that, do not try unless you have a good bit of land and a lot of time.
Good general advise here. Trying to "prep" for more than a few weeks of emergency starts getting futile quickly and just a waste of time and money.
In the event of a real termination of public works indefinitely catastrophe, your best bet is to be "prepped" enough to keep your head down through the initial chaos and figure on being nomadic after that.
You really need some kind of community to fall back on in such a situation. Trying to protect and provide for you and your family without the help of other like minded people will be tremendously difficult.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 7:37 am to Violent Hip Swivel
Buy a Grayl Filtration 24oz Cup. They advertise that you can use any freshwater source to filter into clean drinking water. I bought one for hurricane season years ago and a couple of extra filters. I have about 30 empty plastic water gallon jugs in the garage. Plan would be to fill them up and run them through the Grayl.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 7:38 am to McLemore
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the second half is perhaps just as important: being prepared physically and mentally to shoot intruders
There was a movie about the Alamo that was on HBO all the time when I was a little kid in the 1980s.. I remember at the end, the guys protecting the Alamo were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of attackers, and they were killed.. im wondering, if you have a dozen armed guys, and they are protecting your land- but then a hundred local guys decide to make a plan to take over your fully prepped compound , and they too are armed- what's your plan ? Sincere question .
Posted on 9/14/26 at 7:48 am to Kafka
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Mormons have stockpiled supplies for 6 months. They have published numerous pamphlets on the subject.
The main thing Mormons have going for them is a community of like minded people who have some semblance of a plan. Odds are their prepper doctrine will pay off for them one day.
For your average suburban family in the eastern watershed far from their extended families, youre pretty good and fricked if the shite truly hits the fan. Best practice is to prep for brief and plausible disruption of daily life. Floods, hurricanes, severe freeze events, etc. Enough to hunker down for a few weeks or to bail out.
Bailing out is its own problem unless you have a lot of fuel.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 7:53 am to Violent Hip Swivel
Can’t we just unplug something if these things try to take over.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 8:05 am to Violent Hip Swivel
There is nothing wrong with prepping to a degree. You know having bottled water, can food and a few other things. But some of them ppl are way out in left field beyond the fence.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 8:07 am to Tarps99
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If AI wanted to wipe out humanity, wouldn’t it know wiping out the power grid and access to communication infrastructure be like cutting its own arms and legs off.
Probably so. I didn’t watch the video, I was just answering the OP’s question on prepping.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 8:10 am to Shamoan
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So maybe an EMP initiated by our own government to knock out the AI that’s become too powerful. Seems plausible
Haha, I hadn’t thought of that. Good point.
Posted on 9/14/26 at 8:11 am to Violent Hip Swivel
My old college roommate got into it after Katrina. He had fifty gallons of Coleman fuel in his garage. I was like, "you know how volatile that shite is?"
He had food grade buckets full of dry beans, rice all kinds of shite, guess what, he still has it after 25 years...
He had food grade buckets full of dry beans, rice all kinds of shite, guess what, he still has it after 25 years...
This post was edited on 9/14/26 at 8:13 am
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