Disaster Preparation?
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- dasohr0
Living in SF I've been working on a kit for a while now. Have the essentials, emergency radio/flashlight, glow sticks, spam, waterfilters, fire starter, bug out pack...
In terms of tools and weapons I'm opting for a machete (Ontario makes some decent machetes for $30 - on amazon) and I'm also considering a baretta.
I also recommend stocking up on items such as toilet wipes, seeds, alcohol... stuff that can be traded if necessary.
We have different plans on what to do if the shit hits the fan here in the yay area. Probably going to send the lady down to the folks while I bunker up at home to protect my TV and PS3...- Is that a yarmulke?waterhouse
- never leave home without it
dasohr
- bmacneill0
This is an interesting read:
- i_monk0
^ No kit is going to save you from the Big One.
- fyoucher10
Let me guess...you've been watching >
- melq0
I listened to a podcast on the topic (cannot recall the title) and it laid things out pretty well, stating that the likelihood of a "disaster" increases based on the scale of its reach. My personal thoughts on the subject are...
Personal: highly likely
Death in the family, job loss, serious illness.
This stuff happens all the time and is a big deal to those it touches, but do not really affect your neighbors, etc. This level, everyone pretty much prepares for in some fashion.Neighborhood: likely
Things that affect the area in which you live. Could be the power outage as hit several east coast states for more than a week recently, snow storms, etc. This stuff happens enough that everyone really should give it some consideration (this is the level I pretty much prepare for).Circling outward from there: possible
Without rule of law for a few days or weeks. Thanks to Hurricane Katrina and the LA riots, I can't say it'll never happen, so I respect it enough to give things a bit of thought. I just don't stress over it/invest in it.Catastrophic end-times stuff: unlikely
I limit my thoughts on this level to reading books by Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy.
- TheMagicSheep0
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- CygnusZero40
The worst thing I ever saw in my life as far as a huge mess with people actually suffering was Katrina, and that was just in NO, and only for 3 or 4 days. Dunno what I would ever really need a survival kit for.
If something happens I'll deal with it, but I seriously doubt anything would happen where Im sucking dew off a fucking blade of grass to survive.
- Talking about just the US here, and other developed countries.CygnusZero4
- Reading this comment in Summer 2020 is hilariousnb
- marychain0
^ honestly...if it ever gets to that point...I hope I get killed in whatever the shit was that started it. I don't want to live in a mad max world.
- Just shoot yourself. Quick and easy. That's what I'd be doing. Not living in a world with cannibals.CygnusZero4
- i do!scarabin
- Instand panic and suicide? Why not try and live in the mountains or something first.inteliboy
- raf0
Jaysus Mike, what's going on with you? You worry if Italy is still there when you go there on your honeymoon, brace for armageddon at home...
Is this marriage thing putting all that stress on you? :D
- Peter0
TV has no effect on us.
Myriads of shows and movies about survival, world-ends, apocalypses and zombie infestations haven't affected us. Not one iota. As a result no one is looking at gear sites, showcasing bug-out bags in tech material and sturdy flashlights made out of titanium with 55% more lumen than last years version. No one.
Because TV can't affect us.
Not us. We're too smart.- I don't know what you're on about but I like it.inteliboy
- I ask for nothing more :)Peter
- Peter knows his disaster stuff. During the Tokyo earthquake and aftermath, he never run out of booze.raf
- 5-6 friends (and friends of friends) a night stayed at my place during the following days after the earthquake. I want to blame them for leaving me without booze at home.Peter
- blame them for leaving me without booze at home. But I've only myself to blame.
Now I make sure to stock up.Peter
- coldarchon0
100 things that disappear first:
- GeorgesII0
for the most hardcore
- does it come with a cheese knife?
dasohr - lol I got this one, for free from my car dealer ..coldarchon
- does it come with a cheese knife?
- mekk3
i got a shitload of porn if my internet dies.
- ahli0
Its boring as hell but the most useful thing you could have is:
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that baby will even desalinate water
- OBBTKN0
For some time now, i´m buying all the candles, pencils, paper, indian ink, watercolor and other drawing stuff i can handle... but i doubt all of them are supposed to be considered like "Disaster Preparation" items ;)
- You're in a mature bit of the world that won't entirely fold over itself in a rush to fuck itself over though..!detritus
- ideaist3
I live in a hamlet of 50-ish folks all with varied skills; fish, hunt, etc., vast gardens and deep freezers.
We wouldn't even notice unless it was in the local newspaper.
Also, a river runs down the Niagara escarpment into the hamlet, where I get my well water from.
: )
- An illustrated, aerial view.ideaist
- ^Illustration is great. Did you do it?PhanLo
- It IS great; a local / bud did them: https://sdmcdonald.c….
He's one of the original "adult colouring book" dudes.
Made a shit ton of $ from it.ideaist - How’s the internet? Only thing stopping me from spending more Covid time up at the cabin is I can’t work thereGnash
- Where's your cabin homey? Yeah, internet is a dddrrraaaggg and we live in a valley, within a valley...ideaist
- ...We have a Bell LTE signal that I rebroadcast using a Uniquiti AmpliFi router. It allows ME to work BUT large files are a wash.ideaist
- Xplornet (I know, i know) provides us with unlimited (although tapered +100GB) streaming for the kids and my wife's addiction to shitty NETFLIX shows.ideaist
- Cabin is 30-minute dirt road north of Bobcaygeon. I don’t even get cell service :/Gnash
- Damn, you can work via lte? I just sent 4 3gb files to Europe this morning - I needs the high-speed.Gnash
- moldero2
My dad 'Filipino fisherman raised in Hawaii' taught me how to throw a Hawaiian throwing net since I was a kid, pretty good at it, also been spear fishing since I was a kid, & went commercial salmon fishing the last 2 summers, I live on the beach in Mexico so as far as food goes, I'll be good, I have 2 refrigerators & picking up a couple proper chest freezers this weekend from my Canadian friends that are moving back to Canada, got a good genny for power, looking into picking up 4 or so 50 gallon drums to store backup water, my pantry is stocked to the max with non perishables, trucks always gassed up.
paranoid? maybe. worried? nope, just ready.
what y'all doing?
lets get some action in this thread, curious to see how others are prepping or not
- Are you ok?
You've been.. a little left of centre recently.Nairn - ^^ its all going down man!
the isolation may be getting to memoldero - No going to lie - I discussed 'bug out plans' with my partner back in Feb when it looked a bit dodgy with the whole Wuhan Flu thing on the horizon.Nairn
- while all my friends are starting to hang out with each other again im still taking this quarantine shit pretty serious I guessmoldero
- (as it what as the time - I'm not trumpeting Trump's bullshit 'Chinaaah Virus')Nairn
- + Trumps been playing it as if its nothing to worry about, & we didn't even hit wave 2 yetmoldero
- so you have the right saying "everything is fine' then you have the left shutting down small businesses, both are recipes for disastermoldero
- Are you ok?
