@Imhotep Genius He did a good job of providing you with enough info to sort out for yourself, your life, your loved ones, your particular events and circumstances. No one can give you an outline that encompasses all these factors, to fit your life.
I understand that we will be roaming the streets and looking to break into homes to EAT anything, for those that failed to prepare this will happen very shortly after, for those that prepared they will be as risk, for those that could only prepar for a month might start getting desperate and look for anything with flesh/meat for food!
The first 48 hours after Katrina, All was quiet. The 3rd nite, all the riff raff came out to loot. My buddy and I sat at the entrance to my neighborhood. I was the third house on the block with only one road in. We were armed to the teeth but we both had shotguns in our laps. We watched the looters make their way to our neighborhood. They never saw us sitting there still as rocks. As they reached the middle of the street in front of us, we both racked our 12 gauges... Never seen people levitate like that before! They flew out of there in a space of a heartbeat. Never had another problem through the recovery.
Katrina officials had authorized shoot to kill for looting. That was one of the most important directives. I did hurricane rescue for Katrina and I suffered PTSD for months. What I saw shook me to the core.
I've survived for 2 weeks without power twice. It was miserable. But we knew it would be restored. Knowing it will not be restored is a whole different ballgame.
@@norml.hugh-mann -- I just finally went to use my long-stored water supply in the recent power outages and found it expired in 2016. I bought it before then. It was fine and I have been using it up now and will replace my supplies as soon as I can. It was a lesson in expiration dates BUT I wonder if my storage choices had anything to do with it not growing algae over time. I don't know. I haven't heard anything about that kind of thing with our bottled water supplies.
My experience: San Francisco earthquake 1989. The panic was immediate. The store shelves were bare within an hour. The earthquake wasn't the scary part. The people's reactions, that was scarey.
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During the 2021 freeze in Texas, we were without power for +48hrs, some were without for much longer. In the first 24hrs, every gas station had run out of gasoline. There were lines of cars a mile long waiting to get gas at the few places that had it. People began fighting in line, no regard for each other. You could feel the tension. Every grocery store like HEB was empty. The shelves had nothing. When they restocked, people could only get one gallon of milk and one pack of meat per purchase. People began fighting over the food. It’s astounding that in such a short amount of time, society here was on the brink of collapse. This was 2 days of no power. Imagine a week?
A couple of years ago, on the Central Coast of Australia, a place notorious for high crime and high homelessness, we experienced a blackout during a fortnight (two weeks) of thunderstorms and heavy, heavy rain. I had gone to school and was escorted to the school library along with every other brave student who made it on the first day. Then after 2-3 hours, with the power being out within minutes of arriving to the library, we were told to go home. For me, that would've meant a 45 minute/2 mile walk, in torrential rain. Luckily, buses had been recalled, and we were dropped off. It flooded to the point where we couldn't leave the house as my family lived in a gully with very poor drainage thanks to the local council ignoring residents who lived on my old street about the sewage grates being overgrown and polluted with trash. The water reached within a few feet of our porch. Also, luckily for my family, we had a gas stove, which hadn't gone down, only the electric sparker in it failed to click, so we had to use a long hosed lighter to light the stove. We heated pot after pot for baths. And luckily my mother had done the weekly shopping before the water boxed us in. The power was out for a week. Some suburbs went a almost month without. It is possible, and it almost got really, really bad.
Not gonna happen. Prepping is widely understood to be a cry for help. Its just one that tries to mask itself as some kind of "self reliance". You can often tell someone is a prepper just by looking at them, they pretty much have a uniform with the "gear" they buy It so sad to see these desperately lonely men exploited and sold all manner of ridiculous stuff for so much money. These men need our help
@@Man_Raised_By_PuffinsLol really? Right. My dad is a nurse, looks like a police man. Prepped the second he heard of COVID. We didn't have to deal with the rush to stores. Prepping isn't weird unless you're prepping for the zombie apocalypse. It's practical, especially for cases of food insecurity - if you have a family and suddenly you lose your job, you can eat. Same for natural disasters.
i spent 20 yrs in the army and i was a ranger, Our survival training is insane. We are taught to live indefinitely in the wild with little to nothing, even without a knife. I am so thankful for the training i received. you would be surprised at the kind of things we learned to eat. From inner tree bark to bugs. We would do sustained survival training in jungles, cold weather, desert and mountains. Even now i still keep my skills honed just in case. If you could only have one thing , have a good knife. Invest in good equipment or tools because you do NOT want your shit to fail when you need it. There are many ways to test plants to see if they are edible. Some take a bit of time such as cutting open a plant and taping it under your arm by your arm pit for several hours to see if there is a reaction. Yes sounds strange but it works
You sound like the real deal. Simple good tools are always the best. Physical action and learning to do without when necessary. Good training is a gift that keeps giving.
That plant thing makes so much sense! Thanks for that! Do you have any good book recommendations for surviving in the wild? Anything specific given to you by the Army?
@@oscarrivas7240 US Army Field manual, "Survival" FM 21-76. that is a good base to start with , there are more advance things, but that willl give you all the basics of survival
@@oscarrivas7240 I do want to say one thing. Real survival skills , not this stupid shit on UA-cam from wanna bees who have never in their life actually put real skills to test. Real Survival skills takes time, patience and a lot of practice. You have to understand its not comfortable in any way, You learn to get used to being hungry, cold , hot, tired, and miserable. Real Survival skills is an art form that cannot be learned from the comfort of your back yard or camp sites. I see these videos and laugh my balls off because they all work on the premise of comfort. They tell you to buy this and buy that and to carry this that you would need a vehicle for in many cases. The truth is, and one basic philosophy we were always taught is , "IF YOU CANT CANT CARRY IT ON YOUR BACK, YOU DONT NEED IT. " Everything i need to survive indefinitely in any survival situation and any environment is on my vest. of course ill have a load out in my ruck sack, but we train in the frame of mind that you have nothing. Anything else your carry is considered a luxury, even a knife. We are taught that what you use for survival is in stages. First, your Ruck sack will carry a lot of basic necessities, such as a tent, water purification, Food cubes, not MRES. MRES are a pain in the ass. we just take the protein out and coffee and sugar packets and salt. we dump the rest. As a retired army , now a civilian i buy emergency food cubes i keep some in my ruck and on my vest. However,. we are taught, if we lose or have to abandon our ruck, then our Vest is the next stage. ON my vest. aside from ammo. i carry an assortment of knives and a spare survival knife, compass (always use a military compass with tritium) a vacuumed seal trauma kit i keep behind my front plate in its pocket, and a shit load of other things> This is a typical combat load. Next stage is what if you loose or something happens to your vest. Well. on my belt (always use a riggers belt) i have my main and primary all purpose survival/combat knife. I personally as many of my fellow rangers to, carry an M9 bayonet, Its heavy, durable, can be used for skinning although its not as pretty and clean as using an actual skinning knife, a hammer, a tactical combat knife, etc. IT is by far better than anything i have every used, and trust me ive tried every major popular survival knife out there from Gerber to Randall. Some guys like the old Kbar, but its too light for my taste, i know its a good knife but i like a heavy blade and heavy handle because its next to impossible to break an M9 bayonet. I have broken several K bars which is why i stopped using them. If you decide to get an M9 i suggest a real one from a company that makes them for the military. Dont get a cheap one, your life depends on it. Tri Tech, Phobius are two of the main manufacturers. you can buy them on amazon and they are pretty inexpensive, around a hundred bucks. Dont be fooled by the fancy looking and popular knock offs. Like i said, your life depends on what you carry. and in the case of knives, you get what you paid for. Military issue, for the most part, is reliable. tested and abused and still stands up to rigorous use. I cant stress enough, about these internet survival ass nuts. What they claim they know they have never really had to use it to actually survive. I promise you, they have never been far from a car, cell phone, other people and carry the most stupidest shit i have ever seen. train with bare minimum at first. as you get better and more confident you can increase your load out. Just remember. train as if your life depends on it. the only way to do that is dump your ass out in the wild once you get good and dont make it easy to access comfort. carry a phone of course. but going out in your back yard, camp sites etc is not training with realism. Realism is when your tried, hungry, and the only food you can eat is what you catch, kill. prepare and preserve. i know what im saying turns a lot of people off because , well lets face it. people are soft, lazy, love their comfort and in my opinion pussies. lol . i hope this helps .
Moments like that allow you to see behind the thin veneer of social stability. It wouldn’t take much for a complete breakdown of civilization and basic order.
We're 10 months into a disaster right now and society is holding up fairly well. Excluding some race riots and weak economic policies, it is holding up very very well given the circumstances.
This keeps referring to police, military and hospital staff continuing to function, even stores being staff post-24 hours. I believe in a critical situation, these workers would almost equally abandon their employment to support their own families.
Actually what I noticed is that everyone talks about what to store etc. but no one talks about how keep it to yourself when you have people breaking into your house by the dozen. What good is it if you have a shelter somewhere if people will just see it and attack you and steal your food.
Small piece of advice but shouldn’t go overlooked. Get books people! I’m talking actual real books about gardening, hunting, land navigation, medicine, anything remotely important to survival. In a situation like this, there is no google or internet
Motto I learned over the past seventy-five years:. Better to have and not want than to want and not have; Always be Prepared; you cannot rely on life to remain the same in an unstable world. Do you know what the Bible says about the future. What do the experts have to say about the grid; asteroids, catacalismic changes, civil unrest? Just saying. Have faith and always be prepared. Peace.~
@@freedomforever1962 dear Rick, bless you sir. I believe we would have been best friends if you weren't on the other side of the planet, respect from Tasmania Australia
I am so glad I am deep woods rural, and Native American with 50 thousand years of ancestors training. Grandmother stories to guide me, memories and medicine handed down that was laughed at and they tried to beat out of. My broken fingers healed crooked but my voice can still lead my grandchildren. Adadoligi ale nvwadohivnv ( peace and many blessings) praying for you all 🙋🏽♀️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@@QwkDraw roflmao my deep and humble thanks 🙏🏽, a Manhattan Attorney no less ? I didn’t even finish the ninth grade so I am doing very well for myself lol. As for my heritage I can prove every word 😊 unegv lol not that I would bother with something like you
I survived the 8.8 Richter earthquake of 02/27/2010 in Chile, I lived in Concepción. Department stores were looted the same night as the earthquake and supermarkets a couple of days later. In my neighborhood we spent 14 days without water and 22 without electricity. What helped us get through that moment was the joint work with the neighbors, we got water from a well, we shared the frozen food before it spoiled and we organized ourselves to take care of the looters. I'm telling you, because according to my experience, the deadlines you indicate in your video are actually shorter. The president of the time, it took several days to decree martial law, so we spent a week of true terror. In addition, in our country it is very difficult to have firearms to protect yourself. Thanks for your video and greetings from Chiloé.
@@ItsSupercat94 he's providing 2 scenarios: being prepared for a collapse and it happening, or not being prepared and it happening. there is also the chance of not being prepared and it not happening or being prepared and it not happening. False dichotomy is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available noob
This may seem odd to some, but my wife and I started intermittent fasting a few months ago. The health benefits are enormous and it has cut down on our food intake, thus grocery bills. One thing I would add that a person can start immediately is getting into better shape. There's tons of reliable information online that will help. I have spent a lot of time researching nutrient dense foods and there benefits. You can have all the prepping supplies imaginable but if you aren't in decent shape they will do nothing to help you survive.
When I hear beans and rice I laugh. Good way to starve to death. I’m getting tons of sardines and kippers and making beef and turkey jerky. That and water are all you need. Plus sunlight and fresh air and exercise. I’m a carnivore and practice intermittent fasting.
the obese people will die quickly once they stop eating being "fat will not save you " being obese slows you down anyways . as you most likely are all ready have malnutrition from eating all the junk food.. day in and day out after I switched to a meat based diet i all ready cut my food intake and able to maintain a healthy weight at any caloric intake of meat....
@@punker4Real Your pride will be your downfall. Pride always goes before the fall, fool. SMART fat people will slim down out of necessity when the time comes. They will know that they have no choice. You, on the other hand, are not smart.
@@leslielandberg5620 people in Asian countries I went to Indonesia and stayed 38 days they eat rice everyday and maybe one meal a day they will have meat fish or chicken or eggs but they mostly survive on rice and they're healthy so don't underestimate it beans are good protein!
@@leslielandberg5620 lol. Meat is great but eating only meat isnt good. My go to will be what can be foraged every season. Especially mushrooms and wild fruit like apples and various berries. They replace what meat gives you and then some. Mushrooms can be dried and last years plus theyre plentiful with different species for every season. Youd be surprised how many mushrooms are around when looking for them. Gotta learn the trees in your area. Most mushrooms are mycorrhizal which means they share a symbiotic relationship with specific trees. It really wouldnt be that hard to make it on all natural foods just alotta work. Btw you definitely wouldnt starve to death on beans and rice. Beans are very healthy.
When COVID really hit, and there were runs on basic items, my wife and I were in the basement. She was doing laundry and I had a clipboard, going over our stuff. I will never forget the conversation. I said, "I wonder if we could have done anything different." She said, "We're in better shape than 99% of this country." I said, "I didn't think it would happen this soon." She said, "I didn't think it would ever happen. We're in good shape because you did."
@@sylviachavez7263 Also, there are countless upon countless things that theoretically or objectively should be feared. No god has saved us from really anything unless you count the involvement of death (which they didn’t directly cause).
I love how the takeaway from this is community. Expected a lot more of the “stockpile ammo! Do shooting drills!” When in reality, the idea of strength in numbers and maintaining supplies together takes greater importance.
Stockpiling ammo and shooting drills are for the rural preppers. Shooting brings much more negative attention in cities. However, I will agree that many overlook food and med supplies for more than a few months of shtf.
I survived 3 weeks without power and without running water after Wilma hit Miami as a Cat 3 hurricane back in 2005. No looting in our area, no need to use food or water from the National Guard. Several families from the neighborhood exchanged ph numbers and organized an improvised security teams at night, all very well and legally armed. During the day we help each other in cleaning and sharing or trading goods. That was a temporary or at least an end in sight crisis. In a situation of civil war, world war, social collapse, or a natural disaster of a greater magnitude, the story will be very different.
I was just up the road in Ft. Lauderdale and we had very little damage from that storm. Which is why things didn't hit the fan in Miami...we had family coming up to shower, charge their phones, and shop in our local grocery store. The Guard was on site immediately because they had a week of advanced notice. It was a very regional storm... now imagine if she had taken out the entire state. The line of cars headed north on the turnpike & 95 would be a disaster in itself!
I was a cop with Miami PD and worked Hurricane Andrew...please don't tell me there was no looting as that ALWAYS happens. There may not have been in your nwighborhood but it happened. In fact it happened during the actual hurricane
This past year has been a "practice run" and most people learned something from it. Most realize they were not prepared. Some took any excuse to cause chaos. It's been eye opening for sure.
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Yes, most did realize that they were not prepared. The same ones that laughed at us for being preppers before being put to the test. We should not take everyday conveniences for granted, because they could disappear in an instant.
The one thing that sucks about prepping is everything expires. You can’t just stick it and forget it. It has to be rotated. Everything from bottled water and can goods to gasoline and batteries. Expired bottled water taste like chemicals. Expired can goods taste metallic. Expired gasoline has small bits of vasoline floating around that can clog up your fuel system. It’s important to monitor these items with CLEARLY LABELED DATES.
Thank you knowledgeable guys for the knowledge you shared with us. A lot of the things that were mention. I had never heard of doing but I will definitely be taking up your advice.thank you If anyone else has any useful information please share it
Water tastes wierd because there is no oxygen in it. Pour it back and forth between 2 containers to re oxygenate it and it should taste fine if it was properly stored.
I was a convenience store cashier for 10 years. I can remember severe winter storms that shut down the whole area. After several days without power, humans start getting crazy. All I could think of was how bad most would handle a REAL disaster.
It's crazy to me how we've been in a pandemic going on 3 years, have had many earthquakes/tornados/hurricanes, people freezing to death in TEXAS, rising sea levels, growing agricultural issues and even volcanic eruption and people are still anti prepping 🤯
@@AnthonyWW45 you're right but that's why I said going on 3 years. By the end of this year itll almost be 3 years. Even 2 years is still a lot. Many people died
As a senior prepper. I am well prepared. I want to remind the elderly. If possible bugging in is safer for us. The video said at 3 mons the elderly will be gone. That brought out my. I’ll show you attitude. I’m a survivor. I survived homelessness yrs ago. God Bless You All!
I think he was envisioning the elderly is the sense of the person typically 80 and up who can’t be mobile without assistance, has deteriorate health to a dangerous degree. Like nursing home elderly. Not 60-70 active elderly.
I know several 83 year old women who will be helping anyone they can. One's a retired nurse the other a retired teacher. They run circles around me and I'm 65.
@@CSAcrazy that exactly what's he was saying. And when it comes to that time, we'd have no choice but to discard the very weak and sick there's no other option at that point. But It's always going to be these entitled people and they're going to be the 1st ones dead!! cause they don't want to think realistically. Remember Alllll the "moralism" is it the window, it's survival time at this point folks.
Maybe start preparing by moving away from Texas, if you live there. Their grid has been allowed to run down to decrepitude by greedy capitalists who refuse to spend what it takes to maintain it, and there are tons of idiots too stupid to save themselves and their families even by getting a free vaccine, LOL! Start preparing to survive by getting the shot! 🤣 The one way many Texans are likely to be "prepared" is by having tons of guns and ammo, so that's guaranteed to end well. 🤔
In South Africa, various countrywide prepping groups have formed to protect each other and their fellow citizens in a severe SHTF scenario. Our family is part of such a group and have prepped for years.... yet we cannot get one single member of our friend group to do the same.... it is confounding to me! We have preps for staying at home, preps for leaving and joining our prepping group away from the cities and preps for if we are alone somewhere, living off the land. Our prepping group communication network does radio checks once a week ( across the whole province). We have camping weekends together to use and refine our preps, where we have to find and filter our own water, only eat the kind of food we have in our stockpile and even dig pit latrines. Most of our prepping group have off-road caravans so that we have comfortable, lockable places to sleep.... My friend group on the other hand, say that prepping is too negative to think about, but for me its quite the opposite: the more I prep, the calmer and more in control I feel. So while my friend group have enjoyed travel and fancy toys over the years, we have plowed all our spare time an money into our "ark". Bear in mind that we in South Africa live with rolling blackouts already, so we are much closer to grid-down than you in America. Still, despite all this, our ultimate preparation is the strengthening of our Faith. God has placed us here, at this time - I am always mindful of the verse from Esther: "Perhaps you were made for such a time as this". The writing is on the wall - only the foolish and blind cannot see it or recognise it. God Bless you all in your preparations!
It was good to read about your prepping in South Africa. I think people forget about faith in God, without it, it's all pointless. May God bless you, your family and your community! 🙏
Wow that is awesome! This video really shocked into me that we will NOT be running to the woods with our gear and going at it alone like I’ve always assumed. South Africa must be terrifying. Especially if you are a white person. You are very smart for being ready. America is very close to SHTF and a civil war I think. And once that happens I think a lot of the world will follow suit considering how much aid we provide. 😢 scary stuff. God bless you and yours ❤ and if your friends won’t join in, oh well. They probably wouldn’t do well in that situation anyways and would be a liability.
I'm a South African prepper too...Gauteng...I would like to enter into discussion with you regarding bugging out...something I'm not really prepared for...I have camping gear and Bakkies but have no real reason ideas of realistic places to go to...
As a Zimbabwean all i can say is collapse makes you self reliant. 1) alternative power is a must, solar and LPG CYLINDERS 2) petrol storage 3) vegetable garden 4) Borehole 5) bulk on non-perishables, soap toothpaste cooking oil … The government will quickly restore order by force. Economic recovery is another story
When they say an empire will collapse they don't mean into apocalypse. They just mean that in time the governing power will be split up or be taken over by a stronger power.
Jesus is coming back and His Kingdom will last forever, but you’re right about the worldly empires built from mans hands. Remember that there is no point in prepping if your soul is not saved by the sacrifice of Jesus! Accept His death on the cross and resurrection as payment for your sin debt, Repent of your sins and follow His teachings, cry out to Him and He’ll deliver your from sin and eternal death. You guys are *NOT* ready for what’s about to come upon this world! Read the book of revelation and see just how awful it’s going to get! Jesus is the only hope/peace/shelter/doctor/provider/Savior that can help you. God bless you :)))
I grew up with Depression era parents. They were so resilient that we had food storage always cycling through. We gardened and canned everything. Dad hunted. Fished. It was just part of life to be prepared. Dad was laid off from the lumber mill most winters and our food storage saw us through. Going to the grocery store was considered a waste of money lazy people do. I don’t can much anymore, but I always have rice and beans stored. I buy canned goods at Costco. I have tons of batteries, charcoal, water drums, a transistor radio and police scanner. I have diapers and wipes and baby food in case someone has a starving baby. I have no pets anymore but I’ve stored dog and cat food for neighbors. Oh, and I have a 12-gauge and 9mm. I’m willing to share with my neighbors, but not thieving marauders. I may look old, but I feel 25, and I grew up target shooting from the age of 7 on. Don’t mess with Grandma.
I've had alot of survival training as a Army helicopter pilot. One important adjustment to survival is to start living on a night schedule. Change your circadian rhythm. Live to fight another day!
@@coreyself2983 ,moving around in the daytime,in a shtf situation,WILL expose you to every potential marauder with a weapon. If things are bad enough,long enough,desperate people will kill for a can of beans,a pair of boots or a coat. I've been places where it's happened.
@@coreyself2983 speak for yourself. Some of us have lived years working night shift and/or are natural night owls. Historically, it's how people survived.
Being in the military means nothing. My sister and her husband are both retired military. One was a clerk ,the other a mechanic. Unless you want some paper work filed or a bolt turned they are useless in SHTF . People think just because someone was in the Military they have some special skills. 95 percent have no skills. That's why they were in the Military. By the way the average round count to be classified as a rifle marksman in the Military is 200 rounds. That's not even warming up for me or most people I know. After that people in the Military never shoot a firearm again.
@@johnd4348 it's more about commitment. Just like people with college degrees. Doesnt mean they are smarter or more capable. It shows they are able to put their minds towards a goal and achieve it.
In my area, we had major looting of malls and shops closed their doors for days. There was no fuel for cars. A few months later, there was a flood that washed out the two access roads and trapped our neighborhood for several days. People were in a panic to buy food and other necessities. Being preppers for years, we didn't have to worry! It amazes me that after those two disasters, people in the area still don't have a prepping mindset.
I definitely believe in prepping! What I worry about though, is IF, SHTF, or any other major disaster, etc happens, when people get desperate, they become crazy, and I think preppers are the 1st ones they will go after, if/when all the stores are empty, and they HAVEN'T prepped, and don't have food. I know, most if not all preppers have weapons, but unless they have an arsenal and a small army of peeps, the ammo will only last so long. It's just something I think about.
one thing i started doing with my prep is to put together 3 day food kits. simple plastic shoeboxes with easy foods like energy bars, oatmeal, a small 1lb bag of rice, drink mix, water purification tabs, etc. each one has a box of matches, a roll of tape, an emergency blanket, and a small 1st aid kit. i hope to throw a lifestraw and a small battery bank in each eventually, but that might be too expensive. each one cost about $15-$20 to make from the dollar store, but is enough to eat 1000cal/day for 3 days. as certain items in my primary supplies start to expire and i cycle it out, i will add some of the more stable items to these kits as well. i made 10 of them over the course of a year and i intend keeping them for my neighbors if they come knocking for help. best case scenario, i make some friends/allys. worst case, they try to rob me for my extra supplies and i let them take it all. it looks like a lot of stuff, so i should have an easy time convincing them that it is all that i have lol.
@@heatherhodges6959 it's a small personal water filter that effectively makes MOST water sources drinkable. It's essentially a straw that you can use to drink directly from whatever water source you can find with no need to boil or purify (though that is ALWAYS a good idea to do anyway, no matter what kind of filter you have). It can filter out the vast majority of contaminants found in wilderness fresh water sources (lakes, streams, puddles, groundwater), and are even advertised to handle water that has been contaminated with sewage and such (great for urban survival and disaster situations). They also have a program that puts a portion of the proceeds towards helping bring clean drinking water and filtration systems to vulnerable areas, which is a nice bonus. They do have some limitations, but they are VERY affordable and other filters on the market cost a lot more to do the same thing.
The amount of people that don’t even have 2 days of water on hand is absolutely incredible. I’m just getting started with the preparation process, but I already feel a lot better about me and my family’s chances of surviving through most types of disasters! Start small and grow!
I live at the top of a hill on the outskirts of a small fishing village. The water pressure is low at the best of times. So I am well stocked with enough water to get me through a nuclear event...because as soon as I can travel, I will be bugging out...sooner rather than later. If you don't have a bug out location then mate up with someone that is in a low population density area and store previsions there. And yes, step-by-step...
I drink a lot of Arizona ice tea. It comes in substantial plastic jugs. When they’re empty I rinse them out and recap them. Always have at least 30 on hand. First sign of a hurricane I fill them all. Having them in small containers allows me to share if I choose
You don't want to stay where you need to prepare. Friendly suggestion; prepare your needs somewhere else where no people are around. Buy some piece of land somewhere cheap, ca 1 ha, dig a hole about enough to have food for 6 months, tuna, fish, dried meat, veg's, military rations, water, beer, wine, dry juice, everything that's can last couple of years. Tons of it. Cover it and just leave it. Tools are good to store also, solars, batteries(unused). After this you can forget about your stash and enjoy life. (Me have food for my animals atleast a year of supply. Its different in catastrophy if you are prepared, the unprepared will notice the prepered ones real quick. So don't ever mingle with people you don't know, they will do everything when in panic, most people today are not humans anymore, but a bunch of rapists of any kind.
You can have everything prepared perfectly, but if you're out of shape then it means nothing should u find yourself in a situation where you need to run away.
This is why I’m not too worried. Most Americans haven’t run a mile since grade school PE. The ones who will survive are those most physically active and the people they decide to help.
It’s vital for women and girls to stock up on sanitary supplies, or have an alternative plan; a good supply of “rags” that can be washed, dried, and reused for months.
Great way to stay cool when the power goes down and you don't have fans or AC. When I lived in the city and was too poor to afford an air conditioner for my small child and I, I would wet t-shirts and we would wear them until the heat of our bodies dried them out, then wet them again. I was amazed how cool we were!
Thanks for the tip .here in Florida with no electricity or generator how long would stored food last. And water bottles when hot plastic leaches onto the water. . My A/ C went out beginning of last hot season. I was in here 4 days with no A/C some if my stored food in plastic container got buggy had to clean out and salvage what i could. A few canned vegg got rusty. Another prepper channel said throw out if they get rusty. My feet and ankles swelled so bad . Never in my life had they been like that.from the heat and humidity here in Fl. Cooler weather and cold weather sometime gets down to 30's but not very long. And it warms up daytime. I couldnt stay in my small home in the Florida heat. Limited income to move .
Hurricane Katrina was like a test drive of preparedness. No electricity for 5 weeks, no phones for 6 weeks, and no gas for 7 weeks. We made it just fine...many of our neighbors didn't. Some lost all of their stored food in their freezers. Our rural community was isolated due to the sheer number of downed trees. The highlight of the day was loading everyone into my pickup truck to drive the 1 mile to the volunteer fire station to watch the national guard drop cases of MREs from a helicopter 2 weeks into the whole ordeal after locals had cleared a 1-lane path down the highway.
If you plan on staying home, it would be a good idea to siphon the fuel from your vehicles into storage containers for safe keeping. If you have to get away later you won't have all your fuel stolen.
@@FallingAsh You can buy electric or manual liquid transfer pumps anywhere from $5 at harbor freight to $50 for something much more reliable. Of course in an emergency a piece of garden hose can be used but not exactly safe or healthy. Not because of the gasoline but the fumes.
I just finished the audio book "One Second After" and while it's fictional it parallels a lot of what your saying. Very thought provoking. The breakdown of society is of great concern.
There was a guy who wrote down his experiences from the Bosnian-Serbian civil war, it was an eye-opener. If you can't find it, the two basic takeaways were 1) You don't want to be in the city, and, 2) You ain't gonna "lone wolf" your way through regardless how well-armed you are.
But what we are going through is not a Civil War and the buildings are going to be destroyed and that kind of scenario is not what they were talking about now.
@@Livetoeat171 True, but lots of angry men with hungry families to feed combined with decreased law & order still equals chaos. If you get a larger version of that CHOP zone like WA had, you can bet Antifa will be restricting the movement of any residents they deem right of Bernie...
Very sad and scary. I need to start looking into this issue. My loved ones matter. There should be community education classes teaching citizens much helpful information
Try taking a CERT class; Community Emergency Response Team. Call your city's Emergency Management or the Mayor's office. Also the County has CERT. Call the County's Water Works office. I am a CERT member. We are under the FEMA umbrella.
Looting sometimes begin hours after the emergency. Case study: 8.8 earthquake in Chile. Supermarket and drugstores were looted and burned 8hour after the quake. Extense groups of violent marauders were common in less than 24hours too. So the video is accurate in the steps, but not the time frames imo. (The quake was the last day of the month and a friday night, so a lot of people were just paid or didnt receive their salary yet, so food was very low on most houses). No electricity, gas or water for almost a month. Cash was useless since day one, barter was very common. Good video
* If it is obvious to others that you are in your home, go about the business of seeking supplies even if you have ppenty. Neighbors or those setting up camp nearby will notice if you hunker down and never venture out. They will correctly assume you have lots of supplies. *Keep children, pets and women inside as much as possible unless you are on a fortified hilltop or otherwise hidden / under cover. * Keep a loose fitting clothing in your preps including a larger belt so it will appear as though you are losing weight, like everyone else. * If you shelter in place establish retreat points in case you are overrun and practice getting to each backup location without cellphones. It can be a park, a neighbor's home or other location accessible to everyone in the family. * Don't share your medical conditions with others as people will assume you have medicine on hand and try take it. * Run fire drills without the power on and at various times of day. * Let each family member practice putting out a small fire with at least 2 methods such as baking soda and a fire extinguisher. * Practice with children how to answer questions so they don't give away important information. They don't need to lie but teach them how to be vague or deflect probing, nosy inquiries. * Establish a code word or phrase that the family can use to express that they are under duress without giving away that they are divulging anything.
Olive oil is calorie dense with long unrefrigerated shelf life. Essential minerals like Salt, Potassium, Magnesium Canned sardines or anchovy have a broad nutrient profile and long shelf life.
pure honey (not the kind you find in the plastic bear containers) keeps forever and packed with nutrients as well. theres a reason why its known as 'liquid gold'
Its pretty clear some of these scenarios are slowly playing out out rather than one sudden event. I.e continued supply chain shortages. Grocery stores having to hire security guards due to shoplifting. Police don't answer the phone when you call. Communities having to rely on private security and "neighborhood watch" groups because police won't respond. Lots of essential businesses such as pharmacies closing due to shoplifting, and overworked/underpaid pharmacy staff quitting due to unsafe staffing levels.
I hope it's also clear to you that many of the things you reference are not signs of the times but orchestrated policies to make it APPEAR as if things have changed when, in reality, it is being done on purpose. A sad but necessary truth we must internalize.
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@@SquidCena I think the saying is more about a preemptive scared..I believe at the time of crisis we would be far more scared if we couldn't take care of ourselves and families..
@@suehowie152 Well what I'm scared about is society collapsing... I love the hustle and bustling of civilization, when its alive, thriving, no surviving, people around, etc. Worst of all is that if everything were to go down, who will we have to set everything back up to normal? There's no engineers, architects, police, doctors, etc. If none survive the fall of civilization. How would we know how to get electricity going again and all of that stuff? Thats the real scary thing Sorry for such a long paragraph
I have prepared my own medical surgical instruments for minor surgery, and a Simpson forceps for aiding natural childbirth. I’m an MD and I have made sure to attain a good position as a rural family doctor in my area. I am positive no one will simply get rid of me. They would only lose if they did. Medical knowledge will be invaluable in SHTF. Not to mention I can also grow a garden, some crops, and deal with cattle and fowl. I’m not afraid to work the land or carry water. I’ve prepared my roots where I current are 4 years ago, but in case things go really dire I can always go the the family farm where we raise our beef cattle.
I retired from the army in 2015 after 30 years plus of service. I was a medic. NREMT-I it was the best decisions I have ever made. The training was above and beyond the regular EMT. It was mandatory to be NREMT certified but the additional training was even better. As my chidren were growing I taught them first aid, splinting, CPR etc. Simple actions can and will literally save lives. The company I once worked for had me go the their different sites and teach the Red Cross community first aid. Part of job security? If you have a chance take any communtiy first aid you can. You may well save the life of a family member some day.
'but in case things go really dire I can always go the the family farm where we raise our beef cattle', yes but so can everybody else in the neighbourhood.
Nice! Wish I knew someone like you. I've opted to be CQB specialist. I think all the resources (except food and water) will be in and around buildings, so being able to engage threats around them will be super important. Put enemy down, get resources, strengthen defenses, sally out and repeat.
If there is a food handout after shtf, GO THERE. You will raise suspicion if you sit in your castle, never go for food and still live. Go for the handout, try looking ragged (but not fragile), take what you can.
Don't normally comment on videos. BUT this is one of THE best out there! Here in UK I know people who have never made a campfire! Don't know how to use a knife, or how to cook basic food!
One thing I learned at the beginning of the Pandemic. What I had estimated to be 5 months of food was 2 and a half months of food. So, that information is my gift to you.
Another thing learned from the pandemic - people are all out for themselves! Case in point the runs on TP, food, bleach, etc. I live in Utah, where you would think that the stereotype of the religious culture was to get through the pandemic while caring for your neighbor, but the exact opposite occured in our city. There were a few people vurtue signalling that they were willing to share some of the 50 cases of supplies they just got done hoarding, but these were in fact the people that you needed to watch out for! It was pathetic, and highlighted the fact that human nature is to watch out for number one!
Eh, humans are capable of survival on far less food than you'd think. Our bodies are designed to slow metabolism to a crawl when in a severe caloric deficit. I say this with a lot of experience fasting in order to lose weight. Your body is surprisingly resistant to letting the stored energy go.
@@choosetolivefree I stand corrected. Let me rephrase. What I thought would last 5 months would have actually lasted three months and a week when I would have died of starvation because all my food was gone in two and a half months and then I would have gone without any food at all for 3 weeks. And then I would be dead.
People also have a tendency to emotional food binge. The key is to ration portions to make food last longer. Also, junk food doesn't fill a person up so, in turn, people have the feeling of hunger sooner. If one feels hungry drink a glass of water. I'm surprised with how well it works. If I am still feel hungry after that I will eat a small portion. Now I'm not directing this specifically at you, it is information I have found helpful for many over the years.
The knowledge of how to grow oyster mushrooms, while obscure, would be a very beneficial knowledge to help get you through that time. They grow in a few weeks, can be divided and mixed for exponential growth potential, and grows off non edible materials like sawdust, straw, I've even grown them off corn cobs. They're 25 percent protein as well. You can teach your whole community to grow them easily reducing the burden they may be on you.
@@bigj3508 yeah, this is in application of how to survive a situation. What is advantageous and going to possibly keep you alive is slightly beyond what I would find a daily pleasure or not.
Remember all dehydrated foods will require water to rehydrate. Beans take lots of water to hydrate to use to cook with. Many people say canned vegetables & fruits too heavy. But have enough water to make other parts of a meal or to just drink out of can. If your in place and not bugging out I reccomend some canned vegs and fruit. Bonl💕
I plan to soak my dried food without heat and just eat it like that. I don't have many beans, because of the risk of lectin poisoning. I went with other alternatives. By not cooking, I save fuel and water. The water from the risotto = hydration, so that all works out by itself. Only wastage is from natural evaporation, as the food soaks.
Were here. We live 30 miles from nearest store, in a town of only 27,000. 60 miles from a bigger city. Were self sufficient for at least a year, maybe more. Longest time without electricity here was 20 days. No problem. Good luck people.
One bit of advice that I heard of recently was, to get into the habit of "practicing" the grid & society down lifestyle. Start taking one or two weeks per month, to understand what it will be like. How to live, how to survive. How to do things now, make your mistakes now, so you won't be as inclined to later.
Turn off power at your main disconnect and practice grid down. You find out very quickly what you need and are lacking. I have an on and off grid solar system that can power about 50% of my house. Recently replaced the battery bank because I didn't cycle the bank often enough. No more - now I cycle it monthly - running it down to about 25% of remaining capacity. Test the systems you may rely on in an grid down situation and adapt accordingly.
I think another key thing to mention is how heavy bug out gear can be, we did a lot of ruck marches in the army and I'll tell you hauling a rifle and 60-80lb pack for 11 miles or more will wipe you out. If you're not ruck marching I'd recommend you at least start with 25lb bag for 8 miles. Just to get the feel. If you're stranded and need to get off the highway with a backpack most people won't even get to the edge of a major city.
for that reason alone I think 95 percent of current civilization will die. Only people who does what you describe is military in training for a elite program or someone who loves doing what you said.
@@cranbers The majority of people will go to FEMA for food. FEMA will check you out, if you are on their red or blue lists, you will be sent to a FEMA camp.
Right on. I see all these videos of bug out preps and not saying all are bad, but a lot of them are people showing off their bug out bags and kit outs. I have to laugh, because I'm looking at their fantasy set ups thinking WTF, that's like over 100 pounds of gear. A lot of these bug out prepper youtubers show some cool gear, but obviously have zero practical experience and they think they are pro-survivalists, because they got that plate carrier, 35 liter (or larger) backpack, a rifle, a shotgun, a handgun, 1000s of rounds of ammo, granola bars (rolling my eyes), 5 liters of water, and all the other gear they can get stuffed into that 35 liter pack.
You can add to your carrying capacity by keeping one or two small solid rubber wheels in your pack. Make a basic Indian style travois and put the wheels on the bottom. Work smarter not harder. I have "invented" many things for my bag and setup. For example a canvas mattress tick. You can use it to organize your bag but once you empty it it can be stuffed with leaves or hay etc and make a very comfortable mattress. Poor sleep is one of the worst things about survival situations in my opinion. I have studied how to build and replace the things you need as well as learning medicinal plants and edible wild plants
Truckers road Atlas comes in handy . Go to your local library and find a map of the sewer system ,if you live in a city it may help you escape undetected.
Solar panels ,converters, inverters ,solar motion lights, anything that doesn't require power is a plus ,you can charge whatever you need to keep things going.
Wish ppl would learn how to make bike peddle power. It's not hard to make and easily kept secret as a power producing component. There are videos on here how to make them. My Dad taught us when we were kids. I used it when living in an rv after a tornado took out power for almost a month here.
amazing... this is an eye opener and a beginner's guide for preppers.... If you are here watching this video, you have a prepper in you... Good luck to all
The grids have already crashed, more than once and in more than once place. The stock market is crashing before our eyes. Our “shortages” are from a lack of truckers and workers. It’s already happening.
Get ready with all the hacking that is happening now. Have extra cash on hand in small bills. Imagine if the credit/ debit card banking system was shut down.
We only have 4 power grids that give every American power. One in the West area, one in the Midwest area( middle of America) one in the Eastern area and Texas has one in their state. If one goes down millions have no power. Biden gave China the full rights to be in our power grids. President Trump passed a law to bring our power up to date and to get them secured 24/7. Now they aren’t secured and other countries can visit them within one week of Biden in the White House. Our power grids can be shut down by another country's ship being on Open Waters and firing a missile 200 miles up into the atmosphere over our country. That will cause an EMP which can take out our power grids. That one missile can cause a domino effect and shut all the power grids down because they are all connected. It will take 2 months and up to 2 years to repair the grids. China makes the parts for our power grids. So how long we are shut down will be as long as they want us shut down. Politicians and their families all have a very secure stocked place to go. There are 3 or 4 of them in our country. Some even have a hospital in them.
Best advice I can add to this, is to learn about wild edibles.. especially the ones considered to be nuisance weeds in your yard. You can eat dandelions, broad leaf plantains, chickweed, and many others. Theres also fruit trees and berry bushes that grow in parks and in the woods. These foods mentioned are packed with vitamins, antioxidants, probiotic and other wonderful things that can really help you survive. Most people know nothing about them being edible and these plants can be found in every state.
But when everyone (not literally everyone) starts eating wild edibles, the food will be gone in short order, imho. I hear some people say they’ll just hunt for food. Well, the whitetail population will be gone within a few weeks. Take my state. The deer population was wiped out back in the early 1900’s and there far fewer people than there are today. We have a good population of deer now, but that wouldn’t last.
Don't forget kudzu. You can eat all parts of the plant. The young shoots and small leaves will probably be the most tender. It is high in protein, almost as much as alfalfa, so you can also feed it to your livestock and you'll have eggs and milk.
horrific beyond imagination... Watching loved ones and your community slowly die in the most painful ways and being utterly powerless to stop it. The best preparation for a shtf scenario is to not expose yourself to that scenario in the first place! Stay safe and good luck!
East Tennessee is a very low crime and safe environment. A small town I know had a terrible tornado. Instantly homes were looted by those "looking for survivors". I have friends who lost all valuables within minutes after the storm but their home had no damage
Great pointers! I know so many people living beyond their means with no savings, no emergency fund or plan. Every year they upgrade to the newest iPhone and iPad and lease luxury cars. I asked one of my friends at the start of the pandemic when he lost his job if he would be good financially while he waits for unemployment. His answer was no. Prior to the pandemic he was borrowing money from three different payday loans, was months behind on his car payment and was paying the minimum on his electric bill to avoid having his power shut off. All of his friends kept telling him for many years to switch to an affordable car and live on what he earns. He never listened and had no clue how he was going to get by at the start of the pandemic. Well COVID was an eye opener for him and finally has money saved up and has learned to prep. The pandemic taught me one thing, I wasn’t prepared for an emergency. It’s not just about having money saved up. You need a supply of food, water, medical supplies and essentials. I hope we never get to a SHTF scenario but I am prepared for it should it come.
Eric Stratton It’s so very sad when people behave in the manner of your friend. I often wonder why do some people feel the need to impress others…smh. He’s trying to keep up with the “Joneses” and will eventually find himself homeless and hungry when this tribulation hit full force. Sad! It reminds me of the Aesop fable where the lazy ant fiddled throughout the Spring and Summer, while the industrious ant worked tirelessly to store food for the winter ❄️ to insure his survival. Guess who didn’t make it through the winter?
@@deloresiles2341 It was the grasshopper in the fable. He fooled around all spring and summer, and ended up dying in the winter because of his foolishness. (Jan Griffiths).
One thing no one talks about bin these prepper videos is semi trucks. As a trucker I think of all the goods locked in side of trailers. Food and medical supplies I'll be hitting those up when SHTF.
In many ways, bugging out makes you a refugee. Unless you're in the middle of a big city, think long and hard about bugging out if you don't have a firm destination in mind.
I feel there will be armed desperate people who would be out roaming stopping cars, taking your cars and any food or supplies you had with you. Does not seem like a safe place to be on some highway with cars ahead of you and behind you backed up for miles just burning your gasoline. I believe I have decided to just hunker down in place with my prepped supplies and hope no one comes to my apt door. I also plan to add a good supply of sleeping pills to my stash, just in case worse comes to worse with no hope left. Sad times we are living in.
I have been slow prepping for about 5 years now. In the last year, I have really increased my efforts. Now I'm trying to get my friends, family and colleagues on board. 😢
I experienced the catastrophic results of Hurricane Maria here in Puerto Rico, you weren't able to use credit cards and were only able to take out a small amount of cash from the banks, the line on the only open ones were astronomically large, over a hundred people or so, I ended up getting sunburnt due to this. Ice, power ( Electrical generators or solar panels ) and gasoline were like gold. It was horrendous, but I fortunately had enough on cash to help my family through buying simple things such as bread and whatever was around that didn't require freezing, like meat. Under those circumstances I broke down into tears, I wanted to leave due to everyone saying we were going to be like this for 5 years or possibly longer.
Do like I did, When I got Parkinsons and had to stop working, My co worker told me to do like his wife did.. get 5 credit cars with $5,000 limits on each one, Get the insurance on them that pays if off if I become disable... So I did I had met life insurance that payed half my income used 1 credit cared at a time $1,000 a month to pay bills, use the 5th one to make payments on the other one When I got up to $5,000 I applied for the insurance they paid if off. When I was approved for my SSDI I still had 1 left for $5,000 brought a riding lawnmower and computer with it then applied for it to be paid off, it did not affect my FICO score at all
@@nightnday6675 but if the computers are down you're screwed w/o hard currancy money this all ready happened in the 1800s the telegraph worked with out power
Last earthquake happened in my country opened up my eyes that preparation is a must ! When it hits next day there is no food around the shops i haven’t had a tent, no first aids in my car, no cash in hand … even phones were not working and couldn’t communicate with my family to gather with them… imagine a bigger disaster!
Potable water is crucial to any survival. Next is the ability to reliably make fire, and preferably a large cast iron pot, to cook on the fire. A really good knife and a heavy bladed, butcher's type machete is incredibly useful. You can even open tinned food with a heavy bladed machete ( I've done it loads of times) and it's great for butchering meat into good cuts. Remember to take a little vial of oil with you and an oilstone to sharpen your knives. If you can manage it, get a good axe too. Even in the stone age they made axes, so you need one.Also, never tell people what you've got, hidden in your home
Sounds serious. I live in a rural area that's on the decline. Quite a few empty homes and generally forgotten. I hope it stays that way if this happens.
That oil can be vegetable oil and can also be used to lubricate a firearm! A water filter is important and a pre-filter can greatly extend the use of the filter to screen out larger sediment that can clog a water filter!
To all the people complaining about the empty store shelves at Walmart. Other places besides Walmart have groceries and prepping supplies. Menard's (hardware store in the USA) has food and canning supplies. Tractor Supply Stores has survival food that can be shipped to any of their stores or even your home. Dollar Tree and Dollar General stores across the USA have groceries. There small ethnic/ international stores in most of the cities. We have Aldi, Big Lots and plenty of other stores where you can purchase food and prepping supplies. Heck, Target even has Groceries and camping gear. Just because your local Walmart has empty shelves it does not mean that you cannot find a place to buy groceries. Papa Murphy's even makes and sells salads.
Try sending short text messages to your friends, just making small mentions about prepping and growing your own garden. Their response will let you know if they are likeminded and if you should add them to your SHTF network. This is how I find out without tipping my tinfoil hat too far.
@@shaggydog563 Learn a valuable skill such as short wave radio, needlework, crocheting, canning, hell, even a card dealer or storyteller would be of use. Collect books about foraging and how to avoid poisonous plants.
*NO COMMUNICATIONS???* *When people do not know what is going on outside their community, they will leave mistakenly thinking the grass is greener on the other side, but the reality usually is --the other side has no grass.*
@@Christian_Prepper One to check, rough, not nice not family fair...but more realistic than most of the dross filmed today. Brutal and nasty as it would be, alas :( World wide food crisis caused by a disease wiping out crops hence the title
the collapse started with a Pandemic and Riots and Famine, economic recession in 2020 and into 2021.. by 2036 or2050 the world as we know it will have collapsed.
When is today. We are ahead of the curve. Only a couple more weaks before the shtf starts. Once CW breaks out in the USA. Food exports will collapse. This will cascade worldewide. 2 billion people will starve to death by March.
The video was a description of what I lived through with Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Except we never had that 24 hr window to leave. Hurricane was probably on a smaller scale and quicker rebuild (we had air transportation in about 3 months and a lot of us left then). The experience left long lasting psychological effects even on my child who was 9 at the time.
I think this is a bit dramatic. PR was not on the brink of collapse, the worst part was having to wait 7 hours in a gas station to get gas for generators, but looting wasn’t terrible except for places where looting happen regardless of a hurricane. Being months and weeks without power or water was horrible. I hated having to use a bucket to shower lol.
You’re not correct. If you were in Puerto Rico when the category 4 hurricane left people w nothing for 3 months. People were traumatized. They still are when you talk to them about it. You can tell.
The 94' Mid south ice storm saw freezing cold, no electricity and trees falling. My Dad was prepared, food, matches, lamps, lots of good lessons, I really need to incorporate those...
From personal experience in one of the biggest cities in US, when a big blizzard stopped the food trucks from coming in the grocery stores where completely empty by the 3rd day. Funny though the pizza guy was still delivering.
I dread it. I'm as prepared as I can be. I've known about this coming for some time now. I'm not a doomsdayer. Just a person that reads and see the signs. But, I dread it for the elderly, children and animals.
Wow I never realised there's an electric can opener. Here we use the manual one. But anyway, this is why everyone should have a standard Swiss Knife because that thing can definitely easily open a can and do a bunch of other things as well.
Truth is not easy to digest, I'm already scared as to what to do with three children as a single mom if such a thing happens, I've been prepping the little I could but seeing this video has opened my eyes to understand how it could play out in such situations, so help me God
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Friends? See if you can plan with them( if they are close enough). Devise a plan( routes,food,clothes,etc). Are your kids old enough to carry a backpack? Set up bug out bags for quick retrieval. You can do this. Do not panic. Think logical,plan.
For people who need corrective lenses to see, make sure extra glasses are part of your preps. You are going to have a rough time if your glasses are broken on day 1 and you don't have a backup pair.
I ordered two sets of z87 work glasses. If you have insurance that covers vision, one set of z87s and one set of regular glasses could be covered per year.
i have saved every single pair of my glasses since I became 28. at 40 now, I have 6 pairs with progressively worsening lenses, from the myopia and astigmatism of my28’sto 36, to my current presbiopia (now I need reading glasses as well, I use multifocal lenses). I keep them all. The older glasses allow me to see far and away, the newer pairs allow me to read up close as well. I will not be caught up being unable to see strangers approaching.
I’m sure mostly everyone knows this but I believe staying fit helps also.. I run 7-8 miles a day 5-6 times a week since 2003 when I joined the Marine corp. keeping up on marksmanship skills is important.. not call of duty practice but actually going to the range and using good old iron sights. Hope it never comes to this.. god bless you all
I used to be VERY fit. Worked out all my life. I'm in my 50's now,.and have ankle problems. I ain't leaving my 16 acres. And anyone that tries to come looting, AIN'T LEAVING EITHER ❤
I fully agree. The most important resource you will have in a SHTF situation is YOU. If you are physically fit, if you know how to build a shelter and live off the land, you will be in much better shape than almost everyone else. Do not rely on gadgets. Most of them don't work and they will run out anyway. However, I don't have to tell you, as a former marine, that the most important tools you will need are good weapons and the ability to use them. The internet has a million "what to pack or horde in a bug-out situation" videos. But we all know that if you build a shelter and fill it with 2 years supply of everything you could possibly need, but you can't defend it, then all you have done is prepare a wonderful shelter for someone else. I think the ideal set-up is to have 2-3 families that will stay together or bug-out together. Train all adults and older children in the basic use of firearms. If you have 5-10 rifles and shotguns among you, and everyone has a sidearm, then you form a pretty formidable group that will outgun predators and have the ability to scare them off. All predators look for easy prey. If you can show them that if they come after you, some of them will be hurt or killed, most predator groups will move on.
One often overlooked aspect are structures and systems that require constant active maintenance to keep them from becoming a problem such as a nuclear power plants that require water cooling to stop meltdown. Once those are unmanned, anyone remotely close is in trouble
@@NotClosedMinded as long as they can safely perform a cold shutdown, yes. If they stay hot and the coolant boils away, anyone remotely far away is in trouble, assuming that other facilities have/are/will be in a similar disasters situation.
@@uss-dh7909control rods can stop the chain reaction in its tracks. There are failsafes in place in all reactors in the USA. Other parts of the world may be a different story.
The Japan nuclear accident after the tsunami is a good example the reactors shut down but then had major issues without active support as well as the nuclear rod spent pools boiling off
They are programmed to shut down and scram the reactors...no human interaction needed Now if a huge wave or damage or something takes out the pumps/cooling then may be an issue...but in the US (after the 3 mile island incident)...they are built to shut down completely...
A solid tip: Have a skill that would prove useful. Doesn't matter what it is, but it is best you have one unusual skill (such as trading, an exceptional security skillset or bushcraft survival) and a more common one (such as farming, hunting and physical fitness) to appropriately maintain the needs of your community. Skills can also be used as bartering, and a skilled person is a much better candidate for a community than the type of person who says "If the apocalypse happens, I'm coming to your house." I'm not saying to not make any accommodation to those in need, but ensure you get something in return for assisting them in the areas they lack.
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@Imhotep Genius He did a good job of providing you with enough info to sort out for yourself, your life, your loved ones, your particular events and circumstances. No one can give you an outline that encompasses all these factors, to fit your life.
@@1redrubberball well said
@Imhotep Genius There all the same if it includes no water, food, or power.
I understand that we will be roaming the streets and looking to break into homes to EAT anything, for those that failed to prepare this will happen very shortly after, for those that prepared they will be as risk, for those that could only prepar for a month might start getting desperate and look for anything with flesh/meat for food!
@Imhotep Genius Earthquake, wildfire, flood, severe storm, EMP, Kamila Harris...take your pick.
The first 48 hours after Katrina, All was quiet. The 3rd nite, all the riff raff came out to loot. My buddy and I sat at the entrance to my neighborhood. I was the third house on the block with only one road in. We were armed to the teeth but we both had shotguns in our laps. We watched the looters make their way to our neighborhood. They never saw us sitting there still as rocks. As they reached the middle of the street in front of us, we both racked our 12 gauges... Never seen people levitate like that before! They flew out of there in a space of a heartbeat. Never had another problem through the recovery.
Gun nut fan fiction.
Katrina officials had authorized shoot to kill for looting. That was one of the most important directives. I did hurricane rescue for Katrina and I suffered PTSD for months. What I saw shook me to the core.
@M Fisher weakest comment ever. Kick rocks clown
is a sad country you are living in
I love the smell of napalm in the morning and the sound of a racking pump 12g
I've survived for 2 weeks without power twice. It was miserable. But we knew it would be restored. Knowing it will not be restored is a whole different ballgame.
I'm so worried about our country a whistle blower said it was going to be a whole year without power soon. For our entire country!
@@dewanabrown122 Who said such a thing?
I survived almost a year without electricity and water after hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico…
@@dewanabrown122it is depressing how people believe everything they hear
@@musicalfrogman8165even if they’re wrong, do you want to be unprepared?
Better to be prepared 10 years to soon, than one day too late. In other words be ready.
Just realize that everything but water will have to have been cycled through due to expiration
@@norml.hugh-mann what do you mean?
@@norml.hugh-mann -- I just finally went to use my long-stored water supply in the recent power outages and found it expired in 2016. I bought it before then. It was fine and I have been using it up now and will replace my supplies as soon as I can. It was a lesson in expiration dates BUT I wonder if my storage choices had anything to do with it not growing algae over time. I don't know. I haven't heard anything about that kind of thing with our bottled water supplies.
@@daliamcmahon5884 I think he means "too"
Jesus will pop out of a cloud and save us. 🤣
My dad is is 67 years old and he said "son, ive been hearing the world was going to end tomorrow since i was in 3rd grade. Just live."
Exactly. I'm more worried about cancer. Enjoy life
@@anthonyscalise7398 hope for the best, prepare for the worst
Me too
The world ends everyday, somewhere for somebody. Keep an eye on your immediate neighbourhood.
That's not really elderly wisdom. Being prepared is part of just living.
My experience: San Francisco earthquake 1989. The panic was immediate. The store shelves were bare within an hour. The earthquake wasn't the scary part. The people's reactions, that was scarey.
Figured everyone was too caught up in the World Series
@@xx-vw9ep Oh wow! Were you ok?
I dunno - I was there and you are FOS. Just sayin. Not to say there won't be issues in the near term. it WILL BE BAD.
Your spelling abilities are scary, too.
well, there is nothing in san francisco know. so it wont have any effect today..
Always prepare and pray you will never need.
AMEN ! 🙏🤞😓
Pray and then prepare.
@@zaggers77 pray & prepare @ the same time...the 2nd coming is in clear sight for those awake...
@@faithmills1585 Be blessed.
GOD has a way out - get rapture ready! The world is on the brink of the 7year Tribulation with the Antichrist! Please get rapture ready: accept JESUS CHRIST as your personal Lord and Savior today!!! Study biblical end times propchecy, listen to Dr. Ron Rhodes on end times chronology.
During the 2021 freeze in Texas, we were without power for +48hrs, some were without for much longer. In the first 24hrs, every gas station had run out of gasoline. There were lines of cars a mile long waiting to get gas at the few places that had it. People began fighting in line, no regard for each other. You could feel the tension. Every grocery store like HEB was empty. The shelves had nothing. When they restocked, people could only get one gallon of milk and one pack of meat per purchase. People began fighting over the food. It’s astounding that in such a short amount of time, society here was on the brink of collapse. This was 2 days of no power. Imagine a week?
Just use other countries that have faced societal collapses as examples of exactly how Americans will also act.
Yeah and the HEB workers could get as much as they wanted.Evan during covid.customers were limited.
A couple of years ago, on the Central Coast of Australia, a place notorious for high crime and high homelessness, we experienced a blackout during a fortnight (two weeks) of thunderstorms and heavy, heavy rain. I had gone to school and was escorted to the school library along with every other brave student who made it on the first day. Then after 2-3 hours, with the power being out within minutes of arriving to the library, we were told to go home. For me, that would've meant a 45 minute/2 mile walk, in torrential rain. Luckily, buses had been recalled, and we were dropped off.
It flooded to the point where we couldn't leave the house as my family lived in a gully with very poor drainage thanks to the local council ignoring residents who lived on my old street about the sewage grates being overgrown and polluted with trash. The water reached within a few feet of our porch. Also, luckily for my family, we had a gas stove, which hadn't gone down, only the electric sparker in it failed to click, so we had to use a long hosed lighter to light the stove. We heated pot after pot for baths. And luckily my mother had done the weekly shopping before the water boxed us in.
The power was out for a week.
Some suburbs went a almost month without.
It is possible, and it almost got really, really bad.
this would be worse today now that Police in all large cities are grossly underfunded and short staff. theft would be rampant in under 24 hours
We didn't run out of gasoline. Stores weren't empty either. Our electric grid went down, and we were all frozen inside. 😂
Don’t tell anyone if you’re prepping.
I agree
Not gonna happen. Prepping is widely understood to be a cry for help. Its just one that tries to mask itself as some kind of "self reliance".
You can often tell someone is a prepper just by looking at them, they pretty much have a uniform with the "gear" they buy
It so sad to see these desperately lonely men exploited and sold all manner of ridiculous stuff for so much money. These men need our help
The preppers are storing my supplies
@@Man_Raised_By_PuffinsLol really? Right. My dad is a nurse, looks like a police man. Prepped the second he heard of COVID. We didn't have to deal with the rush to stores.
Prepping isn't weird unless you're prepping for the zombie apocalypse. It's practical, especially for cases of food insecurity - if you have a family and suddenly you lose your job, you can eat. Same for natural disasters.
@@Man_Raised_By_Puffinswish I was a prepper and watch all of you dummies go nuts
i spent 20 yrs in the army and i was a ranger, Our survival training is insane. We are taught to live indefinitely in the wild with little to nothing, even without a knife. I am so thankful for the training i received. you would be surprised at the kind of things we learned to eat. From inner tree bark to bugs. We would do sustained survival training in jungles, cold weather, desert and mountains. Even now i still keep my skills honed just in case. If you could only have one thing , have a good knife. Invest in good equipment or tools because you do NOT want your shit to fail when you need it. There are many ways to test plants to see if they are edible. Some take a bit of time such as cutting open a plant and taping it under your arm by your arm pit for several hours to see if there is a reaction. Yes sounds strange but it works
You sound like the real deal. Simple good tools are always the best. Physical action and learning to do without when necessary. Good training is a gift that keeps giving.
That plant thing makes so much sense! Thanks for that! Do you have any good book recommendations for surviving in the wild? Anything specific given to you by the Army?
@@oscarrivas7240 US Army Field manual, "Survival" FM 21-76. that is a good base to start with , there are more advance things, but that willl give you all the basics of survival
@@daffybigbear thank you! I will definitely look into these!
@@oscarrivas7240 I do want to say one thing. Real survival skills , not this stupid shit on UA-cam from wanna bees who have never in their life actually put real skills to test. Real Survival skills takes time, patience and a lot of practice. You have to understand its not comfortable in any way, You learn to get used to being hungry, cold , hot, tired, and miserable. Real Survival skills is an art form that cannot be learned from the comfort of your back yard or camp sites. I see these videos and laugh my balls off because they all work on the premise of comfort. They tell you to buy this and buy that and to carry this that you would need a vehicle for in many cases. The truth is, and one basic philosophy we were always taught is , "IF YOU CANT CANT CARRY IT ON YOUR BACK, YOU DONT NEED IT. " Everything i need to survive indefinitely in any survival situation and any environment is on my vest. of course ill have a load out in my ruck sack, but we train in the frame of mind that you have nothing. Anything else your carry is considered a luxury, even a knife. We are taught that what you use for survival is in stages. First, your Ruck sack will carry a lot of basic necessities, such as a tent, water purification, Food cubes, not MRES. MRES are a pain in the ass. we just take the protein out and coffee and sugar packets and salt. we dump the rest. As a retired army , now a civilian i buy emergency food cubes i keep some in my ruck and on my vest. However,. we are taught, if we lose or have to abandon our ruck, then our Vest is the next stage. ON my vest. aside from ammo. i carry an assortment of knives and a spare survival knife, compass (always use a military compass with tritium) a vacuumed seal trauma kit i keep behind my front plate in its pocket, and a shit load of other things> This is a typical combat load. Next stage is what if you loose or something happens to your vest. Well. on my belt (always use a riggers belt) i have my main and primary all purpose survival/combat knife. I personally as many of my fellow rangers to, carry an M9 bayonet, Its heavy, durable, can be used for skinning although its not as pretty and clean as using an actual skinning knife, a hammer, a tactical combat knife, etc. IT is by far better than anything i have every used, and trust me ive tried every major popular survival knife out there from Gerber to Randall. Some guys like the old Kbar, but its too light for my taste, i know its a good knife but i like a heavy blade and heavy handle because its next to impossible to break an M9 bayonet. I have broken several K bars which is why i stopped using them. If you decide to get an M9 i suggest a real one from a company that makes them for the military. Dont get a cheap one, your life depends on it. Tri Tech, Phobius are two of the main manufacturers. you can buy them on amazon and they are pretty inexpensive, around a hundred bucks. Dont be fooled by the fancy looking and popular knock offs. Like i said, your life depends on what you carry. and in the case of knives, you get what you paid for. Military issue, for the most part, is reliable. tested and abused and still stands up to rigorous use. I cant stress enough, about these internet survival ass nuts. What they claim they know they have never really had to use it to actually survive. I promise you, they have never been far from a car, cell phone, other people and carry the most stupidest shit i have ever seen. train with bare minimum at first. as you get better and more confident you can increase your load out. Just remember. train as if your life depends on it. the only way to do that is dump your ass out in the wild once you get good and dont make it easy to access comfort. carry a phone of course. but going out in your back yard, camp sites etc is not training with realism. Realism is when your tried, hungry, and the only food you can eat is what you catch, kill. prepare and preserve. i know what im saying turns a lot of people off because , well lets face it. people are soft, lazy, love their comfort and in my opinion pussies. lol . i hope this helps .
If people can run over each other for a sale on black friday. No telling what will happen if SHTF. Prep, pray and hope we don't have to see that day
Right
Well, yelling “you need to social distance” is working and they are wearing facemask while they riot.
Moments like that allow you to see behind the thin veneer of social stability. It wouldn’t take much for a complete breakdown of civilization and basic order.
We're 10 months into a disaster right now and society is holding up fairly well. Excluding some race riots and weak economic policies, it is holding up very very well given the circumstances.
@@baghaei90 it hasn't collapses yet!
This keeps referring to police, military and hospital staff continuing to function, even stores being staff post-24 hours. I believe in a critical situation, these workers would almost equally abandon their employment to support their own families.
Abandon employment, yes. Skills and training remain useful.
Everything will be controlled by military the hospitals and security. I’m a nurse I definitely would not come to work I have family!
I’m a nurse. And you bet I would be at home with my kids.
I'm an OR nurse and I'd show up to work.
Actually what I noticed is that everyone talks about what to store etc. but no one talks about how keep it to yourself when you have people breaking into your house by the dozen.
What good is it if you have a shelter somewhere if people will just see it and attack you and steal your food.
Small piece of advice but shouldn’t go overlooked. Get books people! I’m talking actual real books about gardening, hunting, land navigation, medicine, anything remotely important to survival. In a situation like this, there is no google or internet
Yes that’s a must. Also, include seed packets in your survival kit.
That's correct,
True.ive been collecting books and hand tools.but don't forget fun books or you are going to live in doom.joke books.puzzles.get basketball.footballs.
And don't forget your Bible
and herbalism and herbal medicine books !!! I’ve been saying this for years 😊
Never have high expectations and you'll never be disappointed. Simple friends. Also stop guessing just prep in silence.
Get that bug out bag ready ...
@@adamchapman4329 Nah. This has happened before. I think we'll be fine. No plays by our enemies so that means work as usual.
Motto I learned over the past seventy-five years:. Better to have and not want than to want and not have; Always be Prepared; you cannot rely on life to remain the same in an unstable world. Do you know what the Bible says about the future. What do the experts have to say about the grid; asteroids, catacalismic changes, civil unrest? Just saying. Have faith and always be prepared. Peace.~
@@freedomforever1962 well said
@@freedomforever1962 dear Rick, bless you sir. I believe we would have been best friends if you weren't on the other side of the planet, respect from Tasmania Australia
I am so glad I am deep woods rural, and Native American with 50 thousand years of ancestors training. Grandmother stories to guide me, memories and medicine handed down that was laughed at and they tried to beat out of. My broken fingers healed crooked but my voice can still lead my grandchildren. Adadoligi ale nvwadohivnv ( peace and many blessings) praying for you all 🙋🏽♀️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Peace and blessings to you, sister.
All my best my friend
Durka Durka, Mohamed jihad.
50 thousand years? You write like an attorney from Manhattan. Knowledge is not DNA transferable, Kemo Sabe.
@@QwkDraw roflmao my deep and humble thanks 🙏🏽, a Manhattan Attorney no less ? I didn’t even finish the ninth grade so I am doing very well for myself lol. As for my heritage I can prove every word 😊 unegv lol not that I would bother with something like you
I survived the 8.8 Richter earthquake of 02/27/2010 in Chile, I lived in Concepción. Department stores were looted the same night as the earthquake and supermarkets a couple of days later.
In my neighborhood we spent 14 days without water and 22 without electricity.
What helped us get through that moment was the joint work with the neighbors, we got water from a well, we shared the frozen food before it spoiled and we organized ourselves to take care of the looters.
I'm telling you, because according to my experience, the deadlines you indicate in your video are actually shorter.
The president of the time, it took several days to decree martial law, so we spent a week of true terror. In addition, in our country it is very difficult to have firearms to protect yourself.
Thanks for your video and greetings from Chiloé.
I was living there crazy times
Thank you for the real life perspective.
I watched this 3 years ago and im eatching it now. I feel like right now theres more chance than ever
2 countries with nuclear weapons are currently bombing each other, it’s only a matter of time before one of them start throwing nukes 😣
Same
Oh, it’s happening. It’s a matter of how prepared we are
@@TK-cg4ksyep it’s getting really bad
@@maxdeborde6772Calm yourselfs, there have been worse times
Its like I told my kids. I'd rather be prepared and wrong than right and stuck with nothing. It put it into a good perspective for them.
nice false dichotomy, your kids are lucky they get to grow up in a more informed culture
Keith tf u talking about
@@ItsSupercat94 he's providing 2 scenarios: being prepared for a collapse and it happening, or not being prepared and it happening. there is also the chance of not being prepared and it not happening or being prepared and it not happening. False dichotomy is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available noob
@@keithburke5738 You're wrong. Not every dichotomy is a false dichotomy.
@@datboi9994 being prepared and a collapse not happening, there is your third option. therefore it is not a dichotomy. checkmate preppers
This may seem odd to some, but my wife and I started intermittent fasting a few months ago. The health benefits are enormous and it has cut down on our food intake, thus grocery bills. One thing I would add that a person can start immediately is getting into better shape. There's tons of reliable information online that will help. I have spent a lot of time researching nutrient dense foods and there benefits. You can have all the prepping supplies imaginable but if you aren't in decent shape they will do nothing to help you survive.
When I hear beans and rice I laugh. Good way to starve to death. I’m getting tons of sardines and kippers and making beef and turkey jerky. That and water are all you need. Plus sunlight and fresh air and exercise. I’m a carnivore and practice intermittent fasting.
the obese people will die quickly once they stop eating being "fat will not save you "
being obese slows you down anyways .
as you most likely are all ready have malnutrition from eating all the junk food.. day in and day out
after I switched to a meat based diet i all ready cut my food intake and able to maintain a healthy weight at any caloric intake of meat....
@@punker4Real Your pride will be your downfall. Pride always goes before the fall, fool. SMART fat people will slim down out of necessity when the time comes. They will know that they have no choice. You, on the other hand, are not smart.
@@leslielandberg5620 people in Asian countries I went to Indonesia and stayed 38 days they eat rice everyday and maybe one meal a day they will have meat fish or chicken or eggs but they mostly survive on rice and they're healthy so don't underestimate it beans are good protein!
@@leslielandberg5620 lol. Meat is great but eating only meat isnt good. My go to will be what can be foraged every season. Especially mushrooms and wild fruit like apples and various berries. They replace what meat gives you and then some. Mushrooms can be dried and last years plus theyre plentiful with different species for every season. Youd be surprised how many mushrooms are around when looking for them. Gotta learn the trees in your area. Most mushrooms are mycorrhizal which means they share a symbiotic relationship with specific trees. It really wouldnt be that hard to make it on all natural foods just alotta work. Btw you definitely wouldnt starve to death on beans and rice. Beans are very healthy.
This is so scary because for the first time in my life, I can see it happening. 😪😪
Do not be afraid the bible says my friend. Start seeking Jesus!! He will take your fears away🙂
When COVID really hit, and there were runs on basic items, my wife and I were in the basement. She was doing laundry and I had a clipboard, going over our stuff. I will never forget the conversation. I said, "I wonder if we could have done anything different." She said, "We're in better shape than 99% of this country." I said, "I didn't think it would happen this soon." She said, "I didn't think it would ever happen. We're in good shape because you did."
Me too😢 I NEVER thought me or my children and grandchildren would ever have to think about and plan for it.
@@sylviachavez7263 What about those who don’t?
@@sylviachavez7263 Also, there are countless upon countless things that theoretically or objectively should be feared. No god has saved us from really anything unless you count the involvement of death (which they didn’t directly cause).
I love how the takeaway from this is community. Expected a lot more of the “stockpile ammo! Do shooting drills!” When in reality, the idea of strength in numbers and maintaining supplies together takes greater importance.
Don't need to stockpile ammo, did that years ago.
Stockpiling ammo and shooting drills are for the rural preppers. Shooting brings much more negative attention in cities. However, I will agree that many overlook food and med supplies for more than a few months of shtf.
It would've been perfect to include the Holy Rosary and reflection of the Crucifixion as meditation on horrible death
@@EdwardKnight-ll5zewhat would that do
@@CryOfTheLyrebird Set people in the right mindset to suffer gracefully like Christ, and not kill their neighbors
I survived 3 weeks without power and without running water after Wilma hit Miami as a Cat 3 hurricane back in 2005. No looting in our area, no need to use food or water from the National Guard. Several families from the neighborhood exchanged ph numbers and organized an improvised security teams at night, all very well and legally armed. During the day we help each other in cleaning and sharing or trading goods. That was a temporary or at least an end in sight crisis. In a situation of civil war, world war, social collapse, or a natural disaster of a greater magnitude, the story will be very different.
I was just up the road in Ft. Lauderdale and we had very little damage from that storm. Which is why things didn't hit the fan in Miami...we had family coming up to shower, charge their phones, and shop in our local grocery store. The Guard was on site immediately because they had a week of advanced notice. It was a very regional storm... now imagine if she had taken out the entire state. The line of cars headed north on the turnpike & 95 would be a disaster in itself!
@@TourPace highway becomes a parking lot. That's when they walk to surrounding neighborhoods.
A local storm will be way different than a nationwide/worldwide collapse.
I was a cop with Miami PD and worked Hurricane Andrew...please don't tell me there was no looting as that ALWAYS happens. There may not have been in your nwighborhood but it happened. In fact it happened during the actual hurricane
@@Ead32180 During the storm? Wow!
This past year has been a "practice run" and most people learned something from it. Most realize they were not prepared. Some took any excuse to cause chaos. It's been eye opening for sure.
Definitely. This year has taught us A LOT
When covid was announced and still in China I bulked up on can goods milk veggies meats fruit ect. Non perishable items beans rice need to re up
I'd say most people havent learned a damned thing and have continued business as usual
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Yes, most did realize that they were not prepared. The same ones that laughed at us for being preppers before being put to the test. We should not take everyday conveniences for granted, because they could disappear in an instant.
The one thing that sucks about prepping is everything expires. You can’t just stick it and forget it. It has to be rotated. Everything from bottled water and can goods to gasoline and batteries.
Expired bottled water taste like chemicals. Expired can goods taste metallic. Expired gasoline has small bits of vasoline floating around that can clog up your fuel system. It’s important to monitor these items with CLEARLY LABELED DATES.
Thank you knowledgeable guys for the knowledge you shared with us. A lot of the things that were mention. I had never heard of doing but I will definitely be taking up your advice.thank you If anyone else has any useful information please share it
In my life I ate a lot of expired food if smell o.k you can eat it when you are ready hungry almost anything taste good.
Expired gasoline smells like paint thinner.
Right, I had to slice and fry up a can of spam tonight, on account of rotation. If SHtF maybe I can rotate it to a $5 bill.
Water tastes wierd because there is no oxygen in it. Pour it back and forth between 2 containers to re oxygenate it and it should taste fine if it was properly stored.
I was a convenience store cashier for 10 years. I can remember severe winter storms that shut down the whole area. After several days without power, humans start getting crazy. All I could think of was how bad most would handle a REAL disaster.
It's crazy to me how we've been in a pandemic going on 3 years, have had many earthquakes/tornados/hurricanes, people freezing to death in TEXAS, rising sea levels, growing agricultural issues and even volcanic eruption and people are still anti prepping 🤯
It will be 2 years next month.
@@AnthonyWW45 you're right but that's why I said going on 3 years. By the end of this year itll almost be 3 years. Even 2 years is still a lot. Many people died
Denial is a form of psychological self-defense.
the good book tells how people just doing the same old everyday thing"s an not think about what is going on , until that terrible day !!!
People assume the government and National Guard will swoop in with supplies and 'stimulus' checks to save them.
As a senior prepper. I am well prepared. I want to remind the elderly. If possible bugging in is safer for us. The video said at 3 mons the elderly will be gone. That brought out my. I’ll show you attitude. I’m a survivor. I survived homelessness yrs ago. God Bless You All!
Good! Good for you!
I think he was envisioning the elderly is the sense of the person typically 80 and up who can’t be mobile without assistance, has deteriorate health to a dangerous degree. Like nursing home elderly. Not 60-70 active elderly.
I know several 83 year old women who will be helping anyone they can. One's a retired nurse the other a retired teacher. They run circles around me and I'm 65.
@@CSAcrazy that exactly what's he was saying. And when it comes to that time, we'd have no choice but to discard the very weak and sick there's no other option at that point. But It's always going to be these entitled people and they're going to be the 1st ones dead!! cause they don't want to think realistically. Remember Alllll the "moralism" is it the window, it's survival time at this point folks.
Sadly that is because in the west as a whole we have lost our true sense of family and community.
The freeze in Texas was my biggest wake up call. Been getting prepared in every way I can ever since
Rural, frozen in. Real wake up. When you run out of cat liter they poop on your pillows. Running out of food and frozen 🥶pipes.
Waking up. 🥶
It usually happens every 10 years or so, its just the reliance on "renewable" energy that screwed everyone over
4 hurricane in florida got me going. Obama election made me hurry even more.
Maybe start preparing by moving away from Texas, if you live there.
Their grid has been allowed to run down to decrepitude by greedy capitalists who refuse to spend what it takes to maintain it, and there are tons of idiots too stupid to save themselves and their families even by getting a free vaccine, LOL! Start preparing to survive by getting the shot! 🤣
The one way many Texans are likely to be "prepared" is by having tons of guns and ammo, so that's guaranteed to end well. 🤔
@@daviddunsmore103 experimental mRNA Gene Therapy is not a "vaccine"
In South Africa, various countrywide prepping groups have formed to protect each other and their fellow citizens in a severe SHTF scenario. Our family is part of such a group and have prepped for years.... yet we cannot get one single member of our friend group to do the same.... it is confounding to me! We have preps for staying at home, preps for leaving and joining our prepping group away from the cities and preps for if we are alone somewhere, living off the land. Our prepping group communication network does radio checks once a week ( across the whole province). We have camping weekends together to use and refine our preps, where we have to find and filter our own water, only eat the kind of food we have in our stockpile and even dig pit latrines. Most of our prepping group have off-road caravans so that we have comfortable, lockable places to sleep....
My friend group on the other hand, say that prepping is too negative to think about, but for me its quite the opposite: the more I prep, the calmer and more in control I feel. So while my friend group have enjoyed travel and fancy toys over the years, we have plowed all our spare time an money into our "ark".
Bear in mind that we in South Africa live with rolling blackouts already, so we are much closer to grid-down than you in America.
Still, despite all this, our ultimate preparation is the strengthening of our Faith. God has placed us here, at this time - I am always mindful of the verse from Esther: "Perhaps you were made for such a time as this".
The writing is on the wall - only the foolish and blind cannot see it or recognise it. God Bless you all in your preparations!
It was good to read about your prepping in South Africa. I think people forget about faith in God, without it, it's all pointless. May God bless you, your family and your community! 🙏
Wow that is awesome! This video really shocked into me that we will NOT be running to the woods with our gear and going at it alone like I’ve always assumed. South Africa must be terrifying. Especially if you are a white person. You are very smart for being ready. America is very close to SHTF and a civil war I think. And once that happens I think a lot of the world will follow suit considering how much aid we provide. 😢 scary stuff. God bless you and yours ❤ and if your friends won’t join in, oh well. They probably wouldn’t do well in that situation anyways and would be a liability.
Praise the Lord!!!
I'm a South African prepper too...Gauteng...I would like to enter into discussion with you regarding bugging out...something I'm not really prepared for...I have camping gear and Bakkies but have no real reason ideas of realistic places to go to...
Thank you very wise and kind words. May God bless and keep you and your family safe!
As a Zimbabwean all i can say is collapse makes you self reliant.
1) alternative power is a must, solar and LPG CYLINDERS
2) petrol storage
3) vegetable garden
4) Borehole
5) bulk on non-perishables, soap toothpaste cooking oil
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The government will quickly restore order by force. Economic recovery is another story
You mean Rhodesia*
@@lukaskerjanc ?
What led to the collapse? And I do mean the collapse of "Rhodesia".
You're assuming government WANTS order restored
@@honkeykong4049 I suppose it was the same thing as all collapses. Lack of structure.
I remember hearing somewhere , all empires and civilisations collapse there are no exceptions, that has always stuck with me
When they say an empire will collapse they don't mean into apocalypse. They just mean that in time the governing power will be split up or be taken over by a stronger power.
30 days. Thats it without bleach, water and ammo.
The Fate of Empires by John Glubb is a good read of this subject
@Glyn, too bad "His Story" is 99.9 % BS! education=INDOCTRINATION.
Jesus is coming back and His Kingdom will last forever, but you’re right about the worldly empires built from mans hands. Remember that there is no point in prepping if your soul is not saved by the sacrifice of Jesus! Accept His death on the cross and resurrection as payment for your sin debt, Repent of your sins and follow His teachings, cry out to Him and He’ll deliver your from sin and eternal death. You guys are *NOT* ready for what’s about to come upon this world! Read the book of revelation and see just how awful it’s going to get! Jesus is the only hope/peace/shelter/doctor/provider/Savior that can help you. God bless you :)))
One time I survived 6 hours with no phone, no beer, no nothing. Just me alone with my thoughts.
Well done...Were you sleeping by any chance 😂
Wow you should make a UA-cam video so we can all learn those skills you posses.
Well that was a dry run....the no beer scenario would would be the worst.🙄
Amazing! You are the hero we need but don't deserve.
😂
I grew up with Depression era parents. They were so resilient that we had food storage always cycling through. We gardened and canned everything. Dad hunted. Fished. It was just part of life to be prepared. Dad was laid off from the lumber mill most winters and our food storage saw us through. Going to the grocery store was considered a waste of money lazy people do. I don’t can much anymore, but I always have rice and beans stored. I buy canned goods at Costco. I have tons of batteries, charcoal, water drums, a transistor radio and police scanner. I have diapers and wipes and baby food in case someone has a starving baby. I have no pets anymore but I’ve stored dog and cat food for neighbors. Oh, and I have a 12-gauge and 9mm. I’m willing to share with my neighbors, but not thieving marauders. I may look old, but I feel 25, and I grew up target shooting from the age of 7 on. Don’t mess with Grandma.
I've had alot of survival training as a Army helicopter pilot. One important adjustment to survival is to start living on a night schedule. Change your circadian rhythm. Live to fight another day!
I don't find this good for the long term. Good to do intermittently but we are not nocturnal beings
That is a great idea. Thanks.
@@coreyself2983 ,moving around in the daytime,in a shtf situation,WILL expose you to every potential marauder with a weapon. If things are bad enough,long enough,desperate people will kill for a can of beans,a pair of boots or a coat. I've been places where it's happened.
@@coreyself2983 In that case, I'll never need to worry about you. Make it happen if you want to live!
@@coreyself2983 speak for yourself. Some of us have lived years working night shift and/or are natural night owls. Historically, it's how people survived.
I have my group family of 5 two military vets, but it is really hard to find like minded people in real world.
So true. And the crazies always seem to come out of the woodwork.
As an army vet of 20 years I have found that I've always gravitated to other veterans which make up most of my friends, an asset in a shtf situation.
Being in the military means nothing. My sister and her husband are both retired military. One was a clerk ,the other a mechanic. Unless you want some paper work filed or a bolt turned they are useless in SHTF . People think just because someone was in the Military they have some special skills. 95 percent have no skills. That's why they were in the Military. By the way the average round count to be classified as a rifle marksman in the Military is 200 rounds. That's not even warming up for me or most people I know. After that people in the Military never shoot a firearm again.
@@johnd4348 it's more about commitment. Just like people with college degrees. Doesnt mean they are smarter or more capable. It shows they are able to put their minds towards a goal and achieve it.
Absolutely right very hard.😥
In my area, we had major looting of malls and shops closed their doors for days. There was no fuel for cars. A few months later, there was a flood that washed out the two access roads and trapped our neighborhood for several days. People were in a panic to buy food and other necessities. Being preppers for years, we didn't have to worry! It amazes me that after those two disasters, people in the area still don't have a prepping mindset.
I definitely believe in prepping! What I worry about though, is IF, SHTF, or any other major disaster, etc happens, when people get desperate, they become crazy, and I think preppers are the 1st ones they will go after, if/when all the stores are empty, and they HAVEN'T prepped, and don't have food. I know, most if not all preppers have weapons, but unless they have an arsenal and a small army of peeps, the ammo will only last so long. It's just something I think about.
@@bjstark5069 So true!
@BJ Stark either they go crazy or your family go crazy and kill each other. I'll choose the 1st.
You can't help stupid...
@@bjstark5069 Here's a thought Keep your preps hidden because by the sounds of it you'd rather starve than risk others taking your food
one thing i started doing with my prep is to put together 3 day food kits. simple plastic shoeboxes with easy foods like energy bars, oatmeal, a small 1lb bag of rice, drink mix, water purification tabs, etc.
each one has a box of matches, a roll of tape, an emergency blanket, and a small 1st aid kit. i hope to throw a lifestraw and a small battery bank in each eventually, but that might be too expensive.
each one cost about $15-$20 to make from the dollar store, but is enough to eat 1000cal/day for 3 days.
as certain items in my primary supplies start to expire and i cycle it out, i will add some of the more stable items to these kits as well.
i made 10 of them over the course of a year and i intend keeping them for my neighbors if they come knocking for help.
best case scenario, i make some friends/allys. worst case, they try to rob me for my extra supplies and i let them take it all. it looks like a lot of stuff, so i should have an easy time convincing them that it is all that i have lol.
You smart, smart man!
what is a lifestraw
@@heatherhodges6959 it's a small personal water filter that effectively makes MOST water sources drinkable.
It's essentially a straw that you can use to drink directly from whatever water source you can find with no need to boil or purify (though that is ALWAYS a good idea to do anyway, no matter what kind of filter you have).
It can filter out the vast majority of contaminants found in wilderness fresh water sources (lakes, streams, puddles, groundwater), and are even advertised to handle water that has been contaminated with sewage and such (great for urban survival and disaster situations).
They also have a program that puts a portion of the proceeds towards helping bring clean drinking water and filtration systems to vulnerable areas, which is a nice bonus.
They do have some limitations, but they are VERY affordable and other filters on the market cost a lot more to do the same thing.
It seems like that day may.very well happen & when it does, ppl will be all for one & none for the other.!! Riots happen.
@@Tropocatorand once they see this, not smart any longer!
Seeds, garden seeds is a must have. You can use rooftops to plant gardens.
Micro greens such as sprouts are highly nutritious and easy to grow in just a few days in shallow containers.
I have container gardens on 3 acres. I grow veggies year round. Always save/buy seeds. Always have on hand. (Jan Griffiths).
The amount of people that don’t even have 2 days of water on hand is absolutely incredible. I’m just getting started with the preparation process, but I already feel a lot better about me and my family’s chances of surviving through most types of disasters! Start small and grow!
I live at the top of a hill on the outskirts of a small fishing village. The water pressure is low at the best of times. So I am well stocked with enough water to get me through a nuclear event...because as soon as I can travel, I will be bugging out...sooner rather than later. If you don't have a bug out location then mate up with someone that is in a low population density area and store previsions there.
And yes, step-by-step...
I drink a lot of Arizona ice tea. It comes in substantial plastic jugs. When they’re empty I rinse them out and recap them. Always have at least 30 on hand. First sign of a hurricane I fill them all. Having them in small containers allows me to share if I choose
Yeah I’d be fucked rn.. don’t even have a flashlight or extra batteries..
Yes I’m starting small eventually I will invest more money into my stock pile
You don't want to stay where you need to prepare. Friendly suggestion; prepare your needs somewhere else where no people are around. Buy some piece of land somewhere cheap, ca 1 ha, dig a hole about enough to have food for 6 months, tuna, fish, dried meat, veg's, military rations, water, beer, wine, dry juice, everything that's can last couple of years. Tons of it. Cover it and just leave it. Tools are good to store also, solars, batteries(unused). After this you can forget about your stash and enjoy life. (Me have food for my animals atleast a year of supply. Its different in catastrophy if you are prepared, the unprepared will notice the prepered ones real quick. So don't ever mingle with people you don't know, they will do everything when in panic, most people today are not humans anymore, but a bunch of rapists of any kind.
This is actually one of the most terrifying videos I’ve ever watched!
Be glad it's just a video.
Then you're probably easy prey... If that is the scariest.... Lol!
Human race adopt to situation realy fast. Do not be affraid.
@@lifeofajlur2128 Its fantasy scenario. Things are not so fucked up even in the war zones...
But it’s probably going to happen.
You can have everything prepared perfectly, but if you're out of shape then it means nothing should u find yourself in a situation where you need to run away.
Disabled people.small children.elderly can't run .we walk.
That's why I am prepared to fight to the death for my Mountain Homestead
This is why I’m not too worried. Most Americans haven’t run a mile since grade school PE. The ones who will survive are those most physically active and the people they decide to help.
It’s vital for women and girls to stock up on sanitary supplies, or have an alternative plan; a good supply of “rags” that can be washed, dried, and reused for months.
Great point! I've thought of this recently too!
Tampons are good for trying to stop bleeding from a gunshot wounds as well.
Reusable sanitary towels are actually really decent and comfortable x
Get a cup
Baby wipes are better
After 2020, my wife is now on board and see's the importance of being prepared.
Before this she thought you were nuts?
Not good to have your wife with you when this goes down better to be on your own
@@Antonio18677 stfu you sound dumb
@@Antonio18677 companionship is key to maintaining mental health
@@thetataliciouschannel2269 was she right? hahaha ahahahaha
Great way to stay cool when the power goes down and you don't have fans or AC. When I lived in the city and was too poor to afford an air conditioner for my small child and I, I would wet t-shirts and we would wear them until the heat of our bodies dried them out, then wet them again. I was amazed how cool we were!
Great tip. Thanks
I did that in basic training in the middle of the hot hot Georgia summer. 👍
@@omennemo8844 You are welcome.
Thanks for the tip
.here in Florida with no electricity or generator how long would stored food last. And water bottles when hot plastic leaches onto the water. .
My A/ C went out beginning of last hot season. I was in here 4 days with no A/C some if my stored food in plastic container got buggy had to clean out and salvage what i could.
A few canned vegg got rusty. Another prepper channel said throw out if they get rusty.
My feet and ankles swelled so bad . Never in my life had they been like that.from the heat and humidity here in Fl.
Cooler weather and cold weather sometime gets down to 30's but not very long. And it warms up daytime. I couldnt stay in my small home in the Florida heat.
Limited income to move .
@@omennemo8844 💜
Hurricane Katrina was like a test drive of preparedness. No electricity for 5 weeks, no phones for 6 weeks, and no gas for 7 weeks. We made it just fine...many of our neighbors didn't. Some lost all of their stored food in their freezers. Our rural community was isolated due to the sheer number of downed trees. The highlight of the day was loading everyone into my pickup truck to drive the 1 mile to the volunteer fire station to watch the national guard drop cases of MREs from a helicopter 2 weeks into the whole ordeal after locals had cleared a 1-lane path down the highway.
If you plan on staying home, it would be a good idea to siphon the fuel from your vehicles into storage containers for safe keeping. If you have to get away later you won't have all your fuel stolen.
Is there equipment you can buy to siphon gas from a vehicle? Excuse my ignorance, but I’m only familiar with the method people use in the movies...
@@FallingAsh You can buy electric or manual liquid transfer pumps anywhere from $5 at harbor freight to $50 for something much more reliable. Of course in an emergency a piece of garden hose can be used but not exactly safe or healthy. Not because of the gasoline but the fumes.
We just always used a garden hose. Cheap, and it works.
They ll just steal the whole car ;)
That’s only if your car is outside of your house but if you have a garage there’s no need to siphon your own gasoline out of your own car.
I just finished the audio book "One Second After" and while it's fictional it parallels a lot of what your saying. Very thought provoking. The breakdown of society is of great concern.
Very sobering book 👍🏻
It's a must read.
Probably one of the best books to jar someone into prepping.
I'm on the 3rd. book of the trilogy...The Final Day. Could happen here!!
"Lights Out" is another book you should get if you liked One Second After.
There was a guy who wrote down his experiences from the Bosnian-Serbian civil war, it was an eye-opener. If you can't find it, the two basic takeaways were 1) You don't want to be in the city, and, 2) You ain't gonna "lone wolf" your way through regardless how well-armed you are.
But what we are going through is not a Civil War and the buildings are going to be destroyed and that kind of scenario is not what they were talking about now.
@@Livetoeat171 True, but lots of angry men with hungry families to feed combined with decreased law & order still equals chaos. If you get a larger version of that CHOP zone like WA had, you can bet Antifa will be restricting the movement of any residents they deem right of Bernie...
I live in a town of 3200 people. I think im good.
Selco, from Serbia!! I remember you.
@Cyndi Rothrock : nail on the head! Boom!
Very sad and scary. I need to start looking into this issue. My loved ones matter. There should be community education classes teaching citizens much helpful information
Try taking a CERT class; Community Emergency Response Team. Call your city's Emergency Management or the Mayor's office. Also the County has CERT. Call the County's Water Works office. I am a CERT member. We are under the FEMA umbrella.
Looting sometimes begin hours after the emergency. Case study: 8.8 earthquake in Chile. Supermarket and drugstores were looted and burned 8hour after the quake. Extense groups of violent marauders were common in less than 24hours too. So the video is accurate in the steps, but not the time frames imo. (The quake was the last day of the month and a friday night, so a lot of people were just paid or didnt receive their salary yet, so food was very low on most houses). No electricity, gas or water for almost a month. Cash was useless since day one, barter was very common. Good video
In Oregon and California they were looting while the neighborhood was on fire. Some that were caught lived over 200 miles away.
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
@Maine Rural makes you think they knew before hand.
@@cocijothor1046 de acuerdo : )
@Maine Rural only if you have woods available in your area.
* If it is obvious to others that you are in your home, go about the business of seeking supplies even if you have ppenty. Neighbors or those setting up camp nearby will notice if you hunker down and never venture out. They will correctly assume you have lots of supplies.
*Keep children, pets and women inside as much as possible unless you are on a fortified hilltop or otherwise hidden / under cover.
* Keep a loose fitting clothing in your preps including a larger belt so it will appear as though you are losing weight, like everyone else.
* If you shelter in place establish retreat points in case you are overrun and practice getting to each backup location without cellphones. It can be a park, a neighbor's home or other location accessible to everyone in the family.
* Don't share your medical conditions with others as people will assume you have medicine on hand and try take it.
* Run fire drills without the power on and at various times of day.
* Let each family member practice putting out a small fire with at least 2 methods such as baking soda and a fire extinguisher.
* Practice with children how to answer questions so they don't give away important information. They don't need to lie but teach them how to be vague or deflect probing, nosy inquiries.
* Establish a code word or phrase that the family can use to express that they are under duress without giving away that they are divulging anything.
Excellent tips. General Mattis said it best "be polite be professional but have a paln to kill everyone you meet"
Awesome and thanks. Add: Have four pairs of eyeglasses if you badly need them.
Olive oil is calorie dense with long unrefrigerated shelf life.
Essential minerals like Salt, Potassium, Magnesium
Canned sardines or anchovy have a broad nutrient profile and long shelf life.
Peanut butter is good too. Sugar, fat, protein, lomg shelf life
Coconut oil far better and is good to 400° or so... olive oil is for low heat only.
Pure maple syrup has 38 minerals in it
Olive oil does not have a long shelf life
pure honey (not the kind you find in the plastic bear containers) keeps forever and packed with nutrients as well. theres a reason why its known as 'liquid gold'
Its pretty clear some of these scenarios are slowly playing out out rather than one sudden event. I.e continued supply chain shortages. Grocery stores having to hire security guards due to shoplifting. Police don't answer the phone when you call. Communities having to rely on private security and "neighborhood watch" groups because police won't respond. Lots of essential businesses such as pharmacies closing due to shoplifting, and overworked/underpaid pharmacy staff quitting due to unsafe staffing levels.
I hope it's also clear to you that many of the things you reference are not signs of the times but orchestrated policies to make it APPEAR as if things have changed when, in reality, it is being done on purpose. A sad but necessary truth we must internalize.
We are not in the end times yet, other things have to happen. Get into a good Church & get into Bible study where U all will learn what has to happen before we are in the end times. Not only that, but, learn who God & Jeaus are & that God loves you. Get right w/God🙏🤲🕊✝️😇❤
@@lisaharter1418damn one of the rare smart person I see on this site. Done purposely by people that are already prepared to deal with such shortage
Don't be scared, be prepared..
Am ready can't wait Bring it on
@@ashtondarroux8161 don’t bring it on just be prepared
I don't know, still would he scared even if I was prepared
@@SquidCena I think the saying is more about a preemptive scared..I believe at the time of crisis we would be far more scared if we couldn't take care of ourselves and families..
@@suehowie152 Well what I'm scared about is society collapsing... I love the hustle and bustling of civilization, when its alive, thriving, no surviving, people around, etc. Worst of all is that if everything were to go down, who will we have to set everything back up to normal? There's no engineers, architects, police, doctors, etc. If none survive the fall of civilization. How would we know how to get electricity going again and all of that stuff? Thats the real scary thing
Sorry for such a long paragraph
I have prepared my own medical surgical instruments for minor surgery, and a Simpson forceps for aiding natural childbirth. I’m an MD and I have made sure to attain a good position as a rural family doctor in my area. I am positive no one will simply get rid of me. They would only lose if they did. Medical knowledge will be invaluable in SHTF. Not to mention I can also grow a garden, some crops, and deal with cattle and fowl. I’m not afraid to work the land or carry water. I’ve prepared my roots where I current are 4 years ago, but in case things go really dire I can always go the the family farm where we raise our beef cattle.
I retired from the army in 2015 after 30 years plus of service. I was a medic. NREMT-I it was the best decisions I have ever made. The training was above and beyond the regular EMT. It was mandatory to be NREMT certified but the additional training was even better. As my chidren were growing I taught them first aid, splinting, CPR etc. Simple actions can and will literally save lives. The company I once worked for had me go the their different sites and teach the Red Cross community first aid. Part of job security? If you have a chance take any communtiy first aid you can. You may well save the life of a family member some day.
'but in case things go really dire I can always go the the family farm where we raise our beef cattle', yes but so can everybody else in the neighbourhood.
Nice! Wish I knew someone like you. I've opted to be CQB specialist. I think all the resources (except food and water) will be in and around buildings, so being able to engage threats around them will be super important. Put enemy down, get resources, strengthen defenses, sally out and repeat.
@@PNETriffid They will already be there, crafting a human sized BBQ pit from the cattle bones. Long Pig anyone??
What is SHTF?
If there is a food handout after shtf, GO THERE. You will raise suspicion if you sit in your castle, never go for food and still live. Go for the handout, try looking ragged (but not fragile), take what you can.
I suspect muggers will be common in that scenario.
Yep give it away if u can
Just BLEND IN at all costs
Grey man
Nothin to see here
Yes, leave your house where you have everything you need and are safe, to go to a place with a mob of hungry crazy people waiting for food.
@@guillermococofrito9196 no ur alleviating suscipion u have everything u need at ur house. If it spreads round, they’ll attack u & decimate ur hoard.
good, we all hate one another any way. Come take it mother mother. @@YeshuaKingMessiah
Don't normally comment on videos.
BUT this is one of THE best out there!
Here in UK I know people who have never made a campfire! Don't know how to use a knife, or how to cook basic food!
As of now seeing the news, it's already an apocalypse there.
One thing I learned at the beginning of the Pandemic. What I had estimated to be 5 months of food was 2 and a half months of food. So, that information is my gift to you.
Good to know.
Another thing learned from the pandemic - people are all out for themselves! Case in point the runs on TP, food, bleach, etc. I live in Utah, where you would think that the stereotype of the religious culture was to get through the pandemic while caring for your neighbor, but the exact opposite occured in our city. There were a few people vurtue signalling that they were willing to share some of the 50 cases of supplies they just got done hoarding, but these were in fact the people that you needed to watch out for! It was pathetic, and highlighted the fact that human nature is to watch out for number one!
Eh, humans are capable of survival on far less food than you'd think. Our bodies are designed to slow metabolism to a crawl when in a severe caloric deficit. I say this with a lot of experience fasting in order to lose weight. Your body is surprisingly resistant to letting the stored energy go.
@@choosetolivefree I stand corrected. Let me rephrase. What I thought would last 5 months would have actually lasted three months and a week when I would have died of starvation because all my food was gone in two and a half months and then I would have gone without any food at all for 3 weeks. And then I would be dead.
People also have a tendency to emotional food binge. The key is to ration portions to make food last longer. Also, junk food doesn't fill a person up so, in turn, people have the feeling of hunger sooner. If one feels hungry drink a glass of water. I'm surprised with how well it works. If I am still feel hungry after that I will eat a small portion.
Now I'm not directing this specifically at you, it is information I have found helpful for many over the years.
The knowledge of how to grow oyster mushrooms, while obscure, would be a very beneficial knowledge to help get you through that time. They grow in a few weeks, can be divided and mixed for exponential growth potential, and grows off non edible materials like sawdust, straw, I've even grown them off corn cobs. They're 25 percent protein as well. You can teach your whole community to grow them easily reducing the burden they may be on you.
You get sick of oyster mushrooms after a few days. I recommend mixing them in small portions for every meal.
@@bigj3508 yeah, this is in application of how to survive a situation. What is advantageous and going to possibly keep you alive is slightly beyond what I would find a daily pleasure or not.
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when you're hungry and there nothing to eat you wont care@@bigj3508
doesnt matter when youre starving lol@@bigj3508
Remember all dehydrated foods will require water to rehydrate. Beans take lots of water to hydrate to use to cook with. Many people say canned vegetables & fruits too heavy. But have enough water to make other parts of a meal or to just drink out of can. If your in place and not bugging out I reccomend some canned vegs and fruit.
Bonl💕
I plan to soak my dried food without heat and just eat it like that. I don't have many beans, because of the risk of lectin poisoning. I went with other alternatives.
By not cooking, I save fuel and water. The water from the risotto = hydration, so that all works out by itself. Only wastage is from natural evaporation, as the food soaks.
Were here. We live 30 miles from nearest store, in a town of only 27,000. 60 miles from a bigger city. Were self sufficient for at least a year, maybe more. Longest time without electricity here was 20 days. No problem.
Good luck people.
27000 is a huge town
One bit of advice that I heard of recently was, to get into the habit of "practicing" the grid & society down lifestyle. Start taking one or two weeks per month, to understand what it will be like. How to live, how to survive. How to do things now, make your mistakes now, so you won't be as inclined to later.
Exactly right..👍👍
Start eating less
Or live off-grid...every day is practice...smile.
Turn off power at your main disconnect and practice grid down. You find out very quickly what you need and are lacking. I have an on and off grid solar system that can power about 50% of my house. Recently replaced the battery bank because I didn't cycle the bank often enough. No more - now I cycle it monthly - running it down to about 25% of remaining capacity. Test the systems you may rely on in an grid down situation and adapt accordingly.
That is valuable advice
I think another key thing to mention is how heavy bug out gear can be, we did a lot of ruck marches in the army and I'll tell you hauling a rifle and 60-80lb pack for 11 miles or more will wipe you out. If you're not ruck marching I'd recommend you at least start with 25lb bag for 8 miles. Just to get the feel. If you're stranded and need to get off the highway with a backpack most people won't even get to the edge of a major city.
Hikes with gun gear make it more like a 100lbs pack and that will have you dead tired after
for that reason alone I think 95 percent of current civilization will die. Only people who does what you describe is military in training for a elite program or someone who loves doing what you said.
@@cranbers The majority of people will go to FEMA for food. FEMA will check you out, if you are on their red or blue lists, you will be sent to a FEMA camp.
Right on. I see all these videos of bug out preps and not saying all are bad, but a lot of them are people showing off their bug out bags and kit outs. I have to laugh, because I'm looking at their fantasy set ups thinking WTF, that's like over 100 pounds of gear. A lot of these bug out prepper youtubers show some cool gear, but obviously have zero practical experience and they think they are pro-survivalists, because they got that plate carrier, 35 liter (or larger) backpack, a rifle, a shotgun, a handgun, 1000s of rounds of ammo, granola bars (rolling my eyes), 5 liters of water, and all the other gear they can get stuffed into that 35 liter pack.
You can add to your carrying capacity by keeping one or two small solid rubber wheels in your pack. Make a basic Indian style travois and put the wheels on the bottom. Work smarter not harder.
I have "invented" many things for my bag and setup. For example a canvas mattress tick. You can use it to organize your bag but once you empty it it can be stuffed with leaves or hay etc and make a very comfortable mattress. Poor sleep is one of the worst things about survival situations in my opinion. I have studied how to build and replace the things you need as well as learning medicinal plants and edible wild plants
If you're going to board up your windows, use long screws from the Inside. Make sure you're screwing into a 2x4".
That may be common sense but ... 😉
Yup get that stud finder.
So your saying we should board our windows from the inside?
@@candiceolvera9439 yes
@American Medusa thanks!
@@candiceolvera9439 from the outside, a crow bar would take seconds to get it off.
Truckers road Atlas comes in handy . Go to your local library and find a map of the sewer system ,if you live in a city it may help you escape undetected.
Good luck fighting the sewer people
@@djonenonly8381your time would be better spent reading a escape and evasion manual. rather than talking out your backside.
Solar panels ,converters, inverters ,solar motion lights, anything that doesn't require power is a plus ,you can charge whatever you need to keep things going.
What I have so far is dim pretty solar Christmas lights... 😰
Crank lights work great
I love the idea of solar but I feel like it's a major target.
Wish ppl would learn how to make bike peddle power. It's not hard to make and easily kept secret as a power producing component. There are videos on here how to make them. My Dad taught us when we were kids. I used it when living in an rv after a tornado took out power for almost a month here.
@C lif not out rural. Make a deal with neighbors to charge their batteries for barter. Insulate yourself with neighbors.
amazing... this is an eye opener and a beginner's guide for preppers.... If you are here watching this video, you have a prepper in you... Good luck to all
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2 things. Grid down, or disrupted trucking. That's all it will take.
Stock market crashes also.
The terrifying thing about this is that it wouldn't be that hard.
The grids have already crashed, more than once and in more than once place. The stock market is crashing before our eyes. Our “shortages” are from a lack of truckers and workers. It’s already happening.
Get ready with all the hacking that is happening now. Have extra cash on hand in small bills. Imagine if the credit/ debit card banking system was shut down.
We only have 4 power grids that give every American power. One in the West area, one in the Midwest area( middle of America) one in the Eastern area and Texas has one in their state. If one goes down millions have no power. Biden gave China the full rights to be in our power grids. President Trump passed a law to bring our power up to date and to get them secured 24/7. Now they aren’t secured and other countries can visit them within one week of Biden in the White House. Our power grids can be shut down by another country's ship being on Open Waters and firing a missile 200 miles up into the atmosphere over our country. That will cause an EMP which can take out our power grids. That one missile can cause a domino effect and shut all the power grids down because they are all connected. It will take 2 months and up to 2 years to repair the grids. China makes the parts for our power grids. So how long we are shut down will be as long as they want us shut down. Politicians and their families all have a very secure stocked place to go. There are 3 or 4 of them in our country. Some even have a hospital in them.
I love how this runs through the timeline of events! What great insight on what to expect and what to do in these situations!
Best advice I can add to this, is to learn about wild edibles.. especially the ones considered to be nuisance weeds in your yard. You can eat dandelions, broad leaf plantains, chickweed, and many others. Theres also fruit trees and berry bushes that grow in parks and in the woods. These foods mentioned are packed with vitamins, antioxidants, probiotic and other wonderful things that can really help you survive. Most people know nothing about them being edible and these plants can be found in every state.
But when everyone (not literally everyone) starts eating wild edibles, the food will be gone in short order, imho. I hear some people say they’ll just hunt for food. Well, the whitetail population will be gone within a few weeks. Take my state. The deer population was wiped out back in the early 1900’s and there far fewer people than there are today. We have a good population of deer now, but that wouldn’t last.
Sage advice.
Don't forget kudzu. You can eat all parts of the plant. The young shoots and small leaves will probably be the most tender. It is high in protein, almost as much as alfalfa, so you can also feed it to your livestock and you'll have eggs and milk.
Anyone who hopes for a shtf scenario is a fool that doesn't truly understand the hell that will transpire
Right! I agree.
horrific beyond imagination... Watching loved ones and your community slowly die in the most painful ways and being utterly powerless to stop it. The best preparation for a shtf scenario is to not expose yourself to that scenario in the first place!
Stay safe and good luck!
No kidding
True. Maybe they’re so depressed they don’t care and that’s why they wish for it
@@mrmacmartinez3290 😂
East Tennessee is a very low crime and safe environment. A small town I know had a terrible tornado. Instantly homes were looted by those "looking for survivors". I have friends who lost all valuables within minutes after the storm but their home had no damage
That is just pure evil. They will be accountable for that one day.
@@francesmcstay they may get away with it in this world, but they won't in the world to come.
Very good information . I've been warning friends for over two years and while they say something will happen , they always think or say years later.
Great pointers! I know so many people living beyond their means with no savings, no emergency fund or plan. Every year they upgrade to the newest iPhone and iPad and lease luxury cars. I asked one of my friends at the start of the pandemic when he lost his job if he would be good financially while he waits for unemployment. His answer was no. Prior to the pandemic he was borrowing money from three different payday loans, was months behind on his car payment and was paying the minimum on his electric bill to avoid having his power shut off. All of his friends kept telling him for many years to switch to an affordable car and live on what he earns. He never listened and had no clue how he was going to get by at the start of the pandemic. Well COVID was an eye opener for him and finally has money saved up and has learned to prep. The pandemic taught me one thing, I wasn’t prepared for an emergency. It’s not just about having money saved up. You need a supply of food, water, medical supplies and essentials. I hope we never get to a SHTF scenario but I am prepared for it should it come.
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It’s so very sad when people behave in the manner of your friend. I often wonder why do some people feel the need to impress others…smh. He’s trying to keep up with the “Joneses” and will eventually find himself homeless and hungry when this tribulation hit full force. Sad!
It reminds me of the Aesop fable where the lazy ant fiddled throughout the Spring and Summer, while the industrious ant worked tirelessly to store food for the winter ❄️ to insure his survival.
Guess who didn’t make it through the winter?
What good will your savings be when you can't use cash or credit cards once the system crashes?
@@deloresiles2341 It was the grasshopper in the fable. He fooled around all spring and summer, and ended up dying in the winter because of his foolishness. (Jan Griffiths).
One thing no one talks about bin these prepper videos is semi trucks. As a trucker I think of all the goods locked in side of trailers. Food and medical supplies I'll be hitting those up when SHTF.
In many ways, bugging out makes you a refugee. Unless you're in the middle of a big city, think long and hard about bugging out if you don't have a firm destination in mind.
yes...why leave your existing shelter and food/water supply... and be reliant on gas...
I feel there will be armed desperate people who would be out roaming stopping cars, taking your cars and any food or supplies you had with you. Does not seem like a safe place to be on some highway with cars ahead of you and behind you backed up for miles just burning your gasoline. I believe I have decided to just hunker down in place with my prepped supplies and hope no one comes to my apt door. I also plan to add a good supply of sleeping pills to my stash, just in case worse comes to worse with no hope left. Sad times we are living in.
Agree. And you join all the other bands of roving people, trying to survive.
I have been slow prepping for about 5 years now. In the last year, I have really increased my efforts. Now I'm trying to get my friends, family and colleagues on board. 😢
I'm on board. Be nice to have a piece of land to escape to with like minded people, all doing their own part.
Fortunately I’m Native American and deep woods rural. I’ll know how to handle myself and my own when the time comes.
I experienced the catastrophic results of Hurricane Maria here in Puerto Rico, you weren't able to use credit cards and were only able to take out a small amount of cash from the banks, the line on the only open ones were astronomically large, over a hundred people or so, I ended up getting sunburnt due to this. Ice, power ( Electrical generators or solar panels ) and gasoline were like gold. It was horrendous, but I fortunately had enough on cash to help my family through buying simple things such as bread and whatever was around that didn't require freezing, like meat. Under those circumstances I broke down into tears, I wanted to leave due to everyone saying we were going to be like this for 5 years or possibly longer.
The first 24 hours use your credit cards for resources quickly - save your cash when they stop accepting credit cards the next day.
Do like I did, When I got Parkinsons and had to stop working, My co worker told me to do like his wife did.. get 5 credit cars with $5,000 limits on each one, Get the insurance on them that pays if off if I become disable... So I did I had met life insurance that payed half my income used 1 credit cared at a time $1,000 a month to pay bills, use the 5th one to make payments on the other one When I got up to $5,000 I applied for the insurance they paid if off. When I was approved for my SSDI I still had 1 left for $5,000 brought a riding lawnmower and computer with it then applied for it to be paid off, it did not affect my FICO score at all
I thought they wantwd to cut cash and go only witj cards
The day credit is not accepted cash goes with it.
Or you never leave money on the bank in the first place. saves you the effort later and you dont support the corrupt banking system.
@@nightnday6675 but if the computers are down you're screwed w/o hard currancy money this all ready happened in the 1800s the telegraph worked with out power
Last earthquake happened in my country opened up my eyes that preparation is a must ! When it hits next day there is no food around the shops i haven’t had a tent, no first aids in my car, no cash in hand … even phones were not working and couldn’t communicate with my family to gather with them… imagine a bigger disaster!
Have $300 in $1 bills. DON’T just keep large bills. By having $1, $5 , $10 & $20 dollar bills you won’t have to pay $100 for a tank of gas!
Money might not be worth anything. What if the collape is caused by hyperinflation? I like your idea but im using cigarettes as my bank account
Yes you will. possibly double that. Gas will be VERY valuable.
You won't be able to use your car/ vehicle. Don't think about gasoline. You'll be on foot.............
Your money isn't going to be worth anything. I have 200 - oz. silver coins.
@@jimbrown3419 I’m only saying $300 dollars! I’m all for silver stacking at home!!
Potable water is crucial to any survival. Next is the ability to reliably make fire, and preferably a large cast iron pot, to cook on the fire. A really good knife and a heavy bladed, butcher's type machete is incredibly useful. You can even open tinned food with a heavy bladed machete ( I've done it loads of times) and it's great for butchering meat into good cuts. Remember to take a little vial of oil with you and an oilstone to sharpen your knives. If you can manage it, get a good axe too. Even in the stone age they made axes, so you need one.Also, never tell people what you've got, hidden in your home
Sounds serious. I live in a rural area that's on the decline. Quite a few empty homes and generally forgotten. I hope it stays that way if this happens.
we made home-made Sternos using wax & tuna cans in Scouts; pretty cool stuff
That oil can be vegetable oil and can also be used to lubricate a firearm! A water filter is important and a pre-filter can greatly extend the use of the filter to screen out larger sediment that can clog a water filter!
To all the people complaining about the empty store shelves at Walmart.
Other places besides Walmart have groceries and prepping supplies. Menard's (hardware store in the USA) has food and canning supplies. Tractor Supply Stores has survival food that can be shipped to any of their stores or even your home. Dollar Tree and Dollar General stores across the USA have groceries. There small ethnic/ international stores in most of the cities. We have Aldi, Big Lots and plenty of other stores where you can purchase food and prepping supplies. Heck, Target even has Groceries and camping gear. Just because your local Walmart has empty shelves it does not mean that you cannot find a place to buy groceries. Papa Murphy's even makes and sells salads.
I honestly think if the internet were to go dark for more than 2 days there would be a mass panic
Try sending short text messages to your friends, just making small mentions about prepping and growing your own garden. Their response will let you know if they are likeminded and if you should add them to your SHTF network. This is how I find out without tipping my tinfoil hat too far.
Too bad most of us like minded live so far apart, if not I'd be on your list of friends.
@@davidvasquez9533 same here. Been prepping for years. Problem is I'm old and nobody wants me in their group. It's tough being an old dame.
@@shaggydog563 Learn a valuable skill such as short wave radio, needlework, crocheting, canning, hell, even a card dealer or storyteller would be of use. Collect books about foraging and how to avoid poisonous plants.
smart gurllll 😚 👍
@@ronr.53400 Thank you
*NO COMMUNICATIONS???*
*When people do not know what is going on outside their community, they will leave mistakenly thinking the grass is greener on the other side, but the reality usually is --the other side has no grass.*
Or it's so tall you soon realize you are in over your head.
Ever read or seen the film version of "NO BLADE OF GRASS"?
@@silverbladeTE *no.*
@@Christian_Prepper One to check, rough, not nice not family fair...but more realistic than most of the dross filmed today.
Brutal and nasty as it would be, alas :(
World wide food crisis caused by a disease wiping out crops hence the title
@@silverbladeTE *Cool. I'll look it up.*
Its not a matter of if it will happen ,its when
It's happening already. Worldwide bro.
@@mickeygmx3114 The chair is against the wall..
@@The_Pale_Horse why not the door?
the collapse started with a Pandemic and Riots and Famine, economic recession in 2020 and into 2021.. by 2036 or2050 the world as we know it will have collapsed.
When is today. We are ahead of the curve. Only a couple more weaks before the shtf starts. Once CW breaks out in the USA. Food exports will collapse. This will cascade worldewide. 2 billion people will starve to death by March.
The video was a description of what I lived through with Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Except we never had that 24 hr window to leave. Hurricane was probably on a smaller scale and quicker rebuild (we had air transportation in about 3 months and a lot of us left then). The experience left long lasting psychological effects even on my child who was 9 at the time.
I think this is a bit dramatic. PR was not on the brink of collapse, the worst part was having to wait 7 hours in a gas station to get gas for generators, but looting wasn’t terrible except for places where looting happen regardless of a hurricane. Being months and weeks without power or water was horrible. I hated having to use a bucket to shower lol.
You’re not correct. If you were in Puerto Rico when the category 4 hurricane left people w nothing for 3 months. People were traumatized. They still are when you talk to them about it. You can tell.
Sad!
The 94' Mid south ice storm saw freezing cold, no electricity and trees falling. My Dad was prepared, food, matches, lamps, lots of good lessons, I really need to incorporate those...
From personal experience in one of the biggest cities in US, when a big blizzard stopped the food trucks from coming in the grocery stores where completely empty by the 3rd day. Funny though the pizza guy was still delivering.
It appears that after any extreme disaster…. only cockroaches and pizza delivery people will survive….
I dread it. I'm as prepared as I can be. I've known about this coming for some time now. I'm not a doomsdayer. Just a person that reads and see the signs. But, I dread it for the elderly, children and animals.
The same.our most vulnerable are stuffed.
I’m Glad I already started preparing for this EXACT situation and honestly I’m LUCKY enough to have a place to go that is safe
Don’t forget to get can openers for your canned goods. When the power goes out, your electric can opener is useless
😂😂😂😂😆 Good One
@Hoover PML you’re welcome. Try to splurge and then get a cheaper backup. Read reviews.
@@finessepodcast_za 😗
Wow I never realised there's an electric can opener. Here we use the manual one. But anyway, this is why everyone should have a standard Swiss Knife because that thing can definitely easily open a can and do a bunch of other things as well.
People says "I can open a can with my knife" all it takes doing that is one slip and cut your hand 2 can opens are well worth it
Truth is not easy to digest, I'm already scared as to what to do with three children as a single mom if such a thing happens, I've been prepping the little I could but seeing this video has opened my eyes to understand how it could play out in such situations, so help me God
♥️ Word of truth ♥️
Ephesians 1 KJV
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
1 Corinthians 15 KJV
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Romans 3 KJV
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
♥️know♥️
1 John 5 KJV
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
You are already ahead if 90% of the population
Not trying to be sexist...but you'll be screwed without a dude..
Where's the Dad?
Friends? See if you can plan with them( if they are close enough). Devise a plan( routes,food,clothes,etc). Are your kids old enough to carry a backpack? Set up bug out bags for quick retrieval. You can do this. Do not panic. Think logical,plan.
For people who need corrective lenses to see, make sure extra glasses are part of your preps. You are going to have a rough time if your glasses are broken on day 1 and you don't have a backup pair.
I ordered two sets of z87 work glasses. If you have insurance that covers vision, one set of z87s and one set of regular glasses could be covered per year.
i have saved every single pair of my glasses since I became 28. at 40 now, I have 6 pairs with progressively worsening lenses, from the myopia and astigmatism of my28’sto 36, to my current presbiopia (now I need reading glasses as well, I use multifocal lenses). I keep them all. The older glasses allow me to see far and away, the newer pairs allow me to read up close as well. I will not be caught up being unable to see strangers approaching.
That’s absolutely true Kathryn Ackley
I guess those of us with 20/20 vision are grateful. I have safety glasses and sunglasses though. (Jan Griffiths).
I've found myself watching/listening to this video multiple times. Maybe just as a reminder. The background music is also very appropriate.
I’m sure mostly everyone knows this but I believe staying fit helps also.. I run 7-8 miles a day 5-6 times a week since 2003 when I joined the Marine corp. keeping up on marksmanship skills is important.. not call of duty practice but actually going to the range and using good old iron sights. Hope it never comes to this.. god bless you all
I used to be VERY fit. Worked out all my life. I'm in my 50's now,.and have ankle problems. I ain't leaving my 16 acres. And anyone that tries to come looting, AIN'T LEAVING EITHER ❤
Good grief. I walk around the block every other day....😂
I fully agree. The most important resource you will have in a SHTF situation is YOU. If you are physically fit, if you know how to build a shelter and live off the land, you will be in much better shape than almost everyone else. Do not rely on gadgets. Most of them don't work and they will run out anyway. However, I don't have to tell you, as a former marine, that the most important tools you will need are good weapons and the ability to use them. The internet has a million "what to pack or horde in a bug-out situation" videos. But we all know that if you build a shelter and fill it with 2 years supply of everything you could possibly need, but you can't defend it, then all you have done is prepare a wonderful shelter for someone else. I think the ideal set-up is to have 2-3 families that will stay together or bug-out together. Train all adults and older children in the basic use of firearms. If you have 5-10 rifles and shotguns among you, and everyone has a sidearm, then you form a pretty formidable group that will outgun predators and have the ability to scare them off. All predators look for easy prey. If you can show them that if they come after you, some of them will be hurt or killed, most predator groups will move on.
@@Ironfangzu"former" marine? Never heard a real Marine refer to himself as a "former" marine.
One often overlooked aspect are structures and systems that require constant active maintenance to keep them from becoming a problem such as a nuclear power plants that require water cooling to stop meltdown. Once those are unmanned, anyone remotely close is in trouble
I do believe most modern reactors are pretty safe and will most likely auto shutdown. Just my guess. The older ones though.....
@@NotClosedMinded as long as they can safely perform a cold shutdown, yes. If they stay hot and the coolant boils away, anyone remotely far away is in trouble, assuming that other facilities have/are/will be in a similar disasters situation.
@@uss-dh7909control rods can stop the chain reaction in its tracks. There are failsafes in place in all reactors in the USA. Other parts of the world may be a different story.
The Japan nuclear accident after the tsunami is a good example the reactors shut down but then had major issues without active support as well as the nuclear rod spent pools boiling off
They are programmed to shut down and scram the reactors...no human interaction needed
Now if a huge wave or damage or something takes out the pumps/cooling then may be an issue...but in the US (after the 3 mile island incident)...they are built to shut down completely...
A solid tip: Have a skill that would prove useful. Doesn't matter what it is, but it is best you have one unusual skill (such as trading, an exceptional security skillset or bushcraft survival) and a more common one (such as farming, hunting and physical fitness) to appropriately maintain the needs of your community. Skills can also be used as bartering, and a skilled person is a much better candidate for a community than the type of person who says "If the apocalypse happens, I'm coming to your house." I'm not saying to not make any accommodation to those in need, but ensure you get something in return for assisting them in the areas they lack.
Medical skills will be highly valued. I was army medic for 30 years.
Beware of freeloader s,all must help. Also those seeking to take advantage.
@@gordonbone3689
I was a Navy Corpsman for 14 years myself, was assigned to support the Marines for 10 of those years.
@@t.m.1502 Excellent. With that experience it never leaves you. I'm sure you have used it more than once.