From someone who was not warned till 15 minutes of the fire entering the neighborhood with 110 mph wind, have your bag of needed stuff to survive for a few days, because if the disaster is large, you will not be able to buy anything for days. Ie your meds, food, pet food and water. We left our house in shirts without coats because it was warm and this was the end of Dec. One day later it was below freezing with snow and we didn't have a coat to our name. I now have a go bag for everyone in the family and have one for the dogs with their food, water, leashes and meds.
@@Keith80027 words of wisdom from someone who knows the truth. You definitely don't want to be the person on the news that left their home with nothing but the shirt on their back. Being prepared is SMART.
I began prepping because when my children were young there was a period of time where we had 3 meals left in the cupboard and didn’t know where help was going to come from. Two years ago I was working a temporary assignment that I knew would end. I never wanted to run out of essentials again!
A UV flashlight is good for tracking urine tracks. Mice and rats have very little bladder control. So wherever they go, they're constantly "going". The urine will glow under UV. That will tell you where you need to put traps
@@KarmicAngel I used to be a warehouse manager in a food warehouse. UV flashlights were standard equipment. Be sure to get one that puts out a strong beam of UV light. The cheap Harbor Freight ones won't work.
During the Great Depression most if not all of the wildlife hunted for consumption became nonexistent Everyone had the same idea As you mentioned and my grandparents reminded me Your better off fishing for sustenance I have been a lifelong prepper because of the influence of my grandparents ✌️
Listen man. I'm down here in Charleston and you guys know what we just got. I couldn't leave my house for 2 days so thank God I had stuff prepared even if it was just my dumb little folding stove and a couple of shelf stable meals it got us through
hi guys. Another great discussion. Just wanted to comment on a couple of things. I'm a long-time prepper in New Zealand. We have a group but many of us are over retirement age now so need to enlist a few younger ones to pick up some of the heavy lifting. On a positive note - there is a lot of useful knowledge and skills amongst our membership. We (the wife and I) grow 90% of our fruit and veg along with herbs for herbal remedies, source our own firewood, have rainwater collection and filters, alternative power, comms, medical kits and a good physical library of books. So, we are ready for most events. We always joke that if we prep for the zombie apocalypse, we are pretty much ready for anything. A personal SHTF can come in many forms. For me and my wife it was when we both found ourselves unemployed at the same time. Fortunately, because we were prepped, we had several months of cash put aside in a safe which covered all our usual bills and because we had a good store of canned and dried foods along with what we were already growing in the gardens, we didn't have to worry about buying food, cleaning products, toilet paper etc. We don't have a firearms licence or guns - we do have long bows, cross bows and air rifles - BUT some of our group do have firearms licences and guns that would be available to share in a SHTF. Thank you for all you guys do. There is always something in your videos for me to learn. PS please forgive the English (correct) spelling of certain words.
I have been Prepping since the late 70's. Retired now, my team members will be here on the farm when SHTF. Some of my neighbors are on the same page. I have a giant library and tons of preps. Keep Prepping my friends.
I've started by taking a small hallway closet and stocking it with canned goods, rice, and water. My family knows that it's our emergency pantry. I've also been trying to keep my regular pantry stocked and a small freezer.
I work for a sheriff's office on the gulf coast. 15 years later and we still have annual hurricane prep training based on what we went through with Hurricane Katrina.
The way things have gone in the last 3 and a 1/2 years. Preppers aren't the crazy ones? It's the unprepared with their heads stuck in the sand they're crazy.
One single shot 12 gauge off brand there’s was nothing on the shelves once I got my paperwork in order. Plus fuel for this platform was scarce. And wait in lines after lines. Chasing it in 2021 that whole year. Didn’t matter if you had money or not. We were competing for the tools. I always was a gardener but didn’t know how important it was today just by learning from my mom and dad when I was a child. I’ve tried to keep stocking up. But my cupboard are bare. Everything I bought in 2020-2024 has been used up. I’m struggling but all my family thinks I’m krazy. The sky is falling and I’m making stone soup. Sooch and Robbi on point.
I try to be aware of what people around me are doing. I started to seriously put everything away. The economy collapsed.1980 husband was laid off . His friends were dumpster diving. Lost their homes. We didn’t. We didn’t need to buy. Used minimum utilities.. unemployment extensions ran out. We made it . We made. Kept home and family together. It can happen here.
I have had some friends say to my wife and I, "If / when the SHTF, we are coming to your house!" And I said... "Ah, NO You're Not"! They also think being prepared for even a natural disaster is foolish. They have NO SKILLS & won't bring anything to the Circle, anyway!
lmao. One of your recent videos was talking about neighbors thinking "where did I see this?" Saw OTIS, then talking about OTIS and I bought one several years ago, great kit, even cut out in my Pelican.
Robbie Lee said something that I've known for years. I put my children in training pants at about age 1.5 years old, and they were potty trained REAL QUICK. I saved a lot of money, and they didn't wet their pants except for a couple of times.
Anyone that says they will just take it from others is a criminal in my mind. Not a taker or a thief, they are a criminal and should be seen as a possible future threat. And that leads us to some amazing philosophical questions like what happens if someone knows you have stuff and thinks you should share with everyone around you? What if a single mom needs food for her baby? What if she wants to bring her other nieces and nephews back the next day? What if other families saw/heard you give that woman food and now everyone shows up and gathers to take it from you? Really difficult question to answer who and how many do you help at the cost of your own family not having enough. Funny you mentioned a wild fire because there was a YT prepper that did just that, he left at the last possible second from a wild fire that reached their neighborhood by the skin of their teeth and he made a comment about how others wanting what little emergency stuff he had brought with him at the town emergency centre, so they immediately called a friend that lived a bit far away and drove out to stay with them. He didn’t discuss it but he had a look on his face that showed it had scared them. I was glad they shared that story because the emergency centre was a place I thought would be safe. Now I know better that it should be used as an absolute last resort and if I did, I don’t take anything out of the back packs nor do I bring a solar generator along. I innocently thought I could bring water, food, blanket/sleeping bag, a gas can one burner cooktop in our backpacks because I have seen it can take 3 days for emergency centre to get organized enough for food to serve. Now I know it’s better to aim for a friend’s home if the road permits. Good video, thanks.
Seriously people. Read the Book Surviving the coming economic crisis. It is not brilliant writing, but there are entertaining parts, but it gives you are real perspective of a person who has been through it. It is the most important book for preppers as it makes you think about what could really happen and the most important aspect of survival: how will the people around you act and how can you stay alive so your kids have parents and your spouse is not left alone. Also, I have not connection to the author or the sensible prepper. But this book is not too expensive but it is better than anything else I have read for this as it is really what happened. Please read it. Buy it. Borrow from the library or a friend. It is well worth the time!!!!!
with stacking food. you just need to outlast everyone else. like running from a bear in the woods, you just need to be faster than people you are with. :)
I'm single and also prep for my family, they live in other states and I live on a homestead in Missouri for the past 6 years! They think I'm crazy moving out of the city!!! I sure don't!
Go look into what state ran food pantry box Jason it. ( not enough for a month) but has what you need. Some have enough food for 72 types of meals ( cookbook covers the food in the box) I’ve been helping out such a place and upgraded the box from 25 to 40 pounds. Average can is 1 pound when packed in a box. 3.2 million deer for 320 million people.
Hey I don’t mind being a taker as long as I take something that someone is willing to give to me. See that is a way to take something without crossing moral lines.
You are crossing moral lines because you didn’t prepare and even if they are willing, you are taking from their family. If it’s bad, they will all say no to you
Anyone have experience with Arguson and Mountain House freeze dried foods? I stored some in my trailer which is not climate controlled 0 -100 degrees. They expire in 2047. Question,would you continue to store them?
If you are not willing to learn from other people new things or in thoose people way to salve the problem You not will be the last man standing. Dosent matter if you are very skilled. Look what other people do and get better.
@TheParallelSound like in Laos when the comeir Rouge made every one eat bugs. Yummy. Point is, you all are paranoid beyond my understanding. I'm not planning to "defend" against things that do not exist are plainly NOT something i need to do for the world to be a better place. We ARE AMERICANS!
I don’t think hunting will dry up as quickly as you think. No way is there 10 million people who know even the slightest thing about killing and harvesting and properly storing meat. There is plenty, I mean plenty of wild life to go around for quite some time. Think outside the box
You are always talking about prepping for these long term scenarios....3,6,12 months. Have you ever discussed what is going to happen to a modern home over the course of a year with no heating or cooling? All that moisture is going to have so much mold and rot the drywall will literally be falling from the ceiling making the house unhabitable. In that time frame using resource gathered water multiple people are going to get several rounds of GI/intestinal illnesses that put them completely out of action for 2-3 days. Just keeping paper products dry and clean over that time period is going to be a major challenge. Once it's known you are established with supplies to last past the 2 month mark society will have given up on anyone restoring order. You talk about bartering but you would be instantly marked as someone having resources and targeted by multiple people most likely because who are the ones you are bartering with. .others in need. I ask because your channel spends so much time talking about getting this stuff but you never discuss application or the realities or challenges likely to be faced. Why store rice and beans for a year if you'll never be around to eat it.... you're just feeding the person who will most likely be ending you. Long term survival in a SHTF world is brutal and ugly.
Can’t get over the fact that in total he & Elon’s’ interview went out to over 1.B people. The World is watching our Country .. ALL THE MORE REASON TO STAY AS PREPPED UP AS YOU CAN BE ! Thx Sootch & Robbie for ALL your dedication to your channel for our behalf
From someone who was not warned till 15 minutes of the fire entering the neighborhood with 110 mph wind, have your bag of needed stuff to survive for a few days, because if the disaster is large, you will not be able to buy anything for days. Ie your meds, food, pet food and water. We left our house in shirts without coats because it was warm and this was the end of Dec. One day later it was below freezing with snow and we didn't have a coat to our name. I now have a go bag for everyone in the family and have one for the dogs with their food, water, leashes and meds.
Great reminder on how little time a person may have. Thank you.
@@Keith80027 words of wisdom from someone who knows the truth. You definitely don't want to be the person on the news that left their home with nothing but the shirt on their back. Being prepared is SMART.
I began prepping because when my children were young there was a period of time where we had 3 meals left in the cupboard and didn’t know where help was going to come from. Two years ago I was working a temporary assignment that I knew would end. I never wanted to run out of essentials again!
A UV flashlight is good for tracking urine tracks. Mice and rats have very little bladder control. So wherever they go, they're constantly "going". The urine will glow under UV. That will tell you where you need to put traps
Didn't think of this, great idea, thank you
@@KarmicAngel I used to be a warehouse manager in a food warehouse. UV flashlights were standard equipment. Be sure to get one that puts out a strong beam of UV light. The cheap Harbor Freight ones won't work.
During the Great Depression most if not all of the wildlife hunted for consumption became nonexistent
Everyone had the same idea
As you mentioned and my grandparents reminded me
Your better off fishing for sustenance
I have been a lifelong prepper because of the influence of my grandparents ✌️
That is literally what I say to everyone who say they're just going to go innawoods and hunt. They never listen.
Listen man. I'm down here in Charleston and you guys know what we just got. I couldn't leave my house for 2 days so thank God I had stuff prepared even if it was just my dumb little folding stove and a couple of shelf stable meals it got us through
hi guys. Another great discussion. Just wanted to comment on a couple of things. I'm a long-time prepper in New Zealand. We have a group but many of us are over retirement age now so need to enlist a few younger ones to pick up some of the heavy lifting. On a positive note - there is a lot of useful knowledge and skills amongst our membership. We (the wife and I) grow 90% of our fruit and veg along with herbs for herbal remedies, source our own firewood, have rainwater collection and filters, alternative power, comms, medical kits and a good physical library of books. So, we are ready for most events. We always joke that if we prep for the zombie apocalypse, we are pretty much ready for anything.
A personal SHTF can come in many forms. For me and my wife it was when we both found ourselves unemployed at the same time. Fortunately, because we were prepped, we had several months of cash put aside in a safe which covered all our usual bills and because we had a good store of canned and dried foods along with what we were already growing in the gardens, we didn't have to worry about buying food, cleaning products, toilet paper etc.
We don't have a firearms licence or guns - we do have long bows, cross bows and air rifles - BUT some of our group do have firearms licences and guns that would be available to share in a SHTF.
Thank you for all you guys do. There is always something in your videos for me to learn.
PS please forgive the English (correct) spelling of certain words.
I have been Prepping since the late 70's. Retired now, my team members will be here on the farm when SHTF. Some of my neighbors are on the same page. I have a giant library and tons of preps. Keep Prepping my friends.
I’m interested in your giant library. Sounds fantastic! What books do you recommend?
I've started by taking a small hallway closet and stocking it with canned goods, rice, and water. My family knows that it's our emergency pantry. I've also been trying to keep my regular pantry stocked and a small freezer.
I work for a sheriff's office on the gulf coast. 15 years later and we still have annual hurricane prep training based on what we went through with Hurricane Katrina.
The way things have gone in the last 3 and a 1/2 years. Preppers aren't the crazy ones? It's the unprepared with their heads stuck in the sand they're crazy.
One single shot 12 gauge off brand there’s was nothing on the shelves once I got my paperwork in order. Plus fuel for this platform was scarce. And wait in lines after lines. Chasing it in 2021 that whole year. Didn’t matter if you had money or not. We were competing for the tools. I always was a gardener but didn’t know how important it was today just by learning from my mom and dad when I was a child. I’ve tried to keep stocking up. But my cupboard are bare. Everything I bought in 2020-2024 has been used up. I’m struggling but all my family thinks I’m krazy. The sky is falling and I’m making stone soup. Sooch and Robbi on point.
Great show guys! I watch several female preppers, so it is beneficial to hear this from the male perspective.
Great video good for beginners and good for veterans
I try to be aware of what people around me are doing. I started to seriously put everything away. The economy collapsed.1980 husband was laid off . His friends were dumpster diving. Lost their homes. We didn’t. We didn’t need to buy. Used minimum utilities.. unemployment extensions ran out. We made it . We made. Kept home and family together. It can happen here.
Respect for both of you
Thank you
Just purchased the book with the link. Thanks for the recommendation.
I have gone full Noah and shut my ark . Those that have been good to ne I will be good to them.
Thanks
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I have had some friends say to my wife and I, "If / when the SHTF, we are coming to your house!" And I said... "Ah, NO You're Not"! They also think being prepared for even a natural disaster is foolish. They have NO SKILLS & won't bring anything to the Circle, anyway!
I’d feel embarrassed saying that lol. Hopefully they spend their $ wisely…
I tell them OK what are you bringing with you and what skills do you have?
@@bert3566 No, they really don't...
Need to tell your local community any bunnies and rabbits found should be caged for breeding not eaten right away.
Same with dogs and cats.
traps are must prep
@@raulthepig5821 Are you from Southern China? That's the only place I've seen dead dogs for sale in the food market.
Is chicken fencing good enough?
Thank you for a great video
I was prepping,when prepping wasn't cool.
I bought my first pew pew at 50. I always felt safe living in Los Angeles but after 2020. All I saw was History repeating itself.
lmao. One of your recent videos was talking about neighbors thinking "where did I see this?" Saw OTIS, then talking about OTIS and I bought one several years ago, great kit, even cut out in my Pelican.
Robbie Lee said something that I've known for years. I put my children in training pants at about age 1.5 years old, and they were potty trained REAL QUICK. I saved a lot of money, and they didn't wet their pants except for a couple of times.
Greetings from Music city
Anyone that says they will just take it from others is a criminal in my mind. Not a taker or a thief, they are a criminal and should be seen as a possible future threat. And that leads us to some amazing philosophical questions like what happens if someone knows you have stuff and thinks you should share with everyone around you? What if a single mom needs food for her baby? What if she wants to bring her other nieces and nephews back the next day? What if other families saw/heard you give that woman food and now everyone shows up and gathers to take it from you? Really difficult question to answer who and how many do you help at the cost of your own family not having enough.
Funny you mentioned a wild fire because there was a YT prepper that did just that, he left at the last possible second from a wild fire that reached their neighborhood by the skin of their teeth and he made a comment about how others wanting what little emergency stuff he had brought with him at the town emergency centre, so they immediately called a friend that lived a bit far away and drove out to stay with them. He didn’t discuss it but he had a look on his face that showed it had scared them. I was glad they shared that story because the emergency centre was a place I thought would be safe. Now I know better that it should be used as an absolute last resort and if I did, I don’t take anything out of the back packs nor do I bring a solar generator along. I innocently thought I could bring water, food, blanket/sleeping bag, a gas can one burner cooktop in our backpacks because I have seen it can take 3 days for emergency centre to get organized enough for food to serve. Now I know it’s better to aim for a friend’s home if the road permits.
Good video, thanks.
just do one thing a day to help your preps.....it adds up
Seriously people. Read the Book Surviving the coming economic crisis. It is not brilliant writing, but there are entertaining parts, but it gives you are real perspective of a person who has been through it. It is the most important book for preppers as it makes you think about what could really happen and the most important aspect of survival: how will the people around you act and how can you stay alive so your kids have parents and your spouse is not left alone.
Also, I have not connection to the author or the sensible prepper. But this book is not too expensive but it is better than anything else I have read for this as it is really what happened.
Please read it. Buy it. Borrow from the library or a friend. It is well worth the time!!!!!
Bear over at Refuge Medical has a Birthine bucket on their website, great to have 👍🏽
I've needed a refresher.
My son knew some people who tied themselves to a tree in the NO area during Katrina. He tried to get them to evacuate. They died.
I prep for a disruption of the supply chain
You never guessed there was a hurricane coming when you made this video... Be prepared. Thank you.
with stacking food. you just need to outlast everyone else.
like running from a bear in the woods, you just need to be faster than people you are with. :)
Sootch needs to sell a t-shirt that says "Prep Now... Because S.C.H." (S#it Can Happen!)
$hit HAPPENS!
@@Robyrob7771 There may be a copy right on that one!? 🤔
My son in law said he s coming to steal my preps😂😂 😢😢
I hope he brings his own shovel, to dig his own hole!
Well most of the guns I was looking at are not allowed in ca, kind of a process for sure
A FEW MONTHS BACK ROBBY TALKED ABOUT A THERMAL SCOPE HE SAID WAS THE BEST AFFORDABLE SCOPE TO HAVE. THE NAME PLEASE. TY
I’m single but I prep for all of my family
I'm single and also prep for my family, they live in other states and I live on a homestead in Missouri for the past 6 years! They think I'm crazy moving out of the city!!! I sure don't!
We prep for EARTHQUAKES IN LOS ANGELES FIRES AND STORMS. Because when it rains it. Rains
They also call them deceased
Go look into what state ran food pantry box Jason it. ( not enough for a month) but has what you need. Some have enough food for 72 types of meals ( cookbook covers the food in the box)
I’ve been helping out such a place and upgraded the box from 25 to 40 pounds. Average can is 1 pound when packed in a box.
3.2 million deer for 320 million people.
Hurricane flood tornadoes
Is pisga in nc
Hey I don’t mind being a taker as long as I take something that someone is willing to give to me.
See that is a way to take something without crossing moral lines.
You are crossing moral lines because you didn’t prepare and even if they are willing, you are taking from their family. If it’s bad, they will all say no to you
Anyone have experience with Arguson and Mountain House freeze dried foods? I stored some in my trailer which is not climate controlled 0 -100 degrees. They expire in 2047. Question,would you continue to store them?
Better than being hungry, if the packaging is in good shape, add water and eat, mtn- house cooked with real hot water is tasty.
100 gallons of high concentration bleach
If you are not willing to learn from other people new things or in thoose people way to salve the problem You not will be the last man standing. Dosent matter if you are very skilled. Look what other people do and get better.
What is your opinion about the Taurus pt 740 slim as a conceal carry firearm?
I'd like to see how long until you get tired of eating that for 2 months!
I know that was trolling, but you can learn something from these folks. It’s better than not eating for two months.
When your body has 2 options. 1 eat nothing or 2 eat something gross. Your body will always pick to eat anything over giving up.
@TheParallelSound like in Laos when the comeir Rouge made every one eat bugs. Yummy.
Point is, you all are paranoid beyond my understanding. I'm not planning to "defend" against things that do not exist are plainly NOT something i need to do for the world to be a better place.
We ARE AMERICANS!
So don't eat it and go hungry.
I mean I ate ramen and honey buns for 3 years any foods better than none
I don’t think hunting will dry up as quickly as you think. No way is there 10 million people who know even the slightest thing about killing and harvesting and properly storing meat. There is plenty, I mean plenty of wild life to go around for quite some time. Think outside the box
Keep telling yourself that
@@MOpreppinwill do 😊
You are always talking about prepping for these long term scenarios....3,6,12 months. Have you ever discussed what is going to happen to a modern home over the course of a year with no heating or cooling? All that moisture is going to have so much mold and rot the drywall will literally be falling from the ceiling making the house unhabitable. In that time frame using resource gathered water multiple people are going to get several rounds of GI/intestinal illnesses that put them completely out of action for 2-3 days. Just keeping paper products dry and clean over that time period is going to be a major challenge. Once it's known you are established with supplies to last past the 2 month mark society will have given up on anyone restoring order. You talk about bartering but you would be instantly marked as someone having resources and targeted by multiple people most likely because who are the ones you are bartering with. .others in need. I ask because your channel spends so much time talking about getting this stuff but you never discuss application or the realities or challenges likely to be faced. Why store rice and beans for a year if you'll never be around to eat it.... you're just feeding the person who will most likely be ending you. Long term survival in a SHTF world is brutal and ugly.
You are correct about the deteriorating conditions of residences having no electricity for an extended period of time, especially in the southeast.
Trump 2024 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Kamala/Walz FOR PRESIDENT!
@@jsEMCsquared Exactly what a commie would say.
Can’t get over the fact that in total he & Elon’s’ interview went out to over 1.B people. The World is watching our Country .. ALL THE MORE REASON TO STAY AS PREPPED UP AS YOU CAN BE ! Thx Sootch & Robbie for ALL your dedication to your channel for our behalf
@@jsEMCsquaredonly if we want everything to go completely down the drain.
@@jeanm9521I’m curious why you think that? Not wanting an argument I’m just genuinely curious. What things are you concerned about?
My son in law said he s coming to steal my preps😂😂 😢😢