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72 hours is better than nothing

Back in the day, we lived in a small town SW of Nurnburg where we had the entire lower half of a fairly new house. It was the way to go. Just down the road was a farm house and you got use to the honey wagon smell because it was a damn site better than living in the city. The fridge was decent, we had a nice size range and oven and a small store was about 10 minutes away by car. For Europe it was pretty nive, but this was before all the EU regs and other nonsense.
 
Here on the Gulf Coast where I’ve lived the majority of my life, prepping for hurricanes is the norm. I’d say I’m the archetypal Type 1 category as @The Night Rider details.

We’ve lived through some bad storms - not quite the devastation of some - but bad enough (12 days without power). We put in the Genrac after that storm.

I never pass up an opportunity to snag non-perishables. Starting every June 1st I never let the fuel in either vehicle get below half a tank. It’s just our way of life. Never take anything for granted. That’s how you die.

Once monthly I hit the local Sam’s for the big stuff, but we also do occasional 2-3 times a month limited runs for smaller items. We do like to get out a little. Covid was an eye opener and a lesson for us all.
 
I'll take a different track. What is the 4th Reich, ops I mean the E.U. doing suggesting anything to the citizens of individual countries? Maybe if they had stuck to being a free trade union, they wouldn't be such a cluster ....
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The Night Rider said:
We have stopped buying toilet paper because the Goat Ranch is on a septic system and we can't use the normal stuff
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Just to clarify the above statement we have enough toilet paper and storage to last us for at least a year.

The Goat Ranch is on a septic system and apparently you have to use a different type of toilet paper that disintegrates with the septic system so we won't be able to take any of the toilet paper we have now to the Goat Ranch with us.
 
The Night Rider said:
Just to clarify the above statement we have enough toilet paper and storage to last us for at least a year.

The Goat Ranch is on a septic system and apparently you have to use a different type of toilet paper that disintegrates with the septic system so we won't be able to take any of the toilet paper we have now to the Goat Ranch with us.
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Yep. And no flushable wipes.
 
The Night Rider said:
Just to clarify the above statement we have enough toilet paper and storage to last us for at least a year.

The Goat Ranch is on a septic system and apparently you have to use a different type of toilet paper that disintegrates with the septic system so we won't be able to take any of the toilet paper we have now to the Goat Ranch with us.
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You ever hear of a burn barrel?
 
I've talked about this before, my wife grew up poor. Her family didn't eat every day.

As a result, even in our small two-bedroom apartment she keeps a pantry. And she's learned how to stretch her food dollars. I joke about this a lot but it's kind of true, my wife could take a can tuna fish, six saltine crackers and feed 12 people and still have leftovers.

Our daughter is very much the same. We don't know anything about her life in Mexico and we don't ask but she came home with a vision of becoming self-sufficient. That's one of the reasons that she bought the Goat Ranch.

She has 15 hens. They don't all lay yet but when we were out there on Easter Sunday my wife told me that she watched our daughter give a dozen eggs to each of her seven children. She gave us two dozen. According to my wife she still had five or six dozen left. Her husband was going to take them to work the next day and sell them. Apparently he does this a couple of times a week.

At the very beginning of the pandemic I told my wife to take note of things that were difficult to find and things that she wished that we had already stocked up when the shortages happened. I told her that if this ever eased up we were going to take that list and stock up on those items and we have.
 
I grew up around farmers. I know and understand the importance of a pantry. I do the bulk of my grocery shopping once a month. I keep supplies on hand.
When the great TP shortage hit, I got through it just fine.
Back in 2003 when Hurricane Elvis hit, many people were without power for a couple of weeks. Most of my neighbors bugged out because many of them didn't have so much as a mechanical can opener much less any way to cook. :rolleyes:
If it came right down to it, I could survive for 2 or 3 months on just what I have in my house.
 
Grayfox said:
I grew up around farmers. I know and understand the importance of a pantry. I do the bulk of my grocery shopping once a month. I keep supplies on hand.
When the great TP shortage hit, I got through it just fine.
Back in 2003 when Hurricane Elvis hit, many people were without power for a couple of weeks. Most of my neighbors bugged out because many of them didn't have so much as a mechanical can opener much less any way to cook. :rolleyes:
If it came right down to it, I could survive for 2 or 3 months on just what I have in my house.
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I’ve got a case of MRE’s and Bottled Water at the ready. I also have a “ Bug Out” tuff box with all sorts of Get By stuff🪖
 
Warrior9(Ret) said:
I’ve got a case of MRE’s and Bottled Water at the ready. I also have a “ Bug Out” tuff box with all sorts of Get By stuff🪖
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72 hours maybe what the folks in charge say to be prepared for, but our personal is 96 hours. That’s comfortable for us, and webpve endured our share of really bad storms.
We also believe in staying put. Too many folks bug-out as the situation deteriorates and then they have even more problems, not to mention the traffic jams.
 
A lot of great input and plans the have been thought through. But what will the emergency that one might face 🤔 I have had survived training and I have been homeless when I was a kid. I have put together things that will be of help. BUT my challenge is my wife being on oxygen 24/7 which changes a lot of things. I wished I had never left the high country but I never would have met my wife. Living in a populated area is a problem because we are considered soft targets and a catastrophe makes us more vulnerable and that could mean there are those that come to take. Staying put could be a catastrophy so things now have to be rethought. As things differ in different situations there is no golden rule. I have been through a lot over the years but I never thought I would have to look at what might lay ahead. As I watch and remember I lay out different options and it's a amazing jigsaw puzzle. Be safe,look at different angles of what might happen.
 
Anchorite said:
72 hours maybe what the folks in charge say to be prepared for, but our personal is 96 hours. That’s comfortable for us, and webpve endured our share of really bad storms.
We also believe in staying put. Too many folks bug-out as the situation deteriorates and then they have even more problems, not to mention the traffic jams.
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Most Americans could easily go 96 hours on just fat reserves.

My wife doesn't see or worry about things like this. I make sure we have everything needed to be able to bug-in. Until are restored or we expire in a pile of spent brass if it comes too that.
 
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