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LRT

LRT

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Since I was a child my old man spent a bit of time teaching me how to survive. So with this recent pandemic has had me wondering how many people have the same mind set as my self.
It has been known by people close to me that I prepare for the worst and hope for the best. My boss thinks I'm a pessimist because I think of the worst to figure out the best way to approach a task.
So my question to you is how have/or you prepared to be ready for an major disaster?
 
I stocked up on toilet paper. I have a garage full, so full I can't park a car in it. I also filled my bathroom full of toilet paper floor to ceiling. So full I can't enter the bathroom. As a result I have to poop outside and if I forget to bring a roll of toilet paper with me, I use leaves.
 
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I stocked up on toilet paper. I have a garage full, so full I can't park a car in it. I also filled my bathroom full of toilet paper floor to ceiling. So full I can't enter the bathroom. As a result I have to poop outside and if I forget to bring a roll of toilet paper with me, I use leaves.
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Is it good with salt and pepper?
 
LRT said:
Since I was a child my old man spent a bit of time teaching me how to survive. So with this recent pandemic has had me wondering how many people have the same mind set as my self.
It has been known by people close to me that I prepare for the worst and hope for the best. My boss thinks I'm a pessimist because I think of the worst to figure out the best way to approach a task.
So my question to you is how have/or you prepared to be ready for an major disaster?
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I remember buying a bunch of food and water for a hurricane.
Everybody was laughing at me.
"Getting ready for a hurricane???" Hahahahhahahahahahahah! They thought it was hilarious.

About 3 days later the hurricane hit, and I had lots of water, fuel, batteries, and food.
I mean, that hurricane wiped their asses good. Looked like a war zone.
Idiots.
Hahahaha.

What most people don't want to admit is:
a lot of the time, the village idiot was right.
Preppers are smart people.

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Ha ha ha ha
getting ready for a hurricane?

ha ha ha ha.
Out of 50,000 people, there was 1 person who thanked me.

I stayed up all night, on the air to warn people. (720 KUAI)
Otherwise they would have had almost no warning at all...
 
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I've had people laugh also when they hear I have 1000lbs of dry beans. I figure its enough to eat beans every day for for about 10 years. It not that I think its necessary to have that much but better to have and not need it than to need it and not have it.
 
Cadorman said:
But what if they sprout? Will you end up on the moon?
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Almost all are vacume sealed so no sprouts. Its nice living in a farming community the beans didn't cost me anything. Not only with the foods I have put back I have studied and learned a massive skill set to survive with minimal gear. This is somthing I think everyone should learn and put to practice.

Am I weird for this?
Is it usless knowledge?
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
I remember buying a bunch of food and water for a hurricane.
Everybody was laughing at me.
"Getting ready for a hurricane???" Hahahahhahahahahahahah! They thought it was hilarious.

About 3 days later the hurricane hit, and I had lots of water, fuel, batteries, and food.
I mean, that hurricane wiped their asses good. Looked like a war zone.
Idiots.
Hahahaha.

What most people don't want to admit is:
a lot of the time, the village idiot was right.
Preppers are smart people.

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Ha ha ha ha
getting ready for a hurricane?

ha ha ha ha.
Out of 50,000 people, there was 1 person who thanked me.

I stayed up all night, on the air to warn people. (720 KUAI)
Otherwise they would have had almost no warning at all...
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Ive known people who did similar --
I have dodged (and survived) many hurricanes living in Al. -- the Gulf Coast -- Florida and The Florida Keys since 1987 -- more than I can honestly count

To be fair -- you can "prep" for hurricane ------ but (as I watched happen in the keys) when you "hoard" food TP gas beer -- bug repellent batteries water (see AMS I know the stuff ;) ) -- etc......and put it in your house ---
AND the hurricane ..............................................puts your HOUSE into the gulf of Mexico -----------------well........its all wasted time wasnt it....
Hurricane Irma skipped a tornado right across my property -- made a hell of a mess.

we are only human ---we can ONLY "prep" so much .............the rest is hold on and pray you see tomorrow-------
 
I have always had around two weeks of food on hand for ages. Even growing up, my folks would buy stuff that was on sale just to keep the pantry full. My father was born in the depression, and my mother watched a Spitfire bomb the chicken coup in her parents' back yard, along with other shortages during a war while growing up. I was always taught to keep canned and dry goods on hand. Then the only other stuff you need to ever buy is fresh meat and veggies. Although I do keep a fair amount of stuff in the freezer. I think that if I decided to not buy any food for two weeks, I could still eat very well with what I have here.
 
When my wife's 6 stores went out of business I ended up with a lot of stuff. I haven't bought toilet paper in 1.5 years. Might have another 6 months to go. Of course it's all nasty Uline industrial stuff. I have gallons of cleaning supplies as well.
 
Growing up we raised and preserved all our own food. There was very little we had to buy, for the most part my parents only bought flower, yeast, milk, butter and cheese. We lived a simple life till parents divorced. Im trying to make for simple life for my family.
 
I know people of other countries have it a lot worse and harder, but why do they seem so much happier than us Americans. Is it because we push so hard to be better than one a nother that we don't stop to be happy and absorb the beauty of our scrounging?
 
I was a Boy Scout. Those 2 words, Be Prepared, have stuck with me ever since. I live in CA, being prepared for the big one is just a way of life. I have an emergency dry food stash with about 2 to 4 weeks of can stuff and dehydrated stuff. I always keep 6 cases of bottles water on hand. The house has a generator and we have 2 camp BBQs (to be used ONLY in the driveway :run: ) along with 2 5 gallon propane tanks.
Oh, and I have 500+ bottles of wine on hand, just in case.
 
LRT said:
Growing up we raised and preserved all our own food. There was very little we had to buy, for the most part my parents only bought flower, yeast, milk, butter and cheese. We lived a simple life till parents divorced. Im trying to make for simple life for my family.
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I learned to can vegetables and jams when I was a kid. This is the first year I didn‘t start a vegetable garden, as we‘re doing a lot of work on the house and property. Hopefully next year, I can start a new one. I also grow hops, and know how to brew beer.


Don O said:
I was a Boy Scout. Those 2 words, Be Prepared, have stuck with me ever since. I live in CA, being prepared for the big one is just a way of life. I have an emergency dry food stash with about 2 to 4 weeks of can stuff and dehydrated stuff. I always keep 6 cases of bottles water on hand. The house has a generator and we have 2 camp BBQs (to be used ONLY in the driveway :run: ) along with 2 5 gallon propane tanks.
Oh, and I have 500+ bottles of wine on hand, just in case.
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I‘m down to about 15 bottles of wine and five bottles of Champagne, and about fifty bottles of hard liquor.
 
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