Prepping

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AAz01

Original Poster:

102 posts

149 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Anyone here into prepping?

I'd like to get us (me, wife, baby, 2 dogs) set up to survive for a week. Not long enough to get through a zombie apocalypse, but should be long enough for extreme weather shutting down local roads, etc.

My list so far:
1) Lots of water. One gallon per adult, half gallon per baby/dog per day... 111 litres for a week.

2) First aid/Medicine.

3) Dog food is easy. Human food... Tins (meat/veg/fruit) that don't require to be cooked.

4) Cash. No power means no card payments.

5) A first-aid book. Although, if the internet is dead we won't want to live any more anyway.

6) Water purification tablets

7) Matches

8) Fire extinguisher

9) Feminine hygiene products

10) Disposable plates/cups/cutlery/paper towels

11) Battery-powered radio & wind-up radio

12) Torches with starlight mode for long battery life

13) Duct-tape to seal doors and windows if needed

14) Whistle to signal for help

15) Dust masks in case of contaminated air

16) Wet wipes

17) Bin bags

18) Tools

19) Several can openers

20) Local maps

21) Lots of non-rechargeable batteries with long shelf life

22) Solar-powered battery charger and lots of rechargeable batteries

23) A small camping stove

24) A large propane gas cylinder for the BBQ. Propane should be good to very low temperatures unlike butane.

25) Big tough knives.

26) Somewhere to keep all this crap.



Have I missed anything out and has anyone else done similar? smile

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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4x4 Response sticker?

cloggy

4,959 posts

208 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Guns boy guns.

walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Buy a £20 butane powered camping stove and you can just enjoy regular COOKED food!
We lived with two of these for about 3 months while we rebuilt the kitchen.

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Mobile phone.

One eye to be kept on said phone at all times.

No need to prep booze for Christmas, either.

Trabi601

4,865 posts

94 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Professional help. That should be no. 1 on the list. You need it.

Pints

18,444 posts

193 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Is your wife aware of this idea?

My wife tends to use the 2-way radio to order cups of tea. That is the extent of our prepping.

battered

4,088 posts

146 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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A mate and I did 3 days out on the Skye Cuillin one February, carrying very little. Double that up, you're done.

You need to establish what form your zombie apocalypse takes. Are you confined to the house, or can you go outside for access to firewood and river water? A water filter will protect against microbial hazards but not a nuclear/chemical war. What's the nature of your crisis? The provisions are much greater for civil unrest than simple flooding or power failure.

Me? I'd give up washing and kick back with a camping stove and whatever's in the fridge.

Pints

18,444 posts

193 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Why several can openers? Just get a decent one and a swiss Army knife as a back-up.

OP, have you been watching The Walking Dead? smile

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Mother in law. Food on the hoof.

miniman

24,827 posts

261 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Pickled said:
4x4 Response sticker?
hehe

ecsrobin

17,025 posts

164 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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miniman said:
Pickled said:
4x4 Response sticker?
hehe
rofl

valiant

10,071 posts

159 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Credit card.

Mobile phone.

Sainsburys home shopping login details.

Uber app.

I've survived 42 years without a survival pack. I think I'll be alright.


CTO

2,649 posts

209 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Trabi601 said:
Professional help. That should be no. 1 on the list. You need it.
smilesmile

ZOLLAR

19,908 posts

172 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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AAz01 said:
4) Cash. No power means no card payments.
In many scenarios currency may have become immediately useless, if it was apocalypse time I'd just whack you over the head and take what I want not pay you for it hehe

I think prepping for a bad winter is probably a bit wise, prepping for all out apolocalypse? just something to finish me off for good will do.
Can't be dealing with the hassle, especially after walking dead where everyone thinks they're a crossbow totting red neck with the skills to survive.

I saw a "what if" program a few years ago about the main grid in the UK going down for a few weeks.
One of the characters had a generator and was a bit of a prepper, he thought he was the dogs bks until some scary type folks came and nicked it off him.
Don't draw attention to yourself!

Edit,

I think this was it.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/blackout


Vizsla

922 posts

123 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Trabi601 said:
Professional help. That should be no. 1 on the list. You need it.
Yep, 'yeah though I walk through ....etc'

If the kakka hits the fan, and if you're not the meanest sonofabh in the whole goddam valley, then someone quite exceptionally nasty is going to come along and take all your carefully prepped stuff from you. Without prejudice.

Well, are you feeling lucky , punk? smile

FailHere

779 posts

151 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Let's think:
Shot-gun
Four gun-dogs
The complete works of William Shakespeare
Rope
Cast-iron mangle
Plastic sheeting
Case of Vodka
Duct-tape
Nana Mouskouri sings Motorhead album
Half a tank of fuel in the Land Rover

Fully prepared thank-you, not sure what for, but, definitely fully prepared.

Not sure why the OP requires local maps, doesn't he know where he is?



Edited by FailHere on Monday 6th June 20:12

Troubleatmill

10,210 posts

158 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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So.... long enough to survive some bad weather.... but then it gets into contaminated air. etc etc
hmm


I have been snowed in for 3 weeks without getting to civilisation....


My list is quite different to you.

AlexRS2782

8,025 posts

212 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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Looks like you've got something in common with this user from 2014 OP hehe

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=146...

spaximus

4,230 posts

252 months

Monday 6th June 2016
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I would not go to extremes but in the modern age we are not equipped for any real issues.

Look what happens when there is a fuel shortage, panic buyers strip the shelves and supplies cannot keep up. If there was a road haulage strike for example people would go nuts.

My mum had a larder and frozen food that she could withstand a siege with a small camping stove she could cook us a meal no issue. We lived in the back of beyond so it was sometimes necessary.

I have a friend in the states and they do the prepping to a whole new level. After Hurricane Katrina did New Orleans and law and order did break down it was not surprising this movement grew.

Basic tools and skills are lacking from many to survive without TV and MacDonalds