With the sudden popularity of the J.J. Abrams NBC television series, Revolution, many are starting to wonder what they should have on hand in the event the lights suddenly go out, or some other crisis befalls us. We have put together some of the most common items that ?preppers? or survivalists feel are necessary.
WATER SUPPLY:
People need 3 things to survive: Water, Food and Shelter, in that order. For water supply you have a few options.
Short-term supplies of water consist of a few gallons per person, ready to transport, in addition to a portable filtering system or a treatment system.
A long-term supply will require many hundreds of gallons for each person, depending on how much supply you intend to store.
A normally active person needs to drink at least 2 quarts of water each day. Hot environments can double that amount. Children, nursing mothers and sick people will need more. You will also need it for food preparation and hygiene. Store a total of at least one gallon per person, per day. So a 1 year supply for a typical family of 4 will require at least 1460 gallons. Those plastic storage barrels hold 55 gallons, so you?ll need 26 of them.
If you think that because you live near a lake, river, pond, stream or swimming pool- that you don?t need to worry about drinking water, you could be dead wrong. Many survival scenarios have contaminated supplies at their root, and if you don?t properly prepare the water before drinking it, it could be fatal.
Treating Water for emergency use can be as simple as filtering it or dropping a pill into it before use. Used worldwide by hikers, campers, emergency volunteers and anyone else who might need to administer or drink water of uncertain quality, water-purification tablets disinfect contaminated drinking water.
FOOD SUPPLY:
If you want to be fully prepared for whatever may come, food is the absolutely essential item you need to have on hand.
There are many ways to store it, and many types of food supply you may need to store. You can grow and dehydrate or can your own, or you can buy them already packaged for normal storage (1-2 years) or long-term storage (20-30 years).
3-Day Supply-the 72-hour kit is ?grab a bag and jump in the car? for emergency evacuations. This is essential calories and hydration to get you through a short-term crisis, or to a safe place where supplies will be available. It consists of anything from protein and calorie snacks to MRE (Meals Ready-to-Eat) packs. Have one for each member of your family stored at home, at work, or in the car.
2-Week Supply-if the nature of an emergency is going to take you out of your routine for more than a few days, you?d better have a 2 week supply conveniently located. Keep it handy for quick evacuation, or at your cabin or other emergency destination. You?ll need MREs, dehydrated entr?es, energy snacks, and water for each of you.
6-Week Supply-if you need to rely on an emergency food supply for up to 6 weeks, something serious has hit the fan. This should be stocked at your homestead hideaway in the woods, or in your fully secured home. It should be easily portable in case you need to change locations in a hurry. You?ll need dehydrated meals, water, firearms, and preparedness kits.
6-Month Supply-for long term crises. You?ll need basics, plus full meals and all the necessities. Dehydrated meals, MREs, rice, beans, wheat, spices, and a lot of water or water filtering equipment. Store it where you intend to wait out the disaster. You?ll also need survival gear, camping equipment and hunting skills to get you through.
1-2 Year Supply. You?re in for the long haul, so make sure you have everything on hand you?ll be needing until the major crisis has passed and civilization has restabilized. In addition to all of the dehydrated and stored foods, you?ll want seeds, hydroponics, and hunting, trapping and camping gear. You?re completely on your own during this time, and that means you?ll need to protect yourself and your loved ones, so have firearms and ammo as well.
Long-term food supply should consist of most of the foods you eat on a regular basis-if you?re eating right, that is. Canned foods taste great and are convenient and inexpensive, but are not easily transported. Dehydrated or freeze-dried food can be stored in a much smaller space, and is reasonably portable if necessary. It can also have a storage life of 20-30 years. Vegetables, fruits, meats, nuts, oils, spices, batters and mixes, beans, grains, pasta, potatoes, desserts, breakfast foods, eggs, and TVP (textured vegetable proteins-fake meat). Even powdered milk, coffee, tea and fruit drinks. Lots and lots of water or filtering supplies.
Seed packs will come in handy for lots of garden fresh food when the stores are empty and the trucks have stopped delivering to grocery stores. For longer waits, large supplies of seeds can make you king of the hill, so start stocking up.
Hydroponics is the cultivation of plants in nutrient solution rather than in soil, and is especially crucial when growing outside is no longer practical. Become an accomplished hydroponic grower before the need arises. Grow a garden in your basement, or closet.
KITS:
The Emergency Get-Home-Bag (GHB) is a midsized disaster preparedness kit that?s perfect to keep on hand in your office or trunk of your car. The GHB provides provisions and tools to help you get home (or other suitable shelter) should an emergency emerge while going about everyday life. Your pack should include things like 1-3 days? water and dehydrated food or snack bars, compass, whistle, blanket, lighter and matches, duct tape, water purification tablets and portable filter, light sticks and flashlight, batteries, first-aid kit, multi-tool, knife, poncho, tube tent, work gloves, zip ties, paracord, respirator mask, etc.
A Bug-Out-Bag (BOB) is the basic, essential kit everyone should have. As its name implies, it?s the grab-and-go bag containing basics to get you safely to your base destination, where you can assess the extent of the emergency and the length of your stay. The BOB will contain more than your GHB, and you may want to pack it in an emergency roll-away system. Once you?re clear of danger or need to continue on foot, backpacks and hydration systems allow you to stay moving on foot as needed.
Vital for evacuation or shelter-in-place scenarios, the BOB provides the same things as your GHB; food, water, tools, communications and first aid for one adult for an absolute minimum of three days, and up to 10 days, or longer with rationing. A BOB will also contain a light-weight tent and suitable sleeping bag, a head-lamp, emergency multiband multi-power weather radio, water filtering bottle, camp trowel, hand warmers, goggles, sewing kit, toiletries, etc.
Specialized Kits, like medical kits, first responder kits and pandemic kits are for specific purposes when normal services and facilities aren?t available. A Medical kit will contain everything you need to assist with routine first-aid to diabetes and other medical needs and emergencies. A First Responder kit will include much of what a first-aid kit contains, plus some tools and equipment for getting people out of dangerous situations, and for splinting limbs, washing eyes, clearing airways, plus an aspirator, thermometer, respirator, pain relief, etc. A Pandemic kit provides the basics for isolating you from others infected with life-threatening diseases. Includes items like N95 respirators, eye protection, vinyl gloves, disposable thermometers, tissues, hand sanitizers and biohazard bags.
Some items that top survivalists and first responders recommend you have on hand are tobacco products; to barter and bribe. Red Man Chewing Tobacco, pipe tobacco and cigarettes are powerful negotiating tools when people with nicotine addictions run out of cigarettes.
SELF-PROTECTION:
Firearms are the best choice for self-protection and hunting food. Choose from a large selection of handguns, rifles or shotguns for your particular self-defense and hunting needs. Store plenty of ammunition, and get all of your reloading supplies and equipment for inexpensive ammo.
Archery is also a great method for hunting, and can be an effective tool for self-defense. There are many types of bows that can be very effective in various circumstances, but for survival most will choose a Compound Bow or a Crossbow. This kind of weapon is especially good for silent hunting.
There are likewise many types of Knives that will enable you to protect yourself, or perform any number of tasks. There are hunting knives, folding knives, and large and small multi-blade knives with saws and scissors and other handy devices.
A good Hatchet is not only practical for camping, but can aid in defending against a violent attacks. The same can be said about a Machete.
Don?t underestimate the value of a quality Slingshot or even a Blowgun if the occasion requires it. With a little practice you?ll be surprised at how well you can hunt with these useful weapons. A Pellet Gun can likewise bring down small game without giving away your position.
GEAR:
Survival Self-Reliance Gear varies widely depending on the circumstances you find yourself in. A good place to start in your home is everything you use now, only in a 1-2 year supply, plus whatever you?ll need if all outside retailers and services go black. This will include equipment for filtering and purifying water, solar and other energy equipment, firearms and ammo, clothing and sewing gear, communications equipment, and all of the tools you?ll need.
Camping Equipment makes some of the best survival gear, with hiking shoes, packs, clothing and overnight equipment, and cooking and gathering tools. Lamps, flashlights, radios, and plenty of batteries and solar recharging equipment are a must.
Hunting weapons and digital and other gadgets to give you an advantage over the game or your opponents. Don?t forget-all of the restrictions on how to hunt that you?ve learned in the past go out the window when food is for survival. All of the don?ts become dos-hunting in the dark with a bright light or night vision, taking underage game, fishing with multiple lines and hooks, or putting nets across the creek-it?s all fair when your next catch is the difference between survival and starvation.
Hot Weather gear like sunglasses, sunscreen and a shade hat for southern climes and Cold Weather gear like a Fire Starter kit and thermal hiking clothes and sleeping bag for the North Country.
If you are in a hurricane region or flood plain, a rubber raft and life jacket will be necessary.
And don?t neglect the little things, like the right cooking equipment, twine, hand sanitizer, or a latrine shovel. Duct Tape is indispensable at home, the homestead, or on the trail. Put a Survival Handbook in your bags, and be sure to have whistles, pocket knives, and bandages in your pockets.
ENERGY FUEL:
Whether you?re making your home energy independent through Solar, Wind or Hydro collection installations or generators, or you?re using them to power your remote cabin, there is a great deal of cutting-edge energy technology that can take you off the grid and render you entirely self-reliant. There are even some low tech, very affordable tricks you can follow to get electricity or heat for water, comfort or cooking from the environment.
Solar ovens are very portable and can be easily set up for cooking, baking and heating water for washing and cleaning. You can even build your own parabolic solar oven out of a TV dish and some tin foil.
There are also a number of portable solar collectors that enable you to power your radios, lights, and digital devices, as well as recharge your batteries.
For heating your house or cabin there are a number of inexpensive and storable fuels ranging from condensed wood chips, coal, alcohol, propane, natural gas, and cord wood.
We should all be prepared for emergencies.
About the Author
JL Thompson is an author and survival writer. Seen the new TV series Revolution, and wondered what you would do if the lights went out, or some other crisis shut down society?
Get everything you need to get through a crisis from http://www.GetRevolutionReady.com/ or http://www.CenturySurvival.com/
Get Revolution Ready | Preparedness, Survival Emergency Supplies, Food Water Storage, Self-Protection, Kits, Solar, Wind and Hydro Power. Water Filters Treatment. Hydroponics, Seedpack, Canning. Hunting, Hiking, Camping. Get everything you need to get through a crisis from http://www.GetRevolutionReady.com/ or http://www.CenturySurvival.com/
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