House fire.
(That’s a lie, I’m not and I live in an apartment, but I plan on prepping for it)
Had a gas can inexplicably catch fire in my yard but close enough to the house to scorch and melt siding. Was able to put it out on the third attempt just before the fire dept showed up. I now have a variety of sizes and types of fire extinguishing apparatus around my house.
Invest in fire safety. Lives are at stake.
8 tb media back up. Most non essential shit ever lol.
Figure if we’re without water I’m dead anyway.
Fellow media collector here. I get it! :D
FWIW storing a few extra gallons of water is a very easy prep
i wonder if theres a market for a residential water battery… it would refresh itself as you use your house.
If I ever need to make fire, but have no conventional means, I have a ferro rod, I have a Freznel lens, and I have a USB rechargeable electric arc lighter.
The Freznel lens fits in my wallet, along with a credit card sized folding pocket knife, which both stay with me at all times (yes, even when I sleep).
A water outage lol.
Last Christmas eve, my meter froze and the water company didn’t consider it an emergency since it wasn’t a geyser. I didn’t have water for 3 days until it thawed.
Now, I keep several days of water jugs in the basement just in case. Also, my water company sucks.
Can’t live without water. Our guidelines are to be prepared to be self-sufficient for up to three days in an an emergency.
I used to have a 20l jug of water on standby, and I’ve had to resort to it twice in eight years because of one planned and one unplanned outage. For the unplanned one my municipality eventually showed up with a water truck on our street so we could refill.
Now I keep 50 litres and I have a well with my neighbours which I use mostly for watering the garden, but it’s potable. In a prolonged power outage situation I might have to scurry over to the neighbour with a battery and an inverter to keep the pump going.
Yeah, I’ve got four 55-gallon rain barrels I use for watering outside (and I guess flushing if it comes to it). Unfortunately, this summer was a full-on drought and they were kinda useless (though my area did get several days of drizzle during Helene and they finally got filled up).
I live in the 'burbs so can’t drill a well, unfortunately.
I keep a backpack in my car with at least two changes of clothes, allergy pills, ibuprofen, sunscreen, and deodorant, toothbrush, and first aid. Worst case I’m ready when shit hits the fan. Best case I’m always ready for a surprise slumber party.
I just like to be prepared for if I get stranded during a storm or my car breaks down
it’s a good idea to keep some drinking water in your car as well if you don’t already.
I used to do that, but had to take it out of the car every winter. What good is emergency prep that’s not available half the year?
Does anyone know what to look for in long term storage of something drinkable that could be left in a car over winter?
Bourbon.
You’d want to leave a little space in the containers so they don’t burst if they freeze. I think it’s still worth having at least some emergency water even if you might have to figure out thawing it.
For me it’s having a basic lay of the land / sense of direction to know where everything is incase of a total GPS blackout one of these days ( I live in the city, not a rural area )
Battery power on the go.
I have a ~400W power station in the car that charges off the accessory circuit. I have a small solar charging power station in the car. A small crank generator in the car. Two cigarette-lighter-to-USB-PD adapters.
I carry a 100Wh power station, a smaller power station, a wall-power-to-USB-PD adapter, and have three computing devices that can provide USB power with me at pretty much all times.
Terfs
I have a trans pride flag and a baseball bat next to my front door
Remember to keep your bat dressed with a long sock, so if someone grabs it, their hold will just slip away along with the sock
Also it might make sense to have a baseball/softball glove nearby for plausible deniability reasons.
That’s what the barbed wire and nails are for!
Good point, time to order some trans pride programming socks
dress the bat in a series of pride socks so it cycles through them all if they keep grabbing the bat
I don’t think a game of baseball will solve anything. :P
There’s a chance it could bore the attacker into leaving.
Well, it’s a good thing OP is willing to try an innocent sports game, and not anything premeditated
I think I could survive a Prohibition for quite some time, and even homebrew and sell it or run a speakeasy.
5x 5 gallon jugs of water. A few weeks worth of canned goods. A stack of fire wood. Solar panels and a few batteries to charge small devices like radios. A couple of GMRS radios and a couple of HAM radios. Propane tanks and propane heaters.
This but 2600 gal water, enough solar and battery to run all but my air con, plus an abnormal amount of bullets due to an amazing deal on Russian ammo proves a decade ago.
Also vehicles that can survive an emp.
I dont consider myself a prepper but my hobbies seem to put me in that side of the chart.
Just all of my entertainment is stored locally, either on my NAS, or in the form of physical media (books, blu-rays, physical games), so I’m prepared for a long term internet outage. I can also run everything in the house from battery backups and a generator for about three days or possibly up to a week if I immediately turn off everything that’s nonessential. Longer, if I’m in a position to get additional fuel for the generator.
I also live in an area that’s prone to earthquakes so I have a total of two weeks worth of nonperishable food and water split between the bedroom, office, and main living area of the house. Along with first-aid kits, Tylenol, ibuprofen, emergency blankets, and spare cold weather clothes.
I’m generally pretty well prepared for the major emergencies that can happen in my region of the world. Those being prolonged internet/cell outages, power outages, and earthquakes.
question was for non preppers, you sound like a prepper.
Where do you draw the line? I don’t even live somewhere where it would be reasonable to expect a major disaster, yet I’ve got some water and non perishables set aside “just in case” alongside a crank powered radio and that sort of stuff. It wasn’t that big of an investment, but if there’s some mega blizzard or whatever I’ll be much better off.
Pretty sure the term “prepper” is just shorthand for “doomsday prepper” or something to that effect. People who think the collapse of civilisation is, if not imminent, a strong possibility within the next human lifetime and are preparing for that.
I am definitely not that. I just take precautions against the specific emergencies that occur where I live with a level of regularity.
Blizzards knock out power for hours sometimes into a day or two once or twice a year. We have multiple earthquakes a day, typically in the M1 to M3 range, but M7+ are once a decade events, M9+ are once are century events. Being ready for reasonable natural disasters isn’t prepping, it’s just smart
Another pandemic lockdown.
Like… where do you draw the line?
I’ve got water, a purchased “bug out bag”, camping gear, extra clothes and water in the car, batteries, ham radio, and a crowbar.
I’m not a prepper but I consider myself somewhat prepared
This is a good idea, as is first aid, for every day life. I keep thinking I should do similar, as well as a stranded kit for my car, but it never quite comes together.
IMHO: water is the easiest and most important. Stash some bottles
I just discovered some leaking so I no longer have that. It really drives home the point that these need regular, if rare, attention. Also that plastic not only seeps into the water with time, but the jugs eventually degrade enough to leak
What happened to your supply to cause leakage?
Sure, plastic isn’t perfect, but it is cheap and easy to get. I have plastic gallons for my house and car. I’m willing to consume a bit of extra plastic in a disaster situation 🙃
No idea. A couple gallon jugs of water just started leaking. As far as I know, nothing happened to them, nothing was touching them. They were still upright and sealed
Maybe something related to sitting on a concrete floor or seasonal swings in temperature (and no, it hasn’t gotten to freezing here yet, nor has my basement ever frozen).
I think concrete actually reacts with plastic in some cases (I have read as much)
I feel like the difference is what you’re preparing for, when I think of a prepper I’m thinking of people who are planning for an enormous society ending disaster.
I’ve also got a bug out bag, but it’s just for general emergencies if I need to leave my place in a hurry very unexpectedly.
I got a solar panel and battery in case of power loss. Won’t do much for heating, but as long as 4G stays up, it’ll allow me to communicate. Or I could probably get around 30min of PC time out of it if necessary.
