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ND8M

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Re: What are you preparing for?
« Reply #30 on: August 16, 2022, 05:16:08 PM »

I prepare for everything, because really it doesn’t matter what the potential disaster is, the steps needed to prepare are the same.  I keep a month or two of food on hand, a generator to provide lights and water from my well, a means of communication (ham radio is actually secondary, a portable am/fm/wx radio generally more useful), and a way to heat my house without electricity.  I’ve lost power for over a week twice since I’ve lived here in 5 years.  It was a slight inconvenience.  In case of major disaster I just need to be prepared enough to not require any immediate assistance so the government agencies’ limited resources can go to those who really need it.  It’s not rocket science, and you don’t need doomsday prepper levels of crap. 
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KD8IIC

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Re: What are you preparing for?
« Reply #31 on: September 04, 2022, 05:48:10 PM »

  Lunch es a nap!   ;)
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K1VSK

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Re: What are you preparing for?
« Reply #32 on: September 14, 2022, 08:42:36 AM »

Right,,, but what I am asking is for things like you know there is a building that is typically used for a shelter.  You have installed a wireless mesh to it connected to a satellite Internet connection for people to use in the shelter.  You have build charging kiosks for people to charge their phones during  a disaster, and maybe it's battery powered so it doesn't need utility to work.   That sort of thing.
Get a satphone. Ham radio in an emergency is about as useful as a group of flying unicorns
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Re: What are you preparing for?
« Reply #33 on: September 15, 2022, 05:45:11 AM »

Satellite phone?  Sorry... Can't help myself.  Don't take this the wrong way.  HA HA HA HA!  It'll be just as useful as GPS if the SHTF.

Practical prepping today has to do with what's going to happen *this* winter and the next couple of years.

To be honest, I've been furiously *simplifying* lately.  I should be where I want to be by the end of this year.

Good luck.
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WO7R

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Re: What are you preparing for?
« Reply #34 on: October 23, 2022, 02:13:37 PM »

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So preparing for one thing makes no sense. Either you prepare for everything, or you don't prepare.

Bluntly put, this is nonsense.  Everyone has a budget.  Everyone has an idea of what is likely and even if the unlikely happens, what can be done about it.

For instance, an EMP event would be crippling.  Maybe you think you can sit in your shelter with your six month food supply, but what then?

You got a horse, seed, 40 acres, and a plow?

I don't care if you were prescient enough to afford a 1960s or earlier car.  You won't be getting gasoline to run it for years after.  Not if the EMP event is really crippling (and designed to be by our enemy, whomever that is).

I hope you have some sort of independent source of heat because you aren't getting coal, fuel oil, or natural gas, either.

To be really prepped for an EMP event of sufficient severity is to basically replicate the entirely 19th century farmer lifestyle indefinitely.  All ahead of time.

Or, you could admit you haven't the budget or the skill for that and make an economic decision to prep for something lesser.

Me, I don't care what you do or don't do.  It's a free country.  Do what you think best.  But, there are events that are well beyond "prepping" or for which "prepping" requires, taken seriously, a scale of preparation that amounts to an entirely different life, one for which you would redundantly pay for, physical "plant, property taxes and all.  I don't think most of us are up for that.  But, we might decide we could be ready for lesser events -- extended outages due to natural disaster, perhaps.

Or, you could assume that the enemy is kind or somehow, it only takes three or six months to scrounge together a power grid and a transportation system after such a thing.  That, too, would limit the prepper budget.

But to prepare for a dark ages level event -- that is really substantial.  And far beyond what I have heard most "preppers" ever discuss.
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US7IGN

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Re: What are you preparing for?
« Reply #35 on: December 03, 2022, 12:42:25 PM »

The most important things are heat, food, tea, light and radio. I am the happiest person in the world as long as I still have it every day. And I don't give a sh*t about those f***g missiles.
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