This, is why you prepare for the unexpected:

[streetglideok]

We live in Colorado. We should expect natural disaster. We should all be able to live without power or outside assistance for at least a week. We should all be preppers and not give a damn if people like the term or not.

I agree, living in Colorado we should expect and be ready for natural disasters of all sorts, whether it be snow storms, tornadoes, dust storms, or wildfires and flooding of biblical proportion in the same summer. Being a prepper is nothing to be ashamed of, however in light of retarded reality shows about doomsday prepping, some of those people give society the wrong idea about us. You can brush it off with not caring, which when it comes down to it your family's wellbeing is more important than what someone thinks of you. On the flip side, we're gun owners, and we already have an image problem right there. There is not enough of us excluding fudds to block gun control laws. If you give outsiders the impression you are prepping for shtf, they don't know any better. They see you as some lunatic David Koresh wannabe. Calling yourself an emergency prepper IMO at least, which is worth nothing really, looks a lot better than prepping for shtf scenarios.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Hell, I'm an old Boy Scout and Scoutmaster. I teach Emergency Preparedness which includes having at LEAST a week's worth of non-perishable food available and knowing how you're going to leave the area in case of natural disaster. As a camper and E Prep advisor, I have water filters, camp stoves, fuel to last me a couple of weeks and enough ramen and pasta to last me 1-2 months (make it 3-4 if you add in rice and canned goods). Come to think of it though, I only have a week or two worth of TP ... better hit the store ;-)

They can use labels all they want ... fact is, I'm prepared for emergencies and natural disasters and many of them aren't. I flat out can not believe how many people today freak out over a snow storm or other natural disaster that means they can't go to the grocery store that very day. It is flat unconscionable IMO that people are freaking out over being told they may not get food for a few days.

[Delfuego]

For the record, from now on if anyone asks, I lost all mine in the great flood of 2013.

I may have to borrow this. Thanks DG!

[Singlestack]

I try to keep it quiet about emergency preps, especially in my neighborhood. One reason is the abundance of Beeho/Biden signs on cars - these are gov first people. The other is related to what might happen in a serious prolonged incident of some sort. My initial plan is a very low key bug-in.

[ChunkyMonkey]

I try to keep it quiet about emergency preps, especially in my neighborhood. One reason is the abundance of Beeho/Biden signs on cars - these are gov first people. The other is related to what might happen in a serious prolonged incident of some sort. My initial plan is a very low key bug-in.

You are in the zombie land... Move out or triple your firepower!

[Singlestack]

You are in the zombie land... Move out or triple your firepower!

Wifester doesn't want to move so doing the only logical thing - tripling firepower!

[Dave]

Wifester doesn't want to move so doing the only logical thing - tripling firepower!

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[mestes]

You are in the zombie land... Move out or triple your firepower!

Had to show this to the wife, especially after talking earlier bout all my cruddy naihboors. Most do more prepping especially with one more mouth on the way to feed.

[TFOGGER]

Based on the number of boating accidents and unfortunate loss of prized firearms from this group, I had guessed all of us owned a boat by now.

We may be good preppers and shooters, but this is without a doubt the sorriest group of sailors in history...

[Hummer]

Hatidua started this thread on 9-12-13, the peak day of the flood. I was at my cabin near the headwaters of the Middle St. Vrain west of Lyons watching the river rise to an unprecedented level in my lifetime, far above normal spring runoff flooding. It had been raining almost non stop for three weeks, which saturated and flooded soils on every bit normally high and dry ground.

At our farm in western CO we store food and other supplies to last a year or more, but at the cabin I may have only 30 days of food on hand. It turned out to be a good thing that I also had about 30 gal. of potable water in containers. The house is on the river and we have a constantly flowing spring that supplies drinking water but during the flood neither water sources were safe to drink without sanitizing.

When the downstream flood knocked out power lines we lost electricity to pump, pressurize and UV sanitize the household water system. I had to rely on stored water for drinking & cooking. I carried buckets of water from the river to flush the toilet. At least the septic field was still taking water from the house and that we hadn't yet connected to the new improved county mandated septic field. My neighbor's new septic systems were all backing up. A crappy story worthy of another thread....

My close neighbors and I had flooded basements and crawlspaces, ruined carpet and other stuff, but no serious structural damage. Generators, sump pumps, wet vacs and fans got us through. Downstream just a few miles things were much more serious. In Raymond and Riverside 12 or more bridges washed out, along with trees, power poles, roads and houses. Once we had our situation under control my neighbor and I went downstream to help other neighbors. My impression was that everyone was looking out for one another.


Be prepared for the unexpected. It costs scarcely more than a little thought and effort. Keep the pantry full, store clean water and never go home without a full gas tank.