Practice

[OtterbatHellcat]

My wife has enough candles to likely provide light to the whole forum, but I've got a couple LED lanterns that work quite well and last a long time, those are what I prefer, but having the candles as backup is comforting.

Gotta have candles around for sure. The ones I used last night did pretty well, and I forget where I got 'em. Four and a half inches tall and an inch and a half wide dripless candle and after about seven hours of use it's still near half. I have a shit ton of those little votive candles too.

Moving to central AZ, brother. This Cat doesn't want to deal with blizzards and arctic temps no more.

[hurley842002]

Gotta have candles around for sure. The ones I used last night did pretty well, and I forget where I got 'em. Four and a half inches tall and an inch and a half wide dripless candle and after about seven hours of use it's still near half. I have a shit ton of those little votive candles too.

Moving to central AZ, brother. This Cat doesn't want to deal with blizzards and arctic temps no more.

Oh yeah, I think I remember that. We are planning to move, and Anthem AZ is at the top of our list as of now.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Having ordered Wise food products a few times already, there has been a noticeable delay in getting my most recent order delivered. I know that they only make stuff as orders come in.

I believe that they are raking in some serious cash with this north korea horseshit going on, just my guess.

[brutal]

I prefer Mountain House or Augason farms...

I consider the price/calories, as well as the taste.

[Great-Kazoo]

I've got a metric shit ton of propane on hand, I know that the fire department wouldn't be happy if they knew about it. Just the prep shit I have under the stairwell storage area would probably blow this house all over the neighborhood.

Gasoline is a big deal to have, I've thought about having a few 55 gallon drums on hand. Yeah you're going to have to use it and refresh it, but that's not hard to do. Sucks there's some stuff I can't (shouldn't) do now because I'll be moving. When I do get where I'm going, I'll have a lot of gasoline and water in storage for sure....solid plans for that.

While not hard to fill then draw from. It's difficult if not impossible to utilize them if one had to move real fast from the area. 2.5 & 5 gal containers are easier to transport as well as fill your vehicle from.

After travelling around the country over time i will say this. WE are not going anywhere IF something were to drop. Everyone and their (insert gender) relative will be clogging the roads, it's bad enough when traffic is barely movingnow. Why would we want to deal with gridlocked , possibly never moving again traffic, forced to go it on foot.

[OtterbatHellcat]

I prefer Mountain House or Augason farms...

I consider the price/calories, as well as the taste.

I remember searching reviews a while back....I seem to remember that Augason Farms stuff was rated super salty, though I've never tried it myself. It would do good to sample those companies products as well for sure.

[OtterbatHellcat]

While not hard to fill then draw from. It's difficult if not impossible to utilize them if one had to move real fast from the area. 2.5 & 5 gal containers are easier to transport as well as fill your vehicle from.

After travelling around the country over time i will say this. WE are not going anywhere IF something were to drop. Everyone and their (insert gender) relative will be clogging the roads, it's bad enough when traffic is barely movingnow. Why would we want to deal with gridlocked , possibly never moving again traffic, forced to go it on foot.

Moving fast to anywhere is not my plan when shit goes bad, I'm going to stay put and protect and defend. The gas would be for vehicles when needed, but mostly for the generator. I made a cool "quite box" for it, you can barely hear it from the street if you know it's running, I think someone walking down the street wouldn't notice it. I have some solar charging stuff that does a different range of rechargeable battery sizes.

I meant to address your frozen food supply you mentioned. That food is probably super good quality, but you do have to keep it frozen, I really don't know if what minimal resources are still available after shit storm, are worth keeping food frozen. I'm trying to learn and be prepared, and do the best I can to maintain some quality of life when shit goes bad.

And I want to keep practicing with stuff.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Another thing I noticed last night, was when I walked outside and across the street, you couldn't tell that there were lamps and candles lit. I wanted to know.

[OtterbatHellcat]

There is no time when inconvenience fits in your schedule of stuff you gotta do......or to survive.

I might have too much of the wrong stuff, or not have it organized well enough, or in the market for getting some more stuff, but I'm going to do these dry runs with some regularity from now on. I learned a few things last night that were helpful. Know where your stuff is, and be organized about it. I have many plastic tubs that are not identified and looking through them with a shitty light source isn't the funnest thing to do.

Yes, I have a few very powerful flashlights and some other stuff, but I wanted to run through that with basics. That might be all you have left, if you have that.

[TheGrey]

Man, when the power goes out here, it gets DARK. I hear ya about the kerosene lanterns. We have a bunch of flashlights, and we also have a bunch of fire exiguishers. They're on sale this month- stock up.

Have you thought about dehydrating or canning your foodstuffs?