damn ! Apartment situations ?

[Great-Kazoo]

Bug out to the storage unit. You will be in an area that is fenced, well lit and.....concrete, thin but still concrete walls.
There would be a lot of items you might make useful in the storage area. I also doubt, unless they are members here and same storage unit you're at, be a lot of people waiting to get in.
Don't forget they have security cameras. You will have a ready to go base of operations, unless it's across town.

[Wulf202]

Ive been reading through the threads , you guys are scaring me !

I live in a 3rd floor apartment , camping gear is in storage , I have weapons and ammo , no places to store SHTF water or food really.

anyone else live in an apatment ? whats your setup ? any bottom line "must do's" fo me ? besides moving lol ?

Im in the grab my shit and head for the hills/plains kinda mindset now ?
hard i guess with my camping gear 20min away in a stoage unit.

What would you do .

Having spent the last 10 ish years in apartments, you have space to store food and water, if you're in a standard new construction you'll have a 50 gallon water heater. You need to get a siphon hose and know how to undo the flex lines. Don't use the drain spigot at the bottom, they clog up all the time and sometimes leak.

Just dedicating the space under the bed will have enough room for food for one for 30 days. If you raise the bed frame on blocks you can double that and the girlies love platform beds.

Consider keeping a bug out setup with a duffel bag full of duffel bags and 40' of rope with a simple hook on the end. Pack your stuff into the bags and lower them down with the rope when the bag hits the ground it should loose the hook. Reel it back up and lower another bag, beats trips up the stairs. If you have a truck just back it up and lower the stuff right into the bed.

[ChadAmberg]

First thing to remember, don't panic. Second, you should have several different levels of preparedness.
Do you have a small bag in each car with necessities?
Do you have a kit in your office with some food and basic supplies in case you're stuck there for a day or two?
Next, how about a duffel bag or large backpack in the apartment that you can grab and leave in 1 minute that will keep you going for 3 days?
Finally, lets say you are stuck at home for 10 days in a massive blizzard. Most people can do that with food, but if power is out, can you cook, maybe on a gas grill on your deck? And as for water, think about one of the water buffaloes that you fill in your bathtub as soon as you are aware of an incident occurring.

[blacklabel]

Remember that preparedness isn't really about the ending of society as we know it. As much as I love a good zombie flick, they're not the cause of my prepping.

What do you do if the power goes out for a few days? What if you're snowed in for a similar period of time? These are the types of situations that you should begin to prepare for. You can then begin to build from a week to a month to a year. Getting into longer periods of time though is going to cause issues with storage and transportation.

Bugging out, as fantastic as the idea can be, simply isn't reasonable for those of us without somewhere to actually go. Plan on staying with the ability to go mobile quickly and also figure out where you'd be going or it's going to be a rough time finding a camping spot.

[ChadAmberg]

Remember that preparedness isn't really about the ending of society as we know it. As much as I love a good zombie flick, they're not the cause of my prepping.

What do you do if the power goes out for a few days? What if you're snowed in for a similar period of time? These are the types of situations that you should begin to prepare for. You can then begin to build from a week to a month to a year. Getting into longer periods of time though is going to cause issues with storage and transportation.

Bugging out, as fantastic as the idea can be, simply isn't reasonable for those of us without somewhere to actually go. Plan on staying with the ability to go mobile quickly and also figure out where you'd be going or it's going to be a rough time finding a camping spot.

Big time agree here.

Lots of folks actually seem to be looking forward to EMP attacks, complete breakdown of society, and running off into the woods to live off berries or something. Along with everyone else, those woods are going to be very crowded.

That isn't what you want to think about. Think about what actually happens. If you live on the coasts, prepare for hurricanes, floods, power outages, stuff like that. When I lived on the coast, we made sure to always have extra propane for the grill during hurricane season to cook with. That's above and beyond the normal 8+ hours a month we lost power.

Living here, what is likely? Blizzards, wild fires, drought. You're either going to be stuck in the apartment on your own for a while, or you'll have to evacuate to a shelter or a hotel. Think about those scenarios and what you want to do.

[Clint45]

You certainly have room for a half dozen cases of bottled water and a month's supply of canned goods. Water goes under the bed, cans go in the cupboard.

[Mercula]

thanks guys , lots of realistic options here , im going to do my best to implement as much as i can .
Im going to spend some time tomorrow moving stuff around to make room .

Thanks for your ideas and comments

[Omicron]

Ive been reading through the threads , you guys are scaring me !

I live in a 3rd floor apartment , camping gear is in storage , I have weapons and ammo , no places to store SHTF water or food really.

anyone else live in an apatment ? whats your setup ? any bottom line "must do's" fo me ? besides moving lol ?

Im in the grab my shit and head for the hills/plains kinda mindset now ?
hard i guess with my camping gear 20min away in a stoage unit.

What would you do .

While you want enough supplies at your apartment to be able to "bug in" for a week or two, that can't be your long term plan. So what I'd do is store food and water stockpiles at the same storage unit where your camping gear is. Consider this as your second bug out location - if you had food/water there it might be more defensible than your apartment is. But regardless, Make sure you have a vehicle that can hold all your gear and stockpiles. Then if the SHTF, bug in for a week or two, then load up your weapons, go to the storage unit, then either stay there for a while or pack the truck, and bug out.

You might also want to have some extra fuel stored there (you'll need to put some Stabil in it, and rotate it every couple of years) as if the SHTF and you do have to bug out 2 weeks later, fuel may well be hard to come by.

One final thing: "Head to the hills" does not a bugout plan make. Pick several locations, pre-scout them, make sure you have good maps to them and know all the alternate ways in to them. If you have friend(s) with land that's best, as there's low chance of someone else getting there before you and preventing you from using that location. But also realize that there'll be a half million people in Denver who all think they can "head for the hills" and become mountain man survivalists if need be. Find a way to not compete with them, as in, go somewhere less likely to become people saturated.

Hope this helps.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Perhaps my SHTF scenarios are lesser than some..but most SHTF situation (Earthquake, riot, flood etc) last 7-14 days. I am prepared for much longer than that.. but if you can cover the first week for all of your household members and then some, you already cover most of likely scenarios.

Once you achieved this, then go read Light Out and One Second After.

[HoneyBadger]

also realize that there'll be a half million people in Denver who all think they can "head for the hills" and become mountain man survivalists if need be. Find a way to not compete with them, as in, go somewhere less likely to become people saturated.

I've been thinking more and more lately about the possibility of heading East if I had to leave the fortress. It's a really tough one though, because when you look East, what do you see? Nothing. No water, no trees, no good soil for growing things, no protection from the wind, no mountains to hide in.

Best possible scenario: You have a plot of land that is stocked, defensible, and well away from everyone else. You see the sh*tstorm coming and you bug out before it even starts, avoiding the hysteria and panic of a million sheep/zombies in Denver. A few examples: if the military is fighting on US soil, if nuclear tensions are worse than the cuban missile crisis, if there is a national loss of utilities or shortage of a resource like gas or food, GTFO.