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Retired old folks, the wife has minor health problems. She is really worried about catching the Covid. So we have only been venturing to the grocery store once a month. And ordering things online.This got her on board to stocking up the pantry and filling the freezer, instead of running to the store every 2 or 3 days. Or small town water supply has never been that reliable, and the water tastes odd, so we have been using bottled water. Switching to monthly shopping allowed me to build up about 10 cases of water, plus 5-6 that we go thru in a month. I also save 1 gallon milk jugs and fill with tap water 'just in case', I've lost track how many I have in the storage room, over 50.

So when the TX snow-maggedon hit we just bundled up. Out house is on a concrete slab and I was surprised that with the power off for 4 days the house only got down to 55 degrees, even when it was in the single digits some nights. We have plenty of food and drinking water. We used the gallon jugs of tap water to flush the toilet. In my car 'get home bag' we have one of those fold-up camping stoves heated cans of flammable jelly to heat food, and water for instant coffee.

Now she's onboard to buy a generator.

Now with power back on, but intermittent water, we're watching local news about 1000s of people lined up for food and water. People with homes destroyed from being flooded by broken pipes. Our biggest inconvenience was taking the dog out in the cold to do his business.

Retired old folks, the wife has minor health problems. She is really worried about catching the Covid. So we have only been venturing to the grocery store once a month. And ordering things online.This got her on board to stocking up the pantry and filling the freezer, instead of running to the store every 2 or 3 days. Or small town water supply has never been that reliable, and the water tastes odd, so we have been using bottled water. Switching to monthly shopping allowed me to build up about 10 cases of water, plus 5-6 that we go thru in a month. I also save 1 gallon milk jugs and fill with tap water 'just in case', I've lost track how many I have in the storage room, over 50. So when the TX snow-maggedon hit we just bundled up. Out house is on a concrete slab and I was surprised that with the power off for 4 days the house only got down to 55 degrees, even when it was in the single digits some nights. We have plenty of food and drinking water. We used the gallon jugs of tap water to flush the toilet. In my car 'get home bag' we have one of those fold-up camping stoves heated cans of flammable jelly to heat food, and water for instant coffee. Now she's onboard to buy a generator. Now with power back on, but intermittent water, we're watching local news about 1000s of people lined up for food and water. People with homes destroyed from being flooded by broken pipes. Our biggest inconvenience was taking the dog out in the cold to do his business.

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[–] • 2 pts

It sounds great that she is finely on board with you!

The same thing happened at my house. The wife was never really interested in seriously prepping, until she couldn't find toilet paper! Lol!

This morning I've been looking online for a tiller for the garden we will have this year. We both grew up with huge gardens that provided most of our families food source. When we got married she didn't want to work a garden ever again. Sick of it after so many years, you know.

I'm loving this! My little place is going to be beautiful!

[–] • 3 pts

Same with my wife. I prepped without her until government overreach took over. Just goes to show you women are purely reactionary and like to think they are master planners.

[–] • 1 pt

Men are not reactive? Men are responding to the same stimuli women are responding to, government overreach and a collapsing system. Why are men hoarding ammo? Anti-gun activism and blm chimp outs. Reactive.

[–] • 2 pts

Unbalanced men act like women. I’m not balanced, but I’m aware of the balance and strive for it daily.

I don’t horde ammo, I have a reloading bench. I have food I grow in a secluded spot and layers of deterrents and traps leading into my property. I don’t broadcast where I am and I interact with maybe four or five people (who aren’t family) a month.

It’s about balance, those men and women are unbalanced. The genders split when it comes to how one may help them gain awareness. Men you can talk to when even the world disagrees with you, because freedom of thought experiment allows growth for one and all. With women you can not do this. Women only follow along with what’s popular, because the group decides her fate.

There are always outliers, and they aren’t to be dismissed, but it is harmful to all to falsely highlight the outliers as the norm.

[–] • 0 pt

Lol. Yes!

[–] • 2 pts

It’s ok though, my memory is shit, but I swear I never forget a single fucking detail. I write everything down now.

[–] • 2 pts

I learned some hard lessons during hurricane sandy. Ive got a great little kerosene burner that works great, but I would like to get a wood stove put in. You can only hoard so much kerosene.

I would like to start pushing a campaign to all white conservatives ( yeah even zionist boomers) to prep for two years of food, medicine, fuel, defense, etc. Would any of you be willing to push a compaign like this to friends and neighbors? Do you think its reasonable. Everyone might not achieve it but any progress on this front is a victory.

We are good a this kind of shit. When the shit hits the fan yiu cannot eat shekels.

PS. If you wife has a supply of ivermectin she need not fear the covid. Buy ivermectin. It cures covid and many other viral illnesses. A very good choice for prepping.

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It's what made a real prepper out of me too.

Right up until facemask-party-time, I was a weekend conspiritard reader casual.

Now I'm hording water filters. Just kidding, but I bought lots of food

The TP craze was no big deal, I had paper, but it became very hard to get at food in the store for a week or two during the height of the panic mode.

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Freezer.. Texas is bereft of food right now because the power went out, and people's freezers ironically thawed. So they went to the store to replace their food and the shelves are bare.

We are going to go the way of South Africa. Get used to infrastructure decline.

[–] • 1 pt

CHEAP PLASTIC WATER JUGS LEAK----Let me tell you how I know. I had 10 brand new jugs of distilled water for my cpap machine. 4 of the 10 leaked and I didn't know it because I only use about 1 gallon a month. I went back to home depot and bought $5 large totes to put the other jugs into. You have now been warned. CHECK YOUR WATER OFTEN. Took me 3 days to dry out my carpet in the spare bedroom.

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Good stuff. I got into prepping when I started reading about the "weird flu" in China last winter. Chinese citizens were reporting shortages, stuff like toilet paper so I stocked when everything was plentiful (therefore not contributing to the panic buying/hoarding that happened when things hit here).

Plus everyone should have supplies for that freak ice storm or earthquake that no one predicts.

I also save 1 gallon milk jugs and fill with tap water 'just in case'

That's really smart advice, gonna start doing that. For your dog my friend has been using those puppy training pads in the garage, it was way too cold for his dog too.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I don’t know if you got into canning or not but you can also fill your empty mason jars with water. It takes up the same amount of space and you never know if you’ll need it.

[–] • 1 pt

If your water table is no lower than 30ft you can use a hand pump for water. Since your older I’d suggest a powered pump with a manual pump in case you have no power.

Filter that water as well and you should be 100% set. It’s the setup I have

[–] • 0 pt

I'll have to look into that. We just downsized, again, to a small town in east TX. There is a small creek at one corner of the property, but it runs thru town, so I'm sure the water is pretty suspect.

[–] • 1 pt

Water and soil quality are paramount, followed by isolation for me. I’m only starting my family now, but I plan on living and dying without the government being involved at all.

[–] • 1 pt

I just finally got myself off any city water supply and got a new wood stove installed that doesn't have electronic blowers or anything. The fewer necessities we're dependent on the government for the better.

[–] • 1 pt

I can't express how nice it is to have a generator, I bought one when I was selfhosting some things for poal when the power went out and it is REALLY nice to have.

[–] • 0 pt

I've wanted to get a generator for a couple of years for our travel trailer. But now I want one that can run most of the house, and one that big may weigh too much for me to lift in and out of the pick up when we do take a trip with the trailer.

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Sounds like you were in better shape than many. Rather than continuing to pay for bottled water, you should consider buying a Berkey filter. With the right combo of filters in them you can pull pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals out of your water supply. They're technically purifiers.

[–] • 1 pt

I love my berkey. I highly recommend it. We have city water so out of the tap it tastes disgusting but ran through the berkey it tastes like water should taste like nothing. I also like that it removes 99% of pollutants.