lets discuss preps for disasters

[farmer2009]

Andy, that is so awesome how self reliant you folks are. I would say that less than 0.001% might be as prepared as you guys are.

Yea I'd love to get there someday but I have a feeling I'd be on my own.

Mentioned to wife last night after ready some of this thread that it would be a good idea to get a few MRE's just to have around if we needed them. I got called a radical and was told we'd live off peanut butter. Laughing.

 

[MossRoad]

Smooth or crunchy? :licking:

 

[MossRoad]

How long does that stuff keep anyway? I'm the only one that eats crunchy in our house and it seems like I go through maybe two jars a year. So its open for at least 6 months.

 

[4570Man]

I like crunchy especially if I have to eat it by itself.

 

[/pine]

crunchy seems to work better for baiting mouse traps...!

 

[farmer2009]

Smooth. As she won't eat crunchy.

I always considered peanut butter's shelf life up there with honey and molasses. Just stir it back together until it molds. Then get a new jar. I've never had any to mold though.

 

[4570Man]

As long as it isn't molded I would eat it. The only time I have ever seen peanut butter mold was when it was left on a mouse trap for months.

 

[/pine]

Peanut butter is all about the sugar content (or lack there of)...!

 

[BigRol]

Wow peeked at this thread out of curiosity and read all 22 pages. The one thing I didn't see mentioned was books, You can't remember everything, at least I can't and books like "Back to basics" and "How to make it off the land" would be invaluable, everything from edible plants to cold rooms to home made smokers for preserving meat. Oh yea and fishing gear if you're near water! Cool thread!

 

[MossRoad]

fishing gear if you're near water! Cool thread!

Got mine!

 

[/pine]

Got mine!

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Reminds me of a 'Justin Wilson' fishing story...

A Game Warden always noticed that Old John always caught his limit of fish. One day he finally asked Old John how he always got his limit. Old John invited him to go along. It wasn't long til they got to Old John's favorite spot and anchored. Old John
reaches down into his tackle box and pulls out a stick of dynamite...lit it and threw it in the lake. KA-BOOM
Now there's fish floating all over the place. "Whoa" said the warden "that's illegal". Well, Old John just reaches in and pulls out another stick. He lights it and throws it in.
KA-BOOM, more fish! The Warden starts giving John the third degree, "John, I am going to have to arrest you if you do that again. It's illegal to have dynamite, let alone use it for fishing". While the warden is giving him the third degree, Old John just reaches in the tackle box and pulls out another stick of dynamite, lights it and tosses it to the Warden and said "Now, you gonna talk all day or fish"?

 

[MossRoad]

Reminds me of a 'Justin Wilson' fishing story...

Yep! That's where I got it from. :thumbsup:

 

[dirt ditch]

There is a guy in these parts who fished that way. He used to be right handed, now he only got's his left.

 

[Jim Shooz]

I recall reading in Errol Flynn's book how they were dynamiting for fish just north of Australia but after a while the sharks were getting in on the fish too. They took one fish, stuffed dynamite down its throat and threw it just in front of one of the sharks. the shark took it, circled around and blew up just under the boat. Flynn got up to all sorts of tricks,. The book was My Wicked Wicked Ways.

 

[EddieWalker]

Books are a good idea. I rely on google to look things up and over the last couple of years, ebooks. It would be nice to have a few hardcover books that cover such things as gardening, canning, processing, medicine and home remedies.

 

[Soundguy]

Nobody said anything about the lead...but the architect had a note in the specs that the ceiling tiles should be tested for asbestos before any demo...so that was figured into the bid...

we did some construction demo work one time .. it was a parking and drive area for an old dot weigh station. that station had asbestos, (internally ), and was torn down to the slab by a demo contractor, we were brought in to reclaim the slab and the sourounding asphalt, to convert it to a median.. we had to have a water truck on site hosing down the area to dig and mill... that was the only precaution the DOT wanted.. IE.. to keep any residual friable asbestos left over from the building demo from becoming airborn.

 

[Soundguy]

Peanut butter is all about the sugar content (or lack there of)...!

yup, the more sugar the longer it lasts.

eventually you hit a limit with the oil being ransid.. however 6mo isn't anything for sealed up pnut butter..

 

[forgeblast]

Books I love books!! I have the whole foxfire series, gardening when it counts, a lot of homesteading books, cook books from the 20's/camping books. Butchering books, leather tanning, basket weaving, bow making, etc. I just dropped an ash tree hand pounded it and make a pack basket from it. Working on tooling the straps now. I love learning new things and books are a big part of that.

 

[TnAndy]

Andy, that is so awesome how self reliant you folks are. I would say that less than 0.001% might be as prepared as you guys are.

Thanks, Kyle. Just something we've been working towards a long time. I look around and see how many people depend on the knowledge, and ability, of other people to go to work so they (the parties of the first part) can live in the style of life to which they've always known.

And I don't mean the uber-rich....I mean just plain folks that haven't got a clue how food gets to their kitchen (or plate, since eating out seems to be the way of many), or who supplies their water or power (and how either works), or can't do any basic repair/construction around their place, and finally, who think the police are actually there to protect them rather than act as crime historians and tax collectors.........ahahahaaaa

Yeah, it's a hoot the pickle we've put ourselves in as a nation, and how that could change in an instant. I'd like to hope that life will pretty much go on as I've always known it.....these really ARE the 'good ole days'. We've be in a hurt in many ways if the world went to crap, I don't kid myself on that, so I hope it doesn't....hey, I like to pick up a pizza sometimes while I'm in town too ! But I really think people COULD stand to be a lot more like my old Boy Scout motto: "Be prepared"

 

[Garycw]

Very well said TnAndy. I think a lot of people will learn the hard lessons of self reliance sooner or later. Not just the young but people that should know better.
It's hard to prepare for every scenario, The three big ones would have to be Water, Food & Shelter though. If all the bizarre things going on in the world isn't enough to make you think about it, all the once in a 100 yr severe weather events should.