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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTime to re-post: Preparations for an emergency
It's now well past the stage of calling "Mayday." If I were an airliner captain I'd be on the intercom shouting, "Brace, brace, brace!"
It's time to ensure you are prepared for the coming emergency. Here is the advice I'm offering my friends. If you have other suggestions, please chime in.
- Make sure your connections with your relatives, friends and neighbors are tight. Give each other your cell phone numbers. Check in with them periodically, ask them to do the same.
- Agree on a plan with a few others about where to go and how to contact each other through other means should cell phones not be an option.
- Have a plan for where you will go if you have to evacuate quickly. Make sure the plan considers alternate routes.
- Get a burner phone.
- Keep your gas tank full. Put a bug-out bag in the trunk of the car with clothes and food, along with several plastic jugs of drinking water
- Have several full jugs of drinking water on hand in your residence.
- Keep a supply of cash bundled and ready to grab if you have to move suddenly.
- If you have a gun, make sure it works, and that you have enough ammunition.
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)But if it were this is what it would look and feel like.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Let me guess. You think this shitstorm is about American national politics, don't you?
HAB911
(8,904 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)There will always be people for whom mockery is the first recourse. I get the same reaction to my views on climate change and ecological destruction.
BlueSpot
(855 posts)Quit preaching panic.
HAB911
(8,904 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 5, 2017, 10:16 AM - Edit history (1)
is not panic
TOO FUNNY
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thejoker123
(279 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Not here, not Europe. Where? India? Canada? Africa?
Concerned parent speaking. I'm willing to fight the fight here...but my kids. I don't want them to end up as cannon fodder for this fascist regime.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)They'll never find you there. When you flee, you can build your own log cabin and eat off the land. Nobody will see your smoke or hear you shooting at the deer and other animals. Nobody will ever know you're there - you and the thousands of others who have fled to the same area. They'll never find you, but if they do, you can take care of them with booby traps and punji stick pit traps.
Yes, indeed. You'll find your safe place at the end of the road somewhere. Nobody will go looking for you...
marybourg
(12,633 posts)Only a desert. I can hide there. Can't I? Behind a cactus?
I'm too old to head for the hills. The cat and I will defend the home front.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)It's harder to hide your log cabin and your food-growing plot in the desert. Maybe find an old abandoned mine and move in there, or dig your own cave. I really don't suggest hiding behind a cactus. Especially a cholla. I think I still have a few cholla spines somewhere, after 30 years. That's a nasty, nasty plant!
Bayard
(22,100 posts)And chickens for eggs, big vegetable garden, fruit trees. And surely our local Tractor Supply will be open in times of catastrophe.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Is that your full-time address?
Bayard
(22,100 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)A burner phone will keep you safe. Nobody will hear what you say on it. Nobody will know your number. They can't trace those burner phones, see. The government doesn't know about them at all. They're secret and stuff.
Just remember to log onto the website from a VPN IP address when you redeem the minutes on that card and use one of your burner email addresses to sign up there. And don't use the same bogus screen name you use on DU. They know about all those. They'll catch you when you least expect it if you make any mistake.
They're watching you at all times, you know. The only protection is to cover yourself completely with Alcoa Aluminum Foil. Don't use the stuff from the dollar store. It all has tracking chips built into it. Only Alcoa foil is safe.
You didn't hear this from me, either...remember that, above all.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)I hope those who are making fun of such preparations never have cause to regret their snide attitudes.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)not a doomsday prepper by any definition but i do find that i have mentally done some of this
no hoard of cash but i do find my food stocks are larger than usual.
marybourg
(12,633 posts)helpful as age starts to catch up with one.
jpak
(41,758 posts)something *might* have happened.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Squinch
(50,955 posts)bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)Living around their paranoid minds under Obama was very entertaining. I watched them building bunkers on several mountains in East TN-- People around those parts take this kind of stuff very seriously. In their minds they believe those mountains will save them from the destruction of an eventual Armageddon/doomsday event.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)wildeyed
(11,243 posts)A small, inexpensive and portable water filter. I got a few of those to cut back on the amount of bottled water I keep around. I also have a foldable multi-gallon water jug I keep around in case I want to fill it quickly.
Also a radio/light/phone charger thingie that has a trickle solar cell and hand crack. It charges via an outlet too. I figure I can charge a phone up enough to send and receive texts with that in a pinch.
Most of the things you list are a good idea to keep updated in case of any emergency. I put a yearly recurring note on my calendar to check first aid kits and emergency supplies anyway.
williesgirl
(4,033 posts)With all food & water they have on hand, any blowup beds, blankets, pillows, clothes, cash, etc and head out to my place in the mountains west of DC. At least if our Criminal-In-Chief starts a nuclear war, they may have a chance. Have everyone's passport ready, and other important paperwork. .
The one thing I haven't been able to do yet is stock up on food and water. Although I have a well and a standby generator.