I now have two Bug-Out Bags in my Bug-Out Vehicle. I have one BOB locked up inside a fortified compartment in my van since it contains a semi-auto pistol and lots of loaded magazines. Trouble is, it would take at least a minute under best circumstances to unlock the compartment and grab its contents. You never know when you might have to flee your vehicle in six seconds, not 60.
My backup BOB sits between the driver's and passenger's seats and consists of two parts: a medium-sized knapsack and a good-sized belt pouch, both in camo. I keep them fastened together and shielded from sight with a ratty-looking rain poncho. They are also fastened through a loop of heavy tow chain to discourage a snatch & run theft. (Since I know how it's fastened it would take me just a few seconds to undo it.)
The backup BOB contains a lot less preparedness than the one that's locked up but it does contain a few first aid supplies, several days' food, a one-person tent and ground cloth, warm under-layers, insulated mittens, 2 pair socks, rain poncho, a map, cash, two LED head lamps, space blanket, fire-starter, waterproof matches, lots of 100% DEET, a knife, camo cord, knit wool cap and wide-brim cotton hat, water, and other stuff I'm not recalling just now. Oh yes, I have a couple of spray cans of 0.5% permethrin for clothing so I'm not bitten by ticks while barging through the underbrush. My #2 BOB contents will certainly change over time but it's not bad for something quickly assembled.
If it is cold weather, I presume I would have appropriate outer wear in the van to augment what's in the alternate BOB. Also, after I complete two pistol courses, I expect to begin making use of my concealed carry permit so I would be already armed if I have to flee suddenly.
I used to not worry about locking my van unless I was going into a store or otherwise leaving it unattended. Now I lock all doors while I am driving. It's not that I'm so worried now, I am simply forming good habits for later when thieves get bolder and more desperate. I can easily imagine pulling up to a stop sign, having someone yank open my rear door, grab something, and take off running. By the time I pulled out of traffic and parked they would be long gone. Worse yet would be someone yanking me out of the driver's side door and driving off with the van (unlikely because I'm good-sized, but possible certainly). I lock that door with my elbow now as soon as I shut the door. Then I unlock The Club from my steering wheel. I put this anti-theft device on the back side of the steering wheel so the key slot faces the dashboard. That way someone equipped with lock-picking or tumbler-yanking tools will have a tougher time of it.
Next: a BOB for the house. I could otherwise be awakened by the screeching tires of my own van being stolen from my driveway and be suddenly BOB-less. Of course I could find myself cut off from both van and house and have to rely on my buried caches: http://www.preparednessequipment.com
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
You can afford more survival perparations
Let's say you have little money but you anticipate a modest tax return, maybe $500, and you want to know how to spend it for survival purposes. Some will recommended a bulk food buy, others a small solar charger system, and several will insist that a gun and ammunition are the only logical choice assuming you have none of these items already.
I tend to agree with the gun advocates because you'll have a rare chunk of money that could be spent on a relatively big-ticket item. Many of your other needs can be filled with smaller purchases and we'll work on making money available for them.
Before you buy a gun check local ammunition availability. There has been a serious ammo shortage for months now and it does you no good to buy "the best gun for defense" if you can't get ammo for it. Once you select the gun you want, get as much ammo as you can afford right away so you know you've got it. Find someone who can help you learn to use your gun if you've never had one before. Firearms training courses are highly recommended.
Next is water and food storage. The water won't be difficult or costly but don't risk putting it off. For an entry-level goal, figure out what you would eat and drink in two months vs. what you have on hand, then work at making up the difference.
You may think your budget is too tight to do much but let's see if we can shake loose $20 or $50 a week. There are many ways of saving money if you put your mind to it:
Combine trips. Shop on the way home from work.
Question the necessity of every item you put in the shopping cart.
Look for store brands and other bargains.
No more Saturday/Sunday shopping trips.
The less time you have to spend money the better.
Eat a low-budget breakfast. Oatmeal is really cheap and healthy.
Make your own coffee for the day. Instant works.
(Or go off of coffee. It's a drug dependency.)
Plan dinner. Thaw, soak, pre-boil, throw in crock pot, etc. in the morning.
(No excuse for takeout or eating out later.)
Don't buy anything but gas at the gas station. Nothing!
Skip your mid-morning snack or eat an apple you brought from home.
Eat a simple lunch you made at home. No chips, no desserts.
Skip your mid-afternoon snack.
Cancel your magazine subscriptions and your cable TV.
(Get a part-time/volunteer evening job if your life seems suddenly empty.)
Lower you phone bill. Call when it's free. Don't call when it's not.
There are many things in your life I have no clue about so you need to do a faithful budget and look at each dollar you spend during a typical week or month. Do you wear clothes only once before washing? Do you take showers whether you need them or not? Do you do dry-cleaning more than twice a year? Do you have a bowling night, card night, give money to bums, kids, grand kids, did I say bums? Do you put money in the collection plate because your pastor said God demands it of you?
Do you spend money on a hobby? Is your hobby emergency preparedness? How about switching hobbies.
What do you NOT need to buy for your car? Don't buy it then. And don't wash it so often. Do you own your house? Do you hire people to do maintenance that you could do yourself? Do you spend gobs on your lawn? Look ahead to when the utilities quit working and the trash man hasn't come for three months. Is your great-looking lawn really so important to maintain? Let the lawn suffer now so you don't have to later.
Bottom line, set new priorities. Set a one-month savings goal and see if you can beat it.
Or maybe this survival thing isn't for you. I know, tough choice...
I tend to agree with the gun advocates because you'll have a rare chunk of money that could be spent on a relatively big-ticket item. Many of your other needs can be filled with smaller purchases and we'll work on making money available for them.
Before you buy a gun check local ammunition availability. There has been a serious ammo shortage for months now and it does you no good to buy "the best gun for defense" if you can't get ammo for it. Once you select the gun you want, get as much ammo as you can afford right away so you know you've got it. Find someone who can help you learn to use your gun if you've never had one before. Firearms training courses are highly recommended.
Next is water and food storage. The water won't be difficult or costly but don't risk putting it off. For an entry-level goal, figure out what you would eat and drink in two months vs. what you have on hand, then work at making up the difference.
You may think your budget is too tight to do much but let's see if we can shake loose $20 or $50 a week. There are many ways of saving money if you put your mind to it:
Combine trips. Shop on the way home from work.
Question the necessity of every item you put in the shopping cart.
Look for store brands and other bargains.
No more Saturday/Sunday shopping trips.
The less time you have to spend money the better.
Eat a low-budget breakfast. Oatmeal is really cheap and healthy.
Make your own coffee for the day. Instant works.
(Or go off of coffee. It's a drug dependency.)
Plan dinner. Thaw, soak, pre-boil, throw in crock pot, etc. in the morning.
(No excuse for takeout or eating out later.)
Don't buy anything but gas at the gas station. Nothing!
Skip your mid-morning snack or eat an apple you brought from home.
Eat a simple lunch you made at home. No chips, no desserts.
Skip your mid-afternoon snack.
Cancel your magazine subscriptions and your cable TV.
(Get a part-time/volunteer evening job if your life seems suddenly empty.)
Lower you phone bill. Call when it's free. Don't call when it's not.
There are many things in your life I have no clue about so you need to do a faithful budget and look at each dollar you spend during a typical week or month. Do you wear clothes only once before washing? Do you take showers whether you need them or not? Do you do dry-cleaning more than twice a year? Do you have a bowling night, card night, give money to bums, kids, grand kids, did I say bums? Do you put money in the collection plate because your pastor said God demands it of you?
Do you spend money on a hobby? Is your hobby emergency preparedness? How about switching hobbies.
What do you NOT need to buy for your car? Don't buy it then. And don't wash it so often. Do you own your house? Do you hire people to do maintenance that you could do yourself? Do you spend gobs on your lawn? Look ahead to when the utilities quit working and the trash man hasn't come for three months. Is your great-looking lawn really so important to maintain? Let the lawn suffer now so you don't have to later.
Bottom line, set new priorities. Set a one-month savings goal and see if you can beat it.
Or maybe this survival thing isn't for you. I know, tough choice...
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Getting past the paralysis
Let me implore some of you people once again to get the f#@k prepared!
If you think the president has patched things up and all will be fine now, I suppose there's no reaching you. It will be, "Boy, McClarin seems to be losing touch with the real world more and more lately, all caught up in this doomsday horseshit." Yup, you'd be right too.
But please consider: The jobless numbers keep going up, the Baltic Dry (shipping) Index keeps swirling in the toilet, local governments are beginning to close schools and lay off policemen as they see huge tax shortfalls, the commercial ARM's are set to collapse in just a few months, and the Fed has become the chief buyer of treasury notes. Dubai and the Saudis, Iran and the Russians, are all overextended from the days of $150/barrel oil and rioting is breaking out in more and more countries as the meltdown spreads. The devastation in Iceland will visit your neighborhood very soon.
It certainly doesn't help that we have an impostor in the White House that wants to see America punished and whose first military adventure (Afghanistan doesn't count, that was Bush's war) is likely to be the subjugation of our own country. But what can you do other than complain about it?
I do know one thing you can do, prepare for TEOTWAWKI. You don't need to thank me later, just do it. Find a place to tuck away some canned food. Keep adding to it. Get some water storage happening for when the grid goes down and the pumps quit working. Aim for the ability to barricade yourself indoors for two months (envision bird flu or other lethal pandemic, no human contact!).
OK, forget it. I can just see the authority figure coming up behind you as you adoringly squeeze the last can of Spaghetti-O's into place:
"What in the hell are you doing, hoarding? HOARDING!!?
"When on earth did this start? What the hell's gotten into you?
"All of a sudden you've turned into a creepy, stingy survival nut! I don't even know you! You should be ashamed of yourself sneaking around, hiding food just like a goddamned squirrel! That's not who we are!
"Have you got an assault rifle hidden under the bed too? God, please don't let me be living with a psycho gun nut who's planning on shooting the neighbors to protect his stash of Fritos and bean dip!
"Look, if you need help, we'll get help. The doctors can do amazing things these days with prescription drugs. Please let's get you some help and just stop this craziness! "
In other words, a true scrotum-shrinking moment. Better to risk death and starvation than face the certainty of annoyance, ridicule, or pity. And don't forget, we'll all look back on this period and laugh uproariously at how paranoid *some people* were, actually acting out their nutty survival fantasies while those of us more stable sagely held our course unruffled through the market correction and came out in fine shape. Yeah.
See, I think that's where the real sickness lies, the fear of others' reactions if we do something the least bit quirky. We run these parental or spousal tongue-lashing dialogues in our heads and are paralyzed into inaction. Then we tell ourselves we're wise to heed them.
Let me attest that preparedness action is actually psychologically rewarding because it addresses a real apprehension we have about the future, an apprehension that's been weighing on us because of our own inaction. This has an effect at once both liberating and empowering. You feel as if you own your future once more.
So get your canned food cache started: yummy yams, spiffy Spam, succulent soups, choice chilis. Let your palate be your guide. I know, it's not what the food storage experts recommend, but it's a start and it feels good.
And go at least visit a gun store so you can simper at the knuckle-dragger customers while you drink in the flavors of a bygone era when all men had testicles and guns. You'll be glad you did.
http://www.preparednessequipment.com
If you think the president has patched things up and all will be fine now, I suppose there's no reaching you. It will be, "Boy, McClarin seems to be losing touch with the real world more and more lately, all caught up in this doomsday horseshit." Yup, you'd be right too.
But please consider: The jobless numbers keep going up, the Baltic Dry (shipping) Index keeps swirling in the toilet, local governments are beginning to close schools and lay off policemen as they see huge tax shortfalls, the commercial ARM's are set to collapse in just a few months, and the Fed has become the chief buyer of treasury notes. Dubai and the Saudis, Iran and the Russians, are all overextended from the days of $150/barrel oil and rioting is breaking out in more and more countries as the meltdown spreads. The devastation in Iceland will visit your neighborhood very soon.
It certainly doesn't help that we have an impostor in the White House that wants to see America punished and whose first military adventure (Afghanistan doesn't count, that was Bush's war) is likely to be the subjugation of our own country. But what can you do other than complain about it?
I do know one thing you can do, prepare for TEOTWAWKI. You don't need to thank me later, just do it. Find a place to tuck away some canned food. Keep adding to it. Get some water storage happening for when the grid goes down and the pumps quit working. Aim for the ability to barricade yourself indoors for two months (envision bird flu or other lethal pandemic, no human contact!).
OK, forget it. I can just see the authority figure coming up behind you as you adoringly squeeze the last can of Spaghetti-O's into place:
"What in the hell are you doing, hoarding? HOARDING!!?
"When on earth did this start? What the hell's gotten into you?
"All of a sudden you've turned into a creepy, stingy survival nut! I don't even know you! You should be ashamed of yourself sneaking around, hiding food just like a goddamned squirrel! That's not who we are!
"Have you got an assault rifle hidden under the bed too? God, please don't let me be living with a psycho gun nut who's planning on shooting the neighbors to protect his stash of Fritos and bean dip!
"Look, if you need help, we'll get help. The doctors can do amazing things these days with prescription drugs. Please let's get you some help and just stop this craziness! "
In other words, a true scrotum-shrinking moment. Better to risk death and starvation than face the certainty of annoyance, ridicule, or pity. And don't forget, we'll all look back on this period and laugh uproariously at how paranoid *some people* were, actually acting out their nutty survival fantasies while those of us more stable sagely held our course unruffled through the market correction and came out in fine shape. Yeah.
See, I think that's where the real sickness lies, the fear of others' reactions if we do something the least bit quirky. We run these parental or spousal tongue-lashing dialogues in our heads and are paralyzed into inaction. Then we tell ourselves we're wise to heed them.
Let me attest that preparedness action is actually psychologically rewarding because it addresses a real apprehension we have about the future, an apprehension that's been weighing on us because of our own inaction. This has an effect at once both liberating and empowering. You feel as if you own your future once more.
So get your canned food cache started: yummy yams, spiffy Spam, succulent soups, choice chilis. Let your palate be your guide. I know, it's not what the food storage experts recommend, but it's a start and it feels good.
And go at least visit a gun store so you can simper at the knuckle-dragger customers while you drink in the flavors of a bygone era when all men had testicles and guns. You'll be glad you did.
http://www.preparednessequipment.com
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Buried caches may be your best protection.
About a year ago, after I had cashed out my Simple IRA and converted to gold and silver (boy am I glad I did that!), I decided my home was not the safest place to keep it.
I split my loot up into several off-site buried caches using one-foot sections of Schedule-40 PVC pipe with a cap for each end glued on with PVC cement. By pushing the second cap onto the end I found I was compressing the air inside so I had to use a lot of pressure to send it all the way home, give it a quarter turn, and hold it in place till the cement grabbed. This design approach requires sawing the tube open to retrieve the contents.
I reasoned this approach was better than a home safe. I've watched how huge, multi-ton logs are yanked off logging blocks up onto the landing and it would be nothing for a big truck to back in, the driver run a big choker cable in through a smashed house window and around my safe, then yank it right through the walls, floor-bolts and all, where it could be winched onto the truck. Five minutes is all it would take.
My rationale was that I needed to protect my assets against not only burglars and pillaging gangs but government confiscation, recalling that FDR had ordered gold turn-in by the public during the last great depression. Do I trust my government or what!
I then began to have increasing concerns that a major gun-grab might be in the works and resolved to make a few longer, larger-diameter tubes, one of which would contain a semiautomatic rifle and lots of ammo. While at work on this project I discovered that LOTS of people shared this concern so I thought there might be a market for such tubes. Not only that, the market could only get better the closer we got to Armageddon, a great depression business maybe.
Anyway, I completed my project with a few design changes: sealed, threaded plug on one end, heat-sealed Mylar bag liner, oxygen absorbers, and some adaptations for tightening and loosening the threaded plug, which, in this larger diameter, required a great deal of torque due to the sticky wax sealant I used. I took great care in burying this and my other caches in order to leave no tell-tale trace of disturbed earth. I choose a spot that nobody probably walks over for years at a time, maybe decades.
Eventually I decided to make a business venture out of my idea and made an array of sizes with my new design approach and began marketing them. My Web site even contains tips on how people can make their own. The detailed use instructions with photos are worth a read as well. See www.preparednessequipment.com.
I plan to bury other things as well. If civil unrest and food shortages result in martial law, food storage will be classified as food hoarding. It will be forbidden not to turn extra food you have over to the authorities. Add this to the danger of desperate, starving people conducting an armed raid on your stored food supplies. I therefore plan to sock away several tubes of foodstuffs in good ole' terra firma. In addition, pending severe supply interruptions, alcoholics and cigarette addicts might find themselves cut off. They would do anything for a smoke or a drink. There may be some officials in this boat that you will need to bribe and a buried stash of liquor and cigarettes could be your ticket NOT to ride to the FEMA death camps (or substitute your own conspiracy idea ;-).
In case I need to flee on foot, I have made a number of short-term survival caches with power bars, money, pain-killers, fresh socks, fire-starter, clip-on flashlight and a light rain poncho among other items. I also want to bury some emergency temporary shelter materials: rope, cord, a roll of 6-mil polyethylene. I've got shelter for myself in my bug-out bag in case I need to spend a few months in the woods but only a few of us are prepared. If we want to help others, a roll of plastic would be invaluable.
Once my mind gets going along a certain line it's hard to stop. So it was that I recently researched polyethylene septic tanks for hiding stored food. I rather suspect they are already in use as buried caches. They are light enough to be transported by pickup and carried or dragged by two people. You might be able to dig a hole by hand in a couple days but I think I would rent a backhoe. They come equipped with manhole covers that could be sealed using toilet ring wax after they are stocked with provisions, plus they are non-metallic so a metal detector cannot be used to find them. These tanks are available for about a dollar per gallon capacity. You can judge for yourself by googling "plastic septic tanks" or follow some of these links to investigate:
www.plastic-mart.com...
http://www.ntotank.com/?g
www.tank-depot.com
www.fralo.net/
http://www.loomistank.com
http://www.watertanks.com
Many suppliers also sell underground cistern tanks that might also be used in this fashion, not to mention as rainwater storage tanks for which they are intended. (Don't forget to cache some water!)
I split my loot up into several off-site buried caches using one-foot sections of Schedule-40 PVC pipe with a cap for each end glued on with PVC cement. By pushing the second cap onto the end I found I was compressing the air inside so I had to use a lot of pressure to send it all the way home, give it a quarter turn, and hold it in place till the cement grabbed. This design approach requires sawing the tube open to retrieve the contents.
I reasoned this approach was better than a home safe. I've watched how huge, multi-ton logs are yanked off logging blocks up onto the landing and it would be nothing for a big truck to back in, the driver run a big choker cable in through a smashed house window and around my safe, then yank it right through the walls, floor-bolts and all, where it could be winched onto the truck. Five minutes is all it would take.
My rationale was that I needed to protect my assets against not only burglars and pillaging gangs but government confiscation, recalling that FDR had ordered gold turn-in by the public during the last great depression. Do I trust my government or what!
I then began to have increasing concerns that a major gun-grab might be in the works and resolved to make a few longer, larger-diameter tubes, one of which would contain a semiautomatic rifle and lots of ammo. While at work on this project I discovered that LOTS of people shared this concern so I thought there might be a market for such tubes. Not only that, the market could only get better the closer we got to Armageddon, a great depression business maybe.
Anyway, I completed my project with a few design changes: sealed, threaded plug on one end, heat-sealed Mylar bag liner, oxygen absorbers, and some adaptations for tightening and loosening the threaded plug, which, in this larger diameter, required a great deal of torque due to the sticky wax sealant I used. I took great care in burying this and my other caches in order to leave no tell-tale trace of disturbed earth. I choose a spot that nobody probably walks over for years at a time, maybe decades.
Eventually I decided to make a business venture out of my idea and made an array of sizes with my new design approach and began marketing them. My Web site even contains tips on how people can make their own. The detailed use instructions with photos are worth a read as well. See www.preparednessequipment.com.
I plan to bury other things as well. If civil unrest and food shortages result in martial law, food storage will be classified as food hoarding. It will be forbidden not to turn extra food you have over to the authorities. Add this to the danger of desperate, starving people conducting an armed raid on your stored food supplies. I therefore plan to sock away several tubes of foodstuffs in good ole' terra firma. In addition, pending severe supply interruptions, alcoholics and cigarette addicts might find themselves cut off. They would do anything for a smoke or a drink. There may be some officials in this boat that you will need to bribe and a buried stash of liquor and cigarettes could be your ticket NOT to ride to the FEMA death camps (or substitute your own conspiracy idea ;-).
In case I need to flee on foot, I have made a number of short-term survival caches with power bars, money, pain-killers, fresh socks, fire-starter, clip-on flashlight and a light rain poncho among other items. I also want to bury some emergency temporary shelter materials: rope, cord, a roll of 6-mil polyethylene. I've got shelter for myself in my bug-out bag in case I need to spend a few months in the woods but only a few of us are prepared. If we want to help others, a roll of plastic would be invaluable.
Once my mind gets going along a certain line it's hard to stop. So it was that I recently researched polyethylene septic tanks for hiding stored food. I rather suspect they are already in use as buried caches. They are light enough to be transported by pickup and carried or dragged by two people. You might be able to dig a hole by hand in a couple days but I think I would rent a backhoe. They come equipped with manhole covers that could be sealed using toilet ring wax after they are stocked with provisions, plus they are non-metallic so a metal detector cannot be used to find them. These tanks are available for about a dollar per gallon capacity. You can judge for yourself by googling "plastic septic tanks" or follow some of these links to investigate:
www.plastic-mart.com...
http://www.ntotank.com/?g
www.tank-depot.com
www.fralo.net/
http://www.loomistank.com
http://www.watertanks.com
Many suppliers also sell underground cistern tanks that might also be used in this fashion, not to mention as rainwater storage tanks for which they are intended. (Don't forget to cache some water!)
Monday, March 9, 2009
How much time do we have?
If the warning signs are correct, we have several months at most to brace ourselves for the full onslaught of an economic collapse. There is no guarantee it will not happen suddenly, however, before you have made important survival preparations.
Events could cause panic overnight, precipitating a run on the banks that would trigger a bank holiday of indefinite length. Bank accounts and credit cards could be frozen, causing businesses to be unable to buy or sell and employers unable to keep workers employed. In days severe shortages could arise and theft crime could become rampant.
Those who remain indecisive about preparedness run the terrible risk of waiting until suddenly everyone reaches the decision to prepare. Sadly, it will be too late then. The food stores will be mobbed, looters will scuffle over pork chops and snack foods in the aisles, and the shelves will be stripped bare in a matter of hours.
Looters are apt to visit department stores in search of something of value they can trade for food. Police services will be stretched too thinly to offer protection.
The same should be said for those who have taken no steps protect their savings by diversifying into more stable investments such as precious metals.
Will they keep waiting and waiting until their stock portfolio is worth a tenth its former value, then suddenly rush to buy gold when it has doubled or tripled in price?
There is always the chance, and certainly there is the desire, that things will hum along and not get much worse, that it's nothing more than a minor hiccup in the economy like we've all experienced before. But know that there are many very powerful people in the know who are truly alarmed by the unprecedented efforts of the US Federal Reserve and other central banks of the world in attempt to stave off total economic collapse.
Events could cause panic overnight, precipitating a run on the banks that would trigger a bank holiday of indefinite length. Bank accounts and credit cards could be frozen, causing businesses to be unable to buy or sell and employers unable to keep workers employed. In days severe shortages could arise and theft crime could become rampant.
Those who remain indecisive about preparedness run the terrible risk of waiting until suddenly everyone reaches the decision to prepare. Sadly, it will be too late then. The food stores will be mobbed, looters will scuffle over pork chops and snack foods in the aisles, and the shelves will be stripped bare in a matter of hours.
Looters are apt to visit department stores in search of something of value they can trade for food. Police services will be stretched too thinly to offer protection.
The same should be said for those who have taken no steps protect their savings by diversifying into more stable investments such as precious metals.
Will they keep waiting and waiting until their stock portfolio is worth a tenth its former value, then suddenly rush to buy gold when it has doubled or tripled in price?
There is always the chance, and certainly there is the desire, that things will hum along and not get much worse, that it's nothing more than a minor hiccup in the economy like we've all experienced before. But know that there are many very powerful people in the know who are truly alarmed by the unprecedented efforts of the US Federal Reserve and other central banks of the world in attempt to stave off total economic collapse.
Use your imagination as the survival tool it was intended to be. It can help instill an urgency in your preparations. What would you do if you knew everything would collapse tomorrow? Would you draw cash out of your bank? Would you buy extra gas cans and fill them up, topping off your vehicle tank at the same time? Would you buy large quantities of food staples? Would you fill containers with water? Accept that the expected turmoil will begin some day this week. Turn off the TV, shut down the computer, and take action. Once you have made immediate preparations, research and purchase a several- Devise a retreat plan. Where would you go if things became very ugly and dangerous in your area? Do you want to stock your retreat location ahead of time? Consider buried caches that you can unearth when you arrive. You might find something useful for this purpose at http://www.preparednessequipment.com |
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