Comments on: Beans, Bullets and Bandaids… Check! But What’s Next?

By: tommyboy

tommyboy — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:10:24 +0000

don’t forget water purification tablets. a must have. a few buddies even installed a solar power water pump and generator. sweet. I’m good and guns and ammo, still gathering the rest of my ‘list’. Good luck all.

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:44:00 +0000

I just wanted to mention a few items that should be on hand.
Ipecac, just in case someone eats or drinks something potentially harmful.
Hydrogen Peroxide, even small cuts can get infected & cause illness, loss of limbs or death.
A good pump water filter, you can never have too much water.
Lifecaps, you can get a lifecaps.net use coupon code “healthcap” to get 33% off. You can live on lifecaps & water alone, they make sure you have all the vitamins, minerals, sugars & even iodine.
You can never carry enough water & your body will go through more water & vitamins during stressful times. You need to keep your immune system working strong.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:58:04 +0000

One bit of warning…

…..in addition to the previous info on scanners, digital trunking also has, generally, a digital scrambler attached to the radio in use. This unit is far more sophisticated than a simple, analog frequency invertor in the voice preamp of the radio. A scanner is useless to decode this (for the type of Uniden, cheepo stuff the average person has access to). If you can get the scanning codes, a Watkins-Johnson, with some addons, can decode the scrambling. Are you willing to spend 2-3K on a scanner???

http://www.dxing.com/rx/hf1000.htm

http://www.premium-rx.org/ref/configuration.pdf

-referance info on WJ’s.

By: Stryker

Stryker — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:01:20 +0000

Come on here….SP, I love your site as a new prepper, but really, if everything goes down like we think (all know) it will, lighting???? The suedo government or gangs will already have sweeped our towns. For once, I’d like to have a post about what to do when the cops/army/national guard comes to your door and says there is a manditory evacuation or to turn over all your guns, etc. Please let me know, because honestly, I think that will happen (just like Katrina) long before the gangs get to your house.

By: Riverwalker

Riverwalker — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:10:42 +0000

Make sure you’ve got plenty of durable clothing, especially if you’re in an area subject to weather extremes…i.e., really cold or really hot.

By: Strongholder

Strongholder — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:54:56 +0000

EMP can’t hurt flashlights.

EMP can’t do a lot of the things people worry about.

Generally, if something is generally able to withstand static electricity, it’s not likely to be harmed by EMP. The exceptions to this rule come from things that are designed to couple external RF energy into them, like radios; you do need to keep those in a metal box, or at least leave the antennas disconnected.

By: Rook

Rook — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:50:51 +0000

SP,
The scanners are great idea, but unless you buy a high dollar one now days you won’t get anything but the weather. The fire and police around my way use high freq. and trunk their signal. Just keep that in mind.

Working on the moat…

Rook