[Vettezuki]

Please take this seriously for your own good and that of your family. In a disaster government will be focused on first shoring itself up, re-establishing essential services and trying to help those in most need. The vast majority will be on their own for days or weeks. How well you make it through will be up to you and what you do BEFORE the disaster hits. Here in Cali, a major earthquake is an inevitability and serious fires are fairly common.

We’ve seen it time and again over the last decade. An emergency strikes and panic grips the city or region for days or weeks on end.

We saw a complete breakdown of emergency response and law & order during Hurricane Katrina. The 2011 Snowpocalypse on the east coast led to runs on grocery stores and empty shelves within a matter of hours. Widespread blackouts during Hurricane Ike left large sections of the Houston power grid down for up to four weeks. In all these cases gas was almost impossible to find, what was in your pantry was what you had until food distribution resumed, local water was not safe for consumption, and government response was limited to reinstating essential services first and foremost.

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Read the whole article and start TODAY if you haven't already. If nothing else store a gallon of water per person per day, some flash lights and batteries, canned/dried foods, and a simple first aid kit. This will get you started and can be done with one trip to the grocery store and less than $100. The more extensive the preps of more people, the better for everyone.

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-new...rages_07022012


My Favorite "Prepper" Educational Resource
The Survival Podcast

[Shaolin Crane]

I try and keep stocked first aid kits, but i go through them like candy

[enkeivette]

'...you should be more careful.'

[Shaolin Crane]

Work in a shop and you'll see. I even have a rule to avoid the first aid kit at all costs. But when a pick goes through the web of your thumb, kinda hard to.

[enkeivette]

Eek.

I was quoting U-Turn with Sean Penn. Mob guys cut his fingers off and everyone asked him how it happened, and he always said accident, and then everyone would always say... you should be more careful.

Like thats what the guy who just lost his fingers wants to hear. Ya... thanks asshole.

[Shaolin Crane]

Lol. Yeah, i've cut off my thumb. Not the whole thing just the flesh from the base of the nail up. It grew back eventually but man my shop looked like a crime scene when it happened.

[Chuck]

A roll of good 3m electrical tape is the best bandage money can buy. I cut my hand at work at least once a week. Reaching into walls above t-bar its dark you never know what you will get snagged on. Tape it up your good to go.

[Shaolin Crane]

Unfortunately electrical tape wont stick if you're spurting blood. I did use some to brace my finger after i broke them last week.

[fiveohwblow]

Duct tape. Shit would stick to water

[enkeivette]

Ive done that, I hate it. Glad I dont work on cars all day, but at the same time typing all day has been fucking up my wrist bad and Im not even 30.

Blue collar or white collar I cant escape screwing myself up.