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Question for police/Fire regarding emergency supply list for home?

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I hope & pray our Nation will never face a National Emergency where we will need to hunker down and wait for food, electric and basic services.

BUT……if we do, I want to be prepared for any such event. I have made a goal to be able to be for 6 solid Months. I am coming close to that goal now.

I would ask that you look over my list and offer any suggestions that may help…thanks:

(Supplies based on 2 Adults a 1 child)

1. Water: 75 pallets of water X24 bottles each. 150 1 gallon containers.
Our farm has a good well and we have 3 decent creeks running through. 300 water purification tablets enough to treat 600 gallons of water.

2. Food: Over 1500 variety of can goods, vegs, canned beef and assorted canned stews. 2 freezers full of beef & chicken/hams etc.
We raise cattle and horses, chickens, lambs but I am not counting these.

3. Power: I can a propane back-up for our house and barns with the capacity of running 24/7 up to 300 days full blast. Also have numerous Portable electric generators that run on gasoline, 7 gallons per 24 hr period and have 200 gallons at all times in fuel tank.

4. Communication: Numerous radio’s, 2 way and emergency band type.

5. Guns/Ammo: 30/30 500 rounds, 3, 40 cal with 1000 rounds + (nice gun btw) assorted 22’s 8000+rounds, 2, 45’s 800 rounds. Winchester 30/30 400 rounds, Rem 12 gag Shot gun assorted ammo amrox 500 rounds.

6. First Aid: Numerous first aid kits, small and large and several books on giving medical attention. Wife is RN nurse.

NOTE: I am not a survialist nut case, but I will sleep better with the world we are living in and we might be living in…..that’s all!

Thanks………
Rancher/Farmer 22 years
The Truth……lol, good idea but I don’t have cable
Colt45….have most of that covered except for the bunker part. That’s a little out of my $$$$ leauge….if your really serious
scruffy…..good point, yes we rotate out our canned food and water.

CHeck the expiration dates on those cans periodically. I mean, in case there’s no national emergencies in the next 2 or 3 years, you might want to go ahead and consume the canned food and then replenish the supply for the next 2 or 3 years. It’d be awful if you had to wait, say, 11 years for a national emergency and then find all the stuff you stashed was spoiled.

It’d be like that Twilight Zone episode, where the book-lover was the only surviving person after a nuclear blast - but oddly enough, the city library’s books were all intact, as were the grocer’s canned foods. The guy was just beginning to enjoy having nothing to do but read and then his reading glasses broke.
And all he could say was, "It’s not fair!"

3 Responses to “Question for police/Fire regarding emergency supply list for home?”

1. The truth Says:
   July 2nd, 2009 at 11:55 am

   You may want to pay your cable TV bill two years in advance too, so you have something to pass the time.
   References :

2. Colt 45 Says:
   July 2nd, 2009 at 11:58 am

   Batteries, Flashlights, more water purification tablets, I’m thinking upwards of 2000. Much more ammo. Obtained a high powered CB radio as well. Also build a bunker, 6 foot thick concrete with re-bar. Leave a 1 foot gap then another foot of concrete with re-bar. Shield with corrugated steel if you want. Put it in the ground where the living space is at least 10-15 feet down. Have at least 3 sectioned off areas for decon with heavy seal-able steel doors. Always have a back exit out of there too. Make sure it is large enough for living space and storage space. Store frozen seeds in airtight containers of all the crops you have for future cultivation. Also build a small greenhouse using artificial sunlight…..etc. You get the idea.

   EDIT: I am 100% serious. I am just saying, at least have a freezzer full of seeds in those containers. You can’t live on meat alone.
   References :

3. scruffycat Says:
   July 2nd, 2009 at 12:03 pm

   CHeck the expiration dates on those cans periodically. I mean, in case there’s no national emergencies in the next 2 or 3 years, you might want to go ahead and consume the canned food and then replenish the supply for the next 2 or 3 years. It’d be awful if you had to wait, say, 11 years for a national emergency and then find all the stuff you stashed was spoiled.

   It’d be like that Twilight Zone episode, where the book-lover was the only surviving person after a nuclear blast - but oddly enough, the city library’s books were all intact, as were the grocer’s canned foods. The guy was just beginning to enjoy having nothing to do but read and then his reading glasses broke.
   And all he could say was, "It’s not fair!"
   References :

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