I live in a small desert town. There is the Truckee river, but that is a big problem for us downstream.
During the Gold Rush in our area, our river water was indefinitely tainted with Mercury… not good for drinking. In addition, access is difficult and miles away.
While pondering the idea of survival if things go south, I had to think of creative and AFFORDABLE ways to store water, and not just a little water.
My thoughts are 3 months of water if things were bad. I started with the usual things most of us do.
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100 gallons over months from the store.
Of course, this is fine for drinking and cooking, but at a gallon a day per person, and additional water for some bartering, it just will not be enough.
So, I filled my few 5-gallon jugs like most of us have.
I knew I had to have more water. There’s cleaning, dishes, and even bathing.
If we were able to even get to a water source, it could be very dirty. Water from puddles on the rare day it might rain or snow, low lying muddy areas, and drainage ditches, would not be safe to drink.
My next step was to purchase a coffee machine (to distill it), heavy duty pans, and a 5 Gallon Zero Water filter with extra filters that might last 3-6 months.
If my emergency power source could not operate a coffee pot, I would have to boil any water in a large pot on my grill.
I still did not feel I had enough, so I purchased a large water filter.
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110 Gallons of water, with the ability to convert dirty water was a plus. I had to store more.
I tried to look up those 55 Gallon Jugs for water storage. 150$ for just one container seemed a lot for my budget.
I went to my local hardware store and purchased several 34 Gallon Rubber Made cans for app. 15$ a piece.
There was another 90 Gallons of water with decent lids. I keep these in my garage to avoid freezing temperatures and possible theft.
Then I watched a YouTube video, one of those doom and gloom prophecies of imminent disaster. Fearful an apocalypse might last 3-6 months, I knew we would need thousands of gallons of water, not 200 gallons.
As I sat on my backyard patio, enjoying a sunny day, I pondered the problem. I tried to think of an affordable solution. Where would I access that kind of water? How would I store so much water without spending a fortune?
Just then one of the kids called out:
“Hey Ma, look at me” as my son held his breathe and ducked into the water of the 3 x 10-foot pool I bought last year. I looked at the pool and I looked at the old pool box that was still using for odds and ends.
‘Holds 1074 Gallons of Water’ the box touted. I observed the 30$ pool cover off to the side, the filter than ran most days, and the bleach/shock treatment used every so often to keep it clean.
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I quickly recalled watching ‘Hotel Rwanda’ about the civil war in Uganda in 1994. The Hotel used their pool water for cooking and feeding their guests during the long weeks/months of power outages due to the war.
There was my thousand gallons of water, right in front of me. I ran to the computer and bought a second one.
Yes, there are concerns. When the power goes out, the filter will not work, so someone would have to move the water around with the pool cleaner a few times a day.
You would have to continue to test the water with the little tester strips over time to help decide if it was safer to drink if it came to that.
The water would stay clear for weeks, if not months if treated properly and covered. It might not be perfect, but if you had to use it for drinking you could boil it then filter it in the 5-gallon filter.
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It would be ideal to not have the inflatable tops but to have the hard-sided pools but be grateful for what you have. Use what you can.
I know with the winter comes the chance of a freeze or two, guess will just handle that as it comes. Upon our freezes last year, the pools did not freeze and held up well.
Overall, I credit my resourcefulness and creativity in finding ways to come up with this much water. There could be other issues such as security, which I have also addressed in other way… best saved for another article.
All in all, this brings our water stores to 2,348 gallons of water to date.
Mama always said, ‘Look around you, be smart, and use what you have. You might surprise yourself.’ Got to love your Mom.
Some will agree, and others will have issues with my water storage, but I am on a tight budget and this best suits my family’s needs just in case S does HTF any day soon.
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I was going to suggest a swimming pool right off. My whole neighborhood was bringing buckets by (at my offer) to get water to flush with when we had a 5-day power outage several years ago due to a hurricane.
This would have to be covered. I live in Kansas, with blowing winds, falling leaves, grass clippings and varmints. I like the concept, but does anyone have an idea for how to cover a pool like this?
Plastic sheets used for landscaping wi’ll keep the water from evaporating lay it right on top of the water of the water. Also fill your bathtub and use the shower curtain to cover it.
Jan: A sister in Penna uses a pool cover made for the pool, and bird netting, as well, which helps keep twigs from landing on the cover. niio
The hot water heater stores 40 gallons + so don’t forget that as your first/ last option
Great summary! I live in central Louisiana and the question of water is usually how to get rid of it, not how to get it.
But in the summer (ie hurricane) months, the place gets dry, hot, and power can be questionable.
In the last 12 months, we’ve had nine days without power. That didn’t shut the water off, but it did limit our small town’s water purification abilities. A good size pool will go a long way to keeping things real.
My 7,000 gallon above ground pool hasn’t been used these last 4 years, and I have kept it covered with the VERY heavy gauge vinyl/plastic pool cover bought with it, and bungees hold it in place. I have to replace the bungees every few years, and use “shock” on it every few months. It still gets a little algae on occasion, so I’d be purifying/boiling if and when it came down to it, but at least it’s here.
And yep, I’ll be happy to share with close neighbors and friends, it’s one of the FEW preps I feel I can manage to spare some of.
The wife says I’m nuts to still keep it, but,,,,,,,,
Water is the most critical due to the toxic microscopic pathogens (bacteria, viruses, parasites and more) that can quickly contaminate it, and sometimes contaminated water looks, smells, and tastes just fine. Purification is good, but depending on the method, it is no guarantee.
Clean air, water, food. Along with many other resources, we prep to survive with these three primary resources of biological life.
This rest of this is a commentary side bar…my apologies, but TIME is our REAL enemy right now.
The citizens of this great country were screwed out of an opportunity to get our country back.
There will be one more chance in the next Presidential Election…unless TIME runs out on us.
Bottom Line for Patriots:
Prepping is only the backup plan to the REAL PLAN.
What should be the REAL PLAN?
Should there be a REAL PLAN?
Does it REALLY MATTER?
Part 1: The Problem We Individuals, the Silent Majority, are ALL Facing
There will be two fundamental governmental scenarios when the SHTF.
Scenario #1 with local, state, national government trying to run things.
Scenario #2 without any government anywhere, maybe including the entire world.
Logically, we are all prepping primarily for scenario #2
With all else equal, nobody has superior dominating firepower.
We can prep to survive if we are smart and lucky (many, many times we will need good luck), and you create your luck based on how well you prepped and trained.
Regarding Scenario #1 Come on folks, get real.
You fight, you die.
If Homeland Security, FEMA, or other agencies call in military support to resolve a pocket of resistance (labeled as terrorists), it will be “Night OPS” with a Drone, a Viper, or an Apache…any freedom warriors are toast, game over. They respect the fact that citizens are heavily armed, and they will not allow casualties to “ground pounders” until there is a smoking hole where your home base was.
Yes, freedom fighters will have massive numbers…but that will not matter.
There are over 150 million conservatives in this country.
Probably 20% (30 million) are ex-military with a small percentage still active.
The Smart Ones know…they are definitely part of the “silent majority”.
The government knows very little about them. A VERY GOOD Thing!
But the mindsets of this 30 million range from “scared to do anything” on one end,
to “hardcore militants” on the other end.
70% (20 million) are in between, watching, waiting, willing and probably able to protect their families.
The Government knows this…but they are not overly concerned.
They have the solution already in place…BIG technology.
With a few clicks of the mouse…
– They shut down all the cell towers by region (and only allow authorized satellite phones)
– They shut down the entire public internet, (except for top secret government OPS websites)
– Electricity will be controlled as well.
Then WE ARE ALL IN THE DARK, with Martial Law, we can’t find out what is going on across the country, in neighboring states, maybe not even in the next town. We will be fed what they want us to know on the public service network. Like Hogan’s Heroes Sargent Shultz, we will all be able to honestly say
“I KNOW NOTHEEEEENG…”
– Then the Homeland Security/FEMA/Other agencies coordinate hundreds of military squads to acquire or eliminate the “hardcore militants”. They already know who and where most of them are, but that might take a while since there are probably 500,000 of them scattered all over the USA.
There could be a full-blown civil war in Oklahoma City, but only the highest-level government officials in the surrounding states of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas will know it.
Again, when these major pockets of “terrorist” resistance occur, the military will order Night Operations with “search and destroy” pin-point strikes using Drones, Apache’s, and Vipers…Game Over.
The government will (act like the BORG aliens on a recent Star Trek movie series and) tell us
“Resistance is Futile”.
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Part Two:
The ONLY REAL Solution is to somehow Win the elections NOW!!!
The only way out of this national crisis is not simple and may not be painless…but what happened in the last election will probably not happen again…that was a one-time stinking SWAN event.
These are some of the many BIG things that can help pull our country away from the abyss…
– We need a respected professional Conservative Leader, one that will cause many centrist democrats to consider changing parties. That leader will need significant military background like our first president of the USA. Trump was good, but unless he changes his approach, we probably need to go to a better option than him, if at all possible.
– Our children and grandchildren are our family treasures. Our public education system absolutely must be fixed ASAP!!! On average, our children are some of the dumbest in the industrialized world because of a corrupt public education system. If you are under 30, you were robbed of an excellent public education. We cannot “Make America Great Again” unless we fix the public education system.
– Our forefathers had no idea about technology when they wrote the constitution. BIG TECH is out of control and are violating the constitution. We need constitutional amendments to address technology and legal action to enforce it.
– Voting rights…this is not a complicated one. The right to vote must be earned and there needs to be layers of security to accurately protect the votes from internal and/or external threats.
– There are many BIG problems, they ALL need to be addressed as quickly as possible.
But one thing is certain, ALL of these things can be corrected only after BIG TECH is reeled in. There are other tech giants, but these are the ones that need to feel some pain ASAP:
Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, Twitter…
That is essentially the MAGA Holy Grail where our country can pivot and reverse what is happening.
Call and e-mail your senators and congress…
they will wake up and pay attention if it is overwhelmingly loud that BIG TECH has become the REAL Enemy.
At least, try not to use any of the above mentioned technologies, if 50 million of the “silent majority” shut it down for a few weeks or maybe months, they would all begin to collapse. I use none of these technologies any more…it is easy to find replacements (or just minimize the use).
I am sure many of you can add several more BIG directives to the four mentioned above…for there are many things wrong as compared to 30-40-50 years ago…and most of it leads directly to technology, profit, and corruption.
Absolutely do not stop prepping. But individually, if 50 million people do the right things, it WILL make a difference.
Good Luck to us all…
May we all Live Long and Our Country Prosper
Everyone needs to be watching https://home.frankspeech.com/
Right NOW. Save the pod casts and SHARE.
The US Military along with many of America’s best mathematicians have not only PROVEN the election truly was stolen…but also how they did it and that China and people in our own offices of power were in on it. This is TREASON….
They have all the evidence and are releasing it to the public NOW. This is the third day of it….
TUNE IT IN NOW AMERICA…
And May God Bless you all and keep you and yours safe…
I was real disappointed in my Democrat friends who insisted the Russians turned the election to Trump, that was obviously false. Now I’m disappointed in my Republican friends who continue believing Trump was robbed in the latest election. If there really is somebody out there capable of changing millions of votes across 5 states why ever bother to vote Republican again? It’s like the syllogism here in Texas, there is fraud and corruption everywhere, the Republicans haven’t lost a statewide office in 20 years.
And the widespread cries of doom, the Commies have taken over! No, the Republicans control the majority of state and local governments, the Dems have narrow margins in the House and Senate, the President is stumbling toward dementia and, thanks to President Trump, Conservatives will have complete control of the Federal Judiciary for a generation.
If you want a respected effective conservative in a position of leadership how about Dan Crenshaw? He’s a little too conservative for me but honest and true to his beliefs, I was worried about him on the election question but he has recently taken the political risk of saying that the election was fair and honest, that Trump lost without anybody’s help. The MAGA jumped on him immediately but you guys would be stupid to reject a leader of his potential. And how does the Military come to be the villain in so many SHTF scenarios? The Military leadership is deeply conservative and truly devoted to the Constitution they’ve pledged their lives to protect.
It ain’t the end of the world, not yet…
Reported in the news today, the Pentagon has been instructed by our Leader In Wash DC to spy on conservative leaning troops. Probably concerned that it will interfere with CRT training.
There isn’t one person who would be a PERFECT candidate to be President. Anywhere. But your mention of Crenshaw is a pretty decent one, for two basic reasons. 1, since he has served in the military he has first hand knowledge of what it TAKES to send American men and women (and any other designation some people would like to use) into harm’s way. 2, he’s shown he has the best interests on the U.S.A. in mind and “heart”.
If you also would like a 3rd, it’s my opinion, at least, that the man is pretty doggone intelligent, not something to ignore in considering anyone for such a position. But this is just MY 2 cents, so,,,,
BTW, Mr. DeSantis has been demonstrating he would also qualify in these very same ways.
Crenshaw is g soros’s boy, one of them… Your post writes like a bot.
Aravinda: Proof, please. I lived in Penna and knew a lot of Nazis there and never heard Crenshaw was one.
You do know that “government” is people, right? Kind of like Soylent Green?
The right to vote must be earned
Actually ALL rights need to be well earned with scant few exceptions. VERY few.
I propose 4+ years active duty or 8+ years of active reserves with a straight honorable discharge to EARN all rights.
Everyone else, NO RIGHTS. Basic privileges at best (means making then 2nd class citizens).
Can’t or won’t do the time, then tough. You get NO rights.
In particular NO 1st amendment rights (except freedom of religion), NO GUN RIGHTS, no 4th amendment rights, no 5th, no 6th, no 9th, no 10th, 13th, 14th, 19th.
NO RIGHTS.
Not even privileges for those amendments.
Going back to the Bible will help a great deal (especially Genesis 3:16, Ephesians 5:22,23, et al) for starters.
Marbury Vs Madison (I think) was the Scotus decision that erroneously granted businesses the SAME rights as a living flesh and blood man.
THAT was a very BAD decision.
Sounds like Fascisms and discriminations to me buddy. Thinking like that brings nothing but violence, wars and abuse to humanity. It probably sucks a lot to be around people like you. FKD in the head sorry for my French. Stupidity, discrimination, and one way thinking like yours, never brings anything good, and only creates suffering, and straight road to hell. Don’t know what bible you are reading, but your God surely not God of Love, but Satan incarnated. You should talk to God one on one and let Jesus into your heart, instead of preaching religious Dogma and Fascistic propaganda. Much love!
I disagree. No right is earned. It is God-given and protected by the Consitution through laws and punishment of violating those laws. The reason our great country instills these rights is due to birth. Not earning anything.
No matter what, the men and women of our military will never fire on their families. Our military is our own sons and daughters. It’s foreign military we have to be concerned about , and as long as we handle them, not a problem
Lol. All they have to do is send in the UN.
Guess you weren’t around for hurricane katrina were ya?
we have a bunch of useful idiots in the military, who although they take an oath to protect the people from enemies, foreign and domestic, and uphold our founding documents, can and do not even make sure their own God given rights are upheld and refuse to be treated like chattal and take poisonous injections, etc.
The military took weapons during Katrina. A lot of them will just follow orders blindly out of fear and intimidation. after 20+ years in the military, most I have met are just doing a job anymore. We will see.
Any UN troops that show up will be guerilla style target practice for me and more people I know.
I like and do not disagree with almost everything said. But, I wonder if 50 million stopped using the listed big tech firms, how much would it hurt them? How many people use them globally? I feel like they have so much money and power already, they could probably take the hit and keep moving forward. And I am guessing they don’t care any more for this country than they do for other large populated countries that use their services.
Carl – Care? Heck no! They want to rule the world! They’ve established their own Supreme Court, they’ve track your movements, take note of what you’re reading/watching, and have decided to look at your saved photos/data to make sure your not violating the rules established by their Supreme Court! If you take exception to it, they’ll shut you out, maybe banish you to never never land like they did to 45. Truth be told, they are merely a public utility company gone a muck!
Carl: So far, FB, Twitter, and the rest lost over 52 billion+ USD for their part in stealing the election. That’s upwards of 40% of business. There are nations which cut them off. The chicoms did FB, but that’s only because Zucker’s wife is Chinese and hates the chicoms. Other nations are suing them for interfering with their elections. Myanmar even confiscated all property owned by soros and his nazi friends. niio
You missed one significant alternative – the IBC tote. They are typically 275 gallons (equal to five 55 gallon drums). Also available in 330 gallons (equal to six 55 gallon drums). Being roughly a cube, they are very efficient in terms of space taken. You need food grade ones.
New, they are expensive. They are the way most bulk liquid and pourable products are sent from manufactures. Everything from soap to perfume. But in most cases, they are used only once, then cleaned and sold to a secondary market to folks like us. They will still have the labels that says what they had in them. Used, they can be much lower priced. Market prices are local, so search craigs list and the like.
I have 5, 330 gal, 1, 275 gal potable water totes and a 175 gal garden only tote. Also several 55 gal barrels all food grade.
I bought a water generator, and a solar electric generator to power it. Wrapped them both in faraday bags. Very expensive, but I also live in a desert town where if the grid goes out we will have no water. I also have a pool, several types of water filters and food grade barrels
They say location is everything. I would not choose to live where water is so hard to come by in the first place, but it’s good to know one can find ways to make do there if need be. Swimming pools with pumps and hoses can save the day in case of fire.
No surface water here. Desert also. I have 2 wells. One on commercial power and the other with a manual winch. I have water totes and 55 gal drums. Most food grade. I have chickens, ducks, rabbits, the two of us and two more residences depending on my water. Plus a garden and fruit trees and vines that must be watered. I’m planing to try hydroponics also.
CC: Arizona is going solar. Arizona encourages saving rainwater and graywater. Droughts come and droughts go. Homenomics on youtube shows how to live in the desert without a well. He has water catchment all over. Every roof has has corrugated sheet metal. On the house is an 1,1000 corrugated septic pipe, upright. Next to it, a large tote for overflow. He has 4 water tanks in addition to the one on the house. Water is gravity flow to the tanks using 4″ wet pipes (they never dry out). 4 inch pipes are needed because when a monsoon storm hits, it can come hard enough to drown you. In addition, he has ‘rain roofs’ and tarps over the ground that send rain to garden and orchard. most garden and trees are drought tolerant, like peaches and mesquite.
And, I has no doubt he has a still to cook off water from cactus if it comes to that. do not ever drink water from cactus. At best, it’ll give you diarrhea and some will cause kidney stones. niio
Red – Just like living in Bermuda except you have to make your own beach!
CC: Oh, we have thousands of miles of subtropical beach and even palms swaying in the breeze, just, no ocean. Even most of our rivers are usually dry. But, that’s a good thing. When a storm hit and dropped 3.5 inches on us, downstream everyone was packing sandbags and waiting for the flood. Just when they had enough, the level of the river dropped and within a day, was only a muddy stream. Right now, Keven is dropping some rain and on Monday, Linda. After winter starts, we get another la Nina and dry weather. niio
Everyone needs to be watching https://home.frankspeech.com/
Right NOW. Save the pod casts and SHARE.
The US Military along with many of America’s best mathematicians have not only PROVEN the election truly was stolen…but also how they did it and that China and people in our own offices of power were in on it. This is TREASON….
They have all the evidence and are releasing it to the public NOW. This is the third day of it….
TUNE IT IN NOW AMERICA…
And May God Bless you all and keep you and yours safe…
I went there but it demands too much information.
Like phone number (I have no phone), email (I don’t want any more SPAM), and captcha which doesn’t work due to my security setup.
And just think about how much it must have cost to pay off all the Republican voting officials, monitors, governors, AG’s, etc., to throw the vote to Biden! It boggles the mind!
A little blackmail can go a long way. I winder what they used. Epstein’s slave island or something more depraved.
niio
I have been following (and using) a this prepper site for years. I didn’t come on board to hear a bunch of fantastical bullshit about the election. Trump and his ilk have had months and many lawsuits to prove anything that would lead a sane person to believe that the election was stolen. To the contrary, every effort has been stomped down.
How has the US military proven anything?
Who are these “best mathematicians.
And where is the proof that China was in on it.
Y’All need to get a life.
Our prepper skills will be needed, no doubt, but mostly because our planet is burning up.
How about if we set aside the political stuff and focus on prepping??
Where’s the Proof?
If we had better leadership in Wash DC, we wouldn’t have to scavenge and prep so hard as individuals. We would have leadership in Wash DC who would do its job and make sure we as a Nation are prepared and well able to provide for ourselves Our industrial base would be supplying us with quality products and services we need and rely on reasonably priced not inflated fueled by good old American know how with our own energy resources. What do we have now? Our Leader In Wash DC is begging OPAC to give us some oil to relieve the shortages he caused by taking away our energy independence. Our Leader In Wash DC thinks Socialism, extreme debt, BLM and CRT are the right direction for our future in America. Our Leader In Wash DC is restricting our God given rights while opening the borders to anyone even with intent to do us harm, and emptying the Treasury while he’s at it too. Our Leader In Wash DC is not just out to lunch, but he is actually out on vacation now in more ways than one! So yea. There’s plenty of proof and it’s not all political, it’s a crime and the facts will be heard so freedom may ring.. It’s our country. We must restore election integrity to Save America.
CC: You and Metalwerks, well said. The dnc has been killing and enslaving for generations. Now, backed by wealthy Nazis, they obey Hitler. One thing Nazis were overjoyed with, Nazism takes away the need to think. Just obey. Liberals who do think, even a little, are opening their eyes and horrified what the people they put in office and helped steal an election for are doing. MEXICO wants the borders here closed. Thousands of non-Mexicans are taking over cities there, and killing people. But, according to kkk joe biden, this is a good thing. It reduces the surplus population.
niio
You want proof ? Do your own research!! Its up to to you to do your own research to find your own proof to disprove believing whatever someone says, other than that your are just being ignorant! NOW BACK TO PREPPING!!
Jan: Sorry, but I live in AZ, and we have quite a bit of proof here the Nazis are trying to take the nation. Yep, Nazis. Like soros who still reminisces about his days in the gestapo. Hitler sent a half million ss and gestapo to refuge nations, USSR, spain, white muslim nations and the dem ignored it, and even invited a lot of Nazis in.
all these audits, ours and the many new ones coming, are called democracy.
I struggled with chemicals to clean my indoor swim spa (6000 litres = 1300 gallons) until I bought an ozoneator, basically a UV tube in a 60 Watt flourescent light fixture, I used the spa venturi’s to suck air through the ozoneator and it sterilized the pool extremely well, I occasionally put a hand full of chlorine in just to make the water sparkle a bit but it was absolutely crystal clear, no smell, no taste for 14 years and I never changed the water in that time. The chemical companies talk crap about such technologies because they want to sell you chemicals but this technology as well as direct UV light exposure is what is used to treat sewerage to make it safe, they can’t have it both ways! This is a great way to keep your water safe!
The above ground pool is a good storage idea, I have an old one of those but also a couple of 700g galvanized stock tanks, every few years I walk out back and find the above ground pool has sprung a leak. The stock tanks are a lot more durable.
Quit wasting your efforts worrying about politics. Attention to it is fine, but concentrate on what you can accomplish personally. Don’t worry about criticizing others ideas, take the best from their ideas and use it for yourself. You can’t start a rebel army, you can’t start a dependable network of patriots. Just be quiet and ready till SHTF, then the appropriate friends will start to appear and work together.
good thing the USA original ForeFathers were built of stronger and more intelligent stock >>> goes for ALLLLL the people of the World that have fought the forces of evil to maintain freedom and bring freedom back to the people under the boot of oppression ….
Educate yourself about the situation you are facing and join the correct side to maintain/obtain the status quo you desire >>> YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE !!!!!!
I beg to differ Rick. Now is the time to loudly and proudly exercise our freedom of speech! Use it or lose it!
Shoot, in a Texas summer you’ll have plenty of friends coming over to swim in your above ground water storage facility.
1 1,000 gallon rainwater recovery in-ground pool. several large totes and rain barrels, as well. 1 200 gallon compost pit to filter/recycle gray water for the garden. Compost keeps the kitchen water with its grease from smelling. Everything must be covered or pained black to keep algae from growing in it. A lit of algae grow in symbiosis with cyanobacteria which makes the water toxic. No light should be allowed! niio
Look for IBC water totes on craigslist or locally , they store 275 gallons max. and cost in the 100.00 – 150.00 dollar range, I even use one to store Gas , They are the square plastic(food grade) totes with the metal cage that goes around them
Sam: there’s a man in Australia (tropics) on youtube who uses a series of totes to handle sewage from the house to make methane. niio
Most of our military is made up of our own family members but there have been enough who have joined because of a free path to citizenship.
Military members have been through intense training to follow orders. It will take strong inner strength to go counter to that.
Lin: And when first deployed, I think the average is over 50,000 bullets for each one that actually hits an enemy soldier. This isn’t bad training, but that it’s against our culture to kill. while I have no doubt liberals watch the Hunger Games and dream for the day, most soldiers come from moderate-conservative backgrounds. Woman and kids are sacrosanct, and old people are, as well. Yes, there are psychos, but military usually weeds them out. And, the military is getting very angry at the liberals. niio
The military people I have met personally are clearly ones who would defend the Mom and apple pie way of life. It is terrible that they are being treated as badly as they are by being forced to take The Jab. Our National Guard was treated so poorly in D.C. too.
I only have learned of the untrustworthy military through news reports. The military people I have met face to face are decent trustworthy people.
A teenager in my household put a big double bed sized water bladder in my yard to lay on when sun bathing. It has been out there for a couple of months (killing my grass) and doesn’t seem to be any worse for wear. It’s about 4 inches thick in the middle. She paid about $15 for it. I have no idea of how to use it for a practical purpose.
If it can handle bleach, then clean it out and use a little of that when refilling. Waterbeds are a good place to store water. niio
Lin: the word I get is, if the officers say Trump won, they military will back that. Dems treated us like a punching bag and still treat us badly. One town in Penna alone had 4 discrimination lawsuits on it for the way they treated military personnel. Not where, black or whatever, but because these men and women were military. niio
To keep from getting sick from the drinking water they had in barrels heading West, the pioneers would drop a silver (pure) coin into the barrel or suspend it I guess. Silver quickly kills virus and bacteria. Look it up.
Adding granulated charcoal into a container that you can pour the water through takes care of a bad taste in the water. Use the charcoal (new)
that is used in fish tanks, I use it all the time for our water.
Cell phone UV sanitizers can be used to do this also. Just don’t put them in the water, unless in a clear, sealed or water proof container.
Buy rechargeable batteries from Menards or WalMart used for landscape lights, and buy a NiteCore Intellicharger NEW I4 . I have one of these, and works great. It has provision for 120 volt power or 12 volt power. Try here:
https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwjcgOfr7bHyAhVFy8gKHUhsAHMYABAEGgJxdQ&sig=AOD64_2iPuol4ktDyKY7z39JIol6coiYcQ&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwiJ0Nnr7bHyAhVJa80KHTKEAooQ9aACegQIARBM&adurl=
The higher the mah or milli amp hours, the longer they will last.
Just some ideas from my preps……………………..Nemo
Nemo: 28 Oct delivery. Much thanks, tho I don’t like buying from chicoms. niio
I’m sorry, my link was to Ebay, and it ships from China. But they are in a total complete lockdown now I hear. Port of LA is freaking out…………
Try highlighting the name of the charger and try elsewhere if it is in stock. Again, sorry!…………………………………Nemo
If you want to add to your preparations, “Supply Chain” is an important topic to understand. Disruptions could intensify in coming months. The port you’re speaking of is a key terminal at its Ningbo-Zhoushan port, the third busiest port in the world, after one worker was found to be infected by Covid.
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/chinas-port-shutdown-raises-fears-closures-worldwide
All the Best!
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