rayra
Expedition Leader
Well the most sensible 'Prepper' strategy is to prepare for the most likely things first. Job loss, health trouble, whatever your regional weather disasters are likely to be.
There's also what is often called 'function stacking'.
We live in a suburban 4bedr house, have / had a good bit of storage space. It makes sense to shop at costco and the like for the monetary savings of 'buy it cheap and stack it deep'. That also means we've got an s-load of foodstuffs, both canned and dry goods. We also 'buy what you eat' and be sure to eat the oldest stuff first.
We live in a desert, even if it's covered by a huge city. So we keep a lot of water on hand, as well as several means of obtaining more and making it potable.
Then there's all this off road and camping gear, as already mentioned.
Hell, in the last three years we've had three huge brushfires nearby that have rained ash on our property. The last one, the Tick fire, has finally prompted me to start gathering the ~$400 worth of material that will help me turn our pool pump into a 1.5" dia fire hose system. And power our pool pump from a generator.
From '99 to '11 we had a house in the Sierras adjacent to the Kern river. We used to do a lot of river rafting and camping up there. It was our 'vacation' house. But it was also a bugout destination. We bought the house cheap and after a bunch of renovation work that we did ourselves and house price inflation, we still made a good chunk of money off its sale even after the market collapsed in '08-'09. But that means we don't have anywhere relatively close to head to. And no relatives that aren't in worse locations.
I lost my house in Northridge, to that quake. As big as it was, it was in a comparatively small portion of greater L.A.
Billiebob, there's 20million people within 2hrs drive of me. A lot of criminals, a lot of drug users, a lot of violent gangs, a lot of illegals. A lot of corrupt and inept politicians who advocate unworkable policies and think saying a thing solves real problems. I cannot stay and I cannot help those locusts if a huge disaster happens. We're going to run, fast and hard. everybody thinks NOLA / Katrina was a humanitarian disaster. Wait until you see Los Angeles after a true mega-quake.
There's also what is often called 'function stacking'.
We live in a suburban 4bedr house, have / had a good bit of storage space. It makes sense to shop at costco and the like for the monetary savings of 'buy it cheap and stack it deep'. That also means we've got an s-load of foodstuffs, both canned and dry goods. We also 'buy what you eat' and be sure to eat the oldest stuff first.
We live in a desert, even if it's covered by a huge city. So we keep a lot of water on hand, as well as several means of obtaining more and making it potable.
Then there's all this off road and camping gear, as already mentioned.
Hell, in the last three years we've had three huge brushfires nearby that have rained ash on our property. The last one, the Tick fire, has finally prompted me to start gathering the ~$400 worth of material that will help me turn our pool pump into a 1.5" dia fire hose system. And power our pool pump from a generator.
From '99 to '11 we had a house in the Sierras adjacent to the Kern river. We used to do a lot of river rafting and camping up there. It was our 'vacation' house. But it was also a bugout destination. We bought the house cheap and after a bunch of renovation work that we did ourselves and house price inflation, we still made a good chunk of money off its sale even after the market collapsed in '08-'09. But that means we don't have anywhere relatively close to head to. And no relatives that aren't in worse locations.
I lost my house in Northridge, to that quake. As big as it was, it was in a comparatively small portion of greater L.A.
Billiebob, there's 20million people within 2hrs drive of me. A lot of criminals, a lot of drug users, a lot of violent gangs, a lot of illegals. A lot of corrupt and inept politicians who advocate unworkable policies and think saying a thing solves real problems. I cannot stay and I cannot help those locusts if a huge disaster happens. We're going to run, fast and hard. everybody thinks NOLA / Katrina was a humanitarian disaster. Wait until you see Los Angeles after a true mega-quake.
