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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 13:42:18 GMT 10
Today is the hottest day of summer for us so far, and this morning all the town water from our taps started coming out brown.
My husband looked shocked, but I felt calm. I did a mental check of all the drinking water stashed around the house.
No problem, I said. I'm a prepper.
Sure lots of us are prepping for TEOTWAWKI or major SHTF situations, but smaller issues are great times to test out our plans and kit.
What low-level or everyday emergencies and situations have you been in recently where your preparedness has come in handy?
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Post by Mandy on Nov 21, 2014 13:46:34 GMT 10
My mother became disabled and lost her job. Plus construction sites have been blasting and have knocked out our power 4 times in the last 6 weeks.
Our preps have helped us with these problems. Thank goodness for being prepared!
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Post by krull68 on Nov 21, 2014 14:32:09 GMT 10
Two days ago I was bitten badly on the hand by next door's dog, went to hospital to get a tetanus shot and our fak has been used since then for clean and infection control. Plus we have the antibiotics on hand the doc prescribed for us (rotating the meds).
We are also cutting down on our food expenses, so our food storage has become over 50% of our diet, supplemented with some fresh fruits and veggies.
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Post by Ammo9 on Nov 21, 2014 14:35:27 GMT 10
The least impact thing that preps came in handy... my globe on my bedside lamp went out and the gf was asleep so didnt want to put on the roof light. So I just grabbed a AA powered lantern and put that on my bedside dresser and replaced the bulb the next day.
We also had some workers digging stuff up outside and as they do, they hit the water pipe for our house. So we had no mains water for around 10 hours. I just pulled out an 8 pack of 1.5L bottles and said to my family let me know if you need more. After that they chipped in to replace the stuff we used and stock a few more too...
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Post by You Must Enter A Name on Nov 21, 2014 19:17:49 GMT 10
Today is the hottest day of summer for us so far, and this morning all the town water from our taps started coming out brown. My husband looked shocked, but I felt calm. I did a mental check of all the drinking water stashed around the house. No problem, I said. I'm a prepper. Sure lots of us are prepping for TEOTWAWKI or major SHTF situations, but smaller issues are great times to test out our plans and kit. What low-level or everyday emergencies and situations have you been in recently where your preparedness has come in handy? Great stuff, this kind of thing would account for 90% of my preparedness. It's not all about doomsday. |
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Post by graynomad on Nov 21, 2014 19:24:47 GMT 10
We ran out of gas at dinner time on a Friday night a few weeks ago, nowhere to get a refill until Monday around here so we fired up the wood stove and used that for the weekend.
100% no drama.
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Post by Joey on Nov 21, 2014 19:42:26 GMT 10
Today is the hottest day of summer for us so far, and this morning all the town water from our taps started coming out brown. My husband looked shocked, but I felt calm. I did a mental check of all the drinking water stashed around the house. No problem, I said. I'm a prepper. Sure lots of us are prepping for TEOTWAWKI or major SHTF situations, but smaller issues are great times to test out our plans and kit. What low-level or everyday emergencies and situations have you been in recently where your preparedness has come in handy? You will find that the brown water is because they were doing mains works somewhere along the line. The brown stuff that comes out of the tap when they do this, is just the sediment and stuff that sticks to the side of the pipes and gets dislodged when they cut pipes etc. It's not dirt(mostly) as most people first think, but the stuff that comes out is the same stuff your water passes through everyday of the week.
We ran out of gas at dinner time on a Friday night a few weeks ago, nowhere to get a refill until Monday around here so we fired up the wood stove and used that for the weekend. 100% no drama. And better tasting food as well, food always tastes better when cooked over flame, the woodier the better |
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Post by You Must Enter A Name on Nov 21, 2014 19:45:08 GMT 10
Today is the hottest day of summer for us so far, and this morning all the town water from our taps started coming out brown. My husband looked shocked, but I felt calm. I did a mental check of all the drinking water stashed around the house. No problem, I said. I'm a prepper. Sure lots of us are prepping for TEOTWAWKI or major SHTF situations, but smaller issues are great times to test out our plans and kit. What low-level or everyday emergencies and situations have you been in recently where your preparedness has come in handy? You will find that the brown water is because they were doing mains works somewhere along the line. The brown stuff that comes out of the tap when they do this, is just the sediment and stuff that sticks to the side of the pipes and gets dislodged when they cut pipes etc. It's not dirt(mostly) as most people first think, but the stuff that comes out is the same stuff your water passes through everyday of the week.
We ran out of gas at dinner time on a Friday night a few weeks ago, nowhere to get a refill until Monday around here so we fired up the wood stove and used that for the weekend. 100% no drama. And better tasting food as well, food always tastes better when cooked over flame, the woodier the better Ive noticed sometimes the water smells and tastes really nasty when this is happening? Also I 100% agree about wood fired foods, next best thing is cooking over charcoal  I love my Charcoal BBQ and with a few wood chips even better. |
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Post by Joey on Nov 21, 2014 21:42:07 GMT 10
Best cooking food from top to bottom..
Foodfire
Charcoal
BBQ
Gas
Electric
Nothing beats campfire spuds and fresh damper mmmmmmm
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Post by graynomad on Nov 21, 2014 21:45:57 GMT 10
Yeah, we gas gas back now of course but still use the wood stove a lot. Love it.
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Post by Peter on Nov 21, 2014 22:05:18 GMT 10
I ran out of alcohol. Vodka stores are valuable as a prep.
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Post by agriculturalprep on Nov 21, 2014 23:27:52 GMT 10
I did three months in east Africa about a year ago, and that was when i just started prepping. It was a real test of so much of my skills, especially innovativeness and just the ability to think on your feet. I was doing missionary/aid work and i was pretty reliant on my pack, tent, roll and sleeping bag. It was so good to know i made it. And i got really sick when I was desperate for water and didn't have my filter, so lesson learned pretty quick!
But thats the moment I knew i would be able to make it, no electricity, no gas, no internet, no comforts. I did buy food a lot but had to prepare and cook it all. But yeah thats what has given me a run for my money.
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Post by Frank on Nov 22, 2014 17:59:17 GMT 10
Power outages dues to storms would be our most common thing. Torches, candles, lanterns and gas cooker are always in easy reach.
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Post by Peter on Nov 22, 2014 18:55:09 GMT 10
Having a small amount of cash (or funds in the bank) at hand has served me well many times - recently, I've had to buy a replacement battery for Mrs Pete's car, I had to get some electrical repairs done around the house, etc.
It seems something so basic, but all sorts of S can HTF if "essential" items can't be fixed.
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Post by You Must Enter A Name on Nov 23, 2014 19:01:37 GMT 10
Having a small amount of cash (or funds in the bank) at hand has served me well many times - recently, I've had to buy a replacement battery for Mrs Pete's car, I had to get some electrical repairs done around the house, etc. It seems something so basic, but all sorts of S can HTF if "essential" items can't be fixed. This would be like we recently discovered we are leaking water under the ground, now I need to pay a plumber to locate and repair the leak so I can produce an invoice to the water company and get a rebate on my $700 water bill. If we didn't have a fairly decent buffer in the bank i'd be screwed over the Christmas period. |
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Post by SA Hunter on Nov 23, 2014 21:00:43 GMT 10
I think it is good that these little incidents prove to be a "test run" if the SHTF. It's a good little run through on where we are in our preparedness.
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Post by Peter on Nov 23, 2014 21:36:59 GMT 10
Had plenty of coconut water and other rehydration solutions - I needed this today for gastro.
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Post by Joey on Nov 23, 2014 22:07:01 GMT 10
Yes having spare cash definitely helps, especially for the staffers at my mine, they have been told that they are changing to monthly pay as of Jan from the current weekly pay.
I've done monthly pay before and it sucks balls.
also at my mine, they seem to be really trying to make people quit, all contractors have been forced to take a 33% pay cut to save a few $ (but in reality it's to make them quit to reduce numbers) they are getting the rescue team to hide around site with speed guns to catch people and get them fired, they are cracking down on people who leave early, even 5mins gets you questioned.
So hold onto your jobs and save that extra cash because tougher times are ahead.
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Post by You Must Enter A Name on Nov 23, 2014 22:17:18 GMT 10
Joey not sure what your workplace is like, but where I work forklifts are strictly walking pace or you will be dragged over the coals, leaving early would get you sacked.
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Post by Ammo9 on Nov 23, 2014 22:41:29 GMT 10
My work cut everyone's shift by half an hour, doesn't sound like much but that's 2500 a year.
4 people have left in the last month, they're struggling to hold onto people a lot of people are looking for other options.
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