Posts Tagged ‘disaster planning’
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
This is basically a continuation of a two part series on urban and suburban life. Yesterday in Episode 494 we discussed Urban homesteading, today we discuss prepping in the city or suburbs. While there are many unique components to prepping in a population center vs. a remote area many of the steps are identical. As always it comes down to the fact that as humans we have five primary needs and the commonality of disaster leads us to prepare in any situation based on them.
Join me today as we discuss…
- Always start out understanding the 5 needs
- Water
- Food
- Shelter
- Fire/Energy
- Security
- Assess your most probable threat based on
- Life position
- Financial position
- Geography
- Current Events
- Assess your most dangerous human proximity threats
- Population density of the neighborhood
- Demographics of the neighborhood
- Closest high crime areas
- Government presence\lack of presence
- Rules for suburbia
- Food storage is key as is water
- Be prepared to get out, you may have no choice
- Be prepared to stay, you may also have no choice
- Be prepared to defend what you have
- Help but don’t coddle neighbors during a major breakdown
- Conceal what you have and don’t over centralize your storage
- Think a lot about hygiene
- Understand that most disasters will be “minor” on a global scale
- Have a plan – nothing is more important
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Every once in a while I feel we need to back up and go back to basics especially due to the fact that we constantly have new folks showing up for the first time to check out the show. That said even when I revisit a topic I try to bring not material, new view points and new analogies to the table. Today we will discuss the why, how and what behind the often highly misunderstood concept of storing food.
Join me today to discuss…
- Why bother storing food today at all
- Is food storage a symptom of paranoia – (some say yes)
- Time travel back 100 years and everybody did it
- What makes an item a good candidate for storage
- You and your family eat it – duh right?
- The food journal your insurance against expensive charity
- It will last at minimum six months with out freezing/cold storage
- High caloric value or high nutritive value
- Is multipurpose
- Is easy to divide and barter
- Methods for finding room to store your food
- Rotational pantry
- Buckets, Bins and Boxes
- Utilizing “wasted space”
- Mini Root Cellars
- Important considerations
- Insuring food gets used and rotated
- Decentralized storage
- “Rolling your own”
- Drying/Dehydration
- Smoking
- Canning
- Pickling/Fermenting
- Jerky vs. Biltong
- Freezing has a place
- Food storage is one of the most rational actions a person can take
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
You often hear in the Survivalist Community that local resources and in fact all resources will quickly come under pressure in a major disaster. While true there is also the old adage “the early bird gets the worm” along with the fact that “normalcy bias” will often keep competition low during early and even middle states of a major break down. Hence it makes a lot of sense to be knowledgeable and aware of your local resources now before any need of them arises.
Join me today as we discuss…
- The three types of survival knowledge
- General
- Localized
- Specialized (skill based)
- The importance of organization and leadership
- Finding edible plants in all seasons during “peace time”
- Establishing sources of water and purification
- Preserving food with out power and refrigeration
- Cultivation of wild crops (guerrilla gardening)
- Knowledge of local wildlife (all of it)
- Trap building skills
- Knowing your local geography
- Establishing distances and travel times
- Knowing how to get out, where you will go
- Keeping a low profile
- Being a leader
- Strength in numbers
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
We are going to look at a bit of a darker subject today. We are going to discuss security and not security on a day to day basis against say robbers, thugs and general low life. We are going to discuss secruity and security planning for large scale and long term break downs. Today’s show was prompted by Episodes 1 and 2 of season two of Discovery Channel’s show “The Colony”. I have watch thus far in disbelief at how little attention the people on that show have paid to security and how little they understand the threat and honestly survival as a whole.
Today’s show won’t be totally based on The Colony, it will simply use it as a jumping off point so even if you haven’t or don’t plan on watching it today’s show should be a good one for you. Security is one of the five primary components of survival and the one that is most overlooked, often not an issue but the one that when needed can get you killed in a milisecond.
Join me today as we discuss…
- The five primary components of survival
- Food
- Water
- Shelter
- Fire
- Security
- Understanding the threat to your safety
- Consideration about where you “make your stand”
- Six methods of attack mitigation
- Appease
- Impede
- Repel
- Evade
- Misdirect
- Terminate
- Identifying the weak spots
- The lesson of 300 – Funnel an enemy to counter large numbers
- How and why guns change the entire equation on both sides
- The importance and difference between security “protocols” and “procedures”
- Splitting up resources – no central storage points
- Developing and deploying decoy resources
- Developing timberlines and evac plans
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Perhaps these could even be called baby steps and even so I bet even a few veteran preppers could do say 4-7 of them to improve what they have already done. I figured it was a good time to back up before I roll out with the RV for a long vacation and give people concrete action. Don’t worry there will be shows Wednesday, Thursday and a guest host on Monday, Friday this week is still sort of up in the air. By the way these steps are not in a defined order other than the first three which will help you immensely with the other eighteen.
Join me today as we discuss….
- Step one – keep a food log
- Step two – keep a spending log
- Step three – perform a risk assessment on your life and geography
- Step four – build a basic black out kit
- Step five – build a basic first aid kit
- Step six – start copy canning
- Step seven – cut two expenses, just two of your choosing
- Step eight – Build a basic 72 Hour Kit – BOB
- Step nine – buy some source of back up power – any source
- Step ten – get some source of back up heating
- Step eleven – build two 7.5 gallon tubs or four 5 gallon buckets emergency food
- Step twelve – store a minimum of 50 gallons of water, more if you can
- Step thirteen – acquire a minimum or two emergency radios
- Step fourteen – acquire some means of back up communications
- Step fifteen – build a basic documentation pack
- Step sixteen – build up a 30 day supply or commercial long term storage food for your house hold
- Step seventeen – learn at lest 2 methods of food storage
- Step eighteen – find a local farmer’s market and visit often, learn about seasonal opportunities
- Step nineteen – learn to cook 5 items you have never eaten before with storable items
- Step twenty – store up a reasonable amount of COH (cash on hand)
- Step twenty-one (bonus) – affirm your right and responsibility to survive
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Join me today for another round of listener questions on a Monday. We discuss the importance of a positive atude when prepping, controlling fire ants, the Haitian earthquake, the recent California earthquake and more.
Tune in today as we discuss…
- How do you stay positive when prepping for disaster
- How do you convey the positive aspects of prepping to a no on board spouse
- Were we really told by the media to prepare for an ice age in the past
- A TSP listener heads to Haiti to help with the relief effort
- Where and how do you store extra propane tanks
- Ways to keep extra gasoline on hand that are simple and require little effort
- Conversion units to run generators on propane and natural gas
- What the forum has mean to one listener
- How to deal with fire ants
- Is organic food worth the cost, is there another answer
- Should we take a break from news and politics at times
- How can we make prepping have only positive impact our lives
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
I decided to pause for a step back today to go over the 10 primay concepts that drive The Survival Podcast and all that we try to do as a community. These are the founational principls that I built TSP around from day one, tune in to hear not just the what but the why behind them.
Tune in today as we discuss…
- Everything we do must improve our lives even if nothing goes wrong
- Debt is cancer
- Become a producer of some portion of your own food
- Tax is theft in more ways then one
- Stored food is an investment
- Disaster probability and commonality
- Produce energy and own the means of production
- Owning land is true wealth
- Include pragmatic preps as well like life insurance and asset protection
- Write and own you plan for you life, I provide information not commandments
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Today we discuss 18 items that I think should eventually be in the home of every modern survivalist. Some are common items that we talk about often, others are items that are often over looked or not considered “prepper items”. The key is this is NOT a complete list or even a punch list, just a group of items we should all be aware of and think about. Today’s show is a follow up to Episode 306 and we will continue to do new shows as your suggestions create new lists for this topic.
If you have items that are not on the list (other then food or guns because no one leaves those out ever) please chime in with your suggestions in the comments area.
Tune in today as we discuss the following 18 items, with few bonus items you have to tune in to hear about…
- Baking/Cooking Skills
- Yeast Cultivation Skills
- Pruners/Loppers
- Chain Saw
- Scythe
- First Aid Gear and a Blow Out Kit (blow out NOT bug out)
- Cast Iron Cookware
- Tarps
- Nails, Screws and Lumber
- Wheel Barrow or a Good Garden Cart
- Manual Air Pump
- Insect Repellent
- Baking Soda
- Medications (tune in to see exactly what was meant by that suggestion)
- Traps and Trap Making Material
- Spices and Seasonings
- Sets of Spark Plugs and Wires for all Motors
- A Wired Phone and Phone Book
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
So if the SHTF in most instances you plan to bug in, you have your generator, you have your food, you have a means of defense and you are prepared for whatever may come, or are you. Today we step back a bit from the obvious and from some common thinking that isn’t very realistic to examine how prepared we are for bugging in. Please note even if you “bug out” you are going to another location and once you get there, guess what you are going to be doing, bugging in of course.
Join in today as we discuss…
- Two new eBooks free for Support Brigade Members
- Storing food for everyone possibly even some for neighbors and definitely for your pets and stock
- The need for personal hygiene products, bigger then you might think it is
- Back up power sources both short and long term
- The advantages and failings of generators
- Why you need to plan to keep the garden growing
- The need for and functionality of “security protocols” including during increased threat periods
- Why you need to quickly contact all family/close friends at the beginning of a SHTF especially if you are bugging in
- The importance of taking an inventory and sorting into needs, good to have and don’t need it at all
- How inventory and sorting will help you in barter situations
- Keeping communications up as long as possible including radio, TV, Ham, MURS, etc.
- The importance of maintaining a sense of normalcy during a bug in
- How drills are about more then finding weaknesses, they are also about acclamation
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
As we approach the 300th episode I realized it has been a long time since we did a show dedicated to the brand new person. Today will will lay out 20 steps to take as a person who has just decided that it is time “to do something” but isn’t quite sure what that “something” is. Even though today is done with the new person in mind I think it will help everyone sort of recenter on the core of what is the most important things to make sure you have accomplished.
I have also created a special commercial free version of today’s show for sharing with others who you want to get thinking about preparedness. That version can be found on our forum here.
Tune in today as we discuss
- Start with the old fable of the grasshopper and the ant
- The first thing you do is assess the situation and stay calm
- Journal your spending and your eating
- Write a plan for debt elimination and begin creating an emergency fund
- Put together a basic documentation package
- Assemble a BOB for each family member (cheap and fast the first time around)
- Inventory your pantry over a week or two (how much food do you have at your low point)
- Begin storing up a 30 day supply of food you will eat anyway
- Begin assembling a low cost 30 day long term storage supply
- Determine where you would go if you had to leave and go at least 50 miles from home
- Make plans for how you would help elderly parents or other family members
- Update your resume and be prepared to loose your job on any given day
- Avoid focusing on any individual coming event or scenario
- Plan a garden and start getting ready to plant (depending on the season)
- Learn about disaster commonality (it is not about the disaster it is about loss of support systems)
- Learn about disaster probability (Personal-Localized-Regional-State-National-Global)
- Determine your most probable “personal”, “local” and “regional”
- Start window shopping for “country land” or an “urban homestead”
- Think of the children, won’t someone please think of the children (seriously think of your children)
- Assess your “normal preparations”
- Take ownership of your plan and your life
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.
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