MORE ON EMP PREPARATION AND STORAGE

First, everyone must keep in mind – Ask yourselves this.  This is just reasoning for you to think about now, not later.

Who is going to tell us that an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) is coming or on the way? 

The way things are today, who, of the higher ups, cares if we know. 

NEXT:  HOW would they tell us in time? 

Would it come through a radio? You would have to be listening continually. 

Again:  How much control do the higher ups have over communications? 

How many minutes will it take before they try, if they try, between a launch of a missile to tell us?  They may be busy trying to stop it.

Think about it, we may be on a computer like we are now and suddenly all power goes out.  That fries the computer, the wiring and anything outside the Faraday boxes.

Next:  all wiring and electronics will be fried. 

Actually, who cares, except you?  You have pictures and things on it. 
You worry about your car or your gas generators.  They are fried too, unless protected. 

No, your car is not a good Faraday cage.  And even if it keeps running, the electrical grid will be down, so the gas pumps will NOT be working, so NO GAS. 

If they are, soon they will be out; IF your car is running and you are able to get to the end of a line at the pumps.  Welcome to the Bicycle and walking age again. 

No trucks of Gas are running because their wiring is also burnt out and are dead on the side of the road.

No trucks?  Forget the food being delivered to the stores. 

They will be empty within 3 days or so.  Flash mobs will be all over.  Very dangerous to be out on the streets. 

No car or gas, it is going to be a trick to carry the things you can find, home, safely, on a bike or worse walking and out in the open. 

IF the trucks are running, they will probably be stopped in route and raided.
How about WATER:  Water pumps are run by electricity. 

Do you have water storage and food storage to last at least a year?  Get some survival books, military and otherwise.

It will take a long time for the grid to be repaired, if at all.  Parts will be almost impossible to find because much of the manufacturing is done overseas, and those people will probably be the ones who caused the EMP in the first place. 

Why should they help us? 

The way to get them and transport them to the affected site will be a huge problem. 

Who is going to be on the job trying to do this while their families are left alone, without protection and possibly without food and water?

So IF your computer is protected. 

You have music or something else to occupy your time?  How much time do you think you will have to listen?  How will you charge it?  You need Solar Power.  See the web site below. 

You will be continually looking out your window and all around to see if groups or mobs will be coming up the street, breaking into houses for food or anything.
Research and learn how the people of the 1800s lived and survived. 

LEARN IT because you will probably have to live that way soon, for quite some time.

Some say you can plant a garden?  THINK on this one. 

OK, what about those mobs roaming, they will be raiding any gardens that are available and probably raid the house that is near it.  

By the way, without water, how are you going to grow that garden anyways? 

Water is almost the most important thing you should have.  You can live a lot longer with out food, but not water.  Your body is made mostly of water and it needs to be replenished.

The best thing to do is to grow inside, in your window, SPROUTS.  Very little water is required.  That is live and the best thing you can have in this situation and most will not know you are doing it.  If you had a years supply of sprouting seeds, you could probably exist on that alone, but you would be sick of eating the same thing, over and over.

Your Refrigerator will be fried too. 

Get a small Frig and test it, then put it back in the original box and wrap it with Aluminum foil on the outside.  Make sure there is not a pinhole in it.  It has to be complete.  Leave it there until needed.  It does not have to be grounded, but have it sitting on boards because wood is not a conductor.

Be sure to have what you need, start now, to accumulate a year supply of food and DO NOT go into debt to do it, and try to do it as soon as you can. 

Get out of Debt as soon as possible.  The dollar will probably crash because of the out of control printing of money.  The more money on the market, the less each is worth.  Pay off your debts with the money now when it is worth something.  Other countries have gone into Hyper Inflation meaning that each dollar could be worth a penny or even less.  Check out the Weimar Republic in Germany.  That IS coming.

Put some, 10 to 20 percent of your money, not much more than that, in Gold or Silver.  Gold for rich people, Silver for middle class or poor people.  Never in paper form, but the item itself.  Not in bars but in coin.  Junk silver like 1964 and older in dimes, quarters and halves.  You know what they are worth and you can tell if someone tried to scrape off some and polish it up again like you can a bar of silver.  Get the 90 percent silver coins, not the 40 percent.

For water, have a couple of 55 gallons drums of water with hand pumps.
 
You can get some 100 gallon drums also.  Some are for re-hydrating dehydrated food, and some for hand washing sanitation. 

Remember no showers or baths, only by hand, and hand washing of clothes, mostly under ware and sometimes, outer clothes. 

NO WASTING.

Sanitation is the most dangerous.  Rats, sicknesses and other things will happen if people do not know what and how to take care of this. 
Go to www.safeharboralliance.com, by Jim Phillips, “The Hidden Deadly Disaster,” Failed Sanitation Will Catch & Kill The Unprepared.

Get some solar units that are cheap and can give you light when needed.  One good place is:  www.goalzero.com.  Their YETI 1250 can run your small refrigerator so you can keep food and medicines.  Their 150 unit can run a c-pap machine most of the night, their 400 unit will have no problem at all.
  
That is another thing, get a year supply of medicines that you cannot do without.  Because of transportation and production being stopped, there will be a problem.

Cooking your food storage will be a problem unless you have the means to do it.  No gas will be available, fuel has stopped; you must have alternative methods of cooking.  Here are some suggestions.
 
Stock up on charcoal in bags, starter pellets or paper, matches or these little friction guns that light.  

Another way is to get some propane canisters, big and small, and possibly a Volcano stove, which you can use, propane and charcoal in and use Dutch ovens on. 

Don’t count on propane forever because it will run out.  Charcoal will run out eventually too. 

Last and cheapest is to have an All American Solar Oven at www.americansolaroven.com.  It can, in winter or summer, get up to 450  degrees when placed outside when the Sun is out.

Cook what you can on good days to last a few days in a small refrigerator.  This can be run by the Goal Zero Yeti 1250.  Remember to watch for mobs.  If conditions get to this point, you can bet there will be some.

A dehydrator would be a good thing to have.  Many things will last longer if it is dehydrated, like Jerky.  Think Ahead. 

When you store foods, do not store things that need to be frozen.  When the power goes out, so will your freezer.  Unless you have a couple of YETI 1250s.
 
Get canned goods and ROTATE them.

Get black permanent markers to put the dates you purchased them on it and/or the expiration date.  Many foods will still be good past the dates on them so test them first and know which ones last.  Nutrition may be gone but you have bulk.  Any question on that, throw it out.
 
Some other storage items are Food Supplements and One A day vitamins. This will help some when you do not have all the foods you need.

The best is the dehydrated stuff, which you do not need to rotate, because they last for 20 to 30 years, but the way things are going, you probably will be using them sooner than later. 

If you get a Food Storage Unit, which is good for one person for one year, you will probably need a Wheat Grinder and a Heavy Duty Mixer for making the dough. 

Try to find ones that can work by crank when the electricity goes out.  Anything you do, always make sure no one is roaming the area.  Once they smell food, watch out.

To protect yourself and your family, you know what you have to have, with extra you know what.  Don't wait too long to get them. 

But first, Food, Water, fuel, medicines and then those things. 

A must have book, to use in getting ready for being self-sustaining is at this site.
 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0983046530/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0983046530&linkCode=as2&tag=thewarriortal-20

For food storage click on the ad on this site because they have most of what you need.
 
I would not get the SPORT Sun Oven, because it is not a good as the full size one.

I could go on and on but this will get you started.

Comments are welcome.

PRIORITIES OF PREPAREDNESS

The big questions on everyone’s mind are where do I start, what do I do first, what is the most important?

Here are some top priorities as I see it.

Food including Wheat and grains, Water, Wheat Grinder (Electric and a Hand), Heavy Duty Dough Mixer, Medications and medical supplies, clothing, blankets, fuel if you are allowed or an All American Sun Oven.  

Weapons.  Some think that this is not needed, but if we get to the point where the dollar crashes and the economy goes down, those will be important.  You may have to protect your family and what you have in storage.  If things break down there may be mobs roaming the streets.  This is not wild.  Look at Europe.  It is coming here.  When? Unknown but possibly soon and that is not the time to try and prepare for the wolf will already be in the hen house.

Read what the Lord said through a prophet of the Lord:

ALMA 43: 45-47

45 Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a better cause, for they were not fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church.

46 And they were doing that which they felt was the duty which they owed to their God; for the Lord had said unto them, and also unto their fathers, that: Inasmuch as ye are not guilty of the first offense, neither the second, ye shall not suffer yourselves to be slain by the hands of your enemies.

47 And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend themselves, and their families, and their lands, their country, and their rights, and their religion.

If you pick up the book “Making the Best of Basics 12.5 Edition” handbook.  It will take you into much more detail in all areas of being self-reliant.  

FOOD:  No matter what else you have, if you do not have this, the rest will be useless.  Start by getting an extra weeks supply, then two, then a months, then two, then three, then do that 3 more times to accumulate a year supply.

If you can afford it, WITHOUT GOING INTO DEBT, you can buy a complete unit for a year for about $900.00.  This is a Basic Unit for one person.  There are more expensive ones with a better selection, but to sustain life, the basic unit will work.  These units are dehydrated food in cans or Freeze dried.  Freeze dried is lighter in weight but a little more expensive.

A note on Wheat.  This is the staff of life according to the Lord.

Red wheat, after ground up become darker wheat flour and becomes darker wheat bread (which I like the best).

White wheat grinds into white flour for white bread.

Wheat lasts for years.  Wheat has been taken out of the pyramids that are over 3000 years old and it is perfectly good today.  Why?  They were stored in a cool dark place as far as I could see.  Once you crack it to make flour, then it starts to deteriorate in nutritional value.  Don’t start eating a strict whole wheat diet.  Help your system to switch by using some white flour in it and gradually go to straight wheat.  You can make cracked wheat cereal.  Try to get use to your food storage, little by little BEFORE you have to use it strictly.  Be sure to replenish what you use.  Use a black marker for marking dates on items.

I cannot over emphasize the importance of the book I mentioned.

You don’t necessarily have to rotate these items.  They are usually good for 20 to 25 years, in sealed #10 cans and some bulk items in buckets.

GRINDERS AND MIXERS:  If wheat is involved, which is used for making bread, you will need a grinder and a heavy duty mixer for the dough.  These will be mostly electric, but if you hunt around you may come across some that can work on electric and by crank, if the electricity goes out.  If you cannot find one, you can buy Hand Grinders separately but you may have to make the dough by hand.  I was lucky; I found both grinder and mixer that can work both ways.  Look around. Some may be used.

Pick up other items to vary the diet and to make it enjoyable like peanut butter, jellies, spices, and other items that your family like and usually eat.  Those will have to be rotated, eating the oldest first so they won’t go bad.

WATER:  Water should be kept cool and covered over to keep it in the dark.  You can also use DARK containers.  Blue or Black, not clear. Bacteria grow in light.  If gotten from a good water source, it will keep for a year or two.  It can be disinfected by boiling if needed, or by using Clorox Regular, unscented bleach without soap additives or phosphates.  An example is 2 drops per quart if the water is clear, 4 drops if it is cloudy. For a gallon, 8 drops clear, 16 cloudy.  Use only the liquid, not powdered bleach.  Stir and let stand for an hour or more.  Bleach more than one year old, double the amount, more than two years old; it has lost its effectiveness.  Keep it rotated.

How much do you need?  About 1 gallon per day per each family member for two weeks.  With dehydrated items to reconstitute, you will need more.  Then there is washing, cleaning, etc.  A couple of plastic, dark, 55 gallon drums would do OK.  Just don’t use water like you would in normal times.

I just cannot stress the above mentioned book enough.  Get it from the source you want but get it.  It will teach you much of what you need to know to be ready for things that are coming.  Be sure to get the 12.5 Edition.  It is the newest edition. 

They first came out years ago with only about 250 pages, then 500 pages; now this 12.5 Edition is 750 pages.  There are loads of websites and information sites in it.  This is a great way to learn. 

You do not have to get it from this website but so far as I have found it, this is the cheapest site.

I will touch lightly on the other items in the upcoming articles and give you some web sites to look at and my opinion on each. 

Here is one good website.

http://providentliving.org/?lang=eng   

Comments are welcome.