Whether you are a prepper or survivalist, preparing for an economic collapse, or merely a fan of the TV show "Doomsday Preppers" you have probably thought about a major power outage. An EMP attack, where a rogue nation or terrorist entity takes out the electrical power grid, is really one of the 'worst case scenarios' for our country, as we would be plunged into darkness, worse than the 19th century.
The reason it would be worse than the 19th century is because people back then were accustomed to a life without electricity; we are not. Not having electricity in your home is one thing, but if all of society lacked lighting, it would be utter chaos.
The first thing you would want to do is to stay home, as the streets would not be safe for a variety of reasons. If it was merely the power grid that failed, then streetlights and traffic signals would be out. If the EMP fried all electrical circuitry, then your vehicle wouldn't even start.
Either way, the safety of your home would be the best place to be. Hopefully you have had the foresight to put together a family emergency communications plan and anyone who was caught away from home knows exactly what to do.
The first thing you would want to do is immediately fill the bathtub and all available containers with water, since the tap will be dry as soon as the water towers are emptied.
The second thing you'd want to do is to ready your emergency lighting, and prepare blackout curtains for your windows so that all of the neighbors don't see how much light you have. The problem with being prepared is that it attracts the attention, and jealousy, of those who have chosen not to prepare.
Since the neighborhood will be very dark, any homes that have any lighting will be very obvious, and without blackout curtains someone could easily be spying in your window to see if they want to come and help themselves to your supplies.
The third thing to do after the power grid goes down is to make a plan for using up your perishable goods from your refrigerator and freezer. Cooking on a barbecue grill, either yours or a neighbors, may be your only option.
Rehearsing what to do if an EMP takes out the electrical power grid can be a fun way to spend a weekend, if you are committed to shutting off the electricity and really sticking with it. You don't have to be a prepper or a survivalist to appreciate the confidence that comes from having taken steps toward emergency preparedness.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Byron's Prepper Humor and Survival Guide
Byron's Prepper Humor and Survival Guide was a free Kindle
book when this post was written.
Do you consider lead a precious metal? Do your favorite numbers include 5.56 or 7.62? Do you chop down trees with your survival knife? Then you might be a prepper.
Byron’s Prepper Humor and Survival Guide takes a strategic and positive approach to prepping. It provides specific short-term and long-term goals for your Personal Prepping Plan. It promotes physical fitness, learning new skills, creating community, and reconnecting with nature. It covers the basics of Kalashnikovs and armored cars too.
Byron’s Prepper Humor and Survival Guide is for people who want to enjoy a couple laughs with their prepping hobby.
Cooking with Home Canned Foods
Cooking with Home Canned Foods (Frugal Living Academy) was a free kindle book when this post was written.How To Save Money and Time By Cooking With Pantry Items Canned at Home
Are you on the search for canning recipes? How about recipes to cook with the foods you've canned?
Each of the 30 recipes in this cookbook provides you with an interesting and tasty way to use up those canned goods in your cupboard. Whether you use goods you've canned yourself in the pressure canner, or name brand canned goods purchased at the grocery store, there is something here for everyone. From Soups to Cobbler, all of these recipes are made with easy to find, inexpensive ingredients you can keep on hand and ready for even your busiest weeknight dinner.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Preparing For Disaster: A Basic Survival Guide Book
Preparing For Disaster: A Basic Survival Guide Book was a free book when this post was written for the kindle.
DLP Press presents: "Preparing for Disaster: A Basic Survival Guide". This simple family survival guide book explains the dangers of natural disasters and how you should prepared for them. This book has been carefully written so that the entire family can read and understand emergency dangers and how to survive them as individually and on their own.
Children will learn and understand how to and when not to depend on their parents in a crisis situation while the parents will learn why and how to make the kids part of the entire survival process.
You Will Learn:
• What to do to prepare your family for disasters
• What to do if there is a flood
• What to do if there is a wild fire
• What to do if there is an earthquake
• What to do if there an incoming tornado
• What to do if you have to leave your home because of a flood
• What to do before you returned to you home And that’s that just the beginning.
Note: This book is suitable for the entire family and survivalist alike. SPECIAL PRICING: This book is exclusive to the Amazon store and currently set at a low promotional price. Read "Preparing for Disaster: A Basic Survival Guide". You, your family and any avid survivalist will benefit from this book.
Food Storage Secrets
Food Storage Secrets: How To Stock and Organize Your Kitchen with Delicious and Nutritious Ingredients was a free book for the kindle or the free kindle reading app when this post was written.
Are you ready to stock your kitchen cupboards with healthy ingredients, and have extra food on hand in case of emergency? It can be tricky to build a healthy food storage with ingredients that you will use, and many people feel overwhelmed by just thinking about the process of putting together a food storage for their family.
This book is designed to give you an overview of options that are available to store healthy ingredients in your home, so that you always have the supplies needed to cook your family healthy meals that they will love. It is a short book, with tips and tricks to help you get started down the path of having a healthy food storage you will love!
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Food Dehydration - The Ultimate Recipe Guide
Food Dehydration - The Ultimate Recipe Guide was a free kindle book when this post was written.
The Ultimate Food Dehydration Guide
Food dehydration delivers the vast majority of foods with the same vitamins and minerals as their fresh counterparts, in a remarkable array of concentrated flavors, nutrients and enzymes. According to health professionals, "The dehydration process retains almost 100% of the nutritional content of the food, retains the alkalinity of fresh produce and actually inhibits the growth of microforms such as bacteria." The shriveled state of dehydrated vegetables may make them seem less appetizing than their fresh or frozen cousins at first glance. However, drying vegetables for later use is one of the oldest and easiest methods of food preservation.
Survival Tin
This is a small tin that you can carry in your pocket. Has items in it that you could use in any situation, but can't carry a lot. Make your self one out of an empty mint tin.
Things to have in it:
Things to have in it:
- water purification tablets
- sewing kit
- wire saw
- tealight candle
- safety pins
- Nuclear Anti Radiation Tablets
- fish hooks and line
- matches
- blade
Essential Kit List - Hikers
Making this list up for a family member, but anyone could use it and should! This is for them when they go hiking. Which, they do a lot.
- Tent
- sleeping bag
- mosquito net
- hammock
- towel
- flashlight
- digging spade
- multi-tool with knife
- first aid kit
- aluminum water bottle
- way to cook - mess kit
- way to wash
- compass
- map case to keep your map dry
- walking stick
- rope
- climbing harness
- a survival tin
- It is pretty much a given that you will also want some food items and energy bars.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Do You Have A Meeting Place If SHTF??
What if you are separated from your family and others in your household during a disaster or any other type of calamity? Do you have a place set up where you can meet up?
Call a family meeting tonight and talk about this. Plan for if SHTF while you are not home and what if you can't get home. Plan for if you have no cell phone service. How will you communicate etc? Have a meeting place that you all can get too by walking. Just in case there are no vehicles.
One good thing to do , is test this plan out several times. Make sure it works and by testing it out you will also find out what doesn't work. It has to be a great plan, in case you can't use your cell phones or any other type of communication. Your meeting place should be somewhere that is central to where everyone is already at everyday. Like schools, work, etc. The meeting place should also be a safe place. Also plan for if someone is at the house most of the time. Like , me , a stay at home mom. That is part of our plan. Kids and dad all have a meeting place and , if I can, I need to stay at the house and wait on them to get here. We have walkie talkies that I have here at home and a set kept in the car. They can talk to me when they get close enough and let me know what it going on and if I should leave and head to the meeting place. We have tried it out 2 times now and also hubby calls me up on the radio when he gets close to town just to make sure they still are in working order. I don't have a cell phone. Got rid of it a couple of years ago. So I am used to not having a way to communicate with others when I am not home. Get to the safe place quick and get back together , than you can go from there.
The Aromatherapy & Essential Oils Handbook
The Aromatherapy & Essential Oils Handbook was a free kindle book when this book was written.
If you want to learn about essential oils and aromatherapy, then this is the book you've been looking for.
This book discusses essential oils and their practical applications in terms that are easy to understand. Buy this book and learn how to unlock the healing powers of essential oils today.
The topics covered in this book include:
- An introduction to essential oils and their safety.
- A discussion of what aromatherapy is and how it can help you.
- 10 helpful tips for newcomers to the world of aromatherapy. These tips are good reminders for seasoned vets as well.
- What you need to know about the various grades of essential oil and why there's only one grade you should buy.
- The chemistry of essential oils. What essential oils are made of and why they're so good for you.
- The various ways essential oils are used (includes topical application, consumption and a number of forms of diffusion).
- Carrier oils and why you should be using them for topical application.
- An in-depth list that reveals the therapeutic qualities and uses for more than 100 different essential oils.
- A list of essential oils that are potentially dangerous and should be avoided or used under strict supervision.
- Blending of essential oils.
- Aromatic blends you can make at home that can be used to address a number of issues.
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