33 are a crafty, skilled bunch with a wide variety of competence. How are 33ers who treat disaster prep as a personal responsibility and were ready or fairly so working out?
Let's make this thread good enough to sticky.
What are your lessons learned? How are you planning for a possible second or third wave?
What quality reference material do you like?
I'm quite comfy but added more food after giving the less ready a few days to buy. A very full pantry is an ancient custom with zero downsides.
I should have had more disposable masks (I use them anyway for painting etc) and nitrile gloves but I'm well stocked. I'll add a couple thousand nitrile 9mil work gloves when they come available to my shop stock, but those never go to waste and make wrenching much faster.
I should have added a second gas mask and more NATO filters (they're far more protective than disposables which expose your face) but for particles/aerosols old mask filters will do. For why gas masks are superior to disposables, study military NBC training and self-decon online. Masks with NATO cartridge filters can be decontaminated by cleaning the outside of the filter canister, removing it, then washing the mask. You can tape the hole shut while cleaning or when storing a used filter if you like. BTW anyone with NBC training knows why gas masks work and why the Ottawa Police decided to use theirs. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...inst-covid-19/
Full sleeves and pants are a washable barrier, as are coveralls. The solution to keeping shit off your skin is cover it up. Washing is for when coverage fails and as a wise immediate precaution when returning home. My clothes go in the washing machine (in my separate garage). A decon solution bucket next to my back door makes washing my gloves after handling mail etc convenient. Gloves decon MUCH faster than hands and you can use much stronger lipid destroying cleaner/degreaser solution than recommended for bare skin.
I've kept backyard chickens for years because they devour bugs and I love the eggs (store eggs are flavorless), but those eggs also reduce store trips and the ideal number of shopping trips is none.
When pandemic fades I'll stock MRE and other long term chow for a year (I like most of the post-Desert Storm MREs and the recent ones are better than many troops eat at home). I have well water and instead of shitty pitcher pumps I bought a Bosworth which is self priming to prime my well pump after maintenance and act as backup. I'm surprise more people don't know about them.
Amazon are slow but you can find lots of stuff on Ebay or via other sellers. I bought this one to see how well they're made (excellent and made in the USA) and it primed a 20 foot well that was idle for years in under ten strokes:
BTW when I buy one well part I buy spares since pump swaps never happen at convenient times and bargain pump deals beat paying retail. I'm always at least one electric pump ahead plus install parts. This saves time and money like a lot of "personal readiness" actions. I'm a cheap bastard so I spend efficiently.
Even Harleys can be part of a prep plan. EMP doesn't annoy points (and is unlikely to fuck with anything not connected to the grid). Magneto owners won't need to buy batteries.
Let's make this thread good enough to sticky.
What are your lessons learned? How are you planning for a possible second or third wave?
What quality reference material do you like?
I'm quite comfy but added more food after giving the less ready a few days to buy. A very full pantry is an ancient custom with zero downsides.
I should have had more disposable masks (I use them anyway for painting etc) and nitrile gloves but I'm well stocked. I'll add a couple thousand nitrile 9mil work gloves when they come available to my shop stock, but those never go to waste and make wrenching much faster.
I should have added a second gas mask and more NATO filters (they're far more protective than disposables which expose your face) but for particles/aerosols old mask filters will do. For why gas masks are superior to disposables, study military NBC training and self-decon online. Masks with NATO cartridge filters can be decontaminated by cleaning the outside of the filter canister, removing it, then washing the mask. You can tape the hole shut while cleaning or when storing a used filter if you like. BTW anyone with NBC training knows why gas masks work and why the Ottawa Police decided to use theirs. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...inst-covid-19/
Full sleeves and pants are a washable barrier, as are coveralls. The solution to keeping shit off your skin is cover it up. Washing is for when coverage fails and as a wise immediate precaution when returning home. My clothes go in the washing machine (in my separate garage). A decon solution bucket next to my back door makes washing my gloves after handling mail etc convenient. Gloves decon MUCH faster than hands and you can use much stronger lipid destroying cleaner/degreaser solution than recommended for bare skin.
I've kept backyard chickens for years because they devour bugs and I love the eggs (store eggs are flavorless), but those eggs also reduce store trips and the ideal number of shopping trips is none.
When pandemic fades I'll stock MRE and other long term chow for a year (I like most of the post-Desert Storm MREs and the recent ones are better than many troops eat at home). I have well water and instead of shitty pitcher pumps I bought a Bosworth which is self priming to prime my well pump after maintenance and act as backup. I'm surprise more people don't know about them.
Amazon are slow but you can find lots of stuff on Ebay or via other sellers. I bought this one to see how well they're made (excellent and made in the USA) and it primed a 20 foot well that was idle for years in under ten strokes:
BTW when I buy one well part I buy spares since pump swaps never happen at convenient times and bargain pump deals beat paying retail. I'm always at least one electric pump ahead plus install parts. This saves time and money like a lot of "personal readiness" actions. I'm a cheap bastard so I spend efficiently.
Even Harleys can be part of a prep plan. EMP doesn't annoy points (and is unlikely to fuck with anything not connected to the grid). Magneto owners won't need to buy batteries.
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