SHTF Survival forums and blogs, ARE YOU PREPARED ?

Nov. 3, 2010 - PRLog -- What will you do when a recession hits?
Will you do nothing, or will you prepare yourself to survive the hard times ahead?
To survive in this recession time, you must be prepared for what is going on around you. In case of a natural disaster, plan on building something underground for you to have nice cool food storage like a root cellar.

First, you will need a couple of storage racks or shelves. These racks will allow you to store food in an organized manner. On the racks you will want various items such as: canned food, dry food, and any other items that you may want to have on your shelves.

Second, you will need things for hygiene and basic survival, like dish liquid, propane tanks, medicines, bleach, sanitary items, soap, toiletry items, and more. These items you will want to keep separate from the rest.

Third, you will need to take inventory, for all your stock to last about 6 months or more. You may also want to get a camping bag or back pack, and store an emergency kit, emergencey food and water or water filter in the bag, so that if something happens and you have to leave your house for a few days, that you have food, water, and emergency supplies at hand, along with a knife, fork, plates or a GI mess kit, sanitizer and more. We call this type of bag a BOB or a Bug Out Bag, a bag that you will make to keep ready in case you have to leave quickly. You can add Protein bars to your list, just in case you cannot get food, or have any food left; they keep you energized.

For long term survival, you may want to get camping accessories, like cast iron pots, oil lamp or lantern, matches, and sterno fuel, or some other types of cooking fuel like propane.
You will need to come up with a good strategy or tactic for preparing your food for 6 months or more, in order for your items to last, and keep a good inventory list. This will save you time, and gas so that you will not have to drive up to the store, every week to get items you need in your household. You will want to rotate the foods you will be keeping for long term also, so when you goto the store you will put the new food in the back of the older food so you eat the older foods forst.
An Inventory list not only will tell you exactly what you have, but what you need as well. In order to be prepared for anything that comes your way, there's guidelines in your household you need to be aware of. To protect you and your family, always talk about if things go south what you should do, or be prepared to do. Water is the most im portant thing in a survival situation, always remember that.
You also may want to start doing some projects at home like DIY or How-To projects to get familiar with doing things on your own.

SHTFmilitia.com is a forum and also has blogs that you can join to talk with other members, and discuss your scenarios, survival plans, share recipes with one another, or learn alot from our how to DIY articles. The members here are friendly as if they were your best friend. You can also talk with others about what is going on in your country or state. All forum users are friendly and the user interface is easy to maneuver. I joined shtfmilitia.com about 2 years ago, and it really has grown on me. There are new ideas just about everyday. Some of the menu's that you go through are:

1.SHTF MILITIA LOBBY --- ALL THE CASUAL TALK GOES HERE
2.SHTF NEWS
3.PREPAREDNESS ---- HOW PREPARED ARE YOU?
4.LONG TERM & SHORT TERM --- SHTF & SURVIVAL
5.WEAPONS --- GUNS , KNIVES , ETC
6.BUY / SELL / TRADE --- CLASSIFIEDS

There is just so much information at this site, that I cant even begin to explain it all. They have so much useful information that you just have to see it for yourself to believe it. If you need some information this is the place to get it. they have tons of down-loadable PDF's, tons of DIY articles, hope to see you there.

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