Prepping

[heavyhorse]

47 minutes ago, Ramseys said:




Like most prepping I do, it's on the low key side.




Buying things I normally get, but a few extras.




What really kicked this off for most folks, is when some guy, I think he was from the CDC, said to have three(3) months of food on hand.




Being a 'baby boomer' with parents that went through the depression, I have store rooms stuff with TP and paper towels anyways.




One thing I did get, was one of those "Mega-Maid Vacu-suck" storage system. You can vacuum pack everything from rice to ammo.




As for a mask? I'll just shoot anyone that gets closer then 10 feet to me. (Just kidding) [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/ph34r.png[/img]/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" title=":ph34r:" width="20" />

Yeah pretty much (except the Vacu-Suck, the reviews reported some of the packages not staying sealed).  Something I learned back in the day is to (carefully,
not
in a closed room!
)  displace the air out of pretty much anything from storage tanks and tool boxes to food-grade packages with CO (carbon monoxide).  Stops rust, spoilage and going rancid by scouring oxygen.  You need an old-school truck or some engine without a cat converter, and do it before the pipe gets hot.   You can also catch it in a garbage bag and take it where needed if dragging the tool locker to the source seems inconvenient.    (If you are concerned about it harming food, recall that an old and disreputable trick of the grocery industry is to expose out-of-date meat to CO to make it bright red and fresh-looking, then re-wrap it with a new expiration date.)




Bear in mind that this is also a suitable method of euthanasia for terminally ill or injured critters, so handle accordingly.     




I already buy hand sanitizer in the half-gallons; dead critters in traps or birthings gone horribly wrong ya'know.  And 95 masks by the box for working with fiberglas, paint, machine work and such.  I did lay in a pallet of dog food I didn't have before, and filled the freezers more than usual for this time of year (I usually don't count on having long-term electric service during a Zombie Apocalypse so usually depend more on non-refrigerated back-up supplies).  




I'm not a "people person" under the best of conditions, like to do my work without other people around, won't miss the contact, so yeah, lobbing metal of various sizes and velocities if it comes to that seems like a plan.  I can also do a pretty convincing coughing fit on demand with a bit of sneezing to finish it off, if the room needs thinning out.