Actually people died from Corbin monoxide poisoning and fires because firefighters rely on electricity to run the water so it tells you what we need to improve on in the future.
@@juliaweber212 this seems like the people were not prepared if they died from carbon monoxide poisoning because they were not prepared for dealing with that.
Pro tip: Use paper plates and plastic forks and paper cups....and just throw them away don't use your precious water washing dishes in a situation like that.
Thats why I showed the plastic cups and paper plates and plastic utinsils in one of my videos. We did use them, but not for everything. If this were going to be a much longer crisis, we would have used more but there would always be some dishes to wash.
@@irenecrandall9417 where did you get that information regarding doing dishes with contaminated water? See towards bottom of the page... www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/drinking/drinking-water-advisories/boil-water-advisory.html
I collected snow and ice when my water supply was cut. I learned you don't fill the toilet tank. You flush by pouring water directly into the bowl. Uses a lot less water.
You can make the water you use work harder for you. Use that bucket of water to mop the bathroom floor before flushing the toilet. One example of many ways a bucket of water can have multiple duties.
This is what I did; Changed 100# tanks in ice & snow; Not for beginners; I left the stool in the bowl until it thawed; Used septic tank bacteria to bring odors within very tolerable and covered with a towel; You can go a long ways with only water;
Proof that wisdom aquired over a lifetime is extremely valuable and deserves the utmost respect. Our society has lost this respect for elders and has dumbed down considerably because of that loss.
I have been like a moth to a flame all my life in the prepping department. I think it was the April 1978 or 79 snow storm when I was first living on my own that really hit home. Cant be too prepared. A neighbor had a snowmobile and thats how we got to the store!!! The roads were practically impassable. In these times, anything can happen. Young people need to be prepared.
Some of us do! :-) Some of us also save them for dry food storage, as well. Easy way to store sugar, for example, that doesn't harden, if stored in a dry and relatively cool place. I've successfully stored rice, popcorn, blackeye peas, etc for 10+ years, without any problems, using 2 liter soda bottles.
@John Beige lol I keep my empties in large trashbags that are hung in the corner of one of my sheds. Out of the way, clean and already sanitized for immediate use, if needed.
I don't buy 2 liter bottles, or many corn-sweetened drinks, but I do on occasion buy half-gallons of Gold Peak iced tea, fill the empties with tap water and a wee bit of bleach, and use them as thermal ballast in my refrigerators. Water is 3000 times as efficient as air in storing heat or cold, and acts as a thermal flywheel, reducing the time the motor needs to run, and if power is lost, holding a safe temperature longer. Storing the water in the fridge shields it from light that can cause algae blooms in untreated water, and degrade the plastic. Win-win. Even food grade plastics have additives that will leach into the water, and when you have lots of small bottles, you will find excuses not to do it much. Now that my clocks set themselves, I use the change to/from Daylight Saving Time to change the water and smoke alarm batteries. 10 gallons for a full-sized fridge (you don't keep it all in there, just what can fit with the food you have on any day) is enough to keep two people alive for 10 days. Beyond that, I have collapsible containers to fill up as needed. I can walk to the river if I need to.
@@StringerNews1 I don't know how long it's been since we bought a 2 liter bottle of soda. When at family gatherings, church potluck & such, I asked for the empty soda bottles. If asked, I wanted them for a crafts and/or gardening project. Making funnels or mini greenhouses to protect tomato plants from a late spring frost. (Didn't lie as I have used them for various other projects.) Good points on thermal mass. I freeze them for the same reason. Plus, I use them for ice chests for refrigerated foods. Lasts much longer than bagged ice. And, when thawed they are clean drinking water.
@@oldtimerlee8820 I didn't want to get too far off-topic, but yes it does work the same way in the freezer. I've added alcohol to mine to make slushy ice packs. I don't worry too much about storing that much water in my home because we have a strong social support system here. If disaster strikes, my place will be with the CERT team, bringing water and food to _every_ house. I really appreciate what you said about honesty. It seems to be another commodity that's in short supply these days.
I store water in my old wine bottles with screw-top caps. In fact, I was thinking that today would be a good day to go and buy some more wine here in texas.
The most valuable thing I posses is bushcraft knowledge and common sense in the natural world. I can not believe how many people are absolutely helpless because of the modern world.
We live in the Houston area. The week preceding the storm, we restocked or pantry plus extra stuff for the grand kids staying with us. Finding water was no problem. I filled the car with gas. We filled both tubs with water for flushing. We used paper or plastic for eating, and threw it away. We also had water for cooking in a large gumbo pot. Sunday night before the freeze hit us, I shut off the water coming into the house and drained the pipes. It stayed this way until Wednesday. No busted pipes. Power came back on Wednesday night so 30 hours without power. At one point, I robbed the solar lighting in the flower bed and brought them in so we could have a little light in each room. We have gas, so we used the oven until the power went out. Then I lit the burners on the stove top and used them sparingly to knock off the chill. As the refrigerator started to warm up, we moved some of the stuff to the freezer in the garage. That way we were able to save almost all of the good stuff. The freezer never made it above 29 deg F. NOTE: Sunday night before the freeze, I started eating the ice cream. When the power went out, I started cooking the bacon! Great dinner of bacon and eggs! Now we have our power back, but we are out of ice cream!!! :)
We did similar things. We had gas the whole time, so a little heat, and cooking. Filled the tub before water shut off. Didn’t shower for about 4-5 days. Laundry when power was on with water. Gas was available here and there. Stores had non perishable foods and limited water. We didn’t hoard items nor did our kids. Calm sense of community! Taco Bell came in clutch twice and my son found Chinese buffet selling by pound! We got to 14 degrees outside of Houston but house was 55 degrees. 3-5 blankets each. Also had 84 year old Grandma and we colored and talked by the fire a lot😊
I live in New York State. I have always stocked up...especially for the winter months. I had gotten complacent concerning my "bug out bag" since I moved to senior housing 8 years ago. The Texas storm has prompted me to refresh it and purchase what I need to keep it up to date. Our best resource is the brain we carry in our heads. We all need to prepare as best we can so that we can be self sufficient during hard times.
You don’t have to be a “Prepper” to be prepared. Every household should have two weeks of food and water first then back up power in solar or gas generators. Weather events hit all corners of the country and everywhere in between. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Please make sure you use your portable gas generator carefully ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I1jT3ANENvI.html here’s an advice about keeping your family safe while using generators. Just hoping everyone stays safe. Thank you
Don’t rely on him alone. EVERYONE NEEDS PREPARATIONS FOR BASIC FOOD, WARMTH, SHELTER, LIGHTING, WATER, BE ABLE TO COOK IF POWER IS OUT. ALSO PROVIDE FOR PETS. THINK CAMPING. DONT FORGET DEALING WITH HUMAN EXCREMENT. get preps for a week, then two weeks, then build from there.
Lol the same for my husband! He’s a wonderful guy, but doesn’t know much about emergency preparedness. It’s up to me to learn and take care of it. I’m researching and going one step at a time.
Thank you so much for sharing this! None of my family would LISTEN to me about getting prepared. I tried...but my husband would just use up the "extra"....and every time family members 'went thru a rough patch....we used from my stash...but no one helped to replenish it.....I have tried for years...but...now...I guess.... they are wishing they had LISTENED ! I don't worry about mE.....but I worry about my grandkids !
It can really be aggravating when people don't get or appreciate what you are trying to do. My 9 yr. old grandson gets it though and helps me tend to our "zombie apocalypse" stash. I'm a quadriplegic and is my hands.
Maybe someone already said this but... When my neighbors started complaining that they were losing food from their freezer I told them to put their freezer food in their pickup truck bed period after all it's freezing out
Great job preparing for this disaster. I am north of Houston and we were blessed to have power and water the whole time, although we were on a boil notice for a day. We were prepared for being without both. We even took 4 refugees in for the snowpocalypse who didn't have water and supplied a neighbor with bottled water. We did burn some wood in the fireplace since it was already stacked inside, but we never needed it. I had some friends who didn't have power, but had a gas fireplace to hang out next to. I told them to move their freezer to their backyard so it would be good. They also moved their food from the fridge to the backyard in boxes and kept them out for a couple hours and inside overnight. They kept a thermometer in a box to check on them. Now I am fixing water damage for a family member with broken copper pipes in the attic.
God is blessing us with this mini-disaster. This is another damp run for times to come. Thank you so much for sharing your preps, mindset, and how you are using your preps.
I've spent time all over this country. Two foot snowstorms and hurricanes dont scare me. It has always amazed me that people go through trials and still arent ready for the basics. As for me I have some things to fine tune. My next home will have a woodburning stove.
55 galon trash can from Home Depot $24, can storage 55 gallon water for emergency use, also most home have 50 gallon water heater inside garage can extract for emergency use.
Also remember no running a generator indoors ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I1jT3ANENvI.html here’s a video about keeping your family safe
You sir, have inspired me to start to prepare for emergencies. The berkey water filter, the bathtub water thing, generators, just wow. You are very well prepared! I live in Utah and I think the only thing I have to worry about is earthquakes? My heart goes out to all the Texans who have been affected by the crazy weather
additionally we live in the woods and headlamps that attach firmly with strechy bands are most welcome in any chore outside .......get lots of batteries and some quality battery chargers to prolong the life of those high quality batteries.
Great videos on this. I think you’ll open a lot of eyes on being prepared. Unfortunately many will not follow through. I cannot believe that so many homeowners did not even know how to protect their homes by shutting off and draining water lines! Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
First video of your's I've seen. Awesome job. Friends and family have said I'm crazy to prep. Well, we had a very short power outages here in Western NY. Guess who called me to see if I could spare anything. Now, my friends and some family members now have some food storage and water.
Didn't happen here in this part of Houston. Power was out for 2 days straight minus 3 hours having power. So glad I invested in a generator converted for natural gas.
I know what thats like. I lived in a log cabin in the mountains for year, and we had week long outages with a few feet of snow. I would have to use my tractor and plow the 1 mile private road to get gas for the generator after the stored fuel ran out.
I love this idea 6:43 9:14 the reason I’m planning to get a mini fridge to go along with my power station which is another reason I need more power stations. So one can focus on the mini fridge.
When I have water but freezing temps I put empty tide jugs under the faucet when they are trickling. Then use those jugs of water for toliet flushes or just dump in to washer when doing laundry. At least the water from trickling faucets is not going to waste. I also catch any handwash water in a dish tub to use for flushing. Have you looked at the tub bladder bag (can’t remember the real name). Been considering one of those. Stay safe! Would like to hear more updates like how are you cooking? Tfs!!
we all need to go back 120 years ago and live like they did at the time.............gardens, huge pantries, ability to convert wheat berries to bread, cows to hamburger, chickens to chicken fingers, and water without killing our selves..........refrigeration at that time was mostly optional. today solar pretty much takes care of the refrigeration electric problem.
If I may say, you have a very beautiful home and it shows that it is very well maintained .. thanks for the great update, be safe, be well ..... Cheers
Greetings from California. You've done a great job on preparing for this event. I wish you and your family and the rest of Texas the best during this difficult time.
hello. First and foremost glad you guys are doing good still in spite of things going on. Those are all great things to consider for anyone in a similar situation as this can happen to anyone of us. Just to add i've used neodymium magnets to hang lights up high like on fridge or edges/corners of walls with steel strip behind the paint. Other thing I keep in mind is that snow or ice can be used to keep food cold in fridge, freezer or cooler if need be. Stay safe and warm and all the best to you all down south from up north of the border "CR"
Here's a crazy idea - kinda surprised you didn't mention it....how about melting snow for water? Also, snow can be used to keep food cold if you can't find a way to power your fridge.
@@LoneStarPrepping No need to because you were obviously prepared & that's great - I was thinking of it more as a tip for folks who didn't know, for example, that you can use snow to flush toilets, wash dishes, keep food cold, etc. We Texans typically don't know anything about snow. From experience, when food gets close to spoiling in the fridge because of no power, no need to worry - there is a perfectly good ice box right outside! :)
Thank you Great video..great info..WOW..you & your family are really prepared..God continue to bless & keep you all safe.. i live..in NYC & I have one of the blue jugs filled with water at all times along with some water bottles, candles food..i also..fills my bath tub at the first sign of an impending storm..we need to buy one of those generators & a few electric blankets
I like your electric blanket idea...under 100watts is a lot easier to power with a battery back up than a 1500 watt heater and it shows that solar can work even when its cloudy...diminished capacity but maybe enough to power an electric blanket for a bit at night?
Im not 50 yrs.old yet. Getting close though, I subscribed. Our pipes froze, then the next day, kids DAD's uncle his water froze. Then the next day my dad's pipes froze! We had to go help his uncle . my dad had to call on professional's because he lives to far away. We all live in mobile homes too-fyi. Thete were 10 trailers with frozen pipes, 2 trailers heat completely went out. It was a crazy 3 days. Missouri area
Vivian, what you have to ask yourself is whether everyone learned lessons from this experience, and how to be ready the next time a deep freeze spell comes around. I live in New Hampshire, also in a mobile home, and have gone through pipes freezing. There are things you can do ahead of time to avoid frozen pipes. I bet you know this now!Lol! Hope you get everything back in working order soon.
How many forgot to shut off their main water supply and drain the pipes, and put antifreeze in drains when the power/heat went out? Just like winterizing an RV or cabin.
Say water three hundred and seventy three times. Haha for real tho well done with your water reserves. Love the berkeys. Best wishes to you and your neighbors!
Glad to see a prepper share his experiences during this time. We as preppers are looking to see how others are families (who prepare) are handling this situation in TX. We live north. I would like to add don't believe when TX leadership tells you Wind Turbines are the blame. We live within 15 miles of a huge wind turbine. Our temps are NEGATIVE 9 degrees today. That turbines is working and spinning today. It also has worked in temps low as NEGATIVE -75 without any problems. Keep prepping! Your video proves why it is necessary! Well done! Well done!
@@LoneStarPrepping I'm from New Orleans and this is much like our leeves breaking during Katrina. Government is to blame. They knew they were never prepared and never had to deal with anything of the magnitude. Now that they are, everyone is finding out the truth.
It's my understanding that ice, not cold temps, that was the problem with wind turbines. Did you have any appreciable freezing rain that could have coated them? Are you far enough north that if they did accumulate ice, that heaters are installed to keep it melted? There are a lot of questions to be answered. That's for sure. Was money that could have been used to maintain/improve the traditional power generation sources diverted to "green" energy projects? Was the maximum generation capability of traditional power generation reduced beyond what the "green" could reliably produce? A gas, coal or a nuclear powered plant, properly maintained and operated, can produce electricity 24/7/365. Solar is limited by the availability of sunlight. Half of the year, daylight hours are fewer than nighttime hours. And, without solar tracking, many fixed panels are even further limited in receiving rays from the sun. Clouds, snow, dirt and dust limits output, as well. Wind turbines have a different set of problems that limit productivity. (1) ICE (2) Lack of wind. (3) Too much wind. Around 55+ mph, if memory serves. (4) Down time for routine maintenance and repairs. Side note: Many require electricity and fossil fuel products to function, as well. Again, taking all these factors into consideration, was the maximum output capability from existing traditional power sources reduced and "green" sources were brought on line? (This question doesn't take into consideration the growth of total production requirements over the period of transition from fossil fuels.)
@@oldtimerlee8820 I am definitely far enough North to know that solar and wind turbines work in the winter and with ice on them if they are properly installed. The State of Texas and ERCOT took the cheap route and assumed winter would never come to Texas. Climate change is real and even Texas can't deny it anymore. Green energy works. We have two huge wind turbines a few miles from my house. They turn in negative 75 degree weather. When the polar vortex hit in 2019 every wind turbine and solar panel worked. The solar panels and wind turbines were completely iced over as it had snowed for 3 days before. We have solar panels on our house and they have never failed - not once. The City has a field of solar panels and a wind turbine. They have never failed - not once. They problem with Texas is they don't want to spend the money to winterize the grid or admit climate change. Some Texans will never believe WINTER will be a regular event going forward. Climate change is dropping the polar vortex lower and lower every year. Instead of having one or two cold days per year, Texas will now have weeks of WINTER. Texas grid, houses, hospitals, and infrastructure are not ready for WEEKS of negative temperatures. However, this is what the Southern states will have going forward due to climate change. Texans and other Southern families should prepare for WINTER like northerners do. Don't believe me. You don't have to. Mother nature will show you better than I can tell you. Texans will freeze in their homes if ERCOT doesn't get their shyte together The fed govt already knows melting artic makes winters more severe but they won't tell citizens. Weeks of winter require winterization and a plan for WINTER power outages. We live far North and have noticed the change in weather. We see it directly in our gardening. We used to be able to plant our garden May 15 now we must wait to plant June 1st or risk everything freezing in a late May cold snap. Then we must take everything out of the garden by Halloween. We used to be able to go to Thanksgiving. Not anymore. I no longer purchase garden seeds with grow length recommended by our University Extension. I buy garden seeds with a very short grow season because our plant/harvest season is not as long as it used to be. Every year winter in the far North is worse and worse. We are like ants now prepping all summer/fall June - October for Winter Nov - May. I strongly encourage you to prepare for WINTER power outages as a regular event if you plan to stay living in Texas. Green energy works better than gas and oil. That why Northern states like Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and many other Midwest states installed them. They work and never fail for the small amount of ice and low temperatures Texas received. Wind turbines and solar panels work without fail in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and the rest of Midwest at negative 75 temps and ice storm. Texas wind turbines should work with a little bit of ice. In the Midwest our energy company and State govt leaders ensure the grid is winterize and the money is spent to maintain the grid. Texans need to ensure their leadership does the same. Texas blackouts and grid failures also happen in December 1989, February 2011, February 2021. Texas Grid is so fragile the next snow storm (which could come in a few weeks) could kill the Texas grid permanently. Are you prepped and ready because WINTER is far from over? Power rarely goes out in the Midwest during the winter. (Michigan the exception because they too don't want to spend the money). Midwesterners never go a week in the winter without power. We never have the level of damage in our homes shown on the news for Texas homes. Why? Because our wind, solar, and grid are winterize. Texas needs to spend the money. $14,000 electric bills are ridiculous. We don't get $14,000 3-day electric bills in the Midwest and neither should Southerners. Don't believe the green energy is the problem lie win the truth is in your face. Green energy works year round with ice - with negative temperature - without fail.
@@ProvidingResources Have you ever taken the opposite position on a debatable topic and ACTUALLY researched it enough to defend it? At least to the point of understanding the pros & cons of your own position. Suspect you haven't. Yes, green energy does have some advantages. That's one side of the research. There are definite dis-advantages that deserve to be researched, as well. Did you know, for example, that it takes electricity and fossil fuel lubricants to operate a wind turbine. Do you know the operational life of wind turbines compared to traditional electrical power producers? "Midwesterners never go a week in the winter without power." Spend a few minutes researching the records, in individual mid-western states and the impact of winter storms. Especially ice storms. "$14,000 electric bills are ridiculous." That has nothing to do with the fossil fuel vs green energy debate. That's a billing policy issue in the same way that minimum wage or base line for unemployment are policy/legal issues. Just a couple of points, from several that could been chosen for rebuttal.
Funny you bring up the Grayl! I ordered one a week ago! I was going to do a review on it. Ill post a link on my pages if anyone wants to learn more about it.
@@LoneStarPrepping Great! Other RU-vidrs have filtered some dubious looking water. Don’t expect you to try that but maybe just how to use and clean it for storage? Thx!
Were ever you can switch to l.e.d lights they will save money while hooked to the grid and you can use more lights when hooked to an alternate power source
When the temperature drops below freezing, there is no excuse for food to spoil inside your house, wherein and or, because the electric supply is shut off. Just bring your food to the freezer that the deep diving polar vortex, from siberia, has presented to you! Pack the food in a picnic/camping cooler and bring it to a convienent easily reacheable location, outside your house. Don't panic, your food will not instantly go bad! Food in the freezer will be fine for a day or 2 before it needs to be brought outside. Avoid opening freezer and fridge doors, and contents will stay cool for sometime. The concern for food spoilage arises when the power goes out in warm weather! If your house is cold and and it is below freezing outdoors, then the list of survival priorities flip flops. Be calm, use your critical thinking power, and follow paths of logic. In this recent Texas freeze, I am sure many southerners, have been woken up to the need for future preparedness and general awareness. Because of the EVILS of geoengineering for weather manipulation, man meddling where he ought not to meddle, Earth's natural occurring weather systems and patterns have been rendered helter skelter! "Weather warfare". www.geongineeringwatch.org Dane Wigington provides his weekly global alert news, here on this utoob platform, each Saturday. Worth listening to. Also worth investigation: www.stopthecrime.net For future understanding, if you get below freezing temps, coming your way, then you need to understand all the behavior of water when expanding as ICE. Let your faucets drip, throughout the deep freeze days and weeks. Sometimes a slow drip will not be enough to keep pipes from freezing. A trickle stream, might be wiser, and catch that water and use it! If you have any water storage outside or in a garage in a deep freeze spell, your containers may burst. Yes, you can bring them to the warmth, but if you have no place to put the containers inside, then, you will need to drain off several inches from each water jug and bottle, to allow for expansion in the ice state. Don't forget your other stored liquids and drinks, all will freeze and explode! Get your beers, wines, soda, juices, into a situation where they will remain at above freezing temps. Once milk freezes it never seems as desirable, even when allowed to melt, to a more normal state. As an East Coast New Englander all my life, I have experienced lots of the stuff that happens in a deep freeze! I have been caught ill prepared and ignorant! Life lessons arise, in the aftermath! We got lucky, while Texans and others where freezing, we stayed above freezing, in my NH location. Let us hope this deep diving polar vortex, does not become a regular situation for Texas and those other States that got hit this time! Ok, now you need to get all your vegtable gardens going! The need to learn to grow your own food is top of the list for all preppers/humans! Get those seedlings started! Hope all you folks warm up soon!
I felt lucky. I have been through many little disasters all over this country. I didn't panick and was able to help others. Hope more people can think it through next time.
In the Dallas area temporarily and Tuesday we only had power for 3 hours. Wednesday we had power all day. Very thankful and an answer to our prayers. Your latest videos are very helpful. Thanks.
Dont store them with batteries in them. We did and batteries leaked in one. Did you see how we put cut in half 1 gallon jugs over them to dim the light? Cool... really makes a difference
i didn't prepare at all, turns out i had plenty of canned goods and bottled water in my garage. i also had SEVERAL olights, they last days on the low setting. i also charged things using Milwaukee M18 batteries with a USB adapter that i bought but NEVER used. turns out i was prepping for this for years, as my neighbors went out looking for food or used their car to charge their phone i just stayed home for 4 days straight without power for 3days...
They say that If they delayed starting the rolling blackouts for just 4 minutes, the power may have been out for weeks or even months. Were you prepated for that? Im glad you had what you needed this time!
We decided to start freezing most flour and put the rest in containers. As part of my prepping skills, I learned to bake bread and sourdough years ago.
Even if the water goes out, one still has water in the water lines of the house that could freeze and split. To avoid, one might consider draining all water lines in the house until water is restored. Water/ice damage is VERY expensive and nasty!
It's not always a good idea. You would have to be sure ALL the water is removed. www.khou.com/article/news/verify/verify-should-you-shut-off-water-to-protect-pipes/285-504259231
We live in a snowy place. We have a Coleman propane stove, a biolite campstove2, (which uses wood & generates electricity for charging phone), and our grill. It doesn’t sound like much but the biolite uses wood and we keep a bag of pellets. Living where we lose power a couple of times a year, we’ve added to this each Christmas. We also have the biolite solar home set which has 3 bright lights, (one is motion sensitive), charging capacity, and a radio. We have a large Mr. Heater propane heater and 3 40# full propane tanks. I’m sorry - I kept on typing even that’s not all you’re asking about.
I would suggest getting an Aquabot 2.0. It's about $30 and it will hold a hundred and five gallons of water and mold itself to your bathtub. It also comes with a pump which will help you pump the water into a picture or bucket to use for flushing bathing or washing clothes if necessary. Did you have the snow? If so we have always gathered buckets of snow and had it melt into jugs. And then go through our water filter
We had snow. I have no idea what an Aquabot is. We have the waterBOB. We will be doing a review on it soon. It will show us using it for the first time.
Hello, thanks for the video. You mention having various food in the freezer but not how to cook it. Do you have non-electric means of cooking the food? Thanks
Hey Guy, this is my prepping setup for cooking during SHTF: Off the top of my head I have 3 fuel supplies that I can use. 1. 20# propane tanks that I use for my BBQ grill and 2 burner camping stove. The BBQ is very inefficient so I probably will never use it in an emergency. 2. 1# propane cylinders that I use for my (2) small BBQ grills and a single burner stove that I use for an old fashioned coffee percolator. I buy the 1 pound cylinders by the case when they are on sale. 3. Wood that I use in my rocket stove that's large enough to hold my 15 inch cast iron skillet. Future possible plans are a wood burning outdoor oven, there are several RU-vid videos on building them. There are also several RU-vid videos on building a simple rocket stove out of concrete blocks. These are mostly leftover camping supplies but the rocket stove was a recent purchase on eBay (around $90).
I've always had a supply for charcoal grill, grates for the fire pit, wood, sterno and a little camp "stove" canned goods can be eaten cold if in a real bad situation.
One preper to another thanks for sharing .. I am In Pennsylvania and was just at the store when I seen some guy grabbing 1 lb propane tanks so I figured I will take few myself and bought the last 4 .. at checkout anouther customer was like hey where did u get those .. not sure why but 1lb propane tanks are now gone ...
In my neck of the woods, when either hurricane or winter warnings go up, stores are quickly cleared of anything that's normally used for camping fuels. And the equipment that uses them. Same thing that happens to bread and batteries.
