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  • mistermodal@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 days ago

    Why wpuld anyone ever be a god damned prepped that sounds like the most miserable life imaginable. You are signing up to be Salad Fingers fuck that shit

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      I don’t know about full on prepper, but diversifying into physical metal, crypto, real estate, stocks, bonds/treasuries etc is undoubtedly wise.

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        Yeah you don’t have to go full prepper but some of it just comes under common sense emergency stuff I think. Like where we live we have a reasonably sized garden so we grow stuff to eat, and have a big rain barrel to collect water. Normally that’s just used to water the plants but you could presumably boil it up and make it potable if you really needed to. Between that and just having a reasonable amount of dry food in the pantry it’s probably enough to see us through for at least a week or two if anything serious happened.

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      2 days ago

      conversely, it’s a bad idea to not keep emergency preparedness supplies like ≥3 L water per household occupant, dried food (beans etc., rotated regularly), a first aid kit, etc.

      be safe frens

      edit: I’m an idiot American and forgot i have gallon water jugs not 1 L 🤦‍♀️

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        Yeah, having been in a surprise proper emergency (no power, water, limited roads, cell service, etc for over a week) having some emergency supplies and a radio (if you have a car, AM/FM radio in that is great) completely changes things

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          Yeah we’re kind of remote and we once went for I think 9 days without power after a big weather event. Having a radio and a little gas camping stove were lifesavers. Also get lots of candles and books, one of my main memories of that time is how boring it was lol.

          Next thing I want to do is get solar-ed up so we can just flip that on for an hour or two if needed. The previous power cut was years ago when a solar setup wasn’t really feasible.

      • mistermodal@lemmy.mlOP
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        2 days ago

        You can be sure that the govt will treat every single disaster like Katrina and the trucks will grow large enough to mow down 20 kida at once