Posted: 9/12/2014 7:17:00 PM EDT
| would you recommend to keep stored?Two adults and one 7 year old,have 6 cases and 12 gallons so far.Wondering what you guy's have put away?Next will be something for water collection/purification. |
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would you recommend to keep stored?Two adults and one 7 year old,have 6 cases and 12 gallons so far.Wondering what you guy's have put away?Next will be something for water collection/purification. id like to pick up a couple of those blue 55 gallon drums.. that would keep you going for a long time. even better would be a 275 gallon tote. those are great for the space they take up. they hold about 100 gallons more vs the amount of space 4 drums take up. at the moment i just have around 8 of those walmart 6 gallon camping jugs with spigot. im really wanting to get a 275 gallon tote, and about 4 barrels. im going to be building a cabin at my farm, and it will be off grid for several years at least, and im looking into cisterns, totes, and other ways to store and haul water. |
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Pool shock, wally world or any pool supply. You get more bang for the buck AND storage wise much easier to store 1 or 2 of these, than 1/2doz. bottles of bleach
DO NOT USE empty milk containers for water storage. Every time you go shopping buy 2-3 gal or 24 packs of water. Just like you did when 22lr was available. http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=calcium+hypochlorite&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=3527166510&ref=pd_sl_752cyyoxn7_p http://readynutrition.com/resources/better-than-bleach-use-calcium-hypochlorite-to-disinfect-water_19062010/ http://www.sodis.ch/methode/index_EN People around here do not have 55 gal drums for storage. IF you need to bug out, who the hell is lifting 440 lbs of dead weight? 1 bak of pool shock along with your already loaded 2-3 cases of H2O will keep you going. IF you want other options, we also have hard wood charcoal (none of this scented easy light crap) that can be crushed , used to filter water. Have a few t-shirts or other white material, even coffee filters, for basic filtering of water to get dirt and other impurities out. |
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Seeing as how you're in GA, a water emergency will probably not be as urgent as a food emergency. I have a few cases of bottled water, a couple backpacking water filters, and I am now filling empty larger beverage containers with water. I work at a hospital so I will have access to water. I have recently organized my food preps though. I started canning my venison and before I knew it I had all this meat but not much to go with it. So I started stocking up on non-perishable food like canned vegetables, canned potatoes, mac and cheese and other sides. I got soups on sale, bogo stuff of things I use like mayo. I stocked up on canned evaporated milk at one point. I just got in there to rotate stuff out and realized I have not been doing a very good job at that. I got a price stamper off of ebay to put expiration dates where I can see them on all my food!!! Wish I would have done that sooner. Oh well. I have as much food as some convenience stores I've been to! Some of it was poorly chosen, like the case of sponge bob mac and cheese I got from Sams. It was a cheap easy way to shore up my preps at the time but I will be eating it a couple times a week for a few months. I also have staples stored, like coffee, creamer, sugar, salt, rice, all with expiration dates plainly stamped. I had a run of high medical bills lately so having all this has come in pretty handy. I only have to go to the store for fresh stuff and loss leader stuff. I take all my food to work. In the event of a hurricane, power outage, civil disturbance, or other emergency that prevents me from going to the store, won't affect me much. Yes most of it is processed convenience items but I don't have to live on it to rotate the stock. Well actually now I kind of do for awhile but once I get my excess eaten down I can eat real food more. I usually have a garden in the summer so that's covered. I highly recommend stamping expiration dates on items where you can see it. The bright labels I use now are so much easier to see than the sharpie. You can get the cheap Chinese made stamper or just go to ebay and get a nice used monarch. |
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I have 2 55 gallon drums, water rotated (but I need to rotate more often) and we also usually keep a couple of cases of bottled water, several gallons of bottled water and a 5 gal. container or two. The actual store of "quick use" bottled water kind of ebb's and flows based on how much we're using for camping, etc. We make it a point to use bottled water on a semi regular basis, just for the fact that it requires us to keep some on hand and in quick storage. We also have the ability to filter and treat in a larger quantity if needed.
Our town has issued boil water alerts 3 times in the last few years (once on Thanksgiving Day) and the alert usually lasts for a day or so. The last time that happened every store in town was cleaned out of drinking water quickly. I know we could boil it if we needed to, but it is nice to be prepped and not need to. When things like that happen I make it a point to get out and go to the store and see how people react. |
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Quoted: One gallon per person per day is the American Red Cross recommended for shelter in place. yup--this is the bare minimum for potable use and the most rudimentary hygiene. in addition to storage, it's important to have a water plan. you need to be able to reuse grey water (non-potable but still useful), dispose of black water (fully contaminated), and gather/treat new water supply.
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