I'm not what you would call a prepper.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
Also, never let your car's gas tank get below half empty. You'll probably never need that half tank. But if you ever do, you are really really really going to be glad you have it
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
One more survival tip: if you live in a disaster zone and are heading out to go looting, prioritize getting food and water over "Let's Go Brandon" beer koozies
Cops: Hurricane Looters Hit Trump Merch Store
One of the alleged "Helene" looters, Lance Petrisevac, 57, was wearing a "Trump cowboy hat" when arrested Friday in Madeira Beach, Florida.
The Smoking Gun (thesmokinggun.com)
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
Hard to believe that these guys' first thought when the apocalypse hit was "let's go rob the Trump store," I know
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@jalefkowit tho I agree that “prepping” is often a self-soothing fantasy, I think as climate-related disasters become more prevalent, we all need to get into more emergency prep activities. Like keeping water as you mention, short packing lists with critical items or go bags with a few supplies and documentation, small solar chargers… probably depends on the likely disasters where you live. I like headlamps, useful in emergencies as well as routine activities.
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@swacknificent For me there's a distinction between prepping-qua-prepping and just some common sense. You should probably have some water and non-perishable food, that's common sense. You should probably have a good flashlight and extra batteries. You should probably have important documents stored together so you can grab them if you need to leave quickly. I've always filed that stuff under common sense.
Prepping to me is more like "what kind of AR-15 should I own for when society turns into a Mad Max movie." But I recognize the exact place where the one turns into the other is kinda fuzzy
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Jonathan Koomeyreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit If you have space, get the 5 gallon jugs that feed office water coolers. The water stays good a long time (I checked with the manufacturer and they said it would keep indefinitely if stored in a cool dark place. I changed them out after 11 years and the old water tasted fine. You can even get a hand pump to make it more convenient to extract the water.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jonathan Koomey last edited by
@jgkoomey No argument here, though if you want to store water in quantity something like WaterBricks might be more space efficient:
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(I rotate my bottled water every year or so, just b/c I've been told the plastic in consumer bottles tends to start leaching into the water after that.)
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@jalefkowit Water, batteries, and half-decent nutrition you don't have to cook, Cliff bars and dried fruit. Super easy, and you can hold out for a week or more.
Prepping is a commercial racket. I used to sell wedding dresses--I know what this looks like.
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@janisf Yeah, I wouldn't argue with any of that. My focus was just on, if you're going to do ONE THING, that thing should be water. But putting some non-perishable food aside is absolutely smart too (and takes very little cost or effort).
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Jonathan Koomeyreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit That might be true, but perhaps not true for all plastics. The water cooler jugs imparted no discernible taste to the water after 11 years. There may have been leaching I couldn’t taste but that’s a good first order test. The water bricks look cool!
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jonathan Koomey last edited by
@jgkoomey Yeah, I was talking about gallon jugs bought at the grocery store. I assume bigger containers made for office/industrial use last longer (just because businesses don’t want to be pouring out their big bottles every year).
But I’m not an expert on any of this, my assumptions should be taken with a big old grain of salt
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@jalefkowit you can fill your bathtub with water as disaster approaches and then you can flush the toilet and maybe get some kinda sketchy drinking water that's good enough for survival
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@teddy You absolutely can. But if you have some water put aside already, that's one less thing for you to deal with when the emergency is bearing down on you.
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ꓤ uɐᗡ :verified_hellion:replied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit time has not been kind to Beavis and Butthead
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monkϵyborg 🦾🐵replied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit One thing you can do if youʼre not into buying bottled water: fill up plastic beverage containers with water as you finish them (my home goes through a lot of juicy juice) and stick them in the freezer.
They will also reduce the amount of energy your freezer uses and will provide you with some additional short-term refrigeration in the event your power goes out.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to monkϵyborg 🦾🐵 last edited by
@monkeyborg Yep, though I've been told that the plastic in consumer drinks bottles tends to start breaking down and leaching into the water after a year or so. So you'll want to rotate those containers periodically. But getting a year of use out of a plastic bottle is definitely better than getting a day out of one.
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monkϵyborg 🦾🐵replied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit How are you storing your emergency water, if not in plastic bottles?
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to monkϵyborg 🦾🐵 last edited by
@monkeyborg I buy jugs of water at the grocery store. They have the same caveats that reusing a juice bottle would.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
"The effects of Hurricane Isabel in Virginia proved to be the costliest disaster in the history of Virginia."
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