Post by woodyz on Nov 5, 2012 12:35:41 GMT -7
Since Katrina FEMA and other goberment agencies have advised people to be self suffience for a minimum of 72 hours or three days. Not to expect help for a minimum of three days.
Sandy may have been the first real test of that "post Katrina" process.
People on Statten Island saw their first FEMA help after five days.
This isn't a bash FEMA post, what I hope is this post becomes a readjustment to our self suffiency clock.
I have 72 hour kits, which are a replacement + to my 48 hour BOB. Together they give me and my wife 5 days of shelter, water, food, fire, first-aid and saftey/protection.
So in rethinking that it has been my believe I would have those two kits as well as a camp cache and several resupply caches placed around. Enough for five days with very little concern out side of a medical emergency.
Flooding:
At the house or the farm flooding isn't a concern for me. However, flooding could isolate me in or from the house or farm. Not a real problem either as I have a minimum of 90 days of supplies at both locations (at minimum ) Again a medical emergency would be the only real issue.
Fire/wind/earthquake/chemical spill/nuclear release/ice or snow:
While these at either location would indeed leave me without stores I would still have five days and various cachtes worth of what is needed for two people. And the intent to go to the secondary location asap.
Access from one location to the other can occur without needing any major road, in fact not even secondary roads. Access from one to the other is also possible by walking given a minimum of 4 days. Caches are in place along the access route, with resupply caches at every mile and a camp/shelter cache every five miles. Eliminating the carrying of more than 25# at a time.
Fire, flood or traffic could eliminate some of the route and some of the cachtes, but are not a major concern and move away from populated zones instead of toward.
Both locations provide bugging out opportunities but small concern to do so as they have been fortified and choosen with bugging in as the goal.
However there remain some items/tools/capabilities etc. that one location may have over the other. For example we have a small tractor with many capabilities but it is trailered from one location to the other. We have much more fuel stored at one than is at the other and while handtools exist at both locations many specialty tools are only at one location.
The ideal would be duplication of all of the resources and I suppose that will be what we do. However, not occupying one or the other of the sites provides some concern with stealing or looting. Both sites are remote and are not readily accessable to looting by the mainstream looter, but it is still a concern. One site is occupied much more than the other and one has much better concelment of facilities than the other. It be comes a matter of inconvienience vs concern.
I am considering renting a small non-occupied storage building and using it to stock some equipment and supplies. Hiding the real contents behind a false wall of household furniture or something like that. Maybe hiding a truck, already loaded so I can pull down the false items and drive away in a minimum of time and effort.
Any thoughts?
Sandy may have been the first real test of that "post Katrina" process.
People on Statten Island saw their first FEMA help after five days.
This isn't a bash FEMA post, what I hope is this post becomes a readjustment to our self suffiency clock.
I have 72 hour kits, which are a replacement + to my 48 hour BOB. Together they give me and my wife 5 days of shelter, water, food, fire, first-aid and saftey/protection.
So in rethinking that it has been my believe I would have those two kits as well as a camp cache and several resupply caches placed around. Enough for five days with very little concern out side of a medical emergency.
Flooding:
At the house or the farm flooding isn't a concern for me. However, flooding could isolate me in or from the house or farm. Not a real problem either as I have a minimum of 90 days of supplies at both locations (at minimum ) Again a medical emergency would be the only real issue.
Fire/wind/earthquake/chemical spill/nuclear release/ice or snow:
While these at either location would indeed leave me without stores I would still have five days and various cachtes worth of what is needed for two people. And the intent to go to the secondary location asap.
Access from one location to the other can occur without needing any major road, in fact not even secondary roads. Access from one to the other is also possible by walking given a minimum of 4 days. Caches are in place along the access route, with resupply caches at every mile and a camp/shelter cache every five miles. Eliminating the carrying of more than 25# at a time.
Fire, flood or traffic could eliminate some of the route and some of the cachtes, but are not a major concern and move away from populated zones instead of toward.
Both locations provide bugging out opportunities but small concern to do so as they have been fortified and choosen with bugging in as the goal.
However there remain some items/tools/capabilities etc. that one location may have over the other. For example we have a small tractor with many capabilities but it is trailered from one location to the other. We have much more fuel stored at one than is at the other and while handtools exist at both locations many specialty tools are only at one location.
The ideal would be duplication of all of the resources and I suppose that will be what we do. However, not occupying one or the other of the sites provides some concern with stealing or looting. Both sites are remote and are not readily accessable to looting by the mainstream looter, but it is still a concern. One site is occupied much more than the other and one has much better concelment of facilities than the other. It be comes a matter of inconvienience vs concern.
I am considering renting a small non-occupied storage building and using it to stock some equipment and supplies. Hiding the real contents behind a false wall of household furniture or something like that. Maybe hiding a truck, already loaded so I can pull down the false items and drive away in a minimum of time and effort.
Any thoughts?