🔋 Can You Make It Through a Week Off-Grid? 🌿

[murphysranch]

I am the one that needs to do this. Thank you, CC.

 

[CrealCritter]

I bought a large dual fuel generator last year. The plan is to hook it up on our exterior propane tank. Its a 50 gal one. With that I can keep two freezers and pare down to one frig, to keep them running. Sadly, hubs refuses to start up the generator, put a load on it, and make sure its maintained. Oh it will be fine, honey....

Water is stored. Food is stored. First aid is stored. Paper and plastic ware. Solar lanterns, tall glass candles, power banks for phones. Verbal plan of how to bug out if its a wildfire, keeping the crates and pet food stored together. I have three life straws and since we have a weeping spring on one hillside, I can gather water from it and use the life straw if things got desperate.

I keep three BBQ propane tanks full. I have heavy restaurant quality pots and pans (used) for cooking on the BBQ. I really want to purchase a butane stove too. $$$

Heat in the winter? No wood stove here. I have a propane heater, Mr Buddy, in the shop, that I'll bring up. I also have a large tent to set up in one of the bedrooms for all of us to huddle together.

I read books. Hubs and son don't. They will be on their own for entertainment.

Wanted to add, good call on life straws . My son and I took extended days/nights hike/camp trip in the Mark Twain national forest. I packed in no water, at 8 lbs a gallon it can be a lot to pack. See a spring, get hydrated via life straw. I used the life straw for the entire trip with the exception of water from McCormack (sp) lake water and purification tablets for morning coffee. Didn't get Ill and I'm still alive. So water purification tablets might be helpful also.

Example website

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[murphysranch]

Dang...that brand cannot be shipped to me due to my location. So I went to Amaz and got the same message. So I picked a different brand. Arrives Friday. Thanks.

 

[Mini Horses]

You know, the most crippling thing a foreign enemy can do for immediate panic is hack into our electric & water grids....all computerized. Give that some thought.

 

[Hinotori]

Dang...that brand cannot be shipped to me due to my location. So I went to Amaz and got the same message. So I picked a different brand. Arrives Friday. Thanks.

The Fred Meyer has them here. Or at least they did. I have that brand in my first aid kit.

Lifestraws go on sale on Amazon occasionally. We have 4. We've concidered a Berkey filter but they are costly.

Only reason I have a small bottle of regular bleach is emergency purification and the rare sanitation of something. Bleach reacts with the iron in the water so cant use it for clothes. Makes them turn brown faster.

 

[Hinotori]

It's said that the veneer of civilization is only 3 days thick. Then it devolves quickly in cities.

 

[flowerbug]

Imagine this: the power cuts out — and it’s not coming back for a while. No fridge, no lights, no quick trips to the store. Could you stay calm, fed, warm, and resourceful for a full seven days without modern conveniences?

i could, the person i live with will fail "calm" but eventually we'd get through it ok.

 

[baymule]

I’ve lived in hurricane country most of my life. Still do, but a little farther inland now. I’m 177 miles from Galveston, just a short hop for a major hurricane. I’ve gone 3 weeks without power, used a small generator for refrigerator and freezer, a fan and TV. When the whole area has no power, getting gas for a generator can be hard. Hurricane Ike dropped a massive oak tree on my house, so had to deal with that. No power for miles and miles. The company I worked for sent out a driver daily with employees gas cans so we could get to work and back home, gas for our generators. Driver had to go over 100 miles to find gas stations with power. That only lasted the first week. Power was restored fairly fast in the towns.
Never lost water, lived in town. But the water tower had no power, got power restored before town ran out of water. After that, town got a generator to run the water system.

1. Power goes out in nearly every storm. I’m on a power co-op, for rural areas. I call the 800 outage number and power is usually restored quickly. Hurricane Beryl was a Cat 1, did some damage here, power was out for 3 days.
I use battery operated Tac LED lights. $4 at Harbor Freight.

2. I don’t eat much bread. Have plenty of flour, so could make biscuits on bbq pit. Use 2 aluminum pie pans, grease both. Place biscuits in one pan, cover with other. Halfway through baking time, flip pans over. Ta-Da!

3. Tac LED lights

4. Community water system for now, a well is in the plans.

5. Wood fired BBQ pit or propane gas grill

6. I can charge phone on truck battery

7. Propane heater!

8. I have enough food around here to last me a long time. Plus lamb on the hoof or just go shoot a feral hog. There’s LOTS of feral hogs.

9. I keep paper plates and throw away cups on hand.

10. No power? Go to bed with the chickens and wake up with the chickens. LOL Then get outside to cook, find food, forage or go shoot something, care for animals, work in garden, do whatever needs doing. I’ll be tired come sundown!

 

[murphysranch]

Thanks, @Hinotori. I'm going to Freddys and Safeway today. I'll check.

 

[Hinotori]

Thanks, @Hinotori. I'm going to Freddys and Safeway today. I'll check.

Camping section.

They also have those fire lighters which are just big matches of paper and wax that last about 5 minutes. I use them for the firepit and brush. Burns long enough even damp blackberries will catch. They updated the packaging, this one is old.