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Prepping Basics
• What is a “prepper”?
• Why should I prep?
• How do I get started?
• How much should I prep?
• How can I learn more?
• Where can I get help?
What is a “prepper”?
• Someone who keeps their eyes and mind open
• Someone who wants to stack the cards in their favor by thinking ahead
What is a “prepper”?
• Someone who keeps their eyes and mind open
• Someone who wants to stack the cards in their favor by thinking ahead
• Someone who understands that the future is uncertain and is willing to act NOW
How Do I Get Started?
Very simple....
Step 1 – Plan
Step 2 – Learn and Do (often learning while doing)
How Do I Get Started?
Very simple....
Step 1 – Plan
Step 2 – Learn and Do (often learning while doing)
Step 3 – Improve the Plan
Learn and Do more
Step 1 - Plan
Plan for:
72 hours
7 days
30 days
1 year Ask yourself:
• What do I LEARN?
• What do I DO?
• What do I GET?
Step 1 - Plan
• Each Plan should be customized for YOU
• Consider special needs
– Babies
– Children
– Elderly
– Handicapped
• Use your 72 hour plan as the basis for your 7 day plan, etc.
• Design in redundancy as much as possible
72 Hour Survival
• Make a 72 hour kit for each person
• Make separate kits for home, work and vehicle
• Portable for anyone that might carry it
• Easy to use
• Must remain “current”
– Food and other perishables should be fresh
– Clothes should be seasonally correct
72 Hour Survival
• Make a “Get Home Bag” for your vehicle
• Make a “72 Hour Survival Kit” for home. This will include a “Bug Out Bag”
72 Hour Survival
• Make a “Get Home Bag” for your vehicle
• Make a “72 Hour Survival Kit” for home. This will include a “Bug Out Bag”
• Knowledge Weighs Nothing
Get Home Bag
• GOOD Walking shoes – don’t assume these are already on your feet.
• Clothes -- good gloves, extra socks, cap and a bandanna
• Money• Paracord, Duct Tape, Aluminum
Foil, Clear Plastic Bags• Hygiene items (don’t forget
feminine hygiene items , denture cream, TP, etc.)
• Medication, extra glasses, etc.• Bug spray and sun block• Map/compass• Pen/paper, recent family photo
• Water and water purification• Food – meal replacement bars,
energy bars, PB (minimum of 2000 calories per day)
• Basic 1st Aid Kit, include blood stopper bandages and plenty of pain relievers
• Lighters, water proof matches, road flare, glow sticks and fire starters
• Spare ammo (you are carrying right?)
• Knife, multi-tool and whistle• LED Headlamp, LED Flashlight
with spare batteries for both
72 Hour Survival Kit
• Food – 3 days worth of food that you will actually eat (at least 2000 calories per person per day) – don’t forget manual can opener
• Enhanced 1st Aid Kit, include tourniquets, dental first aid, poison remedies, etc.
• Off grid cooking system with extra fuel
• Additional lighters, water proof matches, road flare, glow sticks and fire starters
• High lumen LED Flashlight with spare batteries
• Make a separate dedicated BOB , start with the same contents as your GHB
• Rifle and ammo.... and more ammo
• Emergency radio – prefer solar powered and/or hand crank with battery backups
• Lots of extra batteries• Additional water storage –
minimum of 1 gallon per person per day
• High quality belt knife
72 Hour Survival Kit
• 5 gallons of gasoline (minimum)• Solar landscape lights and/or
candles and/or lanterns (with fuel)
• Complete tool set, including – Basic took kit with a good hammer– Any tools necessary for utility
shutoff– Shovel, ax, pick, hack
saw, hatchet, bow saw– Good scissors
• Special needs (babies, pets, elderly)
• Emergency contact information, vital info
• GOOD work boots and work gloves
• Clothes – 2 complete sets of good quality clothes, don’t forget the belts
• Money -- $20 in small bills and 10 rolls of nickels
• More Paracord and Duct Tape • TP• A complete, dedicated 72 hour
hygiene kit• Medication, extra glasses, etc.
7 Day Survival
• Build up your 1st aid kit, be able to treat severe burns and cuts, set broken or dislocated limbs
• Add a generator
• More gasoline storage
• $150 in small bills, 5 rolls of nickels, 2 rolls of quarters
• Use your 72 hour preps as a basis
• 7 days of food, water
• 7 days of medication
• Increase your batteries and ammo stash
• Start your redundancy preps – another flashlight, another radio
• Good sewing kit
30 Day Survival
• Continue to build up your 1st aid kit; add antibiotics, minor surgery tools
• Add a backup generator• More gasoline
storage, with stabilizer if needed
• $350 in small bills, 5 rolls of nickels, 2 rolls of quarters
• Special needs become critical, take great care in your planning/preps
• Now you are “prepping”• Time to plan/design for
water supply and filtering• Start your long term food
storage preps• Increase your batteries
and ammo stash• Communications – 2 way
radios, ham radios, CB radios
• Shotgun and rifle
1 Year Survival
• We now cross the threshold from “storage” to “production”
– We will have to “get” and filter water
– We will have to “produce” food
– We will have to “produce” heat
– Fuel sources are severely limited
• We will have to improvise and barter
• Medical and dental care become critical
• Security can easily be a life or death issue
1 Year Survival
• Rain barrels, wells, ponds, higher level springs
• Your water MUST be filtered and purified
• Food storage MUST be protected
• Food production MUST be protected (gardens, chicken coops, rabbit houses) and reliable
• Fuel will be depleted - firewood must be gathered and cured
• “Minor” health issues are now “Major”
• Security becomes a 24/7 concern
Water
• Before purifying water in any manner, filter out debris by passing it through the best filter you can manage. At a minimum, pass it through a clean cloth.
• Water can be purified using several methods– Boiling
– Bleach
– Commercial methods
See your handout for details
Food Storage
Food must be protected against:
– Moisture
– Sunlight
– Oxygen
– Severe temperatures
– Bugs and other creatures
See your handout for details
Security
• Consolidate your firearm calibers
• Redundancy is good
• Redundancy is good
• If you can’t defend it, you don’t own it
• Don’t advertise to your neighbors
• If you don’t have a dog, get one. If you have one, get another.
How Can I Learn More?
• Suggested Reading
– One Second After
– Patriots
– Founders
• Local Resources
– Please see handout for contact information
• Online Resources
– Please see handout for links
Where Can I Get Help?
• Local Businesses
• Friends/Community
• LDS canneries
• Red Cross training
• FEMA brochures
• Online resources, some search terms are:– SHTF
– WROL
– TEOTWAWKI
– Prepping or Prepper
– James Wesley Rawles
• YouTube– Southernprepper1
– Engineer775
Tips
• Freeze several 2 liter jugs of water in your chest freezer
• Duct tape may not be THE answer, but it’s almost always PART of the answer
• Redundancy is good
• Redundancy is good
• Solar landscape lighting make excellent solar powered “candles”
• Save your dryer lint, it’s excellent tinder. Also, cell phone battery and steel wool is a fire starter.
• Redundancy: 2 is 1, and 1 is none
Things to Learn
• How to hook up and run a generator
• How to talk on a 2-way radio
• How to cook without utilities
• How to make a solar still
• 3-5 simple self-defense moves and practice them regularly
• Basic First Aid
• How to shut off all your utilities
• How to start a fire without matches or lighter
• How to preserve food
• How to store and purify water
• How to shoot accurately and safely