5 Things Every Prepper Needs!
Hey guys welcome back well, this is a video response to campfire talk
I was one of five guys that he tagged on his last video as a video response to
adventure canine
five things every prepper should have and I think that's a great concept and
I'm actually
Quite honored and humbled that campfire talk tagged me because it is a topic of interest
That I take to the heart the five things that I want to talk about are going to be a little bit different than what?
You might expect. I think a lot of topics have been pretty well covered either in books on the internet or YouTube and
All you have to do is go out there and look chances are if you're watching this video. You're someone who is
like-minded and have an interest in self-reliance and preparedness
Now I'm not going to talk about
Tactical nylon black guns or pistols or
Fancy knives or
High-speed flashlights nothing fancy here at all. I want to talk about more practical some might even think more mundane
Topics that I think are going to be very important and foundational in
Any type of preparedness or self-reliance?
effort that you might undergo
Well I'm a firm believer that knowledge is power and the five things I'm going to recommend are
Centered around that as a central theme
All right, what are my five things that I think every prepper should have
Number one again a central theme, and I think touched on by campfire talk and that is plan
I think you need to have a prepping plan now
I think you need to plan for consistent stocking of preparedness supplies
This is not something you can jump in and do
Over the course of a weekend or a week or a month
It's something that you need to be working at a little bit every
Week every month and by the end of a year. You'll look back and see very well stocked and prepared
toolbox if you will of items to help you and your family in case of need I
Think you also need to have family contingency planning
Now I I live in the Pacific Northwest we have a family of four my wife and two kids
Teenagers one of them is driving both of them are in high school ones on her way to college
This this fall
So what happens if there is a natural disaster in our area that could be ice?
snow
Earthquake and were typically probably not going to all be together at home
What do we do to tie back up so we we've talked about a plan
How do we communicate?
what do we do if
Communication is not working. How do we get back together as a family unit?
Now I'm referring to my notes here because I've got a number of points. I want to make sure I cover I
Also think you need to have a comms plan so in that plan
I think you need to address your family. You need to have a family communications plan
What happens as cell phones don't work. We all rely on cell phones, but if cell phones. Don't work. What are your alternative?
Means of communications perhaps your family likes to use
FRS or
gmrs or MERS mu RS radios
If there's a disaster in your area chances are those radios are going to be
very difficult to use because the frequencies will be full so you should have a frequency a
Backup frequency and an alternative backup frequency. I think you also need to have
And am/fm radio either a self crank powered radio or make sure you have backup
batteries so that you can listen to the national weather service and listen to
The local news stations, so you can keep up to date with what's happening in your area
So I think staying in touch and knowing what's happening is critical if you're gonna be
successful in managing a
disaster event I
Think you also need to have a network comp plan and I'll talk about a network in a minute
but you need to have a way of communicating with your support network I
Think you also need to practice your communication plan if you're going to use FRS radios
It would be good to make sure everybody knows how to use them
you knows how to make sure that are on frequency knows how to make sure they're on the same privacy code and
practice knowing
When you want to communicate with each other so if there's a natural disaster
And you want to be getting in touch with your family. You'd be decided to use FRS radio
Make sure that the parents are monitoring that frequency when the kids are in range you're listening
And if you need to move to a backup frequency you already know what that backup frequency is I?
Think along those same lines you need to have a frequency list so I think
at home in your car's
the bag that you carry your radio and in your car you should have a list of the
frequencies that you're going to use and also frequencies that you want to tune to if you want to listen to
What's happening in your area that would include?
Law enforcement EMS fire
Ambulance service. I think it's good to just know what's happening in your area
local news station
National Weather Service and
if you're into amateur radio or ham radio
know what the repeaters are in your area know which repeaters have backup power supply either wind solar or generator and
Practice getting on frequency making sure you have all the right settings to use that repeater, and if you're have friends
amateur radio operators in your area
Make sure you have a plan so that you know what simplex?
Frequencies you're going to use if repeaters go down
So again very heavy and comms, but I think knowledge is power and being able to communicate is power
And if you're blinded by not knowing what's going on or ability to communicate with your family
that's going to increase your anxiety level and just
Interfere with you being successful in managing a disaster now. I think you need to develop a trusted support network
No matter what your contingency planning is
you cannot do it by yourself, so you need to take into account a
trusted support network
Make sure that you know who you can trust
Who you can work with in your neighborhood so that you can have a cohesive?
Community that is going to manage a disaster. Well if you're in an area where there is flooding
Tornado hurricane ice snow storm
Whatever you want to be able to
Come together as a community and manage that event so that you are all successful in surviving
So along those lines again you cannot do it by yourself, and you need to have a group of people that you trust
If you're listening to someone who is talking about
managing this stuff by themselves and going off into the mountains and
hunkering down
That's someone that I personally would stay away from because I think that that is a false plan that is destined to fail
Along the lines of knowledge is power. I think you also need to have a reference archive that
Would include a good library at your home
You need to have books on cooking
canning food preservation
Medical information
homesteading and practical skills
I'd also recommend you have some sort of text backup besides books on PDF documents that you have archived in
CDs or DVDs
Just in case the internet goes down
I'd also recommend that you have text backup PDF documents that you have archived on CDs or
DB now I think your
reference archive should also include video resources perhaps
Important videos that you have pulled off the internet and have archived on DVDs there are also a number of prepared
DVDs commercially available
this one was sent to me by a
Fellow youtuber and amateur radio operator in Texas Gary, and this is my formal. Thank you Gary in
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This DVD know what to do think prepare act
These can be valuable resources for you, and your family as you prepare for
Natural disasters or any event where you and your family have to exercise your preparedness plan
Okay the fifth item is a medical plan now many of you know
I'm an emergency physician, and my channel is full of videos
Related to medical preparedness
Along those lines. I think you need to put back some supplies
So you can take care of your family as well as putting back some supplies so that you can supplement the care of your
trusted support network
perhaps you're the medical sheepdog in the group and you're the one that's going to be called upon to
Take care of any medical event that happens
I think it's very important that if that's the case that you're looking ahead and thinking what do I need to put aside to?
take care of my family and the community that I'm supporting I
Think you need to have basic and advanced first aid supplies, and you need to also put back some hygiene supplies
All right well that's it
I've got a lot of stuff out here in front that I will pan the camera around at this point and these are
mainly
items to give you some inspiration and some thought what you need to do for yourself and
There's some item here that just kind of represent the topics
I've talked about so to summarize the five things that I think every prepper should have a
prepping plan a
communication plan a trusted support network a
reference archive in a medical plan perhaps FRS radio
Amateur radio and for sure cell phone don't forget
Write down your frequencies and make sure everybody knows what the frequencies are in your comp plan
Okay, books these are just some examples to help give you some inspiration
Medical books certainly one of the best books available is going to be where there is no doctor and the companion
Where there is no dentist the Ranger medic Handbook is also a good reference as well as some books on practical skills
making of tools
Recycling use and repair of tools and
Organic gardening I'd add to this books on canning cooking and food preservation
Okay Communications
very important to have some sort of shortwave radio that picks up am/fm make sure you'll be able to pick up the weather station a
Scanner is a great idea. This is a
Comms kit. That was sent to me by Cody from Wrangler star, and I'll reference the video on that
But that's one for each car and one at each home. There are two FRS radios in there
charger batteries and a shortwave radio and extra batteries and
then if you're an amateur radio operator right there is my
two meter go kit that also has a
Scanner down below you can see the tubes where I carry my extra antennas and I'll be doing more on a video on that later
Okay, this small short wave radio kit. I have featured in a prior video
I have a future video planned on utilization of this antenna system as well as
how to make your own field expedient antenna for shortwave radio
last but not least is a good group first aid kit in a course an
individual first aid kit
ok well it's starting to snow here in the Portland area and
granted for a lot of you guys perhaps in Canada or other places
Might not look like a lot of snow the weather prediction for us is
Possibly 7 inches down into the valley floor, which would be of course more where we are right now
perhaps eight or ten inches
Nothing may happen, but either way. There's a severe weather
Warning right now for the Portland area
I think that's timely for this video because I am NOT stressed or worried that I have to go out and get supplies or materials
My family is comfortable and safe
We have gas in all of our cars all the tanks are full. We have
Extra gas here at the house, and we have food
water
Lighting we have an ability to keep ourselves warm should the power go out we have ability to communicate
We have a family plan
We have medical supplies
So either way we're comfortable. We'll be safe. We don't have to run around and prepare at the last moment
so prepare now to be prepared and
Remember, this is something you work on slowly over time to develop a cohesive
safe
Preparedness plan for you and your family and of course don't forget your trusted support network. You can't do this by yourself
Ok last but not least what are the 5 channels that I'm going to tag?
Well, I thought long and hard about this
and I ultimately decided on five channels that I follow on a fairly regular basis that I look to for inspiration and
guidance in my own extended and continued preparedness I
Mention these 5 channels as a cohesive block because they're involved in the sensible
prepper conference being held the sec of April 2011 in Greenville, South Carolina
Now these guys have very active channels, and I know they're very
Busy getting prepared for the conference, and it's very likely they won't respond to this tag
But I want to draw your attention to these channels
If you don't subscribe to these channels you're not aware of them
I encourage you to check them out and subscribe because I think you'll find a lot of very useful information
the channels are
suitable ah
southern prepper one
engineer 775
East Coast patriot and modern survival online
now if you live anywhere near, Greenville, South Carolina
Or you're in that area around the 2nd of April 2011
I encourage you to attend the conference you can get conference information by sending suits double odd a p.m.
Or I think you can also send him a message on his Facebook page I?
Know for sure that if I was in that area. I would be attending the conference
However, I'm here on the Pacific Northwest and I'm hoping to make a lot of good videos so I can follow them online
Alright guys. Thanks for following my channel. I appreciate all the support and interest and
I want to encourage you prepare now to be prepared ah
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