Alreet, Geordie Prepper here This month is CheckYourPreps month,
so make sure to go through your preps and make sure they're good and ready to go.
With all that is going on at the minute I see people calling for preppers and others to prepare
for war. Personally I think the type of warfare which may potentially be coming down the road,
we simply can not prepare for. So I'm just looking at my preps
and I'm checking them and I'm adapting them to my current set of actions I will do
if facing any emergency that doesn't involve a mushroom cloud. So I thought I'd show you briefly
one thing I'm focusing on as part of my preps. My take on what I will do in an emergency
has changed, from something if it were to happen I would have bugged out immediately
and I've maintained my preps for this posture for many years, however now I believe and especially
with current things going on and threats from that we face. I've now moved to a posture of bugging in
and will only bug out immediately if certain conditions are met,
such as the primary bug in location has been compromised or if local threats are immediate
and a threat to life and staying put would be a higher risk.
I'll base this decision (if it ever has to be made) through direct observation,
listening and talking to others (whilst maintaining my own OPSEC of course) and
through other intel gathering means. The current situation in the world
and potential for nuclear possibilities and the danger that brings has re-inforced that this
is best thing to do right now for me and this outcome came out through a threat assessment.
I was already changing my preps to a bug in philosophy, organising and taking stock and
adapting all areas to ensure bugging in is safe for me and any others,
however what I am doing is ensuring that should I NEED to bug out, I can gather my preps together
and have them already grouped together based on what they are, such as tools,
food, tech and other attributes, such as weight and are they critical to maintaining life.
So I have a clearly defined line of what preps I have for bugging in, where they are,
and are they critical to maintaining life
and am I going to take them with me, basically. I know the quantities involved of those preps and
ensuring I evaluate and assess where areas of my preps are strong and where they are weak,
identifying both of these is critical and then keeping a program of continuous evaluation,
maintenance and where necessary obtaining and replacing preps. Then documenting,
taking inventory of new acquisitions and removal from records any preps which are consumed,
any preps which are lost, also preps which are no longer functioning
and may get replaced with another item. So, one acquisition I got for my power and solar
and battery storage, maintenance and upkeep is a tool bag, so in here this is the new home for
my electrical, batteries, some of my solar preps as well. This was all,
used to be loose in a chest drawer in my bedroom. But now in this bag, they are still accessible,
I can take out whatever I might need
and used for bugging in, but they are now stored and more mobile,
so obviously I can do this up and just grab it and go.
More mobile, I could if necessary take it with me when bugging out. The bag has reduced the time it
would take to gether these preps, I'lll no longer be rattling around inside a drawer, you know just
trying to grab them together to take them with me, they are all here ready to go and then and wasting
valuable time gathering them up and putting them into some sort of container, it's already done
they are all here, it's all checked, all I need for bugging in and bugging out is in this bag.
A Tool bag is tough and resistant to light weather and outdoor conditions,
however you can obviously enhance this with a tough waterproofing container
and place the bag in it. There are very tough waterproof bags,
which are very large, just dump this bag in the container and then it's even more protected.
You could even place this in a cache, bury it and then come back to it a later point in time
if the weight of it is too prohibitive for you to continue to a further bug out location.
What's in here though is and can be left behind,
because all this that's in here is classed as a Bug In option
and everything that's in here is replicated in a smaller and lighter fashion in my bug out bag,
so in my bug out bag I've got batteries and I've got lights, I've got torches,
I mean like this torch for instance I can remove it from this bag and put it in my bug out
bag and I've got AAA batteries in there which will maintain this torch,
just obviously with everything being in here I know where that torch is, I can just instantly
go to it and grab it. So although in an emergency this bag would certainly make things
more comfortable and endurable for a lot longer if I can take it with me. If I have the option
to bring it, I can do, but it's not necessary for maintaining life anything that's in here,
so it can be left and if there's no vehicle to place this bag in,
then it WILL be left as it's weight is prohibitive
for a lone bugging out scenario where my own motive options are available, so that
would be if I'm limited to walking to my bug out location, I won't be taking this bag with me.
So what I'm saying is that matters at hand definitely deserve our attention,
it is CheckYourPreps month so go through all your preps,
check them, but what I'm saying is that your attention shouldn't be taken off
your normal prepping and this month is checkyourpreps month, so do your risk assessment,
consider all matters and options available to you and your means and limitations,
what they are and use this fact finding process to get your preps ready for you
and those you care about and evaluate your preps regularly. Thanks for watching. Be
safe and be prepared, this has been Geordie Prepper and I'll see you in the next video.