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hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper do you remember the television show
doomsday preppers and they used to look over five areas of preparedness and evaluate how prepared
different people were they evaluated the emergency survival areas of food water shelter security and
an X factor or something special or a skill that you had that made your prepping unique if you look
over the last year we've had a pandemic we've had extremely hot weather snow storms power outages
just crazy things going on in the world along with political turmoil and even violence in the cities
you may have thought doomsday preppers is entertainment but maybe now we need to evaluate
how prepared are we it doesn't need to be for doomsday SHTF TEOTWAWKI we've encountered so many
challenges in the last year that it's important that we actually look over these prepping areas
and decide for ourselves am I prepared to the best of my ability the first category is food we need
to have at least 2 000 calories per person per day and you need to decide how many days do you want
to have food readily available then the recent power outages have shown us we may not be able to
cook boil beans and rice or even prepare something as simple as macaroni and cheese do you have foods
that you can open and eat that don't have to be heated do you have a camp stove or some way
alternative way to prepare food if you can't use the electricity in your home then do you have a
way to resupply food like a garden do you have a way to can and preserve foods that you have on
your own drawn out power outages we just had from winter storms you may have lost all of the food in
your refrigerator in your freezer even if you had a generator did you have enough fuel to run it for
10 days two weeks or maybe even longer there are a lot of challenges that we just have had to face
that maybe many of us never have before next look at the area of water do you have water stored at
least one gallon per person per day for many days water is heavy takes up a lot of space and people
tend to not have the amount of water that they really could depend on having for just drinking
food preparation sanitation there are so many ways if you look at throughout the day how many gallons
of water you use you'd probably be shocked if you then had to only use your one gallon per person
per day for an extended period of time if you've ever had a shortage or an outage you understand
how critical it is and how comforting it is that you have some emergency supplies on hand
then you need to have a way to resupply water is there a well a creek a river a lake somewhere
nearby that you could get more water if you needed to do you have a way to filter and
purify any extra water you could get what if you still have running water in your home but you go
under a boil alert do you have a way that you can filter water so you don't have to
worry about trying to boil it can you imagine if your power is out and now you have to figure out
how to boil water when you don't even have a way to heat food you're compounding the misery that
you could have prepared for ahead of time we want to do the best we can to provide the lifestyle
that we're used to that's what prepping is it's lifestyle insurance trying to make sure that we
can continue to live as close to normal as possible for as long of our lives as we can
next look at the category of shelter how safe is your city your town your location where you live
how secure is your home have you hardened your home do you have extra security devices such as
outside lighting maybe an alarm strong locks on your windows and doors do you have a way that you
can feel secure in your home then you also need to consider what if your home is damaged from a
storm do you have a way to re-secure your home do you have something to board up windows if they're
blown out in a hurricane do you have a tarp to put over your roof should a winter storm send a branch
crashing through your roof do you have things like sandbags if you live in an area that might flood
if you live in an area like I do where earthquakes are a problem do you have things like tall
bookshelves secured to the wall have you set aside things that are tall and fragile could fall over
and break have you made sure that those things are secured in some way or put away so that they
aren't going to cause a problem and more damage that could make your life harder more dangerous
and put your safety at risk power has been a huge concern through these last rounds of storms we've
had do you have some way to keep the power on in your home like a generator do you have some way
to keep your home warm in the winter maybe you have a wood stove and you can have extra wood
but I think probably 80 percent of America doesn't even have that capability do you have some kind of
a space heater do you have extra blankets and sleeping bags do you have even a tent you could
set up in one room in your home your family could gather in the tent and you take up less
space and your body heat helps keep you warmer plus you can have then one little solar light
one little flashlight one little lantern you need to have thought about these things because if all
of a sudden the power goes out it's too late to figure out what am I going to do now think about
the things that you do throughout the day how do you heat your home how do you light your home
how do you prepare your food and those are the things that you want to figure out an alternative
think of a way to have a solution so that you can face those challenges simple battery banks can be
a way to keep your electronics charged up maybe you want to have a portable solar panel or even
I found this year a small portable solar charger which can be just put in the window it can charge
up and I can resupply the power to my electronics as needed they even are making solar generators
which I haven't got one I haven't tried that but they're getting a lot of great reviews so if you
have the funds available for something like that perhaps it's worth the investment in the meantime
you can look at smaller items lanterns radios gadgets that can help make your day-to-day life
more bearable if you can have a few of those things that are not very expensive but can
help smooth the way in an emergency situation we've spent the last year quarantining at home
but a lot of people have still had to face the emergency of having to bug out and leave their
home look at the huge forest fires that we had in the western states many people were forced from
their homes and had to evacuate there are people who lost all the power in their homes in terribly
cold freezing weather and were forced out of their home seeking a warming center or a safe location
have an idea of where you could go if it's no longer safe to occupy
your home these things happen don't say to yourself I'm never going to leave my home what
if there's an earthquake and your house falls down what if a tornado flattens your neighborhood there
are all kinds of disasters that come on in an instant and make your home no longer inhabitable
don't be standing out there wondering now what do i do you should have already thought about it in
your mind so that you're not caught off guard and you're not going to panic in a crisis situation
you've thought about what you can do it doesn't make it easier but it makes it bearable and
survivable and it makes your life go more steadily and smoothly because you already have
thought about what you can do and you can put your emergency preparedness plan into action and then
figure out what to do next we need to think about security not only of hardening our home and making
sure that we're living in as safe a neighborhood as possible but you need to also be concerned with
how to provide the safety and security to yourself crime is on the rise it's a terrible fact but it's
the truth you need to have some idea of how you can protect yourself if you need to learn what
the laws are for safety and security items that you may want to have in your area and make sure
that you are following those regulations so that you don't end up on the wrong side of the law
then whatever you decide for personal protection make sure that you are trained you know how to use
it safely you also know how to keep it secure so that those who should not have access won't
then think about the X factor do you have a network of people that you can trust and count on
depend on each other do you have special medical skills that you would know how to render first aid
that you could take care of yourselves in some kind of a medical emergency
maybe you have some cool kind of a bug out vehicle or you have extra training that
other people might find very useful that they don't have the ability to do for themselves
look over the skills that you have the interest that you have the things that you know and you're
able to provide because that's how you're going to make the best of any situation
is the more creative you can be figuring out how to deal with what's given to you and what
you're going to do next think about these areas and maybe rate yourself and see what kind of a
score you give yourself as a doomsday prepper even if it's just an everyday prepper providing
for your family that things that you need on a day-to-day basis no matter what the day brings
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