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I would like some advice on people's SHTF go bag prep. Im planning on hopefully making a 1 week pack. Ar15 included. Let me know what's in your go bags! Not on a budget. 🙏

I think there are too many SHTF and World Ending Preppers and not nearly enough Daily Whammies Preppers…. Jumper cables in the car - as well as functioning jack and filled spare tire…. Blackout kit for home - power outages are one of most common things….
Yes, I have a get home bag. I’m a redneck - so I always have at the minimum a pocket knife and mini-multi tool in my pocket…..

So…. I gotta admit…. I was caught UNPREPARED the other day…. Annoyed beyond end actually. I went fishing with a buddy…. We launched from sandy beach - took my shoes off and was wading around…. Shoes were on back deck of the boat…. He cranked it up - took off at breakneck speed… later I realized - shoes are GONE…. Blew off the back of the boat in the middle of the lake….
No prep. No solution…. Had to go barefoot at the boat launch, then drive home…
Here’s the rub.. I keep an extra set of Dry Clothes, socks included, in my truck… Gloves and hat as well… But no extra shoes…. I guess that’s the thing with prepping - sometimes you don’t know till you know…. Adding Extra Shoes To Vehicle Prep..
So what’s your pants down prep? What didn’t you prep for???

I know most people here have a get home bag and such but are there any other situations you prepare for?

I myself have a "mugger wallet" and phone prepped that I carry.

My normal wallet is tucked away in a little pocket that is barely noticeable. You'd literally have to be looking for it.

The dummy wallet has a bunch of old gift cards, one of those fake McLovin replica licenses and some prop movie money I found at one of those bin stores. The phone is just an old display phone.

If they were to actually open the wallet and go through it they would see it was obviously fake but in a quick situation where just tossing the wallet and the phone distracts them enough to get away it should hold up.

Power went out around 3pm and didn't come back until 5am. Some things I learned:

Our sump pump alarm goes off the SECOND power drops. That was fun at 3am.

The house hit 84F by 9pm without AC. Opening windows barely helped because there was no breeze.

I had a battery station on the fridge (Anker Solix S2000) so the food was fine but everything else was chaos. No AC, no lights upstairs, had to dig out candles I haven't touched in years.

The biggest surprise: how fast cell service got congested. Couldn't load anything on my phone after about an hour because I assume everyone in the neighborhood was on mobile data. Glad I had the router on the battery too or I would've had zero internet.

Anyone else feel like outages expose every weakness in your house at once?

Hi guys,

New to prepping. I am looking for a free pdf of a good survival guide book. Something that is well written and sufficient pictures. Nogridsurvivalguide book seems to be something similar that I would be looking for (although I haven't read that book. The insta page looks like the book might be helpful.

Been going back and forth between these two for months. Both are 2kWh stations but the price gap finally pushed me to S2000. I don't need 2400W output since I'm only running a fridge and some electronics during outages.

The livestream they did running a fridge for over 35 hours was what convinced me the runtime claim is legit. Anyone else here pick S2000 over competing brands? Curious about the reasoning.

Hey everyone,

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Latest release saw pet, vehicle and equipment handling.

We're looking for feedback on this and want to give out free promo codes for the app. Just send us a DM and specify android or iOS. We have a few hundred codes per OS.

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A currently legal opioid that would be perfect for any medication use for wounds or wound care

The situation in Venezuela following double 7.2/7.5 earthquakes is not good, and that may be an understatement of the year. S has HTF for the Bolivar Republic.

Watching the situation play out and hearing 2nd hand accounts really has given me pause, and I feel like a lot of my preps, are just plain silly. I am a high rise dweller like many of those impacted, and granted I am not in earthquake country, but should any similar scale of devastation find me, I think there is really not much you could do in a situation like this.

Best case scenario you live in a single family home and you have a yard you can camp in until you're back on your feet, your you have family somewhere not as impacted.

Worse cast scenario, you're homeless, just like all of your neighbors.

The main things I want you to consider:

- Life will move on. If your food survived the impact, while you are eating bean arepas 7 different ways, you can not "hide in the woods" until your job calls you back that they've opened the office again. I do not think prepping for indefinite survival or off grid living should be the goal. Flexibility and mobility should be the goal, even if you just need to move a couple counties over.

- Wants vs Needs. No one is asking for knives guns and ammo. Sure, there is looting happening, and they will have to answer to God for that, but it's not worth shooting people over at a time like this. Your wife and child are buried in rubble right now, are you really going to shoot the guy who found her purse? especially if he is one of the authorities? What people do need are clothes, toiletries, and PPE. The posts in WhatsApp are asking for shovels, wheel barrows, gloves, masks and goggles, not trinkets and mall ninja shit. The focus is on finding loved ones in the rubble, or taking a chance to get a few more belongings out of your compromised house. I call it out on every BOB brag post I see and this justifies it even more now, - it's going to be the worst day of you and your neighbors life, someone is going to get their period, and no one is going to care you have 7 knives at that point. 7 knives no tampons is a dumb trend in this sub. BOB should focus on food, water, toiletries and clothes.

The point for discussion - presumably if you're in Venezuela you've got enough going on and probably are not on reddit, but for likeminded folks with family back home, first, I hope everyone is accounted for, but are you seeing anything that is impacting your prepping outlook for the future?

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Kinda random, but I see this happen every year. People wait until there’s already a storm showing up on the forecast, then everybody suddenly starts looking for storage at the same time. And by then delivery slots are backed up, the better used units are gone, and everything gets way more stressful than it needs to be.
If you’re thinking about using a container for storage this season, a few things I’d check early:
Make sure you actually have space for delivery. The truck needs a lot more room than people expect, especially to tilt the container off. This catches first-timers all the time.
Also think about where it’s going. Level ground matters. And I definitely wouldn’t put it somewhere that turns into a little pond every time it rains. Doors facing straight into the usual wind direction isn’t ideal either.
Containers are pretty solid for weather storage, way better than a cheap shed in my opinion, but they’re not magic. If there’s any flood risk, don’t keep documents, electronics, or anything irreplaceable sitting low on the floor. Put that stuff up higher.
Mostly just saying, if you already know you’ll probably need one, don’t wait until everyone else is panicking too.

Anyone here used a container through a storm season? Curious what worked and what you’d do differently.