The Prepper Thread

I take insulin and keep nearly a years supply on hand of both types. I buy over the counter no prescription needed and it works well for me. I just use the oldest and put anything I buy new to the back of the rotation.

I have a well so that takes care of water and I can fire up the whole house generator or a couple of smaller ones if needed to run the well. I'm also on community water which is pretty new but it's never gone out and they have a large standby generator and the tower they use is just down the road almost within site of my house. When power went out for a week from straight line winds the closest gas station had a diesel generator that would pump gas. You couldn't use a credit card but you could buy diesel or gas, cash only.

The busiest place I heard was maybe 45 minutes away, one of those places you buy ice in large amounts at a drive up small kiosk type deal. They had power. Kind used by contruction crews and now mostly illegals but they used to be used a lot by the logging crews.

Small towns sometimes have advantages. My grandmother lived about 40 minutes away also adjacent to the national forest. Lady she knew that worked at the power co op called me and said I need to go check on my grandmother because the power was now out in their very small community. By the time I drove over there she had her power back though.

My friend that works for Safaric Club Internatinoal and is to far flung places all over the word frequently his docor gives him a lot of stuff to take with him "if needed" antiobiotics and such.

vGrade said:

Whats everyone prepping for? I stop in every year to share how much money I saved not prepping

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Run of the mill shit that happens when you live on property land locked in the national forest. Limbs fall on powerlines often. I'm close enough to the gulf that I get remnants of storms at times.

The worst was a straight line wind event 30 years ago. About 70 miles in a straight line of downed trees. I went without a week of power. It was bad, one guy was shot in the next county over because two loggers had a run in about who had the rights to haul off the downed timber on the national forest. Boom, dead.

I have multiple generators. One whole house power generator and two smaller ones I can haul around with the tractor if I need it somewhere else on the property. I keep food, but I always eat it. Going to a good grocery store is not a 5 minute drive. But a lot of my meat comes from deer and waterfowl. I let the guy near here kill two deer a year on my property and his wife has chickens and she gives me eggs in return for husband getting deer meat.

Now firearms? I won't say. I did sell off my auto Thompson that at one time was owned by the Dallas police department. Too heavy and full auto .45 loses it's appeal after a while. I have a 300 yard range less than 5 minutes from the back door.

The best security I have is lack of people in this county alone, the national forest makes up a huge portion and they get almost zero use (I used to work for the US Forest Service and saw one other person the entire time, a surveyor doing mineral rights surveys), and a good portion of the county is a lake, and my gate. The number of people in this part of TX that know how to operate a bump gate cuts down on people just driving down the driveway to see. Maybe me, my girlfriend, my cousin who is sherriff. The rest are all in south, TX hundreds of miles away.

On a lot of maps my property is not even shown as the national forest. The green blobs you see on maps labeled national forest are what is authorized by congress. Not the actual property line. That's what I did for the US Forest Service, find property from timber companies and private landowners that wanted to trade to consilidate the property lines of the national forest. Which is how I found the propery I live on now. This NF was all private property until the depression and the government bought property for $1/acre in "relief".

It's not really prepping. Just I like living in an isolated area.