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Old 04-21-2013, 01:04 PM  
crockett
in a van by the river
 
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I'm not a prepper by any means and right now I honestly would be in trouble if something major happened, that stopped me from getting access to a store. with that said knowing the area I'm pretty sure I wouldn't starve to death.. but would be very inconvenient.

I have a small fresh water river right behind my place I could fish in and there are always deer to be found around here. If I had to get all survivalist I'd at least be able to get stuff to eat and a supply of fresh water from the river.

However I'm in the process of setting up a camper van to travel around the country for the next year or so. Once that's complete I guess I'd be set up pretty well no matter what happened.

The van is set up to be completely off-grid, meaning it gets it's power from solar and stores it in a battery bank. Long as the sun shines I have power. The stove is propane as well as the water heater.

Meaning long as I can get propane when I happened to run out I'd be fine and dandy to set up where ever I needed. The only thing that could really hold me back in some sort of crazy natural disaster would be if I ran out of gas and could no longer drive.

Even if that happened in a worse case scenario I could just stay where I was and still have constant electricity. I'm setting up the water system to feed from portable 5 gal tanks meaning I just pull one out slip the other in and refill the first.

Meaning in about 2 months I'd be as set up as any hard core doomsday prepper, even though it's just a camper for me to travel in and see the country.

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