We decided to hunker down and ride the hurricane out. I've heard all of the warnings but decided I'm not evacuating.

20+ day Grand Canyon trip. No generator? No problem! Hell, I prefer coolerless, even. Cooler management can be a bitch. Not so much having the cooler, but packing the cooler in the order food is gonna be used becomes somewhat of a planning nightmare. Evaporation refrigeration is fucking badass! Screw the ice, just go with the wet burlap over the rocket box.

Question: How much tequila you got? Ya know, now we're talking the important shit!

Seriously though: Laughing at everyone talking generators up like they're fucking mandatory. Not gonna knock anyone who's got one. It's a great thing to have. Just sayin.

Sorry for confusion, a generator is smart prep, not mandatory. I'm laughing at everyone who thinks emergency preparedness is their Bear Grylls moment.

It's mandatory for me. If it gets below 72 in my place I'll melt

Best investment Ive ever made (plus it powers my ice shack in the winter)

Our grid here is not great, older neighborhood. We've lost power for up to 6 days before. While I keep mountain house etc on backup. The honda will run my fridge, freezer, tv, and a window AC unit I can throw in (wont power my central air) Burns about 2-4 gallons of gas every 24 hours.

http://i65.tinypic.com/160en8p.jpg

richard doesn't need decent food or a gen for his family during an emergency, he has "pyro guys" and throws a huuuuuug 4th of july party instead.

Priorities:

My Onan 4000 (30A) takes about 9 gallons or a 1/4 tank of gas to run the AC for 4 hours. >.<

The central AC is around 4-5kW id rather not tax my generator with that. Ill run a window unit off it though to keep the place at a decent temp.

When I was growing up in New Zealand people would move from Wellington to Christchurch, because Wellington was seen as a much greater earth quake risk, so they went to the safer Christchurch where there was never earthquakes.

An earth quake in 2011 killed 185 people and injured several thousand and had more than 350 aftershocks in the first week.

.. in Christchurch ...

how many hours are on it? that sounds about double what it should be.

Just hit 1k.

Not bad at all. 2+ gallons per hour seems super high to run your Coleman ac. But I'm more familiar with the Onan 7k though, for nonportable generators. Does that seem in range for you?

My god what are you talking about? Why do you need a fridge if you have non perishables? Leftovers?

I'm pretty sure civilization can do quite fine without a fridge for a few weeks if they have at least a basic store of non perishables at hand. Not even the fancy prepper meals either. Even a good store of sidekicks, soup and some canned goods can last you a good long time for low cost if we are talking survival here.

I'd like to think he has at least a very basic cook kit though...

there's plenty more a gen is for- lights. charging shit. living 7 days off everyready lanterns is dreadful.


why are people so intent on shorting themselves on prep? richard shows off his huge house and pyro guys and hummers and all those things he brags about but draws a line in the sand about decent food and prep supplies for his family. or even realizing he lives in an earthquake zone. The only people he is putting at risk in his need to win a gfy argument are his family.

all while pointing his finger at those in the hurricane's path for going to the store.

Hurricanes are a way of life down here...why not be comfortable while enduring the elements lol. If its an option and I already have a generator why the hell not? Should I not use my generator because I CAN live off beef jerky for a week? Or should I force myself to eat all my perishable foods prior to? I have around 20-30lbs of frozen meat at any given time...i cant eat that a week before a storm hits.

I like his "go" kits though. He threw some clothes and charging cords in a bag and called them "go" kits. Literally saved himself the 90 seconds it would take anyone to do that after they found out about an emergency situation. Congrats on saving yourself 90 seconds! You are now prepared for anything!

He's a Marine; what more do you need to know?

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You don't seem to understand what a go kit is.

When we had the propane train fire here, they gave residents fifteen minutes to pack and leave. That sounds like a huge amount of time, right? Perhaps. But I was at home alone at the moment, and if I had to leave at that moment my daughter had been evacuated across town and my wife was at work - So suddenly I have to pack for three people. So now I have to pull out bags from two different rooms and pack for three people. We have two Android users and one iPhone user, so now I have hunt down chargers for our phones. Then we have laptops - Three different laptops, three different chargers, in three different locations... Two of them I have no idea where they are; The charger for my laptop is buried in my office closet because here at the house I use a base. You see where this is going? Now I have no idea what my wife would need for a week outside of the house. My kid - I have no idea where her unmentionables are so I would have ransack the kids room to find them. Then there is the dog, locking up the house....

If you told me I had to leave my house in the next sixty seconds, I can do it. Grab my lap top, lock the two doors that are open at this moment, grab my car keys, wallet, glasses, my go bag, boom, I'm gone.

The go bags have a bit more than a change of clothes and chargers. They also have my work boots (which I never wear), first aid kid, flash light, a list of emergency phone numbers, etc.

I would also recommend keeping a life straw in each of the bags, along with maybe some antibiotics. Also not sure if you need them in California, but in MN mine also has an emergency sleepingbag/blanket. My go bag weighs about 35lbs which isnt super light but it was heavier at one point.

https://www.amazon.com/LifeStraw-Cro...r+filter&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/SE-EB122OR-Su...+sleeping+bags

Someone should post a thread of go bag contents. Would be interesting to see based off peoples climates/natural disasters in their area.

current pic of our bugout bag and contents for 2 people, 5-7 days. this is for extreme must leave emergency, includes windup radio, earthquake whistle, crow bar, and charger, flashsnaps, self standing tent, various ways to get water, food, energy stuff, serious first aid kit

https://i.imgur.com/1850rWX.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/OYDSK6w.jpg

Nice, thats a proper bag! I will empty mine later and take a pic. Mine is also for 2.

I like your thread idea, I'll post in it if you want to start one. good topic!

first aid kit contents, all hand-picked, like the bugout bag:

https://i.imgur.com/TZQeRGW.jpg

I am not going be living off the ground. I have a small first aid kit, but that's it. In the event we have to evacuate, it would be out of the area or to a shelter. I'm not about to forage off the land.

you don't even know you live in an earthquake zone.

Your body needs clean water to survive. Im not an expert on earthquakes but from what i understand the drinking water can be disrupted for a week or more. Its a $19 dollar straw that weighs nothing and you could suck water from a freshly used shit pit in the Congo and not get sick.

Maybe swap out one of your laptop chargers and throw it in....

Maybe because they are imbeciles?

Еще веревку и мыло купи, чтоб повесится в случае чего. Клоун :1orglaugh

Dance ruskie!

knife, pocket flashlight, cigarette lighter, little bottle vodka for disinfection, portable radio set and phone + solar battery, gun+ammo, condoms, moni and ID )))

you missed all of that in the first pics I posted except for solar panels. and guns and ammo are stupid weight to carry in a bugout bag, the pic you quoted is only the first aid kit.

let's see your bugout bag.

This morning I read an article about a sixty-four year old woman who left her house and now it's destroyed - again - third time in ten years. You must be kidding me.

Like my cousin who lives in a "double wide trailer" in Florida, who has also lost her house three times in ten years. Time to move.

richard, you're a judgmental hypocrite and a nitwit.

Solar бядь pales? During a hurricane??? Are you real that stupid? A hurricane will bring you the electricity you will never be able to consume, because it will bring a billion times more than you need but you really rely upon a solar energy??? Really? Why you are so stupid, ah?

Dance american idiot, just dance...

These people live in a hurricane zone. They know it's coming. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. They don't keep supplies, they don't have plywood, and then they bitch when their houses get wiped out three times in ten years. The woman in the article this morning said "I'm exhausted" and "I cannot afford this again". Then fucking move.

Move some place where they don't have hurricanes and you have to rebuild every other year.

I am a hypocrite? Why, because I live in a earthquake zone? I've been here since 1989, we've only had one earthquake here, I lived through it, and had no damage other than losing whatever that was in my fridge.

you are even more drunk, hateful, and stupid than usual. do you see solar panels in my fucking bugout bag? of course not.

let's see your bugout bag drunkfuck.

richard, you are attacking a little old lady victim because you don't approve of where she lives. I could list a million reasons why people live where they live, many out of necessity, many because the locations are much much nicer than where you live, but that would all fall on deaf ears with you.

Man, I really don't understand these people. For example, I live in a non hurricane zone. My apartments are regular ones and not really expensive (I've paid about $200K USD). But every wall here is made of 20 centimeters of reinforced concrete. You can't destroy it even with AK47, which easily penetrates a brick wall. This house can easily stand a -40C winter and a nuclear blast. Literally.