I don’t think I will have to leave home for six week’s. Test me, please.
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Awmigodwe’regonnadieaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhh?!?
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F.G.: *I suppose the only answer is to don N95′s(and other PPE), then …”off to the sick bay”! On second thought, you might want the N100′s if you are going to a hospital. *Possibly, hospital. Just soak bedding- six week’s is nothing to worry about. *The food is a slightly more difficult question. You would have to make sure you had lot’s of tin cans…or extra seal these type’s of good’s. *Of course, you will go nut’s not talking to anyone. A.B.: *Will I get Tamiflu? Will need PPE. *(Potentially dead!) You will need your PPE. May also need Tamiflu. *You will need your PPE.
Thing’s could get nasty very quickly!!
If you end up in hospital you are more likely to end up with the bird flu!
PRAY………HARD..and then think and do what you can , we will all know that we are pretty much on our own. hook your leg under a couch and pull it straight. when you come too clean it up real good and bandage it cause you know about infection. so you got itchy red spots, you prepped good and so go take about six benadrille (sp) and take the sheets off and soak them in bleach water. hang on line the next day. and then get out the sifter that you keep with the flour and sift them bugs out of there. yup and then pull yourself together cause you know you are not alone in this mess and feeling sorry for yourself aiin’t gonna help no one. clean up and you’ll feel lots better. if you sit around feeling sorry about stuff and lettin it go ……..face facts fast…….you won’t make it….
Blue do you think you can take your survival in hand like that??????…….you better think and study causes that’s all part of preppin …….
If someone breaks a leg during a pandemic wave…it’s a tough one alright! I think I just got TESTED! I don’t know what I would do. I would probably not go base jumping or do any other X-treme sport’s,that’s for sure.
Another test - something I thought about, aside from somebody in my house becoming deathly ill:
It is −30 degrees and the temp is not expected to get above 0 for at least a week. One of your kids (or your spouse) accidentally throws something through the picture window (oops!) What do you do?
On the bed sheets — launder as usual, but put 1 cup of vinegar in the rinse water. Soap and detergent tend to make cloth alkaline and harsh on skin; vinegar will bring the ph back to slightly acid so that it is kinder to skin. You did remember to pack in lots of vinegar; or at least a jar of acidic acid to make your own white distilled vinegar from?
As soon as the window is broken, duct tape a piece of cardboard over the hole; or any other material available. Or use sandbags to close it up. On the bugs, sift them all out of as much flour as you can; then, make lots and lots of hardtack bread, dry it out, and use it as needed. The Finns used to make round flat bread with a hole in the middle and hang it on a wooden pole or broomstick stuck between the eves of the kitchen, where it would stay warm and dry. On moving to the local group shelter, no way — pitch your tent in the back yard (the one you have with the bug out bag in the back of the car) or other high ground, and build walls around it with debris and sandbags. If you have to distribute food, put on the n95, gloves, and raincoat or other waterproof all covering gear. When you return, have your wife spray you off with detergent, then remove clothing.
Bath, etc. put on clean clothes, and stay at least a room away from the rest of the family for 3 or 4 days. Maybe just stay in the garage.
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I am not capable of taking care of a compound fracture but i did buy elastic bamdage ofr sprains. This sould be in everyones preps.
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Week 2, most poeple are out of food. 10 miles away from you a group of uneducated, poor, well armed gangsters form a pack. They are hungry so they start to go from house to house and start taking what they want. They have never lived the good life so they feel it’s their turn to live large. It’s one big party for them. They find quads, dirt bikes and other toys along the way and they ride them, crash them and do what ever they want with them. They find more weapons along they way. They light things on fire just to watch them burn. Some of them get sick but they are left behind to die. The healthy ones still rape, pillage and move on to new neighborhoods. They find new and creative ways to entertain themselves. They have killed many people and are use to it. They make it to your neiborhood and you are out numbered. You put up a good fight but they like the challenge and they win the battle. Life has never been so good for them.
Great thread!!
FrenchieGirl – at 06:29 Test: You and I are alone at home. I have fallen downstairs. My leg is a funny shape, bent sideways, bleeding with a ragged bit of bone sticking out. I howl in pain. What do you do? I don’t have a straight answer for that. Hospital would break SIP. Ideas?
Carrey in VA I think the best you can do here is pour something in the wound to disinfect it (whats best? alcohol, peroxicide iodine?), then pull the leg down to straighten up the bone, cleanse wound again, pack with sterial gauze, wrap with bandages, and tie the leg to something stiff for support. Elevate the leg and start those fish antibiotics. Changing dressings twice a day.
Carrey in VA I wonder if a soak in epsons salts would be ok for a wound like this? When my son cut his finger and got stitches the doc told us to soak his finger twice a day.
Electricity is off. I have been doing my first load of washing, successfully, with the cheap soap powder of which you got 5 drums. The first night I sleep in the newly made bed with nice sheets laundered by myself, I wake up all itchy and full of little red spots.
Carrey in VA no problem for us cause I’m not storing anything I don’t normally use. (besides dried eggs, and masks) But for the rash, washing affected skin with a very mild soap (ivory) and air drying will probably help alot with a rash like that. Next time try less soap, if there is still a reaction, boiling the laundry, then letting it cool and some hands on scrubbing will have to be good enough.
You find critters in the flour and pasta.
Carrey in VA Bugs in the flour and pasta? not a big deal, pick out the worst of it, and cook it anyway.
You are alone, and have been educating yourself, reading, playing music for 4 weeks. You start being depressed at not seeing or talking to any-one. You find that you don’t anymore take good care of yourself, you are unshaven, a little dirty because of the rationing of water, the house is in disarray. You can’t sleep at night and doze off during the day.
Carrey in VA Personally I don’t worry about this, I stay home with the kids 98% of the time anyway.
AnnieB – at 06:41 Test: Your community requires every able-bodied person to assist with food distribution to other households in your area
Carrey in VA They would have to come here and drag me out of my house in a bodybag.
There is flooding / earthquake / storm (any natural disaster) and your house is no longer liveable. Emergency shelters have been created at your local school …
Carrey in VA If the house is truely unliveable, meaning we couldn’t make do with the damage and/or repair it, we pack everything salvagable into the vehicals and the trailer and hightail it to camp on the inlaws land.
A member of your family, who doesn’t live with you, needs help
Carrey in VAOur family is far enough away that if things got that bad and they needed help I wouldn’t be able to help them anyway.
tjclaw1 – at 00:28 Another test - something I thought about, aside from somebody in my house becoming deathly ill:
It is −30 degrees and the temp is not expected to get above 0 for at least a week. One of your kids (or your spouse) accidentally throws something through the picture window (oops!) What do you do?
Carrey in VAPlastic on the outside and plywood on the inside.
Bugs in Pasta - protein!
If I survive six weeks SIP with my kids, I can survive anything. Seriously, even the best prepared will start to go stir-crazy, want a divorce, lock up their kids, etc. Stress/depression/fear will drive many out of their homes, especially if the utilities go.
Carrey in VA – at 15:51
“hightail it to camp on the inlaws land”
“family is far enough away that if things got that bad and they needed help I wouldn’t be able to help them anyway”
What if that 12 mile quarrantine is being enforced? For either one of you. Personally, if your gonna camp anyway… why not just camp at home?
The family being far enough away is my family about 16 hours away on a good day. The in laws are 5 hours.
I’d rather camp out there because
1 a tent isnt as secure as our house was , so more people around would be good
2 more people means more guns
and 3 they are more isolated on the side of a mountian than we are.
If there is a 12 mile quarintine then we would be camping out here at the house it just wouldn’t be as nice.
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