What if?

[kingdaddy3247]

I guess I have plenty of water in the pool. 25k gallons should last awhile, so I can boil it if I can find wood or fuel... That covers one thing. Heck, I can even keep the toilets running by running buckets up to fill up the toilet tanks. I am on a sewer, so that should hold out for awhile...

Food would be an issue pretty quickly... If SHTF the best thing I can think of is make a food run before it's gone, beans and canned goods that keep a long time, make a trip to Home Depot for supplies to barricade my house a bit, Gas up the vehicles and move them inside the garage, and then hunker down as long as possible.

Unless you have property and somewhere else to go away from everyone, I feel like the options in a true disaster are pretty limited.

You can go awhile without a lot of food, but it only takes a couple days without water to put you down... so the pool becoming a water source I feel is a big help.

Isn’t your pool a salt water pool? Boiling won’t desalinate the water. There are other ways to do it though.

 

[TapcoFan]

Depends how long the Piggly Wiggly stays open

 

[SirBannedAlot]

Isn’t your pool a salt water pool? Boiling won’t desalinate the water. There are other ways to do it though.

It is, but it is a fraction of that of sea water. Ours is around 3,000ppm, while the ocean on average is around 35,000ppm... So we are like 8% of that. Won't be optimal, but if you had to live on it you could, and with no air conditioning in summer and sweating a lot, having some supplementary salt intake would probably be a good thing. Not to mention, as it rains, it will be even more diluted with us not adding bags of salt from time to time...

The salt and weak chlorine in it, might actually help keep bacteria levels down.

 

[SirBannedAlot]

Depends how long the Piggly Wiggly stays open

Or Uber Eats.

 

[Bear44]

I guess I have plenty of water in the pool. 25k gallons should last awhile, so I can boil it if I can find wood or fuel... That covers one thing. Heck, I can even keep the toilets running by running buckets up to fill up the toilet tanks. I am on a sewer, so that should hold out for awhile...

Food would be an issue pretty quickly... If SHTF the best thing I can think of is make a food run before it's gone, beans and canned goods that keep a long time, make a trip to Home Depot for supplies to barricade my house a bit, Gas up the vehicles and move them inside the garage, and then hunker down as long as possible.

Unless you have property and somewhere else to go away from everyone, I feel like the options in a true disaster are pretty limited.

You can go awhile without a lot of food, but it only takes a couple days without water to put you down... so the pool becoming a water source I feel is a big help.

I stocked food on an individual purchase basis for quite some time, but have started a subscription for the right stuff on Amazon and get deliveries on a monthly basis automatically. It's reasonably painless that way and builds up pretty quick. Every month I get enough food for about five days for the extended family.

You can also find bulk salt pretty cheap if you look for it. A lot of people don't think about salt, but it's important and has a lot of uses. We're also fortunate to have a good sized creek on the property.

 

[Hayata]

Third vote for Costco - they have a gas station as well.

All the "independent" stuff isn't going to get you very far. You're going to have to organize in groups to defend against the other marauding groups...

 

[Alaskan]

Trying to get on the same page with neighbors is huge, several of mine are like minded.

 

[sparked1]

I guess I have plenty of water in the pool. 25k gallons should last awhile, so I can boil it....

That gas bill tho.

 

[SirBannedAlot]

That gas bill tho.

Hey, if society crumbles, so does that gas bill!

 

[Sugmadic]

Invest in a good siphon hose for fuel. With all the cars in the country there's enough fuel to scrounge and horde for the short term until and if at least limited facilities are up and running again.