There are plenty of truly great resources for preppers new and old out there on the internet. My job is to find the best advice and disseminate it to you. Sometimes, I have to warn about bad advice.
dont be a prepper. be a homesteader. on just an acre of land you will have enough room for a cow, enough room to grow your own wheat to feed your family for a year on just a 10x10 area of land, and a full garden of veggies and fruit. you can grow your own food in winter with a diy green house. you can harvest and filter your own water. you can have chickens. you can fish at the local river. learn a skill so you can barter/trade or sell whatever extras you have from your garden/chickens/dairy from your cow. make your own candles/soap. you can make your own lard. i mean the possibilities are endless. we've only had electric for not even 150 years. we are not that far removed from homesteading before the industrial revolution. make sure you get you find a good book on beginner herbal medicines.
The whole bug-out scenario revolves around an unlikely scenario in which your home is endangered by a natural disaster, general collapse of social order and/or public services (water, electric, first responders), yet you still have access to reliable information to allow you to select a safer location to flee to, the roads and highway systems remain generally passable, and either the gas stations remain in operation or you always keep enough fuel in your bug-out vehicle to drive to your planned bug-out sanctuary. And that last bit runs afoul of the fact that in such chaos, it is unlikely that you could have predicted in advance where you could flee to that would be safer than your (properly prepared) home, in which case you can't know how much fuel you'll need (or even if you can get there on a single full tank). And it is highly likely that your exposure to danger will escalate dramatically during the journey.
On the face of it it sounds heroic and "Road Warrior"-ish but unless you live someplace where natural disasters (hurricanes, forest fires, floods) are a regular feature of the landscape, it's really just grown-ups playing cowboys and indians.
Robert McClendon makes a very good point. You can count on wheat, flour and rice developing weevils unless it's stored in vacuum-sealed containers. Even if you vacuum seal, freezing before trusting it to long-term storage is prudent.
dont be a prepper. be a homesteader. on just an acre of land you will have enough room for a cow, enough room to grow your own wheat to feed your family for a year on just a 10x10 area of land, and a full garden of veggies and fruit. you can grow your own food in winter with a diy green house. you can harvest and filter your own water. you can have chickens. you can fish at the local river. learn a skill so you can barter/trade or sell whatever extras you have from your garden/chickens/dairy from your cow. make your own candles/soap. you can make your own lard. i mean the possibilities are endless. we've only had electric for not even 150 years. we are not that far removed from homesteading before the industrial revolution. make sure you get you find a good book on beginner herbal medicines.
dont be a prepper. be a homesteader. on just an acre of land you will have enough room for a cow, enough room to grow your own wheat to feed your family for a year on just a 10x10 area of land, and a full garden of veggies and fruit. you can grow your own food in winter with a diy green house. you can harvest and filter your own water. you can have chickens. you can fish at the local river. learn a skill so you can barter/trade or sell whatever extras you have from your garden/chickens/dairy from your cow. make your own candles/soap. you can make your own lard. i mean the possibilities are endless. we've only had electric for not even 150 years. we are not that far removed from homesteading before the industrial revolution. make sure you get you find a good book on beginner herbal medicines.
The whole bug-out scenario revolves around an unlikely scenario in which your home is endangered by a natural disaster, general collapse of social order and/or public services (water, electric, first responders), yet you still have access to reliable information to allow you to select a safer location to flee to, the roads and highway systems remain generally passable, and either the gas stations remain in operation or you always keep enough fuel in your bug-out vehicle to drive to your planned bug-out sanctuary. And that last bit runs afoul of the fact that in such chaos, it is unlikely that you could have predicted in advance where you could flee to that would be safer than your (properly prepared) home, in which case you can't know how much fuel you'll need (or even if you can get there on a single full tank). And it is highly likely that your exposure to danger will escalate dramatically during the journey.
On the face of it it sounds heroic and "Road Warrior"-ish but unless you live someplace where natural disasters (hurricanes, forest fires, floods) are a regular feature of the landscape, it's really just grown-ups playing cowboys and indians.
Robert McClendon makes a very good point. You can count on wheat, flour and rice developing weevils unless it's stored in vacuum-sealed containers. Even if you vacuum seal, freezing before trusting it to long-term storage is prudent.
Consider Puravai 1 liter bottled water, 20 yr shelf life. (bugout bag)
dont be a prepper. be a homesteader. on just an acre of land you will have enough room for a cow, enough room to grow your own wheat to feed your family for a year on just a 10x10 area of land, and a full garden of veggies and fruit. you can grow your own food in winter with a diy green house. you can harvest and filter your own water. you can have chickens. you can fish at the local river. learn a skill so you can barter/trade or sell whatever extras you have from your garden/chickens/dairy from your cow. make your own candles/soap. you can make your own lard. i mean the possibilities are endless. we've only had electric for not even 150 years. we are not that far removed from homesteading before the industrial revolution. make sure you get you find a good book on beginner herbal medicines.