Prepping basics

Prepping Basics

• What is a “prepper”?

• Why should I prep?

• How do I get started?

• How much should I prep?

• How can I learn more?

• Where can I get help?

What is a “prepper”?

• Someone who keeps their eyes and mind open



• Someone who wants to stack the cards in their favor by thinking ahead



• Someone who wants to stack the cards in their favor by thinking ahead

• Someone who understands that the future is uncertain and is willing to act NOW

Why Should I Prep?

Why Should I Prep?

Why Should I Prep?

You don’t drown by falling in the water...

Why Should I Prep?

You don’t drown by falling in the water...

You drown by staying there!!!!

How Do I Get Started?

Very simple....

Step 1 – Plan


Very simple....

Step 1 – Plan

Step 2 – Learn and Do (often learning while doing)


Very simple....

Step 1 – Plan

Step 2 – Learn and Do (often learning while doing)

Step 3 – Improve the Plan

Learn and Do more

Step 1 - Plan

Plan for:

72 hours

7 days

30 days

1 year Ask yourself:

• What do I LEARN?

• What do I DO?

• What do I GET?

Step 1 - Plan

• Each Plan should be customized for YOU

• Consider special needs

– Babies

– Children

– Elderly

– Handicapped

• Use your 72 hour plan as the basis for your 7 day plan, etc.

• Design in redundancy as much as possible

72 Hour Survival

• Make a 72 hour kit for each person

• Make separate kits for home, work and vehicle

• Portable for anyone that might carry it

• Easy to use

• Must remain “current”

– Food and other perishables should be fresh

– Clothes should be seasonally correct

72 Hour Survival

72 Hour Survival

• Make a “Get Home Bag” for your vehicle

72 Hour Survival


• Make a “72 Hour Survival Kit” for home. This will include a “Bug Out Bag”

72 Hour Survival


• Make a “72 Hour Survival Kit” for home. This will include a “Bug Out Bag”

• Knowledge Weighs Nothing

Get Home Bag

• GOOD Walking shoes – don’t assume these are already on your feet.

• Clothes -- good gloves, extra socks, cap and a bandanna

• Money• Paracord, Duct Tape, Aluminum

Foil, Clear Plastic Bags• Hygiene items (don’t forget

feminine hygiene items , denture cream, TP, etc.)

• Medication, extra glasses, etc.• Bug spray and sun block• Map/compass• Pen/paper, recent family photo

• Water and water purification• Food – meal replacement bars,

energy bars, PB (minimum of 2000 calories per day)

• Basic 1st Aid Kit, include blood stopper bandages and plenty of pain relievers

• Lighters, water proof matches, road flare, glow sticks and fire starters

• Spare ammo (you are carrying right?)

• Knife, multi-tool and whistle• LED Headlamp, LED Flashlight

with spare batteries for both

72 Hour Survival Kit

• Food – 3 days worth of food that you will actually eat (at least 2000 calories per person per day) – don’t forget manual can opener

• Enhanced 1st Aid Kit, include tourniquets, dental first aid, poison remedies, etc.

• Off grid cooking system with extra fuel

• Additional lighters, water proof matches, road flare, glow sticks and fire starters

• High lumen LED Flashlight with spare batteries

• Make a separate dedicated BOB , start with the same contents as your GHB

• Rifle and ammo.... and more ammo

• Emergency radio – prefer solar powered and/or hand crank with battery backups

• Lots of extra batteries• Additional water storage –

minimum of 1 gallon per person per day

• High quality belt knife

72 Hour Survival Kit

• 5 gallons of gasoline (minimum)• Solar landscape lights and/or

candles and/or lanterns (with fuel)

• Complete tool set, including – Basic took kit with a good hammer– Any tools necessary for utility

shutoff– Shovel, ax, pick, hack

saw, hatchet, bow saw– Good scissors

• Special needs (babies, pets, elderly)

• Emergency contact information, vital info

• GOOD work boots and work gloves

• Clothes – 2 complete sets of good quality clothes, don’t forget the belts

• Money -- $20 in small bills and 10 rolls of nickels

• More Paracord and Duct Tape • TP• A complete, dedicated 72 hour

hygiene kit• Medication, extra glasses, etc.

7 Day Survival

• Build up your 1st aid kit, be able to treat severe burns and cuts, set broken or dislocated limbs

• Add a generator

• More gasoline storage

• $150 in small bills, 5 rolls of nickels, 2 rolls of quarters

• Use your 72 hour preps as a basis

• 7 days of food, water

• 7 days of medication

• Increase your batteries and ammo stash

• Start your redundancy preps – another flashlight, another radio

• Good sewing kit

30 Day Survival

• Continue to build up your 1st aid kit; add antibiotics, minor surgery tools

• Add a backup generator• More gasoline

storage, with stabilizer if needed

• $350 in small bills, 5 rolls of nickels, 2 rolls of quarters

• Special needs become critical, take great care in your planning/preps

• Now you are “prepping”• Time to plan/design for

water supply and filtering• Start your long term food

storage preps• Increase your batteries

and ammo stash• Communications – 2 way

radios, ham radios, CB radios

• Shotgun and rifle

Free Hugs!!....uh.....Free Stuff!!!!!

Okay... How Much Should I Prep?

1 Year Survival

• We now cross the threshold from “storage” to “production”

– We will have to “get” and filter water

– We will have to “produce” food

– We will have to “produce” heat

– Fuel sources are severely limited

• We will have to improvise and barter

• Medical and dental care become critical

• Security can easily be a life or death issue

1 Year Survival

• Rain barrels, wells, ponds, higher level springs

• Your water MUST be filtered and purified

• Food storage MUST be protected

• Food production MUST be protected (gardens, chicken coops, rabbit houses) and reliable

• Fuel will be depleted - firewood must be gathered and cured

• “Minor” health issues are now “Major”

• Security becomes a 24/7 concern

Water

• Before purifying water in any manner, filter out debris by passing it through the best filter you can manage. At a minimum, pass it through a clean cloth.

• Water can be purified using several methods– Boiling

– Bleach

– Commercial methods

See your handout for details

Food Storage

Food must be protected against:

– Moisture

– Sunlight

– Oxygen

– Severe temperatures

– Bugs and other creatures

See your handout for details

Security

• Consolidate your firearm calibers

• Redundancy is good


• If you can’t defend it, you don’t own it

• Don’t advertise to your neighbors

• If you don’t have a dog, get one. If you have one, get another.

How Can I Learn More?

• Suggested Reading

– One Second After

– Patriots

– Founders

• Local Resources

– Please see handout for contact information

• Online Resources

– Please see handout for links

Where Can I Get Help?

• Local Businesses

• Friends/Community

• LDS canneries

• Red Cross training

• FEMA brochures

• Online resources, some search terms are:– SHTF

– WROL

– TEOTWAWKI

– Prepping or Prepper

– James Wesley Rawles

• YouTube– Southernprepper1

– Engineer775

Tips

• Freeze several 2 liter jugs of water in your chest freezer

• Duct tape may not be THE answer, but it’s almost always PART of the answer



• Solar landscape lighting make excellent solar powered “candles”

• Save your dryer lint, it’s excellent tinder. Also, cell phone battery and steel wool is a fire starter.

• Redundancy: 2 is 1, and 1 is none

Things to Learn

• How to hook up and run a generator

• How to talk on a 2-way radio

• How to cook without utilities

• How to make a solar still

• 3-5 simple self-defense moves and practice them regularly

• Basic First Aid

• How to shut off all your utilities

• How to start a fire without matches or lighter

• How to preserve food

• How to store and purify water

• How to shoot accurately and safely

Things to Learn

Final Thoughts

It is better to be 5 years too early, than 1 minute too late

“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter what side he is on” –Joseph Heller

Hope for the best....prepare for the worst

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