Prepper's Emergency Preparedness List for Bugging In

Preppers List of things to have for Bugging in:

Candles

Matches

Entertainment:  cards, books, board games, puzzles, etc.

Food (mostly canned or dry which may keep for quite a while)

Can opener

Water (one gallon per person per day for cleaning and drinking)

Heat source: (Kerosene heater, wood burning stove, gas stove, etc.)

Extra clothes

Knives (cooking, hunting, self defense)

Gun (if you know how to use it and are allowed to have it)

Ammo for said gun

First aid kit

Extra medicine if you have a prescription

Wire

Rope

Duct tape

Work gloves

Soap

Shampoo

Deodorant

Water purifying tablets

Bleach

Nails and screws

Plywood

Tools (Plyers, hammer, screwdrivers, hand saw, shovel, etc)

Toothpaste

Toothbrushes

Paper and pencils

First Aid kit

Tarps (for collecting water, or to make quick repairs)

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Communication Emergency Prepping Plan

Prepper - Keeping Up Communication In an Emergency

When an emergency or disaster hits home, many of our friends and family will try to contact us to make sure we are okay.  Our immediate family may be scattered across town, at work, school, shopping, or anywhere else.  You should make an emergency communication plan when you are working on prepping.  In today’s technologically advanced society, we have social media and cell phones to let people know how things are.  A quick text to family or a post on your usual social media site such as Facebook or Twitter, will put others at ease that you are alive, and trying to get home.

If there is a survival emergency where you can not get home, you can text or call family members to decide where you can rendezvous so you can sit down and make plans for what to do next.  Hopefully in your prepper planning you have already decided where your final destination is to bug out, and just need to regroup and rest for a while.

One essential piece of survival gear for communication during an emergency would be a car charger for your phone.  This is important so you can keep your phone charged to keep in touch with loved ones.  You may have to live in your car for a day or two, and the car charger would be an invaluable piece of equipment.  If you purchase an off brand
charger, you may be able to get a set that may charge a number of
different phones in your family.


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Preppers - Stay in or Bug out?

Prepping to Stay Home or Bug Out:

When a natural disaster such as a storm or hurricane is coming, it is up to you as a prepper to decide if you are staying in your home, or leaving (bugging out) to keep safe.  Every emergency is unique, but many survival decisions can be made before hand.  If you decide to leave when you know a storm or hurricane is coming, where will you go?  Do you have friends or family you can stay with who live outside of the storm’s range?  Do you have a cabin or camper or tents you can retreat to which are better prepared for “roughing it” than your home is?  These are all things to consider before you need to leave.  (If you are going to the home of a friend or family, please call first so they can clean for you.)

 If you are staying in your home, do you have everything you will need to survive for at least three days (according to FEMA) , or what I would recommend, a week or more?  There are many items that are needed for emergency preparedness.  Basic emergency survival prepping includes; candles, flashlights, food that needs little to no preparation, and a gallon of water per person per each day.  If it is winter, consider how you will keep warm without using anything that will harm you or your family with toxic fumes.

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What is a Prepper?

The term “Prepper” has been thrown around a lot over the past few years.  You may have heard some similar terms that go along with this, such as; prepper, preppers, prepping, homesteading, survivalist, preparedness and living off the grid.  Some people are stockpiling food and ammo to last for years to survive the zombie apocalypse, doomsday or a revolution, while others are just trying to save up for a week or two in case of a natural disaster or to survive an emergency.  What do you want to be prepared for?

          With hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts, flooding and other types of natural disasters always in the back of our minds, we never know what will happen, and how bad it could be.  What if something happens in the summer?  How will you survive?  Will you be cool enough?  In the winter, will you be warm enough?  Will you have enough food?  There are so many questions that you leave to chance when you take an attitude of “Whatever happens, happens.”

          This summer, in the Central U.S., we had some really bad storms, which had people without power for up to two weeks.  What if that was in the winter?  Would it have taken longer to restore power?  Would the inches of rain have been feet of snow and ice?  What if you couldn’t leave for a week or two, what condition would you be in when your power came back on, or when rescue workers came to your door?

          Being a “Prepper” does not mean you are stockpiling weapons and ammo with enough food to last a year.  It means you are expecting the worst, and have plan for how to get through it.  In order to have a plan, you need to know what you want to do.

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