Survival Scrapping...

Originally Posted by ItAllAddsUp

<<Just curious. I started prepping to accommodate a hurricane problem and I added to my preps a little at a time.>>



Yep, Hurricane Katrina was what woke me up way back when. I saw a major American city turned into a 3rd world country in a day.

When Irene hit my neck of the woods and we were without power for 3 days, and my wife started to panic when we couldn't do x that first morning without power. I just went into the stockpiles and pulled what we needed and we were basically camping for a few days. Learned a ton, and refined based on that and then the NEXT year when we were without power for a full week because of Sandy, it was much easier. But the cold snap that came through right after made me realize that our current home was unlivable in cold weather without power. Luckily we'll be into better home soon and as an added bonus, I have much more room for my scrapping and preps as soon as we put up a new garage.

Get yourself a kerosene heater. My wife brought a 23K heater and it will bake the house. I do not use the 5 gallons of K1 I keep for winter. Granted, Florida is not real cold, but we use it for heat rather than running our electric. 10 gallons of K1 would heat your home comfortable enough to stay for a week or so.. maybe more depending on how cold it was and how well it is insulated.

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