Time to Prepare for an Extended Power Outage

hi I'm coming back Jonathan we are the Provident Preppers today we're talking about a very important subject one of long term grit down situation and it was prompted by the release of two studies one from military and the other one from the president's infrastructure Council and they both urged Americans to prepare for a long-term grid down situation could you survive without electricity for six months or perhaps a year do you even know what that really entails it's pretty daunting actually we are the most technologically advanced nation on earth and that's a great thing but it also comes with a high penalty if we lose that everything that makes our life great is generally speaking based off of electronics and SCADA systems and all these things that if interrupted can create tremendous havoc for our lives and put us back into the world that they live 200 years ago the problem is we're not set up to live that way so today we're going to go through and teach you exactly how to prepare to survive a long term grid down situation let's start by talking about water storage of course water is absolutely a critical part of our lives in so many ways we need drinking water we need cooking water we need it for sanitation we need it for just a myriad of purposes we recommend that every family and every person have at least two gallons per person per day for at least two weeks as a minimum that just buys you time to be able to find other resources and to get some other things lined up but if water is going but if you have the ability if you think you're gonna be out of power for six months or a year you really want to focus on strong as much water as you possibly can absolutely you can visit the Provident prepper how to store water for emergency preparedness and you can learn a great deal there another thing you might want to Google the Provident forever emergency water 17 potential sources and in this we review exactly where you can find water in an emergency situation now you want to keep in mind that water is very heavy so you don't want to have to transport that very far especially if you don't have any equipment or vehicles to do that with so you need to just be aware of how heavy that is and figure out the best way for you to find water and to transport water so that you can make it safe for you to drink and then once you find that water chances are it might not be safe to drink so if you google the Provident prepper making water safe to drink seven disinfection techniques you'll find seven great ways to be able to disinfect your water the other thing that it's really important that you have is a really good filter that will remove both chemical contaminants and biological contaminants and then the next thing we need to focus on is food storage so right now food is incredibly cheap and easy to get it makes sense to stock up on food and have between six month and year supply what we recommend that you do is store three months worth of food that you eat every day whatever it is the cereals that can food that the hamburger humper or the boxed meals whatever it is that you eat on a regular basis we encourage you to have at least three months of that after you have that three month supply or more then focus on some other long-term storage items like wheat and rice and beans these are things that will store for many many years and take care of your family but are relatively cheap yeah very very cheap and then you can add the dehydrated and the rece dried foods to that to make it a little bit better but the basics are really important for their caloric content go ahead and google the Provident prepper hunter insurance don't get caught without it and do you learn what to do and how to store it and why it's really important the other posts that you might want to check out is eight food storage enemies and how to slay them and in this one we teach you how to really store your food so that it will last that 25 years that we would like it to last one important aspect of food storage is to make sure that you develop an edible landscape and that in the landscape that you have around your home you grow as much edible food as possible plant a fruit tree or not tree some raspberry bushes or grape vines or anything that you can do so that you have some food growing around your home that provides you with the nutrients that only fresh foods can and how about just a potted plant that's maybe sitting on a balcony now anything that you can do will make you healthier and will provide for your long-term food needs you think about the Victory Gardens of World War two what a blessing for people to be able to grow food and to have that food to sustain their families we'll talk for just a minute or two now about alternative cooking I think we're all pretty spoiled we like our gas ranges or our electric stoves if these are gone we've got to find some other way to cook our food and we've done some fantastic research and a lot of experimenting we have a post and a video that you may want to look at the video is the Provident prepper emergency cooking 12 family favorites we encourage you to go and look at that one other that you may want to look at is to Google the Provident prepper safe indoor emergency cooking solutions that's right because carbon monoxide is a really big deal and it's very very dangerous so you want to make sure that you understand clearly how to cook indoors safely so that you don't make your family sick with carbon monoxide we also encourage you to look at our hosts on the Provident prepper it's called can't heat safe fuel for enduring emergency cooking we have provided a wealth of information and there's other information out there that you can get but it is important that you take some time and figure out how you will accomplish this important task the next one is alternative lighting when the power's out it gets very dark very quickly and it could be a really dangerous situation so consider how you're gonna light your world we don't really recommend camels because of the open flame we've found from personal experience that it can be very dangerous so go ahead and find what light sources you like we really recommend the ones that are rechargeable the solar ones are fantastic exactly they and they were very cheap you can buy them very inexpensively you can get headlamps you can get lanterns you can get flashlights we keep several of those in our South window all the time they're fully charged and ready to go so then this is not something that's going to be difficult to solve you can get these relatively inexpensively and they'll take very good care of your family now let's talk just a little bit about alternative heating have you ever been really really cold it's not a fun feeling it's not something that I want to do ever again I've been extremely cold on the verge of hypothermia several times and on the verge of frostbite several times and it's not a good place to be we want to encourage you to look at your situation and figure out how you will keep your family warm that's not something that we normally have to think about because we have very reliable electrical and natural gas supplies that take care of this for us but there is that potential based on these reports that we're seeing that this could be your reality and we need to figure out how to take care of that so Google the Provident prepper best alternative heat sources to use during a power outage and you'll see some of our very favorite um alternative heating devices so we have a post surviving winter power outage how to stay warm we encourage you to take a look at that and you'll see what a wimp I was and we turned off our power in January yeah it was cold it was really really cold so sanitation now we don't very often think about this because when you flush everything just goes away and it's really nice but when the power is out especially in an extended long term situation that well chances are you won't be able to do that so we have a an article called prepping for basic emergency sanitation so just Google the Provident prepper prepping for basic emergency sanitation and you will learn more than you ever wanted to know about emergency sanitation that's right and I think as we mentioned so many of these things we just take for granted but when that power goes down if your sewer system can't be operable there will be considerable problems if you're fortunate enough to have a septic system you might be in a pretty good place but those who rely on the city sewer systems this could be a very very challenging situation and very dangerous as well let's talk a minute about medical no power means limited medical and again this is one of those things that we just take for granted that we can get medical attention fairly quickly and relatively cheaply and our problems can be fixed but in a in a crisis situation you may not have access to medical attention and you may not be able to get those things that are really needed when you need them so you need to take provisions and do some learning on your own to make sure that you can cover this another thing that's really important is that you invest in your own health and make it a priority to be well and strong because your chances of surviving a great down type situation where life is harder will significantly be improved if you can be healthy so work on that why don't you also go to our Provident prepper site and we have a couple of articles on there that I think would be useful for you prepping tools from medical care and also one on antibiotic stockpiling to critical topics that you can take care of in large measure if you've done a little bit of planning here and the next category is communications the ability to send and receive information is huge if you don't have your computer or your cell phone think about how crippled you could be especially in today's world it's really just something that we just rely on every day so you want to make sure that you have some good backup to that will enable you to be able to communicate maybe you're an amateur radio operator or want to become one or at least you can have some GM RF or FRS radios that you can connect with your family some of these have a fairly limited range but if you live fairly close to some that you love it's a great way to communicate and the last category that we want to talk about is protection so stressful events will bring out the best in some people and the worst and others and we want to work together as the neighbourhood as a community so we can all do really well and and thrive whenever anything happens exactly right Bob we need to prepare for possible situations where things may not be as pretty and happy as we would like we have a post that we would encourage you to look at on this also the prominent prepper protecting yourself from the darker elements of society we encourage you to look at that and and create an action plan so that you can handle these kinds of situations so that's a great place to start if you just go through each one of these categories and make some really good progress you'll be amazed how far you will be able to come in preparing to live through a long term great down situation exactly exactly right we've been appointed with some individuals and and seen some things on YouTube where you're encouraged to make sure you have food and water and that's great and also some encouragement to have guns to protect that and we don't quite subscribe to that we recognize that there may be difficult situations but for the most part we want to make sure that we share with others we want to bless the the lives of others and so that is our plan but we have to have a backup just in case yes it's important and there may be a time when those weapons are highly and when we need to use those but we choose to use those as a last resort and now for the question of the day have you thought about how you will be able to take care of yourself and your family and loved ones in the event of a long-term power outage maybe six months maybe a year maybe more in the event of those transformers do go down it can be up to two or three years before they can be replaced sometimes in the best of situation and thanks for being part of the solution

Channel: The Provident Prepper

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Keywords: emergency preparedness, long term power outage, grid down, prepping, emergency cooking, emergency heating, emergency sanitation, shtf, prepper

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Length: 14min 1sec (841 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 18 2018