Let’s see, buy a place clear out in BumFuck, up in the mountains.
Do not for any reason make any plans in the case of a forced extended stay with no way to get back to civilization in case you get snowed in.
Make the headlines when they find your dead body after two weeks.
There is absolutely no reason for me to say another word.
I have a cottage in the western NC mountains. It was built 100 years ago and I restored/rebuilt it 20 years ago. I reinforced the foundation and releveled the house. I farmed out a new roof, HVAC, windows, and siding. I redid the interior repairing flooring, repairing plaster, new kitchen, new wiring, new plumbing, adding sun room, porch, master bedroom, and additional bath. The sewage was diverted from the century old sceptic tank and connected to city sewage but it is easy to convert back. I blew out the shallow well and use it for irrigating the yard but it can be converted over to be the main water supply as it tests as safe water for consumption. I have a 9.5Kw LPG generator in the basement with a 250 gallon tank. The back yard is 3/4 of an acre that catches late morning sun thru afternoon sun so a garden works well. I have about 200 Mason jars in the basement. I have about 4 to 5 months worth of food there and a seed bank for a huge garden. I have a F350 Lariat 4×4 diesel with a 90 gallon transfer tank. I am not scared of snow.
Sounds like you have a pretty good set up.
Need to find something like that my self.
Still, heading out into the sticks with a medical condition is a recipe for disaster.
So where exactly is this place? asking for a friend.
Let me know. I’ll bring cookies 🙂
Nice setup. I have some beautiful pics from the Cherokee and Highlands area.
Welcome fellow Okie
Howdy BC
Careful, BC knows we ain’t a dating service…{snarc}.
Ever make it over to MerleFest?
No empathy….. WTF does a dialysis patient, needing dialysis THREE times a WEEK, live outside those resources?? IF you have serious medical conditions, i.e. end-stage kidney disease, heart failure, diabetes requiring insulin, or just needing daily life-saving medications, and CHOOSE to live outside resources, say hi to Charlie…..
SUDDENLY
Boy Scout motto. Be prepared.
Good grief!
I, a simple-minded sububanite, have a two year supply of food, water for 6 months, fuel for two-plus weeks, heat of one form or another, and two generators. I also have enough medicine for 90 days and if it runs out I won’t die any time soon (but I am turning 70 in less than a month). I won’t go into the supply of semiprecious metals I have… that I lost in a boating accident…
Whatthehell’s wrong with me!?!? ;P
(I don’t consider myself a prepper, just a JOATMON.)
Cant read it. Don’t and never will subscribe to the LA Times.
But yeah, Der!
I live in the Tsunami zone on the central Oregon coast. The earthquake and infrastructure devastation would make East Palestine look like a bee sting. Let alone the major Tsunami tidal surge up the bay that would likely cover the Bay road.
But that would be moot, because the road would have slid off at the hill just south of town, and the cliffs near the bridges, and the bridges themselves will likely collapse.
Stranded. No electricity. No Comms. Read a book and make sure that generator functions when needed. Reload ammo by lamp light. When the debris from the tsunami subsides, put the skiff in the bay and get to somewhere needed possibly.
And Watch Your Six.
It gets sketchy if transients are around. Trusting neighbors is questionable.
But under certain circumstances, an outgoing tide can be useful.
That being said, major long term isolation plans have been established.
One of the wife’s friends has been trapped in her Arrowhead Lake home for a couple of weeks – fortunately, she has power, heat, and a cell signal, so she’s in better shape than many, we’ve been checking in daily. She’s also at least got a bunch of canned goods and rice and such, but still way less prep than I would have in place if I were in such a place. A church charity group finally made it up by snowmobile a couple days ago to check on folks and drop off food. “Authorities” are useless as usual, but yeah, she and others were relying on authority way too much.
Back when I lived in Nebraska the church I attended used their building for a distribution point for a private disaster relief group. A number of tornadoes hit the area. The next day the private group had a semi with first state relief supplies at the roadblock set up by the national guard unit. The guard CO followed instructions from the Red Cross rep who had been sent there to assess the situation(everyone say ‘OOOH!’). The RC rep said turn the private group away. So the truck came back to the building and we unloaded it into cars, vans, and pickups; then took back roads into the area to drop off the supplies.
When I lived in Alabama the Baptist Church we belonged too contributed to the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief fund and several of us men volunteered in Disaster Relief activities when a tornado or flooding occurred we would go in with a trailer full of chain saws, shovels, construction equipment and our camping and food supplies and help people the next day after the disaster to clean up, remove trees over their house and provide temporary tarps and such so no continuing damage. We were set up to be self sufficient for 3 days of food, water and toiletries. Red Cross (assholes) would show up after a few days and start ordering us around and telling homeowners that we shouldn’t be allowed to work as we had no liability insurance and would charge them for the work, a lie! We never charged and the Convention had all the insurance we needed. I was a crew leader and would be standing there supervising a crew with a chain saw in my hand and one of the red cross or fema would come up and order us to desist… I would tell them you don’t fuck with a hot, tired sweaty asshole with a chain saw or shovel in his hand. We were guests of the homeowner and comported as such. A few times the homeowner would come out with a shot gun and order them off of his property and said something about looters… I hate redcross with a passion. Will not donate or give blood to them.
Yep – haven’t seen much, if anything, good from the red cross; and give a hearty DON’T RECOMMEND to anyone who asks.
My dad told a story about the red cross during WW2, he was an officer and a flyer and the red cross would provide officers steak dinners for free and the enlisted would get stale donuts and weak assed coffee and expected the enlisted to “donate” for the privilege. He would never take up their offer and would buy the crap donuts and coffee to drink with the men. He would never donate blood or money to ’em.
Place I grew up, we got snowed in for over 4-5 days several times through the years.
Wouldn’t have called my parents preppers. Just country prepared. Had food: canned, frozen (freezer in the garage), pantry, and root cellar. The well had a manual pump capability. Wood heat and lots of firewood (the oil furnace costs too much and dad had a ready supply of young labor to chop and stack (me).
We didn’t have a generator – I didn’t know anyone who did. But we had lamps and candles.
Don’t remember anyone worrying about dying – or even getting close to worried during those weeks.
GD I thought my name was getwood till I was 13
California, need we say anything else?.
A state populated by fools., dominated by make believe and governed by idiots Trifecta!
This may be part of the issue: “… knows of three people that died. Both were elderly.”
Freezing to death is supposed to be one of the easier ways to go. It’s said that after the shivering stops, you just get really, really tired and just go to sleep.
There are lessons in these sorts of stories for those able to learn from the mistakes of others. And they aren’t necessarily idiots either. They just made mistakes not foreseen. My wife once asked why, as a pilot, I read so much about aviation accidents. I answered that I couldn’t afford to make the same mistakes. And those other pilots were not idiots; many were far better pilots than I could ever hope to be.
If ya gotta die, hypothermia is not a bad way to go until you strip off your clothes as the particular nerve cells are signalling you are roasting when you get into the hallucination phase… You just die near to or naked.
I’m up in the north section of the once great state of California. I’ve got a friend who is about 15 miles back in the hills. The old fart is about 80 has 8′ of snow at his place so he won’t be out for a couple of weeks due to this series of storms. His only problem is he knocked his Hughes Net dish out of alignment and cannot bullshit with his friends on Farcebook.
That’s why you get a Starlink – it points itself automagically.
Plus, it’s cheaper/faster.