This, is why you prepare for the unexpected:

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09-12-2013, 15:14
hatidua

This, is why you prepare for the unexpected:

All too often, I think the term "prepper" gets tossed around by those who have some kind of misguided Mad Max fantasy. Sometimes, events we might not expect can make that extra weeks' worth of food come in awfully handy:

"Lyons, a small town of 2,000 near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, was cut off by what city officials described as a 500-year flood."

They took to Facebook to urge residents to prepare for up to three days on their own."We ask you to conserve resources during this time," the city said. "We are currently not able to get water or food into the town."
09-12-2013, 15:27
Dave

My wife saw FB posts from there that people were already begging for aid as they had no food, clean water or medicines in their house. I guess a large area there has sewage backed into the water supply.
09-12-2013, 15:32
asmo

Must not be a lot of "potential domestic terrorists" up there. You know the kind that prep for things by keeping food and water in their homes.
09-12-2013, 15:33
StagLefty

My first consideration in being a prepper is for natural events like today.l
09-12-2013, 15:35
hatidua

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Originally Posted by Dave

My wife saw FB posts from there that people were already begging for aid as they had no food, clean water or medicines in their house.

Woe be unto the person who had things squared away in terms of spare water/food and the overwhelmed neighbors find out about their provisions...
09-12-2013, 15:45
Irving

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Originally Posted by hatidua

Woe be unto the person who had things squared away in terms of spare water/food and the overwhelmed neighbors find out about their provisions...

This just in, all pot-lucks have been cancelled in Lyons, CO this weekend.
09-12-2013, 15:58
Great-Kazoo

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Originally Posted by Dave

My wife saw FB posts from there that people were already begging for aid as they had no food, clean water or medicines in their house. I guess a large area there has sewage backed into the water supply.

Yep, they suggest a 3 min boil then cool. hahha, they have no power, gas turned off. OOPS. I heard a lady from "Lyons estates" on michael brown saying "
we have no power, no phone etc" SO WHAT IS SHE DOING?? Sitting on HOLD, on her cell waiting to get through to a radio talk show, PRIORITIES. Oh yeah can you put me through first, my battery is dying[Bang]
09-12-2013, 17:03
buffalobo

Re: This, is why you prepare for the unexpected:

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Originally Posted by jim

Yep, they suggest a 3 min boil then cool. hahha, they have no power, gas turned off. OOPS. I heard a lady from "Lyons estates" on michael brown saying "
we have no power, no phone etc" SO WHAT IS SHE DOING?? Sitting on HOLD, on her cell waiting to get through to a radio talk show, PRIORITIES. Oh yeah can you put me through first, my battery is dying[Bang]

Good thing is, in serious shtf, after 2 weeks, won't have to worry about her or those like her.

Sent from my electronic ball and chain.
09-12-2013, 20:45
streetglideok

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Originally Posted by hatidua

All too often, I think the term "prepper" gets tossed around by those who have some kind of misguided Mad Max fantasy. Sometimes, events we might not expect can make that extra weeks' worth of food come in awfully handy:

"Lyons, a small town of 2,000 near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, was cut off by what city officials described as a 500-year flood."

They took to Facebook to urge residents to prepare for up to three days on their own."We ask you to conserve resources during this time," the city said. "We are currently not able to get water or food into the town."

Why I avoid the term "shtf". Preparing for emergency situations is a more correct term, and not as radical and offensive. Preparing for emergencies, in particular weather emergencies will get you closer to where you need to be, than being armed for zombies.
09-14-2013, 09:16
funkfool

I'm not a "prepper".... I'm an emergency planner.
09-16-2013, 09:38
MED

During the first spring I lived in Conifer, my x and I were snowed in for four days without power. It went pretty well, but I had no way to run the well which sucked. Although, it wasn't all that bad having all of my emergency water, camping gear, etc. Every year I add something new. My last item is a sustainable, long-term backup power source.
09-16-2013, 10:16
SA Friday

Screw that... I'm a prepper and if they don't like the term or it makes someone see me as a nut-jub, then too bad! One less douchebag I have to deal with in my life. It's very clarifying when people see prepper's or gun owners as nuts. They are the first wave of dead when something goes wrong. Bu-Bye, die over there so I don't have to smell it.

I have family that have lived on the St.Vrain on Hwy 36 between Lyons and Estes for over 100 years. They had to evac my cousin who is now living in the main house. She's in her late 80's, so they helo'ed her out because they are going to be cut off for at least 3 months. Well, there are 3 houses on the property and my 7 or 8 other cousins living there decided to stay even though the bridge from their houses to the road is gone, the road is gone, the river is crazy out of control. They have 3-4 months of food and gas, and the support equipment to live off the grid. My cousin Chris told the evac team, they were good to go and if needs be, can pack out of the area in less than 30 minutes notice without any road to the other side of the mountain and then down to the foothills.

We live in Colorado. We should expect natural disaster. We should all be able to live without power or outside assistance for at least a week. We should all be preppers and not give a damn if people like the term or not.
09-16-2013, 10:45
ChunkyMonkey

^ This.. no need to mask it. Keep up the opsec though.
09-16-2013, 10:47
Madeinhb

This, is why you prepare for the unexpected:

As the saying goes, preppers are crazy until something happens, then they are smart.
09-16-2013, 10:48
TheGrey

I'm canning and putting up more supplies to beat the band this week.
09-16-2013, 11:02
Delfuego

Who now has a boat included in their supplies list? [Scuba]
09-16-2013, 13:59
Brian

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Originally Posted by Delfuego

Who now has a boat included in their supplies list? [Scuba]

Based on the number of boating accidents and unfortunate loss of prized firearms from this group, I had guessed all of us owned a boat by now. :)
09-16-2013, 15:31
SuperiorDG

When did people who prepare become crazy? Growing up on the East Coast it was normal to be prepared for natural disasters.
09-16-2013, 15:33
sellersm

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Originally Posted by Brian

Based on the number of boating accidents and unfortunate loss of prized firearms from this group, I had guessed all of us owned a boat by now. :)

^Winner!
09-16-2013, 16:12
SuperiorDG

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Originally Posted by Brian

Based on the number of boating accidents and unfortunate loss of prized firearms from this group, I had guessed all of us owned a boat by now. :)

For the record, from now on if anyone asks, I lost all mine in the great flood of 2013.
09-16-2013, 19:19
streetglideok

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We live in Colorado. We should expect natural disaster. We should all be able to live without power or outside assistance for at least a week. We should all be preppers and not give a damn if people like the term or not.

I agree, living in Colorado we should expect and be ready for natural disasters of all sorts, whether it be snow storms, tornadoes, dust storms, or wildfires and flooding of biblical proportion in the same summer. Being a prepper is nothing to be ashamed of, however in light of retarded reality shows about doomsday prepping, some of those people give society the wrong idea about us. You can brush it off with not caring, which when it comes down to it your family's wellbeing is more important than what someone thinks of you. On the flip side, we're gun owners, and we already have an image problem right there. There is not enough of us excluding fudds to block gun control laws. If you give outsiders the impression you are prepping for shtf, they don't know any better. They see you as some lunatic David Koresh wannabe. Calling yourself an emergency prepper IMO at least, which is worth nothing really, looks a lot better than prepping for shtf scenarios.
09-16-2013, 19:34
Aloha_Shooter

Hell, I'm an old Boy Scout and Scoutmaster. I teach Emergency Preparedness which includes having at LEAST a week's worth of non-perishable food available and knowing how you're going to leave the area in case of natural disaster. As a camper and E Prep advisor, I have water filters, camp stoves, fuel to last me a couple of weeks and enough ramen and pasta to last me 1-2 months (make it 3-4 if you add in rice and canned goods). Come to think of it though, I only have a week or two worth of TP ... better hit the store ;-)

They can use labels all they want ... fact is, I'm prepared for emergencies and natural disasters and many of them aren't. I flat out can not believe how many people today freak out over a snow storm or other natural disaster that means they can't go to the grocery store that very day. It is flat unconscionable IMO that people are freaking out over being told they may not get food for a few days.
09-16-2013, 23:09
Delfuego

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Originally Posted by SuperiorDG

For the record, from now on if anyone asks, I lost all mine in the great flood of 2013.

I may have to borrow this. Thanks DG!
09-17-2013, 20:45
Singlestack

I try to keep it quiet about emergency preps, especially in my neighborhood. One reason is the abundance of Beeho/Biden signs on cars - these are gov first people. The other is related to what might happen in a serious prolonged incident of some sort. My initial plan is a very low key bug-in.
09-17-2013, 23:34
ChunkyMonkey

This, is why you prepare for the unexpected:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Singlestack

I try to keep it quiet about emergency preps, especially in my neighborhood. One reason is the abundance of Beeho/Biden signs on cars - these are gov first people. The other is related to what might happen in a serious prolonged incident of some sort. My initial plan is a very low key bug-in.

You are in the zombie land... Move out or triple your firepower!
09-18-2013, 09:19
Singlestack

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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey

You are in the zombie land... Move out or triple your firepower!

Wifester doesn't want to move so doing the only logical thing - tripling firepower![UZI]
09-18-2013, 10:35
Dave

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Originally Posted by Singlestack

Wifester doesn't want to move so doing the only logical thing - tripling firepower![UZI]

More like [zombie1][zombie1][zombie1][M2]
12-12-2013, 22:37
mestes

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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey

You are in the zombie land... Move out or triple your firepower!

Had to show this to the wife, especially after talking earlier bout all my cruddy naihboors. Most do more prepping especially with one more mouth on the way to feed.
12-12-2013, 22:45
TFOGGER

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian

Based on the number of boating accidents and unfortunate loss of prized firearms from this group, I had guessed all of us owned a boat by now. :)

We may be good preppers and shooters, but this is without a doubt the sorriest group of sailors in history...
12-13-2013, 00:08
Hummer

Hatidua started this thread on 9-12-13, the peak day of the flood. I was at my cabin near the headwaters of the Middle St. Vrain west of Lyons watching the river rise to an unprecedented level in my lifetime, far above normal spring runoff flooding. It had been raining almost non stop for three weeks, which saturated and flooded soils on every bit normally high and dry ground.

At our farm in western CO we store food and other supplies to last a year or more, but at the cabin I may have only 30 days of food on hand. It turned out to be a good thing that I also had about 30 gal. of potable water in containers. The house is on the river and we have a constantly flowing spring that supplies drinking water but during the flood neither water sources were safe to drink without sanitizing.

When the downstream flood knocked out power lines we lost electricity to pump, pressurize and UV sanitize the household water system. I had to rely on stored water for drinking & cooking. I carried buckets of water from the river to flush the toilet. At least the septic field was still taking water from the house and that we hadn't yet connected to the new improved county mandated septic field. My neighbor's new septic systems were all backing up. A crappy story worthy of another thread....

My close neighbors and I had flooded basements and crawlspaces, ruined carpet and other stuff, but no serious structural damage. Generators, sump pumps, wet vacs and fans got us through. Downstream just a few miles things were much more serious. In Raymond and Riverside 12 or more bridges washed out, along with trees, power poles, roads and houses. Once we had our situation under control my neighbor and I went downstream to help other neighbors. My impression was that everyone was looking out for one another.

Be prepared for the unexpected. It costs scarcely more than a little thought and effort. Keep the pantry full, store clean water and never go home without a full gas tank.

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