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TOS: What's in your Emergency Stash?

Posted on 1/29/14 at 1:29 pm
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
64355 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 1:29 pm
I've only got a couple days of non-perishable food, I will never forget going 4 days without power in 2009 when we got a freak snow storm in Athens that wasn't forecast.

I have 3 of the mini-bottle of propane and a camp stove, along with a full size propane burner and tank, but those I don't keep full so I don't consider them emergency ready.... just the mini ones.

I figure if another freak ice storm or something else happens that keeps me without power, and the inability to go to a store because they won't have power, I'll have a couple of days of food already in the kitchen just as a matter of normal life, plus a few days more.

6 packs of ramen
2 cans of chef boy r d
2 cans of chicken
1 can of spam
2 boxes of rice a roni
2 mini-cans of propane
2 acres of wooded land on which to gather firewood for the woodburning stove

No water stashed. I can't imagine a situation where Athens water loses pressure or becomes otherwise contaminated in such a way that I wouldn't at least be able to boil it clean.

Deep cycle marine battery on a trickle charger with inverter to keep cell phones charged in case internet is still available from ATT wireless.


If anything happens that has me without power or transportation for more than a week, I'm fricked.
Posted by DawgCountry
Great State of GA
Member since Sep 2012
30595 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 1:33 pm to
We have gas stoves and water heaters so I'm not worried about that. Do have lots of water and food in the basement mainly for extra storage, but would be used in case of emergency
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
86582 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 1:38 pm to
There's no way I could keep an emergency stash like that, because all it would take is one weekend where I get really really fricked up and starving and I'd just start eating out of the stash.
Posted by FooManChoo
Member since Dec 2012
41824 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 1:42 pm to
I don't have much of anything for an emergency stash, but I've recently been thinking about stocking up on some things just in case. I'm woefully unprepared for a disaster right now. The only thing I've got a fair amount of is ammo.
Posted by retooc
Freeport, FL
Member since Sep 2012
7455 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 1:48 pm to
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Posted by MeatCleaverWeaver
Member since Oct 2013
22175 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 5:38 pm to
Generator, gas, all the canned stuff, extra propane tank, rifles, ammo and a spotlight to be used along with them
Posted by Remington Dawg
Irmo, S.C
Member since Sep 2012
1457 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 6:33 pm to
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1 can of spam


No, can't do spam. My father in law gave my wife and me a big bucket of long life military rations just in case. I always keep meat in the freezer so I would grill that and I am buying a second propane tank for extra gas for the gas grill and I always keep at least one bag of good charcoal in the garage for the charcoal grill. If you have meat your OK.
Posted by FaCubeItches
Soviet Monica, People's Republic CA
Member since Sep 2012
5875 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:04 pm to
4 cases MREs
case of preserved fruit
dry rice and soups
cans of spam, chicken, and ravioli
propane stove
volcano stove
solar/hand-crank 2 way radio
3 solar panels with storage battery
3 solar lights
squeeze crank flashlights
solar shower
fels-naptha soap (washes people and clothes)
power inverter for car
3x water purifiers
biolite stove/power generator
multiple trauma kits (since my big risk is earthquake)
tarps to cover broken windows
extra food for dog
cases of bottled water
assorted trade goods
assorted sporting goods for protecting all of above
Posted by adawgj
Brunswick
Member since Oct 2012
1749 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 5:10 am to
I have guns. If im in need in an emergency, I can pillage the neighborhood.
Posted by SquatchDawg
Cohutta Wilderness
Member since Sep 2012
14276 posts
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:13 am to
I have Operational Security....


.....so I don't advertise to would be looters what I have in my Emergency Stash.
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