13/ and you'd rather fill up the last 5 ft^3 of that larger freezer with pure bottles of water than with, say, mixture of water-and-sawdust, or something with meat-like-characteristics
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14/ Meh I see a lot of this kind of posturing in prepper circles. Like, yes, things COULD always get worse, and if SHTF, you may not have electricity HOWEVER >>>https://twitter.com/otakurean/status/1239941102125236226 …
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15/ Power Laws Rule Everything Around Me You will have working electricity 99% of the time when power goes out, it will be for 1-2 days, 99% of the time if it's worse than that, it will be < 1 week, 99% of the time etc you can build data to confirm this power law yourself
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16/ Japan and Germany had electricity through most of losing WWII. In the third world, even with inconsistent power, people get power 12 hrs per day, or every other day, etc. Google "Venezuela electricity". It's not out for weeks or months, just rolling blackouts. So >>>
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17/ all prepping happens at the margin. All prepping rhetoric and education happens at the margin. You can talk your normie parents into putting away 1 week of food. You can talk your infowars friend into getting a freezer and 1 month of food. You can talk your ... etc
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18/ So, do you want to tell your folks "mom, dad, S may HTF, so you should dig a survival gave and learn to eat tree bark and build traps to catch rabbits" ? Or should you be sane and ask for something achievable?
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19/ so telling someone who is open-minded, eager to learn, and asking for advice on getting a bit more resilient / anti-fragile "bro LOL when SHTF there's no power, there's no freezers, gotta learn to salt roadkill and hang it to dry" ... is that good?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdi4msopIBw& …
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20/ Yep. I've got a standard Honda generator, plus also a larger generator that I can drive from my tractor's PTO, plus also a bank of lead acid batteries and a whole-house inverter. Run the tractor ~ 8 hrs/day, keep the whole house running 24 hrs/day.https://twitter.com/lumiferrous/status/1239948855296364548 …
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Lumifer @lumiferrousReplying to @MorlockPI have personal experience with losing electric from a few days to (so far) max of two weeks. A generator is the answer. I have a 2Kw Honda and a supply of gasoline on hand. I power the fridge, a variety of electronics and my (natural gas) heating system plus a few lights.1 reply 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
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22/ I use it in my water treatment system. Lowes gives a pretty big discount for buying a full pallet (10%? more?), plus I also buy 10% Lowes coupons online. Plus, in a true SHTF, you can use salt to preserve meat (see earlier freezer discussion)https://twitter.com/HoodlumDoodlum/status/1239957205199306754 …
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23/ Yep, it's sodium chloride, just like table salt. In 100% SHTF road warrior scenario (e.g. EMP), I'd pulverize the salt, pull all the meat from the freezers, then layer salt / meat / salt / meat / salt meat and open the defrost / drain taphttps://twitter.com/BuucketHe4d/status/1239957175281336321 …
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24/ catch the brine discharge in buckets! dry it out in the sun voila free salt
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25/ of course, if you pack meat in salt, the meat (a) lasts forever, (b) gets dry and SALTY AF you'll probably want to soak the meat in water overnight before cooking it
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