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Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ignoring unrealistic preparations for most of us (such as bunkers and whatever else), an adequate supply of food and water to handle disruptions to logistics for a realistic amount of time must surely be the lowest hanging fruit (e.g. a month?). This is fairly trivial if you aim for things like rice and pasta, and if the grid goes down for longer than a month a lot of us are dying regardless of how we prepare.
The water seems like the hard part. Are there any tricks for cheap, safe hydration for a family? I guess we could just start building walls of unopened water bottles in our basement… (In my teens I saw a family friend had a bag full of food supplies. I asked someone if that was a prep bag, and they said yes. I thought they were a bit weird. Now I’ve come full circle browsing Amazon for cheap doomsday food.)
storing large quantities of water is not trivial maintenence.
its better to be able to sanitize required quantities on demand.
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Best way to prep is strong community connections around you. Community is resiliency.
LOL we saw how that played out with COVID. 1/2 your "community" is going to deny the disaster and deliberately worsen it. 1/2 (with some overlap) is going to go from grocery store to grocery store buying all the necessities to resell them later. EDIT: Wow, I know HN wears rose-colored glasses when looking at the past, but come on, people. We didn't hallucinate the antimaskers, antivaxxers, and thousands of protestors…
I don't know about you, but my community came together in those moments. When TP was hard to buy, we shared among ourselves. When members in our community discovered they had issues that prevented them from taking the vaccine safely, we went back to masking when meeting to keep them safe. And so on and so on.
I think maybe you're thinking of a different definition of "community connections" than the parent poster. It's not _literally everyone around you,_ but the people around you that you trust and support and who will support you. Get as many of those as you can, as high quality as you can.
It's beneficial even if the world _doesn't_ go to shit, too! =)
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Backpacking water filters aren’t all that expensive and work fine with most water sources. Wouldn’t produce enough to shower in but certainly enough that you could survive in a disaster.
I've got an assortment of backpacking/camping water filters, but don't live especially near a water source, so my days would revolve around walks to the nearest creek. (2 km away) A cargo bike would help a lot there. If the municipal water is still functional but non-potable, a LifeStraw Max gets you effectively unlimited water on-demand for most sources of contamination.
distillation allows separation of water from not water.
mud or damp vegetation can be a water source.
Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#65Can you really call yourself a prepper if you don’t have a faraday cage with a spare laptop inside? (The intersection of doomerism and tech is amusingly cyberpunk sometimes.) Actually, what’s the most useful way you’d prepare for a worldwide grid outage? This isn’t that, but sometimes I wonder if a future CME might be as catastrophic as some say.
I have a 50kw generac tied into my house with a 1000 gallon propane tank.
I don't understand what 50 kW could possibly be needed for.
Part of the electricity bill here in Flanders is based on monthly power peak. I charge an EV at home, and by setting up the charging station to take into account consumption data from the meter, I have no problem staying below 7 kW. Okay, that's averaged over 15 minute time slots, but even the connection for my house is only rated 13.8 kW!
Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#66Can you really call yourself a prepper if you don’t have a faraday cage with a spare laptop inside? (The intersection of doomerism and tech is amusingly cyberpunk sometimes.) Actually, what’s the most useful way you’d prepare for a worldwide grid outage? This isn’t that, but sometimes I wonder if a future CME might be as catastrophic as some say.
You don't need a Faraday cage for CME, just EMP.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
The government has done studies showing that the vast majority of the population would be dead not long after a sustained nationwide power outage. All it takes is people missing a few meals before the fun starts.
Do you have a link to the study?
I had to dig around but I think this the one I remember. There are two other reports linked in the comments.
https://old.reddit.com/r/preppers/comments/11tblpp/found_it_...
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a 50kw generac tied into my house with a 1000 gallon propane tank.
What will you do once the propane runs out? Solar (and battery) is the way to go.
Not very useful for much of the year at high latitudes though. If you're off-grid, you basically need wood to heat your home, and if you clear the snow off your panels you can get enough juice to keep your phones charged.
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