>>5989692

What I’ve just said, it varies terribly from one person to another depending on their own lives and situation. I cannot tell you exactly what to do, it’s up to you to figure that out depending on your salary, your savings,where you live etc. So organize yourself when it comes to the metals depending on your situation. I’m just explaining the function of each so you would know what to do and how to adapt to what’s coming.

Anons need to undertand that your every day routine will stop. You gotta hammer inside of your brains that you won’t be able to go to the bank or an ATM to withdraw money or the health insurrance won’t be able to cover you if anything happens. You will be on your own for some time and only depend on your self. I insist everyone interested in this should go SEE it with your eyes on youtube videos, so you would know what to expect.

Now I want to move into supplies: since we don’t know when this will truly hit, if you buy food, there is an expiry date to them. So first, what you can do is to actually prepare where you are going to “store” everything (an attic or cellar or the pantry etc) this is also specific to each and every single person, depending on their situation and where they live. Second thing to do is to make a list of what you consume monthly; as in example you eat 1 kg of rice each month for 2 persons. So you make HOW much you need to buy in food and supplies for several months (3 or 4 months). You can start immediately by buying the cleaning products and other useful supplies for your everyday life like soap and shampoo etc. Just check if they have expiration date, some products do have them.

Now food is tricky. You should avoid dairy products, meat, chicken and sea life. They all need a freezer and you might not have electricity to keep your freezer running. So those are not to buy in times of crisis. I’ve seen many videos when hurricanes hit people rushing to the grocery stores and pilling up chicken and cheese and other products of the stuff. Upon hundreads of persons in that video, I saw only 2 people whom avoided those food types and went to buy what needs to be bought = canned food which has a long preservation duration, and all sorts of grains that you can store in a cool area, at first don’t buy too much grain because they might spoil and deteriorate from heat and bad storage conditions. So you can buy a certain limit, and when the D day comes, you go buy the rest. Of course living on grains for a certain period of time is not good for the body. So, for calcium, you should buy powder milk instead of liquid milk. Butter needs fridge, and again, that depends if you have electricity or not. What I’m telling you right now is under the scope of you living without any electricity for some time. So oil, corn, olive or sunflower is the replacement of butter. What is good about oil is that it can be stored for a long time without any cooling and it won’t deteriorate. So you can start buing oil as soon as tomorrow. Salt and sugar goes the same as oil as well as spices. In this type of situation spices are sources of vitamins for the body. If you cannot get your hands on veggies and fruits where you will get the important vitamins for your body? You have spices and what is called the “dried foods” as in all sorts of nuts. Those can be stored without cooling and they are a great source of vitamins. Coffee, thyme and tea can also be stored.

Bread will be a problem, you cannot store it without it spoiling. So you have 2 things you can do about it, you can buy biscuits and cereals, of course you gotta check the expiration date. And you can buy wheat grains or/and flour and make bread yourself at home. But since I’m talking about a senario where there is no electricity, it means the oven won’t be working, so how to make bread without an oven. Well, I’ve put some pictures for you about a specific TYPE of Lebanese bread that is mostly used in rural areas of Lebanon, it’s called Saj bread. All you need is a semi circular pot a convex pot that you turn upside down (as you see in the picture) on a source of heat, like a BBQ or inside of your chimney and you place the stretched dough on it. If you want to recipe, you can find it online and you can find video on how to do it. I suggest you try it out a few times just to get the hand of it. If you cannot do that, then try to use a flat frying pan, and cook the dough like what the French do when they prepare for the Crèpes. In both cases, either the Saj bread or crèpe bread style, the bread you are going to get is thin like the tortilla bread. I know you may not be used to eating it, but it will sustain you enough and you will survive out of the crisis.

>>5989848

We depend terribly on supermarkets and on grocery stores. You gotta prepare in such a way there won’t be any supply chain to the store or to the senario that the store shelves are emptied out. See pictures during hurricanes and in Venuzuella crisis, and of course, I’m saying these things if the wrost ever comes. I hope not. Now the good news is that in the States, the storage houses are filled to the rim, which is good news, but how long will it take for those “goods” to be in the stores for individuals to buy? A week, a month, more than that. I believe some regions will be hit harder than others. Like urban areas are going to get hit harder than rural areas, and depending on the geographical location some areas, even urban ones, will receive supplies faster than others.

Now water: Drinking clean water is important, if the electrical grid goes down, it means the water pumps won’t be functioning. How long back up generators will hold? And I believe hospitals and medical care facilities will be given top priority when it comes to electricity. So you may end up with no water, either tap water or drinking water. You must buy big quantaties of clean water to drink and to cook with and store them. It depends on how much you consume and how many of you are in the family. As for tap water, here you gotta ration whatever you’ve got and not use it all in one go. You may stay weeks without any water being pumped to you or maybe months. I don’t know. So what to do in such situaitons: first, laundry, there is no way to wash in machines you gotta do that manually in buckets, and do your best not to waste a lot of water while doing it, the same goes to washing the dishes. Some many resort to platic dishes and forks in order to save up washing water, but that will also make the garbage pile up fast. So it’s going to be up to you to choose a method. And also thanks to Lebanese survival technics, if you have a bath tub, you can plug it and fill it with water each time you will get water. Use the bathtub as a small reservoir. When you want to shower and clean up, you wash manually while standing on the tile floor in the bathroom, the water will go down the drain, using shower heads will waste all the water reserves you’ve got. Same goes for the toilet seat, if you are going to use the toiled seat siphon each time you want to go, then you will finish your water supply in a day. So you have to use manually small amounts of it with a small bucket. And you can buy some big water plastic barrels and pout them on your balcony or back yard and store water in them as well. These are suggestions and survival technics IF the most horrible senario happens. I hope we won’t reach that point. Take notes, prepare mentally and see what you can do according to your situation. Prepare for the worst and hope for the better. Oh and for laundry, remember your dryer will be useless, so you will need a rope to dry washed laundry on.

For cooking and heating: I don’t think if the electrical grid goes down you will receive gaz to cook or heat your homes as well. So what to do? You can buy camping cooking stove along with spare gaz recharge. You buy a BBQ if you already don’t have one and stock on coal and wood and use them to cook on instead of the stove. The chimney will be your heating source if you have one. If not, then make sure you have warm clothes and blankets.

If you have the luxury of water, you can buy some seeds and plant some greenary in your rear yard, like cucumbers or lettuce or bell pepers; it all depends where you live and what your situation is like.

Make sure you stock on the medics you might need, like I have blood pressure, so I’ve put 6 boxes of my medic as a reserve when the crisis comes. Also, you gotta take into consideration that the trash might not be removed from the front of your door and streets might end up pilled with with garbage. Which is the source of illnesses and the place will be filled with rats and roaches. So buy some antiseptic cleaning products to clean your house and mostly front porch with. Buy some gloves like the ones used by surgeons and buy some medical masks as well. We don’t know how bad it’s going to turn and for how long it’s going to last. And if you have pets, don’t forget to buy what they need as well.