I have been stocking up on supplies for the last couple months.
I have a portable water filter pump that enables the user to drink water from rivers or streams. It's a really popular device that campers and hikers use. The filter is good for 500 gallons.
For food I have purchased vegetables and dinners that are freeze dried and stored in #10 cans. I have a year supply for one person of vegetables (corn, sweet peas, and green beans). I have a six-month supply for one person of dinner entrees ranging from spaghetti to seafood chowder. Just add a little water to one serving and a meal is had. All in all my family of four has a supply of food at 3 meals a day to last for at least four to six months, which includes other food in our pantry.
We also have a 72-hour emergency kit that is meant for ten people, which we purchased after a big storm hit our area a couple years ago and left the region powerless for several days. For a family of four such as mine, that would be good for a week. This kit has all the basic emergency neccessities such as first aid kit, emergency food rations, emergency water packs, survival blankets, crank radio, crank flashlights, water proof matches, etc., and even the two buckets all of this comes in can be used as emergency porta potty with chemicals.
All of these supplies I have purchased at
www.thereadystore.com. Great site to check out. Normally, they send out product within a few days, but because of demand it takes 4-6 weeks to get your goods. I ordered my food supplies back in July and in took about 4-5 weeks to get it. But, now we're fairly set if there is a disruption lasting for a few months. The water filter was a top priority for us. We live next to a river so at least we can drink out of it if we have to with the water filter/purifier.
All these things above cost about $1000.
Other things:
We have a dog and just bought a couple extra large bags of his dog food to last probably several months. Dog food didn't occur to me until recently.
I also pulled out almost $3000 cash from my savings account to have on hand for emergency in the home in the event that banks and ATMs become inaccessible. I'll be pulling out more cash in the coming days ahead.
I am going to be stocking up on gasoline a little. I think I'll to head Schucks and pick up several gas containers and fill them up with gas to store in my garage. I figure I should store at least enough gas to fill up the gas tank a couple times.
We will be making a big Costco run to stock up on basic neccessities such as toliet paper, soap, medicines, and all other stuff that we take for granted.
This is our prep. I just wanted to share what we're doing.
Best of luck to all here.
In the coming days we'll need to hold on to the pole.