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What's up with the "prepare for a 3 to 10 day outage"? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I've had a couple of friends ask me if I'm prepping.

Prepping for what?

I see the UK is doing a Be Prepared campaign and Fucking Dan Bongino said something on a podcast. What's that about?

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[–] 18 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Not really what you're asking, but having several days of bottled water on hand is arguably a good idea in general.

Water's one of the things that you're going to need before too long if some sort of disaster does strike. It keeps well, and it's not terribly expensive.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Yep.

    I'm not a prepper but I have an emergency water supply that, under the worst circumstances, could last me a month and a half. It's really nice when the water's out for whatever reason to have zero disruption.

    Same with food, roughly 1.5 months worth.

    I agree that when it comes to the essentials to live, it's just a good idea to have reserves.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    How much water and food is that? We could easily live for a couple of weeks off what's in our pantry and freezers. Losing electricity would shorten that considerably.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    I haven't crunched the numbers exactly, but I have six 12-packs of canned, purified water. I'd guess I have about 50-60 packs of dry, shelf stable goods like rice packs and mac-and-cheese, but also have a bulk pack of twelve jars of peanut butter that I bought solely to keep in case of some unimaginable cataclysm.

    So yeah, not prepper level, but definitely stocked adequately for any short-term disruptions.

    I started building up my pantry after 'Liberation Day', because I was concerned supply chain disruptions would get worse and more frequent.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Ok. That sounds totally reasonable. When you said over a month, i thought you had one of those MRE barrels from Costco. We usually have a case of water and a case of bubbly water cans in the garage and we could probably live for 4 weeks if we had effectivity to keep things frozen. We're bad about throwing stuff into the garage freezer and forgetting it's there - mostly chicken nuggets, French fries, pizza. Cucumbers, tomatillos, and hatch peppers are growing right now.

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