Would You Be Prepared?

StarSong said:
Over summertime the emergency water in our house and garage get dumped into the pool or used to water plants and refilled. We use the ones in the RV as drinking water while camping so those get fresh water several times a year.
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Perfection can be the enemy of "good enough." Storing water in water or milk jugs, or soda bottles may not be "perfect" for long term preppers, but for the rest of us it is good enough. And sometimes good enough is good enough.
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Great point. Especially cycling through it frequently like you do.
 

Our place has a hand dug well, rope and bucket if it comes to that....
Bubbling springs is about 200 yards away.
We always have a few gallons around anyways, But if expecting anything we fill extra, plus the camper tank is always full.
 
Question you folks that are prepared...what do you do with the old gasoline you have had on hand for the generator? How do you properly dispose of it? We discuss this and just wonder what others do. We've burned it on the brush piles but it would be nice if there was an easier way to dispose of a 5 gallon gas can full of it all.
 

squatting dog said:
Don't know about others, but this is where mine get's used. Just have to be careful when lighting it, but a great fire starter. :)
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Thanks. Wonder what the SOP is for discarding it. After all, if everyone that owns a generator buys a 5 gal can of gas and doesn't use it, there's a lot of old potential combustible fuel out there.
 
Liberty said:
Thanks. Wonder what the SOP is for discarding it. After all, if everyone that owns a generator buys a 5 gal can of gas and doesn't use it, there's a lot of old potential combustible fuel out there.
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I don't know of any SOP, probably different in different places, but, if they don't wait for the gas to go stale. they could just put it in their car and run it and get fresh gas for the generator. Sometimes, I get a brain fart and forget to put sta-bil in the gas and therefore it goes by before I can put it in my car. Then, it becomes fire starter and sometimes ant mound destroyer.
 
I've got enough food for two weeks or so but water would be a problem if a crisis hit suddenly.
 
We could do ok for awhile. Our cooking stove/oven runs on propane and we have enough of that to get by a few months. After that we could cook at our firepit outside. The potential problem, as I see it is, neighbors who haven't prepared and come along wanting what we have. Our water comes from a well and we need power to run the pump so we really should get it set up with a solar panel so it would work in an electrical outage. We have 2 water tanks (one is empty right now so not anything to brag about:).) and I could imagine some one shooting the tank if we couldn't give them some of our water.
 
We would just keep going on with our daily lives on our land pretty much the same as we normally do...I wanna say we could survive indefinitely on our off grid Homestead, but there are always unforeseen occurrences and too many variables to make such a bold statement...But we would probably be fine for as long as we had to be.
 
Looked it up and it said to dispose in a Hazard Waste Dump. Not too many of those around. We've never put the stabilizer in
the gas and kept it and used it for 2 years - after that got rid of it. Some auto parts stores used to take it.
 

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