To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds ‘n Sods Column or in the Snippets column. Let’s keep busy and be ready!
Jim Reports:
Fall weather is now rolling in, with full force. A so-called “atmospheric river” has a series of La Niña-driven storms lined up, across the northern Pacific Ocean. In short, we are expecting a very snowy winter in the Inland Northwest.
To be ready to plow snow on short notice, I positioned our time-proven “fence” made of 2x4s across the bed of our pickup, just behind the wheel wells. That keeps six 80-pound sandbags from shifting forward. Those bags are, as the song goes: “…just for weight, dear…” Sitting alongside them is a 4-gallon plastic container of sand — a re-purposed cat litter jug. That jug is there in case we need to pour any traction sand in a hurry. This time of year we also carry tow chains in both our pickup and our SUV. And, of course, we habitually carry a snow shovel, at least one sleeping bag, and spare heavy winter coats, this time of year.
Now, Lily’s report…Continue reading“Editors’ Prepping Progress”
