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LJ_Reloaded

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Our weaknesses:
Well water is 1.2 miles away. Around 90 gallons of stored water.
Low amount of stored food.
Amateur fortification skills.
Not CPR trained.


Strengths:
I'm friends with the guy who has the well water. It's filtered and clean.
Friends with the farmer down the way who has a renewable supply of meat.
Got a few chickens of my own, a few fruit trees and a family garden. We use drip irrigation and kitchen/garden composting.
Delicious Coyote Recipe Cookbook (C) 2012 Disaster Preppers Edition.*
Large safe room.
Short & long range radios, including a hand-cranked radio.
Basic first aid training.
Naturally easy to defend property. Plenty of folks here who know about fortification to cover for deficiency in that area.
Guns. Ammo. Not enough to beat a siege but enough to require a determined mob to take down. But if there's a total collapse the combined group can hold out against a siege. We also have multiple spots where we'd physically consolidate for the long haul in the event of a government collapse.
Solar power, works best in the summer.
Electric stove, trying to get a backup solar-powered stove working. LOL. Good luck with that.
Got 3 bug-out locations, our house for others and 2 at others' houses.

A GOOD COMMUNITY AROUND US. This is a big one that National Geographic doesn't cover. Without that you could probably last 12-16 months (which is what our score turned out to be).


* Just kidding.
 
12-16 months.
Do you have anyone outside your household that you can rely on? That should be a HUGE x-factor in any disaster prep plan. I'd even call it an A-factor, more important than everything else on that list.
 
Yes, a good network.

Funny, back in the 1970's my university roomate was from North Carolina; he stockpiled water and food in our dorm room, slept with a 45 under his pillow (he'd smuggled it across the border) and had a prevailing winds fallout map of the eastern seabord with all the nuke plants and bases labelled up on the wall, with a detailed map of alternate routes to his bug-out cabin outside Raleigh.
 
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