Preparedness Nuggets Part 8Preparedness Nuggets Home .Better Times Cookbook V |Justpeace | Better Times | BobWaldrop.net | Access to Energy Conservation | OnPilgrimage in Oklahoma City | Bookstore | Better Times II | Bulgar Bugle |Mutual Aid (Grassroots home and community scale disaster preparations)Preparedness NuggetsA Cyberbook of Practical Wisdom for Daily LivingPart the EighthThe original version of this page was 23 pages in Word Perfect format, 12 pointtimes roman type.Adult TricycleCanning CakesCoffee, Soup, Bleach shelf lifeIs chlorinated pool water safe to drink?Drying PotatoesDutch Ovens, Iron CookwareFirst Aid KitFood SealerFreezing PipesGarbarge or sewer emergency needs immediate community responseKerosene is very safeKerosene LampsMore on iron cookwareOnline health and nutrition newsletterDiatomaceous EarthRadioSample preparation plansSourdoughStaying in your communityChristian HomesteadingThings to do listThink of helping othersVenison recipesWater filtersWater filters IIYour y2k medicine cabinetCOFFEE, SOUP, BLEACH SHELF LIFE TOPJust found out that Folders vacuum packed coffee can last up to 2 years onshelf. Once opened it will be good for about one month. Also, if you want toknow how long something will last you can call the 1-800-numbers that areusually on the back of the packages. I called Lipton yesterday and they gave methe shelf life for their soups which where about 3 to 6 months.Don't forget to stock up on BLEACH!, I called Hylex in St. Paul re longevity,and she said it will retain its 5+% acidity for a year from the manufacturingdate. Shelf-life varies w/ termperatur of storage. Their number is1-651-454-1160 ask for Angie. There are cheap acid testers in a corner drugstorethat will give some degree of accuracy of acidity. There are chlorine chemicalsthat are 15% acidity available at Chemical Co---- remember to use just 1/3 asmuch.-------------------------------------------------------------------------DUTCH OVENS, IRON COOKWARE TOPhttp://www.lodgemfg.com/ Lodge Manufacturing Company, Inc. And to learn suchimportant things such as pre-treating and upkeep (very important!) We use it
with charcoal briquettes. Ours is a 12" oven, so we use 15 briquettes around thebottom and 9 on the lid. AWESOME!http://www.macscouter.com/Cooking/DutchOven.html------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------FREEZING PIPES TOPWay beforehand (like now) wrap the pipes and insulate the foundation of thehouse. If you are using some sort of alternative heat, thisll help keep pipesfrom freezing. This isn't 100% (and it depends upon how cold it is), but it willhelp. If you think your electric's going off on January 1, 2000, consider havingyour water turned off so that the pipes don't freeze and burst. You can turn iton again if the power & heat situation are OK. Freezing pipes: There areprobably shut-off valves throughout your house. You will shut those off all butwhere the water enters your house and to the portion of the house which isheated. If shut-off valves are not available throughout critical areas off yourhouse, you may have them installed by yourself or a plumber at a comparativelylow cost.If caught in your unawares, you may allow a trickle of water to run continuouslythrough out the pipes and that will keep the pipes open. We live in a house witha full basement where the water heater is. If it's really cold with no heat orwater pressure, I could crack open every tap on every sink and then use thedrain on the hot water heater to provide us with the 40 gallons in it as well asall of the water in our plumbing that could have otherwise caused broken pipes.Without water pressure, water trapped in your plumbing is the water you willmost likely be drinking.If we lose utility services, it will also be a good idea to cut off the streetwater pressure to your house. When service is returned, you will not be able totrust the water in most areas for some time. When city water service pressure isstopped, the system follows the law of gravity and feeds houses in lower areaswith gravity feed. I like that, we live in a valley. The bad news is that thiscreates a vacuum on the higher areas in the system. With any leaks in thesystem, outside trash and contaminated ground water will be sucked into thewater pipes. If these leaks in the water supply pipes happen to be nearsomeone's spilled septic system, etc., you can imagine the outcome. This is whyafter hurricanes, earthquakes, etc., that people are told to boil the waterafter interruption of water services.Getting back to the freezing problem, the elimination of the possibility ofgetting contaminated water siphoned into your house is a necessity. Shutting offthe water utility service valve to your house will also help insure that yourpipes will be drained properly. Be careful that any plumbing hidden in outsidewalls does not have pockets that trap water in low sections of the supply linescausing pockets of ice. Pockets in inside parts of the house are not a problemunless you allow the house to get below freezing.Some people in situations without utility resources let their houses get reallycold for fuel conservation. This technique is not only uncomfortable if carriedout to the extreme, it can also contribute to freeze damage in areas that wouldotherwise be safe. If you have stored freezeable food in a pantry on an outsidewall of the house, these things could freeze if the house is so close tofreezing that not enough heat reaches these areas. I have also seen pipes inoutside walls freeze when the core of the building was nearly 40 degrees but it
was extremely cold outside---------------------------------------------------------------GARBAGE/SEWAGE NEEDS COMMUNITY RESPONSE TOPOne problem with trying to store human waste "air-tight" is that itsdecomposition creates methane gas. I don't know for sure, but it seems likely tome that at some point the container would explode from the gas pressure. Yuck. Ithink burying is the better option. Bleach would be handy for disinfecting thechamber pots.Forget port-a-potties. In an emergency situation, all that a port-a-potty orchemical toilet do is postpone the day of reckoning for a few hours, they aredesigned to be filled and then emptied. It's remarkable quickly disgusting suchthings can be in only a few hours. In an urban setting, I vote for dug latrines,with regular piling of dirt over the waste. Our recent ancestors were wellacquainted with "chamber pots".This, folks, is one of the areas where I advocate being pro-active inneighborhood leadership. If you are in a city, and the sewers stop working, godoor to door and talk to your neighbors. Organize a community meeting and showeverybody how to dig a latrine in their back yard. I've been reading up onrefugee camps at the University of Wisconsin Disaster Center (a correspondencecourse in disaster management), and believe me, waste disposal in an emergencysituation is one of the most critical problems -- tied with clean water forfirst place, and ahead of shelter, food, and medical care.This also applies to trash (which I mentioned in a previous post) -- if trashpiles up, organize your neighborhood to take care of it, first of all byreducing what is thrown away, secondly by probably burning in a safe way (orburying, if there is space available).Cities were once known as places to die, because they concentrated so manypeople in such unsanitary conditions in small areas. We currently useconsiderable resources to manage the waste products of our urban concentrations;if anything happens to them, people need to be ready to shift gears viapro-active neighborhood activism to take care of these problems on the day theyfirst surface (that is, the first day the trash isn't picked up. If you waituntil the second missed pickup, things will just be worse.)---------------------------------------------STAY IN YOUR COMMUNITIES TOPDear Friends,Some of you here may not know this, but we (husband and I, our three children,their spouses, and our six grandchildren) plan to do as the Cassandra Projectstresses, that being to stay in our community and work with the community forits survival and ultimately, we hope, our own in the bargain. We have anestablished bug-out place we can go to if social unrest threatens here in theouter suburbs of Chicago. But we don't plan on buying any farmland ...at leastthat is not in our plans as of this date. We remain flexible though, willing tochange our minds on this matter given good enough reason. But for right nowbased on the information we have, our decision to stay put derives from our best"prayerfully- arrived-at" guess about how big this will get and what is theright and prudent thing for us to do in response.Anyway, I am wondering if more and more people are getting seriously concerned
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