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misterhamtastic
misterhamtastic
misterhamtastic's stay at home plan
Oct 7 2011, 9:51 AM EDT | Post edited: Oct 7 2011, 9:51 AM EDT
It's pretty simple, really. I live in a subdivision about 10 miles away from any kind of shopping and 20 miles away from any major population center. My plan is based on no support being available from any neighbor, and hopefully lasting at least one year.

First-water. We have an artesian well. Unless a water line breaks, we have water. If one breaks... well, pray for rain, I guess.

Second-sanitation. We have a septic tank and drainage field. It requires nothing but running water to work.

Third-food. We'll stockpile shelf-stable stuff, canned goods mostly, between now and then. There's room in our backyard to grow vegetables, and last year we gave it a try. We know we need to work on the soil a bit, it's kind of sandy, but it should work.

Finally-protection. I have enough plywood to board the front windows and door over, and there's a six-foot fence on the back yard that butts up to woods. At the first sign of zombies I'd start reinforcing the fence with wood from both the woods and the front porch. While the fence won't hold off thousands of zombies, it should be good for anything under a hundred. The lack of heavy population locally suggests to me that our threat should be limited to a few to a dozen at a time, which we can pick off with the rifle or hit with the sledge.

My "basement" is half exposed, and made of 5000 psi concrete. It has one window and one door. This will be the backup position. I will have a plywood cover to quickly nail in place with a couple of firing holes cut into it. Hopefully we'll be able to use the rifle to reduce any numbers in the yard, until it can be reopened, If not, then we will be facing malnutrition, but should still last a year.
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OutlawJames
OutlawJames
1. RE: misterhamtastic's stay at home plan
Oct 7 2011, 1:20 PM EDT | Post edited: Oct 7 2011, 1:20 PM EDT
"It's pretty simple, really. I live in a subdivision about 10 miles away from any kind of shopping and 20 miles away from any major population center. My plan is based on no support being available from any neighbor, and hopefully lasting at least one year.

First-water. We have an artesian well. Unless a water line breaks, we have water. If one breaks... well, pray for rain, I guess.

Second-sanitation. We have a septic tank and drainage field. It requires nothing but running water to work.

Third-food. We'll stockpile shelf-stable stuff, canned goods mostly, between now and then. There's room in our backyard to grow vegetables, and last year we gave it a try. We know we need to work on the soil a bit, it's kind of sandy, but it should work.

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On the food situation. I would look into aquiring dried and freeze dried staples, such as beans and dried vegetables. Also perhaps some whole red wheat and a simple grinder. These things provide a lot of nutrition, for very little space, and as you said you have a good water supply. ( I dont mean Mountain house or similar camp foods)

You can get these in bulk in airtight, nitrogen filled containers( they initroduce nitrogen eliminating oxygen, to stop oxygenation)

Here is a link for the one I deal with. Their long term storage stuff is good for 25 years.

Ihttp://www.pleasanthillgrain.com/foodpak2.aspx

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PedroAsani
PedroAsani
2. RE: misterhamtastic's stay at home plan
Oct 7 2011, 1:46 PM EDT | Post edited: Oct 7 2011, 1:46 PM EDT
Good start, but your water plan needs a backup. Pray For Rain doesn't work in the NFL, and it's not a solid strategy here.

Especially when your sanitiation system will break with it. So you will be thirsty and pungent. What a way to die.

Stockpiling food is good, but you say "We'll". That implies you need to get started. Other than this you have the foundations of a good Bug-In stage. Do you find this valuable?    
misterhamtastic
misterhamtastic
3. RE: misterhamtastic's stay at home plan
Oct 7 2011, 2:09 PM EDT | Post edited: Oct 7 2011, 2:09 PM EDT
As for the back-up water, there's a creek in the woods(about a foot deep) maybe 100 yards from the backyard fence. Then we're another two miles from the river. I just don't know of a good way to transport water from either source to my house while fending off zombies.

I'm working on stockpiling food, but it's slow going. It takes a lot to feed this bunch, so when I overbuy, it's not by much. I could buy freeze dried stuff in bulk when we have a windfall, like income tax return time, but I don't see fitting it into an already tight budget. Do you find this valuable?