You have to start somewhere...

Hi and welcome to our new blog on what we're doing as a family to prepare for potential disaster.  We do not truly believe that a society crashing disaster is going to occur in our life time.  But we're also not naive enough to believe that it's an impossiblity. 

We're also aware of just how fragile our microcosm is at all levels.  Personal, town, state and country. 

It's been said over and over again until it's attained something of a 'given' that towns have at any given time 3 days of food and supplies for the population at normal consumption.  This is resolved because at every given moment trucks and trains laden with goods are filling the local warehouses by the back doors as fast as the trucks are leaving by the front doors to deliver it to your local stores.

If anything happens to cause a break down in that system, the shelves start to empty out pretty quickly.

Whether the three days is universally true or not, it's probably a given that for most places it's in the ballpark or probably no more than double that figure.

This assumes normal shopping habits as well.  In a percieved or real crisis the panic buying starts, leading to a significantly shorter time frame.  The first ones to buy, buy it by the car load leaving little to nothing for those who waited too long.

The number 3 is also fairly ubiquitous in our lives.  Everyone's probably heard the phrase, 3 minutes wihtout air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food.   An extended version includes 3 hours without shelter in extreme conditions.   Why 3?  Because it's a good ballpark for all of them I guess. 

We're in a position where we can afford to prepare although in all honesty depending on the time frame everyone should have some ability to prepare or at least extend their ability to not be dependent on being able to to go the store for a few days, then weeks, then months.

Just go at it slowly and carefully.

This then is going to be our journal on the road to preparing for whatever disaster life may throw at us, whether it's extended unemployment to total societal collapse from some nebulous source.