Absolutely! We rotate stock, just like a good grocery store.
And until insulin is opened, as long as it stays refrigerated, it will keep until the expiration date on the package, which is usually 2 years from date of purchase. I have empty vials here at work for demonstration purposes: they were the batch before the current one, and they expire May 2012. Once opened, 1 month max.
Thanks to an active camping schedule, we always have 4 daypacks each filled with the Outdoor Essentials:
Thanks again to the camping, I have several days of MREs, dehydrated food, stove fuel, charcoal, etc.
Other things were lost in a tragic boating accident. It was a pretty big boat too.
As an SCA event attendee I have a variety of camping supplies and non perishable food items, camp stove, tent, etc already prepacked in big plastic totes. Last event it took me 12 min to pack to leave for a two day camping trip (plus 20 min at grocery store for a few fresh items that I could have lived without in a bugout situation).
Even if I wasn’t leaving I have enough food for 8-10 meals already in the boxes. If the aliens are already inbound I could add the guns and clear town in 30 min easily.
Like I would tell you?
Your plan is to drive over from Memphis and steal my stuff and other Dopers along the way when the Big One goes down!
I have a CD labeled ‘Emergency Porn!’ sitting on my computer monitor.
It’s blank, I just made it because I thought it would be funny when I guest noticed it.
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As of yet, no one has. Alas.
In the tool box I kept in my Toyota pickup I kept 2 Mickey’s Big Mouths 'cause if I ever broke down along the side of the road I figured I’d probably want one around then.
I was right.
Nah. Skald knows all he has to do is pack a few of his hookerbots up and find me. The bots don’t eat, and I’ll have…adequate defenses.
Nothing. I don’t think I even have enough groceries to last a week.
I hope if the apocalypse comes, my upstairs landlords take care of me. They seem like nice people…
We keep a few.
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[li]2 “eco-lite” induction-charged flashlights plugged into wall outlets that come on automatically in a power outage[/li]
[li]Several containers of dried beans – for some reason having dried beans is like a security blanket for me[/li]
[li]2 Brita water pitchers (one for humans, 1 for pets), kept mostly full[/li]
[li]Container of cornstarch in the bird room to stop bird bleeding (especially broken blood feathers from night frights)[/li]
[li]4 rechargeable batteries kept topped off in the charger and periodically cycled into the supply of batteries in use[/li][/ul]
This!
When the end of the world comes, my reading closet is well supplied.
Due to my chronic depression, my tank is always half empty.
Oh yeah! This reminds me: a semi-working knowledge of how to make insulin from animal pancreases. Heck if I’m gonna rely on refrigeration to keep me alive; I have at least one book that goes into reasonable detail about how Banting & Best created the first batches. Will it be fun? Heck no, but it just might keep me (and a few others) alive when the apocalypse comes.
Blood glucose strips, not so easy to make. But the insulin’s the important bit, right?
He neglected to tell you about the electrical shock problem, didn’t he?
“It’s not a bug, it’s a feature” my ass.
Dude, that seems HELLA expensive. I just got this from Costco for a lot less, unless I’m missing something about that bucket.
I only recently ran across that term on The Zombie Squad website. Is it common to other survival fora?
Personally, I’m not that prepared. We camp a lot, so I’ve got really good camping gear, with the stoves/lanterns/propane/tents/sleeping bags/dishes/etc. for infrastructure. I’m starting to build a stash of food, with the above-listed buckets of emergency food and buying bags of rice and beans, cans of broth, and 2-gallon containers of water whenever I go to the store.
The SO camps at Burning Man regularly, so he’s got solar panels and other random hard-core stuff that I wouldn’t think of.
Only one weapon in the house, though. I’m planning on the next purchases.
I couldn’t say how common it is. I first remembered hearing it from a disaster survival website shortly after hurricane Katrina.
Dates back to MAS*H at least - Radar would occasionally announce “we’re buggin’ out” - meant that the 4077 was suddenly mobile, moving to a new location.
Doesn’t MASH stand for “Mobile Army Surgical Hospital”? I thought they were always mobile.
I’ve always had a bug-out bag ready. The truck has a kit behind the seats at all times.
Kolga, near as I can tell, the Wise product is a lot more calories. The stuff I’ve eaten out of the buckets is quite good and very easy to rehydrate. Tasty stuff for emergency food. (I’m actually quite fond of Canadian IMPs, but they can be a bitch to find sometimes.)
Not a kit as such, but put together there’s a lot of stuff around the house that could come in handy:
flashlights, including one lantern-battery size
candles, over a dozen
two kerosene lanterns w. fuel
scores of match books everywhere
ditto disposable lighters
camp stove with propane tanks
patio grill w. large propane tank
spring water in gallon jugs, usually a couple
diet soda 2-liter bottles, usually several
shelf storable food in cans, bottles and boxes
picnic utensils
tent, sleeping bags, folding cot, rain ponchos, picnic coolers
sunscreen, band-aids, gauze pads, adhesive tape, ace bandages, tylenol, antiseptic, topical antibiotic, etc.
battery-powered radio, pocket knives, buck knife, hacksaw, bow saw, axe, sledge hammer, gasoline container, crowbar, 18-inch length of steel pipe, 18-inch wooden club, handgun & 20 hollowpoints.
And probably more stuff in our attic, basement, garage and kitchen cabinets then I can even think of right now, which would include a lot of handy stuff.
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I think the idea was that the 4077 had capacity to be mobile, but was not always in motion - that it would be in a particular spot for a while, and then might have to move if the front line moved forward, or started coming backwards. In the latter case, they might have to move very quickly.
The three episodes that I can think of where movement was part of the plot were:
Hawkeye had just patched up a soldier with a potentially paralyzing wound near the spine, and the soldier absolutely could not be moved for a certain period after the surgery. Then the buggin’out order came, because the front was collapsing and the North Koreans/Chinese were advancing. Hawk, Hotlips, and Radar stayed behind to look after the soldier. Two-parter, with the first episode showing the MASH soldiers stripping the camp and packing it all up; ended with the three staying behind in a skeletal looking MASH site.
BJ’s reunion - when he came up with the idea that their family members back home should all get together. Part of the reading of letters from home came as they were buggin’out and the different members of the cast were in the trucks moving them to the new location.
Crazy “Col. Potter” - Harry Morgan had a guest shot as a general who was off his rocker, when MacLean Stevenson/Henry Blake was still O/C. Morgan ordered the MASH to move across the road, just to show that it was mobile and because he thought they were getting too settled in. “MASH means MOBILE!” Later, Morgan of course got the regular gig as Col. Potter.