10 Steps to Take When Disaster Strikes

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[00:01:20] Today, well, we're going to talk about the 10 things you should do immediately after the lights go out or the shit hits the fan or things go south, however you want to interpret it. Thing is, there's some actual action steps that you need to do in the moment. Now, as preppers, we all think that we prepare beforehand and everything should be handled. And if that's the case, I mean, that's the perfect world, right?

[00:01:49] If you're prepared, you don't have to go anywhere when the lights go out. Everything's handled. Your car's ready to drive you home in whatever scenario and you have the stuff to get there and whatever. And that's the goal, right? As a prepper, that's where we're always trying to be. But think of this from like a novice.

[00:02:10] And this is for anybody who's not really prepared or no matter where you are, maybe you're at your friend's house and this is what you need to do because you're not getting home since three hours away. And this catastrophe is bigger than that, right? Whatever. Whatever it is, this is the full steps of preparation and what you should do.

[00:02:31] And obviously, if you are a prepper, you should be thinking about, well, what can I pre-stage or store now to make these things not an issue, right? Where I can just immediately step into the next thing. So, I don't know. I think with that, we kind of jump right into it, right? 10 things. I think the first thing is to secure your family or your loved ones, right?

[00:02:56] The people, anybody that's part of your survival plan, you need to make sure that they have a way to get safe and get everybody home, you know, to take care of them. That might be your kids at school, might need to be picked up. Maybe it was an EMP and the cars don't work and your wife is 7, 5, 20 miles away and you have to find a way to get her home. These are all realistic things that you want to consider and have a plan for.

[00:03:26] Now, maybe you have something cool like EMP shield and it was an EMP and whatever. Maybe it was like Red Dawn and we just see parachutes of, in this case, maybe it'll be Chinese people coming out of the sky, right? Who knows? They're all coming out of that big balloon and, you know, just pile it out. They're just streaming as it drifts across America, you know? Like some sort of messed up clam car.

[00:03:51] But the thing is, the first thing you want to do is to make sure everybody's safe and has a way to get home. And, you know, obviously we've talked about some of the better ways is to talk to your kids. Hey, you know, if, you know, if things, the lights go out, you need to leave the school and just start walking home. Or don't leave the school, I'm going to come get you. Know that I'm going to be waiting for you right here.

[00:04:17] If that doesn't work, plan B is I'm coming to the school itself and talking to the principal and getting you out. Whatever it is, right? It's to come up with a plan. So nobody is worried about what the other guy's going to do. Right. We all kind of know what everybody else is doing, where they're at and what they're going to do to get home. You know, one thing that I want to mention is it doesn't come up a lot. But, you know, they talk about EMPs and your car shutting down.

[00:04:45] And it's kind of common sense, but there's a good chance that if your car stalls out and all the power goes out, you can start your car again, shift it into park, and it's possible it'll start right back up. It's worth a try. But I think that's kind of your go-to, right? Right. I don't think in your mind you're like, oh, it's an EMP. In your mind it's like, what the hell? My car just shut off. Right.

[00:05:11] But yeah, no, definitely give it a try and see where you're at or see if anybody has a running vehicle and, you know, what you can do. Because I think initially when people, when it would happen, people aren't like, oh, we're all on our own. Like at first you were like, oh, look, we're all stuck here. And, you know, I think it's in people's nature to help each other. I mean, maybe I'm thinking of like North Carolina, not New York. Like in New York, it's like, who are you? Why are you talking to me? I'll kill you.

[00:05:41] You know? Who knows? All right. So number two on my list here is fill every water container, water bob, buckets, washer, anything you can do with water and build a backup. Because that municipal water is going to eventually run out if it's such a catastrophe that's going to go on. Yeah.

[00:06:07] And most, most places in the United States have water towers, meaning that all the pumps, everything out, nothing working. There's still going to be water that will grab and feed through your for a certain amount of time until that's out. And you want to be able to take care of your family. That's a step number two in my book. I mean, I don't, I don't know. The next thing is maybe run out and get any supplies you don't have.

[00:06:33] Now, like I said, obviously as a prepper, we would like to have had all these supplies and not have to be fighting the gas line at the, you know, at the gas station up the street. You know, and I'm assuming not an EMP, you know, something else happens. Right. And, and I don't want to be fighting, you know, maybe the stock market and the dollar collapse to zero. Right. But you still, you know, all of a sudden prices are going to start going up or whatever. You know, you're saying, well, Chuck, you just said that they're going to zero.

[00:07:02] Well, yeah, then they're going to go up. But you want to secure the resources that you can. Yeah. Now, what good way to do this is to just go down to the grocery store. And when you see somebody coming out with a full cart, stick them up and rob their stuff. And I'm saying that as a joke, because there's potential that somebody will do that to you. You know, absolutely.

[00:07:25] So you need to, you need to be aware if people are scrambling for, for the last little bit of supplies and you have them, you know, you're in a dangerous situation and you need to be able to protect yourself. Absolutely. So that's, you know, and so what type of supplies? So obviously fuel is a big thing, right? Right. For me, that's the number one thing. Having diesel for my tractor is like such a huge part of my long-term survival plan.

[00:07:53] You know, I'm always worried about not having enough and you hate to store it in the cold winter and whatever. So it's always an ongoing battle for me of what do I do, you know, as far as that. But yeah. So getting gas and diesel, big thing. And lines are only going to get worse in that initial stages because then places are going to start running out. So that's step one. Next is food and groceries, right? You got to feed your family. Now, obviously, what kind of food would you want?

[00:08:23] Well, these are the things we always talk about as preppers is things that are going to feed a lot of bellies for low dollars. So that's, we're talking about rice. We're talking about beans. It's everything, right? Is it milk and bread? I know when COVID hit, bread was one of the hardest things to get. It was like really weird at first where it's like, oh, we can't get any bread for anything. Yeah.

[00:08:52] And if you go to the grocery store and you're hitting up the dried beans and rice and it's all empty, you know, check the pasta and that'll be empty too. Right. And then the canned sauces. Then, you know, your soups. You keep moving down the line. Of stuff that's going to fill bellies and stuff that's going to last. Now, you know, obviously, you can buy some fresh food if you didn't have any in your fridge. And if you have power to keep that cold, cool, or keep it outside.

[00:09:22] And obviously, stuff that you're going to eat today or tomorrow, you know, who knows? You might be able to do something with that. Maybe even meat that you can smoke. I really doubt that the grocery store is going to be empty, but there's going to be a bunch of steak sitting there. Now, maybe the $20 steaks, they might be there. And, you know, what else will be there is low quality meat. You know, like people buy out chicken breast. You know what I mean? Leave the chicken thighs next, you know, alone there. You know what I'm doing?

[00:09:51] Yeah. After the big push with COVID, one of the things that was not empty was the lamb. You know, I don't know why people don't like lamb chops. They're a little bit more expensive. But if, you know, if you're in an emergency and you need some meat, that's a good, you know, a good thing that for whatever reason people aren't into. Yeah. It's funny in the South here, it's really big that people don't eat the chicken thighs. And I'm always like, that's my go-to.

[00:10:21] I like the dart is tasty or whatever. People are like, we give that to the dogs. We don't care. The thighs are nothing. And I'm like, that's weird. To me, that's like the exact opposite. Yeah. We also find a lot of like, like ham hocks, pig knuckles, things like that. And yeah, it's gross. And maybe you get it for your dogs, but you know, you can also just put it in a pot and fry it with your vet, whatever vegetables you have. And, you know, get some of that grease, get some of that protein in there. Exactly.

[00:10:50] Now, the other thing that people forget in the panicked emergency of the apocalypse is things like toilet paper, soap, feminine products, you know, toothpaste, deodorant. You know, these things are going to matter. Laundry soap, dish soap. All these things are useful, but to me, food is going to outweigh and you're going to keep going down that line.

[00:11:15] You know, obviously we talk about the things that, you know, preppers need to stockpile, having a quality first aid kit, having, you know, these, they, they tend to go down in priority, right? If you only have so many dollars of cash that you can spend, you're going to want to, you know, prioritize and food is going to be number one, you know, because we already talked about water, right? If you had no way the water shut off instantly out of your tap, then yeah, buying bottled water would be cool too, you know?

[00:11:44] But hopefully we're not paying for that. Can meat, tuna, chicken, ham, beef, you know, any of that stuff is awesome. Well, we're talking about soap. I would recommend that everybody, you can get bar soap very cheap, especially if you're buying in bulk. And I know everyone's like, oh, but it dries out my skin or, you know, I, I use the special scented body wash and stuff like that.

[00:12:07] So soap, soap is soap and bar soap is cheap and you can use it a lot longer than, than like liquid soaps or, you know, and you can use it for almost everything. You know, maybe don't, your wife won't want to wash her hair with it, but I mean, I've got a beard and I only wash it in, in fresh mountain springs with bar soap. I mean, that's just standard. And, but with bar soap. Okay. Yep. You do you, Kevin. That's all I can say, but that's the thing.

[00:12:34] Another step that you'd want to take, you know, if you can use it, credit cards are the way to go in the beginning. Right. Right. In that emergency and then resort to your cash. Yeah. I would say when it came to getting supplies, one of those supplies is hitting an ATM and getting as much cash out as possible. Right. Right. Most, uh, ATMs will limit you to $400 a bank if they're up and running and able to work. They're going to about 800 now, Kevin. Oh, I, I recently tried to max mine out.

[00:13:04] I don't know. I mean, everybody's different. I'm sure every bank is different. Um, yeah, I, I just know that $400 doesn't go as far as it used to. So it doesn't do much. It's like, Oh, we'll give you a little bit more. Um, yeah, that's two tanks to gas in the bottle. That would be a big thing as part of getting supplies is get any cash immediately. Um, and maybe you can't, you know, obviously, you know, you're going to hit nose on some of these like, Oh, gee, EMP. Nobody's getting gas out of any gas station.

[00:13:34] Okay. Sorry. You missed that one. You're going to have to skip to step, you know, five. Right. But that's the thing. These are also, it would be worthwhile to pay attention during any kind of a power outage, which gas stations are still up and running. I know we had a big hurricane here and the power was out. Uh, this is about 15 years ago. Power was out and most gas stations were just closed, but certain ones, right. A certain, a certain chain had generators.

[00:14:04] Exactly. And it was by chain. That's what I noticed, you know, cause obviously they run their business the same way. Right. Right. In a chain. Um, one of the big things with Helene in, uh, Western North Carolina here, it was, Hey, go to an Ingalls. If you can find an Ingalls one, they're pretty well stocked on gas. And two, they have generators to keep it going. And I don't know if it was generators, but they were always the ones with power, you know, however, they work that out with magic.

[00:14:30] I don't know, but they were, they were the way to go in the South here. And, you know, that's what you do. Um, somebody, uh, mentioned, uh, you know, restaurant supplies, grocery stores, bulk food places. Um, another thing like after things like say EMP and the grocery stores are all closed.

[00:14:50] You know, there are other places that have cafeterias, um, anywhere that has a cafeteria, you might want to think, Hey, they probably have bulk food and maybe you can broker a deal is how I will say that. I'm not saying go rob places. I'm saying maybe you could talk to somebody. Um, I know schools have big cafeterias and buy food in bulk. That's something to consider.

[00:15:12] Um, like I said, anywhere with a cafeteria that does that kind of service, you know, they might have the 50 pound black bags of flour and that kind of stuff. So something to keep in mind. Um, next I would say, you know, once you've gone out, you've done everything you can do out there, maybe take a quick inventory.

[00:15:35] I mean, I, I would not say I would waste a lot of time, like actually writing down, Oh, I have 27 cans of tuna and I have whatever. I wouldn't do an inventory like that, but I would go through what supplies I have, you know, are my gas cans that I thought full? Are they full? Um, you know, Oh, look, I have 10 gallons of gas over here. Well, I have that car, you know, sitting there with a full tank that I can siphon out and do whatever, things like that. Um, do I have that water filter?

[00:16:04] Or did I, is the equipment that I thought I had, you know, going to work? Is it together? Take an inventory of what you have, you know, what, what do I see in my pantry or in my fridge? Yeah. And if you're ever, uh, you know, in this sort of situation and you're wondering if that, you know, gallon of gas that you have mixed with oil for your chainsaw and your weed whacker will work on other stuff. It will, it'll just run like, you know, it'll run terrible and it'll smoke.

[00:16:32] But, you know, if you need to use that to get 10 miles down the road in your car, it probably won't do much damage to it. Right. And it, it will do a lot better mixing in with the 10 gallons in your tank than gallons in your tank. Just another thought. Um, but on the flip side, having a chainsaw, pretty cool. And Kevin, come on, you know, you want to be out with the weed whacker in the apocalypse. You got to edge things up, man. That's the only way to make it look nice.

[00:17:01] You know, you're not going to have the best looking yard in the apocalypse if you don't keep that weed whacker going. So, but no, absolutely. A chainsaw can be a game changer. And you know how far a gallon of gas, like, honestly, I pretty much use a, uh, I mix a gallon pretty much once a year. I mix one gallon with, you know, a mixed fuel. And that usually lasts me the whole year of my chainsaw use.

[00:17:27] Now, obviously I'm not trying to heat my house with firewood and using just a gallon of stuff, but normal maintenance on my property. I'm probably using about a gallon a year. So that's something to realize that it does go a long way. That's all I'm saying with that. So inventory of your supplies, that that's huge. Uh, next step, I would say it's time to get any Intel.

[00:17:53] Now, obviously some of these overlap and maybe the priority changes. I just know grocery store shelves are disappearing pretty quickly. So getting out there matters, but, um, get Intel. So maybe while you're going to the grocery store, can you be listening to the radio and hearing what's going on and what, how, you know, how much of the country's affected or, you know, what are the threats? Is there a big, and I know, yeah, I know you have your favorite Metallica CD and the CD player.

[00:18:23] I fully support that, but maybe it's time to just switch it and switch to the radio. AM and FM to, you know, AM might reach further and you might be getting a bad signal, but you might be able to get more information. If you know, the FM stations around you are out. So gathering Intel is huge and maybe that's talking to the fire department. Maybe that's, you see a policeman. He might know something, you know, anybody around, uh, like I said, radios, CNN.

[00:18:52] Um, one of the big things I've always tried to cover is have a antenna for your TV. You know, if you have those rabbit ears that might get you a little more when other things go out, you know, I'd hate to imagine the world where the internet goes out. We'd all shut down and, and cry, but. You know, I, I don't even know if the TV stations can broadcast without the internet. I mean, if that wouldn't corrupt their whole, their whole operation, you know, we're so dependent, but.

[00:19:21] Do you even use the internet anymore now that the porn's gone? Like, what's the point? Yeah. Oh, you don't have internet porn down there. Right. No, North Carolina, they do not. So it turns out they do, but you have to like give up your driver's license and whatever. And like, it's like, ID me for that. Um, so yeah, that's a crazy world. Um, but anyway, uh, moving right along.

[00:19:46] Well, you know what the also, what I, I do whenever there's, you know, something going on and I don't, I can't get any solid information that nosy bitch up the street, Melissa. Karen. Oh, Melissa. Well, I mean, it's a, it's a Karen, but she's got the, she's got the police scanner. Her, her, her kids, uh, uh, volunteer firefighter. They're always like poking in everybody's business. That's the type of person that you might want to talk to. Judy. Judy. You know, Judy. Yep.

[00:20:16] I know Judy. Okay. Um, but the next thing is to talk to your neighbors. And here's one of the things we, we tend to isolate ourselves and so much kind of I'm on my own and whatever. And then everybody becomes a threat. But if you can kind of set that tone, Hey, we're all in this. Hey, if you guys store water, you won't be knocking on my door, asking for water.

[00:20:43] If we all fill our sinks, you know, have your neighbors start to do these same steps. Talk to them about how important it is. And again, maybe you're pulling out of your driveway to run down to the store and get some food. And you see your neighbor standing there, be like, Hey, you know what? This is what I'm doing. You should go to, or we could go together and have a little security, you know, that kind of thing. So don't be afraid to get these out of order.

[00:21:10] If you know, the opportunity applies, but you need to work with your neighbors and start to talk to them. One about a long-term security plan to to gather Intel, but three, how you guys might be able to work together to help each other out. Now I'm not talking about communal living and we all put our, our food supply in a big pile and whatever, but maybe it comes to that.

[00:21:35] Maybe you do do some kind of community meal because somebody's got, you know, you'd remember that stone stoop, stone soup story from when you're a kid and how, you know, Hey, we all have a little something to bring. I'll bring the carrots and you bring the potatoes and we'll make something wonderful. That's great. But the idea is find a way that you can work together and that's going to help you. The next is check on your security.

[00:22:01] Now I like to imagine a world where everybody has a concealed carry and, and works in that kind of world. And that's on your person all the time. Like odds are if I'm somebody who has a handgun and I can legally carry a handgun, there's no chance that I'm like, Oh shit's getting real. I need to go to the grocery store that I'm not bringing that handgun. Right now for me, that's not even a change of how I would go to the grocery store anyway, but for other people it might be.

[00:22:31] And today would be that day to bring your gun. And there are certain days where it's, it, you know, depending on what type of socialist state you live in, you know, it might even be against the law still, but you know, today's the day. Today's the day to break the law. Right. So you may want to consider that Kevin would never tell you to break the locks. That would be wrong.

[00:22:54] And we all follow all the rules all the time, but you know, like in a movie, that would be something the hero would do. Right. Just take the gun anyway. Like I'd be here. Right. So, and then, like I said, I, at this point in the game here, I'm checking all my, all right, are all my guns here? What kind of ammo situation do I have?

[00:23:17] And maybe you have that inventory in your mind and maybe you have a prepper pantry that, you know, the inventory of what's there. You know, that you go on over there and there's 24 rolls of paper, toilet paper, and 30 rolls of paper towel. And, you know, you might know that and you could skip that step. Good on you. Right. That's awesome. But if you're not prepared for that, that's something you need to do and you need to go and check out. So think of it like that.

[00:23:49] Next, establish communications. And this is, again, is going to be kind of integrated with your neighbors. Now, me, I actually purchased and put in some kind of EMP proof container, a bunch of those like Motorola talk about kind of things, radios that I can set up communications. Because to me, communications are like a force multiplier. Right.

[00:24:13] If I can have somebody at a checkpoint 200 yards up the road and they don't have to be ringing a bell for everybody or come running a mile to come get me. You know, that's pretty cool. If they can just be like, hey, there's somebody coming up. Can you give me some backup here? Setting up that. But maybe it's just, hey, can you know, if you guys see anything or have anything, we're happy to have your back. You have my back. And just, you know, let's alert each other by blowing this whistle.

[00:24:42] Or if you hear me shoot three gunshots or if you hear, you know, whatever, you come up with a plan and some kind of way to work together. It might be some tin cans and string. I've heard that's a thing that you could do back and forth. You never see that broken out in the prepper plans anymore, the tin cans and string. No, they don't use that. There actually were the old school radios where they would run a wire back and forth and you could do it without electricity.

[00:25:13] But anyway, there are ways to set up communications. Better if you thought about it beforehand, but you can still do things after the fact. So that's something to consider. Next, you need to come up with a long term plan for your food and water. All right. So, all right. We have all these supplies. We have a basic inventory. We know what we're dealing with. Now, what are we going to do? Yeah. And you don't want to find yourself in that situation where you have peanut butter and no jelly.

[00:25:42] You know, you don't want to be, you know, you don't want to be the guy that has rum and no Coke. You know, you want to be able to make sure that you can. Nobody wants to eat plain pasta with nothing on it. You can, you know, but you kind of want to plan your preps along those lines that it's standalone food or, you know, you have, you have the double, the matchup for everything. Right.

[00:26:09] Another thing, like, so as you're setting up your long term plan, maybe it's, I'm getting some of this from the notes here, but maybe it's going and getting car batteries from cars that died on the side of the road. Right. Maybe you live in the next to, you know, a big thing and there's 20 batteries sitting out there. Those are going to matter. Right.

[00:26:29] Um, there's fuel in tanks that are cars that are, you know, hit by an EMP, you know, that there's going to be a lot of gas to go around and very little things to run them. Um, gas usually has a shelf life of about six months. Um, I'd say it gets questionable after six months. You can probably run it for about a year. Obviously we know about stable and things like that and things that can buy you more time. Um, that's something to consider.

[00:26:56] Uh, believe it or not, mixed fuel, like Kevin was talking about from your, uh, gas thing actually lasts longer. Right. Right. And we'll hold better. Uh, you can also up it with like alcohol, mixing it that way, that kind of thing will freshen it up. Um, replace my peanut butter and jelly with meat and cheese. Kevin. Yeah, I like it. That's the world you want to live in. Uh, no, actually I'm a meat kind of guy who knows.

[00:27:25] Um, but, uh, so next we, we have a plan now. Also, do we have a well? Do we know where there is a well? Do we know where we can get water? Can we secure access to that well and water? Like maybe it's not on my property. Maybe it's three houses up and maybe we can broker a deal with them. Hey, I know how to get that. Well, that water out of your well, let's work together and share it or, you know, whatever you come up with the plan.

[00:27:51] And honestly, you guys know as, as long-term preppers that you should be thinking of these plans beforehand and buy the couple of things you need to buy, you know, to, to get you there. Uh, everybody has their vision of those pitcher pumps, but a lot of them are like 25 feet down or it's not getting water. Right. And it turns out a lot of wells are deeper than 25 feet, but something to kick around.

[00:28:17] Um, also, so like I said, gas, fuel, batteries, that kind of stuff. There's a lot of things available to you. Uh, maybe you have access to a Creek, but is that Creek going to still be clean? Um, you know, uh, we've talked about like gypsy wells, uh, even if you set up where you dug a hole next to your Creek and the water filtered in so you could control it a little bit.

[00:28:43] And then you treated that water, you know, you boiled it, you filtered it, you did whatever that would be pretty cool. No situation with, with any drinking water is filter first, then disinfect. Right. And you can disinfect, I think it's six drops per gallon of water. Um, if you, if you have to filter it through like a t-shirt or something, it's better than nothing, you know, it's a little bit of dirt and leaves out.

[00:29:09] And so chlorine obviously would be one of the things to add to your list of things to grab when you're out at the store before. Yeah. And, uh, you know, bleach and chlorine, they, they do have a shelf life. It's not really something you want to store long-term storage. But it is something that you can get off the shelf at the, at the store and, and save it. If you, if you are in this situation and you get the bleach, you want to keep it in a cool, dark place. Yeah.

[00:29:39] Sunlight will degrade it and heat will degrade it. So, yeah. Think about that. Um, what I did and, and my plan for bleach is I actually bought the, uh, Sam's club or something had like concentrated bleach. That's like 30 to one or something. And, and I bought a six of that and I threw it in a cold, dark place and I leave it there. And you know what, in five years, I'm assuming it's going to be at least as strong as regular bleach. Right.

[00:30:08] And probably better, but we'll see. And, you know, all I can do is take the steps I can do. You know, that's the thing. Um, airtight is a big thing with the bleach. It will evaporate very quickly. Chlorine. So, cause chlorine and at room temperature, we looked this up the other day, uh, chlorine at room temperature is actually a gas. So I'm not really sure. I tried to figure out how it's a liquid. Yeah. It's a different chemical makeup. It's right.

[00:30:36] Chlorine is actually hypochlorite is the liquid form. And it's somewhat stable, but like you said, it evaporates quickly. It evaporates quickly. So something to keep in mind. Uh, step number nine is where I'm at on my list here. And number nine is expand your security. All right. So you talk to you and your two neighbors right next to you. I don't know. My houses are pretty far apart. Like in a, in a town like Kevin, it might be securing his cul-de-sac, right? Right.

[00:31:05] He could secure his little street of eight houses. Um, now you might want to, Hey, can we talk to the street on either side of us? Cause if they were overrun, that could be really bad for me. Right. If they're on my side and looking out for me, then I know I'm not going to be attacked from my backyard and they know they're not going to be attacked from their backyard. That's something you might want to consider and, and work together for.

[00:31:31] So I'm just saying, uh, the, uh, another thing with the chlorine back to that is, you know, they have for like pools and stuff. They have the solid blocks that look like the, uh, the pucks that you put in the, the urinals. They have like that. Those, you know, Those are pretty expensive, but they are shelf stable and you can store them for a long time. Right. That might be part of your plan.

[00:31:55] And then again, you have to find a way to figure out your dosage, but basically if you put it in, it's like chloro smells chlorine. And then two days later, it doesn't smell chlorine. You're probably going to be okay. I mean, that's your general rule, right? You want to go that way. But as you saw, Kevin was saying drops to a gallon. Right. Right. You don't want to burn out your insides. It's small. Yeah. Um, the dead milkman used to talk about drinking bleach. It's not really a good plan. Yeah.

[00:32:25] It turns out. Um, all right. Last thing I have number 10 on my list. And this is a big one is start to think about transportation. Now, maybe you add an EMP and it's only those old vehicles that we need to find. Right. So that might be the answer. Um, maybe it's not an EMP. Everybody's got their car, but nobody has electricity and those gas pumps aren't running. Do we have a way to get the gas out of the ground?

[00:32:55] That's something to consider. I, I, I hear, I don't know how true this is and it might be outdated information, but I hear that gas pumps have a mechanical pump. You know, if you open them up inside, I don't know how, like I said, I don't know how accurate that is now, but I know 10 or 15 years ago. Um, I could talk to my wife. She used to run those kinds of places. I am not pretty confident on that, but, um, it's possible. Also, it is very inexpensive to get a fuel.

[00:33:25] Yes. For you to figure it out. It turns out you can do it. Um, turns out there's other things besides cars, uh, bicycles, dirt bikes, four wheelers, these kinds of things. They matter, but bicycles, they don't use any gas. Um, turns out, uh, horses, big thing. Uh, maybe it's dog sleds, you know, whatever. There are different things you can do. Right. It depends on your world. Right. Kevin. Um, maybe you're cross country skiing it. All right. You know, I don't know.

[00:33:55] You do you. That's what I say. But those are my 10 like immediate steps of, Hey, the world's ending. I need to do something now. Now, obviously we could do a lot of steps right now to make it that it's not urgent for me to run to the store. Right. But is it ever not a good time to go get more gas? If you know, there's going to be no more ever. Right.

[00:34:22] Um, you know, cause I, if you, if you have a hurricane or a storm coming towards you and you don't fill up your gas tank ahead of time, you know, that's kind of on you. That's something that you should do every time. Watch the weather. You know what I mean? Just pay attention. If there's something coming, you know, make sure everything's topped off and you've got some extra fuel in, in a, you know, a tank when you go to the, to the gas station and

[00:34:49] you'll see, they have those, you know, two gallon gas cans on the, on the shelf. They charge, you know, through the roof for those, cause they know you have to buy that to get the gas back to the car that ran out of fuel. Absolutely. Plan ahead and buy those at a place where, you know, they're cheap when they're cheap and, and, you know, cheap's relative, but honestly, I just bought a new, new gas, five gallon gas can probably like six months ago.

[00:35:16] Now I normally had been rotating through two. Now I have several vehicles that I keep very topped off all the time. So I always have gas to kind of go to, but I was rotating through two and, you know, I was like, you know what, let me up that to three. But I also have like diesel stores a lot longer than gas does. Right. Um, so I actually keep four or five gallon tanks of diesel that are cans, whatever.

[00:35:46] And I rotate through those. Cause that's about all I feel comfortable with how old my gas is getting, you know, and I always try and fill them in the summertime, but I don't want to have them empty all through the winter and, you know, get stuck. Like, but just cause you end up getting a little like gelling if it's really cold, um, with the diesel and it'll start to deteriorate a little quicker. Winter is when it's going to get questionable on the diesel, but you know, you do what you can do, right?

[00:36:15] You just do the best you can. Yeah. One of the, uh, things that I, I store up and maybe I have a problem with this, but as a propane and I have a lot of stuff that runs on propane, propane heaters, uh, grill, you know, a few different items that will run off the propane tank, um, you know, cook stoves, different, different things. And, you know, I mean, you have to kind of, uh, it's probably a good idea to kind of streamline the stuff that you have, you know, some people have a gas truck and, uh, or a diesel truck

[00:36:44] and a gas car and that's fine. But I mean, you kind of want to streamline your stuff. If, if all your heat runs on, on kerosene, you know, that's great. You can swap that out with diesel if you have to. Um, but you kind of want to streamline. So you're looking at one type of thing. Propane is one of those, one of those things that will hold up for a long time when it's in a tank, you know? Yeah, no, absolutely. Uh, yeah. Transfer tanks on the vehicles, you know, you could work out all different ways, trailers.

[00:37:15] I know people now, again, I live in the South and people are a lot more lax on their rules. I know that you'd like be shot and go to jail if you were in New York doing this, but I know people who like put a 55 gallon drum on the back of their truck on a pallet and go to the gas station and fill that up and go home and take a tractor and put it, you know, up on the stand and let it gravity feed out of there with a hose. I know tons of people who do that.

[00:37:43] And I see that all the time at the gas station. Now I know in New York that people would be like shooting me if I did that when I lived there. So they would, you can't approve the container. No. Yeah. You know, that is something like I have seen it and it's hilarious until somebody lights themselves on fire, but people will bring all sorts of containers that aren't appropriate for fuel. You know, you can put fuel in a garbage can and it'll stay in there for like two or three minutes.

[00:38:12] Oh, yeah. You can put it in a Rubbermaid bin and it will take five or 10 minutes to eat through that Rubbermaid bin. And then it's all inside your car because you thought you're clever. You know, you have to use the right containers for that stuff. A plastic bag, a plastic container. It's not going to hold that fuel like you think it is. But anyway, bottom line is all this, it sounds scary and terrifying to go out and get these things.

[00:38:39] It's nice to have them in the back of your mind, what you need to do when an emergency comes up. But also hopefully it inspired you to, you know, I should cover these things now. I should make sure that my pantry is ready to go. You know, there's a lot of crazy things going on in the world. You know, it turns out those drones over New Jersey, they're still there. Actually, it's just watching some stuff. People are like, why are we not talking about it? And they're like, yeah, it's old news, whatever. Old news.

[00:39:09] Yeah. No, it's still happening to the bottom of it. No, no, we don't have any idea what's going on. We just started ignoring it. 24 hours. That's the news cycle. And that's it's like, yeah, we're on the wildfires like two weeks. But yeah, now it's wildfires in California. I was up all night crying last night because Mel Gibson's multimillion dollar home burned down in Melbourne. That's so sad. Woo. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm beside myself. John Goodman too. Oh yeah. Yeah. John Goodman. Yeah.

[00:39:37] Somebody was like celebrities homes who've been destroyed by the hurricane. I'm like, whatever, you know, I don't know. Yeah. But yeah, that's the kind of thing. The world that we just keep moving. Somebody mentioned in general, you want to stockpile cheap alcohol. I actually do that. There's this, where I am, where I am. They sell a aristocrat. Oh yeah. The drunk old filtered. That's how you know it's quality. Aristocrat.

[00:40:05] And I got to say, I can drink that whiskey. I'm all right. And when you're buying it for $6 a bottle, I'm okay. I'm like, I'm good for the apocalypse. Because every time I buy something I want to drink, I buy like two aristocrats to throw in there. And I'm like, good. And you know what? I got to say, it's even to cover the downside when I'm an old man. I'm like, what if shit gets real and everything goes bad and I can't drink whiskey anymore? Yeah. And I'm like, at least I have the aristocrat.

[00:40:35] Yeah. At some point you just want to give up on life. You know what I mean? Things get so bad. You've got plenty of food, but you don't have any whiskey left. Oh. Right. That world's not going to happen to me. I may have to sip it slow, but the internet may go out. Yeah. When I lived in Florida, they had to stop selling rubbing alcohol in the convenience stores because all the homeless people were dying from alcohol poisoning. Don't drink rubbing alcohol. Not a good move. Secret of the pros right there. Yeah.

[00:41:06] All right. That's what I got. So with that, I would say stay safe and we will talk to you guys next week. Thank you. Take care. Take care. Take care.