#emergency preparedness

[resistancekitty]

#pro 2a #2amendment #2nd amendment rights #gun ownership #gun rights #2a #gun education #emergency preparedness #personal safety #personal protection #self defense

[etakeh]

Hey so PGE is having lots of outages in the PDX + area.

Charge your phones, find your flashlight/candles/jar of glow in the dark plastic marbles, consolidate your blankets and pillows into a central location, all that good stuff.

#pdx #portland #oregon #weather #power #emergency preparedness #electricity #utilities #pge #portland general electric

[treetreader]

would anyone be able to recommend bushcraft/wilderness survival/off grid type stuff that ISN'T from gross ass right-wing conspiracy theorists? much of what im finding online is that crap and i dont wanna support that

anything would be much appreciated bc im trying to compile resources to have on hand in case of emergency and also trying to be more sustainable in my life choices

some goals i have rn (not all at once obvi)

starting a kitchen garden and learning to can the produce i grow (in the works)

water storage and use for gardening

planting a native grass lawn (in the works)

Native wildflower garden for pollinators (in the works)

upping my cooking skills

mending the clothes i have (doing good here)

spinning yarn

#gardening #cooking #baking #textile arts #weaving #emergency preparedness #eco friendly #sustainability #foraging

[captawesomesauce]

So I'm just getting a bit of my stuff prepped for Hurricane Hilary and these pics are just a snippet of what I've got lined up. The thing is, I'm not too worried about Hilary as I'm planning on staying home, chilling, and just reading on my kindle until it passes. BUT, all of this stuff is good to have in case of an earthquake which can happen any day of the week, any time of the day! So it's good to be prepared! For those who want my list that I have been checking off today, it's below the read more. The key things are:

Food (x)

Water (x)

Meds & First Aid (x)

Cash on hand (x)

Gas in car (x)

Fans for dealing with the heat (x)

Solar Panels & Battery packs (x)

Stuff to do (arts/crafts/kindle) (x)

Wet weather gear (x)

Clothes 1 pair of leather wildland gloves Clothes 1 pair of padded extraction gloves Clothes 2 Fire Brush jackets Clothes 2 Hard hats Clothes 2 pair of good closed toe shoes Clothes 2 pair of gorilla grip safety gloves Clothes 2 rain coats Clothes 2 rain hats Clothes 2 Umbrellas Cooling 1 Fan/lantern (C batteries w/4 extra batteries) Cooling 1 standing room fan Cooling 3 handheld fans w/water tanks Fire 1 Fire extinguisher outside front door Fire 1 window/balcony escape ladder Fire 3 Fire blankets (1 in the kitchen, 1 bedroom, 1 office) Fire 4 Fire extinguishers throughout the house Food 1 long bbq lighter Food Lots of blueberries Food Lots of canned soups Food lots of condiments Food Lots of crackers/chips/Pretzels Food Lots of freeze dried fruits/veggies Food Lots of Nuts and Trailmix Food Lots of ramen Food Lots of shelf stable/canned meats Food Lots of veggies Light 1 handheld led lantern/flashlight Light 12+ led lights for rooms Light 2 chest mounted lights with reflective harnesses Light 2 handheld flashlights Light 2 head mounted lights Light 8 led puck lights med 1 large stocked first aid kit w/burn & trauma supplies med 1 small stocked first aid kit with bleeding supplies med blood pressure cuff Med N95 & P100 masks med pulse ox meter med stethscope Misc Cash on hand in small bills Power 1 100w Solar Panel Power 1 car jumper/battery pack Power 1 Large Battery pack 146WH 42000mAH Power 1 Large Battery pack 150Wh 40800mAH Power 1 Large Battery pack 250WH 64800mAH Power 1 orange solar panel battery pack (10,000) Power 1 orange solar panel battery pack with wireless charging (10,000) Power 1 white battery pack Power 2 21W Solar Panel Power lots of rechargeable and non-rechargeable AA/AAA batteries Radio 1 desk scanner with NOAA weather alert Radio 2 handheld transceivers Radio 2 programmed handheld scanners w/NOAA radio SD Mace Peppergun SD Taser Stuff to do 2 kindles loaded with books Stuff to do arts and crafts projects Tool 1 demolition tool Tool 1 folding pocket knife Tool 1 Machete/Saw Tool 1 Multipurpose Shovel (shovel/e-tool/window breaker/fire starter/saw/axe) tool 1 raptor EMS shears Tool 1 SOG multitool Tool 2 full rolls of duct tape Tool 2 full rolls of masking tape Tool Various Bungee cords Tool Various ropes & tie downs Water 1 5 gallon collapsible water bucket in the tub Water 1 5 gallon water bottle w/dispenser Water 1 large pitcher of water Water 2 30 cup water filter pitchers Water gallons of bottled water Water multiple 2l and 3l camping bladders of water

#hurricane hilary #emergency preparedness #safety #earthquakes

[liminalweirdo]

actually useful new years resolutions

If you never make New Years Resolutions, or are thinking about what you can do that’s actually going to be worthwhile:

Learn CPR and first aid. Depending on where you live and what season it is, ambulances are taking too long to reach emergencies because of pandemic-related staffing shortages. In some cases, this means several hours. NHS data released last week showed ambulance crews could not respond to almost one in four emergency calls because so many ambulances were waiting to hand patients over. Also, it looks good on a resume, if you care about that.

Start a garden (yes, even indoors). This should be self-explanatory considering inflation and the cost of food these days, but even one or two swiss chard or napa cabbage plants can go a long way in providing you with greens for the season. Microgreens are also a great way to go, because they’re ready to eat in just 1-2 weeks. If you have a balcony (or south-facing windows) tomatoes and bush-variety beans are a great vegetable to plant as well that should produce a pretty good harvest. Also, it’s good for you and the bees! If you want to try a garden but don’t have an outdoor space, microgreens will grow beside the window. Green onions, living lettuce, herbs, and celery are also possible to grow from cuttings. (Just be careful to keep toxic plants away from your pets, including tomatoes, green onions/chives.) If you need any advice on growing your own food, please feel free to send me an ask, I’d love to help you out.

Stock up on emergency supplies and learn basic emergency preparedness. Stuff like this should be normalized. I’m not telling you to start digging a bunker, I mean having things like enough bottled water, candles or a battery-powered lantern, dried goods (rice, granola bars, instant noodles, rice, pasta, tinned soup, canned veggies, canned fruits in your house (and a manual can opener, not an electric one). This will be useful for power outages and bad weather, both of which are increasing. Stock up on medication like Tylenol/Advil/Pedialyte or Dioralyte etc. for colds, flu, and general illness. I know it’s hard sometimes, but please try to keep your prescribed meds up to date. If bad weather is coming, see if you can get more. 

This doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. Put $5-$15 towards emergency supplies each grocery run and that should be enough to have a good amount of emergency supplies within a month or two. The best time to start is now. Having a supply of bottled water is great for power outages. Filling your bathtub or a bucket to flush your toilet in power outages is a great idea. If your water expires you can use it for cleaning household surfaces and flushing the toilet in a power outage. (Please be careful of small pets and small children if you have buckets/bathtubs filled with water uncovered/attended)

BUY A FIRST AID KIT. Buy two if you can. Keep one in your house and one in your car and replenish it as you use it.

Please feel free to add to this list. Feel free to send me an ask if you want/need any advice on how to prepare for emergencies. I can’t promise I’ll have all the answers, but I will try to help.

Stay safe out there i love you all

#emergency preparedness #important #disaster preparedness #winter storm #i'm going to post soon about how you can cook food without power and without using a kerosene or gas stove

[random-thought-depository]

I am curious what percentage of the population fits Jacopo-Belbo's definition of a functional adult (or, at least, the part of their definition they communicate in that post).

Jacopo-Belbo's declared standard for functional adulthood, in case you don't want to click the link (I'm not reblogging their post or tagging them on this because I judge it likely they'd be annoyed by that):

Re: ongoing first aid kit discourse, if you don’t have the following you’re not a functional adult: in-person Stop The Bleed training (USA, I don’t know about equivalent training in other countries, Google is free, stop asking me), NAR combat application tourniquets, Celox z-fold gauze, TacMed OLAES pressure dressing, NAR chest seals, and an annoying little bag to carry it all around in.

My offhand guess is that most people are not "functional adults" by this standard, so "if you don’t have the following you’re not a functional adult" here is roughly equivalent to "if you're a good person you wouldn't eat meat"; you can't really prove it wrong because of the inherent subjectivity of moral statements, but you can correctly point out that it's detached from the material conditions and normal standards of the society it was made in (and the person who made it probably knows that, and the statement reflects their belief in the superiority of their own standards over the normative ones of their society) and that lots of people who aren't "functional adults" by Jacopo-Belbo's definition are functional in the sense that they're getting by.

I don't actually have much data to back up that guess though, just some observations and inferences from my own experiences. So I decided to take advantage of Tumblr's new poll function to make a little calibration test of my intuitions. Also, that post does seem to have a lot of notes, and I'm curious how much of that is full agreement vs. reblogging to spread around the links and partial agreement but not fully endorsing it, and I think this poll might give me some sense of the probable rough breakdown of that.

I know Tumblr polls can be pretty unrepresentative because of social network effects, but I think this matter is probably going to be pretty orthogonal to the ways people who read my blog are likely to be unrepresentative of the general population.

Of course, one possible biasing factor is the post this is responding to stigmatizes not having this sort of preparation, and my poll question reproduces their framing for brevity. If it helps, a quick Google search says votes in Tumblr polls are anonymous, so you need not worry about being embarrassed, and you are completely free to reject Jacopo-Belbo's moral judgment about what answering "no" would say about you as a person (your thoughts are your own, after all). I'm not particularly interested in having a discussion about the reasonableness of their standards (which is why I haven't given my "take" on that question here), but I will note that at least in the richer and more stable countries nowadays most people will never have to treat a serious wound without assistance from medical professionals and this sort of wound-care training and supplies is one of those things where you'll probably never use it, but it's better to have it and not need it than to encounter a situation where you need it and don't have it. I'll also note that I suspect that post has an element of staking out a maximal position in response to maximal positions in the opposite direction (original discussion is here, here, and here if anyone wants to review it, I confess I have not done so because... well, look at the note count on the first one) and I'm not sure whether it's fully unironically endorsed by its own maker (the last criteria seems a little tongue-in-cheek).

Please note that I do not intend this post as an incitement to send internet hate mail to anyone; if you disagree with one of the participants in the linked threads and want to express your disagreement directly to them that's your right, but, like, I'm not encouraging that and if I wanted to start an argument with someone here I'd have reblogged or @ them. You do have my permission and encouragement to reblog this post to increase the sample size of my poll, though I'd prefer if this didn't get spread around too much.

I might pin this to the top of my Tumblr for a little while, to increase my sample size.

I think I forgot to switch the poll duration from 1 day to 1 week in my previous version of this post and I can't edit the poll once I've posted it, so I deleted and reposted with a 1 week limit. Sorry! However, @aurpiment already responded to my first version of this post, so I preserve their reply here:

Oh that’s my mutual! They were using hyperbolic language in frustration with another post on which there was discourseabout whether it’s reasonable to expect a household to have a first aid kit. Some people on that post thought first aid in general was unnecessary. I think you’re rather focused on the functional adult terminology. The spirit of their post is “of course you should know basic first aid, are you kidding me? It saves lives. It’s embarrassing to say first aid isn’t important. Go learn first aid for serious physical trauma.”

#random stuff #I don't know what to tag this #emergency preparedness #poll

[sensible-tips]

Savvy Saturday

Here are 14 items to consider including in your car’s emergency kit. It’s better to be over prepared than under in any emergency situation. Add a reliable roadside assistance service and you’re all set for some wanderlust this summer!

#Savvy Saturday #sensible-tips #FTM #F2M #transmasculine #transmasc #trans man #transgender man #non binary #life skills #auto safety #travel safety #survial skills #emergency preparedness

[frameacloud]

Brittney McNamara (December 5, 2016). "What to Do If You've Been Exposed to HIV." Teen Vogue.

The more people who know about what to do in that situation, the better.

#HIV #emergency preparedness #PrEP and PEP #sexually transmitted infections #safer sex #sex education #Teen Vogue #community safety #PrEP #HIV AIDS #PEP #queue #rated PG-13

[survivalsmartsblog]

Gotta prep for anything folks. Watch this vid and let us know what you think. 

#nuke #nuclear #nuclear fallout #how to survive #survival #emergency preparedness #self sufficiency #fallout #survival smarts

[norvandit]

Download link is at the bottom of the post

#prepping #preparedness #prepper #survival #shtf #survivaltips #survive #offgrid #selfreliance #self reliance #disaster preparedness #emergency preparedness

[resistancekitty]

#preparedness saturday #prepper #women preparedness #prepping #emergency preparedness #shtf #preparedness quote

[etakeh]

@autumngracy , here we go.

Bugging out with Margaret Killjoy.

There's another where she shows off her off-grid house.

I wonder how it's going now. She's got a podcast, but I haven't listened to it because it's about cool people and I'm still catching up on bastards.

#margaret killjoy #bugout #emergency preparedness #cool people #off-grid #Youtube

[preppers-will]

#survival #preparedness #survival foods #survival pantry #emergency preparedness #survivalist

[rurousha]

What's a go bag?

It’s a bag you have packed and ready in case of an emergency. Like if you have to evacuate your house without warning. It has clothes, food, water, medications, toiletries, that kind of thing. Enough to last you a few days.

We had to use ours a couple years ago when a wildfire got too close to our house. Grab and go.

#emergency preparedness

[thebunnylord]

Of course I just so happened to wake up at five in the morning to find that the snowstorm knocked our power out after having a scary dream about French vampire nuns….

Also, good thing I had my battery operated transistor radio, if you’re going to make an emergency preparedness kit, get a transistor radio, they sell them on amazon and at walmart for under 15 bucks, the one I have is the powerbear portable radio, it has both fm/am and a headphone jack and takes 2 AA batteries. I got it for relatively cheap off of amazon and I use it for camping and when I’m riding my bike, I just put it in my bike basket and go. I also have an LL Bean hand cranked radio that is also great, it has a solar power flashlight and a headphone jack too, I brought it with me to church girls camp and numerous camping trips, and it’s very heavy duty and good quality. I highly recommend at least getting either a battery powered radio or a hand cranked one for emergencies.

#lord bunny’s ponderings #my dreams #last night I dreamt #survival #emergency preparedness #emergency preparedness tips from a worry wort Mormon

[homesteadsurvival]

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#Canning #Emergency Preparedness #Food Storage & Skills