Are you prepared for when the lights go out? How many hours or days can you go with out lights? What if the electric is out for a week, a month, 3 months even. Do you have enough resources on hand to have light to see by, work by or even read by?
Are you well stocked with candles, oil lamps, flashights and batteries? What about matches to light the candles and oil lamps with? What about lamp oil? How many batteries do you have for each flashlight? And if your supplies run out before the power comes back on what are you going to do?
Chances are good that you are not going to able to run to the local store and get more because they will either be closed or if by any luck they are still open but their supplies will be limited if they do have any at all.
I would recommend that you learn all you can about the candles you buy. Light one and see how many hours of burn time you get out of it. The same goes for oil lamps. Fill one up with lamp oil then light it and let it burn it self out of oil to see just how long a full lamp will burn. Then take the number of hours you will need to have light and figure out how much oil or candles you will need to last at least 3 months without power. Then take the number of rooms you will need to have lights for and figure out how many candles and or oil lamps and lamp oil you will need to store to get you through at least 3 months of no lights.
Learn to make your own candles too. No candle burns all of its wax, Save the bits and pieces to melt down in a metal can, take a mold (it can be anything that will hold hot wax such as a canning jar, clean tuna fish can or other clean can), put a new wick in and then pour in the hot wax. Set cool completely and then leave it in the mold or take it out and set it in a candle holder.
Learn how to make rush lights. They can be made cheaply from gathering rush in Mother Nature and dipping them into grease.
One of the biggest lessons to learn from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy was that it took quite some time for FEMA to get in and help every one that needed help. We are not talking a couple of days. For some it took weeks and even longer before all the power to those areas was fully restored.
Don't get caught like the people who went through Katrina and Sandy waiting for FEMA to show up. Look at all the chaos that went on, all the looting, the sickness because people had to hunker down in one area where there was no sanitation.
Don't get caught with your pants down. Prep for you and your loved ones. Prep so you all have a way to survive as long as possible. Prepping will give you an edge that most people will not have. You and your loved ones will be able to survive and thrive while others suffer because they were not prepared.
Prepping Granny
Are you well stocked with candles, oil lamps, flashights and batteries? What about matches to light the candles and oil lamps with? What about lamp oil? How many batteries do you have for each flashlight? And if your supplies run out before the power comes back on what are you going to do?
Chances are good that you are not going to able to run to the local store and get more because they will either be closed or if by any luck they are still open but their supplies will be limited if they do have any at all.
I would recommend that you learn all you can about the candles you buy. Light one and see how many hours of burn time you get out of it. The same goes for oil lamps. Fill one up with lamp oil then light it and let it burn it self out of oil to see just how long a full lamp will burn. Then take the number of hours you will need to have light and figure out how much oil or candles you will need to last at least 3 months without power. Then take the number of rooms you will need to have lights for and figure out how many candles and or oil lamps and lamp oil you will need to store to get you through at least 3 months of no lights.
Learn to make your own candles too. No candle burns all of its wax, Save the bits and pieces to melt down in a metal can, take a mold (it can be anything that will hold hot wax such as a canning jar, clean tuna fish can or other clean can), put a new wick in and then pour in the hot wax. Set cool completely and then leave it in the mold or take it out and set it in a candle holder.
Learn how to make rush lights. They can be made cheaply from gathering rush in Mother Nature and dipping them into grease.
One of the biggest lessons to learn from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy was that it took quite some time for FEMA to get in and help every one that needed help. We are not talking a couple of days. For some it took weeks and even longer before all the power to those areas was fully restored.
Don't get caught like the people who went through Katrina and Sandy waiting for FEMA to show up. Look at all the chaos that went on, all the looting, the sickness because people had to hunker down in one area where there was no sanitation.
Don't get caught with your pants down. Prep for you and your loved ones. Prep so you all have a way to survive as long as possible. Prepping will give you an edge that most people will not have. You and your loved ones will be able to survive and thrive while others suffer because they were not prepared.
Prepping Granny