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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter View Post
    Prep for the most possible shtf and hope it mitigates the rest.
    Exactly! My biggest threat is wildfire; requires multiple ways to get out of town, survive for awhile, maybe be of assistance to folks I run into.
    Now, that same prepping will help if I face a flood, or just an extended power outage.
    Short of that, my preparations make me more comfortable when I'm enjoying the land, and gives me an excuse to start a fire 5 different ways, build a small shelter
    frame, eat some stored food, etc, with some purpose...which is a good thing.
    KF7ZJR I always carry a pocket knife, just in Case.


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    Quote Originally Posted by jfeatherjohn View Post
    Exactly! My biggest threat is wildfire; requires multiple ways to get out of town, survive for awhile, maybe be of assistance to folks I run into.
    Now, that same prepping will help if I face a flood, or just an extended power outage.
    Short of that, my preparations make me more comfortable when I'm enjoying the land, and gives me an excuse to start a fire 5 different ways, build a small shelter
    frame, eat some stored food, etc, with some purpose...which is a good thing.
    Have you seen the methods for clearing all of the underbrush, saplings, and low hanging limbs around your house to prevent a fire from consuming the place. Unless you live in a dense forrest, that will go a long way toward preventing you house from burning. Of course it does nothing to get rid of the smoke and inability to breath, but I saw a show on that where some people in California cleared a large area around their place to help keep the fire away and it seems to help a lot. It is a bunch of work but it seems like it would be worth it. If you have a lot of trees close to your house, I dont know how much good it would do, I guess it just depends on the density around your house.

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    I live in a complex and we have natural defensive space. We have billboards here about defensable space in our town.
    Still, the Ponderosa Pine forest surrounds our town, and a wildfire is difficult to contain.
    KF7ZJR I always carry a pocket knife, just in Case.

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    In So Cal we get annual wildfires, and an occational earthquake to keep you on your toes. My plan is to bug in for as long as I can, then head North, way North where water, and game are a little more plentiful, (Snakes are good occationally, but a steady diet would put me in a foul mood). We have water, Food, and shelter where we are. Leaving that would be out of need. Wild fires pose an interesting problem. I have cleared about 50 feet on all sides of the house, and if we have to leave. Two four wheel drive vehicles, 30 gallons of water, 3 weeks worth of food, tents, sleeping bags, cand crank lights, should get us out of danger. The .357, 22, and 12 ga. would come along, as well as the ammo.

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