I've been trying to convince my family to prepare for the coming hardships we will all face. They mostly just write me off and act like I'm paranoid or I don't have faith in our God. It's exactly opposite, I trust only in God. He has been talking to me for years through gut feelings, dreams and other signs telling me of the difficult times ahead. Most of them don't have enough food to last more than a week. None have a alternative source of heat, no water purification, no seeds, no cast iron cookware, no extra sanitary items, no extra first aid items, no alternative shelters. Sometimes it pisses me off to have them just blow me off, but mostly it makes me sad to know that they will most likely suffer more than they should. It's not like I am well off monetarily, I'm actually struggling with money right now. But my wife and I made it a priority to get items for the inevitable rather than the typical comfort items that'll be useless in the near future. People who claim to be "awake" and aren't prepared for the worst case scenario are naive at best. If your not doing the best you can NOW to prepare, you and your family will surely regret it in the near future. Proverbs 22:3 explains it best. Do I believe there is a plan Patriots are carrying out? Yes, but that doesn't mean we all won't experience hardships at least or bloodshed at worst. I pray to God I'm wrong about the hardships I expect, but I know it is foolish to not prepare for them anyway. I apologize for the rant, just needed to vent some stress. God Bless you all.
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I live in an apartment and have a small solar generator. Has anyone ever used one before? Also my heat is electric. Any suggestions on how I could prepare for my scenario in regards to heat? No fireplace. What about a small space heater? Those can really heat up a room, but not sure about the small generator. I have about 5 months of survival food. I am going to get a filtration system. Get more water, toilet paper etc. I have medical supplies. The one thing I worry about is I am on oxygen. I have a couple of tanks in case electricity goes off. I have a portable with 3 batteries but those only last about 2 hours each. My main oxygen generator, I think would take up to much electricity if it were to go off. I have an emergency radio, flashlight, a string of lights that are all solar generated or plug into a USB plug. I am not a camper, I have no survival skills other than I survived Breast Cancer and surviving the treatment alone says a lot about me I think. Unfortunately, everything is electric in my apartment. So that is concerning. Anything anyone could suggest would be greatly appreciated. My family has not prepared either. I to am on a budget and I bought that survival food. That will take care of me and my dad. I am trying to acquire more because I have a bunch of nieces and nephews. Trying to buy things that might occupy their time if electricity goes out. I live about 20 minutes from there and I am not sure if I should go there or what. They don't want to think about anything and act like everything is ok and basically told me to quit sending them information. So I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. I love my nieces and nephews deeply and don't want to see any of them starve. Please any advice.
I obviously have zero information about your personal health situation including how many liters of oxygen you require each day for normal existence. The very best thing you can do each day, in my opinion, is to take whatever steps are possible to try to get yourself off that supplemental oxygen so you are independent from that if SHTF. Obviously you don't want to be on it and I don't know if you can heal yourself from whatever is going on but if I were you and if you haven't yet done so I would at least TRY a regimen of high dose vitamin C for a period of days or weeks (we may have months or even years still before everything falls apart). Humans cannot make their own vitamin C and most people are deficient which compromises your immune system and makes healing more difficult.
Again, I don't know your personal circumstance and this is not meant to be a judgment of you or what you've tried so far but just encouragement to consider trying something else if you haven't yet.
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My oxygen dependence is not from lifestyle choices. Without getting into my personal health to much, it cannot be reversed. My lung is not bad, it is blocked so I am essentially only working with one lung. I am not a big person and took off 30lbs from my small frame. I have noticed a difference but the problem still remains. I am eating healthier, supplementing etc. I am taking about 1000 mg of vitamin C and I can up that and stock up. I don't need the oxygen if I am just sitting but activity I do. I pray this doesn't go on much longer. I am in a blue state. We were able to vote to limit our Governors emergency powers so we are not in full tyranny or anything like that. I live more in a red area. However, while I see a lot of flags, I still see to many people wearing masks and noone fighting to get their kids unmasked. I have not noticed any shortages at the grocery store but I do notice that certain things are no longer available. I get meat from a farm now. Not any in my area had to order on line. I have seen at least 4 specialists, one of the top 10 in the country. However, with all the lies we have been told who really knows. If the med beds do in fact exist maybe that is a hope for me.I don't trust doctors anymore so trying to readdress this issue again, I feel would be useless at this time.The only thing I have is prayer right now. I do not have a supportive family at all. I try to prepare my family but noone wants to deal with it. So I can only do what I can do for myself at this point. I really don't know any of my neighbors in my building. A lot are foreigners, here on visas to work for a fracking company near by. It wasn't like that when I first moved here. It concerns me a little but I can't be suspicious of everyone. Many work strange hours so we just don't cross paths.
Can anyone suggest any heating sources?
In my particular stock, I accumulated about 600lbs of rice, 150lbs of dry beans for protein and 100+lbs of salt among many other things. I figure those will stretch longer and are more budget friendly than survival food. I would also look into buy a burke water filter and or a Sawyer water filter. The others who offered advice had some good suggestions too. I will be praying for you.