Any PREPPERS here?

[frenchtower]

First batch of Tychem suits for halloween and that beastly disease called "ebola"

[safeorigin]

Speaking of protection. Might as well be a good idea to make a Faraday cage for critical electronic components. There is talk about a 12.5% probability of experiencing so-called Megaflare by 2020. In case you guys are wondering about its implications: Carrington Event

The Earth has a roughly 12 percent chance of experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the sun in the next decade. This event could potentially cause trillions of dollars’ worth of damage and take up to a decade to recover from.

Such an extreme event is considered to be relatively rare. The last gigantic solar storm, known as the Carrington Event, occurred more than 150 years ago and was the most powerful such event in recorded history.

That a rival to this event might have a greater than 10 percent chance of happening in the next 10 years was surprising to space physicist Pete Riley, senior scientist at Predictive Science in San Diego, California, who published the estimate in Space Weather on Feb. 23.

“Even if it’s off by a factor of two, that’s a much larger number than I thought,” he said.

Earth’s sun goes through an 11-year cycle of increased and decreased activity. During solar maximum, it’s dotted with many sunspots and enormous magnetic whirlwinds erupt from its surface. Occasionally, these flares burst outward from the sun, spewing a mass of charged particles out into space.

Small solar flares happen quite often whereas very large ones are infrequent, a mathematical distribution known as a power law. Riley was able to estimate the chance of an enormous solar flare by looking at historical databases and calculating the relation between the size and occurrence of solar flares.

The biggest solar event ever seen was the Carrington Event, which occurred on Sept. 1, 1859. That morning, astronomer Richard Carrington watched an enormous solar flare erupt from the sun’s surface, emitting a particle stream at the Earth traveling more than 4 million miles per hour.

When they hit the Earth’s atmosphere, those particles generated the intense ghostly ribbons of light known as auroras. Though typically relegated to the most northerly and southerly parts of the planet, the atmospheric phenomenon reached as far as Cuba, Hawaii, and northern Chile. People in New York City gathered on sidewalks and rooftops to watch “the heavens … arrayed in a drapery more gorgeous than they have been for years,” as The New York Times described it.

1 in 8 Chance of Catastrophic Solar Megastorm by 2020 | WIRED

IMHO, the matter should be taken with more urgency because of this:

Solar filament snakes across the sun, may soon end in violent burst - LA Times

[frenchtower]

There was a significant solar event that occured only last Sept. 10 but the there's not much media buzz about it. I was waiting for something to happen like maybe an electrical snafu, but nada!

UPDATED: A Significant Flare Surges Off the Sun | NASA

Regarding Faraday cage, Amazon sells EMP protection packs. I can't vouch their effectiveness though.

[safeorigin]

Actually a faraday cage can be as simple as a box enclosure of wire mesh as long as the gaps or holes aren't bigger than 30 cm. But of course, a metal trash bin can be outfitted to do the same for more sensitive devices such as HAM radios or stuff with integrated circuits.

[Monseratto]

[safeorigin]

We've seen what mob riots are capable of during Trayvon Martin and Micheal Brown cases.

This video is pretty old but more relevant than ever. WROL (Without Rule of Law)

[badkuk]

Just learnt of some anti-Trump rally gone ugly in downtown San Diego this morning -- i know some guys there. Hopefully it doesn't escalate into a L.A. Rodney King situation.

[minicarph]

panuorin nyo 10 clover field lane para malaman nyo psychological toll ng isang prepper

[badkuk]

So i bought this paracord bracelet out of sheer impulse. How am i supposed to unfurl the paracord? Do i just cut into it(the bracelet lock has a built in cutter)?

[lowslowbenz]

Ah! Prepping ...

2 boxes of MRE's (inspection year 2018) ... check

Thinking of buying 2 more.

[dreamur]

Ah! Prepping ...

2 boxes of MRE's (inspection year 2018) ... check

Thinking of buying 2 more.

Are they available locally?

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[badkuk]

Wasn't there a ruckus recently about MREs being sold in tiangges? Or were they a different type of MRE?

[lowslowbenz]

^

I think it was during Yolanda. Somehow "donated" MRE's went into the wrong hands and ended up in some Manila stores .... Or so I believe.

I bought mine off a guy in OLX. Genuine US Army stuff. Never bothered to ask who his source was.

[badkuk]

iirc, the tiangge explained that they bought it in the US, not "sourced" locally. Plausible explanation imho

[dreamur]

I hope it does not have a sign that says it is not for commercial resalr.

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[badkuk]

Eto yung nabili ko. Apparently it's a blaze bar weave, meant for quick release. Any ideas how to unfurl it?

[badkuk]

i came across this around the time Brexit happened. Very practical imho

So Brexit’s Really Happening – What Should UK Preppers Do?

[Jun aka Pekto]

We keep ourselves prepared in case of shortages such as water. We do live in the desert, after all. We have enough bottled water to last a month. We also have enough food to last a month. That's why we have two refrigerators plus a standing freezer (one in the kitchen, two in the garage) in addition to the dry foodstuff in the pantry.

We have a Honda portable generator in our rental storage. I fire it up twice a year just to make sure it still works.

But, preparing for a holocaust or zombie apocalypse with an arsenal of weapons at home? Ha Ha! Nope.

[badkuk]

Not really sure how you're supposed to read them when there's no power, but here are some free survival books for Kindle on Amazon.

Tread carefully, some of the books are no longer free:


More Than Just Surviving: Free Survival eBooks

Books on porridge and ironworks ^_^

[remzam]

Well if you're a prepper, part of the plan is to have alternative sources of energy/electricity such as solar and/or wind

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