Can You Survive A Month Without Any Outside Help?

I’m screwed if this is the case. Mostly food. Although there’s tons or rabbits and squirrels crossing my yard daily. Little .22 suppressed right out the window and dinner is served. I’ll need to gather some recipes from @thrillhill and Becky.

I’m pretty sure I can bring something to the table and find a spot at more **prepared** friends place.

I could offer ammo, firepower, manpower and some medical skills.

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I’ll make it a while, jus sayin….
 
Ferrisfan said:
The limiting factor would be water. Without city water, I do not have a one-month supply unless I could melt snow.
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I have a spring fed creek as one of my property borders here. It ain't big, but it ain't ever run dry either. And I keep a few family and individual sized filters on hand. Best guess I could filter 10 million gallons with what's in my water "box." And with the backup generator I figure I'll have at least a week of a working well before I have to get to that point. So I'll be filling every container in that time as well.

We got a pretty good mini- test during hurricane Michael in 2018. 4 days without power had us hauling buckets of creek water to the house to flush toilets. Didn't have to drink it because we had that more than that supply in potable water at that time. That experience was the impetus for the whole house generator.

When we relocate to Wilkes I'm gonna have to up my rainwater collection game. Still have a creek as a property border but much farther away from where the house will be. And I don't wanna lug water up THAT hill if I can help it.
 
RR said:
Still have a creek as a property border but much farther away from where the house will be. And I don't wanna lug water up THAT hill if I can help it.
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I stumbled across a grow once.

A pump and a hose pipe was all those little banditos needed to get water up the hill from the creek. Well, and I assume a generator they decided not to leave behind.
 
RR said:
I have a spring fed creek as one of my property borders here. It ain't big, but it ain't ever run dry either. And I keep a few family and individual sized filters on hand. Best guess I could filter 10 million gallons with what's in my water "box." And with the backup generator I figure I'll have at least a week of a working well before I have to get to that point. So I'll be filling every container in that time as well.

We got a pretty good mini- test during hurricane Michael in 2018. 4 days without power had us hauling buckets of creek water to the house to flush toilets. Didn't have to drink it because we had that more than that supply in potable water at that time. That experience was the impetus for the whole house generator.

When we relocate to Wilkes I'm gonna have to up my rainwater collection game. Still have a creek as a property border but much farther away from where the house will be. And I don't wanna lug water up THAT hill if I can help it.
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If you don't mind me asking, what kind of filters do you use for creek water?
 
Ferrisfan said:
The limiting factor would be water. Without city water, I do not have a one-month supply unless I could melt snow.
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I have a swimming pool and a pond, survival filters, and materials to distill water if need be.

We could survive longer than a month. Much longer.


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kcult said:
I stumbled across a grow once.

A pump and a hose pipe was all those little banditos needed to get water up the hill from the creek. Well, and I assume a generator they decided not to leave behind.
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Check out this water powered pump
 
Went close to 3 weeks after hurricane Florence. I was prepared for a full month, or so I thought, turns out I was on an easy glide path for 2 months.
Cold turkey, no advance warning, we can do a month here easy.
 
Yes.

My folks are always worried about water, we have creeks, some on hand, and enough stored to be good for a while. The biggest thing is eating food before it goes bad. We also have a gas stove so we can cook without electricity
 
90 days before I have to start to ration, the water thing I've got covered
the house used to be on a hand dug well before it was moved to City water.
 
Generators, unless solar, eventually run out of their power source. Then just another big box that won't run...like a Fridge...Water heater...electric appliances....My propane and gas generator folks say...well I can run for a week easily....then what? Hellll, I can stand on my head for a week. When you start talking about a Month....now it's going to be serious.
Both my Grand Parents from both sides lived a great portion of their lives without Electric power....think about that. Not a camping trip or a power outage for 2 weeks.....NO electricity, at all, ever. Just as far back as MY Grandparents.....Damn, I'm spoiled.
 
Food is easy, the meat in the freezer I’ll take out very first thing and smoke it. And mix it in with the dehydrated stuff we have and alternate meals. Water is a little tougher but I have a spring fed creek at my house and it starts on my neighbors place. @Lil D bought me the biggest filter system Berkey makes so filtering is no issue between it and the smaller filters I have. Would like to have a hand crank, or 12v pump to put on the well in case but I haven’t made it that far yet. Plenty of gas on had for saws and firewood. I think We’d be in pretty good shape. Plus most of my neighbors are like minded and we’d all help each other out.
 
yes.
done it for 17 days in a row before.
no electricity, no outside help, no nothing.
you know...hurricanes, ice storms, whatever.

one time, the only thing
we came close to running
out of was: chain oil.
 
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BatteryOaksBilly said:
Generators, unless solar, eventually run out of their power source. Then just another big box that won't run...like a Fridge...Water heater...electric appliances....My propane and gas generator folks say...well I can run for a week easily....then what? Hellll, I can stand on my head for a week. When you start talking about a Month....now it's going to be serious.
Both my Grand Parents from both sides lived a great portion of their lives without Electric power....think about that. Not a camping trip or a power outage for 2 weeks.....NO electricity, at all, ever. Just as far back as MY Grandparents.....Damn, I'm spoiled.
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We are seriously looking into complete off grid options for our Wilkes Co home. Like solar/battery with a propane genset backup. It's doable but there are tradeoffs and some of those get expensive. We are a few years out from starting the actual build so learning and planning right now. If we can pull off no connection at all to the grid, I'll be a happy man.
 
OP...thanks for the post! Reminded me that I haven't acquired water filters! Ordered 4 of the Sawyer Squeeze 3 bag kits today.
Moosejaw had them for $39.99.
 
RR said:
We are seriously looking into complete off grid options for our Wilkes Co home. Like solar/battery with a propane genset backup. It's doable but there are tradeoffs and some of those get expensive. We are a few years out from starting the actual build so learning and planning right now. If we can pull off no connection at all to the grid, I'll be a happy man.
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When you do this, I’d like to know who you go through for the solar and how happy you are with it. Keep me in mind please!
 
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this is what we have used:

www.berkeyfilters.com

Big Berkey Water Filter

Ideal for medium-sized families of up to four people, the 2.25 gallon Big Berkey water filter is our most popular Berkey Filter system.
www.berkeyfilters.com www.berkeyfilters.com
 
turkeydance said:
this is what we have used:

www.berkeyfilters.com

Big Berkey Water Filter

Ideal for medium-sized families of up to four people, the 2.25 gallon Big Berkey water filter is our most popular Berkey Filter system.
www.berkeyfilters.com www.berkeyfilters.com
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This is what I have, and I strongly suggest anyone, that has a few peoples well being to think about especially, to watch for sales on these and extra filters. You can filter gallons at a time, and you don’t really have to babysit it
 
We were without power for 7 daysseveral years ago_Over 20 inches of snow and ice. I took all my food from the freezer and put it in the bed of my truck and covered it all with snow .Temps were in the 30's for 5 of the seven days. Lucky for me I had plenty of canned goods and melted snow and ice for water. Lots of firewood stacked. I cooked food for us in a cast iron frying pan that set on bricks in fireplace.. Country boy will survive.
 
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Yes no problem.
 
There are people that could not survive 3 days. Think about the millennials and such that require tech to survive be it ordering chinese or an Uber. Many people have let tech takeover their lives so much they have forgotten or never even learned to do things most here don’t think twice about doing … the technologically challenged would be the ones who get by easier than the smartphone generation.

Even further on the time able to survive, urban areas like NYC where many people shop for food every 3 days or so. Once chaos sets in the weak would be run over by POS’s with little resistance.
 
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