1. Prepping Basics
• What is a “prepper”?
• Why should I prep?
• How do I get started?
• How much should I
prep?
• How can I learn more?
• Where can I get help?
2. What is a “prepper”?
• Someone who keeps
their eyes and mind
open
3. What is a “prepper”?
• Someone who keeps
their eyes and mind
open
• Someone who wants to
stack the cards in their
favor by thinking ahead
4. What is a “prepper”?
• Someone who keeps
their eyes and mind
open
• Someone who wants to
stack the cards in their
favor by thinking ahead
• Someone who
understands that the
future is uncertain and
is willing to act NOW
7. Why Should I Prep?
You don’t drown by falling in the water...
8. Why Should I Prep?
You don’t drown by falling in the water...
You drown by staying there!!!!
9. How Do I Get Started?
Very simple....
Step 1 – Plan
10. How Do I Get Started?
Very simple....
Step 1 – Plan
Step 2 – Learn and Do (often learning while doing)
11. How Do I Get Started?
Very simple....
Step 1 – Plan
Step 2 – Learn and Do (often learning while doing)
Step 3 – Improve the Plan
Learn and Do more
12. Step 1 - Plan
Plan for:
72 hours
7 days
30 days
1 year Ask yourself:
• What do I LEARN?
• What do I DO?
• What do I GET?
13. Step 1 - Plan
• Each Plan should be customized for YOU
• Consider special needs
– Babies
– Children
– Elderly
– Handicapped
• Use your 72 hour plan as the basis for your 7 day
plan, etc.
• Design in redundancy as much as possible
14. 72 Hour Survival
• Make a 72 hour kit for each person
• Make separate kits for home, work and vehicle
• Portable for anyone that might carry it
• Easy to use
• Must remain “current”
– Food and other perishables should be fresh
– Clothes should be seasonally correct
17. 72 Hour Survival
• Make a “Get Home Bag” for your vehicle
• Make a “72 Hour Survival Kit” for home.
This will include a “Bug Out Bag”
18. 72 Hour Survival
• Make a “Get Home Bag” for your vehicle
• Make a “72 Hour Survival Kit” for home.
This will include a “Bug Out Bag”
• Knowledge Weighs Nothing
19. Get Home Bag
• GOOD Walking shoes – don’t
assume these are already on your
feet.
• Clothes -- good gloves, extra
socks, cap and a bandanna
• Money
• Paracord, Duct Tape, Aluminum
Foil, Clear Plastic Bags
• Hygiene items (don’t forget
feminine hygiene items , denture
cream, TP, etc.)
• Medication, extra glasses, etc.
• Bug spray and sun block
• Map/compass
• Pen/paper, recent family photo
• Water and water purification
• Food – meal replacement bars,
energy bars, PB (minimum of
2000 calories per day)
• Basic 1st Aid Kit, include blood
stopper bandages and plenty of
pain relievers
• Lighters, water proof matches,
road flare, glow sticks and fire
starters
• Spare ammo (you are carrying
right?)
• Knife, multi-tool and whistle
• LED Headlamp, LED Flashlight
with spare batteries for both
20. 72 Hour Survival Kit
• Food – 3 days worth of food
that you will actually eat (at
least 2000 calories per person
per day) – don’t forget manual
can opener
• Enhanced 1st Aid Kit, include
tourniquets, dental first aid,
poison remedies, etc.
• Off grid cooking system with
extra fuel
• Additional lighters, water
proof matches, road flare,
glow sticks and fire starters
• High lumen LED Flashlight with
spare batteries
• Make a separate dedicated
BOB , start with the same
contents as your GHB
• Rifle and ammo.... and more
ammo
• Emergency radio – prefer solar
powered and/or hand crank
with battery backups
• Lots of extra batteries
• Additional water storage –
minimum of 1 gallon per
person per day
• High quality belt knife
21. 72 Hour Survival Kit
• 5 gallons of gasoline (minimum)
• Solar landscape lights and/or
candles and/or lanterns (with
fuel)
• Complete tool set, including
– Basic took kit with a good hammer
– Any tools necessary for utility
shutoff
– Shovel, ax, pick, hack
saw, hatchet, bow saw
– Good scissors
• Special needs
(babies, pets, elderly)
• Emergency contact
information, vital info
• GOOD work boots and work
gloves
• Clothes – 2 complete sets of good
quality clothes, don’t forget the
belts
• Money -- $20 in small bills and 10
rolls of nickels
• More Paracord and Duct Tape
• TP
• A complete, dedicated 72 hour
hygiene kit
• Medication, extra glasses, etc.
22. 7 Day Survival
• Build up your 1st aid kit,
be able to treat severe
burns and cuts, set
broken or dislocated
limbs
• Add a generator
• More gasoline storage
• $150 in small bills, 5
rolls of nickels, 2 rolls of
quarters
• Use your 72 hour preps
as a basis
• 7 days of food, water
• 7 days of medication
• Increase your batteries
and ammo stash
• Start your redundancy
preps – another
flashlight, another radio
• Good sewing kit
23. 30 Day Survival
• Continue to build up your
1st aid kit; add
antibiotics, minor surgery
tools
• Add a backup generator
• More gasoline
storage, with stabilizer if
needed
• $350 in small bills, 5 rolls
of nickels, 2 rolls of
quarters
• Special needs become
critical, take great care in
your planning/preps
• Now you are “prepping”
• Time to plan/design for
water supply and filtering
• Start your long term food
storage preps
• Increase your batteries
and ammo stash
• Communications – 2 way
radios, ham radios, CB
radios
• Shotgun and rifle
26. 1 Year Survival
• We now cross the threshold from “storage” to
“production”
– We will have to “get” and filter water
– We will have to “produce” food
– We will have to “produce” heat
– Fuel sources are severely limited
• We will have to improvise and barter
• Medical and dental care become critical
• Security can easily be a life or death issue
27. 1 Year Survival
• Rain barrels, wells, ponds, higher level springs
• Your water MUST be filtered and purified
• Food storage MUST be protected
• Food production MUST be protected (gardens,
chicken coops, rabbit houses) and reliable
• Fuel will be depleted - firewood must be gathered
and cured
• “Minor” health issues are now “Major”
• Security becomes a 24/7 concern
28. Water
• Before purifying water in any manner, filter out
debris by passing it through the best filter you can
manage. At a minimum, pass it through a clean cloth.
• Water can be purified using several methods
– Boiling
– Bleach
– Commercial methods
See your handout for details
29. Food Storage
Food must be protected against:
– Moisture
– Sunlight
– Oxygen
– Severe temperatures
– Bugs and other creatures
See your handout for details
30. Security
• Consolidate your
firearm calibers
• Redundancy is good
• Redundancy is good
• If you can’t defend it,
you don’t own it
• Don’t advertise to your
neighbors
• If you don’t have a dog,
get one. If you have
one, get another.
31. How Can I Learn More?
• Suggested Reading
– One Second After
– Patriots
– Founders
• Local Resources
– Please see handout for
contact information
• Online Resources
– Please see handout for
links
32. Where Can I Get Help?
• Local Businesses
• Friends/Community
• LDS canneries
• Red Cross training
• FEMA brochures
• Online resources, some
search terms are:
– SHTF
– WROL
– TEOTWAWKI
– Prepping or Prepper
– James Wesley Rawles
• YouTube
– Southernprepper1
– Engineer775
33. Tips
• Freeze several 2 liter
jugs of water in your
chest freezer
• Duct tape may not be
THE answer, but it’s
almost always PART of
the answer
• Redundancy is good
• Redundancy is good
• Solar landscape lighting
make excellent solar
powered “candles”
• Save your dryer lint, it’s
excellent tinder. Also,
cell phone battery and
steel wool is a fire
starter.
• Redundancy: 2 is 1, and
1 is none
34. Things to Learn
• How to hook up and run a
generator
• How to talk on a 2-way
radio
• How to cook without
utilities
• How to make a solar still
• 3-5 simple self-defense
moves and practice them
regularly
• Basic First Aid
• How to shut off all your
utilities
• How to start a fire
without matches or
lighter
• How to preserve food
• How to store and purify
water
• How to shoot accurately
and safely
36. Final Thoughts
It is better to be 5 years too early, than 1
minute too late
“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get
you killed, no matter what side he is on” –
Joseph Heller
Hope for the best....prepare for the worst
