A Good Preppers Checklist from one of 12160 members (Thank you Terri )

We should encourage each other to get out their old CB radios if you have them, I know some are in our garage, you can hook it up to your car battery.  We have to find a way to stay in communication with each other.  If you can afford a HAM radio, go to Radio Shack, that's the easiest cheapest place I know of and they will tell you how to operate it.  This communication may be the only link we have with one another for a while. If you can buy a generator, get one,  You can get one that will keep you refrigerators and some appliances and lights on for only $1000.00.  Just put cheap generator in search site.  Get lanterns.  Candles but avoid fires. MATCHES and lighters.   Get a crank radio some of these have solar charges on them as well and some will charge your cell phones, if our cells work.  Have flashlights and batteries.  If you can't afford all the expensive survival food, stock up on canned goods. Have a hand crank can opener, several, on hand.  Soup with rice and beans have good nutrients as well as some water in them. Have a multiple vitamin, and C and D. If you can't buy bottled water, find containers and fill them with tap water, just add a drop of chlorine bleach to each gallon and it will preserve it for you to drink.  Fill your bathtubs up at the last minute and put a little bleach in them.  If you can buy lots of baby wipes for personal hygiene and plenty of toliet paper, now is the time and don't worry about your "carbon footprint" or "being green" right now.  Have clean clothes stacked and ready to wear easy to get to along with your running shoes.  We're not in a fashion show now.  And we may need to layer our clothing according to the temperature. Keep all your blankets clean and stacked together. If you have fireplaces, put them to use, buy firewood, have it ready. Get plenty of matches.  If you have essential medications that you can get a 3 month stock of, do it now and continue to stock up if possible.  Go to a feed store and buy penicillin.  Have several first aid kits, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, baking soda to brush your teeth and mixed in a little water a very small amount will correct an upset tummy,  cotton balls, anything you need for injections if you take them. Don't forget pet food, and don't abandon your pets, they will be good guard dogs, they will stick with you to the end, do the same for them.  They can survive on just a bit of food and water.  Since our toliets may not work, remember your kid camping skills, we may have to dig spots for those of you with yards to dispose of our waste.  I remember using lyme to make an outside latrine.  This all sounds so simple and most of your are probably prepared, but for those who are not, these simple things may get you through a bad time.  If you have family or friends in the country, have a meeting.  Take your kids there BEFORE the drill or ALL of you go and just stay for a few days to see what happens.  Getting stuck in an urban area as I will be is a worst case scenario.  But I accept it and if we can get our neighbors together to take care of each other, we'll be in much better shape. I want to be able to help my neighbors during a crisis, don't you?  The highways out of the city will be clogged and closed, and you don't want to get stuck there sitting and then running out of gas.  A basement may be a blessing, you will have to watch for roving gangs no matter where you stay.  If you can get your neighbors to meet up now and plan for this IMMEDIATELY, I suggest you do so.  Thanks for listening and even if nothing happens during this power drill Nov. 13, HURRAY!  But you will be more prepared when something follows. There are plans to bus children from their schools to places where parents WILL NOT be allowed to pick them up.  Drills regarding this horrific plan have occurred all over the USA during the last 4 years.  You just rarely if EVER hear it on your TV news. Start listening to the radio.  If you know a good policeman, get him to help you and your family.  And our Vets, thank God for them, they are our best friends.    They will be proud to help you and their families as we endure.  Get in touch with them.  Get creative.  Get bold.  I'm cheering us all along in prayer and sincere hopefulness as we go.  Maybe the extinction plan for us will be held up and we will have more time.  Please set out some of your suggestions.  We all need each other.  With great love,