https://preppernurse1.com/ P.O. BOX 472 Cool Ridge W.V. 25825 preppernurse1@yahoo.com etsy.com/shop/MsCarswellsCreations https://delomahealth.com/PN1 If your looking for supplies that will help you after a S.H.T.F. event this is a list of places to look.
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on the library if it is a central one, checking the basement and sub basements may yield years of exacting details on chemical innovations in the form of chem-abstract periodicals (leather bound books released like I believe monthly with all the new chemical discovery and inventions, as well as exacting details on how they were achieved that can be followed step by step.) (plus all those old leather bound books smell amazing LOL, just have to get to them before water and mold does. )
oh also don't just focus on public libraries, but university libraries too.
Speaking as someone who has two storage units (and working slowly to get them cleared) ~ I'd react 'badly' if I caught someone looting mine even though none of my preps are in there. Touch my grandma's ornaments or my mom's pottery and it's on. SHTF or not.
I have no clue about distribution centers, but ports have armed guards … unless it is long enough after an event for them to have wandered home to their families, that is a huge risk.
My go-to list includes the feed store (for both our animals and seed to plant), hardware/rural-king type store for more feed, tools, parts.
Drug store immediately upon suspecting there is a SHTF event and while cash only sales are going on. After that you can count on every addict in the county looting the place and killing 'you' unless the town/city is on the ball and puts guards on it.
Grocery for fill in canned goods, meat to can up, and produce ~ along with any comfort foods for the short term.
I'm a prepper and we have enough food at all times to last at least until the next garden harvest. My husband is a blacksmith/knife maker and has tons of raw materials on hand. We have a good supply of firewood and continue to add to it (although if there is time and a running vehicle I'd add in a trip or two to the local sawmill to pick up flats and rounds since ours seasons their logs before cutting). We have material, yarn, sewing supplies (needles, buttons, zippers, patches, thread), canning jars, hanging food dehydrators (not electrical), hand tools for both the shop and kitchen, three ways to cook that don't use either electric or petroleum/gas and for any season, our own 'how-to/survival' library that we constantly add to, a walk-in first aid closet, board games if we have the energy at the end of a day, water and a water cachement system plus a shallow well, basic solar and plan to get a solar generator next month .. but batteries and the house set up to connect everything to it ~ backed with a helix wind turbine, etc. We have buried caches of food set up in barrels with a month of supplies in each.
While I would not be above stealing/looting if I really needed something, I'd much prefer to just do a last minute run on purchases (with the cash already here at the house) than risk dying because someone else wanted something more. I'm absolutely not going to jump into any hordes looting and pretty much rioting at malls or other 'choice' locations. Lots of folks will die doing that and my intention is to survive as long as the good Lord intends … not throw my life away because I got in the way of some fool carting a big screen and a large caliber, nor do I want to take away from some single mom or any elderly when I know I have enough for the first year. Even if someone raids our home, they would only get what we have out for the month. If they didn't off us, we would have months more on hand … and if they did off us they would still only get what is in plain sight.
Now, I can see the value of going after parts, electrical and other equipment, etc. months after an event to try and get local things back to functional ~ but that would be more of a collaborative thing than us just going out to loot stuff. I'm far more concerned with just hanging on to what we have while others are out looting because they weren't preppers. And, both my husband and myself have spent the last 30 odd years developing old skills that we didn't learn as children … and those can't be stolen. We identify as sheep dogs, not hyenas (what some call wolf preppers, but wolves are far above hyenas). Our goal is to be able to help out the elderly folks near us, work on safety and security in our little corner of the world, etc. ~ and doing without the solar or other advanced things we have for the first few months so as to not have it stolen or destroyed by desperate people that have no clue and never prepared.
We've been at this for years now, and I realize we may be better set up than those who are just getting started, or have only been prepping for a year. One other thing to consider is that any 'choice' location may also end up being a mini-fort for a group that planned on that for years. Better to get the things you need now when it is a lot less dangerous imo.
on malls it would be better if you wait, to focus on the maintenance sections and basements for all sorts of stored shelves of needed supplies for maintaining a mall, even massive farm equipment sized bearings for things like escalators and elevators. Also they may have storage for security that could have useful stuff for SHTF events.
oh on restaurants, what about all that stainless steel cookware that could be made into rocket stoves and other needed tools?
After a post event, there's no rule of law, so, stealing, looting, and killing will become irrelevant terms. Only survival will matter.
The only real problem with your freeze dried food is that it’s in American money and my money is Canadian
I would say skip the mall , gonna be every gang member and bottom of the earth people killing each other over shoes and clothes.. think the BLM RIOTS ..
Used cooking oil can be used for cooking and heating
Auto plants. Parts and cafeteria. Dealerships for your car parts. Any large business with a cafeteria. Abandoned police station depending on what happened. Tree trimming trucks built like tanks if gas and tools and trucks for firewood. Got a building something to do with water on a side street close. Lots of water filtering supply places around.
Looks like the Lucky Charms desire hit.
Auto dealerships with service centers for tools besides car parts.
There is one you didn’t mention for medical supplies. That’s Ambulance (EMS) stations and fire stations.
Schools will have a wealth of stuff – cooking utensils as well as dry and canned goods. Now the people who live near schools may think of that first, but you never know. Also consider small social clubs like Moose or Elk's Lodge, they have a good booze supply as well as foodstuff. Convenience stops will be some of the first hit – I wonder if one can use a car battery – or generator to operate the gas pump? I am sure some enterprising hillbilly will figure that one out.
Looting is not for me. I just don't see me or mine doing it. For religious as well as my own moral compass. As for the library, well I have a card so I'll just check myself out. I'll never trade food but I have plenty of ammo, so much and even for calibers for guns I don't own to use for trade. If you see ammo on sale at really bargain prices buy it. It's going to be as good as gold or silver (but have them too). One thing I still need is a generator but Christmas is coming and I'm going to get one for my family.
Great list of places to get supplies. Thank you for sharing. If the manager and employees put back what supplies they need first, before the supplies are wiped out from the rest of the people. Or put together a basic kit to sell to the customers as they come in at a fair price before everyone rushes into the stores.
ONLY A DUMBASS WOULD KEEP GUNS AND RELATED ITEMS IN A STORAGE LOCKER. AS FOR PREPPER ITEMS, YOU KEEP THEM WHERE YOU CAN DEFEND THEM, AND THAT'S NOT ACROSS TOWN IN A STORAGE LOCKER.
Highway Dept also
I call it being an opportuneavore!
This was a good video. Thanks for the Food For Thought.
Try at a golf course . They have propane coolers and fule. Food supply's fire existingwishers, med kits Evan possible defib units . Big electric batteries from carts . Maintenance shops fule for course maintenance. Boose to barter . Nurseries for garden stuff . Oh storm drain maps in main library better than trying to breath sewer gas. Use chem lights in strom drains . A right size flash light can hold a chem light , just use duct tape to create a small light hole you can easy cover up
Battery whole sale for daisy chain creation for solar set up plus cables to hook them up. Animal vet hospitals and norm pet shelter places. Some church's have kitchens. Home Depot places for building items
Tarps don't last long as dose visqueen. Ram set tools and proper nails and charge for them .
If you plan to salvage from junk yards have plenty of break free spray vrs rust
Tool rental places for fule power saws to cut door entry boalts . Great for entry just noisy
My universal key the power saw , large boalts cutters hydrologic wedges to pump doors open
Have scouted a propane dealer/ refill shop under 5 miles from me in the country . They sell propane generators( no good in. A emp
School cafeterias. Landscape supplies (grills, propane, gas cans, seeds, wheelbarrows, tools). Shopping carts good to get. Mechanic garages (tools, parts, tires).
Medical equipment! Crutches, wheelchairs, etc.
I get what your saying but if your a prepper surely you'd already have supplies. I'd never condone stealing and looting, you'd never let someone do that to you without consequences. Surely all those places have cameras.
Well you just made it harder to find things by telling everyone where to go
Don't mess with anyone's personal Storage Unit. They will bang, bang you. Nor rummage their home. That will be a dumb move. Owners will already be waiting for thefts. Not a good idea to instigate such moves. People will get hurt and especially in Texas. ⚠⛔🎖🚨
I was strategizing with my sister and I told her schools. They have cafeterias and you can take large quantities of food because they have larger cans, packaging, etc.
Ok, you mentioned that one too…
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Good list!
Hey Ed is Ritz cracker a sponsor for your show?
The ability to pick locks will come in handy!
Huge grain facilities would have diesel fuel tanks large trucks and usually sell farm supplies like nitro fertilizer livestock antibiotics dry feed dog food hardware high vantage points lots of concrete structure that could be secured standalone Gen sets that would power the facility
Great video,Ed. A resource or2 that no one thinks of are.- Electromics stores/ We nerds like our snacks and all the useless electronics are gone but snacks = food.
Railcars can be a treasure trove as well.
I will not steal.That’s why I try to prepare now.