Refrigeration In a Power Outage - Emergency Grid Down Food
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Sometimes, we make prepping more complicated than it needs to be. You have all the supplies and gadgets, but at its core, being prepared boils down to a few fundamental needs: food, water, and shelter. While the other areas of preparedness are important, these are non-negotiable.
When it comes to food, we all tend to focus on shelf-stable food that doesn’t require refrigeration, and rightfully so. Because of this, there is the misconception that if the grid goes down, you’ll have to throw out all your refrigerated food or have a neighborhood BBQ to eat before it spoils.
This will be true for most people, but it’s easier than you might think to run a mini fridge and chest freezer for days, weeks, and even months if the power grid goes down. This means that while everyone else is eating saltine crackers and Roman noodles, you’ll be eating a nice juicy cheeseburger with a cold beverage-not to mention medications that might need to be refrigerated.
In this video, I want to go over everything you will need to get this done, including your different options, your power needs, and a little trick you can use if solar power is not an option.
The great thing about this emergency refrigeration setup is that, unlike many prepping projects or supplies, it will be useful daily and not sit on a shelf waiting for disaster. It will be useful throughout the year and critical in an emergency.
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0:00 Intro
2:04 Full Size Refrigerator
4:58 What I'm Using and Energy Needs
6:38 Option 1 (Emergency)
7:27 Generating Energy
6:47 Option 2 (Backup Power)
Option 3 (Full Time Power) 
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You're half right. Your use of a small chest is spot on, you're use of a small dorm refrigerator is wrong. Buy a second small chest freezer and hook up a Inkbird ITC308 Freezer Thermostat sold on Amazon $36. A small refrigerator loses most of it's cold air when opened, a chest unit doesn't. Convert a chest freezer to a refrigerator takes less energy.
You're dead on. And, the chest needs to already be plugged in and cold.
This is the way!
My 2 cents: Eliminate mini-fridge. Purchase a slightly larger chest freezer. Place a couple of 1 gallon water jugs into freezer. When they are frozen, move them to a yeti (or similar) high quality cooler for refrigerator type items (and meds). Rotate another couple of gallon water jugs into the freezer perhaps once or twice per day. If the freezer is taking advantage of solar, then put jugs into the freezer in the morning. Also, if you have a basement, keep the freezer and cooler in the basement to gain a bit of additional efficiency where it's cooler.
100%
Good idea
I like it!
I just purchased an mid average Frigidaire refrigerator/ freezer and it's efficiency is fantastic. It will run off a 300 watt inverter. When the defrost timer overloads the inverter during defrost cycle just rotate the timer to bypass the defrost cycle then reset your inverter.
Two wireless thermometers low and high up in the freezer along with a tiny battery powered fan can turn the freezer into a much larger fridge if you adjust the thermostat right.
I hope everyone knows the order is: water, food, shelter - because without water you die before you eat !
Water, food, sleep. Without sleep you become psychotic
The most important thing to remember about refrigerators and freezers if you want to save energy, is to limit the number of times you open the doors and reduce the amount of time they are open.
I’ve had the same setup for years! I live in Miami and experienced Andrew, Katrina, Wilma and Irma. I currently own two sportsman generators and have four lifepo4 batteries. My chest freezer (36 wh) and 3.2 fridge (41 wh) can run for weeks on my setup. I can cook on my instapot and induction hot plate and keep my 5000 btu air conditioner going in the worst heat. Planning is the key!!!
Nice! I need to test different foods and energy usage in my instapot. With its short cook times, it seems like a good option.
Why not use a butane or propane stove and save the power?
@@texasprepperprojects I have propane also! You cannot use propane in the house! Also, after a major storm, you can have thousands of gallons/ ccf of gas in the ground but you may not be able to get a gallon out without power. Additionally you are going to stand in line with hundreds trying to do the same thing. Once that supply is gone who knows when that will be replaced. I’ve seen videos where people had a 300 gallon tank of propane and a Generac generator use it up in 48 hours. (Something about a tank only allows a percentage used due to pressure requirements)
@@alpensler5844 my point is, that instead of using a battery or generator to make electricity to make heat, just skip the middle step and heat directly. I have a dual fuel butane/propane stove and a propane heater. It's all silent and more efficient!
As a former Floridaian, first, I suggest not stocking up as much on meats and perishables when hurricane season approaches, that will solve most of the loss. They don't exactly sneak up on us like tornadoes, so I'd have coolers for what remains and buy plenty of ice when it's headed your way.
Maybe time to add Texas and Florida to the list of places where you’d expect multiple day outages due to natural disaster
With a chest freezer you don't have to leave it plugged in you can let it charge for three or four hours and leave it unplugged for 8 hours stretch out how much power you're using out of your solar generators. You'll thank me later
Good info, after huricane Maria we spent 45 days without power and interrupted afterwards. Bought an Iceco 45 and with a 12V battery and solar panels we can run it for 24 hrs. Lessons learned after the storm.
I looked into getting a mini fridge a few years ago and realized that a full size fridge used about the same amount of electricity while offering a lot more capacity at 369 vs 329 kwh per year, comparing a $500 18 cubic foot fridge to a 4.4 cubic foot $200 mini fridge. For 4 times the capacity with about the same energy use and no need to move things over to a different fridge while deciding what items to let spoil, the full size fridge made more sense to me. Of course a chest freezer set to a refrigerator temperature would likely use even less power as others mentioned.
I started out using a dewalt inverter that powers my fridge and standalone freezer using dewalt batteries for a few hours since I already had plenty of their flexvolt batteries. I have since gotten an inverter generator that plugs into an inlet on my circuit panel to run most everything on either gas or propane relatively quietly though you could start out using extension cords. I have wireless Acurite thermometers in my fridge and freezer so I can monitor the max/min temp without opening the fridge and it alarms if it gets too warm. This can be helpful if not using the generator 24/7 and I'm wanting to alternate between using batteries, having everything off, and then turning the generator back on as things warm up so I can run the fridge again, recharge batteries, and then go back to battery power.
I installed a $30 Generator Inlet to the outside wall of my Kitchen then ran 1 foot of Wire thru the wall to a 20 amp double outlet inside the kitchen to make a dedicated Generator Outlet (NOT connected to house wiring) so my 2300/1800 watt quiet Inverter Generator can run Fridge, Chest Freezer, Internet, TV & Pellet Stove all at once,... Not a "whole house" set up but all the important stuff will run & this was pretty cheap to do & pretty cheap to run :)
Also might be a little more stealth if stuff gets ugly.
I actually ran a mini fridge for 48 hrs non stop with a 12v 100 ah lifepo4 battery. I assumed after 48 hrs that the battery was low. I put it on the charger and it showed a 60% charge. Impressive to me .
I run one of my standard size refrigerator freezer plus a compact refrigerator off of my Ecoflow Delta pro leaving 30% charge in the morning at which time my solar charges it back to 100%. I use a feature called reserve energy so when it drops below 15% it also charges from AC.
A 100ah 12v battery, conservatively, can power one three days in hot weather. In cooler weather more.
Get a simple plug-in watt meter
@@baneverything5580 I recently purchased one . Thanks
Hi, I came across this video and am glad I did. You provided some great info . I have several 12 volt fridge / freezer cooler combo’s. They pull about 45 watts when the compressor kicks on. I use solar generators to power them for the most part. Then I hook up a lifepo4 battery to the solar generator to extend the run time. Again, great video. Have a good one.
I appreciate it, thanks.
I am looking a purchasing a Lifepo4 and solar panels. 200 watt. What is your experience with it and how long will the batteries last on the Lifepo is not used.
MAYBE 2 CHEST FREEZERS? A THERMOSTAT ON ONE TO USE IT AS A FRIDGE BUT WITH MORE CUBIC SPACE THEN A MINIFRIDGE.
That's what we did in the Yucatan jungle 20years.
If you want to use existing appliances this is an excellent solution. I'm using it as well for a long time. Keep preparing people!
A 12vDC fridge would use even less power, just FYI.
12V DC fridges are expensive, better spent on a bigger battery/panel.
There are cheap ones now, not just the $800 ones.
Peltier fridges/coolers are absolutely worthless!!!-they only get about 20°F below the external ambient temperature. Always get a true compressor based fridge/cooler such as the BougeRV brand.
I bought a 56 Quart Euhomy freezer/fridge cooler. It has the option to charge via wall socket, cigarette lighter, or solar panels. I got it to hold all of my burger in tubes from a 1/4 beef purchase. It works on Eco Mode once everything is frozen and can go for a couple of days, maybe 3. Plus, if you don't need the freezer you can set it as a fridge. Bouge and Bodega have separate compartment/doors in some of their coolers like this. The best thing about this is if you have to get out of town you have food for days and it is multi-use, not just stationary. It is a little more money, but worth the piece of mind for me. One last thing: In the event of a hurricane or fire/smoke, etc. you will most likely be able to charge batteries via solar in a couple of days and if you have a back-up battery you have several days to do that or get out of town.
Great advice I need to step up my emergency power game with solar.
Makes a lot of sense I try to focus on low-tech/old tech but reducing also works great for shorter term
I plan on the cheat freezer and a quality ice chest. Power the chest freezer and rotate ice blocks to the cooler.
Yes, that's exactly what I would do.
Grid down power: a small car battery bank with 2 inverters, a dual fuel generator, 3 solar (generators), 23KW solar panel array with a way to trick it to run during grid down, and an electric car with a 24KW battery and a 12v 150a battery charger. I can (and have already used) the electric car as a battery bank, charging it during the day and using it to power inverters. I also have a high efficiency tall dorm refrigerator for long term grid down. And a chest freezer. And I've started pressure canning food.
Thanks for the tip on mounting the inverter on a board. We have the same setup with the freezer and mini fridge to migrate the more critical foods over to keep at a steady temperature. Great minds think alike. 😂
I didn't really explain that much, but it's obvious why...I think haha
The more room around the freezer so it can cool better and a blanket on top the reduce heat transfer will reduce power usage.
Excellent video. Very fitting to cover some of the basics. Great idea to use our mini fridges and small chest freezer instead of both big fridges/freezers. This video has me really wanting to get into the solar arena. I need to learn more about the components that I’ll need.
Thanks. It looks more complicated than it is at first. It can get pretty complicated though lol.
Get a 300ah LiFeP04 (200 amp version) and 20 amp LiFeP04 charger and 2000w pure sine wave inverter first. Add a 250 amp fuse on the positive battery post.
After the recent outages in Texas, this video came at the right time.
Thanks! It's helped us out multiple times
Good video. We us a goal zero portable power station with a 1000 watt inverter, 100ah seal lead acid battery amd.mppt charge controller inside. We link a 2nd 100ah lead acid battery to it. Our 25 cu ft side by side frig/frzr uses 1.7 kw per day. We currently charge our set up w a 100 watt foldable solar panel. We plan to buy 1-2 more of these solar panel to keep the batteries fully charged while in use. So we agree with what you presented in your video :)
Get a 300ah 12v LiFeP04 battery, 20 or 40 amp LiFeP04 charger, and 2000w inverter. Be sure the battery is the 200 amp version. Later you can rig it up to solar.
In Texas, I survived 7 days without power. This time, I was prepared with some solar and efficient lights and devices. However, I also survived a month without power during Ike several years ago without any power, barely no water and red cross food. For me, this time, was more of a luxury with solar and gas to cook. I do not like gasoline generators.
We did buy a small fridge from Walmart and a separate solar battery to run it. To keep my daughters insulin cold. We also bought food specific for her. We are trying our best and have to rest on that. Learning along the way
What about a table top ice maker? To keep the freezer chest cold? Keep adding ice like a cooler? The small appliance would use less power than keeping the chest freezer running on a generator?
Just bought an Aglucky...
Get a full size inverter refrigerator/freezer.
I tested my garage refrigerator when it was about 80 degrees outside and it used 657 watt hours over a 24 hour period with a max of 200 when the defrost cycle was on.
I also tried it on a timer with 1 hour on / 3 hours off and it dropped to 455 watt hours.
I then ran it off a EcoFlow River Max Plus (720 watt hours) and it ran for 18.5 hours continuous.
Since the EcoFlow can take 200 watts solar or charge from 0-100 in 1.5 hours, I think this about the best option for me.
Run and charge on two 100 watt panels during the day and run off the EcoFlow at night.
I can also run my generator 1-2 hours per day if there is no sun and easily charge up the battery for a pint or two each day.
Your set up is almost exactly what I’ve been thinking of doing….
This is exactly what I do. I bought the Delta 2 when it came out with a 160watt panel and a 2000watt generator. I run a 5cuft freezer and I laid a (free) dorm fridge/freezer on its back and use frozen water jugs in it to cool it. With it on its back, it acts like a chest and retains the cold when I open it. I also have an amazing AC/DC heat/cooler. My freezer is on a timer with 1hr on 2hr off. I have not run out of power once. I've been off grid for 14yrs now.
I strongly recommend buying frozen dry ice (C°2) packs and keep many of these in your deep feezer. ❄These are much colder than water ice. If the electrical power gets shut off, the dry ice packs will keep your feezer cold for more than 4 days.
I also recommend putting a dry ice pack in a good quality mylar bag with meats inside and keep these in the deep freezer also. This keeps the meats frozen for a much longer amount of time !
You can't drink dry ice!!! Use frozen 2-Liter bottles filled with water instead!!! Drink/Re-freeze as needed!!!
Great idea! I would prefer that compared to doing a whole house set up. I prefer portability from a power backup standpoint.
Good practical advise. You could run refrigerator exclusively from battery/inverter if u keep battery charged by having automatic smart charger plugged into your wall, your batteries will get used & recharged every day. I live in hurricane country and have lost power for 10 days after Hurricane Ike. To recharge during power outages I have a 240w solar panel hooked to it's own AGM battery with a 600w inverter, then I run an extension cord to a battery charger to charge my house batteries.
A small ice maker can make about 25 lbs of ice in 5 minutes and could be a lot more efficient and use less power in the long run....contain the ice and recycle the water
I live In Florida and emergency preparedness is a must for us due to hurricanes. Each hurricane season we assess our needs and will add things we need. We have an electric cooler that will run using one of our solar batteries. It worked perfect for me and my husband when we had a power outage for a couple of days during a hurricane. Our next investment will be a mini fridge. I just purchased a cooling fan/ac unit. I have come to realize during a hurricane if we have an outage I would rather have power then running water.
I definitely agree with you since, going through the.Big blackout of 2002 in New York, which I had a portable version that gave the advantage, however, since I know a bit more now, be careful telling people it doesn't matter if you have a true sine wave inverter or not, it does matter, you'd be surprised the components you'll ruin not using one, including refrigeration units, trust me I know!
Ditto on the Pure Sine Wave!!! I even have my networking devices connected to a CyberPower Pure Sine Wave UPS for protection ALL of the time!!!
Thank you for the video.
After Beryl, I went to 7 days without power. My fridge run almost every day, except one that rained all day, but it did not defrosted because it was kept closed most of the time. Next day the sun came out and the Bluetti 3k refilled. I got 1k of solar panels, I also have two smaller units to run lights, and 12V fans and devices. Just in case, I also have a 12v fridge, but I did not needed this time. I keep water and other emergency items just in case. Good advice given!
three 100w panels is a sweet spot for a basic hobbyist solar set-up. Along with that, I have three group 31 deep cell batteries that can power my garage fridge "almost" 24/7. Also have two ecoflow 1100kw solar generators which can be fully charged in less than 2 hours. Finally, i have the same predator 3500 generator as well. Always keep and circulate about 30gallons of gas on hand at all times.
When storm coming, I make extra ice, put water in milk cartons to freeze. Eat the fresh and frozen stuff first.
I nean you could go the route of an old fashioned ice box like you said freeze some types of things and put it down in like a chest or an ice cooler. Cool enough consistently for a while if you have a small freezer running so that you can refreeze those bottles then it will work better and the reason why you wouldn't put your refrigerator with stuff in your freezer it's fairly obvious.
Using a soring..
An d yes my moms family did that and her family were farmers and they used a spring to keep their milk their eggs and butter and things like that preserved and in the winter time they just had like a pie safe that they would put outside because it would be freezing all the time they just put a lot of food outside.
I like how you think!
The Predator...with a panel hook up/interlock switch...will run your fridge, freezer and more for 8 hours on a tank of gas...maybe more. It won't run home ac units, but it will power fans and a window unit. Just need gas.
thank you sir very helfull . we wish you great health .
wow 4 hours! luckily Houston has CenterPoint and they are anything if not quick!
Thanks for the video 😊
Been without power for a week and few times and do the old ways. Been looking into solar so might have to upgrade this hillbilly girl! 👍
Oh, and do the full tour! I’ve forgotten all of the mods you’ve done over the last year!
It's becoming an addiction lol
good info, thanks
I also use Renogy , but have two inverters in a faraday cage just in cast, also have two 200 ah batteries in a faraday cage, and two camping fridges with only one in a faraday cage ✌️
A Faraday cage is my next project.
Easy.
Use a microwave.
Something we do on a boat and we have lighting Flash in the clouds .
A microwave is a Faraday cage .
You do need unplug it from the power outlet.
I have a generator we used for a week after a tornado. Since everyone else in the neighborhood was using generators it wasn't noticeable. Blankets over the freezer also work.
I have a 12v DC camping (I guess that you call them RV) 50lt chest fridge freezer and a couple of ice bricks in my main freezer to give it a kick start. It can be run off my SG or if we have warning, it can be chilled down with a mains power brick (240v AC to 12v DC)
I try to keep my ford lightning charged to 90% most of tge time and normal charging comes from my 13 kw solar system. That gives me about 118,000 watts of power so using my on board 7200W generator I can run pretty much everything in my home including my deep well pump. My average daily kwh useage is about 11-12 kwh/day so that's approximately 10 days of which I'm sure to get enough solar energy to replenish my trucks energy.
A 300ah 12v LiFeP04 battery and 1000w inverter can run a dorm fridge for two weeks.
Another option is to take the veggies that you can such as green onions and celery in jars of water so they stay fresh without refrigeration because they are growing and reproducing
I just found your channel and loved this vid. I have a Bluetti AC 180 power gen, a Bluetti EB3 gen, a 100w Renogy suitcase solar panel, and a 200w Renogy 200 foldable solar panel that we use when camping. Do we have what we need to operate a small frig and freezer? What am I missing? Thx.
This is too confusing. Glad I do not live where the grid goes out a lot. I have coolers. Would throw ice into it and place essential refrig items like dairy in it and eat it before the ice melts. Also lots of shelf stable foods.
BTW, I live in tornado alley so outages are frequent here.
I do also. We was without electricity for about 24 hours. And All we was getting is major winds. In fact when it went off. It wasn't even raining. So one thing I would suggest if you rent a house and the limbs are getting close to the power lines. Let the person you're renting from know so they can let the power company be aware . Then they can take maybe a hour to trim up the trees good. The only reason I am suggesting letting them know so they can't turn around and say I didn't want that done your out of here. It was limbs the knocked out our electric. Then it toke a long time for them to rebuild it all.
I’m actually putting a whole house off grid system and getting a transfer switch connected to my breaker panel so I don’t have to run wires through the house
Good job. It's so much nicer not having to run extension cords. I started out getting a $600 120 volt 4k Firman generator at Costco that could run my internet, LED lights, fridge, standalone freezer, and a window AC via a 30 amp inlet to my main panel. Last year it ran for 28 hours straight on propane without issue before the power came back on. Then I got a 10kw Genmax trifuel inverter generator that let me power everything including my 3 ton heat pump with a soft start and now the Firman is a backup.
@@NurseAcrobat Nice. I also have a small portable power station as a back up... I don't know if I want to get a gasoline power back up... since I'm in California... gas is so expensive and shelf life is not that long... sure I can get fuel stabilizer.
@@4g63attack I wish natural gas was available at my address. I end up mostly using propane since it never goes bad, but it is about the same price as automotive gas. Since my house is all electric I don't have a big propane tank so far, just a couple portable 100lb tanks on wheels and two 20lb bbq tanks. If my house were more amenable to solar I'd be looking into solar and battery backup.
Great video! I have a mini fridge, I think I’ll use that instead, should a prolonged outage occur.
The car refrigerators use very little power and wrap it in a blanket or insulation to last longer when u turn it off
A few years ago I got what I think you call a camping fridge,it can be used as a fridge or freezer it's 52 liters got it on eBay for $300 which was $100 cheaper than Amazon and it can run on ac or dc
It probably takes almost nothing to run correct?
Was around 450 watt for 24 hours I've been using it as a overflow freezer or keep drinks cold
@jamespruett2849 nice
Note that the fridge uses "watt hours" per day (as your meter shows), not "watts" per day.
Be careful with gas generator. People were stealing them at night. The last storm i was in. The noise will attract thevies
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Welcome!
i have a 3 way power 12 vdc, 110 ac and gas and it from a RV do you smell what is brewing,
Natural. Gas. Refrigerator. They also run on propane.
I've never heard of a natural gas refrigerator, but it would be perfect for our house!
@@wolfbell23 they're great; no regrets
An Ecoflow Glacier or an equivalent can do the job.
kWh is kilowatt hour NOT Watts Per Day. Use the same for battery energy capacity.
Weird dig you take at California about blackouts - I've been through one blackout in the 25 years I've been here. Texas would be more appropriate seeing as they've had several during that same time period. Just sayin.
I love that you show options that don’t require solar. I live on the third floor in a tiny apartment with no outdoor space. I’ve been trying to figure out what I’d do if the power was out for a week. I can’t have a gas generator and solar isn’t an option but I’d love it if you could do this video and dumb it down a bit. I don’t know what an inverter is and the watts and usage is confusing to understand. Ac vs dc? And it looks like you’re using cables on the car with some type of an outlet plug thing? I was never taught any of this and I’m trying to watch videos and learn but a lot of this language is foreign to me making me more confused. I need a power outage for dummies who live in an apartment please!
Thanks, and yeah, it can get confusing. Have a look at this video I did in the past. ruclips.net/video/HmqH6TGUpwQ/видео.htmlsi=3qc7C-Xmw-MBVymS
@@TheBugOutLocation thank you I'll watch this today!
IF we could all stuff just a Mini fridge with everything in our main fridge , what's the point of having a bigger fridge? Seems like you'd have to decide what food you want to store in the mini fridge and toss out everything in the big fridge left over. or have a cookout.
Any specific recommendations on chest freezers other than chicoms anyone has had for years? Obviously, I'm looking for known reliable freezers? 12 volt or 120 volt for those with solar capabilities? I've bought small 'bar' fridges in the past and after 1-2 yrs, they quit working.
Natural gas freezer. No moving parts, so very reliable in a fixed installation
If your fridge takes 3k or 4k watts per day, time to buy a new efficient fridge, mine is 28 cubic feet and only takes 1300 watts per day
“Unless your in California” damn I’m screwed lmfao 😂
You're not alone. The people of Texas have the same deadly problem.
Your setup controller only shows 11.86 , which is way too low for lithium. They need about 14.6 volts to be 100 percent.
Call bs. They make dc fridges. More efficient
Much more expensive and/or smaller
My freezer, coffee maker, and toaster all run on a small home solar setup.
Just 500 watts solar epever charge controller 2 lifepo4 320amp batteries.
Small cheap and powerful.
I even have room to connect more loads if needed.
But I'm still upgrading the system.
Need 2 more batteries and 1500 watts more solar.
Then all will be good for 15 years at least.
Thanks for your video
Nice!
Where do you get the solar panels?
It's actually 3 different kinds. One is a Renogy but there are cheaper ones that work just as well. Like the JJN I just bought that looks identical. amzn.to/45v7sd3
Water is first.
square root of negative 2,
Good video im a new channel i do survival and camping in the wild but will soon focus on survival stuff at home
I think that Stars and Stripes flag behind you would be a real life saver in the event to of a Red Dawn invasion, so that your home would be identified as a "Friendly" to any of our boys responding to the threat of invasions. Instead of a fully packed freezer, I think I would want one half full so that I can refrigerate the game that I harvest during a Red Dawn event. Maybe even have a separate empty new fridge on the side to be able to handle a bunch of meat that I would bring in. Stores are going to run out of food in just a matter of days or less the minute the news of a threat hits the airwaves. More important, would be a water purification system. Maybe use some of that electric power to run a powered water purification system with circulation pumps, filters, and UV lamps in the water tank to help kill any pathogens that get past the bio-filters. Having your own well water on your property would be a great plus along with a "Victory" garden to keep you supplied with fruits and veggies. Rabbits and hens come in handy too. Rabbits multiply like crazy, so there's your meat source, and hens provide eggs as well as meat if you include a rooster. It's really quite simple, and it can be done in urban settings as well. Ya just need to think it through and prepare.
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@3:30, we may not have to worry about power outage after purchasing generator, but FFFEEEMMMAA taking our stuff in case "emergency" occurs. Thanks for sharing.
It took Fema 2 weeks to get to Katrina and a month to deliver water there. Fema is not coming to take your stuff. They wont even be operating when SHTF.
Is this Canadian Prepper?
If it was he wouldn't be telling you he bought things at HD, he'd be selling it.
@@thistlemoon1sounds so much like him😂
Natural. Gas. Refrigerator. They also run on propane.