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Reply to: What are some good preps that don’t require you to buy something? Posted December 14, 2020

A great free prep is planning. Get your family together and make a fire plan. Make a map of the house. Show fire extinguishers, exits, and meeting place. Also a tornado plan, flood plan, hurricane etc… Call down lists are also good to have. A good family call down list is great in an emergency. Here is how they work. At the top are family leaders, Grandparents, parents or whoever. But someone has to be the very top. They have a list of everyone in the entire chart. The leader is responsible for calling the next group down. So say Grandparents call all their kids. Then Those kids call all their kids and so on down the list. When it gets to the bottom of the list everyone (except the lowest level) calls back up the list and gives a report on who they talked to and who they didnt. When it gets back to the top you should have everyone in your family either accounted for or you know exactly who to start searching for. This doesnt have to be just a family either. It could be a whole neighborhood or community. Just as long as its a hierarchy that everyone knows and respects. And doing a Call Down Drill like a fire drill every once in a while is good practice and doesnt cost anything either.

Reply to: I’m building a physical prepper business where people can ship us things to store Posted December 14, 2020

Thanks for the feedback Bob, I had the link in wrong, it was trying to link to a page on this site. I fixed it. But you will see that our website is new and kind of rudimentary for now. We have the land necessary for what we have planned. On it is two decent size ponds stocked with catfish. Our main business is a Catfish Paylake. We are very rural. Our local fire department is all volunteer. We know most of them on a first name basis. This is a small community. So I can definitely have a conversation with them.  We actually have better accommodation for large animals like horses, cows, goats. All of which we raise ourselves. As far as pets like dogs, cats, and birds. We are open to suggestions. Im not sure if we need a separate kennel type setup or should expect people to be able to house their pets with them in the cabin they have. We have several members in our family that have Federal Emergency Management experience. Around 40 years total. And have had personal relationships with State EMA personnel in the past. We were thinking of putting an “About Us” section on the website. But some of us were concerned with privacy issues when putting our credentials out there. As of now we wont be doing that, but may in the future. And we are going to set down with some different insurance companies and try to work out a deal we can offer. And get an idea of their most common claims and problems. Thank You so much for your input Bob. I know we have a lot of work ahead of us to get this thing running the way we want to. We don’t want to cut corners and we are exited to see this take off.

Reply to: I’m building a physical prepper business where people can ship us things to store Posted December 14, 2020

You are right to be concerned about having all your preps shipped to you during SHTF situation. We believe, like most, that 2 is 1 and 1 is none. We would recommend anything you ship to us either be secondary preps or supplemental. If you follow the P.A.C.E. concept (Primary, Alternate, Contingent, Emergency) we think we should fall into the Alternate or Contingent category. I would never place my primary preps in the hands of anyone else. As for security if things get rough, we have in place a group of people on site, along with heavy construction equipment, and a plans for a rapid construction of barricades, choke points, check points, look outs, and other goodies. And no we wont be bidding on lots lol. In fact during a SHTF situation any rental expirations will be temporarily suspended. So if you have a year rental for 100 Sq Ft of space. And your rental is going to expire in a week. But suddenly you get hit by, or have bearing down on you, a hurricane, you let us know, we verify your emergency, and until you are in the clear your space is still reserved to you. Even if you don’t intend on renewing your space. We wont cancel it, or charge for the extra time. And we realize that in a really bad SHTF situation it may be months or even years that we hold onto your space and stuff in it. At no cost to you. Also, realize that if shipping companies stop, we wont be putting your stuff in our trucks and taking it to you, so you may have to come and get it yourself. But if you can fight your way here, it’ll be here for you. And if you have paid for a cabin, you will have a place to stay when you get here. With that said one of things I wanted to have a discussion on is vetting our customers. What level of application do you all think we should have? I mean we wouldn’t want to have an entire community of 90 year old stock brokers right. So how much should be skill based, family unit based, location based, contribution based? We’ve spent some time thinking about this. Right now we need capital but we don’t want it so bad that we put our community now or in the future in jeopardy by just accepting anyone with a checkbook.

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Reply to: What are some good preps that don’t require you to buy something? Posted December 14, 2020

A great free prep is planning. Get your family together and make a fire plan. Make a map of the house. Show fire extinguishers, exits, and meeting place. Also a tornado plan, flood plan, hurricane etc… Call down lists are also good to have. A good family call down list is great in an emergency. Here is how they work. At the top are family leaders, Grandparents, parents or whoever. But someone has to be the very top. They have a list of everyone in the entire chart. The leader is responsible for calling the next group down. So say Grandparents call all their kids. Then Those kids call all their kids and so on down the list. When it gets to the bottom of the list everyone (except the lowest level) calls back up the list and gives a report on who they talked to and who they didnt. When it gets back to the top you should have everyone in your family either accounted for or you know exactly who to start searching for. This doesnt have to be just a family either. It could be a whole neighborhood or community. Just as long as its a hierarchy that everyone knows and respects. And doing a Call Down Drill like a fire drill every once in a while is good practice and doesnt cost anything either.

Reply to: I’m building a physical prepper business where people can ship us things to store Posted December 14, 2020

Thanks for the feedback Bob, I had the link in wrong, it was trying to link to a page on this site. I fixed it. But you will see that our website is new and kind of rudimentary for now. We have the land necessary for what we have planned. On it is two decent size ponds stocked with catfish. Our main business is a Catfish Paylake. We are very rural. Our local fire department is all volunteer. We know most of them on a first name basis. This is a small community. So I can definitely have a conversation with them.  We actually have better accommodation for large animals like horses, cows, goats. All of which we raise ourselves. As far as pets like dogs, cats, and birds. We are open to suggestions. Im not sure if we need a separate kennel type setup or should expect people to be able to house their pets with them in the cabin they have. We have several members in our family that have Federal Emergency Management experience. Around 40 years total. And have had personal relationships with State EMA personnel in the past. We were thinking of putting an “About Us” section on the website. But some of us were concerned with privacy issues when putting our credentials out there. As of now we wont be doing that, but may in the future. And we are going to set down with some different insurance companies and try to work out a deal we can offer. And get an idea of their most common claims and problems. Thank You so much for your input Bob. I know we have a lot of work ahead of us to get this thing running the way we want to. We don’t want to cut corners and we are exited to see this take off.

Reply to: I’m building a physical prepper business where people can ship us things to store Posted December 14, 2020

You are right to be concerned about having all your preps shipped to you during SHTF situation. We believe, like most, that 2 is 1 and 1 is none. We would recommend anything you ship to us either be secondary preps or supplemental. If you follow the P.A.C.E. concept (Primary, Alternate, Contingent, Emergency) we think we should fall into the Alternate or Contingent category. I would never place my primary preps in the hands of anyone else. As for security if things get rough, we have in place a group of people on site, along with heavy construction equipment, and a plans for a rapid construction of barricades, choke points, check points, look outs, and other goodies. And no we wont be bidding on lots lol. In fact during a SHTF situation any rental expirations will be temporarily suspended. So if you have a year rental for 100 Sq Ft of space. And your rental is going to expire in a week. But suddenly you get hit by, or have bearing down on you, a hurricane, you let us know, we verify your emergency, and until you are in the clear your space is still reserved to you. Even if you don’t intend on renewing your space. We wont cancel it, or charge for the extra time. And we realize that in a really bad SHTF situation it may be months or even years that we hold onto your space and stuff in it. At no cost to you. Also, realize that if shipping companies stop, we wont be putting your stuff in our trucks and taking it to you, so you may have to come and get it yourself. But if you can fight your way here, it’ll be here for you. And if you have paid for a cabin, you will have a place to stay when you get here. With that said one of things I wanted to have a discussion on is vetting our customers. What level of application do you all think we should have? I mean we wouldn’t want to have an entire community of 90 year old stock brokers right. So how much should be skill based, family unit based, location based, contribution based? We’ve spent some time thinking about this. Right now we need capital but we don’t want it so bad that we put our community now or in the future in jeopardy by just accepting anyone with a checkbook.

Reply to: I’m building a physical prepper business where people can ship us things to store Posted December 14, 2020