Prepping in the Burbs

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Prepping in the suburbs.

Can you survive in the burbs?

That's what we're going to talk about today.

Welcome to the podcast.

I am your host.

First and foremost, I am a Christian.

Interosexual, happily married pro-Western Christian values.

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Now, first off, this is not an endorsement that you should live in the suburbs.

I don't think it's a good trade-off.

I want to live in the suburbs because there's a really good coffee shop down the street

or whatever.

You're not in the center of solemn.

You're right on the outskirts.

I'm a little bit better off here.

I'm not saying you should live in the suburbs, but I'm saying as many of you do live

in the suburbs, and I've told you, get out, get out, get out.

I've done many episodes on strategic relocation, and many of you just aren't going to do that.

Or whatever reason, valid or invalid, you're just not going to do it.

Here we are.

You're in the burbs.

What do you do?

The basic tenets of survival are kind of the same.

It doesn't matter really where you are in the macro.

Your needs are pretty much same, clean air, clean water.

You need food.

You need security.

You need to maintain your core body temperature so that you don't die.

All those things are pretty much the same, right?

This is not going to be drastically different, but this is going to be some unique considerations

for if you live in the suburbs.

Not all suburbs are created equal, right?

The suburbs in Dearborn, Michigan are probably way, way worse than the suburbs of Missoula,

Montana.

Again, this is a macro thing.

On that being unique, one of the first things I'm going to tell you to do if you live in

the suburbs, do an area study.

I'm not going to get into exactly how to do an area study here, but do an area study.

Things like demographics.

What kind of people live in your area?

And I'm not talking like John Doe next door is a candlestick maker, Jane Doe's a baker.

I'm talking about demographics.

If you don't know what that is, I don't want to mansplain to you.

What groups of people live in your area?

And I don't just mean your immediate suburb, like your cul de sac, or the cul de sac that

is the plural, cul de sac in your community.

I mean like your metro area that you're in a suburb of, that you're in a bedroom community

of this metro area, what are the demographics in there?

Do an area study?

So are there any unique things in your area that you need to be aware of?

Nuclear power plants, military bases, railroad depots, things like this, right?

An area study, ingress and egress, or do you live in Florida, which is, in my opinion,

one of the worst states to live in for preparedness, but if you live in Florida, do you live anywhere

along that north-south corridor where pretty much everybody has to go through to get out

of Florida?

That's a thing you might want to have on your area study.

But do an area study, also in this you should do egress routes, just means how do you get

out and not just the way you always go to work and not the way you always go to your favorite

Costco or whatever.

I'm talking about very strategic routes, primary contingency, several different routes to get

from where you are in the burbs to out away from where you are.

Also how do you get from where you probably work?

Because if you live in the suburbs, you probably work in the city, how do you get from the city

to your suburbs to your house?

And again, not just one route, not just the way you always go because it's fastest, but

how do you go if you can't get home that way?

How do you go quickly if you don't have a vehicle because your vehicle is stuck in good

luck traffic and you just have to walk home?

So several different routes, you should start doing this.

The good news is that you probably have the internet if you're listening to this and

this probably won't cost you any money to do a good area study.

You can look up how to do an area study, find out things that are germane to you in your

location, but you should do an area study in the suburbs.

The next thing I'm going to say is you should have a way to get out of the suburbs.

If you do not, and this is not about routes, this is about supply chain logistics, like

maybe you have a small trailer, maybe you don't, maybe you have prepositioned in your

garage because a lot of people live in the suburbs have like a one or two car garage.

If you have several containers, whether that, you know, is buckets or rubber made totes

or whatever, already packed with your supplies that you're going to need when you leave.

Because when you leave, you may have to leave in a hurry.

Now a lot of times when things are crazy in the city in normal times, they have protests,

they have antifa, things like that, do you normally stay in the city centers because that's

where they get attention.

But if things get really hairy, they'll very likely go out into your area.

And if you think, oh, not me, I live in a nice area.

Where do you think people will go when they run out of stuff in their crappy area?

You know, if they have an IQ above 75, they're probably going to go, oh, I'm going to go

where the rich people live because they have more nicer and better stuff.

They're going to go where you are.

You might not consider yourself rich, but somebody that's generationally on welfare probably

does.

So you need to be able to get out of there quickly.

So have your stuff, whatever your stuff is, pre-staged and prepositioned in totes.

You're not running through your house trying to find whatever it is, X, Y, or Z, right?

Times of the essence.

And even if you live in the suburbs, traffic can be a big deal if it's better to bug

out a month early than a minute too late because the second you get stuck in gridlock

traffic and there's a bad accident.

And then they're just walking up on cars and burning them, looting them, whatever.

That car is useless to you.

So you need to get out quicker if you can.

Then you need to have your bags ready and have those also ready so that you have to leave

your car and all the stuff in your car and it burns to the ground.

You know, they model to have cocktailed your house and it's gone.

You got to supplies in your vehicle and now they destroyed your vehicle or mobbed your

vehicle.

You had to leave it.

You have your bag and what's in it.

Your plan should involve going down to a man portable system.

So having your bag ready to go and somewhere, if you do have to leave wherever your SOP

is, it's, you know, hanging off the back of your chair, your seat in your car or your

passenger, your wife, whatever has both bags on her lap, even if it's very uncomfortable

so that she can grab both of those if you have to bail out and hand the one to you, whatever

it is, right?

You're able to leave in a hurry.

Okay, let's talk about some other special considerations for the suburbs.

I don't know what you're dwelling.

You may have a very large house.

You may have plenty of space to store stuff.

You may not.

You may live in a condo or an apartment.

In which case, you may want to store more calorie dense food, you know, as a prepper

survivalist, you should store food and again, this is nothing you need to the suburbs.

So what may be unique is if you have to leave in a hurry, what you can fit in your vehicle

because the suburbs almost certainly should not be your bug out location.

You're going to have a lump to how much you can carry, even if you have a vehicle.

So calorie dense foods, this, one of my favorites ones for these when I lived as a nomad,

Coast Guard survival rations, they are very calorie dense, they're fortified with vitamins

and things like that so you can stay alive on them.

Again, very calorie dense, they're convenient, they're easy to count as far as how many calories,

how many days on starvation rations, on regular rations.

So survival, Coast Guard rations, those are really good calorie dense option.

Also, not as tactical but very practical peanut butter.

And you can probably afford peanut butter every time you go to the store,

whatever you go grocery shopping, buy an apple, an extra couple of jars of peanut butter.

Peanut butter is very calorie dense, it has protein, it has fat,

all the things are growing, survivalist needs.

And it's very calorie dense, it can be very affordable.

If you see it on sale, grab a couple of extra jars,

and instead of storing it like a pantry store it in bags that you can grab and go

or containers you can grab and go.

Something like a seabag, if you don't know what that is, it's like what sailors use when they go

to see, well, marine juzum, army juzum, it's a big giant like a big giant canvas bag that often has

straps like a backpack, they can be very heavy, but something like a seabag full of peanut butter,

that's a lot of calories, not something you can just grab and go.

And if they're going cold to sack to cold to sack and just fire bombing houses with

Molotov cocktails and shooting people as they run out and then rating what's left,

you might have to leave in a hurry, so you having a seabag full of peanut butter is better than

all the food in your pantry that you don't have time to grab.

You run out with like a couple of cliff bars in your pocket because that's all you could grab,

having a bag full of calorie dense food, having several bags that you can grab and throw

in your vehicle in a hurry.

But calorie dense foods, also calorie or nutrition dense, things like vitamins,

extra stocking up extra vitamins.

If you live in the suburb, you're almost certainly on city water, which means in general,

in good times, you're drinking recycled wastewater, you're drinking poop water, that's what

people think of you when you live in the suburb.

It's like that's what the people that are in charge of you think of you, you can drink

recycled poop water.

Most suburbs, most city grid water, you're drinking recycled feces.

That's in good times.

What do you think the water's going to be like in bad times?

If you have any kind of advanced warning, things like containers that they make,

that you can put in your bathtub to fill your bathtub up full of recycled poop water,

but that won't kill you.

It might have fluoride in it and chlorine in it and all kinds of horrible things,

but you're drinking it anyway.

It's a lot better than getting a giardia or a coli and dying in a pile in the corner.

So if you have advanced warning, something like those containers that you can put in your

bathtub and fill it with 30, 40 gallons of water, that can last a long time.

Any other kind of big container that you can store because even if the grid shuts down in general

and most municipalities I'm aware of, the water, they don't keep the pressurized water pumps

running all the time.

They pump water up into a water tank, that's why you see water tanks in different municipalities.

They pump the water up there and then the gravity keeps the pressure.

So even if the grid goes down, you will have water for a little bit until that tank runs up.

And once that tank runs out, they probably can't pump more water back up in there.

So whatever you get quickly is all you're going to have.

And in a, again, if you live in the suburbs, you probably live on a sewage system,

like a city run sewage system.

And that's not going to work post event probably.

And all the people that normally can go to the bathroom in their toilets,

they can't go to the bathroom anymore.

So they're going to go to bathroom where, anywhere they can, that's probably not in their house.

Which means any surface water is probably going to be contaminated pretty quickly.

So you got to have a way to get clean water.

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And no, not boiling water.

That's a horrible idea.

It will work for most things,

but you live in the suburbs.

Where are you going to get enough fuel to boil water?

I don't know if you've ever lived out in the bush and had to collect fire to boil water,

but collecting enough wood and fuel to boil, say, a gallon of water is a pretty big operation.

Even living out in the bush in the forest where there's plenty of wood,

it's still a lot of calories a lot of time.

You might not have time to be doing that.

Also, the fire department is probably not going to be operating.

So if the grid is down, you probably don't want to be starting fires where you live in the suburbs.

And people probably will do that and a lot of sections will probably burn down.

So you probably don't want to rely on boiling water.

I'm talking about a good alternate system.

And again, I don't know where you live or what area.

Maybe you live somewhere.

There's so much water and so much clean water.

It's not going to be an issue,

but in most places and most suburbs, it absolutely will be an issue.

Because people are going to be going to the bathroom everywhere.

And historically, dirty,

diseased, nasty, bacteria,

infested water is a major killer of people, even more so than bullets.

So clean water, you need to have a plant.

That's part of that area study.

But you need to have a plant and get as much clean water as you can.

Why you can if you have any advanced warning.

But dirty water absolutely can kill you.

And it can be a pretty miserable way to go.

So don't overlook the water.

This probably isn't going to be useful to most of you.

But next time you move, if you're moving to suburbs or in a slightly urban area,

if you're living on like a condo or even if you're going to stay in a hotel in the city.

Or you're looking at apartments.

No matter how many floors it is,

generally you want to pick one out on the second or the third floor.

Why is this?

Well, because in general, first floors are the most likely to get broken into.

People just walking around are more likely to break in on the first floor.

It's just easier to get in and out of.

They can run in any direction, right?

And second, when you start getting up in floors,

they have to go one or two ways, which means there's cameras,

which means it's hard to get in and out.

So you're less likely to get broken into assaulted,

used without your permission to be polite.

If you're on second or third floors, and probably no higher than that,

because you can likely jump out of second or third floors and live.

So anything from somebody breaking in the front door to a fire,

you can likely escape out of a second or third floor and live,

whereas higher floors you may not.

So condos, again, things like that, high-rise buildings.

If you're looking for a place to live, you know, a dwelling,

look on second and third floors.

That's probably your best bet for survival in general.

Now look, this next part, I am a gun guy.

I host Gumfighter Life because I've made

my way in this world by God's grace to the Bible in a firearm.

I've military law enforcement, private security contracting.

That's my primary brand-winning job to feed the family.

I'm a private security contractor.

I've kicked down more doors than I can remember.

I'm a gun, dude.

But that's not going to save you in a lot of these situations.

I'm just being honest.

That's why I probably say don't live in the suburbs.

I don't care how much your wife likes her yoga class.

Yoga is pagan.

Be a man and lead your wife.

Probably get out of the suburbs.

But anyway, again, this is if you're not going to leave.

So firearms are going to solve every problem.

If they're going

house to house in the suburbs and burning houses to the ground,

you're not shooting your way out of that.

They're just going to hide behind your neighbor's house

and throw them all to have cocktail tied to a string on your roof.

And then what are you going to do?

You're going to shoot the fire out.

I like guns.

I'm a gun guy.

The guns don't solve every problem.

That said, you should probably have a way to defend yourself.

But don't think I live in the suburbs.

And I've got an AR-15 and I'm in a plate carrier.

I'm good to go.

I was an urban warfare instructor for the United States Marine Corps.

I'm an advanced weapons instructor for the feds.

Urban warfare, house to house room to room fighting,

is a nasty proposition with trained marine,

some of the best door kickers on the planet with groups of highly trained

coordinated choreographed guys that know what they're doing

have things like M67 fragmentation grenades.

And air support.

It's a dicey proposition then.

If you think you're going to hunker down in the subdivision and be okay because you have an AR,

I think you may have delusions of grandeur.

So that said, you should have some guns.

I'm not saying not to have guns.

I'm not.

I'm just saying that don't think I've got an AR-15.

Ergo, everything is okay.

That being said, you probably should have an AR-15.

It's the rifle de jour.

It's the fighting rifle of Orkheim.

It's been America's fighting rifle for 70 years.

I know they're supposed to replace it with the M7,

but that's pretty slow going.

They're very good value right now.

We're kind of in the golden days of AR-15s and 556-223 ammo.

It's affordable.

It's available.

I don't know if it will be when you listen to this,

but it is at the time it's recorded.

Before the suburbs for most people, right?

This is probably going to be one of your go-to firearms.

You should also probably have a handgun.

And you should carry it, right?

It's part of your SOPs.

Like you should just you walk out of house.

You have handgun on you.

Like that's just normal day-to-day stuff.

Forget about if things get bad and you're

having to actually use your preps.

But having a

fighting intermediate caliber carbine or rifle,

probably a carbine if you live in the suburbs with a red dog or an L-P-V-O pick one.

A decent supply of ammo.

A good fighting handgun.

A shotgun is a good normal times and bad times for

to have in my opinion is the most flexible all around

small arm a man can have.

Take anything from a morning dove or if you're in the suburbs more likely pigeon

to being great for home defense and kicking down doors if you have to.

The you know a good pump shotgun is a good good tool for that.

The shotgun is super flexible.

So being one of the most flexible small arms and one of the most affordable

you may look at a 12 gauge.

Now you can largely take hunting off the table in the suburbs.

You may find something that you can you can hunt with a 12 gauge and it's very versatile.

Some other things you may want to consider.

Something like believe in just day-to-day you should have lock picks not for any nefarious reason

right for opening doors for whatever reason.

Your building is on fire and you run out the back and there's a gate and you're going to

burn to death but you can just you know get through the gate if you have lock picks.

Lock picking locks is super simple.

Yeah a breaching shotgun is cool sometimes but sometimes it's just easier and faster

and tactically more sound to pick a lock.

Picking a lock is a good skill to have especially if you live in the suburbs.

Maybe you're going to bug out and you you know are going to the closet with all your bug out

supplies and you can't find the key right lock picks that's a good one.

Also a fireman's axe and or a hooligan tool these are very good.

This means that to you if you live in the suburbs that walls are doors rather or a suggestion

you can make your own door out of most walls.

Most residential walls made out of a drywall or kind of a joke with any one of those

tools you should be able to get through them pretty easily and that may come in pretty handy.

So something you may not think about but something like a fireman's axe,

a fire blanket if you do have to deal with fires.

Fire extinguisher something you just have anyway so you know obviously you should have a

fire extinguisher maybe a fire blanket they can come in pretty handy.

Maybe one of the less least tactical things but maybe most practical if you live in the suburbs

a bicycle and a bicycle for every member of your family even if you don't generally like

if you have to get out and everything's gridlock traffic and vehicles are not an option

a bicycle is a lot better proposition for most people than walking or hiking.

If you're in very bad shape or very good shape you can cover a lot more miles on a bicycle

well in most suburbs at least getting out into the country getting out of the suburbs

you can cover a lot more miles a lot more quickly on a bicycle than you can on foot

and they're not loud which is a major thing.

You're like yeah I'm gonna get a motorcycle well then you're a target to everybody if that's

one of the few vehicles operating they're pretty loud anyway a bicycle you wait until

three in the morning when it's dark and you just ride out of town so maybe less

tactical but a bicycle maybe a folding bicycle again if you commute into work having one in your

trunk or in the back of your truck or whatever there's something I've had in the past when I had

to take contracts in big metropolitan areas a bicycle a folding bicycle

because it'll let me get home a lot quicker so although less tactical probably one of the most

practical things look on whatever offer up you know Facebook marketplace get a used bike for

think the last one I bought when I lived in a city was like 35 bucks right if you don't want to

drive it back and forth in your trunk wherever just leave one at your work with a bike lock on it

and you know what are the you could probably find a user in 30 40 50 bucks change it out every

two years to make sure it still works if you can chain it up somewhere near where you work

but let's say the average commute is 20 miles how long is it gonna take you to bike 20

miles versus walk 20 miles so just a thought there on that maybe not super tactical but very

practical thing antibiotics I know it may seem less crowded for you in the suburbs and in the city

but suburbs have a lot of people per square mile disease and bacteria is gonna be a major thing

think about storing antibiotics common antibiotics penicillin amoxicillin doxycycline is a really good

multi use antibiotic for your fish right if your fish get the sniffles if your fish get some kind

of bacterial infection your fish may need antibiotics and they may come in the same exact doses

and made in the same place as antibiotics you get from a doctor so if your fish gets sick in

the apocalypse you may want some good antibiotics so you may want to look up for your fish how to

get those antibiotics you may want to look up common ailments that happen in these kind of scenarios

and write the dosages down on the bottle for your fish maybe not maybe not as cool as an AR

with a plate carrier but maybe more likely to save your life and I submit if you're dying from

a bacterial infection you would trade every gun and round of ammo that you have because they're

not gonna do any good when you're dead from gangrene or whatever other nasty bacterial infections

you can get you should have those if you're prepping any way but especially in the suburb

during any kind of urban suburban area because there's a lot of people and a lot of people a lot of

dead things a lot of human waste a lot of rotten things equals a lot of nasty stuff so antibiotics a

lot of people died from what would today be pretty trivially trivial infections before antibiotics

so again you want to make sure your fish make it through so you may want to look up those antibiotics

all right so those are my thoughts on prepping in the suburbs

your tactical verse of the day I think pretty fitting

revelation 18 then I heard another voice from heaven say come out of her my people

so that you will not share in her sins so that you will not receive of her plagues

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