@packphourIf you're going to post a story, give us a direct link. Leaving it up to a commenter on your story is bad juju, and even if it's a good story (which I think this is) you lose my digg.Anyway, I think they should have little summary cards of this stuff in all stores that sell camping/travelling gear.. Take one and mark it off as you wander around the shop..Jimzip :Dedit: Ya beat me to it viva!
Matches/lighter : Less to go wrong with matches, but your right, may as well take both.AS for the salty food, if you dont have any water, youre probably not gonna eat. If you do have water, the salt in the food will help keep your electrolytes balanced, especially if youre sweating a lot.
I wouldn't use the sterno unless you're going to buy the stand. A better solution is to make a supercat stove. Take a small can of cat food, open the top, empty contents, punch holes with a holepunch or whatever around the side down to about halfway down the can. 20 holes or so. Add alcohol (70% or more, denatured or methanol is best, isopropyl works, but it makes your pots black from soot). Light and let burn for about 20 seconds, then you can put your pot/cup/whatever directly on top of this stove to heat up your water. The stove is smaller than a can of sterno, and you can buy the fuel for about 1$ per 16 ounce bottle at most grocery stores. Here's a good website:<a class="user" href="http://zenstoves.net/LowPressure.htm">http://zenstoves.net/LowPressure.htm</a>I carry an alcohol stove inside of a metal 16ounces cup in my glovebox, I then store a bunch of denatured alcohol bottles throughout my car. You should be able to boil 16 ounces of water with 1 ounce of alcohol, so a 16 ounce bottle should boil 2 gallons. That's alot of meals. I can't really recommend the food items that this guy is listing, if you're going to be boiling water to make your food, you might as well just carry a 50lb bag of rice or beans in your car. The upside of boiling water is that it also sterilizes it. You usually can't buy the iodine water purifiers for less than 5$, they're usually 6$ and above. You don't want to use iodine for a long time either, you can use chlorine tablets instead, which are fine. Screw MRE's for packing in your car, in many parts of the US, they will go 'bad' (or as bad as MRE's can really get) in about 3 months in the trunk of a hot car. You can buy survival bars which are 3600 calorie bars that are good for 5-10 years or so and they don't much care about being heated or anything. This is what the coast guard recommends for food. They're basically lard and flour.. mmmm, good. Stormproof matches are awesome (REI), cotton balls with petroleum jelly in them are great firestarters.
I'm all about people being more prepared.Obviously it wouldn't be a cheapie kit anymore.... but to round out the basics like dehydrated food, water tablets, etc... you really need an inexpensive "trunk gun" a $150-200 small bore rifle or shotgun would do nicely. I'd lean towards the shotgun. With a variety of ammo tucked away you'd have an all purpose bird gun, deer rifle, and riot dispurser all in one!
Things to add:Paperclip. (Otherwise known as the MacGyver Multitool.)Toothpick. (In the event of minature Vampies.)Identification. (In case you get amnesia.)Lighter. (I know how important it can be to have fire.)
ricksiteMar 18, 2007
All you need is the OLPC laptop. Then you then could join a mesh network of other stranded people and start a society.
ha3rveyMar 18, 2007
Oh yeah, and one of these, too:<a class="user" href="http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001619.php">http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001619.php</a>
jimzipMar 18, 2007
@packphourIf you're going to post a story, give us a direct link. Leaving it up to a commenter on your story is bad juju, and even if it's a good story (which I think this is) you lose my digg.Anyway, I think they should have little summary cards of this stuff in all stores that sell camping/travelling gear.. Take one and mark it off as you wander around the shop..Jimzip :Dedit: Ya beat me to it viva!
unknownpoltroonMar 18, 2007
Matches/lighter : Less to go wrong with matches, but your right, may as well take both.AS for the salty food, if you dont have any water, youre probably not gonna eat. If you do have water, the salt in the food will help keep your electrolytes balanced, especially if youre sweating a lot.
sparkyskoMar 18, 2007
I wouldn't use the sterno unless you're going to buy the stand. A better solution is to make a supercat stove. Take a small can of cat food, open the top, empty contents, punch holes with a holepunch or whatever around the side down to about halfway down the can. 20 holes or so. Add alcohol (70% or more, denatured or methanol is best, isopropyl works, but it makes your pots black from soot). Light and let burn for about 20 seconds, then you can put your pot/cup/whatever directly on top of this stove to heat up your water. The stove is smaller than a can of sterno, and you can buy the fuel for about 1$ per 16 ounce bottle at most grocery stores. Here's a good website:<a class="user" href="http://zenstoves.net/LowPressure.htm">http://zenstoves.net/LowPressure.htm</a>I carry an alcohol stove inside of a metal 16ounces cup in my glovebox, I then store a bunch of denatured alcohol bottles throughout my car. You should be able to boil 16 ounces of water with 1 ounce of alcohol, so a 16 ounce bottle should boil 2 gallons. That's alot of meals. I can't really recommend the food items that this guy is listing, if you're going to be boiling water to make your food, you might as well just carry a 50lb bag of rice or beans in your car. The upside of boiling water is that it also sterilizes it. You usually can't buy the iodine water purifiers for less than 5$, they're usually 6$ and above. You don't want to use iodine for a long time either, you can use chlorine tablets instead, which are fine. Screw MRE's for packing in your car, in many parts of the US, they will go 'bad' (or as bad as MRE's can really get) in about 3 months in the trunk of a hot car. You can buy survival bars which are 3600 calorie bars that are good for 5-10 years or so and they don't much care about being heated or anything. This is what the coast guard recommends for food. They're basically lard and flour.. mmmm, good. Stormproof matches are awesome (REI), cotton balls with petroleum jelly in them are great firestarters.
Closed AccountMar 18, 2007
Damn blog spam
jfitzpatrickMar 18, 2007
I'm all about people being more prepared.Obviously it wouldn't be a cheapie kit anymore.... but to round out the basics like dehydrated food, water tablets, etc... you really need an inexpensive "trunk gun" a $150-200 small bore rifle or shotgun would do nicely. I'd lean towards the shotgun. With a variety of ammo tucked away you'd have an all purpose bird gun, deer rifle, and riot dispurser all in one!
pachikoMar 18, 2007
Things to add:Paperclip. (Otherwise known as the MacGyver Multitool.)Toothpick. (In the event of minature Vampies.)Identification. (In case you get amnesia.)Lighter. (I know how important it can be to have fire.)
vaxcatMar 19, 2007
A decent hadngun and ammunition, for dealing with any varmints while you're stranded - of both the four legged and two legged variety...
drivebyshooterMar 28, 2007
The image on the lifehack article is mine - I didn't know it was used there until I found it here. Heck, I couldn't understand why so many people were viewing the image, that is, until somebody pointed me to this digg. I wrote about the image's road to digg here [<a class="user" href="http://drivebyshooter.net/2007/03/28/10-day-survival-pack/]">http://drivebyshooter.net/2007/03/28/10-day-survival-pack/]</a>This whole thing is just making me laugh.