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FAMILY NUCLEAR SURVIVAL PART FIVE-January 12, 2023
THRIVING AFTER FALLOUT (part two)
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Purchase and store what you can afford. Two weeks is the bare minimum to store for nuclear war survival. But warehouses, trucks, and stores may not be open or working right away. So try to get three to five weeks worth of food and supplies in total. If you can get more, that is even better. In our home we have a nuclear survival supplies list with over 100 items on it. It is set up with columns for the Item, one month, three months, and six months levels. Take an one months usage of any item on the list and multiply it by three and six to get the other levels. So go around your home and list
as many items as possible that you use that would not be immediately supplied due to stores being
closed or low on supplies in the initial few weeks. If you don’t have 80-100+ items on the list then you are not doing it right.
You will want to slowly build up stockage levels as you go shopping. Keep track of the news and international affairs, especially global hotspots, such as Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, Iran, North Korea, etc. You don’t want to be shopping when there is a panic or mass panic going on. Well maybe a little when the first inklings of nuclear war appear in the headlines, then hurry up and finish your supply runs. Get the last amounts of water and canned goods, etc. But have all other supplies stocked to a level as pre-determined by your family or group. Your family or group needs to think about the possibility of a nuclear war a few months out with current intelligence alerts and start to PLAN to get the various supplies prior to the war or nuclear attack.
FOOD: If you have three to five weeks of food to start with to begin with, then you will begin to thrive after fallout. If you can get certain food items at an one to two month level, then that is even better. Concentrate on canned meats, canned pastas, canned soups and chilis, canned vegetables and fruits, dry pasta, crackers, peanut butter, potatoes, apples, and any other dry or canned food that your family can use during or after fallout. Even having basic baking products would help. Use a 1500 calorie a day per adult menu. Slowly build up stock levels each week as you go shopping. Date and rotate your goods. What comfort foods that are dry would you like to have stocked? Remember expiration dates.
MEDICAL: We touched on having your prescriptions refilled just prior to the attack. You will notice more and more vitriolic rhetoric coming from which ever country that wants to attack us. So also have, plenty of first aid items, bandages, gauze, nursing tape, vitamins, supplements, to cover a one to two month period or longer. Also start thinking of various hygiene items, everything from deodorant, toothpaste baby items, feminine, disabled and elderly products that can not be easily replaced for a couple of months or more. On our home nuclear survival items list we have a lot of these items at a six month level.
SUPPLIES: Using the three and six month survival lists for your family or group, you should think of various items that fall into this category. Various items would include, paper products, plastic products, various soaps and cleaners. So don’t forget to have plenty of toilet paper, paper towels, tissues, paper plates, paper bowls, Styrofoam cups, plastic ware, quart and gallon size plastic bags, plastic trash bags, bar soap, liquid wash soap, shampoo, dish soap, liquid laundry soap, bleach, and a couple dozen other items.
There will probably be 30 items just on the supplies portion of your families nuclear survival list. Remember that the store is closed or few items on the shelf when your local store does open. So think of all the things that you use on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. For flashlights and batteries make sure to have plenty of batteries. You don’t know when the power might come back on. Use your flashlights sparingly when needed. The big ones take D batteries and the smaller ones take AA size batteries.
COMMUNICATION AND POWER: Remember that the primary mode of communication is your battery powered or wind-up radio using mostly AM clear channel stations. Make sure to have several sets of C size and D size batteries. Know how many batteries various radios, CD players take. Use radios sparingly. Mostly to get information. However a set of batteries should last many hours if used straight, but you wouldn’t want to do that. Unless you have battery powered Short Wave, VHF, GMRS radios or walkie talkies, you probably won’t be able to listen or talk to anyone else.
The power grid will go down in various states, cities, and locations where there has been a nuclear explosion. The explosion causes an EMP, electromagnetic pulse that fries electrical components such as chips, transformers, fuses, etc. So in an area close to an explosion, the power grid will be out, most vehicles won’t work either, as you go further away from an explosion, the lesser the damage will be. But it might be weeks before various power companies can get power restored to your neighborhood.
TRANSPORTATION: Besides having the power restored, getting basic transportation restored again, wether it’s private vehicle, semi-trucks, box trucks, government vehicles, trains, and maybe some planes, is beneficial to restoring water, food and supplies to stores. How many that actually work will be unknown, but as discussed before, the further away from an explosion, the better the chance that EMP did not destroy electronics in various transportation modes.
If you live far enough away from a nuclear target, that would be 20-30 miles away, then make sure to have a full tank of fuel and have your fill valve locked or against a building so that your fuel can’t be stolen. Plus have a few spare cans of fuel. Maybe in a few weeks after fallout, there might be some bus service or passenger train service restored. You might even find new ways to take care of transportation needs. Some planes might work to smaller cities.
FIRE AND COOKING: If the power is not on, then it will be harder to cook, unless you have natural gas working, propane stove, wood stove, etc. If you have a propane grill, then maybe you should maybe buy a couple extra cylinders, if a briquets grill have a few bags of charcoal. Make sure to keeep them locked up when not in use. See generators on page two, and lock up your generator outside. If you don’t have any of the above methods, then use the below methods.
LESSON 179–HOW TO START FIRES, CAMP FIRES OR FIELD KITCHEN FIRES– As a part of the primary source: shelter-is staying warm-and that is starting a fire, whether it is a small fire, a large camp fire, a field kitchen fire or a barrel fire and if you are without matches, a lighter, starter fluid or other flammable fluid. So don’t forget to pack in your advanced kits 1000 matches of various types, lighters, starter fluid, candles, 3 inch folding knife, hatchet, axe, chainsaw with extra gasoline, shovel and other goodies.
Starting a fire the easy way with matches–Starting a fire with matches or a lighter is relatively easy once a proper fire pit is built. First find a couple dozen rocks (5-8" wide/12-20cm) to create the perimeter circle. The circle should be 5-8 feet/2-3 meters wide. Then take your shovel and scrape vegetation off of ground inside the fire pit. Have fire no less than 20 feet/6m away from tents or buildings or vehicles. After that locate some kindling, small branches and twigs as well as dry grass. Then get one, two and three inch wide and larger branches. You will want to stack the branches in various widths so that the smaller ones burn first with the kindling and the grass. The bigger branches can be stacked upright in a triangle or square, when you light the kindling it should take ten minutes to get hot. Then add bigger logs as needed to stoke the fire. Make sure when you are done with a fire that you cool the ashes with the shovel and use a few gallons of non-potable water to douse the fire before you leave the site.
Starting a fire using stick and string–Items needed: Hatchet, 3" knife, 4"/18cm wide branch 8" long, 2" branch 8" long, string or a shoelace, dry grass and a ready to go fire pit. If you’re out of matches or don’t have matches this friction fire starter works well. Get and make your 8"/36cm long branches. Dig a diamond type hole 1" wide in the 4" wide branch and then sharpen to a point on the 2"/5cm branch. The point should fit into the hole nicely. Take a string or shoelace and wrap the middle of the string three or four times around the 2" branch. Put the point into the hole and take string on both ends and hold up ends and make a cris cross motion with your hands turning the point in the hole. The point being is to do this extremely fast, so that friction takes place the branches get hot and smoke starts to rise. When this happens, take dry grass to hole to light, once lit, move quickly to fire stack no more than a foot away. Use the rest of resources above. If there is no knife, then use sharp rocks, think survival.
Starting a field kitchen fire–Items needed: About 4 dozen rocks (5-8" wide), various grills to set on rocks, set up fire pit, pots and pans and see Lesson 63-How to Set Up a Field Kitchen. Take the various rocks and make squares or rectangles to fit the various griddles. Make three or four fires if needed. Set up fire pit per instructions above, light fire, set grill on top, start cooking when hot, keep stoked. Remember to keep one big pot to boil filtered water to make it potable for continuous drinking.
LESSON 180–HOW TO DO CAMP COOKING–Camp cooking is more of a temporary solution until field kitchens are set up, but we have to eat. Using the rock pit with iron grate/grill and hot coals underneath, with you various pots, pans, utensils and other supplies in clean storage bins when not in use. Always have one large pot (32 quart or larger) to consistently boil filtered water for potable drinking use.
Create a prep table out of salvaged wood, steel or from a closed restaurant to prep you various fruits, veggies and meats there. Use cutting boards and sanitize after use. Have plenty of storage bins, knives and utensils. Have a 50 ppm bleach bucket to sanitize cooking and prep area (one cap full). See Lesson 46-FDN Evacuation Kitchen Sanitation rules. So sanitize often and don’t cross contaminate.
A 200 person area or multiple areas joined together would have to create a larger kitchen site with multiple fire pits and prep tables. A 200 person area might have 300-500 people in it due to spouses and children, that’s a lot of food and logistics. One fire pit would just be for making potable water. This situation should upgrade to a field kitchen ASAP.
The serving line can be on folding tables with setup of trays, plates, utensils, napkins-passed out by someone one each, (if available) salad, fresh fruit or veggies, canned fruit, bread or rolls (baked) and butter, entree (one or two choices), potatoes, veggies, cornbread, dessert (baked), and beverages with condiments. Food service should maintain a at least a 1500-1800 calorie daily diet. One major rule: Take what you want, BUT EAT WHAT YOU TAKE!!! DON’T WASTE FOOD!
LESSON 181–HOT TO START UP A FIELD KITCHEN–Setting up a field kitchen is more permanent in nature. It should be built on a wood or concrete (preferred) pad. The dimensions are set up for a 200 person area and should be able to feed 500 people during a meal period. There should be between one and five tents or semi-permanent buildings depending on size. The purposes are dining room, serving room (line), cooking room, prep room, wash room/recyclables room depending on the size of the tents or the buildings. Once again use Lesson 46 for Kitchen Sanitation Standards.
For instance the dining room and serving line can be in the same tent or building. In the seating area there should be 12-eight seat tables or equivalent. The serving line can be of industrial kitchen stainless steel serving line or plain 8-10' folding tables using Sterno containers and ice to keep food hot and cold. Food must be served within 40 minutes if there is no proper refrigeration or heating. Then only make enough food to feed everybody with no waste. Prep food as close as possible to a meal.
The serving line consists of several items, first off are trays if available, the paper plates-issue two or real plates, plastic or steel utensils,(both can be washed), napkins (one per person), (then these items if available) fresh salad, fresh fruit or veggies, canned fruit, bread or rolls (baked) with butter, one or two entrees, potatoes, veggies, cornbread, desert, coffee, tea, milk and bug juice. Daily calories should be between 1500-1800. DON’T WASTE FOOD!!
With all situations, think outside of the box and try to take care of yourself, your family or group for as long as possible. If you can get to a two month level or more that is great. That gives the country and government time to reallocate resources to all the needed places.
CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT: The United States Government has dozens of survival plans to ensure the continuity of the government. Lots of states, cities, corporations, and organizations, such as hospitals have these plans also. But the federal government practices extreme planning an a continuing basis.
One thing that will happen soon after the attack will be martial law and curfew. Well most everybody will be in fallout shelters for the two weeks. But this will continue. Expect a curfew from 8 pm local to 6 am local. After the two weeks, the U.S. Postal Service will assess with postal cards and conduct a brief census and survey to see whom might of survived, and whom might of evacuated. Various agencies of the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA will assist those in need.
For more on Continuity of Government and other thoughts see the next page.
Red Becker, PhD, GS-15,
Nuclear Warfare Planner, Counter-terrorist, Counter-Intelligence, Continuityof Government.
