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FAMILY NUCLEAR SURVIVAL PART FOUR-December 29, 2022
THRIVING AFTER FALLOUT
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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.
As your family or group emerges from your fallout shelter, you will find that you are in a new world, a new state of play. Family doesn’t have to be related by blood or marriage. The first thing that you should do is take stock of your families’ or groups’emotional state since we all just went through a traumatic event. We have to have hope and purpose to survive and thrive in the time after fallout. I hope to instill hope and purpose and help you thrive in the time after fallout.
Also take inventory of your water, food, and supplies. Hopefully you have three to five weeks, maybe more, of these items. Items you don’t have, then you can get later. Almost all aspects of life after fallout will depend on power and transportation. Will the lights, heat, phone and cells be able to work? Do you have power locally? Do you have water (pressure)?
For your area it may be days or it may ve weeks before stores open up, that is, that is if that they had anything left on the shelves prior to the war. This is assuming that there was about a weeks notice of the attack before it happened and there was panic shopping.
WATER: At day 15, your families’ or groups’ water consumption would still be one gallon of potable (drinkable) water per person per day, and 5 to 15 gallons of non-potable water per person per day for flushing, washing and laundry. How this is achieved is by different means.
Number one is, does the water service come back on? I would not drink from the tap, I would boil or put 16 drops of bleach per gallon in it. It might need to be filtered from the tap, it just saves you from having to walk to a river or lake. Take proper precautions to filter and sanitize water for drinking, cooking as well as washing. For flushing it doesn’t matter. Having improperly sanitized water can cause you your life or health. Millions will die due to thirst or drinking improperly sanitized water. Have a dedicated two gallon pot for boiling water. Do you have power or natural gas or propane to boil water, or do you have to set a fire to boil water?
Number two is, how far away is a river, a lake or a stream? Or do you have snow pack? You will have to haul and transport water back to your home. Is it yards or is it miles? Something my wife bought me for my birthday was a Gorilla Cart. It is able to haul four-five gallon pails as well as supplies and firewood. It has big tires to use on a road or over land. If you don’t have water pressure then you will have to take your various (four to five) five gallon buckets to the stream, river or lake.
Option number three is do you have a well on your land? But is is electric? Power may not be up for several weeks depending on location. Do you have a way to extract water from the ground without power? See what I mean? You have to think outside of the box, where ever you live, however you live and do some major planning prior to a nuclear war? Yes I’m throwing in planning with living post nuclear war.
As soon as you can sanitize, many, well over 50 gallons of potable water, refill your non-potabale gallon jugs for flushing just in case the water pressure expires. I don’t know where you live, so you have to think prior to the event, during the event, and after the event.
LESSON 182–WATER–We can only survive three days without water. So it is imperative that FDN members/evacuees bring their own potable (drinking) and non-potable water supplies. As stated previously each person should have one gallon of potable water per day for drinking, cooking and basic hygiene. FEMA recommends 16 drops of bleach in a gallon of water to make it potable.
FDN recommends that 10 gallons of non-potable water per day for further cooking (boiling), washing and hygiene. Past the point of a family of four having 56 gallons of potable water and 140 gallons of non-potable water for a two week period, then it will be up to Group, Area or Metro to find sources of water. Group, Area and Metro must then transport the water from the source to filtering and treatment, storage and delivery to members and evacuees.
There are different types of sources to transport water, water wheel, hydrostatic pumps, sump pumps and wells are the easiest to use. A 200 person Area with 500 people will need over 2000 gallons of potable water per day for drinking and cooking. Unless there is a filtering and treatment system, then 500 gallons of water will have to be boiled each day.
LESSON 183–BRINGING IN EVACUATION WATER–It is imperative that FDN members bring in their own supplies of potable (drinking) and non-potable water. A two week supply should be maintained also along with a water filter and water purification tablets. The amount of water per day per person is one gallon potable and ten gallons non-potable. Potable water is used for drinking, cooking and basic hygiene (wet cloth) only. Non-potable water is used for further cooking (boiling), washing and hygiene, A family of four would use in two weeks 56 gallons of potable water and 140 gallons of non-potable water.
Just because you have one or two weeks of potable water and a decent amount of non-potable water doesn’t mean that you should rest on your laurels. You should volunteer with the water purification team to find new sources of water that the area or group can share. Remember that a 200 person area needs 500 gallons of potable water and 5000 gallons of non potable per day.
LESSON 184–WATER SOURCES–Whether water sources come from a spring, pond, stream, river, lake, well or rain fall, it is necessary to find a consistent and stable water sources soon after evacuating. There are six components to a water source system: initial delivery, initial storage (non-potable), filtering, treating (chlorination), potable storage and delivery to users.
Initial delivery includes taking water from the source and delivering it to the initial storage by various means. This can be by pumps, water wheels and hydrostatic devices. Regular pumps or sump pumps would require electricity, hence then probably generators with a fuel management system. Water wheels and hydrostatic devices create a self contained pumps which pumps water automatically to the storage container. Initial non-potable storage should be 500-1000 gallons, in other words to start pressure delivery down the line. Storage devices can be 100 or 250 gallon bladders synced in line to each other or 50 gallon barrels synced in line to each other with hoses. These items should be marked non-potable.
LESSON 185–FINDING AND USING EXPEDIENT WATER SOURCES–In most places we know where to find water, treat it and drink it. But what happens if we’re in a situation where we don’t know where water is, but we could locate an expedient water source. Here we will show you various ways of using expedient water sources.
If you are in the desert or temporally stuck in the desert, there are ways to find water in the ground. USING A SEEP: You can find and replenish your water sources by digging a ‘seep’ or dig more that one seep further apart. They can be dug in a winding vegetative stream the darker the vegetation the better. Dig your seep two to three feet wide and about one foot deep. Water should seep into the hole a few gallons at a time, then just use a white t-shirt to filter the sediment, use your water filter and pop in a chlorine tablet. Actually the water is filtered by the ground, so unless there is a lot of alklide, dead bones, or other natural warning signs, the water should be safe to drink. Line the seep with rocks, it helps filter the sediment. Get big flat rocks to cover your seep so that wildlife doesn’t take a drink out of it. Above filtering the sediment is another reason to pack a lot of white t-shirts, another reason is to make expedient field dressings for first aid, see Chapter Three.
Building a Solar Still: For the purpose of making water vapor or distilling water. Dig a fair sized hole, three to four feet wide and about two feet deep, then put a jug with the lid cut off and place it in the bottom of the hole. Place fresh vegetation inside to line the hole. Bring out a clean tarp, dirty tarp=dirty water and then strain and filter. Place four big rocks on each of the corners to hold the tarp down and but a rock in the center to angle the water downward into your jug. The desert heat will bake the underside of the tarp causing evaporation and distillation to take place.
LESSON 186–FILTERING, TREATING AND TESTING WATER–Filtering is done in two parts: one-to take out large organic and non-organic matter (leaves, branches, dirt, pop bottles, etc.) with a pre-filter screen at the water source and clean the grit off it once a week and a second carbon based or charcoal filters to take out most mineral and chemical particulates. Google Culligan, Ecowater, Watersafe, and others offering various types of carbon or charcoal filters systems to set up.
Google or search Culligan, Ecowater, Water Safe and other companies for various carbon/charcoal based filters and systems to set up. Various questions that need to be asked prior to setting up the water purification system. What kind of device is needed from the source to initial non-potable storage? What kind of pipes or hoses are needed to transport to the huge initial storage? What kind of filtering systems and hookups are available? What type of filters are needed? What kind of treatment (choloranation) is available? How is testing done? What kind of potable storage is there? The Area Manager, the Chef and the water purification team should develop a pre-built system–just add pipe.
LESSON 187– BUILDING A NATURAL RESOURCES BASED GRAVITY FILTER: [One inch equals 2.57 cm] Take two blue 55 gallon (200 litre) water barrels, both with lids, then build a robust wood frame with 4"x4"s to hold over 800 pounds (200 kilos). One gallon of water weighs 8 pounds or 4 kilos. The bottom barrel will be three feet (one meter) off the ground, there will be a bibb to hook a hose or a piece of PVC to attach to start a pipe. This hole will be one foot from the bottom of the bottom barrel. The bottom barrel is for filtered gravity water storage. A foot above the bottom barrel the top barrel will be also on the 4"x4"s . There should be six 1/4" going from the bottom of the top barrel into the lid of the bottom barrel. This is where the filtered water flows.
To build the actual filter: in the top barrel, take off the lid and in the bottom of the inside of the barrel place four inches deep of one to two inch clean stones, one half to one inch stones that is four inches deep, four inches of pea gravel, one foot of sand base, six inches of clean black charcoal from fire pits, and then three more inches of one inch rock for erosion inside barrel. Take water from the source (river or lake) and pour pails or use a hose from non-potable storage to fill top barrel. Gravity should create 20 gallons (80 liters) of filtered water in 4 hours. Exchange sand and charcoal every three days.
LESSON 189–HYGIENE SOLUTIONS--Paper Towel Bath: Good hygiene is imperative in a survival situation. It keeps you from getting sick. If you’ve ever gone camping, deployed or gone down range in the military or been in a disaster or have been homeless, then you know how hard it is to stay clean and how easy it is to stay dirty.
This evolution requires four paper towels and two ounces of water to complete. Your paper towels should be tough and sturdy with brands such as Brawny or Bounty, that is something durable and won’t fall apart when it is wet. You will have plenty of washing to do.
Take the first paper towel and wet it with two ounces (100ml) of water and squeeze it somewhat moist. Then you will need to rinse your body parts in the following order: face, ears, neck, chest, arms, legs, underarms, then your groin area. For men wash your penis and between your testicles. For women wash your clitoris and your labia. Finally wash your butt. Throw away the towel. Take two dry towels and dry yourself in the same order. Throw away towel. Then wash and dry your hands with the fourth towel and throw it away.
HOW TO TAKE AN EXPEDIENT SHOWER INSIDE YOUR HOME: Take two-one gallonpails, drill a bunchof 3.8 inchholes in one bucket to become a shower drip for later after fallout. Use the one-one gallon pail to extract a gallon of water from a five gallon bucket to start rinsing a person. That person soaps and shampoos up. Take one to two gallons of water to rins off that person. Think sparingly.. Shoud be albe to take a shower with a drip with three gallons.
LESSON 190–EXPEDIENT SHOWER–As an evacuation camp progresses to a better state of affairs, then expedient showers would be made by using a storage device, such as a pail, clean garbage pail, blister bag or other device. The simplest device would be to use a pail and drill 3/8" holes in the bottom, hang it from a tree and viola, one expedient shower-simple. Pour in one gallon (4 litres) of filtered non-potable water for washing and one gallon for rinsing. These gallons come out of non-potable water ration.
The next type expedient shower has a 30 gallon blister bag or bladder put on a wooden X-frame and the bottom of the bag has a triangle pull rod with a shower head. When you need water pull the triangle rod down to get wet to wash or rinse with five seconds of water. The only problem with these first two showers is that they would be ambient (room or outdoor) temperature. Good in hot weather but lousy in cold weather.
The fanciest type of expedient shower would have the 30 gallon blister bag or bladder with a source point water heater from propane and with a shower head and triangle pull rod for five seconds of 90 degree (20 celcius) water on demand in five second increments. There would have to be scheduled times for men, women, children and special needs if needed.
The shower area should have canvas walls but not necessarily a roof. There should be eight showers for a 200 person area with a possible total population of 500. There should be shelves for soap and shampoo. There should be plenty of extra hooks for towels and clothes. There should be some kind of separating walls between the showers for some privacy. There should be a treated plywood floor that is at a slight angle for drainage as well as slits every two feet to facilitate drainage. There are to be drainage pits constructed below the treated 2x4 inch frame and floor that has large rocks on the bottom and smaller stones on top of the pit. The shower area should be built in a straight line so that easy access can be had for bladder refilling. See Lesson 167 for further guidance on showers and hygiene.
LESSON 191–SHOWER TENTS–These are temporary structures, probably a canvas army tent with a heater and six to eight shower stalls. Unless pressured water is piped in then gravity fed bladder or blister bags with propane heaters and a triangle pull rod hanging on x-frames in the center of the tent. A hallway would be on the exterior of the inside of the tent. There would be shower stalls and dressing rooms inside the center of the tent. An access area would be needed somewhere to refill the bladders. Dressing rooms would have hooks and shelves for clothes and stalls would have a shelf for soap and shampoo.
Drainage would consist of either a two foot deep rock pit with big rocks on the bottom and stones on top. A slight graded treated plywood floor with slits in it would be built on a 2x4 inch frame. Another way is to be hooked into the Area sanitary sewer system to the lagoons. It is unknown if grey water retrieval can be used for re-use of the water due to soaps in the water. See Lesson __ on grey water.
LESSON 192–SHOWER HUTS: Shower huts are a more permanent structure to give showers to a 200 person Area (500 census) area. There would probably be a few eight or twelve stall huts for the Area. These huts would either be self-contained or fed by a potable water system and drained into a lagoon or grey water treatment system.
Each hut wether it has eight or twelve stalls has one sided 2x4 walls to easily access plumbing. Stalls will be back to back will a small changing room outside the showers and hooks for clothes and towels. Put horizontal block 2x4s in between studs to have little shelves for shop and shampoo. Have one hook in stall for a washcloth. Install lights, heat and paint. Clean showers per instructions in Lesson 165.
LAUNDRY: OK, you haven’t figured it out yet. You need a couple of those five gallon buckets to do laundry. And a sanitized black plunger to agitate the laundry inside the bucket to make the laundry and soap go around. Make sure that you have liquid laundy soap. You might have to go primitive and use a wash boardor even wash againt bigrocks. Just survive and thrive.
MORE ON PAGE FIVE OF THRIVING AFTER FALLOUT
Red Becker, PhD, GS-15, Nuclear War Planner, Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Intelligence, Contintuity of Governament.
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