Invest in Port-a-Potties: A Survivalist Shortage List

Don't forget duct tape.  It's #53 on the Top 100 Items to Disappear First - according to survivalists at The Power Hour.  When it's Mad Max time, and location, location, location will refer to the best place to hunker down and defend you and yours, perhaps you will wish you had gone shopping with these items in mind.  Me, I've got lots of cast iron cookware (#50) , but I'm a bit low on portable toilets (#3), not to mention and chickens and goats (#100).   Some of the items likely to become scarce after the Apocalypse might not be true necessities - candy and cigarettes - but could be useful in barter and bribe situations.  Other things likely to be in short supply: Internet service providers.  So you might want to print yourself a hard copy, and go shopping this holiday season.  And if you decide to stock up on Big Dogs (#40), make sure you get plenty of dog food.  Forewarned is forearmed.

CWCID: Charlottesvillain at Tigerhawk

Comments

[Dan Trabue]

Great list! I may reference this on my blog.

[Tour Marm]

#30 and Sarajevo #3

When I was growing up in New York City a radio station, immediately before a hurricane was to hit the area, cautioned everyone to stock up on toilet paper! Naturally there was a run on toilet paper - more so than bread or milk. It was meant as a joke by the jocks, but ever since then, when faced with something similar to a hurricane, snowstorm, or even immediately after 9/11, people bought and hoarded toilet paper!

After being a child during the Duck and Cover/Civil Defense Era and having gone through several major blackouts (living in a highrise), hurricanes (Agnes, Andrew and Hugo), and 9/11, I have stocked up on water, large and small plastic garbage bags (in lieu of port-a-potty), candles, oil lamps, matches, hand sanitizer, first aid kit, hibachi, charcoal, canned food in flip-up tins, dried food, powdered milk, and toilet paper. In addition, I have a radio and lots of batteries.

Last weekend my highrise building suffered a loss of power for a few hours. I was in the position to offer several neighbors light for their apartments.

I was a heroine.

Oh yes, I do have duct tape, but I don't know why.