I'm old, I'll make my stand and that will be that.

The most scary things on this planet are people, especially panicked people.

I have our pantry so stocked I can’t fit a toothpick in there. Hubbs gives me grief,tells me I worry too much. I hope he’s right.

TY for the bug in advice!! I’m so sick of preppies telling us we need to leave our homes!! I’m staying put.

First rule of preppier club: Don’t talk about prepper club.

26 yrs ago I decided to buy 13 acres and built a home,off the grid with a well, pond of fish, chickens, pigs, plus 8 month food supply, lots of seeds and plenty of ammunition.

I can’t believe I’m watching this video 2 years AFTER you made it and we are STILL in a stressful situation….but want to REALLY THANK YOU SO MUCH for being a steady rock for all of us!!! God bless!

You missed the obvious...DO NOT COOK!!! Even if you love garlic, DO NOT USE ANY!!! If people are starving, and they smell food, they will attack.

I was a "lone wolf" prepper, not because I wanted to, but because friends and family thought I was a little crazy. Most of them haven't changed...

Growing up with Depression Era parents, our home was very well stocked, including the pantry, and nothing was wasted. For this I am so thankful :)

My husband used to tease me about prepping and then Hurricane Michael hit us dead center thank God our house had little serious damage but no power or water for about 3 weeks and he found out then how vulnerable we would really have been if I hadn’t been prepping for a while and now as crazy as this world is getting he’s there with me on prepping. I feel blessed to have him. We have not told anyone about our stashes, we even have a hiding place in the house where we store all of it and it’s big enough for my family to hide in if needed as you never know what can happen or when

My coworkers called me a nutcase when i told them about covid back in December 2019. Its good to not only follow news in america but also international news

Being physically fit is also important!

I agree with the staying put people. I'm old. If I tried to run i'd just die tired. Besides I firmly believe in gun control. The ability to hit your target is VERY important.

Always lock the doors when going to the store, or leaving the home. Always lock the storm door behind you when entering the house after working in the yard. Always lock all the doors at night.

This video is ever more timely with the way things are heading. Thank you and stay safe 👍🇦🇺

Prepper rule no 1: DONT TELL ANYONE YOU'RE A PREPPER

"Lack of preparations is preparing to fail." Ben Franklin.

EXCELLENT POINTS. In fact, this is by far the best 15 minutes on survival I've ever seen. As a former combat aviator, I've been through two survival schools, along with having done all-weather camping for 40 years in often minimalist fashion. One key point: Plan with your neighbors. Get rid of the inevitable social inertia long before the SHTF. Identify critical skill sets and critical community supplies, and plan some preliminary schedules ahead of time. Make them sensible. You do not want everyone sleep-deprived come daybreak! If your neighbors look at you funny, then laugh with them, but don't count them out, for if the SHTF, they'll either readjust their thinking in a hurry or they wont last long.

Lone wolf by nature here. That 10% extra for helping others is really helpful advice. I grew up with grandparents and parents who always had home canned foods in the cellar but I have wondered recently just how much to really have on hand. Keeping others in mind to keep the community strong is very good. We can't do it all alone (although it sure seems that way most of the time!)

I've always believed it's better to have and not need than need and not have

One of the few YT Preppers without useless "overreaction" in his voice and content. Reasonable, calm, thanks for that!

Make sure you know camping basics and first aid basics just in case. Learn how to start a contained fire, how to use a compass, how to pitch a tent and/or create shelter, etc. Have hobbies/pastimes/activities that don’t require electricity or technology. Remember that for many years people survived just fine without phones, tablets, etc.

wow. A prepper with a positive message and not a hysterical tone. Thanks.

I've lived at my bug out destination for 26 years. Off grid. Well prepared.

During the Christmas holiday season, large bells in multiples are sold at the dollar tree. String em up for alarm system for cheap.

Love the 10% preps set aside to help others. A tithe ❤ great idea

This guy has some of the best perspectives I’ve heard in over 40 years.

I’m not even gonna lie, 2020 really opened my eyes to being more prepared for any scenario. Especially in modern America where civil unrest seems to be a legal recreational activity and the mainstream media feels like the enemy.

Avoid lawlessness. The government doesn’t like copy cats.

We’re in our 70’s… we have preps, but we’re unable to physically do much. We love your site! Thanks, Sootch!

Came across the video again- smiling to myself. If you work in healthcare and remembered your studies you knew what could happen. If you watched the international news you could see it coming. It was nice to be ready- some of my coworkers nearly lost their minds. Then it got hard.

I'm a lone wolf too, I have no one around who thinks like me, it's hard and lonely.

Around the time this video was posted I was walking out of a supermarket with all the canned food I could carry while people behind me tried to kill each other over toilet roll.

I remember my first scenario as a Paramedic. My coworker said, "Call 9-1-1.!" After I said "We are 9-1-1", he took a deep breath and got his resolve. The sooner we internalize things, the better.

I can not stress enough, how much I appreciate the prep community. Thanks for sharing. I have learned a great deal in a short amount of time. Helped me prepare myself a great deal.. I would like a bugout location simple because areas heavily populated will be the first targets and if need be I would like a place to fall back on. Especially as time passes and people become more paranoid.

The gray man argument in my mind essentially for me should be like the sun tzue quote: appear strong when you are weak and weak when you are strong.

How can you trust your neibour in a crisis when you cant trust them when times are normal

Deep gratitude from Portugal ! Love your channel ! No drama, no overeacting and fear mongering... i just feel a sense of peace, commitment and focus .

Your videos are smart, sensible, and life-affirming. My family and I have gained much from your knowledge. Thank you.

I have apparently been a prepper all my life, always replenishing pantry stores and non-perishables. When the COVID pandemic hit, i didn’t have to panic, because i have always lived that way.

I remember when people used to laugh at preppers. Who's laughing now?

I think this is one of the top ten videos you have done (and I've watched a lot of them). It is sound advice for any type of SHTF scenarios. Thank you so much for All that you Do!

I’m very glad I found your channel! Thank you for all the information you share with us.

The good guys can organize into fighting groups too, not just the so-called "gangs". An organized group of good folks will be far more effective against a cluster of dirt bags.

as an old USMC vet, there is some really great insight here for all preppers to consider. #1 is water, #2, food, #3 shelter, #4 self defense and mapping. We are prepping for a 5 day bugout back to the homestead. From there, we are prepped for months. Stay Frosty and prepared

I like this host; very rational, reasonable guy. He doesn't let it be about him or his ego. This is one of my favorite channels.

Thank you for this warning about telling your plan for this. I have but I will never again!!!

For most people, bugging out ends the first time they have to sleep on the ground with the bugs.

I was in a camp ground with water and electric and in the next site there was a woman in her 30s loudly complaining that there were "bugs on her tent " ( the light in side her tent could be seen from space)

Thank you so much for your common sense advice. I will add prayer to all I've planned for and no matter what happens I'll be as ready as I can. I'll definitely check out the links you shared. God bless you and yours, and our Republic!

Remember that all canned products are made in the same plant with the same ingredients and labled differently at the end according to what company has bought that "lot," therefore buy the ones on sale.

When I buy supplies at hardware store they mention why I need something, I tell them I’m going camping.

Funniest line in a movie spoken by preppers. "Tremors " we prepared for everything except underground space monsters!

Just getting into prepping now and there's some bad advice out there. Thank you for being a sober and sensible voice on the topic.

Number 1 thing not to do when SHTF is: "Don't stand in front of the fan."

I am from argentina, I was 15 years old when that happen. we survived by buying in bulk and canning lots of food, also a comunal market appeared where people could print their own currency to trade. (it came to a point where the country had close to 17 official currencies and as many un officials ones), worked doing roofing and construction work from 12 to 17 years of age, we also used to sell pirated CD in the street, had to organize a comunity watch with the rest o the street because the crime was gettng out of hand. I have seen riots that would make ferguson a day in the park, to this, been shoot at, had a gun pointed at my head an threaten to with knifes more times than i can count. having a comunity and a group that you can rely on is the best thing that could ever to you. you can not si inside your house whit your canned food for 5 or 10 years until it all gets better.

Not appearing weak, and being about my business prevented bad stuff from happening to me, when I was living in Skid Row. I practiced grey man principles, always kept my head on a swivel, and practiced the ancient art of "don't be there."

This guy has a good head. And his advice about asking for governmental help is spot on. I WILL NOT BUG OUT. Unless our home burns to the ground. We have our water storage and purification, solar power, and food storage. We live in a very rural area. We're on a private lane with a spring fed lake. It's a gated community with one way in, and the same way out. We CAN pump our own water. We can hunt and fish. We could plant a garden if need be. We've got quite a bit of heirloom seeds. Everyone in our community is a professional in one field or another. I'm an retired electrician. We have a nurse, a pastor, a mechanic, a general contractor and a really handy jack of all trades.

Definitely one of the MOST sensible pieces I've seen. Thank you!

10:50 I want to throw something in here that I haven’t see enough of in prepper lists and posts. When people list off their first-aid supplies and even their personal hygiene supplies, I rarely see anyone other than myself list dental care. If you’ve ever had a toothache you know that it’s so severely distracting that it will shorten your patience and cloud your judgement. It can lead to fatal mistakes in a survival situation. So make sure to include a toothbrush and dental floss. You can improvise toothpaste, if need be, but you need the tools to clean your teeth.

I'm a disabled type 1 diabetic. I won't live long in a SHTF situation. However, I won't be victimized by a-holes.

I appreciate your channel. It's solid survival wisdom, with or without a crisis. One of my go-to "survival psalms" is "Be less concerned with whose fault it is as whose responsibility it is." Once you begin take your well being into your own hands, no matter how small a step, you develop a sense of control- experience and confidence follow.

Love this guy!! Very level headed excellent advice all the way around l subscribed immediately!! I would follow his lead he's a very smart sensible man ! & has thought all this out in great detail 💯👍👍

Noah was considered a conspiracy nut until it started to rain.

Ironically the grocery stores near me have been limiting the number of can goods to four per item. This is why it's much better to prepare well in advance.

First time in years I've hear presence mentioned, I've tried to explain it to folks over the years with varying success but nice to hear I'm not alone in knowing its value.

One of the best videos I've watched on KZfaq! Thank you! For all of you who live in rural areas and have a like minded community / friends self sustaining farming and water you are all so incredibly lucky to have one another. I would do just about anything to have those privileges, you will be the survivers. I'm surrounded by city folks who have city minds every man for themselve attitudes. Again I say for those country folk you are blessed to have each other and most importantly to be in tune with nature. If I could financially afford it I would have moved years ago. 🙏✌️❤️🌏

Bugging out is a joke for most of us. If you are in good physical condition and young and you have a place to go, OK. But if you are older, have no where else to go and may not be able to physically handle a long trek, it's best to just stay put and prepare your home.

Follow international news sites so that you know when things are coming to the US, the information was out there 3 months before the main stream news in the US picked it up

Great video. Well thought out. It’s so hard to know what sort of SHTF scenario could happen. If personally get overwhelmed in my mind with the what if scenarios.

I learned a ton from this video! Thanks for making it.

Here are my "don'ts": 1) Don't make decisions based on rumor. Get the early facts from multiple reliable sources. 2) Don't refuse to see approaching danger. Just because a community emergency has not happened to you in your community before, does not mean it cannot happen now. 3) Don't get stuck in long lines waiting to fuel your vehicle. Your vehicle's fuel gauge should never be allowed to get below the half-way point. 4) Don't wait too long to evacuate if the situation warrants evacuation. Leave very early -- you can always return if that hurricane turns away from the predicted path. 5) Don't panic-buy stuff you do not need. Stay away from crowded stores swamped with panicked shoppers -- you could get trampled/robbed/car-jacked. 6) Don't get caught without enough charged batteries and a solar charging panel or other off-grid charging device for all your communication devices, portable lights, etc. 7) Don't fail to use your stove, public water supply and the power grid while you can. Use those last hours of public utilities to cook food that does not need refrigeration (popcorn, cakes, cookies, quick bread...). Fill up every empty container with tap water for drinking, cooking, washing... Recharge all your devices. Do a load of laundry, vacuum the carpeting, run the dishwasher. Freeze extra containers of water so you have blocks of ice to help keep the refrigerator or cooler chilled longer. 8) Don't assume you will be able to pay for things with a credit card, ATM card, gift card or shop on the internet. If the local power grid goes down and stays down for days, you will need cash in hand to buy anything assuming you can find an open store. Merchants will not accept personal checks when they cannot verify those checks electronically. 9) Don't go out sight-seeing post-disaster. Stay indoors and avoid injury. 10) Don't assume that if you need help that emergency services will get to you right away. Get CPR and first aid training. Get CERT training. Be prepared to rescue your neighbors from an earthquake damaged building, to set up a first aide station and render first aid, to set up a camp kitchen to help feed friends, family and neighbors and to provide temporary shelter for the same. 11) Don't ignore the importance of basic hygiene if you are stuck in a disaster area. Have a homemade composting toilet or a shovel for digging a latrine trench. Have plenty of soap and clean water to at least wash face, hands and feet regularly. Have plenty of trash bags or a burn barrel to contain/burn smelly garbage and not provide food for flies, rodents and other vermin. 12) Don't rely solely upon an electronic navigation device if you must evacuate. Nothing beats having a good maps for your evacuation route and a reliable hand-held compass. 13) Don't underestimate how bored you will become if stuck for weeks in a location with no power for your electronic entertainment devices. This goes double if you have children or teens in your household. Have real books, board games, decks of cards, art supplies, non-electronic exercise equipment and assorted non-electronic hobby supplies. Have lesson plans and school supplies if local schools are closed. 14) Don't underestimate the stress of being stuck in a disaster zone and the impact this will have on your sleep and peace of mind. Music, prayer, meditation, chamomile tea, Sleepy Time tea, melatonin, etc. are all potentially useful if you are too anxious/worried/irritable to get a good night's sleep. 15) Don't get caught without a 90-day supply of your prescription medications. Keep a supply of over-the-counter alternatives and herbal remedies if you absolutely cannot persuade your MD to write a prescription for a "vacation" amount of meds. If you use insulin, find a grid-down away to keep your supply chilled.

My number #1 not to do is DO NOT STAND IN FRONT OF THE FAN...

Good, informative and concise video. Makes sense. Thanks for your efforts to provide info.

Best advice i was ever told “ dont keep all your preps at one place . “ Lots of things can happen and then you may have to leave your preps .

One piece of advice for those deciding to bug out with others and stay as a group. Plan ahead for what happens with personality clashes- someone kicked out could go straight to others about your stockpile and location.

Groups - great idea. Doctor, dentist, electrician, car mechanic, cook, farmer, hunter, spiritual leader. Yes they all come prepared with their own supplies for "they are of like mind"

Good video. Great advice. We ARE going to need it. You seem like a good guy, much love and respect from Wales UK , God bless America and Wales and everyone 🙏

Excellent good advice, agree with you about bugging out...

As soon as I heard of virus outbreak , I doubled down getting preps. I put extra money that I would normally spend on non essential items I bought preps. I am an island of my own. I don’t trust my neighbors they have taken part in the snitch program and made it well known

My wife was like...why do you keep buying so much tuna, your the only one that likes it. I was like ya I know.

Excellent video with great info. Thanks for sharing. We'll get through whatever comes by helping each other!

Since checking out your channel during the lockdown last year I have pretty much filled every available niche in our condo with food preps, conquered the basics of bugout in our home, the car and on foot, and just have a few holes to fill in....like reading the book you suggested. Still a bit frightened about the guns thingy, but better to find out now than in an emergency so I will put on my "big girl panties" and get on that right away....UGH: If only the "good ole days" where the worst thought about going shopping was finding a parking place! Thanks for all you do...you have been such a big help!!!

I had to stop checking even my social media pages. One report would make you feel like things were okay, then the next post made you feel like doomsday was here. It was distracting from the tasks at hand. I shut off the media, went to the store to buy what flour, sugar, rice etc that I could find. Then I focused on dry canning all of it and getting our food preps in order. Those anxious feelings manufactured by the media can leave you paralyzed. Times like these you want to be in motion not frozen in fear or apathy.

So many say to stock up on extra medications as well as everything else. I've found that that's near impossible with prescription medications, the insurance companies and drug control agencies have seen to that.

Very informative info and wise advice. Thank you!👍

Oh my, two + years later and we are really stepping "it" now. Personally, our next priority is to move to a safer home. What I am seeing in our "low-income" rental started to get "crazy" when this video was published. Overall crime and "manipulations" are at a level that I have never seen before in my 71 years. I know that we cannot trust our community as we once did decades ago.

W A T E R ...sometimes one simple drink of water can be worth $200,000.00 in gold ~Bill Carson

Great information and advice, Sootch! My wife and I retired several years ago and we found this lock down no different than any other time we've been living in our neighborhood. Being retired military and borne of parents who were "preppers", Dad served 31 years in the Army then Air Force and Mom was a Filipina freedom fighter, I was always taught to be prepared. Dad taught me to have "contingency plans" A, B and C. During this time I actually got to know several neighbors when before we pretty much stayed in our respective homes without contact. Practicing social distancing I would stand in my yard and speak to them as they passed by either walking or driving by. We are very fortunate to live in this community where crime is non-existent and it's a beautiful wooded suburb. I love to hike and camp. The woods behind my house afford me to build a Hobo Camp where I can test new gear (except weapons obviously). However, I do practice with my sling shot with several targets set up on the ground and in the trees. I can hike around the neighborhood if I get antsy. Even with all of this I still maintain an awareness of my surroundings and keep a vigilant eye on strange vehicles but they're mostly Amazon and other delivery conveyances. Our Jeep always has a full tank of gas, start it everyday checking tires and fluid levels, packed with emergency gear and two bug out bags. There's room for both of us to sleep in it if necessary. Once a week I go to Walmart or Food Lion to refresh our supply of fresh fruit and vegetables; occasionally some meat to barbecue. As far as contributing to those in need I've given money and food to those who lost jobs and down on their luck. You're providing a great community service, Sootch...keep up the great work!

Just found your channel and subscribed!!! Thanks keeping them coming.

EXCELLENT and Reassuring advice. Thank you!

Here’s a tip. Canned items have expiration dates because the FDA requires manufacturers to put them there but they last incredibly long as long as they aren’t dented or expended in some way they are good to go.

#1, don't panic . rotate your inventory. once you have a "stash" use that stash. but replenish BEFORE you use it. then place those items in back of older items, always keeping your items fresher longer

I just found your channel and subscribed!! Thanks keep them coming.

Excellent video, a lot useful info. Thank you.

I really like what you said about bugging out. If you decide to hit the road when the SHTF, you will encounter so many dangerous events on the way to your location that the trip in itself could easily get you killed. If you have the ability to be out of town BEFORE it hits, you're good to go. But unless you're Nostradamus, how many of us are truly prepared for such a catastrophic event??

I have been saying "loose lips sink ships" all my life. I'm glad I'm not the only one who still uses that saying. It is absolutely true. Be very careful who you tell about your preps, also, don't keep all your preps in one area of your home. Find illogical places to store things. Hide food and water storages. Be sure to place some in the logical place (the kitchen) but also hide it in other areas of your home. If someone does enter your home they'll think all you have is what is in the kitchen; they certainly won't look for it inside box of diapers, or at the bottom of a pile of laundry!

Very helpful and knowledgeable. Glad to see a video on what not to do.

This was a very useful video. The point about sheltering in place as a default is especially useful.