Yeah - I do not consider myself as a "prepper" - but you never know... The last warning call was Covid in early 2020.
So I bought 3 boxes with 24 packs each of those "NRG-5" bars that contain everything to survive - at least for 5 weeks for my wife an me. I have never tasted one - and it is completely irrelevant to me, as I do not expec…
Yeah - I do not consider myself as a "prepper" - but you never know... The last warning call was Covid in early 2020.
So I bought 3 boxes with 24 packs each of those "NRG-5" bars that contain everything to survive - at least for 5 weeks for my wife an me. I have never tasted one - and it is completely irrelevant to me, as I do not expect to ever eat them.
The NRG-5 bars have a best before date of 30 years (!). I And I do not believe, that I have to throw them away when I'm in my late 80s.
We have 100 liters potable water stored - which is replaced every year. That's not too much for two persons - but we neither would cook (see above) nor would we not need to flush the toilet with it (river).
If Mr. Putin decides to close that gas valve - we have a furnace in our living room, that is fired with wood and that can keep the entire house at least frost free. We have a small "party room" - which has another wood fired oven and which is easier too keep warm. And I keep about 4 cubic meters of fire wood - which we use to fuel our romantic fire place.
And then we have an RV / Camper Car with solar panels, 220v inverter, 200l water, toilet, stove, heating, which I usually keep with full Diesel and water tanks and LPG bottles. It's a hobby and fun car to carry our e-Mountaibikes and golf equipment. But it has a double use, just in case.
Do I believe that I will ever need all this for emergency purpose? Defininetly not!
It's like an insurance that you hope you never ever need at all. We live some 5 miles of a nuclear power plant - which was recently shut down, but it still contains the nuclear material for cooling down. Our house is just 500m from one of the largest rivers in Europe, which was close to reaching its all time high just this spring. Yes - there's a dam and a pump station - but what if?
If you consider the cost of thos NRG-5 bars and the water, its absolutely negligible. For me it's just a question of common sense and preparedness.
Side remark: We spent some years in Hong Kong - and our "look and see trip" was on the peak of the SARS crisis 2003. We still read once in a while South China Morning Post - and so it happened that I read about Covid-19 first on December 31st, 2019 (!). I read the article "about that strange disease on a wet market in Wuhan" to my wife and we thought "well - sounds like SARS - we better follow this". I run a midsize German company as MD. End of January 2020 I thought - well, this Corona-thing might be still far far away, but I called our EHS guy and said: "You remember our pandemic emergency plan? Lets have a look at it". So we looked and he ordered disinfectant, face masks - and we made a clear plan to keep our operations and R&D running on site and how to operate sales/marketing/admin etc. remote from home. When I mentioned this to my management team, most of them thought "now he's paranoid". Four weeks later we were all in homeoffice, working very effectively remote. The rest is history...
Yeah - I do not consider myself as a "prepper" - but you never know... The last warning call was Covid in early 2020.
So I bought 3 boxes with 24 packs each of those "NRG-5" bars that contain everything to survive - at least for 5 weeks for my wife an me. I have never tasted one - and it is completely irrelevant to me, as I do not expect to ever eat them.
The NRG-5 bars have a best before date of 30 years (!). I And I do not believe, that I have to throw them away when I'm in my late 80s.
We have 100 liters potable water stored - which is replaced every year. That's not too much for two persons - but we neither would cook (see above) nor would we not need to flush the toilet with it (river).
If Mr. Putin decides to close that gas valve - we have a furnace in our living room, that is fired with wood and that can keep the entire house at least frost free. We have a small "party room" - which has another wood fired oven and which is easier too keep warm. And I keep about 4 cubic meters of fire wood - which we use to fuel our romantic fire place.
And then we have an RV / Camper Car with solar panels, 220v inverter, 200l water, toilet, stove, heating, which I usually keep with full Diesel and water tanks and LPG bottles. It's a hobby and fun car to carry our e-Mountaibikes and golf equipment. But it has a double use, just in case.
Do I believe that I will ever need all this for emergency purpose? Defininetly not!
It's like an insurance that you hope you never ever need at all. We live some 5 miles of a nuclear power plant - which was recently shut down, but it still contains the nuclear material for cooling down. Our house is just 500m from one of the largest rivers in Europe, which was close to reaching its all time high just this spring. Yes - there's a dam and a pump station - but what if?
If you consider the cost of thos NRG-5 bars and the water, its absolutely negligible. For me it's just a question of common sense and preparedness.
Side remark: We spent some years in Hong Kong - and our "look and see trip" was on the peak of the SARS crisis 2003. We still read once in a while South China Morning Post - and so it happened that I read about Covid-19 first on December 31st, 2019 (!). I read the article "about that strange disease on a wet market in Wuhan" to my wife and we thought "well - sounds like SARS - we better follow this". I run a midsize German company as MD. End of January 2020 I thought - well, this Corona-thing might be still far far away, but I called our EHS guy and said: "You remember our pandemic emergency plan? Lets have a look at it". So we looked and he ordered disinfectant, face masks - and we made a clear plan to keep our operations and R&D running on site and how to operate sales/marketing/admin etc. remote from home. When I mentioned this to my management team, most of them thought "now he's paranoid". Four weeks later we were all in homeoffice, working very effectively remote. The rest is history...