Mike Mester is a logistician with an uncanny ability to store food successfully (pun INTENDED). In addition to training his family he is the first person on Doomsday Preppers to display interspecies preparation, having an army of dogs that could make Cesar Millan blush.
1. Civil Unrest
Mike is getting ready for civil unrest due to a worldwide monetary downfall. While I have undergone the likelihood of a total economical failure in the past, the concept of preparing for civil unrest is a form of prepping which records lot of different circumstances within it. The human element is probably the most difficult facet of a disaster scenario to predict. And no matter what takes place, if the infrastructure goes we are going to have 3 days worth of food in the food market.
2. 'Five minutes before the prom is not the time for you to learn how to dance?
This is possibly the best quotes from the show and something that Mike has summarized in over ten years of prepping. Steady but slow is best strategy to use for almost all preppers, it's simpler for the budget to prep over time and regularity can easily breed excellent behavior. Mike has used his information about warehousing logisitics to arrange three rooms of supplies, adequate for two years to feed 10 people.
Just one challenge regarding the setup transpiring is that Mester is expressing very little value for the shelf life of his foods. Although there is certainly a distinction between expiry dates and what might support life, there is no purpose to tempt fortune and let his meatloaf get rotten in containers. Food reaching the end of its life could be rotated out, keeping the stores fresh. Kellene Bishop had a great technique of doing this and if applied it could possibly avoid a major shock. If food items thought to be steady were not in edible state, it would be bad.
3. Keeping the home safe
It has been excellent to see how prepared the Mester family had been when it came to self defense. Getting every single family member armed and ready to protect themselves is miles ahead of a few of the other preppers we have found who rely on one or some members to secure the group. With downtown Atlanta simply 45 miles away, looters can be at their doorway in a few weeks if not days.
The addition of attack dogs is yet another wonderful line of defense against both armed as well as unarmed prospective raiders. The intimidation aspect of dogs is an intangible method to get looters to keep clear. Also in a team of individuals, no one wants to be the very first person to get their forearm chewed up. If things grew aggressive, it is much safer to lose a dog than a loved one if the worst would take place. Overall it is a fantastic line of safety; the inclusion of ten pups will make it better still.
4. Fuel from Newspaper and Leaves
Mike has a great concept in the type of newspaper/foliage briquettes that can be used as a fuel resource for fire. As someone living in Canada I can't understand why he would be concerned with keeping the house warm in Georgia but it's an awesome idea nonetheless. The reality that the idea came from third world countries is interesting. The ways many individuals in those circumstances use materials do not require infrastructure thereby the techniques can be extremely useful to preppers.
1. Civil Unrest
Mike is getting ready for civil unrest due to a worldwide monetary downfall. While I have undergone the likelihood of a total economical failure in the past, the concept of preparing for civil unrest is a form of prepping which records lot of different circumstances within it. The human element is probably the most difficult facet of a disaster scenario to predict. And no matter what takes place, if the infrastructure goes we are going to have 3 days worth of food in the food market.
2. 'Five minutes before the prom is not the time for you to learn how to dance?
This is possibly the best quotes from the show and something that Mike has summarized in over ten years of prepping. Steady but slow is best strategy to use for almost all preppers, it's simpler for the budget to prep over time and regularity can easily breed excellent behavior. Mike has used his information about warehousing logisitics to arrange three rooms of supplies, adequate for two years to feed 10 people.
Just one challenge regarding the setup transpiring is that Mester is expressing very little value for the shelf life of his foods. Although there is certainly a distinction between expiry dates and what might support life, there is no purpose to tempt fortune and let his meatloaf get rotten in containers. Food reaching the end of its life could be rotated out, keeping the stores fresh. Kellene Bishop had a great technique of doing this and if applied it could possibly avoid a major shock. If food items thought to be steady were not in edible state, it would be bad.
3. Keeping the home safe
It has been excellent to see how prepared the Mester family had been when it came to self defense. Getting every single family member armed and ready to protect themselves is miles ahead of a few of the other preppers we have found who rely on one or some members to secure the group. With downtown Atlanta simply 45 miles away, looters can be at their doorway in a few weeks if not days.
The addition of attack dogs is yet another wonderful line of defense against both armed as well as unarmed prospective raiders. The intimidation aspect of dogs is an intangible method to get looters to keep clear. Also in a team of individuals, no one wants to be the very first person to get their forearm chewed up. If things grew aggressive, it is much safer to lose a dog than a loved one if the worst would take place. Overall it is a fantastic line of safety; the inclusion of ten pups will make it better still.
4. Fuel from Newspaper and Leaves
Mike has a great concept in the type of newspaper/foliage briquettes that can be used as a fuel resource for fire. As someone living in Canada I can't understand why he would be concerned with keeping the house warm in Georgia but it's an awesome idea nonetheless. The reality that the idea came from third world countries is interesting. The ways many individuals in those circumstances use materials do not require infrastructure thereby the techniques can be extremely useful to preppers.
About the Author:
Thank you for reading! Terrance Franklin writes about nutrition and survival on a number of sites on the web. For more information on doomsday preppers, be sure to check out http://doomsdayprepperswatch.wordpress.com/. And for even deeper reading, follow the link at http://doomsdaypreppers.hubpages.com/hub/doomsdayprepper