This is Gerard Le Flamand and I dedicated this blog to prepare for the disastrous events to happen in 2012.How to Survive 2012: This you MUST know about Food and Water
Food
Days One to Two: Perishables Dairy products and meat in an unpowered refrigerator can keep up to 4 hours. Frozen food lasts up to two days. If you have doubts about freshness, use a meat thermometer—anything above 41 F should be thrown out.
Days Three to Seven: Fruits and Vegetables Most fruit can last up to seven days at room temperature. Potatoes can stay fresh longer than a week if stored in a cool, dark place.
Beyond Seven Days: Packaged Goods, Jars and Cans Pantry goods such as flour, granola bars and crackers last around six months when sealed. Food in cans or jars—such as beans and peanut butter—lasts up to one year, unopened.
Long-Term: Emergency Rations Emergency rations such as Mainstay and ER Bars follow Coast Guard standards. Individual rations provide 400 calories and can be stored for up to five years.
Water
• Emergency Supplies Keep three days’ supply of bottled water on hand at all times—12 gal. per person per day for drinking, plus 12 gal. per person per day for sanitation and cooking. Filling up a 50-gal. bathtub with water can extend your supply by 1212 days.
• Hidden Water Once your emergency supply has been exhausted, you can collect drinking water from your home’s pipes. Close off the main water valve, open a top-floor faucet to let air into the system, then drain water through a faucet at the lowest point in your home. Another source of stored potable water is your hot-water heater. A 30-gal. tank holds enough water to supply a family of four for just over a week. Keep in mind, however, that many natural disasters can foul a municipal water supply, introducing contaminants into your home’s pipes. Be sure to filter and purify drained water before you drink it.
• Purifying Water To treat contaminated water, or water collected from rain, moving streams or clear lakes, first filter it through a paper towel, clean cloth or coffee filter to remove particles. Then either boil the water or sterilize it with 16 drops of household bleach per gallon. Wait 30 minutes before consuming.
Filed under: Safety Tips 2012 • Survival Guide
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Interesting article. Thanks a lot!
you can never rely on food or water products from before the cataclysm always have a means of getting more that is not dependant on the infrastructure we take for granted now
Actually, in my lab I am working on a way to lenghten the food supplies and water supplies. I have a very solid hypothesis concerning the water drinking. In fact, it’s not necessary to use so much – 12 gallons! plus 12 other ones!!!
– to survive every day. On average, 35 gallons can last for a week, per person of course. Of course, it can last only for an hour too, but it depends how thirsty you are. So, logically, you can’t move much to be not too thirsty. If no one moves for one whole week, we will all be hungry, but living! Now of course the 2012 catastrophe will last at most a few months. But, we can only last one week if we go with my thing. I have a solution for that too!
Some of humans will sleep for everyone, and others will eat for everyone, and some will drink for everyone. So, we will be able to last a whole year – one year!!
But of course, I believe that it won’t be necessary. In fact, I believe that aliens will come and take away the chosen few. Now not everyone will be chosen, because few doesn’t mean all, for those who didn’t know…
but those who will stay on earth, because they aren’t chosen, will have to survive. They won’t follow this advice, unless someone opens their eyes to truth, because they think 2012 doesn’t exist
but if someone wants to open their eyes, it will take a long time, and I can’t sacrifice my time because of my search for truth.
but as I said, if someone wants to open their eyes, the best way to do it is to enter their house at night, when they are all asleep. Then, walk quietly to their beds, and open delicately their eyelids, so that their eyes are now open!!
but that takes too much time, and we have to concentrate on other stuff rather than trying to save lesser humans…
I shall leave you now, leaving these beautiful speculations