Keeping Food Cool After a Grid Down Scenario/Trucker Strike Reminder
Keeping Food Cool After a Grid Down Scenario
Today’s post is compliments of Paw Possum over at Paw’s Briar Patch on Facebook. Paw posts some great info in the Briar Patch, so make sure you check it out and join the group. Paw gives some great tips on homesteading and lost skills that will come in handy if we experience a complete collapse. Today’s post is specifically for food storage which can be useful in many everyday disasters that cause power outages. The folks up in South Dakota have already had their first snow storm. Because the storm came before the trees had a chance to loose their leaves, the wet snow has more area to cling to. The weight of the extra snow on the leaves is snapping tree limbs which are in turn bringing down power lines. Paws contraption will also keep food from freezing as it maintains a more constant temperature below ground.
Paw Possum
For folks in Florida like me, we still have several more weeks of Hurricane Season. After Hurricane Wilma a few years back, my area lost power for nearly a month. I wish I could have built one of these then.
Don’t forget, this weekend is the trucker strike and convoy to DC to protest the governments failure to abide by the constitution. Let’s all get behind them and participate. The truckers are asking that Americans engage in no economic activity from October 11th through October 13th. To learn more, listen to my recent interview with Patriot Trucker, Tim Schorer on the convoy to DC and trucker strike.
Keep your eyes on the upcoming debt ceiling debate. It has the potential to cause some serious disruptions.
Check out my new book American Exit Strategy, Book One of The Economic Collapse Chronicles. Liberty minded individuals and those who believe in the Constitution will find this near future dystopian novel to be right up their alley. Those who are looking to be more informed about the potential threats to America’s financial stability will learn what to watch for and how to prepare themselves for an economic collapse.
Godspeed and happy prepping!
MDG
You can build a preppers freezer.
As long as you live where it snows, you can build this.
Dig a 20 foot across. I was taught to dig it about 14 or more deep. Once you have your hole dug, you now need to build a cinder block wall almost all the way around. Next put blocks on the floor, but leave space to let water drain.
Now you build another dunker style building inside the the the first one. This has to have aroof, but you need to build a stair case so you can get into the enclosed building.
It will be dark inside the center building, but you can add shelves or what ever.
Do not cover the huge building. Now you need to make a top. I was taught to use half logs to cover this. But now we can use steel or things that you can move in the winter.
Now you have a freeze that once it starts snowing, you fill it with snow. Keep packing snow in it all winter. Just when the snow stops put the top on it & cover with weeds twigs & lastly cover with about a foot of dirt.
This will actually keep food frozen all year.
I’ve seen it work.