we went over a lot of things yesterday

concerning how to protect the homestead but didn't cover what goes on inside the homestead. I woke up this morning to no water. We are on a well which has never had any problems. This morning, no water. I checked everything, wiring wise and can't see a problem. So I called a friend who put our newest pump in. But the point here is back when Trump first got in I thought we might have some problems then so i had a hand pump installed in our well house. Sorta like the old hand pumps you see in the western movies except bigger, a two handed pump. In about 15 minutes I pumped out about 25 gallons of water in buckets we keep around for situations like that.

Anyway, if you are on a well, you might think about something like that and if you are on city water what happens if the system gets shut down? I picked up a 350 gallon water tank a while back and keep it full of water. Every couple of years I empty it and put fresh water in. I need to talk to WB and see if there are some tablets to help keep the water fresh. The tank is in the garage, in the shade so no heat gets to it. I know there are tablets to put in small amounts of water to make it drinkable, but what about a 350 gallon tank?

There are a lot of those white plastic tanks around. The ones with a metal cage around it. They were, in most cases, used to store molasses or syrup. They can be cleaned out and used. But again what do we put in there to keep 350 gallons fresh? These are something to think about.

Heat

We have 3 wood stoves in our house. The house is not large by any means, around 2700 sq. feet. So a big wood stove in the front room, a wood cook stove off the kitchen and one big one back in my reloading/trophy room pretty much keeps the house livable. Neither Colleen or I like a house hot. A temp somewhere around 65 or so is fine with us.

The thought here is what do you do if the electricity shuts down in a bad situation. How do you keep the family warm and alive.

Food. I talk to folks that butcher a calf every fall and fill the freezer. But again what is there is no juice to run that freezer? The only alternative is canned goods or freeze dried food. There are freeze dried packages to keep a family of 4 alive for a year and they don't take up much more room than about half a small closet. Sams Club and Costco used to keep those packages in their catalog. If you solved the water problem above, that also helps the freeze dried food situation.

Sorry to be so long on this but those are some things to think about if you decide wisely to "hunker down" at home when the SHTF.