Water & food
Long Term Food Bucket
A sealed pail of dried meals with a decade-scale shelf life. Check servings per bucket against the calories you actually need.
Scenario
Deep Impact
The date is known. That is the cruel part.
There is a date. Everyone has it. The eighteen months before it are the actual disaster — the lotteries, the caves, the roads out of every coastal city at once, all of it happening on a published schedule.
What kills you
Everyone else, moving in the same direction as you.
Rules
- 01Inland and uphill, early, quietly.
- 02Anything on a coast is already a memory.
- 03The crowd leaves late. Do not be the crowd.
- 04Dust year follows impact. Plan for the year, not the day.
The kit
5 itemsThe impact is a day. The sunless year afterwards is the actual problem.
Food that makes more food is the only kind that outlasts a stockpile.
Water & food
Heirloom Seed Vault
Open-pollinated varieties that breed true, so next year's crop comes from this year's plants.
Fuel you can gather beats fuel you have to buy, once nobody is selling.
Shelter
Wood Burning Stove Portable
Burns wood in an enclosed firebox with a flue, so heat goes into the room and smoke does not. Flue installation is the hard part.
Ash makes every water source a problem you have to solve twice.
Water & food
Water Filter Pump
Hand-pumped filtration that works from shallow or awkward sources. Slower than gravity but needs no hanging point.
Ejecta is glass, and it stays airborne for a very long time.
Medical
Dust Mask Pack
Basic particulate masks for dusty work. Less filtration than an N95, and cheap enough to keep boxed.
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