Breaking News: Hurricane Joaquin Seriously Threatens East Coast & US Gov Prep Website Suicide [REVIEW]

Hurricane Joaquin is racing for the US East Coast and NE USA and you should start to get prepared for it.  COMPLETE How to classes on everything preparedness are at http://www.Steven1234.com and are all from me, Steven Harris, and they are all DO IT NOW with WHAT YOU GOT or can EASILY GET classes.  Especially the Family Food and Water Class.  The How to Power Your House From Your Car Class, everything is from Walmart.  Want a personal battery bank like I have at http://www.Battery1234.com ?  Yes, you guessed it, its all at Walmart.  Now if you want to see just how BAD the information your USA Government is giving you regarding preparedness, then read on, its utterly shocking.

Yesterday, Sept 30th 2015 was National Preparedness Day here in the USA.  A day when you are suppose to check your preparedness, look at the utter JOKES that Ready.gov or Redcross.gov or CDC.gov are and make yourself prepared.  Here is some of the stupidity they vomit on you and then I'll tell you where to get real preparedness information that REALLY WORKS that YOU CAN USE NOW before Hurricane Joaquin threatens you.  I'm going to show you how your government is even more incompetent at preparedness than they are at medicine.

FROM THE READY.GOV WEBSITE:  Your basic Preparedness Kit.

From Ready.gov: Water, one gallon of water per person per day for at least three days, for drinking and sanitation
From Steve:  Great, 1 gallon per person per day.  Don't bother telling you that in the desert southwest in the summer that this could be 2 to 5 gallons per day.  Do they tell you how to store it?  No they don't.  Do they tell you that a clean unscented trash bag in a pillow case is a great way to carry water. nope.  Do they tell you that you can take a trash bag and put it in a drawer on the floor and store lots of water really quickly?? Nope.  They do not.  Do they tell you that 5 gallon water jugs are at walmart or that even 5 gallon buckets for 3 bucks at home depot will work great.  Nope... they  leave you with nothing except saying "have 1 gallon of water per person per day."   Its so simple to give good advice and they give you nothing.   I talk extensively on how to store water in improvised methods really quickly, I mean 100 gallons of water in 30 minutes, in my Free Family Food and Water Prep Class at http://www.Steven1234.com  and at http://www.BeforeTheStormHits.com


From Ready.gov: Food, at least a three-day supply of non-perishable food
From Steve: Gee...what type of food.  What type of food is non-perishable?? people  have no clue, MTV does not teach this stuff.   Do they tell you that dried food sealed in a zip lock bag is light weight and full of calories ?? nope.  Do they even tell you what type of canned food to get ?? nope.  Pork and beans?  Beans? Soups?  What ? what ? What should I get.  How about how to heat it up?  Do I want a stove to heat it up?  Do I want even an esbit stove to do this ?   No clue, no advice.  You're on your own.   Want to know how to make food fast, its in my Free Family Food and Water Prep Class at http://www.Steven1234.com and at http://www.BeforeTheStormHits.com and I have some great little stoves (including the esbits) at http://www.Prep1234.com


From Ready.gov: Battery-powered or hand crank radio and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert and extra batteries for both
FROM Steve: oh lord one of the worst things that could be a plague on you is one of those damn crank up radios.  Talk about pieces of CRAP JUNK.   They will break on you in the first 5 minutes of cranking, and then you have nothing, and you don't want a damn NOAA weather radio, the government thinks you should be listening to their government weather service but I sure as hell don't think you should.  I think you want NEWS RADIO about the storm or the incident.  What good is a friggin NOAA weather radio going to do for you during a 9/11 attack???  Tell you that its a clear blue sky.  Great, clear blue sky and 4 planes attacked 3 major buildings.  You want an AM / FM Radio !!! Again, you really want an AM/FM Radio that runs on D Cell Batteries and you want D Cell Duracell Alkaline Batteries and you want to have a spare set of them as well.  I have EVERYTHING you could want to know about radios at http://www.Radios1234.com 


From Ready.gov: Flashlight and extra batteries
FROM Steve:  This has to be the most stupid of all of the advice from the website.  Is it so damn hard to say, "Have an LED Flashlight that takes D Cell Duracell Alkaline Batteries and have extra of the same batteries"   One piece of advice tells you exactly what to get and what will give you hundreds of hours of light and one leaves you looking at the flashlights at walmart wondering what to do.  Yeah...if you don't tell people what to get they'll get a regular bulb AA flashlight and some 'heavy duty' batteries that will end up lasting them 30 minutes and then they are in the cold and the darkness.  I have an excellent selection of flash lights and head lamps and lanterns that use everything from AAA, to AA to D Cell batteries at http://www.Solar1234.com and at http://www.Prep1234.com  and I tell you how and why each light is useful and what place in your preps they should fill.  I even tell you about having lithium batteries, alkaline batteries and NiMH rechargable batteries.  If you have the NiMH Batteries I suggest on solar1234.com and the charger I suggest and an inverter for your car you'll have an unlimited source of AA batteries for your head lamps and flashlights for the entire blackout.   On http://www.Prep1234.com   I get into the much newer, and much better, Lithium-Ion 18650 and 14500 batteries.   These batteries are the future and I talk about them in detail with how's and why's.


From Ready.gov:  First aid kit
FROM Steve:  They don't tell you one damn thing to get for a first aid kit.  I guess you should get the 10 buck one at Walmart from Johnson and Johnson and its basically full of different band-aids.  Do they bother to tell you that the number one thing that will get hurt on you first and make your mobility miserable is a scrape, cut or rash or blister on your skin?  No... they don't.  That having tape and moleskin and other padding for areas of your skin are very important let alone a disinfectant for any skin wounds or scrapes that can easily get infected from being in a dirty disaster environment.  Do you want a first aid class that the redcross and the government will NEVER EVER give you ??  Take my first aid class and see a good hundred items I have listed there for you to look at and decide if they should be in your first aid kit.  My detailed first aid class is at http://www.FirstAid1234.com


FROM READY.gov: Whistle to signal for help
FROM Steve:  What type of whistle?  A metal one, a plastic one, one with a 'pea' in it?  What whistles work the best and are the most durable and where do you get them?  I don't have a class on whistles...but I'll tell you to just get the standard metal whistle with the 'pea' in it like a referee would use.  They won't crush or break and anyone listening knows that the sound of that whistle, is a whistle and it means someone is blowing it for assistance. 


FROM READY.gov: Dust mask to help filter contaminated air and plastic sheeting and duct tape to shelter-in-place
FROM Steve:  They don't even bother to tell you that you use the duct tape and plastic to seal up your windows and doors and they don't bother to even tell you that you do this in a chemical or biological situation.  I guess they really don't want to 'scare' you.


FROM READY.gov: Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanitation
FROM Steve:  Wow...plastic bags for sanitation?  Something to take a dump into??  Do they bother to tell you how to get the water out of your toilet bowel and to put the plastic bag into the toilet and to use it that way?...and to have some kitty litter so you can cover up your business just like a cat does? nope...they do not.  Do they tell you to take a piss outside every chance you can and not to put urine into the bag??? nope...they don't.  They just think you'll have perfect dumper duty with some plastic bags, plastic ties and moist towelettes.


FROM READY.gov: Wrench or pliers to turn off utilities
FROM Steve:  What utilities do I turn off with a wrench or pliers?? Do I need it to turn off the electricity, do I need it to turn off the gas, do I need it to turn off the city water ??  What if I have a water well?  Do I disconnect it?  What if I have a propane tank for my furnace do I turn off that gas??  if I do have to turn off any of these where are they??  Which ones do I have to turn off ?  Do I turn them back on and how do I do it?   Should only the utility turn back on my natural gas due to possible damage to appliances?  Will my hot water heater and furnace work after I turn the gas off and then turn it back on.   Guess what....if you have a pilot light on any of those, it will be out and have to be re-lit and that is not the easiest thing in the world to do because the instructions on the furnace or water heater are not that perfect and turning that knob to turn it to pilot, then holding down for a minute, then lighting the pilot, and then to turn it to full on is not super easy.


FROM READY.gov: Manual can opener for food
FROM Steve:  Gee guys...don't you think you should of listed this one right after the food advice.


FROM READY.gov: Local maps
FROM Steve:  A paper map?? What is a paper map?  Where do you even get these in the year 2015?  If you are a member of AAA you might be able to stop by a local office and get a local map.  Barnes and Noble tries to carry maps of the local area but in the generation of google maps and smart phones, there are no more paper maps easily available.  So if you can't get a paper map, what good does it do for you and what does the government want you to do with a paper map?  They just say you should have local maps and not why.


FROM READY.gov: Cell phone with chargers, inverter or solar charger
FROM Steve: Again, more STUPIDITY from the government.  Cell phone, good idea, charger for phone (duh), no kidding, and an inverter.  Many people have no idea what an inverter is and what it will do for them, obviously I advocate the use of an inverter A LOT....see my How to Power Your House From Your Car class at http://www.Steven1234.com and you WILL KNOW what an inverter is and how to use one like an expert.   Now the real STUPIDITY....the government says you should have a solar charger for your phone.  There is not a solar charger for a phone that is on the market that is worth a damn.  Many of them would take a WEEK of sunshine to charge your phone, and that is assuming your phone is off.   Let alone during Super Storm Sandy we had 11 straight days of ALL CLOUDS and NO SUNSHINE !!!   How the hell are you suppose to charger your cell phone when its cloudy ???  Answer is, you can't.  Not even a little bit.  So a solar charger for your cell phone is one of the most stupid items you could get.  What you really want is a LIME FUEL USB BATTERY that will charge your cell phone about 10 times, that's how good it is.  It only costs 30 bucks and its listed on http://www.Prep1234.com   Would you buy a gun that only worked when the sun was shining ??  No... you would not, so why would you buy something to allow your 'life line' and main form of portable communications and information to only work when the sun was out?  The lime fuel battery will work at 3AM, in the dark, in the rain, and it will charge your cell phone and keep it charged during your emergency.


Thank you for reading this far, it shows that you are truly interested in preparedness and protecting your family. 
Steven Harris
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