Hello readers! The Preparedness Pro SINCERELY wishes prandin you all a delightful, safe, and joyous New Year’s celebration. We’re going to take a couple of days off here and we’ll catch you all back here on Monday! Enjoy your time off!!
Ok Folks, here’s the conclusion of the generator series, including understanding diesel and the authors overall recommendations. We hope you found this series helpful!
by Guest Author Ted Blanchard
Operational economy depends in part on the cost per unit volume of your fuel. Diesel generators are generally more fuel efficient (quarts burned per hour for a given power output) than gasoline units, but the overall cost efficiency can be lower depending on what the fuel rates are at the pump.
by Guest Author Ted Blanchard
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Different types of generators are designed to run on fuels that may include, gasoline, propane, natural gas and diesel. Don’t get one that runs on electricity though (that’s a little joke, folks). For the sake of brevity, I won’t go into water-powered or gasified wood-powered generators. Battery started engines are just fine and make the use much more enjoyable. Some generators can be modified to run on something other than their original design fuel, and some can selectively run on more than one type of fuel. These are not very common and potentially add complexity to the system that could translate to shorter life span or undesirable operation, but properly configured tri-fuel (propane, natural gas and gasoline) generators provide flexibility and can make sense in some circumstances. The dry fuel “carburetor” does not add much complexity but, as with all things, the KISS principle applies.
By Guest Author, Ted Blanchard
I confess. A generator is not one of my chosen tools for preparedness. But then again, I tend to prepare more for a serious survival scenario i.e.: a widespread national crisis, in which case I feel that a generator is useless and simply paints you as a target of the morally deficit and desperate individuals. However, in the event of a more temporary power outage scenario due to a hurricane, snow storm or such, a generator would certainly be a worthwhile tool to have. As such, I have solicited the assistance of Ted Blanchard, last week’s guest author to provide for us a 3 part series on understanding, protecting, and utilizing a generator. So here is part 1.
Kind of funny, but I have been asked non-stop this past month what I’ve asked Santa Claus for Christmas. So, I’m going to tell you.
An Aero-Garden- so that I can grow more goodies inside the home. It’s more convenient for me to handle them indoors and I like having more living plants in my home to provide more wonderful oxygen.
I don’t think people experience fear because folks aren’t spiritually minded. And I don’t think it’s because anyone is being unkind. But I’m getting a lot of feedback of folks not understanding why Spiritual Preparedness is the most important and thus the highest priority of preparedness. While I’ve attempted to answer this in part previously, I’m not exactly a pro when it comes to writing what I feel in such a way that it is conveyed very well. So today I’m going to give it another shot. 
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Over the last two days I’ve heard from friends and readers recount their stories of the last few days of confronting the snow storm in the east. Two of my friends attended a Christmas party at an upscale townhome in Annapolis, Maryland. They drove their SUV and felt that all would be well in spite of the windy snow storm. When the party was over and the guests were leaving, it was quickly apparent that no guests were leaving—not even the driver of the Hummer. All of the vehicles were literally snowed in. So what did the guests do?
by Kellene I hope that you all are ready for this. Don’t panic. Get organized. Make an accounting of what you really have. And fill in your gaps. But please stop delaying it. 2010 Food Shortage Crisis Means Financial Armageddon
Don’t you hate it in the movies when you have some intense scene and the person who is told to “keep quiet” or to “stay put” always disobeys that counsel and ends up getting the hero or heroine nearly killed? I think I hate it so much because it’s so Read more…
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I do hate food storage. I really do. In fact you’ll rarely hear me use those two words together in my home. However, that doesn’t mean that you won’t find fabulous foods that have a long shelf-life…bear with me here while I share the difference.
Food storage is 50 pound bags of dusty, weevil-infested wheat, stale rice, and rock hard beans that I would never eat in a million years.
Food storage is exploding cans of tomatoes, fermented juices, and salt-ridden soda pops that have been in the basement for decades.
Food storage is stinky powdered milk that I wouldn’t eat in even the most desperate of circumstances.