A first draft survival skills list
6/3/13
A Assignment of spaces and bedding
Animal husbandry, none. The Hemlocks
does not have farm animals. Rather we have powdered
foods
Alcohol, mostly making beer, wine, and distilled spirits
Alcohol, mostly making beer, wine, and distilled spirits
B Bartering
Blacksmithing
Bathing arrangements, both cold
season and warm season
Batteries, especially rechargeable
ones
Bees
Bees
C Cooking
1. Food
storage
2. Shelf
lives
3. Food prep
4. Cooking schedules
5. Menu selections
6. Training
a. Food safety
b.
Canning foods
7. Using
wood stoves for cooking
8. Food
drying
9. Support
the security people 24/7/365, as best you can
10. Solar oven
10. Solar oven
Cleaning, include supplies
Carpentry
Communications
1. Voice
2. Signal,
including for meals
3. CB radios
Coins
D Doctoring
1.
Preventive medicine
2.
Corrective medicine
3. Pregnancy
and birthing
4. Pandemics
Dental, both preventive and
corrective
Digging dirt
1. Security
2. Burials
3. Waste
disposal
E Evicting people
1. Policy
and justice
2. Supplies
3. Where
4. How
Entertainment
1.
Individual
2. Group
3. Books
4. Radio
F Forecasting weather
1. Method
a.
Include use of barometers
b.
Publishing the forecast
c.
Outside info, including radio
Fishing, including worm pit
G Growing food
H Health and Sanitation Inspections
Hunting, including all means
Hello and Goodbye
1. Packages
and briefing
2. Reminder
to new arrivals about things that do not go into the septic tank
Haircuts Once a month for males and females
Heating
1. Using
wood stoves for heating
I Inventory
1. Storage
2. Shelf lives
3. Foul
weather gear
4. For
public use
Infestation control
Infestation control
J Justice
1. Publish
the rules
2.
Administer the rules
K
L Leaders
1. Who
2. Selection, including how and when
3. Position assignments
4. Performance reviews
3. Position assignments
4. Performance reviews
Lighting
M Maintenance
1. Water
2. Waste
water, including toilets and the outhouse
3. Electric
a. Water powered plant
b. Solar powered plant
c.
House wiring for the off grid setup
4. Clothes
and shoes
5.
Facilities and spaces
6. Equipment,
like all of it
a. Tool sharpening, especially saw sharpening
a. Tool sharpening, especially saw sharpening
Mulch pit
Maple Syrup, including tapping and processing
Maple Syrup, including tapping and processing
N News Includes
posting the news and using the Short Wave radio
O Optics
1. Equipment
2. Glasses
to see with
3. Storage
4.
Maintenance
P
Q
R Religious
1. Weekly
services
2. Funerals, including locations of the
deceased. Use the various markers available,
or make up some from local resources. The idea is that some living and dead
will want to be reinterred elsewhere and at a
later time.
3. Weddings
3. Weddings
4. Counseling
5. All other services
5. All other services
Recycling Nothing should go to waste.
Resources
1. Personal
knowledge
2. Books
3. Reprinted
internet articles
Recording
1. History
2. Religious, like weddings and funerals
3. Methods, like writing and video
4. Maintenance, medical, dental, schooling, as appropriate
Recording
1. History
2. Religious, like weddings and funerals
3. Methods, like writing and video
4. Maintenance, medical, dental, schooling, as appropriate
S Security
1. Local,
including people and supplies
2. Area,
including Monterey the city
3. Regional,
including Interstate 40
4. Safety, including weapons safety training
5. Reaction
force
a.
Call out methods
b.
Scheduling rehearsals
6. Use of
sandbags, including covering up the dead at funerals
Schooling for our children
Schooling for our children
Safety considerations, including
food and water and waste water
Screening and accepting new arrivals
T Training
1.
Children's education
2. Skills
a.
Weapons
b.
Hunting
c.
Food collecting
3. Safety
Trash, including trash pits and
non-septic pit (like for condoms and feminine hygiene products)
First Aid
Triage
U Use of anti-bacterial items and
protecting the waste water system
V Veterinary
W Washing and drying clothes
Wild edible foods collecting
Drinking water
Waste water
Wood
1. Cutting
2. Storage,
including locations
Weapons 1. Inventory
2. Storage
3. Training
in use and safety
X
Y Yard and trail maintenance (manually
done), including scheduling
Yard dogs
Yard dogs
Z
Notes:
1.
This is a first draft.
2. Many of these skills will often be
accomplished by the same person.
3.
These skills are not the same as an organization plan.
4.
No animal husbandry skills are planned. Rather people will use powdered,
canned, freeze dried, and smoked and
otherwise dried products as needed. Now bartering may bring in some farm goods,
too.
5. I request adding to the list by making
comments to this post.
6.
I forecast a third and improved draft by early August, 2013.
7.
The rechargeable batteries for the electric plants are useable until 2020, or
so is advertised.
8.
Using the English alphabet to organize the proposed skills list was just an
idea. There are other ways to do the same thing, too.
9. Think of a Navy ship. It generally has a
24/7/365 schedule to operate on, plus a daily routine to accomplish the daily
tasks. This draft post is mostly about the skills of a daily task.
10.
Obviously where you live will influence your judgment, so there is no one size
fits all best answer. Rather consider using this post for a catalyst for your
thoughts about where you live and your situation.
11.
Last, there is a lot of stuff to think about if times should get hard, or so I
think.
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