A second draft survival skills list
6/13/13
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 - including using one utility cart to carry things to
and from Monterey town
Blacksmithing
Bathing
arrangements, both cold season and warm season
Batteries,
especially rechargeable ones
Bees
Bees
Book keeping -
Example: what do we have, and have I told them
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.
Cooking oil, including oil press
11. Solar oven
11. Solar oven
Cleaning,
include supplies
Carpentry
Communications
1.
Voice
2.
Signal, including for meals
3.
CB radios
Coins
Cooling In the warm season, use open windows,
breezes, and house designs
D Doctoring
1.
Preventive medicine
2.
Corrective medicine
3.
Pregnancy and birthing
4.
Pandemics
5.
Locations and use of assets
6.
Anticipate using training and experience from military, scout, nurse, EMT, and other
assets to operate.
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
5.
Music - both live and MP3 if we can power it
6.
Story telling
7. Reading
8.
Schedule
Electric
1.
Use of water plant and solar plant
2. Rechargeable battery schedule
3.
Use of home off grid setup
4.
Use of one utility cart (to chase the sun for the solar plant)
F Forecasting weather
1.
Method
a.
Include use of barometers
b.
Publishing the forecast
c.
Outside info, including radio
Fishing,
including worm pit
Flag pole
G Growing food
Green house
construction
Locations and
schedules for growing food
Growing seeds
into plants
Geiger counter
use
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, including the alternatives that
exist
Haircuts Once a month for males and females
Heating
1.
Using wood stoves for heating
I Inventory
1.
Storage - including where all things are
2. Shelf lives
3.
Foul weather gear
4.
Items 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
Money
Machine shop -
emphasis on requirements, then local capabilities
Making things -
emphasis on improvising as required
Medicine - and
dental Go back to D doctoring and dental
N News Includes
posting the news and using the Short Wave radio
O Optics
1.
Equipment list and locations
2.
Glasses to see with- reading glasses use and repair is priority. People are
expected to bring their own prescription glasses and/or contact lenses
and cleaners.
3.
Storage - "hot box" setup
4.
Maintenance
P Pandemic - What to do if it happens
Q
R Religious
1.
Weekly services - usually by lay leaders
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. Think dual
use.
Resources
1.
Personal knowledge
2.
Books
3.
Reprinted internet articles
Recording
1. History
2. Religious, like weddings, funerals, and births
3. Methods, like writing and video
4. Maintenance, medical, dental, schooling, as appropriate
Recording
1. History
2. Religious, like weddings, funerals, and births
3. Methods, like writing and video
4. Maintenance, medical, dental, schooling, as appropriate
5. Wish
list - like for bartering and making things
Radiation
monitoring - as appropriate and if appropriate.
Go to G - Geiger counter use, also.
S Security
1.
Local, including people and supplies
2.
Area, including Monterey the city
3.
Regional, including Interstate 40, and other outside threats
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
7.
Use of whistles and compasses
8.
Patrol plans and schedule, including map and two-man foxhole
9.
Use of other security gear
10.
Use of thermos
11.
Use of foul weather gear
Schooling for our children
Safety
considerations, including food and water and waste water
Screening and
accepting new arrivals - procedure and interim period
Story telling
Shoe repair -
emphasis on using shoe goo
Sewing - emphasis on repair
T Training
1.
Children's education
2.
Skills
a.
Weapons
b.
Hunting
c.
Food collecting
d.
Wood stoves and camp ovens
e.
Cooking
f.
First aid - methods, supplies, and locations
g.
Targets - suggest using sandbags with leaves in them as backdrops.
Targets have also been stored here.
3.
Safety
Trash,
including trash pits and non-septic pit (like for condoms and feminine hygiene products)
First Aid
Triage
Time - emphasis
on use of non-electric clocks and watches
U Use of anti-bacterial items and protecting the waste water
system
V Veterinary with emphasis
on yard dogs and rabies prevention
W Washing and drying clothes
Wild edible
foods collecting - read the books and use baskets/ bags and compasses and whistles
Drinking water
- spring water is clean to drink but also have filters
Waste water
Wood
1.
Cutting
2.
Storage, including locations
3.
Location of sources, including coal seam
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 second 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 existing 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 for 24/7/365.
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. Animal feed comes to mind.
11.
Last, there is a lot of stuff to think about if times should get hard, or so I
think.
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