Quick Start Guide for a Hemlocks hard times startup

Quick Start Guide for a  Hemlocks hard times startup

9/25/2013

Third Draft

1. If times get hard, and we have to get "things" running quickly , here's a proposed draft of how to try do it.

2.  It is assumed people will come here, vice the other way around. The place can get overwhelmed with refugees.  Remember the local town of Monterey has great capacity, too. The working assumption is the place can handle 20+ adults and an equal amount of kids.

3. The  priorities are water, food, waste water and sanitation, staying out of foul weather, fire safety, initial medical help for the ill, and simple security.

4. The people priorities are Family and Friends and their children, then refugees in general.

            a)  Favored names are XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXXX XXXX, and XXXX XXXX. The Hemlocks expects not all will get here.

            b)  They will have to use the two main cottages.

            c)  All others are refugees. That is harsh, but this is a quick start guide. Said another way, one still has to try survive as best they can.

            d) They will have to use all the other many facilities, including the Cliff Field Pool area.

5. Food initially should be served "soup kitchen" style. Food for cooking can be obtained from the main cottage, and various cooking tools are all available. Wood is the main source of heat. The Dutch Oven and large cooking pots setup will probably be used. Cups and "sporks" are the main eating means.

6. Water comes from the springs, and the ponds. Bathing is by water and baby wipes if we have them. Sanitation is by the four toilets in the two cottages, the Cliff Field outhouse, and dug holes for urine and feces. Going to the bathroom anywhere is forbidden. The garbage pits will still be used. Menstruation products will go to these pits.

7. Fire safely is by ruthless checking and observing by all.

8.  Initial medical help is to keep the ill as warm and hydrated as possible.

9. Initially security is to maintain good order and discipline while setting up. LED lights for after dark are available.

10. One person will be the overall "boss". He or she will quickly  appoint people to maintain the water, cook, maintain sanitation (mostly to avert cholera and typhoid), appoint an initial doc, and a security chief that even assigns where to go. Any frictions will be sorted out by the boss. For those that don't like this proposed setup, they are welcome and expected to leave.

11. Transition to a more detailed way to exist should begin within one week as things settle down. Expect change during the transition. A draft detailed way to go forward already exists at the Hemlocks.