Anybody else storing bottled water and food? Been doing Research and bottled water can be stored up to 5 years. And canned food has been known to be edible even after 20 years and much longer. So I would say 5 or 6 years and start rotating your stock.

Myself this year in January have started storing enough water and canned food so far so me and my wife could go without a grocery store for 3.5 months. My plan is by August to have enough for a year. And then just start rotating the food out and replacing it as I use it. And buying a little bit of Silver at a time also.

Also I live close by to my father who has a large piece of land and im helping him build a large green house this Saturday that could easily feed the 4 of us also. He has decided to keep a permanent little farm going and is convinced the next great depression is coming.

This kind of stuff with me stocking food and and my father predicting doomsday and building greenhouses has my wife a little freaked. And at the same time thinking it just isn't going to happen even though she saw a total collapse in Ecuador in the late 90s I believe.

Ya we have a large private lake behind me if things really got bad and my inventory ran out. Same with my fathers land. He has solar power and generators and a huge house for all of us if we had to leave ours.

We live about 2000ft up and get pure Cumberland Artisan Spring water right out of the mountain, so that is no problem and there is a ton of wild life up here to hunt, plus sulfur & salt peter for making powder, got good wind for making 12 volt wind generators. We are pretty well set to survive anything up here, with caves and all. I think we have about 3 or four more cabins left for sale, there is only 14 total in our little gated community.

Been on my list for a while to get a hand pump. I have a generator but if you can't get gas then it's kind of useless. As for food,we usually get the freezer running when we can make some extra money and stock it and the canned food shelves up. We do this mainly because our work is seasonal and not having to go to the store as much during the slow times just makes sense.Plus you never know about hurricanes down here.

A generator is east to build, take an inverter (DC to AC), a 12VCD alternator, Metal shaft, and a turbo (vertical drum style that way it is unidirectional) fan (you can weld a few 3lb coffee cans together and cut vents in them if all else fails), about 30ft of electrical house hold wiring (use 12 gage), and a 12VDC battery. Throw it all together and you got a 120 VAC power source.