Where are you weakest in your preparations?

The question was posed over at www.thesurvivalistblog.net, "what is your biggest failure in your SHTF preps?"

A good question, I thought, and here is my answer:

"I have a good number of rechargable batteries and the small solar kit to charge them. I am not planning on having the option to use household electricity when the balloon goes up, just flashlights and radios. The power goes out frequently where we live so it won't be any great hardship for us to do without.

I think I have enough food to get us through a winter until the garden can produce in the spring. I have enough water to last until the the spring can run clean again, I hope.

We have ammo and guns, and the medkit is in decent shape. We have extra boots, and good warm clothes. We have enough camping gear to live in the woods for a longish time, if need be.

The things that I don't have that keep me up at night might sound strange, but I worry that I don't have a decent hand saw to cut firewood with after the gas for the chainsaw runs out. Big, two-handled hand saws run nearly $400, and I don't know when I will have that kind of money. I also am lacking some basic tools that I think I may need. I need some chisels, a rabbet plane, calipers, a drawknife etc.

I also wish I had some better connections to other like-minded preppers with important skills. My "clan" right now contains some good hunters, gardeners and people who are mechanically able. What we don't have are real medical personnel, or anyone with real military experience. So what I need most are people!"

What I didn't mention is that I have done nothing to keep goats or chickens, as per my long range plans, but I have made a good start on my beekeeping, and there has been definite progress on the garden. More on these small successes in future posts.

I'm sorry that I started this blog, and then just abandoned it. I will endeavor to do better.

Pray for Israel,

Gallowglass