90% Will Die In 9 Months! We Tried 72 Hours

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As we journey from home to homestead, I'll teach you how to become self-reliant. When the systems we rely on fail, know that you'll have the skills to provide for your family. Oh, and we'll have fun doing it! 👊

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[EyespenNoFear]

15 years ago my church did an event where everyone was encouraged to go an entire week without buying anything from the store. It was eye opening for lots of people and I highly recommend everyone try it.

[richardredhawk]

I've been a prepper 15 years. When hurricane Michael hit us in 2018, we were out of power ten days. But were so well prepared that we found very few issues we couldn't handle. Those issues after were soon addressed.

[magnusoptimus]

Your wife is an absolute saint! To put up with your antics is a true blessing from God. Love your videos and love your family. Lord bless you all.

[reloadnorth]

I am an infantry veteran and we live in the countryside on an acreage. We have a spring well, a deep creek with lots of flowing water, moose, bear, rabbits, grouse, etc. My neighbors are a mile away on either side. There are lots of wild vegetation to consume and we do have a small garden. I trained my wife and sons to shoot rifles, shotguns and archery, and clean game to consume, we are all licensed. There are small lakes nearby for fishing. I have a small HAM/GMRS radio for communications if possible. I'm not too worried.

[outbackeddie]

I did a 24 hour winter power outage practice run a few years ago. It was a lot tougher than I thought it would be mainly because I had to split a lot of firewood. Hauling the firewood to the house and keeping the wood stove fired up was also a big time killer. I learned a lot from that experiment and now I have 2 cords of split, dry, firewood on permanent standby.

[terrence]

😂😂😂
Loved the part when you said "I closed the door to keep the cold." But, when asked, "what's in there?" Your reply is "I don't know. I closed it too quickly." 😂😂😂

[gaaarete]

If we were your neighbors we’d have definitely participated in the 72 hour run. Preparation is always important and it keeps anxiety down. If people only knew, it’s better to have and not need than to need and not have!

[danam.]

To keep a frig/ freezer coldish longer slide Heavy Clear vinyl (fabric stores, hardware...) Between the door and shelving. This will let you look but keep the "cold" from spilling out.
Tape the sides down and make 2 splits so you can remove things out. I throw a second very light weight vinyl over top again to keep it 'cl9sed'. You Can use Press n Seal plastic wrap for this closure as well.. For the Freezer (upright) take 2 old heavy sleeping bags, place folds on opposing corners secure the sides of the bags to the sides of the freezer. This added insulation with the vinyl will keep things an extra 1&1/2 to 3 days.

[teresas]

It's a good idea to do a simulation to see where our weaknesses are, what we are short on, or what we still need to get to be better prepared. Great job Haxman!!

[shellykamp]

It’s great how your family can laugh together and you can laugh at yourself. I love you guys!

[WVgrl]

Us old people are like, no, we did that in the 60s and 70s.
It was called No Air Conditioning, and if you opened the refrigerator door, your dad yelled at you to close it and go outside. 😊

[Jefforey]

Ive been completely off grid for seven years. Basically own a small farm. I have several water sources. I have manual backup everything. Solar power and a turbine generators. Recycling everything i have compost to even house parts full mechani/machine shop. Able to run my vehicles of woodgassifier

[divergence_tiffanyramos]

This simulation was a great idea. My family and I unfortunately delt with something close to this scenario the summer before last in our neck of the wood's. The Sequoia National Forest to be exact. The French Fire hit a few miles from our home and to say it was a challenge is an understatement. We learned a lot from this experience and it wasn't easy. We chose to stay as long as we could and fight to save our home. I don't recommend doing this if you don't have an experience with firefighting or in field first aid. I was a volunteer for search and rescue for 7 year's and an EMT while in college. I then worked as a probation officer with juveniles until I chose to go back to school and became an autism therapist for children on the autism spectrum. My experience with search and rescue, a first responder and law enforcement helped a great deal, but it wasn't a cake walk in the slightest. At the time of the fire I had been prepping for 3 and half year's so my family and I had that in our favor to a point. 24 hours in I ended up packing all of my long and short term prep on a trailer along with essential clothing pet kennels and supplies and our most important possessions. I don't think those of us whom live in fire prone area's think about everything we've prepared being damaged by a fire. The only reason I thought to pack my preps is because the year before California was experiencing many fires and I had read a story about a woman having to start over and losing 7 year's of food preparation along with everything she owned and the thought of all the time and money she had put into her preps gave me food for thought. I wasn't going to lose all I had worked so hard to accomplish if at all possible. I learned from that story and had everything packed a certain way so if a forest fire occurred I could easily move my preps from one place to the next in a quick and efficient manner. This planned out decision worked in my favor. Other thing's didn't. We were without power for 8 day's. We utilized what was in our refrigerator, but weren't able to save everything. We barbecued everything we could in our backyard by the creek that runs through our property. We ate well those 8 day's so that was a plus. No eggs were harmed in the preparation of any of our food. Lol. One of my learned lessons were always test your equipment. I didn't do this with certain equipment and paid a heavy price. We went without cellphone service because of my costly mistake in trusting equipment and the sellers word the it would work if we had no power. Well those 4Patriots solar chargers and flashlights didn't charge in the slightest. We had them in direct sunlight from 7am to 7pm. They didn't charge and they failed us in our time of need. We had to depend of our friends that were firefighters, law enforcement and first responders to get word to family and friends that we were alive and fighting to save our home. We live in a small town where everyone knows everyone so it wasn't an impossible task to get the word out that we were ok for the time being. My suggestion is always test your equipment no matter what. I should've known better, but I got complacent on this particular equipment and took the manufacturer word for it. Big mistake. I also wasted a good $150 in useless equipment. Lesson learned. The faulty equipment has been replaced and tested a few time's. We were evacuated to our local lake a few time's then we would drive back up the mountain to our home and the work would continue. We were able to not only save our home, but the neighbors homes on each side of us were saved to. We drenched all three properties and kept a 24 hour watch at all time's and took turns as lookouts. It helped that we had radios to hear when the fire was more active and moving and when it wasn't. This experience really put us to task and was a huge learning experience. We figured out what our weaknesses and strengths were. We've made the necessary changes so we're not caught off guard like last time. I would encourage anyone to practice different scenarios of what could occur in their area and if the SHTF. You think your prepared well enough until your not. Practice makes perfect is a great place to start. Learn your equipment and how it performs in emergency situations. Work with your neighbors even if they aren't there. They'll be grateful that you did. Take care of one another and work as a team you'll accomplish more in an efficient manner. Stay safe and God bless.

[timetravel]

And the man from the government said: im here to help! (Gasps) 😂😂😂

[pman]

I think next time you do this simulation, you get someone outside your family to call it without notice, like you just did on your neighbours. That would've been even more interesting. I did something like this with my bestfriend and my children, but for only 24 hours, it was a great way to see how well we used our 72 hour pack. I'm gonna use this as a discussion point and see if I can get others to participate in this with us. I'd have to see what hubby thinks because the man is glued to technology lol

[kevinwiens]

My grandparent's on my Dad's side were Mennonites...which is only one step away from the Amish!
You have stirred me up to research my "roots"..The Amish have been living very well "Off the Grid" for a long time...but that doesn't mean that it is easy! They are a hardy people. a.k.a.
TOUGH!

[mrspleasants]

We bought an off-grid property and packed up and moved to the middle of nowhere in the Cairngorms of Scotland. When we arrived there was six inches of snow on the ground and it was still coming. It was May and the snow stayed there until July. It is beautiful if not challenging.

Well, when we arrived there was no water as the pipes froze (it is gravity fed) and the heat is run by radiator. It was cold. I bought the place because of the burns (fast running streams) on the property, so we had access to water, which we hauled to the house for the toilet, cleaning and cooking and filtering. Then that summer, the generator blew up...literally...chuckle. While waiting for another, we were without electricity for almost two months. Except for a little generator that we kept the fridge and freezer going in six hour intervals. It is still cold in the summer in the Scottish Highlands and having a wood burning stove WITH a back boiler for hot water is a life saver. We were able to keep the house warm and have hot baths, which makes no electricity no problem.

Living without water, then electricity was a great experience! We learned to do everything the old fashioned way and grew closer as a couple. We now have a functional home-grid with solar, wind and generator and more important, the wherewithal to live without.

[jackiestowe]

I live in Oklahoma and it gets cold in the winter here. We had the largest ice storm in years. Our house heating system went down. I had to go 8 days without the heater for my 3, 500 sq. ft. home. That was the soonest the part would come in. We were able to use the gas logs in the fireplace and if it got a little chilly, I have two ovens, I would fire up the ovens and leave the doors opened. We didn’t leave them unattended. We all slept in the den, it is closest to the kitchen. Put up some quilts to close off the rest of the house. Space heaters in the bathrooms so the cold did burst water lines. My family and I survived.

[mortem-tyrannis]

I wish more people did videos like this, its going to put your plans and preps into practice and if I were your neighbor I would have participated with ya.

[katrinthorsdottir]

You should make a video on how folks who don’t have their own property could survive. So many off gridders seem to think everyone can do what they can, but what about folks who don’t have property; or even a yard?

My husband and I are both disabled, and live in a fifth wheel RV in a public RV park. (On less than 1k a month.) We do what we can to be self sufficient, but it’s getting harder. Maybe you could make a video sharing tips on helping folks who don’t have access to as much as you do.

We have a little bit of space on a concrete pad that our RV is parked on, but there are rules about what we can or cannot have on or around our RV. I do my best to container garden every year, even try to make my own compost but there’s only so much I can grow and do where we’re at.

Because we’re disabled we can’t even afford to move. And honestly we’re only one or two rent increases away from not having that. So, how about a video series on survival and self sufficiency for people like us?