How to Survive in an Apartment after SHTF

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[DualHelix]

Also be very careful about where and how you dispose of garbage. Piles of steadily growing garbage with food wrappers etc are a signal that you have food and supplies.

[KCSmith]

Thank you for mentioning us city apartment dwellers in a positive light. Most channels tell me I'm doomed .

[terfybrown]

My apartment is 850 Sq ft. I have over 200 gal of water and enough food for the three of us for over a yr and it is all hidden. Get creative, use every inch. I have 15gal water barrels as nightstands and end tables. Food hidden on bookshelves behind books and dvds. Deep art on the walls has boxes of mac n cheese and rice a roni inside them. Our beds sit atop 5gal buckets of food with a bed skirt to hide them. Every pot in the cabinet is full of bags of beans. My van is loaded and ready to go. We have fire escape ladders and ready grab and go bags in each room. Over the door shoe holders on the back of each door are filled with goods, hygiene supplies and meds. Shoes in the closet each have a small bag of grains in them. Canned foods in each drawer and nook. Stacks of cases of canned goods covered with cloth make good tables. Fill your empty suitcases, stuff it under your couch, use shelves in your cabinets. I'm a single mother in college. If I can do this, you can do this too!

If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse.

[dudenamedbrent]

HIGH LEVEL RECOMMENDATION : If in an apartment get a storage garage if possible. You can keep some preps there in old boxes (hidden under an old thrift store couch or old mattresses). Worse case you must leave the apartment this can be a rally point for family and friends. Also, it may be possible to stay here if the apartment situation crashes quickly. Sleeping on that old couch or mattress is much better than under a bridge with people who are more desperate.

[collinE]

I never liked associating with my apartment neighbors, partly because I don’t like some of them, but also because i’m anti-social. Still, after hearing you talk about needing a MAG or at least realizing I need a community to survive an emergency scenario, I have started saying hi or good morning to my neighbors when I see them. Even interacting with the neighbor kids has led to me having more friendly interactions with the parents. Hopefully that leads to more prepper conversations or discussions about how to help look out for each other if there’s any threatening activity.

[TheWtfnonamez]

As a former urban apartment dweller, I can say honestly that this is a brilliant and thorough assessment. I particularly like the idea of providing an anonymous local wifi hotspot.
After living in a city apartment for a few years I adopted a few practises:
I am overly prepared on fire prevention. I have a fire extinguisher for each room, plus an automatic fire extinguisher ball in my store room. If my neighbour has a fire during grid down, I want a fair chance of being able to put it out and still have kit left over. In apartments, your neighbours fire will quickly become your fire. Having a plan for that might secure your own location.
I always have a few rolls of car body vinyl wrap in black and white. Its a great way to mask windows, but it has huge thermal qualities. White reflects light, and black absorbs it. Just one square metre of black wrap placed on an East facing window, will heat the room by a few degrees on a clear day, even during winter. Similarly, the white wrap will reflect light and heat.
I have cheap Amazon door braces for both the front door and my bedroom door. (bars that snug up under the handle and prop against the floor) They turn relatively unsafe doors into a 3-5 minute exercise in door breaching. They are not perfect, but it means people have to use a lot of energy, and cause a lot of noise, and they buy you a few minutes.
Excellent video as always.

[christopherpeterson]

Your continued reminder of water per person, per day ... is one of your most powerful reminders continually needed. Thank you. Keep up the repeating of this issue.

[pa_mountaingirl]

Something I recommend is for people to know various ways of navigating through their city. When I lived in New York I got to know the various subway stations and connecting tunnels that I could use to get around the city by foot. No, I was not a part of the mole people, I just hated really cold winters. I could get from Chinatown to Midtown with hardly ever having to go up on the street. Get some actual paper maps of the city. Since most cities are laid out like grids you can kind of figure out how to get from point A to point B even if you don’t have a compass.

[MatthewSmith-pvgd]

I love how you always emphasize how a community can be a major asset. All too often in the prepping community it seems the idea is that ALL outside of your own home are automatically and universally a threat, which they can be, but they can also be a huge source of support and help.

[lilmissstayready]

I dedicated a whole closet to food storage and it’s stacked to the ceiling!!! Mind you, I live in a studio!!! Where there is a will there is a way!!! 🤟🏾

[robertdennis]

I really appreciate your level headed approach to things.

[janetlynne]

I live in a mobile home park I sure would like to see a video where a SENIOR mobile home park is taken under consideration. We have a lot of veterans and retired medical people that maybe worked as nurses aids ECT... I have decided to take a leadership role because I'm only 63 instead of 80 a nd above. I think we should form a group now rather than later.

[deboraharnold]

I recently moved cross country into an apartment where I was previously in a house and I had two separate storage units for preps. As always in the city, situational awareness and grey man approach should work. My advantage is looking middle aged female, uninteresting and unable. My new plan includes bullies breaking into my apartment so I turned my second bedroom into a "crafting room" where it looks like I horde crafts. My preps are hidden in plain sight. And now I have additional materials to barter with for people who actually do knit and sew if those things become unavailable.

[thelouisianafreepatriot]

On your commitment on windows. Duct taping them up giving you away. You cam also use clear contact paper. Or clear boxing tape. The clear boxing tape holds extremely well and it also allows you to see out the window. If you have a battery backup you can set up a small camera looking out the window as well so you can be aware of situations outside without having to take the chance of making yourself visible

[dudewhathappenedtomycountr]

To secure glass patio doors, prop up and secure a metal bed frame to the inside. I'm talking about the frames made entirely of metal bars, readily available from any mattress store. Very visible and a solid deterrent. You'll need to buy the metal clamps (small, very affordable) from the hardware store) before shtf to secure the frame pieces to the patio door frame. This method will also work to secure rectangular windows. Just be sure to have a plan for escaping in the event of a fire.

[sheila]

If you have a storage locker in a communal room in the basement consider if you can block or disguise what you store. When we were in an apartment I purchased plastic tubs that were mostly red and green and labeled “x-mas” even though majority weren’t and stored our bikes behind the tubs. Sure enough when there was a break in and thefts from numerous lockers, the tacky Christmas lady’s was untouched.

[elduderino]

Thank you! It seems like most YouTube preppers assume we all have land, an arsenal, and huge sums of money.

[francesca]

Although I'm a essential worker I sheltered in place on my days off in 500sq ft studio with a cat I have blackout curtains because I work the night shift I never ever see a neighbor because I sleep most of the day I prep ony off days while they're at work I get no packages there I pick them up on the other side of the borough or have them shipped to my job and bring them in the morning on my days off great video

[humansustainability]

Lots of good information in here. Stuff that people should 'memorize' and many things that will apply for small towns and rural communities as well.

Re water preps: One thing I didn't here Kris explicitly mention is a "waterBOB". These things are great little emergency water cisterns. If you know there is an emergency it allows you to transform your bath tub into a potable water cistern. All it takes is the time to fill it up and you'll have an additional ~100gal of potable water. These should NOT be considered as part of your water preps! If you do have the time to fill one up though, you can boost your clean water reserves by 100 gal which is nothing to sneeze at.

[kamikazitsunami]

Remember if you are cooking and your neighbors are going hungry they're going to smell your food. It would be a good idea to get plenty of freeze-dried pouches so that all you have to do is boil the water and mix. This reduces the amount of smells. There's a good chance that a lot of your neighbors will not stay in place after a certain time and will move in with family. But until they leave be careful about the smells and the trash that you put out. If you can't afford those expensive freeze-dried pouches rice and lentils will keep you full and don't have much smell. Add spices after it's cooked. Make this until your neighbors go away or people are too weak to fight.