Posted: 5/22/2015 4:30:03 PM EDT
| So we just had an earth quake about an hour ago. (Las Vegas area 5.4 magnitude) I have always thought if something like SHTF happened we would bug in. Now that I felt this earth quake I am worrying what happens if my house is destroyed. What do I do? Guns in the safe? Dont really have a bug out plan. Even if I did I dont want to leave all my useful shit here for someone to loot and rob. What does everyone do? |
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We don't have a geological record of large earthquakes in Las Vegas.
If anything, a small generator capable of powering your fridge and a window A?C unit would be a good start. Just make sure your generator is secure while you are running it. Most of Vegas is sketchy. ETA: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_8_22/582532_Earthquake_.html |
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Look at SF building codes. Your house should be bolted to the foundation every few feet.
Strap down your water heater to prevent it from falling off its pedestal. Make sure your bookcases are secured to the wall to prevent them from falling over. Put anti-child locks on your cabinets. It'll keep them from opening during a quake. |
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Look at SF building codes. Your house should be bolted to the foundation every few feet. Strap down your water heater to prevent it from falling off its pedestal. Make sure your bookcases are secured to the wall to prevent them from falling over. Put anti-child locks on your cabinets. It'll keep them from opening during a quake. How much quake should a stick built house be able to take? Stucco outside on slab |
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So we just had an earth quake about an hour ago. (Las Vegas area 5.4 magnitude) I have always thought if something like SHTF happened we would bug in. Now that I felt this earth quake I am worrying what happens if my house is destroyed. What do I do? Guns in the safe? Dont really have a bug out plan. Even if I did I dont want to leave all my useful shit here for someone to loot and rob. What does everyone do? I've been here in Vegas for nearly 30 years, this is the second quake I can remember that I actually felt.. I'm not worried about my house getting destroyed in a quake. As for prepping, I have enough food/water and other necessities to keep me and mine going for a few months without resupply assuming the city has fallen around me  bugging out is not an option for me and my wife, my parents live close by and are to old for bugging out... I'll be sticking it out until the end
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I've been here in Vegas for nearly 30 years, this is the second quake I can remember that I actually felt.. I'm not worried about my house getting destroyed in a quake. As for prepping, I have enough food/water and other necessities to keep me and mine going for a few months without resupply assuming the city has fallen around me bugging out is not an option for me and my wife, my parents live close by and are to old for bugging out... I'll be sticking it out until the end
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So we just had an earth quake about an hour ago. (Las Vegas area 5.4 magnitude) I have always thought if something like SHTF happened we would bug in. Now that I felt this earth quake I am worrying what happens if my house is destroyed. What do I do? Guns in the safe? Dont really have a bug out plan. Even if I did I dont want to leave all my useful shit here for someone to loot and rob. What does everyone do? I've been here in Vegas for nearly 30 years, this is the second quake I can remember that I actually felt.. I'm not worried about my house getting destroyed in a quake. As for prepping, I have enough food/water and other necessities to keep me and mine going for a few months without resupply assuming the city has fallen around me bugging out is not an option for me and my wife, my parents live close by and are to old for bugging out... I'll be sticking it out until the end
This is what I am worried about. We plan on staying put in a disaster but if your house is leveled you have no choice. |
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We don't have a geological record of large earthquakes in Las Vegas. If anything, a small generator capable of powering your fridge and a window A?C unit would be a good start. Just make sure your generator is secure while you are running it. Most of Vegas is sketchy. ETA: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_8_22/582532_Earthquake_.html In low areas I'd be worried about flooding 
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So we just had an earth quake about an hour ago. (Las Vegas area 5.4 magnitude) I have always thought if something like SHTF happened we would bug in. Now that I felt this earth quake I am worrying what happens if my house is destroyed. What do I do? Guns in the safe? Dont really have a bug out plan. Even if I did I dont want to leave all my useful shit here for someone to loot and rob. What does everyone do? Sit down with your family and make preps for bugging in and out. Both staying very close to home and going more distance away and have the car ALREADY loaded with supplies, food and water and weapons at all times. Also have bags that can just be grabbed and taken portable for short term and longer term durations. I also have a small kit even in my locker at work. |
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So we just had an earth quake about an hour ago. (Las Vegas area 5.4 magnitude) I have always thought if something like SHTF happened we would bug in. Now that I felt this earth quake I am worrying what happens if my house is destroyed. What do I do? Guns in the safe? Dont really have a bug out plan. Even if I did I dont want to leave all my useful shit here for someone to loot and rob. What does everyone do? I've been here in Vegas for nearly 30 years, this is the second quake I can remember that I actually felt.. I'm not worried about my house getting destroyed in a quake. As for prepping, I have enough food/water and other necessities to keep me and mine going for a few months without resupply assuming the city has fallen around me bugging out is not an option for me and my wife, my parents live close by and are to old for bugging out... I'll be sticking it out until the end
This is what I am worried about. We plan on staying put in a disaster but if your house is leveled you have no choice. Keep preps in a light duty shed outside your house. We have several tents, ez ups and our camping gear stored along with our preps in a shed about 50 feet away from the house. If the house is unlivable we can camp until our property can be secured and alternate accommodations acquired. Also, my offroad truck lives outside and has tools in it. Tools that can be used to force entry back into a damaged house or worst case scenario demolish a pathway back in to allow me to recover the contents of my safe. |
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From personal experience, back in 2010 & 2011 when my city - Christchurch, New Zealand was the recipient of a 7.1 quake and a 6.3 a few months later, followed by over 10,000 aftershocks of up to mag 6.0 trust me on this one:
Your guns won't mean squat to you, your jewelry, electronics, work and other precious items will be at the back of your mind. When the world literally starts going sideways on you, you'll go to what you care most about - your family, when the shaking stops you'll look at the mess, check that your neighbors are ok, then once you discover that the cell network is overloaded from cell traffic and downed towers you'll start to think about the essentials, shelter, water, food. All our windows exploded, we had no power for two weeks, no water or sewer for three months. Well, that's what we did, it was weeks before I got around to un-burying my gun safes. If you want pictures, video, etc of a modern city after a real quake, google the quakes we had. Picture taken a few moments after the Mag 6.3 quake, was 3 miles deep - I was in the middle of all that at the time this pic was taken, the cloud is from dozens of buildings collapsing, 185 dead, thousands injured. 
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Keep preps in a light duty shed outside your house. We have several tents, ez ups and our camping gear stored along with our preps in a shed about 50 feet away from the house. If the house is unlivable we can camp until our property can be secured and alternate accommodations acquired. Also, my offroad truck lives outside and has tools in it. Tools that can be used to force entry back into a damaged house or worst case scenario demolish a pathway back in to allow me to recover the contents of my safe. Quoted:
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So we just had an earth quake about an hour ago. (Las Vegas area 5.4 magnitude) I have always thought if something like SHTF happened we would bug in. Now that I felt this earth quake I am worrying what happens if my house is destroyed. What do I do? Guns in the safe? Dont really have a bug out plan. Even if I did I dont want to leave all my useful shit here for someone to loot and rob. What does everyone do? I've been here in Vegas for nearly 30 years, this is the second quake I can remember that I actually felt.. I'm not worried about my house getting destroyed in a quake. As for prepping, I have enough food/water and other necessities to keep me and mine going for a few months without resupply assuming the city has fallen around me bugging out is not an option for me and my wife, my parents live close by and are to old for bugging out... I'll be sticking it out until the end
This is what I am worried about. We plan on staying put in a disaster but if your house is leveled you have no choice. Keep preps in a light duty shed outside your house. We have several tents, ez ups and our camping gear stored along with our preps in a shed about 50 feet away from the house. If the house is unlivable we can camp until our property can be secured and alternate accommodations acquired. Also, my offroad truck lives outside and has tools in it. Tools that can be used to force entry back into a damaged house or worst case scenario demolish a pathway back in to allow me to recover the contents of my safe. That's a great idea thank you. |
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You prepare for an earthquake just like every other natural disaster.
Water, food, shelter ... I recommend you check your local city, county, and state Disaster Preparedness agency for a start. They'll leave off the part about firearms ... they all do ... but will have a good vetted list of common sense supplies to store. Where I work there's a monthly lunch-n-learn about disaster prep ... pretty neat. Our DP equipment is in a brick shit house about 150 from the main building. It took the construction workers a month to build that place - mason bricks, rebar, and yards and yards of concrete ... a bunker by any other name. |
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I have always thought if something like SHTF happened we would bug in. Now that I felt this earth quake I am worrying what happens if my house is destroyed. What do I do? What you're describing is a good reason to have a travel trailer or small motorhome parked on site. Being equipped with tires and a suspension, an RV is pretty earthquake-resistant (unless a tree or building falls on it). Most RVs are self-contained (built-in freshwater and sewer tanks, toilet, shower, 12 volt interior lights and batteries to run them, propane stove, furnace and fridge, etc.) - And usually have enough cabinet/pantry space to store some emergency food. If your house becomes unlivable, you can simply relocate to the RV parked out in the driveway. Or, if things get really bad in your neighborhood, you can hitch up the RV and leave the area. |
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Strapping the water heater is a must. Also, know how to shut off the gas to the house. Keep a wrench near the gas meter. Most fires start from gas leaks/water heater moving and thereby breaking gas line. Good advice. They sell inexpensive flat steel gas/water shutoff wrenches. I have one velcroed to the gas line right next to the shut off valves. |
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Good advice. They sell inexpensive flat steel gas/water shutoff wrenches. I have one velcroed to the gas line right next to the shut off valves. Quoted:
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Strapping the water heater is a must. Also, know how to shut off the gas to the house. Keep a wrench near the gas meter. Most fires start from gas leaks/water heater moving and thereby breaking gas line. Good advice. They sell inexpensive flat steel gas/water shutoff wrenches. I have one velcroed to the gas line right next to the shut off valves. The non-sparking ones are a good consideration. |
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Look at SF building codes. Your house should be bolted to the foundation every few feet. Strap down your water heater to prevent it from falling off its pedestal. Make sure your bookcases are secured to the wall to prevent them from falling over. Put anti-child locks on your cabinets. It'll keep them from opening during a quake. How much quake should a stick built house be able to take? Stucco outside on slab You are living in new build class 5 construction. It's just by the grace of god a dog fart doesn't blow it down. |
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I have several hundred gallons of water in the shed outside the house. I have guns in an inpenetrable safe somewhere in the house. Most of my food and other preps are in the house including a way to use the toilet with no water and cook with no electricity or natural gas in the pipeline. I have a generator and enough gas to last 2 weeks. It will run the fidge, freezer and charge some stuff. I would like to split those preps up some in the shed but it's not climate controlled. I think 105 degree heat would degrade the food and other stuff.
The family could easily survive for a month with all the emergency supplies. Close to 2 with all the standard stuff in the cabinets and fridge. That's not hard core prepper stuff but I feel like we have time to make a plan. |
Worry about structural and the safety of your family. Don't waste time spreading guns out around the house. 
I know we want to turn every natural disaster into an excuse for a post-apocalyptic gun battle but you'll be worried alot more about essentials and safety. |
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What happens if the roof and walls cave in. Good idea to spread guns out around the house? If your roof and walls have caved in, getting to the safe and getting them out will be a problem for you and anybody else trying to do it. Spreading them out through the house makes it in to an Easter Egg hunt for all concerned. If you really think that your neighborhood is going to come after you, then move. You can protect a safe especially if it is tough to get to. OPSEC - You don't want too many people knowing you have guns, especially non-Fudd guns. If you don't work close, you don't want the neighbors kids tweaker friends getting to your house and finding your guns in the rubble. Finding a safe they can't move easily is much better. If you get in one strong enough to collapse your house, having food and water is going to be your biggest problem, just like everybody else. That's far from a reasonable likelihood out in the west where most buildings are pretty much built to EQ codes, but you do need to plan food and water. Vegas has temperature extremes extra hot in summer and below freezing in winter, that complicates things. So you need sleeping bags and tents for winter, tarps etc for shade in summer, etc. Like having a trailer or rv parked at the house?? |
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We don't have a geological record of large earthquakes in Las Vegas. If anything, a small generator capable of powering your fridge and a window A?C unit would be a good start. Just make sure your generator is secure while you are running it. Most of Vegas is sketchy. ETA: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_8_22/582532_Earthquake_.html In low areas I'd be worried about flooding Only if you lived in a wash and you had a hell of a gullywasher up stream. Otherwise flooding in most areas isn't very likely. |
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Only if you lived in a wash and you had a hell of a gullywasher up stream. Otherwise flooding in most areas isn't very likely. Quoted:
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We don't have a geological record of large earthquakes in Las Vegas. If anything, a small generator capable of powering your fridge and a window A?C unit would be a good start. Just make sure your generator is secure while you are running it. Most of Vegas is sketchy. ETA: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_8_22/582532_Earthquake_.html In low areas I'd be worried about flooding Only if you lived in a wash and you had a hell of a gullywasher up stream. Otherwise flooding in most areas isn't very likely. Google 'liquifaction' for how wrong you are. |
