Disaster
planning should be part of every single household across America, strike that,
the world. When disaster strikes, people die or lives are changed. In times of
plenty, forego the Playstations and buy extra food. You can explain a lack of
toys better than a lack of food to your children.
Three
years ago, our home caught fire. I spent time in intensive care and almost died,
thus I know from whence I speak.
As
we go into our third season of "This Old Shack", disaster planning and
survival episodes become more important. After all, that's what alternative
energy is - the ability for you to survive without an infrastructure. All of our
episodes of This Old Shack and our new show, "CSI:SALINE" will reflect
this in 2009. Oh, of course there's going to be laughs and beer drinking - this
survival crap is depressing to think about.
So,
practice your fire drills with the crumbcrunchers, practice evacuating
yourselves, your pets, your neighbors. Learn how to use a fire extinguisher. And
watch our videos!
I can sit around smoking a cigar because I'm
an energy mogul!
Drawbacks:
Maintenance.
Installation.
Bunch of black glass panels sitting around.
Northern Michigan Solar
Cabin
This old Shack, Special disaster episode
"The Introduction"
This Old Shack is about alternative energy and living off the grid. It
doesn't matter if you live on the grid and use municipal services or off the
grid and fend for yourself. Disasters will happen. They've happened to
me, they've happened to you. This episode of This Old Shack is about surviving a
disaster from what to think about beforehand, how to evacuate, and emergency
foods. The entire episode is 60 minutes long and has been broken into four
parts. The videos are sized for broadband above 500 mbs.
NOTE: If the embedded player keeps buffering the video, choose the
download instead!
We cook most of our food over open flame.
Learn
how here. At cookstreet.com's Culinary
School, they offer a wide variety of culinary courses for everyone from the
aspiring professional chef, to the backyard
grill master.
MREs were originally developed for the Apollo program
and are used in space, by FEMA, the Red Cross and the Defense Department.
There are water activated heaters to heat the food available or you can
use the engine in your vehicle, boiling water or a microwave oven.
Some of the meals available as MREs:
Smoked Salmon Fillet
Beef Patty
Beef Ravioli - Pouch
Beef Pot Roast
Beef Stew
Chili with Beans
Cajun Rice w/Beans & Beef Sausage
Sloppy Joe Filling
Spaghetti with Meat in Sauce
Marinara Sauce with Meatballs
Chicken w/Black Beans & Rice
Chicken Breast, Grilled
Chicken & Dumplings
Chicken with Pasta Shells
Chicken with Salsa
Chicken Tetrazzini
Chicken, Vegetables & Noodles
Chicken Fajita Filling
Pork Rib, Boneless
Ham & Shrimp Jambalaya
Cheese Tortellini
Cheese Omelet w/Vegetables
Pasta & Vegs in Tomato Sauce
Penne Pasta w/Vegetable Sausage
Vegetable Manicotti
Veggie Burger in BBQ Sauce
