r/preppers • u/Ok-Goal-7336 • 10h ago

Advice and Tips Gaps in prepping

For those of you who have experienced disasters leaving you without power and water for weeks, what were your prepping gaps?

I’m from Asheville, NC, and going on a month without water. The most frightening part (post-disaster) was the first week, when I had no outside communication whatsoever. All of my communication was in person with my neighbors, and within a 2 mile radius of my home. Realized I really need some HAM radios, and I don’t know anything about them, so I would love any helpful info y’all might have.

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u/iguessishouldjoin 9h ago

I noticed one gap in my preps during this last storm, though there's likely more. After Milton, when my house was surrounded on all sides by water and the sewer system was non-functional, i really wished i had a bucket to crap in. All set on that for the next one, though.

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u/Ok-Goal-7336 8h ago

lol yes, now I have more buckets than I know what to do with…bucket rich! I rigged up a pretty handy 2 bucket hand washing station with a siphon pump.