Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Did some re-arranging in the bunker last night. Discovered four 5-gallon containers of water I didnt even know were down there. Bonus. Wound up getting things organized in such a manner that I now have a tiny bit more room for future goodies. And, trust me, there are always future goodies….

I organize things in a fairly simple manner. Most stuff is packed into ammo cans and each ammo can has a tag on it describing the contents. Stuff that isnt in ammo cans is stored on wooden shelves with the item's label facing forward for fast ID. 'Like' items are stored together…that is to day flashlights, flashlight batteries, flashlight bulbs, etc are all stored on the same shelf. The shelves themselves are simply sheet plywood I cut and dadoed shelves into. The one special characteristic of them was that they be dimensioned so each shelf had room for two plastic milk crates. I use the milk crates as 'bins' for ltsa stuff…and milk crates are hellaciously durable and stack/store nicely.
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Currently making the rounds of the internet is a firsthand account of Argentina's economic situation. I'd read it before when it originally appeared at another 'survivalist' website. You can head over to ,Rawles' site and see it there. It basically describes how your day-to-day life changes as your economy degrades. Its an interesing read because so much of the preparedness/survivalist scenarios revolve around 'instant' disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, war, meteor strikes, etc. and this particular disaster is a slow, creeping one that stretches over weeks and months. I've long thought that for my particular neck of the woods, where things like hurricanes and catastrophic earthquakes are unlikely, the more likely scenario to prepare for is an economic one…something that reduces a person to living an existence reminiscent of the old Soviet stand-on-line-for-toilet-paper society. Rolling brownouts, fuel shortages, empty market shelves, overloaded medical facilities, curfews, etc, etc. And, in this post from Argentina, thats exactly what this guy is living with. Go read it…its an excellent example of why theres alot more to survivalism/preparedness than an AK and camoflage clothing.
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San Francisco handgun ban. Whats interesting is it prohibits the manufacture of ammunition. Yup, manufacture. no idea if that means it is now illegal to reload your own ammo in S.F. but Im guessing it does. So…you live in SF and all of a sudden your only choice to get ammo is from outside your town. I suppose you can still mail-order it in and if not you can always drive to a WallyWorld outside SF and get some but think about this – with a stroke of a pen they eliminated the citizens ability to get ammo for their guns. If that can be done on a local level it could be done on a county or even state level. Moral? Have plenty of ammo and plenty of supplies to reload it.