Quakes

Maria from Hurunui District

TO ALL NZers PLEASE SHARE
QUAKES
For some time the seismologists have been warning us about the big one on the main divide. The November 14 event was not the big one but it could very likely trigger off the big one in the near future. At the conference a few weeks ago it was reported that when that fault goes it could unzip for 400km and that NZ would be a totally different place to live. Imagine the whole country being subjected to worse damage than ChCh was. Picture if you can the whole country with no power, water supply, sewerage, roads, bridges, food, no fuel. Imagine all infra structure gone, housing gone, airports, and ports gone, everything gone and no way to repair it. No one would be able to help. We would be back in the 17/18th century, but without the supplies and the supply lines of the 18th century.
All movement would cease except what you could walk, bike or ride a horse. The helicopters could function but for how long, only as long as they have fuel. Read damaged fuel tanks. And where would they start. How much would they be able to do. I ask you to take a few minutes to think about it.
3 days food and water is not going to do much. Some people have not even bothered to put that away. You will be by yourself. There will not be any help coming for months or years. If you have not prepared for you and your family then you will get nothing to eat or drink. Those that have some preparation will not be able to share with others as their priority must be for their own family in such a long term situation.. Help will not arrive. Those who have not prepared will in all probability perish.
To those that say they cant afford to prepare I say. If u smoke, drink, gamble ,buy takeaways or eat out or waste your money in other ways, stop doing it and you will have plenty to purchase your preparations. Nobody is responsible for you and your families but you.
YOU WILL NOT BE GETTING HELP. HELP WILL NOT BE COMING.

WATER
If you are in a town or only have a house section regardless if you are in a city, town or villge or rural it would be advisable to install a separate water tank. If you get a 15000ltre tank working on 20 ltr per person a day = 100ltr use a day for a 5 person household = 150 days water. This 20ltr is just for drinking, cooking and allows for ½ cup of water for a top and tail wash daily. Not for toilet water
Installation guidelines
Get a squat tank that will not fall over.
Put double the usual depth of sand or lime under the tank = extra padding.
Lay all piping above the ground so you can reach it and allow several extra metres of pipe for when the tank moves.
Fill tank asap then disconnect all inlet and outlet hoses so that the tank wont have the bottom and top pulled out by movement. Remember the tank and the piping would be heading in different directions. Store a couple of rolls of polypipe and fittings to compensate for tank moving a few or more metres.
After the shake connect a short length of polypipe with a valve on the end to retrieve water. No long lengths. Measure daily allowance into buckets and keep within that allowance.
DO NOT connect to house supply
DO NOT use for toilet
REMEMBER there may be no water, power, sewerage, or roads available for months. You must be prepared to provide everything for yourself for months. . And the only way you will be able to do that is if you already have everything on hand on your property before it happens.
DO NOT RELY on getting any help from anywhere.
FARMS
I know you fellas will be thinking about this and every farm is different and by now you will have figured out something. I am not trying to teach you to suck eggs. The only thing I can think of is this
If there is a high water table then dig a large hole and dig a path down to tha water . If the level drops you can then dig and barrow the dirt up
Have tripod in hand to put over the hole.
Yes I am aware you have to riot to get the councils to agree. They are beaurocrats. Farmers need to get together and demand. Dont be fobbed off. This is your survival.

FOOD
If you don’t eat you die.
Every house, flat etc needs to have a garden in and producing. Put it in NOW.
Remember it takes 12 months get a garden producing properly. And a garden has a planting/growing season. If you haven’t put the garden in in spring then you will have no food in winter
Have a garden that will feed you completely for the whole year. Make it bigger than you think you need as you may have extras to feed. Have successive plantings of veges.
Plant a big variety . Work out how many spuds, pumpkins, carrots, parsnips, onions, garlic,greens etc you eat in a year and plant so you are self sufficient and then some.
Start community gardens as well that are in close proximity to each other so having no roads is not an issue.
Start preserving so thing like beans, peas, tomatoes, fruit will be available in winter. Use jars as you wont have power for freezer. You can also salt and dehydrate.
DRY GOODS
Flour, Rice, whole grains, beans , lentils. Store well. Put them in freezer for 1 week to kill weevil eggs and store in airtight containers in their packets.
Tinned Food
Lots of and a variety of
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