If I lived in an apartment, my primary plan would be to bug out. Important to realize that bug out supplies function fine as bug in supplies, but the reverse isn't necessarily true.
Rental storage units are cheap, sometimes as little as $25/mo, and they can hold lots of preps, mainly food and bug out equipment, even a small generator and extra fuel. You could even stash a small trailer in there that's already loaded so you could back up, hook up, and bug out.
As we've seen with C19, food supplies can be disrupted easily, and people start hoarding as soon as they feel a threat. Hell, in my area, when a mild show storm is forecast, the store shelves will be empty within a day or two, and the snow will melt off within a day. Point is, if you wait until the existential threat manifests, you've waited too long.
I'm not very partial to canned goods, either in cans or jars, because the majority of the weight and volume is water; good if you don't have access to water, but lots of wasted weight and space if you do. My gotos are beans, rice, and dried fruits and veggies, along with a good supply of nutritional supplements and plenty of basic medical supplies like antibiotics, dressings, alcohol, and peroxide. As we learned from C19, most hospitals have about a week of medical supplies, so if the supply line is cut, they won't be of much use in an extended emergency.
If you set up a queue system, you can eat from one end of the queue and replace your stocks from the other end to make sure your stocks stay as fresh as possible. Integrate your preps into your normal life the way people have for thousands of years.
If the emergency lasts for months, years, or never ends, there will be lots of hard, manual labor involved if you want to survive, long term. For that reason I've included lots of spare work gloves, work clothes, and foot gear to my preps. They aren't very expensive, are easy to pack, and last almost forever in storage. If you research pre-industrial societies that didn't have access to modern medical care, you'll find that one of the main, preventable causes of death were simple infections caused by minor injuries. People would step on a thorn, and within a week they'd be dead. They'd cut a hand cleaning a fish and develop a serious infection. Basic antibiotics would have saved millions of lives. Another major medical prep is just plain, old soap, which dissolves the cell layer of viruses and bacteria, and if used for personal hygiene kills harmful viruses and bacteria that live on your skin, so they don't get a free ride into your blood stream if you suffer a serious or minor cut. Keeping clothing fairly clean is another somewhat difficult but necessary chore. I have one hundred bars of anti-bacterial soap and several cases of laundry soap in my preps. If that is used up, my grandmother taught me how to make lye soap back when I was a kid.
My vote for a girl gun is a five-shot, small frame, short barreled revolver in .38 special. Most of the women in my family carry them because they are easy to conceal, easy for a small hand to control, don't have excessive recoil, but make a BIG BOOM! One of my sisters was attacked in the parking lot where she works, and one round fired into the ground in front of the thug had him climbing an eight-foot chain link fence with razor ribbon on top like he was first cousin to a baboon!
As far as stocking an armory in case of SHTF, since I'll be mobile, I won't be forced into a situation where I have to engage in gun play every day to protect my pigs, chickens, and whatever from the hungry people who show up looking for a shootout. Without access to medical care, one small wound could be fatal or lead to an self amputation, which would seriously affect your ability to work, and thereby survive. My goal would be to do whatever I could to avoid confrontation, and being mobile allows that, whereas bugging in does not.
Just my two bits worth.
Rental storage units are cheap, sometimes as little as $25/mo, and they can hold lots of preps, mainly food and bug out equipment, even a small generator and extra fuel. You could even stash a small trailer in there that's already loaded so you could back up, hook up, and bug out.
As we've seen with C19, food supplies can be disrupted easily, and people start hoarding as soon as they feel a threat. Hell, in my area, when a mild show storm is forecast, the store shelves will be empty within a day or two, and the snow will melt off within a day. Point is, if you wait until the existential threat manifests, you've waited too long.
I'm not very partial to canned goods, either in cans or jars, because the majority of the weight and volume is water; good if you don't have access to water, but lots of wasted weight and space if you do. My gotos are beans, rice, and dried fruits and veggies, along with a good supply of nutritional supplements and plenty of basic medical supplies like antibiotics, dressings, alcohol, and peroxide. As we learned from C19, most hospitals have about a week of medical supplies, so if the supply line is cut, they won't be of much use in an extended emergency.
If you set up a queue system, you can eat from one end of the queue and replace your stocks from the other end to make sure your stocks stay as fresh as possible. Integrate your preps into your normal life the way people have for thousands of years.
If the emergency lasts for months, years, or never ends, there will be lots of hard, manual labor involved if you want to survive, long term. For that reason I've included lots of spare work gloves, work clothes, and foot gear to my preps. They aren't very expensive, are easy to pack, and last almost forever in storage. If you research pre-industrial societies that didn't have access to modern medical care, you'll find that one of the main, preventable causes of death were simple infections caused by minor injuries. People would step on a thorn, and within a week they'd be dead. They'd cut a hand cleaning a fish and develop a serious infection. Basic antibiotics would have saved millions of lives. Another major medical prep is just plain, old soap, which dissolves the cell layer of viruses and bacteria, and if used for personal hygiene kills harmful viruses and bacteria that live on your skin, so they don't get a free ride into your blood stream if you suffer a serious or minor cut. Keeping clothing fairly clean is another somewhat difficult but necessary chore. I have one hundred bars of anti-bacterial soap and several cases of laundry soap in my preps. If that is used up, my grandmother taught me how to make lye soap back when I was a kid.
My vote for a girl gun is a five-shot, small frame, short barreled revolver in .38 special. Most of the women in my family carry them because they are easy to conceal, easy for a small hand to control, don't have excessive recoil, but make a BIG BOOM! One of my sisters was attacked in the parking lot where she works, and one round fired into the ground in front of the thug had him climbing an eight-foot chain link fence with razor ribbon on top like he was first cousin to a baboon!
As far as stocking an armory in case of SHTF, since I'll be mobile, I won't be forced into a situation where I have to engage in gun play every day to protect my pigs, chickens, and whatever from the hungry people who show up looking for a shootout. Without access to medical care, one small wound could be fatal or lead to an self amputation, which would seriously affect your ability to work, and thereby survive. My goal would be to do whatever I could to avoid confrontation, and being mobile allows that, whereas bugging in does not.
Just my two bits worth.
