The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Winter Storm in Richmond - PREPARE w/ The Common Sense Practical Prepper

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

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I've been threatening nights for a while now. I don't know. Maybe. I'm not much of a night person anymore, says the man who's drinking coffee at 9.14 p.m. But, you know, it's been one of them days I'll conk out without issue. So it's been a long time. coming. I wanted to have Keith the common sense practical prepper on for a long time. And we just hadn't touched wires appropriately. Garden Girl over at Instagram, what is up? Don't mess with Garden Girl, dude. Her kid will smash you. I love seeing the wrestling highlights Garden Girl. It's so cool. But anyway, we are both Richmond Preppers. And, uh, We got this storm barren down on us.

Reno, Virginia's in the red, whatever that means. Significant snowfall, potential for freezing rain and sleet and, you know, accumulations that make, I think, you know, the Richmond, what do they call? The Richmond, what do we used to call? Transportation. Their knees are probably a little weak, I'm sure, going into the weekend, thinking about how they're going to deal with it. I'm praying for no ice and, you know, I don't want the power to go out. But we'll talk about what happens when the power goes out because that's important too. But all in all, we want to talk winter storm in Richmond and what we're doing to prepare

and what you could be considering to do if you're in the path of this storm. It is incredible. I mean, it is basically, I mean, it's the width of the nation largely, it looks like. So without further ado, let's bring on Keith, the Common Sense Practical Prepper. How you doing, sir? And thanks for joining us tonight on this PBN special. I am doing fantastic. Thank you so much for having me.

I really do appreciate it. Yeah, man, it's been a long time coming. Yep, it has. I feel like 2025. I don't know if you feel this way, but I feel like 2026 is the year of the long time coming. I don't know why. It just feels like one of those years where a lot of deals, we closed finally. And I mean that, you know, like metaphorically. But it just feels like one of those

years. I hope they're fun years. Oh, yeah. So you've been in Richmond a long time, man, longer than me. Yeah, got here and folks moved out here in 86 and I came after college in 88. So I've been here since 1988. So you've had your share of winter storms and winter Richmond responses. to the weather and that kind of thing. Is anything sort of sticking out, you know, in your head as this thing approaches in terms of city wide response? Well, I know we were talking, you know, before we started and talking about, was it,

1996, January of 1996. And that was only a foot of snow. And it, again, you know, you know, and any of the folks that might be listening around Central Virginia, Richmond for the most part, Central Virginia for the most part has a very poor response, in my opinion, to any significant snow or ice event. And that's just the way it is. It's just, you know, I'm not knocking DOT, Virginia Department of Transportation, but, you know, the state is not going to spend tens of millions of

dollars for the state of the art snow plows and trucks and all that when, but they might use it once every couple years, once every couple winters. So it's, you know, We get a little bit of snow. That's one thing. But you get six inches plus and the city's paralyzed. And that's unfortunately, that's just the way it is. That is the way it is. I mean, again, in a way, it makes sense, right?

I've been here since 2009. We haven't seen. I don't think I've ever seen a foot of snow in Richmond since I've been here. I think we've come close, 10, something like that. Yeah. But, yeah. So it's a different beast for sure. I do wonder about one of the things I've been wondering,

my brother-in-law's alignment here in Virginia. And I'm wondering how that's going to go nationwide. You know, sort of, I don't know if everybody's like in tune with how that works. But a lot of times linemen are, you know, the guys who keep the power poles up and lines running, they spread out all over the nation when things like this happen and come from different areas and go to different areas. and I'll be interested to see where he's headed and where he, if he's staying, if he's going and that kind of stuff, because it's, it looks to me like the whole state could get walloped.

And that's a, that's a deal. And, you know, subsequent states up north or maybe even south. I mean, I guess below us could be where the risk of the ice is. And that's usually where the risk of the power outages. Exactly. Well, you like, you know, we've had hurricanes and stuff. And, you know, you look on 95 and it's just, just. a train of the bucket trucks, you know, several hundred. They come from all over the country, the Northeast, everybody heading down 95 to Florida, you know, Georgia, Mississippi, wherever the

hurricane happens to be. But you look at the size of the storm. It's, I mean, you know, our alignment, and God bless your brother, I could, I could never do that job. But I can imagine the alignment, they're probably going to end up staying home. I mean, Virginia's going to get hammered. Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, at the ice. I mean, I mean, I don't think there's going to be many, many bucket trucks come to anybody's rescue. Yeah, you got to stay, you got to stay home because the storm's so big. And also, you know, like, what will mobility be like for those most important people early on? You know what I mean?

Because now you're talking about like alignment getting to work. I don't know. They may go in early. They may go in pre-storm. I think that's how they roll. I think they kind of stage like, you know, EMS. and stuff. Yeah, I've seen like the Home Depot in Chester. I've seen, gosh, 20, 30, 40 bucket trucks all just hanging out and they'll do their morning meetings and they'll, you know,

they pass out the assignments and stuff. So you're right. They might, shoot, they may put them up in hotels, but yeah, I definitely have seen parking lots where the bucket trucks have been staged with the crews before they send them out on assignments. One of our listeners in chat, she says that the, she's in North Texas prepping for this thing. And she says that, they'll drive out from the West Coast to give a helping hand. What's up, Phoenix over there on Instagram? Okay, Jordan. Great show today, by the way, Jordan, guys.

Definitely check out the Phoenix's winter prep show this morning. It was awesome. So, yeah, so, you know, that's sort of what the wife and I have been talking about. The big concern, of course, being. And this is what I don't see in a lot of weather reports. And I don't know if they're just trying to not freak people. out as much. But it looks like Monday night. And this is kind of like one of those perfect storms, right? We get the winery mix all through the day Sunday on top of the snow on Saturday night

into Sunday. And then if we have these power outages, then we go into Monday where the evening is threatening like between five and 10 degrees I've seen. Yep, yep. And that's kind of like the worst case scenario. Yeah, that's what I'm really worried about. I'll take the snow every day. And then the ice gets a little worried, then you lose power, then you're in single digits, and that just opens it up to a whole new set of circumstances that we have to prepare for.

Yeah, yeah, between five and 10 degrees is a kind of cold that I don't think, you know, I don't even remember a lot of fives growing up in Pennsylvania. I mean, you grew up in Indiana, right? So there's, you guys get it pretty cold up there. Oh, yeah, yeah, the Midwest. Yeah, it's snowstorms. And then, you know, I grew up in Tornado Alley. So a lot of, a lot of weather events.

Definitely kept you on your toes in the Midwest growing up. So I espoused the, you know, 20,000 BTU kerosene kerosene heater for winter prep as a not only an effective but an affordable means of off grid heat because I

personally I haven't experienced anything better in that situation you know what I mean outside of having a wood stove like if you don't have a legitimate wood stove which I don't have it legitimate woodstove I have a woodburning fireplace And for those of you listening, if you haven't depended on a woodburning fireplace for heat, they kind of suck. They do. They're not really what you think they are in terms of heat.

But we definitely have depended on that thing in the past, and it gets the job done. So we'll be looking to that. My experience with electric heat, I don't know. I don't know if you know of a model that's better. but my experience with sort of electric heat, you know, like electric heaters plugged into the wall or plugged into a generator, is that they're a big, if you have no other option, fine, but they're a big waste of electricity that don't really do that graded job from my experience. No, you're right. I agree. I agree. So what are you guys game planning over there when the lights go out? Well, I've got gas logs that's, you know, and that puts out.

some heat that might be just as efficient as a woodburning fireplace, which isn't much. I think what 80% of the heat, you know, goes up the flu and up the chimney. But, you know, if you burn it, if you burn the fire long enough, you know, you get the radiant heat coming off the bricks. Yeah. That, you know, that does help. I have, it's a little heater. It looks like a little mini radiator. I guess it has like oil in it.

I guess it's like an oil. Yep. I know what you're talking about. And it's, it does well, you know, once you get it heated up. But once you turn it off, it, you know, it's, it's metal, you know, and it loses its, it's, it's radiant heat very, very quickly. I got a, Mr. Buddy. Is that what they're called Buddy heater or Mr. Buddy or something? Propane?

Yeah, yeah, the propane. Yeah, they're good. They're great. Yeah. I've got the smaller one, not the big buddy or whatever they call. I got his little buddy. And I got a forfeit extension. So I'm going to hook that up to one of my 20. pound cylinders from my grill. I'm going to have three full cylinders, three 20 pounds. See,

I always get that mixed up. I can't, I can never remember if they're gallons. I think they go by gallons, right? Not pounds? I don't know. I think it is pounds, isn't it? Yeah, it's a thing. Yeah, the standard grill, I think is 25 pound. All right. So I've got, I'm going to have three of those. I got an extension. And, uh, because yeah, the little buddy thing, it's on high. It's, it all. It burn through one of those Coleman propane canisters in about three and a half four hours. Yeah. And it's like what, 9,000 BTU, I think is the smaller version. So I'm going to hook it up to one of the 20 pound cylinders or 25 gallon cylinders,

whatever they are. And that's what I'm going to use as supplemental heat if the power goes out. Now, I've got my solar generators. You know, I'll drag one of those inside if I need to. to and run and run that little electric heater off of that. But that's basically all I'm going for. Just, you know, put on my pajamas, my hoodie and a hat. And, you know, when we lose power, I'm, I'm preparing that we're going to lose power.

If we get any ice, we're going to lose power and it's going to be out for several days. I wish it wasn't like that, but that is, that's where my mind is right now as far as losing power. I think that, you know, I'd love that take because, number one, it's the reality of the fact that the power is going out, which is most likely a thing if we get, like you said, if we get the ice. And the other thing I like about it is reminding people that this is kind of the deal. Like when you're talking about emergency heat outside of having an expensive backup generator that clearly, on as soon as the power goes off. Like, what we're talking about are basically the best options. Yep.

And that as far, and look, I don't have my finger on the pulse of all emergency prep tech, but I know this stuff pretty well. And I don't know much else you could do in a power outage, you know, outside of that stuff, particularly when it's that cold, you know, if we're dealing with that kind of cold. Yeah. If it wasn't for those single digits coming in, you know, Monday and into Tuesday, you know, it, you know, it would suck bad enough.

But the fact that, you know, we're looking at single digits, that's just, like I said, that's just, that's just a whole new ball game. You've got to worry about the pipes freezing. And, you know, so, you know, you're going to have to do a few extra things. But we'll see. They said the storm apparently in the last, what, 12 hours has shifted north a little bit, which isn't the best for us because that takes us away from the snow and kind of puts us on that snow, freezing rain, ice line, which is, that's, that's no Bueno at all.

I'm not, I'm not impressed with that at all. I'm going to show you and show everyone else what I use. This, it's not like revolutionary or anything, but we'll put it up on the, can I share my screen twice? I don't know if I'm allowed to do that or not. Yeah, I can. Okay. So I go to this website, Weather Underground, for all of you out there listening.

I don't know. It's, I think they do a great job. I think they do a great job far in advance. And they also do a great job at modifying and changing things, sort of like, I don't know. I don't know how often they update, but it changes all the time and usually in the right direction. So what we're looking at over here now looks like And the other thing that they do that's amazing is Well, they're going to give me an ad probably

But they'll give you an hour by the hour Like way ahead of everybody else That's nice. I like that. Yeah, it's kind of cool. Now, I don't know why, but when I share my screen And ads pop up, everything gets weird. But they give you a good hour by hour. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get down to it or not.

if you ever start doing video and stuff, I'll tell you a secret. Just screenshot the website you want to show your audience. Because if you try to do anything with ads anymore, like what's happening right here, this Palm Beach Millionaire ad. Yeah. Jesus. But yeah. So it looks like could be coming into snow about 7 p.m. or something like that per these guys.

and it rolls right into the next one. It'll roll right into the next day if it wants to work. Anyway, it's a good site. It's not going to cooperate because Streamyard doesn't like pop-ups and ads and all that kind of stuff. And neither do I. But yeah, 5 a.m., it looks like the turnover into that, whatever the wintry mix amounts to be. And I guess that's when you and I'll be holding our breath. Yeah, but I don't see sleep.

or ice, but is that kind of, is that is a wintry mix? Is that, is ice included in a, in a wittery mix? Is that what a winery mix is? It's, it can be. In this, in this forecast, it says a wintory mix early will evolve

to mainly freezing rain for the afternoon high 24 degrees. Oh. And it winds five to 10 miles and then watching, cloudy with freezing rain expected in the evening becoming light and tapering. off. Yeah, we're in trouble. Yeah. Well, you know, this is, this is weather underground on Wednesday.

So, but it does look like it's cheating up. I don't understand. And maybe I'm just, you know, I'm not a meteorologist, but I don't understand how you get freezing rain when it's 24 degrees out. I don't understand. Yeah, I think it'd be snow, right? So yeah. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's colder than 32. Yeah. falling from the sky should be snow. I mean, it's very simple, at least for me. That's what I thought. I'm reading this thing. It looks colder every day, but we're getting freezing rain.

Unless the storm is so hot. But where's it coming from where it's so warm or something like that? I don't know. Jay Jordan, the Phoenix in chat says they're going to get primarily ice in North Kakalaki. What's up, Jay Panetto? I ain't seen you in a while. I haven't been playing around on Instagram. very much. That's how that goes, though. But what do you guys got on the menu? You got any kind of like

easy meals you whip up when it gets power outage time, that kind of stuff? No, Peebee and Js. I mean, nothing, you know, we're not looking for Michelin Stars, but. No, nothing. It's kind of funny. My fridge, my main fridge, you know, went completely pear-shaped on me a couple weeks ago. And I was supposed to have the new fridge delivered. Monday and now I just got a notification that's coming Saturday, which is very interesting. As long as I come early Saturday, I'll have a fridge, but I've just used, I've been using my little ice co 12 volt fridge for my lunch meet. Oh, yeah. I had that at Prepper Camp. I take that thing. I love that thing. It just, it's, it's, it's, it's sips electricity, like 57 watts.

And, you know, it's got a little, it can get down to on about 18 degrees. So it could be a little mini freezer if you wanted to so i've had all of my food just jammed into there but you know i really haven't i haven't thought too much about it i've got chicken so i have more eggs than i can than i can count so you know if we lose electricity it's probably yeah it's probably a bunch of bologna sandwiches and i got my little butane stove i got my little coleman camp stove i got the black stone out in the in the garage so yeah hard boil so yeah oh yeah no if i feel froggy and I may cook up a, you know, a full meal or if I'm lazy like I am, it's, you know, like you said, P.B. and Che and some ham and cheese and maybe a grill cheese on the,

on the, you just gave me an idea. I'm going to hardboil some eggs. That didn't pop into my head until just now when you said chickens. And I said, you know what, that's a good call. I could hard boil a bunch of eggs and have them. Yeah. Yeah. Garden Girl says she's busting out the can chili and soups that cheese can. Yep. The kids will eat ramen, freeze dried veggies. Yeah, ramen's a killer for that.

That is an absolute killer for that kind of weather. And another reason to hard boil some eggs or soft boiled, am I guess for ramen. Yeah, but look at the, we're going to put this up, PBS family, if you're watching via video, I think I've seen these things before, but they're worth talking out.

They're pretty cool. these ice co-freezers. Yeah, I got mine a few years ago. It was like, oh, it was like one of the early birds specials. They were, you know, like a crowdfunding thing. You know, can't remember. Oh, man, look at that one. Holy cow.

That silver ones cool, huh? Survive a nuclear blast there. It looks like something you would get loot out of in a video game. Oh, it has, of course, it has an app. I mean, come on, for that price, it needs an app. Oh, it does have an app. That's cool. I got one of the ones.

That was probably one of their first ones they came out with, you know, but it works fantastic. Like I said, you know, plug it in. You're going down the road, plug it into the cigarette lighter adapter and, you know, she's good to go. That's very cool, man. Yeah, these are nice. The good thing is the whole area will be a refrigerator, worst case scenario. If you really think about it that way, we'll really a freezer. Yeah, what Phoenix, what she was talking about this morning.

Hey, no forget, you can put your stuff out on the deck. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's, that's a thing. I keep a spare fridge freezer out back of another house that we have. And it's the problem this time of year is that the stuff, you have to be careful because the stuff in the fridge freezes. That's true. On the back porch.

Yep. So that's, you know, that's one of the, these are cool, though. Check about PBM family, ice coat freezer.com. Pretty cool. I guess they're built for like the, overlanding crowd or something like that. Yeah, a lot of folks have them. Yeah, exactly.

The amount of things that people take camping, it blows my mind. Look at that guy set up. This is what I'm saying. Are they ammo cans? I think, yeah. He's well organized. The amount of things, man, it's crazy to me. I don't, I'd forget too much.

This whole cooking setup my man has right here is astounding. I don't even know what he's doing. He's got a rice cooker over here or something. Hey, I guess you want to live good while you're out there. I don't know, but I like those. They're cool, man. Thanks for the heads up on that. Oh, yeah.

No, absolutely. I love mine. They're very cool. They're probably better than those. Doesn't the my Patriots? No, not my pay. Who's the other one? Four Patriots, don't they have something like that out there?

Yeah, and that's probably a knockoff or something like that. Yeah, but I've seen some of their commercials. little solar generators and little fridges and stuff like that. Yeah, I've never, I never really messed with them too much. I had their food years ago, and they were responsive for a little while. They sent me some food to try,

and it wasn't that good. And it was like, everything was real small. You know, like some survival food, everything's just a really small bit with some sort of a sauce. That was like everything. It was like everything was a gravy with bits.

Gravy and bits. Gravy and bits. That's right. If you want to have fun with a food storage company, just call it gravy and bits and be honest. Because most of them are like, all these meals are amazing. Right. I don't know about you. I mean, I've never really had a survival food outside of like a mountain house style.

That's really good. Yeah, you know, you like, I want to eat it. Yeah. It's kind of one of those things where, you know, if you're, if you got to break into the freeze dried, you know, the Augustin Farms and the Mike Patriots and the Ready Wise and stuff like that. I mean, there's a reason why you're breaking into that. And you're having, you know, grandma's oatmeal or the big mac and cheese, you know, the 12 pound mac and cheese packet or something.

But yeah, there's, it's, it's, I, you know, I've sampled several of, several of mine. And they're good. I would never say they're great. But again, if you're in a situation where you're having to break that, you know, break that stuff out. There's obviously other stuff going on in the world. And, you know, you just need to get some, get some calories in you. Oh, most definitely.

Yeah, these guys are new. They were in our Black Friday catalog, the Vodes Preparedness guys. Okay. I haven't tried their stuff yet. I love the owner. He's great. I have kind of no doubt that it's good. But these are the kind of meals that I like.

They also do the meat, meat bundles that I think are really cool. But, you know, the freeze dried, heat them up in the bag, hot water, that kind of stuff. I don't know. Something about them. They just always seem to whip up better. they got more texture they got more i know this tater tot a hot dish is probably awesome well that looks good right that looks really good yeah i think them out yeah yeah votes preparing this folks check them out they're pretty new i think they really i think they really got on like right around

holiday time and uh i got to buy some i'm going to check them out i love that this is one of my favorite things when i'm camping is to have the oh yeah i'm biscuits and gravy in the morning oh man especially this time of year. Absolutely. Yeah, that's the thing, Keith. There's all these small guys out there that are just doing amazing stuff. And it's so competitive. Now you never hear from them, you know?

And I feel bad. Well, yeah, no, no, you're right. I mean, it's, I don't know what's, I don't know what's been, well, I know what's been going on in the world in the last six, seven, eight years. But it just seems like, I don't know, it just seems like more people. are getting into prepping or just being prepared. I know prepping is, you know, some people don't like that word and stuff like that. But I just, I just see me more people being prepared.

A lot of people, you know, they think of a kind of a negative connotation when you think it. They immediately think of like Doomsday Prepper and some of the shows and the movies that are just over the top. And there's plenty of stereotypes out there. Don't get me wrong. But I think in the last several years, I've just seen people just overall. regardless of political leanings. More people have decided just to prepare and just be a little more self-reliant. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Oh, no way. Yeah, it's anti-anxiety at this point. It's like antidepressant pills that works better than that. You know what I mean? In my opinion, that's what I see. I see it's something just like that. Just put the nature of the news, the nature of the world, the nature of things. It's like you can you can combat a lot of your worries just with a base

level preparedness. Because I think if you had I always say if I was if I didn't make the change years ago, God, I'd be a mess right now. You know what I mean? With kids and wife and all the shit going on, I'd be freaking out. I wouldn't know what to do. No, I'm the same way because you know, I've been doing this for, oh shoot, maybe four years or so. Then I think about, you know, 10 or 15 years ago when I was, I wasn't prepared at all for anything. You know, I kind of look back and on myself going, oh, my gosh, I, you know, I guess I got lucky, you know, that I didn't get myself in a bad situation, a bad storm or whatever the situation might be. So you're right. I, like I talk all the time. It's, it's, I prepare just,

it's for peace of line more than anything. So if this, if this snowstorm doesn't develop and we don't get a lot of snow. We don't get a lot of ice. No harm, no foul. I've got, I've got extra gas in the garage. I've got extra propane. I got my little buddy heater. And I'll just prepare, I'll be prepared next time it happens. Yeah, that's it. That's it. And there's also the quality of life aspect of it that a lot of us, I think we take for granted. You mentioned having, just having more chicken eggs than you can handle that are from a source that is exponential. better than probably anything you can buy anywhere. Absolutely.

Is one of those things that if you, you know, if you pulled a thousand people and said, hey, do you want eggs that are better than any eggs you can buy anywhere? And you want to have a lot of them for, you know, next to no effort? I mean, chickens are so easy. That, you know, who would say no? No, I don't want that. Give me those white ones from the market. The ones that are all bleached.

Yeah. Yeah. Give me those white ones from the market. They go up to $10 every so often. Yeah. So, yeah, there's a lot of that. There's a lot of that sort of quality of life stuff that. And, you know, of course, you know, come garden season and all that kind of stuff, it's like, you know, a lot of times preppers are quietly living the dream and people are like scoffing at them. And it's like, okay, I mean, go ahead. You know, I'll be making shish kebabs tonight. I don't know about you. Every person that is prepared is one less person that you and I and everybody else out there has to. worry about when the poop hits the fan and things start, you know, things start get a little chippy out there. And, you know, if there's an extended, you know, grid down situation or a supply chain disruption, everybody who's prepared, that that's just one less person that you and I have to

not worry about, you know, getting all squirly, you know, coming to your door. Hey, do you have any food? Oh, just one can of beans. And, you know, one can turns into 10 cans. And then, you know, the next day they're back with three of their friends. And then, you know, that's just, that's just, that's the whole thing. Yeah, that's it. That is a whole thing for sure. Yeah, there's no doubt about that. I mean, you get you know, there was, I think there's always going to be a certain

group or amount of people that just, you know, what is it like the grasshopper and the ant or something like that? There's always going to be some grasshoppers. There's no getting around it. You know what I mean? Right. It's just one of those things. And I think it has a lot to do

with, like, you just don't want to, I don't even think it's necessarily a lazy thing. I think it's like I can't absorb that right now. You know what I mean? Like I can't absorb that I need to start buying ammunition or something like that. You know, because it's coming from a place of ignorance a lot of times. Like they don't know. They're not like, well, I have a perfectly written out checklist of the things that I need to purchase to be better prepared. I just don't buy any of it. Like a lot of people come from a place of I have no idea what to buy. What am I going to buy? What do we start?

Like soup first? I don't know. Bottle water? What? You know, so. And I think that is kind of what's gotten better over the years to your point. I think like the entry, the entryway has gotten bigger, you know? Sure.

It's gotten easier for people to just hop right in and start prepping. That must be it. And it, like, it's not difficult. You know, you go to Costco, you get an extra case of water. And you go to where you go to Walmart and you get your canned veggies, just grab two extra cans. and then grab a gallon of, you know, spring water or whatever. And before you know it, you've got a 72-hour kit, you know, sitting there right in front of it. And you had no idea that you've just, you know, you've put something together and, you know, come a situation.

You know, you've got food and water for three days and, you know, you're good to go. Yeah, I think that's huge. I think that, you know, just the difference water can make. The difference that water can make when things go bad, well, you remember this time, last year, right? This time last year, we had the new mayor. The water goes out for a week. That's right. It was gone. Remember, that was literally like, it had to be a year to date almost. It was pretty close. It might have been earlier in January, but yeah, just have an extra water. I mean, because we keep extra water like that, it was kind of like, yeah, you know, my, to her credit,

my wife over the years has become sort of the, she's like fills the gaps in the foundation like on like immediately no that's nice yeah it's really great it's really great she just goes right into i know what we have but what else you know what i mean and then goes right into buying it and getting it and making sure we yeah it's it's phenomenal but i've you know it's been i guess it's been living with me for years and years and years and yeah it's a great thing though but yeah just the difference that that can make you know having extra water in knowing that, well, the water pipes break, the water goes out, whatever the situation is, we have water to drink. And to your point, you know, you add some food and you had some

way to cook it. And now you're, you're eliminating all kinds of problems. And it's just basic. Yep. No, it's like I said, all about peace of mind. Like this storm, I'm not worried at all about losing power. You know, like I said last time on my podcast, most of us, if not all of us, we're prepared to a certain level. So we know what we have. We know what we can, how far we can go with our food and water. And it's just a matter of with something like this,

the storm that's so big. It's just tweaking what we have. So we don't have to, you know, start from, you know, the bottom. And oh my gosh, I got to build my preps up for the next week. You already have what you have. You keep a good inventory. So now you just go into your pantry or wherever you have your stuff.

You just look at it. You're like, no, I'm pretty set. I'll tell you what, let me run out and grab this or like I'm going to go to Home Depot tomorrow and get a couple extra propane cylinders. And once that's done, I'm good to go. It's going to be tough on a lot of people. 90% of the folks out there do not have a 72 hour kit. So if you think about it, I just, so I don't know how many people live in the city of

Richmond, I don't know, a million and a half. I'm not sure how many people live in the city for the population. This city is like 250, 300,000. Oh, shoot. Okay. As you think. The surrounding Chesterfield areas when you start getting into the millions. Hmm.

Well, just think of downtown in the fan, you know, very densely populated. And nine out of ten folks down there do not have food and water for three days. So down there in those narrow streets, when we get six or eight inches of snow and a half inch of ice, and the plows can't get there and the power goes out. You can't walk down to the corner market. I mean, you're, you're S-O-L. Shoot, you might have, if you're not up on steps, you might have trouble opening that front door that's on the ground level.

That's right. You know, if you're not on a port like back behind a museum and everything. Yeah. Yeah, that could be interesting. Yeah, I think that one of the things that we'll do for sure, I mean, we'll be out playing in it Saturday night, I'm sure, because it's just, you know, it'll be fun. But one of the things we'll do once it all stops Sunday is there'll be some house checks.

You know what I mean? We'll trudge through and do some house checks on people because especially if powers out, that's when it's going to get real. Yep. And that's an important thing. That's an important thing to consider because there are going to be people who have this whole entire situation we're talking about and haven't thought at all what they're going to do when it becomes 10 degrees out and they have no heater.

Yep. You know, and that's, we're in the south. I mean, if you're living in an older house down here, they are not at all designed for what's about to happen when the weather gets down to 10 degrees. No. You know, my father-in-law's house says, I don't even think it has insulation.

I mean, it's got plaster and wood walls, you know what I mean? Right. So it's, yeah, it's, one of those things. It's just a rare occurrence. There are a lot of people kind of like doing the old, and I don't appreciate this stuff. They're doing the old like, it's just wintertime. Stop making a big deal out of it. You know what I mean? Which like, this is not wintertime in Richmond, Virginia. Oh my gosh, no. Oh my gosh. No. It's winter in Buffalo or Chicago or Denver. Yeah, we get that. But no, this is, yeah, this is, you know, they're talking on the news.

Oh, they'll be talking about this for a lifetime or generations to come. And I'm thinking, man, I guess, but Lord, I'm trying to get everybody all hyped up. And that was one thing, the, I check the local, you know, channel six, eight and 12. And those silly meteorologists, it's like, it's like pulling teeth. I mean, just say six or eight inches, just, well, we got an acute, a possible accumulation. Well, no kidding, Sherlock. We know we're going to get an accumulation. Just throw a number at me.

I don't bracket it, six to ten. But for some reason, they're really reluctant to actually give a forecast. And I'm not really sure why. Yeah. I mean, if I'm a meteorologist, I think I would, if I were in charge of the weather department, I would just always say, look, we're here for public safety, right? Like, isn't that kind of like, shouldn't that be number one? So we're always going to say it's going to be worse.

And if, you know what, that would be my position. Get prepared. It's going to be bad. Well, and then you got to worry about, you know, you say we're going to get two feet, and then we get six inches. Oh, then everybody looks at a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Well, and then, you know, then kind of, you know, it may ruin your credibility for the next storm.

You're like, no, really, it's two feet this time. You're like, yeah, you're the guy that said two feet and ended up, you know, sunny and 80. We're not listening to you. The weatherman, they cried wolf, yeah. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. I guess you get it.

That could be part of it, you know. It is a lot up in the air. I mean, I'll tell you, this time watching the weather underground, this time yesterday, well, maybe not this time yesterday, but midday yesterday, we were like 20 inches of snow. I picked my son up and I was like, we're going to get 20 inches of snow. It's going to be awesome. And then, and then, and then, you know, this. By midday today, we were getting per them, it looks like eight inches Saturday into Sunday of snow and then, you know, possible two inches of wintery mix, whatever that is.

Right. Well, if you think about it. So here in Richmond, whether it's six inches or 16 inches, we're going to prepare the same way because at six inches, the city shuts down. Yeah, six inches a lot. Yeah. So just go ahead and just prepare for the worst. And then when it doesn't happen, then you're like, who, we dodged a bullet. But when it does happen, you're like, I got it.

You know, I'm prepared, prepared for the worst, and we're good to go. Yeah, I think that's the way to go. I think that's about the best you can hope for. We'll be cranking the, if the power goes out, I'm sure we'll turn to the old Coleman Titan stove for cooking. That is the disaster coffee special during PreparCamp. That thing's got some hours underneath it. It works. the little two burner Coleman stove is it's worth having.

It's an easy setup. It's a, you know, with the one pound propane tanks, it gets everything done. You need to get done. Those things cook for hours if you're cooking, cooking, you know, and I know that from from boiling water over and over again at Prepar Camp. They do, you know, the colder it is that they, they do struggle. You'll probably get less out of them. But it's a good investment.

It's a good investment to be able to bring water. Water to a boil, make hot drinks, make coffee, that kind of stuff. You know, the other thing that I had even before I started disaster coffee, it was just one of those metal percolators that you can cook over fire. You coffee drinker, Keith? Yeah, you were at the disaster coffee booth. Yeah. That's an essential on days like what are coming.

Yep. You know what I mean? You got to have that hot coffee. I'll drink hot coffee all day in the summer. So I definitely got to have it, you know, in the winter. But just some things to consider guys to put on the list after this. To be honest, it's, what is it, the 21st going into Thursday. So, you know, I don't know how everybody feels about Jeff Bezos, but you got Amazon Prime.

You can make some things happen quickly, you know what I mean, if you want to. So leave that in your back pocket if you want to go scrolling around after the show to shore some things up, check and see if you can get overnight shipping on things. Because a lot of times it's kind of too late for larger projects. But that's an option. Love it or hate it. Yeah, I'm sure if you get an order in tonight or first thing in the morning, you'll can, because if this storm, if it's half as bad as they're calling for it,

you know, the, the warehouse is they'll all be shut down. I mean, they're not going to put their drivers out on the roads and stuff like that. I mean, it's just not, that's just not going to happen. So if you don't, if you don't kiss your stuff by Saturday afternoon, just expect for it to be delayed. And again, this all depends on the ice. You know, we lose power. I mean, who knows?

It's really going to set some of these. Well, look at your grocery stores. You know, so they, you know, I haven't been. Oh, no. I'm sure they're a mess. Oh, my gosh. I can't even imagine. I drove by Kroger on the way home from work this afternoon.

It was just an absolute madhouse. Oh, wait. I'm telling a complete lie. I was in the public's like three hours ago. my son wanted to get the $5 sushi that they do at Publix oh i did not know that and i get my sushi at croger i mean i've been paying full price at croger well it's only wednesday it's five dollar sushi yeah it's pretty good it's pretty good i know where i'm going now yeah they don't it's not bad you know you get a couple of them

it's only 10 bucks and you're full um so it looks like i just searched up kerosene heater wicks over here. Oh, yeah, you know what? We might as well bring it up real quick. Take a peek. Give everybody an idea of what's what. Is there any incriminating evidence on your... I don't think so. Oh, my address flashing up on there. But it looks like there's a lot of two-day delivery still available.

Yeah. I want to check ice melt and see. Let's see if anybody got a chance of getting ice melt in a hurry, delivered. Oh, that's a little different. February 10th. I don't know if they're big on that. I mean, I don't know if this is a place to get it. You know, I never buy it from here.

But it don't look good. January 29th. Yeah, you might be out of luck. You might be heading the lows if you, well, actually, if you've got to get ice melt at this point in Richmond, you're probably out of luck or anywhere that's getting hit by this thing. Because I can imagine that stuff probably got bought up. already. Oh yeah. I'm sure they got the tractor trailer full of generators and they just

roll it out there in the parking lot and bring them in and bring them in on pallets. People buy them as quick as they bring them in, I'm sure. It's a good thing to have, you know, put the shovels out front on the front porch. Don't get them buried. Get the sleds out early. Yep. All that kind of good stuff, man. Do you do the tarp on the car, Keith? I know a lot of people always talk about the tarp on the car. Absolutely do the tarp. Yep. It looks terrible, but I just whip that thing off and start the car and I'm off. It's great, huh? Yeah.

I've never done it. I probably won't do it. It's one of those things I like, I'll threaten. I'll tell you what I do need to do is wrap the fig tree up. That's, that's probably got. I don't know what the fig tree's going to make. No five degrees wrapped up or not. That'd be sad because those were phenomenal this year.

But I think that's about it. Keith, what do you think, man? I mean, we're as good as well. we're going to get. Yeah. I mean, I don't, like I said, run to Lowe's, get my propane cylinders tomorrow. Yeah, I think, I think I'm set and just fingers crossed. And I'll be sitting there staring at the ceiling when the lights go out or whenever that is.

And we're like, oh, here we go. Then move into Keep Keith Warm mode, I guess, is what that'll start. Yeah. Yeah, if them lights stay on, it could be nice. I'm not going to lie. I don't really mind being snowed in. I don't know about you if you're the type of person who's like, you know,

the blood pressure starts going up, the more you realize you can't leave. Oh, no. No, I'm, no, not at all. I'm the opposite.

Yeah, I'm like, what do you want to do? You want to do like a Lord of the Rings? You want to do a Matrix? What do you? We got hours to burn. Let's do it.

Yeah. No, I don't, I don't mind staying home at all. That's good. Because we'd be going to be staying home. One way or the other, I'm sure about that for sure. Oh, yeah, it'll be interesting.

It'll be interesting to see the forecast about 24 hours from now because they'll have it locked in this time tomorrow night. It'll be locked in. Yeah. I'll tell you what I'd love to do if you want is maybe next Monday, Wednesday, sometime next week, assuming we're back to normal by next week, end of the week. So it won't be next Monday, maybe two Mondays from now or something like that. And sometime once all this blows over to get together and do sort of like a after action report kind of what we're.

No. Yeah, that'll be, no, that would be definitely worthwhile because, you know, I'm sure I'm going to make a mistake, depending on what happens. I'm sure I'll be like halfway through this thing. But like, crap, I forgot. So, no, that'd be, yeah, we do a little post-mortem on it and learn by your mistakes. That's the only way you can get better. Yeah. Those are kind of my favorite shows when it's like, here's all the things that went wrong or things that I should have done.

better because I think people like that angle a lot more than they like, you need to do X, Y, and Z and do it now. Yeah, I mean, we learn from each other. I mean, that's what the prepping community is about. I mean, I, you know, I pick up information all the time. I get emails, you know, from the podcast and little tips. And no, I just, that's, that's how we learn. That's how we get better.

And that's how we, you know, we end up thriving. Yeah. Well, hey, man. Thanks so much for coming on. I'm glad we made it happen. Absolutely. Any time. No, I appreciate it. Absolutely. Anytime. So, folks, the common sense practical prepper. The link is in the show description down below. You can get all of his episodes. How many episodes you got? You've been added a while. Oh, 100. I quit numbering them, but I think Buzz Sprouts has 180 or something episodes.

I lost track. I got some I want to listen to. I like the looks of your great. grandma was sweet, not sterile. That sounds like a podcast I would dig. All right, folks, we'll check them out. The Common Sense PRAGPRAP. You'll be hearing from a more here on PBN. And like I said, we'll get that, you know, what went wrong. My dog froze to death.

No, I wouldn't be able to live that one down. But all right, folks, until next time, I do appreciate you. Talk to you soon. I might be on tomorrow. I probably will be on tomorrow. I got all kinds of stuff going on. So, yeah, look for look to the windward and you might find the intrepid commander. All right, folks.

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