As the previous several months have shown us rather clearly, being prepared for an emergency is of vital importance. After two storms battered the South, you

had millions of people suddenly find themselves in a location where the very basic necessities of life were threatened.

Buying food and water became either a challenge or sometimes outright impossible. The electricity, the internet, and the gas were knocked out, and at

the same time, you had roads being battered to such a degree in certain places that some people weren't even

really able to leave their homes without the assistance of a helicopter. And of course, even if right now you happen to

live in an area that's not a traditional storm path area, there are still many good reasons to be prepared nonetheless.

For instance, just several weeks ago, you had the port workers' union announce a strike. Now, luckily that strike was

resolved rather quickly, but if it wasn't resolved, it would have only taken maybe a week or two for supermarket shelves to start getting empty. There are many, many different possible emergencies to prep for, and so today let's go

through the must-have essentials that you need when putting together a survival kit. The first category is, of course,

water. Water is probably the most important element of any survival kit. I mean, without water, you and your family

would not last long, no matter what else you happen to have. However, generally water is one of the hardest things to

store for a long time because water can go bad, and also, at the same time, physically it just takes up a lot of

space. Regardless, though, there are solutions. The first is to store simple cases of bottled water around the house.

If the bottles are sealed by the manufacturer itself, that water should remain clean for several years. Typically, the standard is that plastic bottle

Bottled water can remain safe for about 2 years before the plastic in the bottle begins to leach into the water.

So, what my family and I do is store several pallets of bottled water and

rotate them every few years. Once certain pallets get close to their expiration date, we drink them,

buy more, and so at any given point, we have water on hand in case of an emergency. Now, according to

everyone's favorite government agency, FEMA, the recommendation is to store at least one gallon of water per person

per day. That's enough for drinking and sanitation purposes. So, you just have to do the math.

If you have four people in your household and want enough water for a one-

month emergency, that would be 30 days * 4 gallons, which is 120 gallons of water. A typical

plastic water bottle holds about 16.9 ounces, so you can round that up to 17.  And so,

to have enough water for a month, your family would need approximately 706 bottles of water. A

typical case holds about 24 bottles, so you would need about 29 cases of water to be fully

prepared for a month. That's fine if you have a large basement, storage shed, or attic, but if you

live in a smaller house or apartment, that's probably too much water to store. So,

there are other solutions. For instance, you could buy a low-cost, innovative product called a bathtub

emergency water container kit. This is a very useful tool for emergencies. Basically, if you know that the water is

going to go out, or if you just suspect that it might go out in the case of a storm, then you can take out this plastic

container. It wraps around the entirety of your bathtub, and then you just fill it up with water. The capacity on this

thing goes up to 100 gallons, and so for emergencies it is perfect. That's because if you were to, let's say, just store

water in your open, normal bathtub, that water would spoil and become useless very soon. The dirt, the gunk, and the soap

scum and all the other grime in the bathtub would quickly contaminate the water and make it not good within a

matter of days, definitely a week. However, with one of these emergency water container kits, they can actually keep the water fresh for—they claim—upwards

of 16 weeks, which is 4 months. That sounds like a long time to just have the water standing around in the house, but

even if it's just one month, that's perfect. During that time, you can use that water for both drinking, for cooking,

for washing, for flushing the toilet, and for all your other needs. And just to be extra safe in terms of drinking, you can

pair the bathtub water container with a water filtration system. If you get one that has either activated charcoal or

reverse osmosis, and you run the water through that before drinking it, it'll be the perfect solution for an emergency.

And 100 gallons of water like that should last your family upwards of a full month, which is perfect. If you want

to check out the links to both the water filters as well as to the bathtub emergency container, I'll throw those

links down into the description box below. And as a caveat, we do not make any money from those links; they're just

there for your convenience. Now, after water, the second category of provisions that you absolutely must care about is

In the event of a serious natural disaster or supply chain disruption, people must rely on whatever rations they can get from FEMA or whatever they have stored at home.  Therefore, it's a good idea to store emergency food at home.

Just like with water, this will depend heavily on your available space. If you have a large house with a basement, shed, and attic, you can store containers of oatmeal, sacks of rice, canned soup, vegetables, fruits, and so on.

Regarding protein and incorporating this into your routine, my family and I drink a lot of bone broth. It's high in protein, generally healthy, and easy to store.

Each container has about 40 grams of protein and lasts about a year and a half. I drink one bottle a day, and we arrange them in cupboards by expiration date.

As items near expiration, we consume them and replace them immediately.  This way, we always have an unexpired emergency stash.

If stores are empty, we can last several months, not only with the bone broth but also with all our other stored food.

Besides bone broth and canned goods, I highly recommend getting several buckets of emergency food rations per family member.

These rations typically come in large plastic tubes and can last upwards of 25 years.

The cupboard's stocked with vacuum-sealed, freeze-dried food—awesome stuff!  These buckets have about

150 servings each, providing roughly 2,000 calories per day per person. Perfect for

emergencies.  We've worked with a sponsor for years, My Patriot Supply,

who sells these buckets. I'll link them in the description.  But if you have a Costco

membership, they sell them too—around a hundred bucks each.  The key, though—for these buckets and everything else—is to stock up

during relatively peaceful times, like now.  Three

weeks ago, when port workers went on strike, Costco immediately sold out of their emergency

food buckets. People hoarded them at the first hint of supply chain disruption.

So, buy now, before everyone else starts panicking. Also, it's really

important to have the tools to cook this food in an emergency.  Even the little things—make sure you have a non-electric can opener.

It would be incredibly annoying to have all these canned goods but be unable to open them because your can opener is electric and the power's out.  You wouldn't want to have to use a knife

on every can! Also, stock up on cooking supplies like charcoal and propane, because if the gas and electricity go out,

Probably need to be able to cook and boil water outside rather than rely on the stove in your kitchen, and also if

you happen to live in an urban environment like the city, we actually published a whole episode where we visited an urban prepper, and he gave us

a ton of really useful and good tips and tricks about how to stay prepared in an apartment rather than an actual large

house in terms of food supplies and everything else. If you want to check out that episode, I'll throw the link to it

— you can find it down in the description box below. Now, with food and water out of the way, we get into the miscellaneous

items that every survival kit should contain. The first is a radio that is battery-powered, solar-powered, and/or

hand-crank powered—ideally all three. There are, in fact, many of these that you can find online, and the one that I have

at home has a solar panel at the top; it has a hand crank on the side, and you

can use both this internal lithium battery that you can recharge alongside AAA batteries that you can replace. It's a perfect radio, and in an emergency,

a radio is really important because not only can you listen to music to kill time, but also, of course, you can listen

for emergency broadcasts and updates from both local authorities, state-level authorities, as well as from the federal government. And if you're choosing a

radio, make sure that it has three bands: you want it to have AM, FM, as well as WB. WB is known as a weather band, and so you

can use it to receive broadcasts from the National Weather Service. So AM, FM, as well as WB. It's funny how, with all the

advances in electronics, in an actual emergency it's just the good old radio that everyone happens to revert to. Also,

alongside the radio, I would highly recommend keeping some form of a generator. I recommend having at least one sitting around the house that way

You can charge your electronics and use them whenever you need to, even if the actual electrical grid gets knocked out.

If you live in the suburbs or somewhere in the country, you can, of course, keep an actual diesel, kerosene, or gas generator.

Around that way, you can generate your own electricity. But if you live in the city, like in a high-rise apartment building, you probably can't have a generator, and so you can just keep a power station in case of an emergency.

These things only cost a few hundred dollars, depending on the wattage you get, but they can store enough electricity to

power a lot of things: your iPhone, even your laptop, some lights, your flashlight—a lot of things that will probably die

quickly in an emergency. I'll throw the links to several good generators and power stations down into the description

box below for your convenience. Now, after the radio and battery packs, there is the vital first-aid kit. Every survival kit

should include some type of first-aid supplies to treat minor injuries, burns, things like that. At the very base level,

it should include things like bandages, antibiotic ointments, burn ointments, gauze, emergency stitches, and things like

that. In particular, emergency stitches; people don't think about that too much. But if you have a cut and you're not

able to make it, let's say, to the hospital, to the doctor, or anywhere else, these stitches are perfect. You can just

put them on your skin and you pull them, and it pulls the skin together and keeps it tight so it can actually heal in the

case of an emergency. They are a lifesaver. Also, if you happen to take daily prescription medications or if you

require something like an EpiPen for allergic reactions, make sure that you have enough in case you can't run to the

get extra doses or vials of whatever you need, just so you can keep it on hand. That's what my family and I do on

pretty much everything—not just medication, but really everything. For instance, toothpaste: we usually keep a year's supply of toothpaste on hand at all

times, and we use it and we use it and we use it, and then when we get down to the

six-month supply mark, that's when we go to the store and buy again. We don't wait until we're

completely out because if we get caught at that moment in an emergency, we're kind of out of luck. Then everyone is

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