With all the talk of Bug Out Bags, and the chaos in N.O. you guys have really got me interested. I grew up in Upstate NY, with the worse natural disasters being Ice Storms that usually shut us down for a couple days at the most. The worst one a few years ago in the north shut them down for a max of two weeks.
We don't have debilitating natural disasters like tornados, hurricaines, floods, mudslides or earthquakes. So really, no one here is prepared.
While I'd probably never need it (although its always been something in the back of my head, I'm interested in creating a BOB kit "just in case".
So yesterday I was at Gander Mountain molesting their pistol inventory, and decided I'd head over to the camping section and check out the water filters I'd seen everyone talking about. If there WAS a meltdown and total chaos, these items seemed one fo the most valuable. So they had several different Katadyn filters. One was $40 (which they were out of BTW), one was around $60, and the last one was $200.
My question is, how do these work, and what makes a $200 unit worth $200? Also, if anyone could give me a readers digest verson of making contaminated water potable, I'd be interested in hearing it. I'm confused as to what these filters do, how they work, along with the tablets you guys mentioned.
Can one make chemically contaminated water drinkable or is this just for "dirty" water, i.e. bacteria etc?
In addition, any books or online reading programs about survival etc. would be helpful. I saw on "Brat Camp" how they taught the kids to "bow" fire. It was pretty cool stuff. I'd like to learn more about that stuff "just in case".
We don't have debilitating natural disasters like tornados, hurricaines, floods, mudslides or earthquakes. So really, no one here is prepared.
While I'd probably never need it (although its always been something in the back of my head, I'm interested in creating a BOB kit "just in case".
So yesterday I was at Gander Mountain molesting their pistol inventory, and decided I'd head over to the camping section and check out the water filters I'd seen everyone talking about. If there WAS a meltdown and total chaos, these items seemed one fo the most valuable. So they had several different Katadyn filters. One was $40 (which they were out of BTW), one was around $60, and the last one was $200.
My question is, how do these work, and what makes a $200 unit worth $200? Also, if anyone could give me a readers digest verson of making contaminated water potable, I'd be interested in hearing it. I'm confused as to what these filters do, how they work, along with the tablets you guys mentioned.
Can one make chemically contaminated water drinkable or is this just for "dirty" water, i.e. bacteria etc?
In addition, any books or online reading programs about survival etc. would be helpful. I saw on "Brat Camp" how they taught the kids to "bow" fire. It was pretty cool stuff. I'd like to learn more about that stuff "just in case".