holidayAs I mentioned last year, in addition to Paratus I have created a second holiday for myself – Personal Safety Day (aka “Threatmas”).
Personal Safety Day is my holiday where the day is dedicated to inspecting, maintaining, and updating everything that pertains to my safety and security. These are things that include but are not limited to – checking smoke detector batteries, weapon lights, flashlights, spare tires, door locks, security cameras, house guns, EDC items, the Bag O’ Tricks ™, and the like.
This year, Threatmas includes the factoring in of the Beta Site. I’ll be setting up my list of things to sock away up there on my next trip. At the moment, the Beta Site is just a chunk of wooded dirt, but until I get four walls, a roof, and a flush toilet up there I can still drop a Monovault full of Just In Case up there.
Personal Safety Day is no substitute for regular inspections/maintenance of that which keeps you safe and secure. PSD is, instead, the day dedicated to making sure it gets done. During the year, youre supposed to be doing these things and you blow it off with “When I have the time…”, or “This weekend, for sure…”, or some other excuse…….well, PSD is that day where you have no excuses because PSD is specifically time set aside for those exact things. You said youo’d do it when you had time? Well, PSD is that day where you have the time.
I find having a checklist is imperative for maximizing the results of PSD. You’ve set aside a day for checking out your systems, make the most of it and make a checklist. You’ve got 364 days to add to and modify that list….take advantage of that. And don’t forget, money is one of your most important pieces of safety equipment….count the gold, silver, cash, and other tangibles. Know what you have, exactly, so that you know where you stand when something bad happens.
Now, with that said, it’s back to crossing things off my list…………..
Sadly, monovault as its own web site seems to be gone. It redirects to tankbarn.com, which has no SSL/TLS certificate, and which displays a “not found” page for monovault products.
Kurt
https://www.storeguns.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=category&virtuemart_category_id=6&Itemid=124
Doesn’t look like there’s a way to actually buy the vaults, just see them.
For a easy,cost effective and higher capacity, try either open top steel drums ( removable lid held on with steel clamp ring) that are truly bear impervious or plastic screw top food grade drums. Both will have usefulness after more permanent storage (ocean container) is on site. A small group of drums can also include a remote fuel supply without being as obvious. BTW even fully loaded drums are man handleable using a parbuckle( 2:1 leverage or massive leverage if a 2-4 ton come along is used.). From first hand knowledge the plastic drums can safely be dropped from 4 ft fully loaded if it lands on a old tire.