My Prius is bug out ready and set up to be a power generator today.

preppers!

 

PARANOID ?????

 

Sounds like you are planning on Road Warrior!

 

I don't mean to be negative.
I've watched various cable shows/documentaries about survivalists/preppers.
These are people, sometime entire families that invest time, effort and resources preparing for "the end of the world as we know it" scenarios.
My feeling was and has always been that I'd rather invest my time, money and effort into life today, with the belief that our infrastructure will survive. As opposed to investing into survival tomorrow, in a world that I probably wouldn't want to be in anyway.

But hey, these are unprecedented times.

If you've got the survival tools, already in place? More power to you.

I'm STILL betting we emerge from this crisis, with things to learn and things learned. I don't think it's going to change me into a bunker building, supply collecting, "survivalist" type.

But the converse is? As little as 3 months ago, if you would of told me most of the realities we are facing now, we would face? I don't think I would of believed you.

So I think we're all learning something from this.

 

I'm not quite sure where to bug out to. The open desert?

This isn't an earthquake, storm, fire, invasion, or any other physical damage to your home. Tap water is still available, and unless you live in Flint, safe to consume. The electricity is still on.

Don't bug out. Stay home.

 

I did not see any attacks, but perhaps I had those people on ignore.

Here is my Preparedness story.
In 2005 I was volunteering at a community kitchen in Clarksdale MS (350 miles north of NOLA) when one day we got 300 evacuees out of New Orleans running from Hurricane Katrina. Since the Care Station already had church groups and civic service organizations lined up to help, it was an obvious focal point. (I served as a Lion twice a month and as a Knights of Columbus once a month delivering meals. I really am a Lion, but the KoC just needed extra drivers)

We opened the Expo Center and got out Civil Defense cots from the 50s. and started planning meals. Churchs would be ready 'soon', measured in days. The Christian bikers, however, all had stockpiles of MREs for the end of civilization. So the first night our evacuees ate MREs. By the second evening, the Mennonite women were feeding evacuees. And then Methodists, etc.

No one responded quicker than the Christian Bikers! They recognized it was the end of our evacuee's world.

Today in Greenwood MS (300 miles north of NOLA) i am the web master for the Community Food Pantry and on the Board for the Greenwood Interfaith Ministries Community Kitchen.

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You've been watching too much of the walking dead BS!!
PARANOID ???

 

I did say we only fed MREs one night. believe me, the Mennonites cook very well!
I did say it was 2005, not now.
They were displaced by 350 miles, so at a disadvantage
To the best of my knowledge, Katrina was not contagious.
I guess I don't "have any excuse to help others in need" but I do. These days it resembles Ding Dong Ditch, ring the bell and run! Knock, Knock, Ginger - Wikipedia

In 1981, I walked from Mexico, through California and Oregon into Washington, You may be thinking 'rugged individualism'. No.

Every 4 to 7 days I got mail general delivery from home. Every town we were looking for laundromats and showers. I never went over 42 days without doing laundry. The authors of the Guide Book I was using were posting updates on trees.

Wrightwood CA grabbed me at the Post Office, did my laundry, fed me dinner, and put me in a bed. Belden CA had a lady (on a Sunday) who was our post mistress, grocery store clerk, waitress, and showed us the laundry. She just followed us room to room in a single building serving our needs. Massive help from trail angels, other back packers, our family, and Postmasters.

Your posts read like you are looking for enemies to hate. I find the folks here very helpful, but I admit I never set out to be their enemy.

Pacific Crest Trail - Wikipedia
Wrightwood, California - Wikipedia
Belden, California - Wikipedia

 

Theory, or have you done this? Have you photos of your car sending electricity into your home?

 

I am all for your Prius mods. What I am questioning is the way in which your casually recommend this potentially dangerous modification to send electrification from your well-designed 'bug-out' car, into a residential structure which wasn't designed for it

You're going to switch-off the refrigerator breaker in your house, in order to temporarily connect your modification from your Prius? That sounds convenient BUT what happens when your Prius energizes the other side of the Fridge breaker? I'm not an electrician, but I've read that type of Installation is 1) Illegal 2)Hazardous 3) depends on alot of things NOT going wrong.

If you want to promote that aspect of your bug-out plan, then show us YOU DOING IT.

It often confounds me when people promote DIY projects only to stop short before the final conclusion, like:
The person who converts auto alternators to construct their own wind farm, then runs a genny when their power quality is
burning-up their gadgets.
Or the person who makes a youtube video on how to build your own solar panel, but doesn't show any electrical measurements once its done.

If you're going to advocate for hooking-up electricity from car to house, then you go first.

 

A male-to-male plug is dangerous, but not so dangerous that it should be ruled out for life-or-death situations.

Using such a male-to-male plug is really only useful if you are trying to inject the power into the entire home branch network. Otherwise you'd just run an extension cord into the house to supply the fridge from the car. If the fridge is the only thing you are running, please consider doing that instead.

If you do need to inject power into the other branches of your home, please, please please make certain you have disconnected the mains supply so that you cannot send electricity out of your home where it could injure or kill a utility worker or other person.

When you build something like this for permanent usage, you use an interlock plate so that the aux power and the main power cannot both be switched on at the same time.

Anything you can do that makes it so you have to positively disable your utility power in order to enable your Prius generator input would be a good thing.

Also consider: you might not be the person who has to figure out setting this up or taking it down.