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Joining me now I don't want to waste a second before I bring him in because I have been wanting this for a while. Good job producer Chris for getting him on is Jim Cobb of

DoomsdayPrep Consultants.com the dude has written about 9,000 books he's been featured nationally and Jim I need to know where I get my bunker how I should build my bunker and what I need in my bunker.

Well I'll be honest with you bunkers are kind of they're far down on the list.

I'm still being prepared for emergencies. Reason being number one they're expensive and number two the odds of a disaster happening do such a degree that you need to be in a bunker is fairly remote compared to the run of the middle types of disasters that happen all the time.

What I like to tell people is to ramp up start small and work your way towards the bigger goals don't try to do it all at once. For example when we talk about emergency food a lot of people their instinct is to hop online and try to find a pallets worth of MREs or freeze dried food something like that that they can just buy in one fell swoop.

Well I know you have experience with MREs. Do you enjoy living on those for a week at a time? No I do not. I'm so thrilled to hear that there's a different answer.

I mean I tell you what that's one way to solve the toilet paper shortage problem.

It's so criminally true. I could have this story on the air the other day Jim that that is not it's no solution for your insides let me tell you no what I tell people is eat what you are store what you eat what you store okay when you go grocery shopping most people most families are buying at least some quantity of shelf stable food on a regular basis they're buying canned goods they're buying.

Pasta they're buying rice because that's what they eat on a regular basis just increase the quantity of those things that you buy you know for example if your family particularly likes chef wirety okay I don't know why but let's say your family does.

And it goes on sale by a couple extra cans than you normally would and put them on the shelf and just increase this over time that way you don't have a huge impact on your wallet number one and number two.

The food's not going to go to waste you're going to eat it eventually because it's things you already eat on top of all that you know it's not going to wreak havoc with your digestive system is suddenly that's all you have to eat you know what I mean sorry I really stupid question started interrupt where do you keep it I'm assuming you have quite a store do you have a shed out back you've already burst my bunker dreams so what do you keep one where do you keep.

Your food and how much of it do you keep per person what I recommend you I'll answer the second question first okay when it comes to quantity the first goal you should have you're just starting out your first goal is two weeks you want two weeks where the food breakfast lunch dinner snacks after you reach that two weeks now shoot for a month after you get that month go for two months I like to see people have at least two to three weeks.

Every month worth of food some people like to go far beyond that that's fine I what I try to avoid is I don't want people to get freaked out right off the bat think oh my God I need a years worth of food and I need it right now this is not practical and it's not feasible when it comes to the storage just about anything in life that you're ever going to want to store for a long term whether it's food water anything else cool.

Dark dry those are the requirements so if you have a dry basement you know a basement you don't have to worry about a flooding or whatever that's often the perfect place set up some shelving down there and you're good to go I don't like to suggest people store things in an outdoor shed because it's not climate controlled and in far too many places in the country you've got humidity you've got high heat in the summers you've got the below zero in the winter.

And it's just a recipe for failure. Is there anything I can do because look I'm in Houston and I don't have a basement and it's freaking miserable hot here and it is humid here is there anything I can do as far as absorbing some of that humidity anyway I can get it out of my house if I don't have a room in my house or is it just not possible.

Honestly it's probably not feasible not without building a special structure to keep it climate control what about water ammo and money or gold or whatever it is.

Okay water the the various and sundry experts in the industry will tell you you need to have one gallon of water per person per day for the length of the emergency.

The problem with that is nobody knows how long an emergency is going to go on for it's hard to know that ahead of time my crystal ball stop working long time ago.

What I recommend is a two pronged approach to water number one you should have some amount of water stored bottled water water that you've bottled yourself you know refilling two liter soda bottles things like that have enough to get you through at least a few days to a week.

Okay on top of that you should have the means to take water sourced from outside the home rain water pond creek lake whatever you might have nearby you want to have the means to take that water and render it clean enough to drink.

Do this through you know water filter product boiling it water purification tablets there are a number of different options on the market I tend to favor the so your brand products myself I don't get anything for saying that I just I'm a satisfied customer.

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