Topic: Long term Storage

[Nomad]

 What are your thoughts on a safe place to store your needs long term..
 A septic tank on your property would not raise any interest in most places....
 Storing in a cemetery buy a family plot or maybe just a plot install a vault
place your needs for long term place a marker....

[XDMHMMWV]

What type of situation are you planning for?
Bug out stash, long term for home, hidden away from home.

Personally, I like having the food in a cool dry place under the house, a crawl space or basement.
Have a trailer you can load up with the supplies.
Unless you have a planned but out location, you never know where you will end up.

There are also many different levels of SHTF: complete collapse, partial collapse, national emergency, local disaster and hyper inflation.
After QE2, I am now preparing for the last one. Which is now being said to kick into high gear  next year. I'll post the source tomorrow as I did not write it down earlier.

[9Shooter]

After QE2, I am now preparing for the last one. Which is now being said to kick into high gear  next year. I'll post the source tomorrow as I did not write it down earlier.

Here's one http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/fed-clicks-print-button-saves-america-again_11032010

Personally, I like having the food in a cool dry place under the house, a crawl space or basement.

I have thought of storing things in the crawl space since it's dry and cool.  One drawback I can immediately think of is the critters.  I recently had a run-in with a rodent getting into our pantry and chewing through bags.  In the crawl space I'd never know it if they got in and contaminated things.  If you store like that, what protections can you use to keep out the wildlife?  Metal coolers?  Are buckets tough enough?

[XDMHMMWV]

Here's one http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/fed-clicks-print-button-saves-america-again_11032010
I have thought of storing things in the crawl space since it's dry and cool.  One drawback I can immediately think of is the critters.  I recently had a run-in with a rodent getting into our pantry and chewing through bags.  In the crawl space I'd never know it if they got in and contaminated things.  If you store like that, what protections can you use to keep out the wildlife?  Metal coolers?  Are buckets tough enough?

Thanks for the link, now I don't have to wait for Beck to come on again at midnight , maybe I'll watch it anyway. Compared to what has been happening, and what will most likely happen in real life, The Walking Dead on AMC has been a comedy by comparison.

Metal cans and plastic buckets will keep the critters out. Also put rodent poison traps down there. I was blessed to have a house with a 3ft tall crawl space. It's almost like having a basement

[Nomad]

 What the subject is about are places you can store your stuff.
 At home in your back yard, private land, a BOL, just an idea as to
where you can store items and keep them sealed.
 The septic tank would be 500 to 1000 gallon size is water tight and
would hold a great deal inside it.
 A conx that you can buy for $1000.00 plus is air tight would hold a great deal
more. The down side is that others see it and would know its location if
you tried to bury it generally....     

[9Shooter]

What the subject is about are places you can store your stuff.
 At home in your back yard, private land, a BOL, just an idea as to
where you can store items and keep them sealed.
 The septic tank would be 500 to 1000 gallon size is water tight and
would hold a great deal inside it.
 A conx that you can buy for $1000.00 plus is air tight would hold a great deal
more. The down side is that others see it and would know its location if
you tried to bury it generally....     

Sorry about the tangent Nomad.  While I'd love to have a large buried tank or a root cellar or similar for storage, I just don't have the funds for it.  Your idea about the cemetery is interesting but in an emergency you'd want to have it readily available, plus you'd have to have a private vault and I don't believe those are cheap either.  Practically speaking for long term storage, in the crawl space is my best option as long as it can be stored in a way that keeps out animals.  For those that have the space and the means to drop a tank in the ground, that sounds like a good possibility.  I may be wrong but I'd think having some kind of ventilation would be a good idea.  Even if the tank is water and air tight, what you store in it will likely give off some humidity.  Even the air trapped inside will have some water content.  That will allow for mold build up even if it's sealed.