So, much of this forum has to do with unusual situations involving outdoor adventures - canoe trips gone bad, hunting trips and so on. There's the ever popular "plane ditching" scenarios, and of course the "Ice Storm In Canada That Knocked The Power Out For Weeks"

There's also a smattering of silly "suburban survival" stories (such as when I once posted here about my 2 yr. old son and I having a mishap involving diarreah, a shopping mall and 5,280 feet to the car & a change of clothes).

But I have a serious question about equipped/preparedness that might be best answered by any Mormons on the list. The practice of equipping the home with a year's worth of supplies is well-reported practice of those of the Mormon faith, and now I'm beginning to see that I'm getting into the same mind-set about equipping the home.

What has set me off was a story in the news about a "pandemic" of the flu being all but "inevitable" which would most certainly be a situation where you'd want to stay home, out of contact with others, and able to keep your family fed, warm and safe.

I've become convinced that there's no real way to "bug out" in the event of a serious emergency - on the east coast there's no where to bug out TO and the roads are overwhelmed on an average day. "Bugging Out" is just not a realistic plan anymore.

So while it's fun to build kits for life "on the road" my interest is shifting towards building a home environment that's fully self-supporting for at least 3 months, but more like a year. This has forced me to reconsider my generator (currently gas powered, should be Diesel, since I can run it and heat off of the same tank), my water (I have 300,000 gallons in a pond & a 600' deep well) and most of all, food. We don't have much room for storage. So any advice on building a "Mormon Style" stockpile would be appreciated.