Hi, new member so a little bit about myself. I'm from Georgia and have been prepping for about 5 years. I would like to meet more preppers around Bremen, Ga. I've never caught on how to build a prepper community while at the same time keeping the fact that I prep and have supplies a secret.
Also I would like to share an idea. Someone tell me if it sounds viable. Could we "gas mask" an entire house by duct taping the window and door cracks and invent a 40mm Nato approved filter to fit over the A C/heating duct into the house?
If you want ideas about gas masking a house, consider consulting Israeli government prep sites. The civilians always have to be prepared for gas attacks.
Personally, I think that you might be better off sealing in inner safe room than the whole house.
If I was going to do this, you might consider putting a window on the door and hanging a bird cage with pet finches outside of the window in your field of view...where you can see them.
Pet finches are cool to have, cheap, mostly quiet when compared to parrots, easy to take care of, and very susceptible to poison gas...more so than humans. They could be the literal canary in the coal mine and indicate whether there is poison gas in your house. Bear in mind that this finch idea will not work with anthrax, as birds are immune to it. Weapons of mass destruction based on anthrax spoors were pioneered by the former Soviet Union, and an accident caused about 70 people to die near the plant when the winds shifted. If anthrax concerns you, consider getting a vaccine and/or stockpiling ciprofloxin.
I, personally, have gas masks and new NATO filters, along with chem suits...but I tend to ignore certian valid threats simply because I think that prepping for them is futile.
Massive nuclear warfare with hydrogen bombs fall into this category. A cosmic collision with a black hole falls into this category. In my mind, so does constant chemical warfare.
VN and VX can persist for months in the environment, and are so toxic that they make sarin look like pepper spray.
I would don my suit and mask, hike out of the area, and hope for the best.
If you can, try to obtain atropine injectors and learn how to use them. Also, learn how to properly decon stuff. Bear in mind that some protective chemical suits only buy you a little time. After a while, gas will get through...and almost all war gasses can be readily absorbed through the skin, so a mask-only strategy seems futile to me.
FYI sarin, cyclosarin, soman, tabun, VX, VN, phosgene, chlorine, nitrogen mustard, sulfur mustard, and hydrogen cyanide are the most likely gasses, and all cause problems (such as chemical burns and/or death) with even small amounts of skin exposure.
Another possibility is sealing off an RV. An RV is made of metal, and it seems like it would be easier to seal off while--at the same time--giving you the ability to simply drive out of the contaminated area and you could bring a lot of stuff with you.
I, for one, won't live in a plastic bubble...but that's me.
I hope I was helpful.
