Yeah its been raining here and temps have dropped to near freezing, should be over on Tuesday major cold front feels good to get some friction on the hands and great to eat hot food though, cold has just soaked up like the rain.
None the less I fell upon a couple spontaneous preppes... found a bunch of steel 8500lb support beams like 6 or so which should be enough to get the basement propped for the basement project. Found a really low price for LED grow lights.. I think it is an error but I figure I could pick up some of them and I with expanded solar could grow around the clock a simple hydroponics setup.. I'm not sure if just lining some log structures with polyeurothane would do it need to figure out the cheapest solution, I figure I'd have to sort out a heating system anyway and I havn't figured that out unless I can get some sort of reverse refridgeration system going... cold on the outside heats the inside lol.
Ok my actual prep of the day
You can make up some of these in a minute or two and you will probably be ready to go in the event you ever need them, which is probably pretty unlikely.
You can of course buy actual handcuffs but they cost a little more and you can carry many plasticuffs around for the same weight as cuffs, buying multiple sets of cuffs can be costly. These are used by riot police, although their industrial strength version can cost $10-20 to buy online.
Also I also started buying my fall/winter clothes this year since I will be spending time camping in subzero temps this year should things stay on track. Since I can't wear any military uniform that can make me look like another military I mix and match my gear, so I picked up a Russian winter jacket
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/260937902694?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
probably paid more than I needed to
as well as a ECWS gen III L7 primaloft lower... (snowpants)
hopefully the russian jacket will be ok because failing that I will need to find an anorak or alternatre source of a primaloft upper. As weraing the upper and lower is a potential nono. Still need to get good boots, and replace my stolen balclava. I'll be prepping for my static winter gear, I still want to pick up a ghillie and arctic white cover too as my wiinter clothes are not camo but i'd like to practice my concealment skills with actually doing a ghillie this year.
I thought I would add learning to get out of zipties is also a useful prep.