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Task Assignments
Personal initiative and ingenuity is critical to make this process work and should be highly valued. The process should resemble a large volunteer organization focused on a single mission, their individual/family survival. Everyone who wants to be included in a shelter complex should contribute – this means talent, critical resources and their labor.
Each evening as darkness falls, a meeting should be held of all members of the shelter complex to divide up the next day’s tasks, discuss planning and resolve issues & options. Every man, woman and child should contribute to the effort of shelter construction and provisioning.
There is a diverse range of tasks required to construct and stock a shelter complex. Although the full weight of these tasks may seem enormous and overwhelming, remember that there are 800 other talented individuals next to you and that all that you are being asked to accomplish is your part.
The list below provides an outline of the various tasks. It may come in handy when the work needs to be divided up. Small independent teams will form to accomplish each of these tasks. The size of the teams should be balanced to ensure all tasks are completed before the impact. Team size may be readjusted during the nightly planning meetings. As individuals complete one task, they should move onto another, until all the tasks are completed.
Stage 1 Shelters
* Survey the area and select location of Stage 1 Shelter Complex.
* Incorporate landowner into survival group or negotiate use of land.
* On the construction site, survey and stake out location of individual shelters, grain storage, seed storage, goods storage, firewood storage and liquid fuel storage.
* Excavate trenches.
* Obtain & transport lumber and other building materials to construction site.
* Construct shelters.
* Fabricate Kearny plywood dual action air pumps.
* Fabricate hammocks.
* Obtain Furnace filters, HEPA filters and Activated Carbon Chemisorptive filters.
* Obtain shelter vent pipes, flanges and plugs.
* Obtain and transport granular soil (gravel, sand) for backfilling.
* Construct filter boxes and inlet air columns.
* Construct carbon dioxide scrubbers.
* Obtain granular soda lime or granular lithium hydroxide for carbon dioxide scrubbing.
* Obtain tanks of compressed oxygen and/or oxygen generators such as oxygen candles. (optional)
* Fabricate metal lid for last shelter.
* Construct shelter commodes.
* Obtain wrecker bars.
* Obtain or construct shelter ladders.
* Obtain drugs to enhance survivability in low oxygen environments (acetazolamide, dexamethasone, nifedipine).
Water
* Survey the area for suitable long-term water supply and select location of Stage 2 Shelter Complex.
* Incorporate landowner into survival group or negotiate use of land.
* Obtain barrels to store a 30-day water supply in Stage 1 Shelters.
* Relocate barrels to the shelters and fill with water.
* Obtain pH meter or litmus strips.
* Obtain baking soda and bleach.
* Obtain materials (water barrels, hardware, gravel, etc.) to construct Neutralization Barrel, Sand/Gravel Filter Barrel & Chemical Treatment Barrel.
* Obtain supplies for emergency back-up infrastructure.
* Construct/protect primary source of water infrastructure for Stage 2. (Several options)
Existing Drilled/Driven Well
* Obtain portable electric power generator.
* Obtain fuel
* Obtain and install spring tank. (optional)
* Obtain hand operated water pump. (optional)
* Disconnect water pump electrical lines and water connection and cover wellhead.
Existing Dug Well
* Install watertight cap over well and cover with earth.
* Obtain and store mortar for well repair.
Existing Spring
* Cover spring tank with granular soil.
New Drilled/Driven Well
* Arrange for the well to be drilled/driven.
* Obtain and install a spring tank and backfill with granular soil. (optional)
* Obtain a hand operated water pump. (optional)
* Obtain water pump and supporting equipment
- Electrical water pump + portable power generator + fuel.
- Electrical water pump + wind electrical generator.
- Hand operated deep-well water pump. (spring tank not required)
- Electrical water pump + full scale electrical backup system.
New Dug Well
* Excavate well by hand.
* Construct forms.
* Pour concrete well casing.
* Cover and bury well.
New Spring
* Locate rock spring.
* Install spring tank.
* Connect spring tank to spring.
* Cover spring tank with earth.
* Obtain hand operated water pump.
Firewood
* Negotiate access to timber with landowner.
* Cut down trees.
* Remove branches
* Cut up trees.
* Split wood.
* Transport firewood to shelter complex.
* Stack wood into piles and cover firewood with earth.
* Obtain 2 wood burning stoves, transport to shelter complex and bury.
* Obtain supplies (i.e. flues) required for stove installation.
* Cover stumps of cut trees and small saplings with a pile of earth
Food
* Obtain and transport grains.
* Obtain and transport shipping containers.
* Can food and package jars for storage.
* Obtain grain mills.
* Obtain cooking oil.
Seeds
* Obtain bulk non-hybrid wheat and soybean seeds and transport to shelter complex.
* Obtain other non-hybrid seeds to add variety. Store seeds in a hermetically air-tight sealed container with a desiccant.
Construction Materials for Stage 2
* Dismantle 2 polebarns and relocate to shelter complex.
* Obtain fiberglass and chicken wire.
* Cover supplies with earth.
Goods
* Collect critical goods for storage.
* Package goods for storage.
* Position storage containers in ground.
* Fill containers with goods.
* Bury containers.
Site Security
* Maintain 24-hour lookouts to raise the alarm. (Children may assume this task during daylight hours. Dogs may also be an asset for this task especially at night.)
Miscellaneous Tasks
* Watch infants. (Minimize number of individuals assigned to this tasks, labor is needed elsewhere.) (This individual may pull double duty by being the main communication link between the federal/state governments and the shelter site.)
* Close off large liquid propane tanks and other large fuel tanks in the immediate area of Stage 1 and 2 shelters and bury.
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