15 Items Smart Preppers Buy In Bulk Before The Winter Blackout Hits

My books are on sale now 📖 Ready for Anything, and the set of three. Grab them here: https://hankdockery.com In January 2009, one to two inches of ice brought down at least 30,000 utility poles across northern Arkansas, and on the Dockery ridge the power was out for 19 days. The milk ran out first, then the bread, and the county road had trucks in the ditch. This August, USDA says store coffee cost 6.1% more than a year before. The shelf you fill in October is the one your house eats from in January, if you dated it and rotated it. Subscribe to the channel: @hankdockery In this video, we talk about the 15 things Hank buys by the case, the flat or the bag before the winter blackout, including water at about 81 cents a gallon by the case, seasoned firewood where the dear one wins, canned chicken and tuna and the dented can rule, soup, AA batteries by the 48, a 25 lb bag of rice into buckets, contractor bags, a 50 lb bag of ice melt, oats at 74% less by the pack, dried beans as second-week food, peanut butter, powdered milk, coffee at a target price, coffee filters by the thousand, and bleach, the one that costs more by the case. 🔔 Subscribe so the next list reaches you before the ice does. 💬 Comment where you're watching from and how many cans are on your shelf, counted, not guessed. 📢 Send this to somebody on a well road, on Facebook, Reddit or the family group chat. You're the reason this channel exists. Chapters: 00:00 Opening 03:31 Seasoned firewood bought by the rank 07:51 Soup by the case you'll eat 09:34 AA batteries by the forty eight 13:20 Contractor bags, the heavy ones 16:41 Oats, the biggest saving here 20:02 Peanut butter in the twin pack 21:23 Powdered milk, the one to read 24:11 Coffee filters by the thousand 27:03 The shelf in the order things fail Sources: USDA FSIS, Shelf-Stable Food Safety https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/shelf-stable-food USDA ERS, Food Price Outlook, Summary Findings https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings NDSU Extension, Food Storage Guide https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/sites/default/files/2025-09/fn579.pdf EPA, Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/emergency-disinfection-drinking-water EPA Burn Wise, Best Wood-Burning Practices https://www.epa.gov/burnwise/best-wood-burning-practices University of Arkansas Extension, Firewood https://www.uaex.uada.edu/environment-nature/energy/firewood.aspx NWS Little Rock, Ice Storm of January 26-28, 2009 https://www.weather.gov/lzk/win0109ayr.htm DISCLAIMER: Educational content from one household getting ready. Prices and methods are real and researched, and prices vary by store, region and season. Nothing here replaces an order, a warning or an alert from your county, the National Weather Service or your fire agency. When they say leave, leave. #HankDockery #WinterBlackout #PowerOutage #IceStorm #BulkBuying #Prepping #Prepper #EmergencyPreparedness #FoodStorage #Pantry #Stockpile #WellWater #Firewood #WoodStove #Arkansas #Ozarks #BudgetPrepping #WinterPrep #HomePreparedness #RuralLiving