Short Term Plans

Transportation
•	Find small vehicles and attach hand-steering (reliable)
•	Train Joseph to drive
•	Convert cargo truck and forklift for pony use (diesel or trifuel)
•	Put radios in every vehicle and into multiple rooms of the house

Make home sustainable
•	Food
o	Don’t garden for survival, but for practice for future farming
o	Build chicken coop with water delivery and simple cleaning. Locate private, civic, and military food stockpiles, and gather them into the basement floors, then nearby homes. Focus on those foods soonest to spoil
o	Gather all the heirloom seeds that can be located, as well as farming and gardening reference guides and tools. Store these in the basement in moisture-proof containers)
o	Make the park (ranch) more secure. Find a way to stop the grass there from dying. Pump from the pond, maybe?
•	Water
o	Gather bottled and packaged water for short-term use
o	Not worth establishing a pipeline from the river—not intending to stay in Los Angles long term
o	Set up multiple atmospheric water generators on the roof, feed directly into cistern. Automatic day-only operation?
o	Connect house waste water to storm drainage ditch (~.3 miles). Pumps as required, cables, ect.
•	Power
o	Bring high-capacity standby system to supplement solar generator (20 kilowatts or more)
o	Find a filled fuel truck and drive it in front of the house to keep generator supplied
o	Expand solar capacity from 15 k/w to 30 k/w using the backyards of surrounding homes. If more power is needed, there are at least four other homes in the neighborhood with solar systems of their own. Wire that power to the house, and weatherproof the cables.
o	Build wind capacity to ~3 k/w for night use
•	Security
o	Protect property fence with barbed wire (electrified?) against dogs and other predators
o	Install solar motion-sensing floodlights along all property lines
o	Make mouthpiece for spray-mace, and keep nearby during all trips into the city.