Today, I’m going to
talk about Off The Grid Safety.

Well, living off the grid
can provide a lot of personal freedom. Living off the grid living
also causes one to take more responsibility over one’s safety.
Alright, I’m going to give you some time tested crime prevention
secrets and counter-measures to secure your off the grid dwelling
whether you’re an off the grid-er, an RV, a prepper or Herman, a
survivalist, or simply spending a few days off the beaten track wild
camping.

So, one: Know your
neighbours. I mean, this is your number one safety tip in the area
there, become best friends with these people. You don’t have to
become best friends but at least say hi once in a while, it’s your
choice, right. You need to know who these people are.

Get a dog; that’s
pretty obvious. Right? 

Landscape within
hospitable plants. This is a nice idea, you know, some of the thorny
plants are quite beautiful and provide protection for your lot, like
a rose bush. Right? Beautiful and excellent protection makes it
harder for people. You can make a fence out of those bushes which
makes it harder to people to enter into your lot.

Consider an alarm system,
that’s fairly obvious. You might want to add a wireless motion
sensor to that.

Keep your outdoor areas
well lit; this is super important. Just it’s very expensive, it’s
a great safety measure, just to have lights on all the doors and on
all of the open outdoor areas well lit. That’s a lot of safety,
right?

Don’t leave your keys
out. Don’t try those magnetic boxes where you put your keys under
your car, put your key under your mat; people watch you and they see
where you put your keys and they will rip you off, right? And even if
they don’t see where you put your keys, they just guess that people
do that, and they check.

Add internal locks to
critical storage areas. This includes emergency food storage, crawl
spaces, etc.

Secure your mail; you
don’t want to get a mail that you’re up for withdrawal and all,
use a P.O box. It’s the safest way to secure your mail. You might
only have a chance to get into town every couple of weeks and check
your P.O box, but it’s still worth it. You don’t need daily mail
if you’re living off the grid.

Secure your doors with
multiple locking mechanisms, pretty obvious. Less obvious, reinforce
the door frames because if anyone is trying to bust through that
door, all the locks in the world aren’t gonna help it if the door
is mounted to a frail frame. Get a tough frame, be aware people come
through the door, add locks to your gates, obviously.

Secure the side lights or
doors that have large windows, by that, I mean, if you got side
lights, put like a metal grid over them so people can’t break out
the lights and cause darkness. And if you have large windows that
people could easily pass through and open the door, even crawl
through, secure those with a gate, like a metal, you know, cast iron,
set of bars or something similar. Maybe even something that you can
remove when you don’t want as much safety but definitely secure
those easy-to-get into windows and easy-to-break lights. 

And, lastly, create a
safe area where you can retreat, like, have a route out of your
dwelling, so if an emergency occurs, let’s say, somebody’s trying
to attack you or rob you; you can flee and you can flee more safely,
because you’ve got it all planned out. You have a route, you have
your emergency escape route at the back, and it shouldn’t
necessarily be an easy route to follow because you live there, you
know the uneven terrain, you know all the little turns and twists, so
it should be sort of a tough path to follow. You know personally very
well; you can run blindfolded basically for like twenty or thirty
yards to get you away from the house if you’re being attacked.

You could even come up
with a rough trail that, you know, personally very well, and it’s
very difficult for somebody to follow you with any speed when they
try for the first time at night, even with the flashlight, let’s
say, that will add a lot of safety also and that’s often times
overlooked when planning for safety.

Alright, that’s all we
have about safety on off the grid living for today. We will be coming
back, join us for more daily off the grid living motivational,
technical presentations.