Preppers and SHTF experts on Steemit, Please READ and give me, and them, your ideas:
I have a steemit friend in Nicaragua, 
Civil War has Begun, and people are dying!` Her Husband built a compound with 21 foot walls, filled with raised bed gardens, etc. He intended to have 5 people there (I know, not enough) but they have 16 total (friends and neighbors) there now. They can Not leave the compound, even to go to the river; because of the very real possibility of being shot. Also they do not want people to think they are still there, which is smart.
Today they lost power and water. They have been locked down for a month, by choice! Can you guys give me any good ideas they can use to help themselves? They only have cell phones, and internet; no other communications.
They know to:
Drain their hot water for extra drinking water.
Catch rain
Ration their food
Plant all the seeds they can find
Use the food in their refrigerators first
Cook hot food on windy days to dissipate the smells
Post guards 24/ 7
Blackout all light sources
Stay QUIET, the best defense is if people do NOT know they are there!
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They have a continuous growing season, with winter just being the rainey season.
Please offer any suggestions you can think of that will help these wonderful people in trouble! Here is a chance to practice and apply, all the prepper knowledge we have absorbed; and maybe save some lives! It is difficult, because their biggest weapon is that no one knows they are still there; so this is a real World, life and death, prepping problem!
Come on Steemit family; what suggestions can you add to what I have already given them?