But if you are truly in an emergency situation you can push that one year thing.
Worst case, as you get up to a year make a donation to the Food Bank and restock. MREs are never the option. I would rather go make my own bow and shoot a rabbit than do those again. Especially because I have a basement.
We may need another thread for this…
As is insanely salty.
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if someone locked me in a room with a toilet and some food and told me I had 2 weeks to make a 300 page first draft
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That’s an… interesting direction for literary agents to take. I don’t doubt there’s plenty who dream of doing just that, mind
tvchaos would be one’s best bet.
Awesome- Where I’m at in Maine looks like I’m in the tiny little safe zone on most of the maps, and less than two hours from the big yellow “most likely to survive” block for the Northeast. That works out nicely with my two pronged approach to survival, neither of which involves that kind of construction or hoarding.
Firstly, I can make things- Leather, wood, metal, whatever. I know how to build generators and water pumps and filters, and composting toilets and greenhouses and other essentials- Including a good amount of skill in scavenging and improvisational engineering. Also, I’ve spent a lot of time building and organizing events and communities and know how to manage group dynamics.
In short, I have attempted to make myself valuable enough for other people to want to keep me alive and reasonably happy.
Secondly, I have extremely good aim and camouflage skills, and I know where a lot of the prepper / survivalist types live.
I’m really banking on that first set of skills, but it’s worthwhile to have a backup plan.
Right? I hang out with a lot of SCA types and homesteaders. If the shit ever hits the fan, I’m pretty sure I could gather up a small group of 20 or 30 people that could live quite comfortably- We’ve got all the basics covered: Farming, livestock, preserving food, hunting, tanning, smithing, building shelter, generating power, water, and handling waste, and making clothing.
The thing that killed me about Jericho was their insistence on maintaining a capitalist economy, when small tribal groups (which survivors tend to be) generally tend towards being largely communal.
The way I see it, there’s a certain amount of prepper mentality that just makes good common sense- I’m not talking full-on bunker full of weapons, but realistically, if you live in the US, it’s pretty certain that you’re in either tornado country, ice storm country, hurricane country, earthquake country, or wildfire country. It’s not that crazy to make sure you can get out on short notice or survive for a few days without power or whatever
BTW, @waetherman - Are you talking about the original 1970s Survivors, or the remake a few years ago? They’re both fantastic, but I liked the original better.
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If the coming apocalypse requires living in giant tubes underground, count me out. If the nukes start flying, drop the first one right in my driveway so I don’t have to see any more.
You are sooo not living up to your namesake.
That’s what it’s for. It’s actually M.U.D. ROOM (bad copy again…), where you put your Massive Underground Douche, A.K.A, that uncle who happened to be over at your house for thanksgiving when the big one hit.
The RatsClan is distributed worldwide. If humans survive a nuclear holocaust, some of the Rats probably will. But the patriarch would prefer not to.
If we learn nothing else from Deep Impact, it should be this (jump to 1:44 if it didn’t embed with time-jump…)
ETA: Well and also that, apparently, electing a black president heralds a fucking earth-shattering disaster. I guess we missed that one…
I was referring to the 2008 version. Until @enso mentioned it, I was unaware of the original version.
I agree, especially about natural disasters, which are common if not a certainty in some places. But it’s when I start thinking things like “what if there’s a dirty bomb/biological attack - what should I have on hand?” that I start thinking I’m drifting in to real prepper territory.
To fork this discussion to disaster preparedness under reasonable or unreasonable circumstances, I’m creating the thread How to Prep Without Being a Prepper.
Don’t act like Trump isn’t exactly that.
Oh yeah, by missed, I meant missed seeing it coming/learning the lesson in time to prepare…
I’m more your type. I also think it’s a good idea to have small metal things that we take for granted. When end times come, those with safety pins and needles for sewing are going to be in fine shape financially but yet these items take up much less space than, say, a can of beans.
I know, right? Every fucking show, every video game. They refuse to address such problems as “how does everyone avoid starvation” and “where does everyone sleep effectively, and in safety if they haven’t a house of their own”.
Anything to avoid socialism, I suppose.
Every disaster type experience I’ve been through (not nukes or zombies obvs) has been marked by a stunning degree of altruism. I’m not sure it would carry over to situations with uncertain end points though. We knew the lights would eventually come back on, food and clean water would eventually come back, etc. Real end-of-the-world type shit might well engender more selfish attitudes.
Oh man, I read that one summer on the Outer Banks. Every few days the fishing cycle would coincide with the tides such that the discarded dead sharks and rays washed up on the sand and rotted for six hours. Plus sand fleas everywhere. It was the summer I started using deodorant, and to this day I get emotionally confused by the scent of Mennen Speed Stick. The actual nuclear apocalypse was old hat by then, the decaying fish was much more immediate. Best tan of my life though.
