Are you apocolypse ready?

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lechat

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Just wondering who here has thought out contingency plans in the inevitable event of the likely apocali? Just the likely ones will do like asteroid, nuclear holocaust zombie apocalypse etc.

I work with food so I had a decent idea of where to go for a few hundred years supply and I have a nice little spot fairly close in case we only get a few minuets warning of impending asteroid.
 

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I have a sturdy metal desk to hide under, so I'm all set.
 

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I have a basement just down the corridor from the place I work in, which I've thought for a while would be a good place to shelter if nuclear war suddenly broke out. The main problem is the lack of food and water down there, hopefully any nuclear war would have the decency to start before lunchtime so I could take my lunch down there with me and eek a living off that while I wait for the worst of the radiation to pass.
 

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Other than having a semi worm Swiss Army knife. No I'm not ready. Sure I work in retail that has a fair amount of food but I don't have the key for it and breaking it in will only make it worse (alarm will attract others and I no longer have the means to close the break in point aswell).
 

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Nuclear war is not a concern here, livin through the winter is
Both my grandparents have small farms, not sure if either could sustain all of us, whatever that number may be
More trees around grandma to burn but more fields around grandpa to eat from
Makes me wonder how we did it before plumbing and electricity... lots of exercise walking to the river
As for zombies... hmmm we do not have many guns but i have a few swords

Asteroids? Volcanoes? Who knows
 

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Well I live in a top floor flat, so I should be ok should zombies attack. Though I do wonder what I will do when the food I have in my flat is eaten. Probably have to go and get some, which will probably end up with me being bitten. So I would embrace my inner zombie and join the masses in search of yummy human flesh.

I hope I die in the initial blast of a nuclear attack. Can't be arsed trying to restart civilisation, it seems like a lot of hard work and lets face it I would probably be kidnapped and used as a sex slave by a tribe of sexy nymphomaniac women...and who wants that?

Knowing my luck, the asteroid would strike me directly on the head and the volcano would open up beneath me.

All situations result in me dying. Its what I would of wanted.
 

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I have no preparation for an apocalypse. Maybe I'll hide in a door frame or with things or people I care about before we all get destroyed.

Zombie apocalypse? If they're running Zombies, I'm out. Hopefully it won't be the Zombies that take me from the world.

If they're slower ones? I'm not sure, maybe raid the neighbour's houses when they go off to the supermarket like everyone else does and hope I don't die within a few weeks. There's a woods nearby but I'm not sure if there's edible food there. Best case scenario is I find any of my friends and convince them to bring me along, and then just be a burden to their group but they know me so it would be awkward to kill me ;-)
 

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I'm that kinda guy that always walk toward those "blinking lights". I would probably call out "Hello? Anyone there? I'm alone, scared and unarmed!" into the darkness etc, etc. So whatever happens I'm sure I will be stupid enough to do the opposite of what you should do. But hey, atleast I don't have to clean up or fix anything afterwards.

Cheers.
 

Thaluikhain

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I live in Australia, so, yeah. Come summer, half the country at random is on fire, except for the parts which are suddenly underwater.
 

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Pffft, who the hell would actually want to survive the apocalypse? The world is going to be one hell of a shit-tastic place after that happens!

Personally if we receive word of our impending doom, I'm getting as close to ground zero as possible. :p
 

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Yes, yes I am.

I've got 1 month worth of stored food for me and my family (4people), and it's stadily increasing.
I've got maps with important locations (Medicine/drugs, food, basic supplies etc), a priority list for what get's looted first and I've got a small but good selection of melee weapons (mostly blunt).

2 separate meet up locations, and 2 separate bug out locations (Note that I do not own these) and a plan for leaving the country entierly.

And, no I dno't think there is an apocalypse coming.
The food cache is in case of financial troubles and/or bad weather etc.
Maps and other stuff is mostly just an entertaining mental excersise.

But a man can hope.
 

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Depending on the type of apocalypse... If it happens to be that the Christians were right, I may be screwed, I may not. Not sure where I fall on that scale...

If there's a nuclear MAD scenario, I'm close enough to MacDill AFB, the East coast main Air Force base that happens to be only a slight step down from the Pentagon in the military hierarchy and thus would most likely be wiped out by nuclear strikes before I knew what was what. If it were a viral apocalypse, I've got a place to go hopefully I'm not infected on the way there... plus its far enough in the countryside, rural area where there aren't a lot of people.

I've got survival skills of a sort and know how to make a solar still for fresh water in case the well dries up. Hunting is fairly plenty in that area too and I do know enough about butchery to make a go of it and pick up what I don't know by trial and error, know how to cut firewood, dig a safe firepit and how to dispose of waste, recycle materials for later use. Problem solving skills taught to me by various outlets in my life to where I can think outside the box and somewhat MacGuyver shit if need be and a rudementary knowledge of chemistry if need be.

So in various scenarios that don't end up in explosive vaporizing death raining down from above or tidal rises/waves or upheavals of the tectonic plates in my area, yes I think I am fairly ready. Hopefully my family is willing to learn as well, I know my father is but I wonder about others.
 

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I've comforted myself with the realization that 99% of the folks who are dying are probably jerkbags like me who probably deserve it. If I happen to survive I do know how to grow wheat. So I'll be a useful member of a post-apo society, unless you have a gluten intolerance. I guess I'll just find whatever group doesn't have someone who worked on a farm. I'll hide behind whatever defenses they have set up. I have about a journeyman level experience as an electrician, provided electronics still work I can keep up a generator and small electrical grid. I guess my plan would be to find someone else who prepared, and demonstrate how much of an asset I'd be as an ally.
 

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fenrizz said:
The food cache is in case of financial troubles and/or bad weather etc.
Buying canned food when it's on sale doesn't hurt, yeah.

Imperioratorex Caprae said:
and know how to make a solar still for fresh water in case the well dries up
For clarification, is this something you've ever made?

Cause I tried making one some time ago, didn't work very well. Looked it up online and lots of people say they've not had much luck with the standard design that everyone has seen diagrams for either.
 
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Casual Shinji said:
I have a dog -- I am fucking set!
You're also going to need a blue jumpsuit, at least to start.

OT: On the one hand, I have studied medieval society for years, and I know how to do everything from growing crops and tanning leather to building homes and forging steel tools.

On the other, I'm old and rickety. If I don't die straight off, my best hope is to get taken in by the main character and help them rebuild a civilization before I'm inevitably betrayed and slain.
 

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Well I guess I would have to book it to the family farm in a major crisis, city centers feel like death traps on be best of days so I'd rather not experience the worst.
But the farm is in a very remote location, very few people in the area, pretty decent altitude, plenty of land/fields/forest/animals. All of the heating is already done with wood, there is an old wood gasifier around(turns wood into gas that can run internal combustion engines) and we also got a generator recently as there were power outages during winter.
So the basic survival would work pretty much indefinitely, flooding would not be an issue due to altitude, zombies would be unlikely to wander up here, the cattle fences would hold them at a distance and there is some heavy farming machinery if all else fails. And luckily we didn't buy our machinery from Shit Fails At A Dramatic Moment Movie Department.

Got nothing for nuclear fallout however, sure there are basements but if everything else dies I can't survive on rocks.
 

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Yeah. I'm working up my cardio and am pretty skilled with a bow (though not Daryl-level). Plus a buddy of mine has a house by the lake two hours from town where we've stock piled toilet paper and canned goods.

We're also working on growing important crops like tomatoes and marijuana...

Unless it's one of those viruses that kill only males type crisis. Then I'm screwed.
 

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thaluikhain said:
fenrizz said:
The food cache is in case of financial troubles and/or bad weather etc.
Buying canned food when it's on sale doesn't hurt, yeah.

Imperioratorex Caprae said:
and know how to make a solar still for fresh water in case the well dries up
For clarification, is this something you've ever made?

Cause I tried making one some time ago, didn't work very well. Looked it up online and lots of people say they've not had much luck with the standard design that everyone has seen diagrams for either.
It was something a friend of mine who's a bit of a survivalist nut and sailor taught me. Growing up on an island its always good to know how to convert salt water into potable water.