Your escape plan

[BabySinclair]

Grab bow, grab camping/wilderness gear, and start walking west til I reach my fiance's place. Keep off the roads but close enough to the interstate to keep track of how many miles I need to go. Travel at night (far enough south that temperature isn't an issue for me) and hunker down during the day. Then it's into the woods with minimal contact with others until enough of a post-collapse society has been formed to offer my services.

 

[J Tyran]

The UK riots last year prompted me to store up three months worth of food & water along with basic medication like antibiotics, I also have some basic survival gear and two go packs with one in the car.

The latest rioting across Europe is worrying too, if there is going to be an extended bout of civil disorder I want to have enough supplies outlast it. It would also mean if there is a large outbreak of a virus or something I can stay in doors until the government sorts it out. Real end of the world scenarios though? I am not sure any amount prepping would help at all.

 

[Lyri]

I'd go off the grid.

I'd take clothes and supplies to last me for a while and take a hike into the wilderness, I'll make my own shelter and do runs into town or nearby houses when I run out of supplies.
I should be ok for a while.

 

[Strazdas]

Picture this: The economy has completely collapsed and people are starting to realize how screwed they've been by their governments, social structures, media, etc. There's a lot of cognitive dissonance, a lot of people are very angry.

Impossible.

They are rioting in the streets. They're breaking into businesses and buildings, and are so wrapped up in their rage that they fail to even have a civil, proactive conversation with anyone.

Welcome to greece?


Scenario solution:
Scenario A: i am at home. i grab the contents of my fridge, which is enough for me to live around 2 weeks easily, jump into elevator get down to basement, up into my 23 year old mitsubishi lancer and off i go leaving cloud of dust behind me. i drive 3 hours provided roads are not "Destroyed" and if they are, well, offroading, this car handled it before, but it woudl take longer, to my "garden cabin" where i could effectively "camp" for a month or so. it has fresh vegetables around so thats food and the water extracter from the well can be turned into drinkable. infact i camp there every sumemr anyway so everything is prepared. I live on the edge of the city, pretty much impossible to riot here effectively, and the garden cabin is ouside of city.
Scenario B: im at work. i wont make it across the street being in the middle of the city. ok lets pretend peopel are more about breaking into stores than killing eachother. i take a nice long 4 hour hike home. repeat scenario A.
Scenario C: im at university. i hijack a car and drive home. repeat scenario A.

Capcha: easy as pie.
lolololol

 

[Vegosiux]

Escape plan? Why would I want to escape? I'd watch the world burn and die happy.

Yeah, being cynical again, but, thing is...most of people on this site, I dare speculate, would join in the riots the moment their internet was down for more than 24 hours.

 

[Valanthe]

You see, a lot of people might laugh at my hobby, which is, to put it simply, prepping my zombie plan.

I am fully aware that an actual zombie apocalypse is unlikely, however having a plan to survive a complete collapse of basic infrastructure will help me in any emergency, whether that happens to be a bad flood, an earthquake, a global depression, or all three and a tornado. Assuming that I survive the initial incident, which is, sadly, more a matter of luck, I have a three stage plan for surviving any incident, which I'll detail below using the framework provided by the OP.

Stage One: This is the early phase of the collapse, news is grim, but people are still ignoring it for the most part. While basic infrastructure still works and exists, increased layoffs in non-vital sectors will be on a sharp rise. I utilize this time to begin my preparedness planning in earnest, this can be as simple as double checking my supplies and replacing or stocking up on anything necessary, to running evacuation drills and sharpening my aim with my gun. As I live uncomfortably close to a major fault line, I must constantly stay at or near this state of readiness for the simple reason that my home and city, which are not prepared for a major earthquake, could drop to a stage of full chaos at literally any moment, with no warning.

Stage Two: In an economic collapse, this is when things start getting bad, crime will increase sharply as people get desperate, businesses are laying off literally anyone they can afford to lose, or can't afford to keep. Government institutions will also begin feeling the squeeze, and vital resources like police and hospitals will become strained and understaffed. As my job is likely one of the first to go, this is when I have to be the most careful with my money, as it will still be worth a little, and spending it wisely here can make a huge a difference later. But for the most part during this stage I will be keeping my head down and riding the storm, hoping for it to pass, but preparing for the worst.

Stage Three: This is the end, the government has collapsed, basic infrastructure is gone, money is worthless and it is literally every man for himself. In this absolute worst case scenario, a city is a bad place to be, and I have a simple plan for removing myself and a small group of friends and family from my home and into the countryside where we will survive.

Yeah, I may have put too much thought into this, but better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

 

[Guffe]

Well, I have this:

Battle Plan - the french edition!

But seriously? I would go to a high building, find a few friends and go on the search for supplies. With the help of pickaxe.

Damn you ninja with your sneaky antics

Isn't this a better alternative?

Spoiler

As for me... I'd go solo with maybe a small group, making up camp somewhere a bit outide the city but not too far from where civilisation used to be so that as far as there are supplies to be used there we can raid some ourselves.

 

[J Tyran]

Isn't this a better alternative?

Spoiler

Spoiler: This is the best option

 

[miketehmage]

I'd run around jacking myself off. Aint nobody brave enough to come near me now eh?

 

[Angie7F]

My escape plan is simple.
point gun to head, pull trigger.

or, throw rope over nearest pole, kick the stool.

 

[GistoftheFist]

I have a bunch of store credit to sporting goods stores on gift cards, right around $300 worth. I was thinking of using it for exercise equipment/clothes. If it turns out I need to buy survival gear, what should I get? I don't go camping ever so I don't know everything i'd need to live off the grid. Should I get a tent or boots or fire-starting stuff? Somebody make a list for me here within that budget, include links and pictures if you can.

 

[RandomMan01]

Assuming I didn't preemptively prepare, I'd join in the looting for a little while, grabbing anything that I might need to survive; weapons, food, survival equipment, stuff like that. I'd probably also run to a gun store (assuming I can get in there without the inhabitants adding a few extra holes into me)

After that, I'd either go home and board up my house (I live in the suburbs, there's not much there but houses), or a I head out into the Pine Barrens with a few friends (of varying skills), my family, and a shitload of supplies, and hide up there for a while, taking some time to loot whatever we might pass along the way. It's take awhile, but as long as no-one tries to kill us, we should be fine.

Once things settled down, me and my buddies would come back, and, playing off of the obvious state of things (despair, mostly), unite a group of people under us, and start rebuilding civilization.

Once our little territory gets large enough, we'll begin sending people to different groups that have had thoughts akin to ours, and try to join together. If they refuse, then we just go on a conquest trail. Rinse, repeat, and end result: The new Roman Empire (only in the Americas).