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Re:I will die as I've lived (Score:5, Insightful)
I plan to survive for months and weeks...I fucking leave town when the hurricane come near me.
I generally think of it as a mandated week of random vacation during the summer, at worst, I'm out of town for a few months (Katrina).
I dislike hurricane, but I think I hate tornadoes even more. At least with a hurricane, you get about 3x days warning to get the fuck out of the way.
Re:Drill-charger (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm a little better supplied by having a motorhome. 100 gallons of fresh water, generator, propane stove, fridge heat and a 240 Watt solar pannel with inverter and deep cycle batteries. If needed, I can travel.
Sometimes the camping supplies can double as emergency supplies.
Re:I will die as I've lived (Score:5, Insightful)
I live in New Orleans, too, but the part that doesn't flood.
We still left for Katrina, but were back in 6 weeks, after the power and cable (I telecommute) were pretty reliable.
In July we'll stock up on:
Re:Depends on how hot it is (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:About 3 years (Score:3, Insightful)
Forgive my naivety, but I personally would rather feed my my neighbors for a month and starve with them after than be a selfish douche for 3 years.
Happened in an Ice storm last month (Score:4, Insightful)
We had an ice storm in South Dakota that knocked out power for five days. I spent the first day huddling in sweaters and reading by candelight. After one cold night (17 F outside; about 45 F indoors) I hustled myself to a hotel. I might have stayed longer, but more ice was coming and I was worried about being stuck in a cold home.
I had plenty of food, including canned food that I could live on for weeks. I missed the internet (my UPS box provided 30 minutes of power; I conserved that), but I could live without connectivity. I had lots of batteries for flashlights and the weather radio. The limiting factor was the cold. If I had a generator to run my furnace, or a wood-burning stove, then I could have lasted until my fuel ran out. Without heat I lasted just over one day.
It's not worth it to me to be a survivalist; I live alone, with nobody who relies on me, and I like to pretend that civilization will endure. But I'm seriously thinking about getting a backup heat generator of some sort, just in case.
Stupid tech centered poll (Score:5, Insightful)
Like you need a charged Kindle to survive for a week. Get serious.
Re:About 3 years (Score:2, Insightful)
I hear you, but the real question is:
Are you not a selfish douche? And if so, do you have three years of food to feed your neighbors?
Or are you really a selfish douche pretending to be something else, who will demand your neighbors feed you for three years.
Grasshopper & the Ant all over again.
I hear you talking about selfishness, and yet... a part of me realizes that the people who cry the loudest tend not to just be those with no resources, but the people who blew them on a vacation to mexico and a new car last year...
Re:Depends on how hot it is (Score:4, Insightful)
My biggest concern here I think would be a big winter storm. I figure I only need to last a week at most entirely without support or power, and I think I'll be just fine. I'd run out of water first, but I figure I can always boil some snow and I live near water anyway. I am prepared to survive very cold weather when the power goes out, and I've got plenty of food stores (camping supplies plus a wide range of ingredients on hand that adds up). I believe I could be rather comfortable without power in the winter for a week, easy. After that, things would get more difficult, but I'm sure I could survive for several more weeks before I was in serious life-threatening danger. I think internet withdrawal would be the primary stress in my life during that time, but I would have light and plenty of books for weeks and weeks. As long as the power came on again after about two weeks, and the roads cleared up within a month, I am confident a big winter storm would be only an inconvenience to me. In terms of pure survival though, I'd live long enough for spring to come around and the snow melting. After that, I can always drive someplace.
I'm not worried about a major economic collapse or anarchy or alien invasion or anything else like that. If that day ever comes, I figure that my intelligence, street smarts, temperament, and survival skills will matter a lot more than anything I could possibly stockpile. Anyone who thinks they are truly prepared for the collapse of human civilization is kidding themselves, unless they already live without any contact with human civilization (and hint: that means none of you). Best you can hope for is a bit of luck, and the ability to work with other people to rebuild civilization. At our core, humans tend toward forming communities. Disagreements within and between those communities is natural too, but even when everything goes to shit people are not going to start murdering each other when they have the option to pool their resources and accomplish things they can't do alone. Feel free to call me naive, but there's a reason why humans formed civilizations to begin with instead of having endless war between family groups. For long-term survival, energy is better spent on activities allowed by peace than on constant fighting. Charisma is likely far more important to survival than a machine gun and limitless ammo. Humans were never the fastest, had the biggest teeth or claws, or the strongest animals around. Our greatest survival trait was our ability to work together in the face of whatever dangers lurked around us.
By all means stockpile a bunch of ammo and buy some guns. They're good tools just like anything else. Unless you're prepared to murder your neighbors in cold blood at the outset of a disaster, though, you're a lot more likely to use them for hunting with other people than for defending a stockpile nobody's really going to come for. After a few years when the ammo runs out, you're probably going to wish you'd learned how to make traps and make good arrows for a bow, though. Tools are good, skills are better. Nobody can steal skills, and skills are always needed by your fellow humans in the community. Trade your services, live off the land, and work together with your neighbors. Isn't that much better than paranoia and an finite quantity of modern weaponry?
So yeah, I'm really only worried about natural disasters, and the most likely are the ones I'm sure I can survive easily in relative comfort. I've got heat, water, and food enough to last plenty of time.
Re:a rush of excitement (Score:5, Insightful)