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In case you didn't have enuf 2 worry about...
Urufu_Shinjiro:
I'm a bit of a fan of the genre in fiction, books/movies etc. Anything apocalyptic I'm in even if the acting and directing is bad if it's got a good take on the genre I love it. Whether it's nuclear, financial, energy, or zombie there's always some hope of getting past the initial phases and eventual long term survival. Then I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. If you haven't read this book don't, and by don't I of course mean run right out and get it and then wish you hadn't when you're done, lol. Man, that scenario, just no hope at all, great book but holy crap...
GlisGlis:
I'm pretty sure in case of such dramatic events only a very small part of the patterns we can foresee could be applied.
the big difference would be made by pure luck, resilience and fitness in the order.
the first one it's not trainable. Resilience is hard to train and consist in trying every day to set new goals and try to achieve them, never give up challenges.
Probably the eseast part is to try to stay fit and health
Jim Davis:
Agree GlisGlis. I've been doing the fitness part. I started this thread to get ideas I hadn't thought of. Lots of people have given me such ideas. I have had to think differently about travel after an EMP. I've been readying a bicycle to carry in my truck, but now have to consider that a bike would be a very attractive thing for somebody to kill me for. (Of course, they would then be the next target for somebody else.)
I would differ a little. I don't believe in luck. It would be up to God whether I made it 2,400 miles home without starving, freezing or being killed by a highwayman.
It's a very treacherous concept, this apocalyptic exodus.
phyankord:
im just 19 so ive got some work to do if i wanna survive when the gov decides to poop in front of the industrial blower if you catch my drift.
that being said i would prefer to either A find a suitable place in the middle of nowhere to build out post breakdown, or B keep on the move like the OP mentioned, i have a mountain bike and with all that ive been reading recently its kept my mind on survival items, a portable solar panel that i can use to charge my batteries (in the event of a non solar flare/emp apocalypse) spare bike parts miniature screw driver with various bits (say i wanna unscrew a door (or lockpicks which i DO have) to get inside a potentially resource filled building)
i know how to make black powder and could potentially build my own metalworking forge from scratch.
what i need to work on is woodworking (hence my arrival on a site that helps show people how to make bows xD) and plant identification, speaking of i just got my mothers book called "Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs" which i wanna try and memorize at least the stuff in my area. given the chance, if SHTF doesent happen as soon as some of us may think, ide like to try and get a education in naturopathic medicine which there is a university in my state that gives degree's in, but thats quite a few years out so im not pegging on that when it comes to emergency survival knowledge.
sleek:
Big problem is the government will probably try and disarm, and prevent folks from moving around like we want to in this case. And I can GUARANTEE they will be better prepared than we will be.
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