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Re: Do you think you'll survive the end? « Reply #16 on Jul 2, 2010, 10:45am »
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Re: Do you think you'll survive the end? « Reply #17 on Jul 21, 2010, 10:02pm »
It would depend on the catastrophe, I've noticed most people have the idea they will "bug out" to somewhere, or live some nomadic life like the American plains Indians, if that's your plan you might want to give it a shot for a week and see what you need to learn. In my opinion the best plan is to buy property in a small town more than a tank of gas out of any major city. Small towns have doctors, farmers, cattlemen, shade tree mechanics, ect. Years ago I read a book by Dr. Bruce Clayton,Phd titiled, "Life After Doomsday". He progressed through the same process I did and I reached he same conclusions he did, don't plan to bug out unless you have somewhere to go. If you have somewhere to go, then stock much more than you need for yourself and family; plan to feed neighbors as well, why? If you don't help your neighbors, when they get hungry and see you are not, they may quickly become socialistic where it concerns your food and supplies. However, if you are feeding them you have a lot of people with a vested interest to protect your food supplies from raiders. Instead of being forced to kill your neighbors to defend your supplies they will protect you.
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Re: Do you think you'll survive the end? « Reply #18 on Nov 9, 2010, 12:40pm »
I live in a small, northern AZ town, which unfortunately is a big tourist destination. We already have issues with folks who come up from Phoenix and leave their trash by the side of the road, and I'm sure if TSHTF we'd be dealing with carloads of gangbangers and MZBs.
On the plus side, I live on a creek, which means some food and lots of water. I really want to get some solar panels up int he next year and my place is small, so easily powered by a battery bank. I have some food stored, but not nearly enough, especially as I would expect to share it with the friends/neighbors that have summer places here and would undoubtedly drive up here from Phoenix in the case of something bad.
I am surrounded by National Forest, but I live in a canyon, so getting in and out to hunt would be a bitch, but doable. I'm guessing a lot of animals getting hunted up on the rim or lower would run for the rougher country though, which might be good.
I worry more about natural disasters like fire (we got evacuated a few years ago) although we're high enough to miss flooding. We still have a military depot 20 miles from us or so, reputedly holding nukes, which I didn't know about, so that's potentially a military target, which could be bad. We aren't in line for fallout from there but Flagstaff would be.
I'd like to get a small greenhouse going, but all in all I think the problem will be food, and how to keep it once people figure out you have some. I'm well armed, but everyone has to sleep sometime.
tistine is a troll. No matter what you say, he will find a way to ridicule it. I encourage everyone to simply boycott him. Witness the responses I got from him. He's not worth the effort.
You ever hear of Sedona Morg? Great little city. And its a UFO hotspot.
Yeah - I live in Sedona, LOL. Also - all the rumors of a secret .gov base? I scoffed at them when I moved here, but have heard some stories from locals and have had some weird experiences myself that leads me to believe there really is something to it. I'm serious, not wearing my tinfoil hat today either.
tistine is a troll. No matter what you say, he will find a way to ridicule it. I encourage everyone to simply boycott him. Witness the responses I got from him. He's not worth the effort.
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Re: Do you think you'll survive the end? « Reply #23 on Nov 15, 2010, 2:16am »
Ha, I went on vacation there a year ago. You have a tinfoil hat to? lol, I hadnt heard about the secret base though. I just remember that there was a lot of pamphlets about vortex's, you ever go to that UFO museum gift shop? They still have that ICBM top there?
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Re: Do you think you'll survive the end? « Reply #24 on Nov 24, 2010, 10:46am »
Probably, just because i live no where near any major landmarks or cities. But i'd be pretty screwed (just like anyone else) once the initial cause (whatever it is) has passed.
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Re: Do you think you'll survive the end? « Reply #25 on Dec 1, 2010, 1:11pm »
With the medicines I need to take to keep me alive, I know I would not. That's why I live right next to a major target, 2 miles away, one big flash, and I am gone.
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Re: Do you think you'll survive the end? « Reply #26 on Dec 1, 2010, 2:55pm »
Unless its a big bomb, then 2 miles wont cut it. You you want to make sure you go in the initial part, not the radiation or the building collapse. Then it will be painful, and you may live a lot longer than you can take.....cant believe I'm talking about this.
Re: Do you think you'll survive the end? « Reply #27 on Dec 1, 2010, 3:58pm »
I know how to hunt and fish. I've taught my kids. My wife is active duty army and is a fair shot. Got NBC survival training and appropriate MOPP gear (American) for me and other nation's (Serbian) for the family. I don't have any kind of escape plan and I generally regard them as pointless without knowing how the end is coming.
What I do retain is the flexibility to adapt. I've instilled this concept in my family. The organism that adapts the best survives the longest. I think the hardest part for the family to adapt to would be taking human life. Personally, I don't have a problem with pre-emptive actions so long as they fall within my moral framework.
I'm very open to other psychological trainings / skillsets that people would believe beneficial in all or most end of times scenarios.
Unless its a big bomb, then 2 miles wont cut it. You you want to make sure you go in the initial part, not the radiation or the building collapse. Then it will be painful, and you may live a lot longer than you can take.....cant believe I'm talking about this.
Actually you do not need one big bomb. Just a bunch of small ones. Aka a MIRVed warhead. And I can guarantee you the Twin Cities in Minnesota, with a National Guard base and an Army Ammunition Plant, one north and one south, is the target of a few MIRVs.
So no, not one big bang, just a lot of little ones that add up to a lot more than one big bang.
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Re: Do you think you'll survive the end? « Reply #29 on Dec 2, 2010, 1:23pm »
Just remember MIRV are not accurate, doesn't mean is gonna fall on your. Does other countries even have MIRV? Russia had to go big(overcompensation) becasue they couldn't make as efficient a nuke as the US.
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And I can guarantee you the Twin Cities in Minnesota, with a National Guard base and an Army Ammunition Plant, one north and one south, is the target of a few MIRVs.