Are you apocolypse ready?

[CrimsonBlaze]

If it's one of those apocalypses where only a handful of humans are left alive in an otherwise habitable Earth, I'd probably be about 60% ready. I've got a few wilderness tricks that I've picked up over the years that might allow me to live in isolation or with an intimate number of people for a few weeks or even months.

Since I don't like guns or have the stomach for taking a human life (the majority of the 40% I'm lacking), my survival and that of my crew might depend on how often we might come into contact with other hostile humans. Judging from where I'll live, there's a 50% chance I might not last a year.

 

[Mikeybb]

I'm ready!

I'll continue along blissfully unaware of the oncoming end of times, then die in the first wave and leave a bloated, awkwardly placed corpse.

 

[1981]

Since I don't like guns or have the stomach for taking a human life (the majority of the 40% I'm lacking), my survival and that of my crew might depend on how often we might come into contact with other hostile humans.

If we team up, we'll be invincible. 'Cause I got that 40%.

edit: Whenever someone brings up the apocalypse, I remember my gradma saying that grandpa used to hoard canned food in their basement "to prepare for the war". So... What I'm saying is that I'd kill someone's grandpa for a few cans of food? Now I'm not so sure about that 40% anymore...

 

[1981]

I think you misunderstood your Grandma. Your Grandpa wasn't preparing for a war like Ragnarok, he was probably just thinking of WWII and rationing. A lot of people could have lived much better lives during that time if they'd had the foresight to hoard a couple of years of provisions. Just hundred or so tins of canned butter could have bought you a car.

No, I know why he did it Grandma herself said that if we ever go to war (the WWII kind), she'll be growing potatoes in our cabin in the countryside. Granpa passed away ten years ago. I don't know what became of his rations.

Maybe now that no one remembers the war anymore, no one hoards canned food? So I really do have to find someone to make me sammiches.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

I think you misunderstood your Grandma. Your Grandpa wasn't preparing for a war like Ragnarok, he was probably just thinking of WWII and rationing. A lot of people could have lived much better lives during that time if they'd had the foresight to hoard a couple of years of provisions. Just hundred or so tins of canned butter could have bought you a car.

No, I know why he did it Grandma herself said that if we ever go to war (the WWII kind), she'll be growing potatoes in our cabin in the countryside. Granpa passed away ten years ago. I don't know what became of his rations.

Maybe now that no one remembers the war anymore, no one hoards canned food? So I really do have to find someone to make me sammiches.

Your grandparents sound like exceptional people, and I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather. I think we're all going to have to hunt for sammys.

Im starting to think maybe I should start a little hoard for realsies next time canned goods I like are on special... I am an optimist who hopes wars like we used to have are over, but You never know whats going to happen in the future.

 

[WolfThomas]

I am not a prepper or anything like that. I do however have guns I own for hunting and a couple of thousand of different rounds of ammunition (it's cheaper if you buy in bulk). A large water tank and high fenceline with no breaks. I have friends who are mechanic, electricians, hunters, farmers etc. So hopefully as a group effort we could survive anything short of a meteorite or biblical apocalypse.

I do need to buy some canned and freeze dried goods though, that's my main weakness.

 

[Poetic Nova]

I don't fear death, does that help?

 

[RedRockRun]

It depends. If the US gets nuked, I live about half an hour away from what I'd think to be a primary or secondary target, the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN. I don't know if the fallout would reach the county I live. Hopefully it wouldn't.

If I'm safe, then I may do well in my parents' house. My dad has a good amount of guns from WWII-era to match rifles. Nothing is fully automatic, but fully-auto is counterintuitive as it is - especially against zombies. He reloads his own ammunition too, so that's a nice perk.

I live in a heavily suburban area, so things aren't cramped or too far from civilization. Since our house is two story, I feel at an advantage. More importantly, across the street from my subdivision is a park on the Tennessee River. With a stolen boat and a bit of navigation, we could sail West and then North to meet the Mississippi River which could carry us South to the Gulf of Mexico and any port along the way in West Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, and Louisiana.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

My skill set is entirely dependent on the current level of civilization and the infrastructure it has provided.

In the event of a zombie outbreak, for instance, I fully realize I will be the stumbling zombie back in the rear of the shambling horde bumping into things because I will have lost my glasses and can't see worth a damn.

In almost every other scenario, I don't have the necessary skills to survive in the post-civilization wastes and will die of starvation/dehydration/radiation poisoning/etc. within a few weeks if not days.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Im starting to think maybe I should start a little hoard for realsies next time canned goods I like are on special...

Eh, even if zombies don't turn up, that's the way to buy canned food, yeah.

 

[Sarge034]

Um, yes and no. I have the knowledge, skills, and equipment... but I live in Alaska so food will be the death of me. Damn you short growing and hunting cycles!!!

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Yep. I'll be the long-dead guy in the apartment that has almost nothing of use to you. So even "after the end", people will be thinking of me!

 

[Padwolf]

Nah, not really. I don't know where my cats are gonna go. That's a huge problem for me. How do I carry them around with me and the boyfriend? I don't really know. I'm not leaving my cats. If it's a zombie problem then I'm staying put, since they probs won't be smart enough to know where my front door is, and even then I have double glazing so it's not likely they can break through the barriers I will place around the windows and then break through the windows.

So, I have thought it all out, but I'm just not quite ready. I don't have the food, I don't have the cat litter required for it, I don't have enough money in my heating meter. Bloody zombies preventing me from going to the shops. But... I do live right next door to a pub. So maybe I'l just go there and wait for the whole thing to blow over?

 

[Chris Moses]

I keep a can of butane and a plastic bag handy in case of the apocalypse. It is also my "in case of a terminal incurable illness" contingency.

 

[breadsammich]

Well, I don't have the flexibility to kiss my ass goodbye, so I guess not...

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Since I don't like guns or have the stomach for taking a human life (the majority of the 40% I'm lacking), my survival and that of my crew might depend on how often we might come into contact with other hostile humans.

If we team up, we'll be invincible. 'Cause I got that 40%.

edit: Whenever someone brings up the apocalypse, I remember my gradma saying that grandpa used to hoard canned food in their basement "to prepare for the war". So... What I'm saying is that I'd kill someone's grandpa for a few cans of food? Now I'm not so sure about that 40% anymore...

That's cool (the whole team up idea not the killing grandpas deal).

I'm sure that we'd be able to find plenty of food caches where I'm from. There's a lot of 'unstable' hoarders who would most likely go out with a bang rather than initiate their post-apocalyptic hermit plans.

 

[Sarge034]

The upside though is that Alaska is one of the few places you could imagine surviving some of the Apocalypses, especially zombie. You could live there, the Inuit managed. You'd learn to hunt whales and seals when you could, ferment fish, and you'd adapt over the generations.

Or you'd die, that's possible too, but we have historical precedent of humans adapting to those conditions and worse.

You'd have to do a lot of adapting real quick, but there's also the issue of what kind of apocalypse are we talking about? Because something like 85-90% of Alaska's population is within 60 miles of a military instillation. So in say a nuclear/biological/chemical war Alaska is strait fucked. XD ... :/ ...

 

[Sarge034]

Yeah, I think Alaska is best suited for a zombie or virus outbreak. Isolation, food from the ocean, lots of space, endless fresh water, a forbidding climate that would freeze zombies...

I concur, I really hope if it has to happen it's zombies. At least then it's something you can fight.

 

[lechat]

I think you misunderstood your Grandma. Your Grandpa wasn't preparing for a war like Ragnarok, he was probably just thinking of WWII and rationing. A lot of people could have lived much better lives during that time if they'd had the foresight to hoard a couple of years of provisions. Just hundred or so tins of canned butter could have bought you a car.

No, I know why he did it Grandma herself said that if we ever go to war (the WWII kind), she'll be growing potatoes in our cabin in the countryside. Granpa passed away ten years ago. I don't know what became of his rations.

Maybe now that no one remembers the war anymore, no one hoards canned food? So I really do have to find someone to make me sammiches.

Your grandparents sound like exceptional people, and I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather. I think we're all going to have to hunt for sammys.

Im starting to think maybe I should start a little hoard for realsies next time canned goods I like are on special... I am an optimist who hopes wars like we used to have are over, but You never know whats going to happen in the future.

I think if you keep it within reason, it can't hurt, and can only help. I don't have room to do it right now, but I would if I could. If all goes well a year before the expiration date on all of the cans you just donate the lot of it to a food bank or shelter and replace it. You might have to do that a dozen times in your life, so it's not a big burden and at best it ends up being a kind of ongoing charity. At worst, you have something against hard times.

no reason to donate to charity, just rotate your stock so you eat the food before it expires and buy new cans to replace it.

 

[UmberHulk]

step 1 gather group of people
step 2 gather weapons
step 3 find Amish people
step 4 steal stuff from the Amish
step 5 get bitten in the but by karma