How do you survive an aftermath after a natural disaster?
Aug 24, 2010
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Hurricane
Say that an hurricane hit your town and your survive it with only 7 strangers each with a different profession. Your supplies are weeks worth of food, some hardware tools, an entire suburb town full of dabre, a canal, and some medical supply how can you survive in this environment? With no electricity, soap, clean clothes, government, and some hostile people that can come and get your supplies.
How can you survive it?
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3 comments
Jody on August 24, 2010 at 1:19 am
I survived far worse things than that in my life, lol, your scenario is a piece of cake!
OMG.
puppy aliens on August 24, 2010 at 1:19 am
I wouldn’t stay there, I go to a town that wasn’t damages.
ishootbirds2 on August 24, 2010 at 1:19 am
you mean a scenario like the TV show "The Colony"?
I’d rebuild, salvage, and survive. its not hard. especially when we uncover other people’s prep caches and survivalist caches, here in the US there are always people like that around, its nice to have that when a disaster comes along. I’m a survivalist myself, I have foo,water, supplies stored when the big one strikes California. If I died I’d like it if someone was to find my stash and put it to good use.
I’m good with improvising and working with my hands, in probably a month somehow me and those 7 other people would be alive and well with all the amenities of modern society. Most of the amenities actually.
-food: garden, farm, and stored goods
-water: a crude system of salvaged pipes and water from the city’s deep wells.
-shelter: repair of damaged building, construction of new ones
-electricity: solar panels, and small generator
-network: repair of local phone lines to the analog standard (POTS) so communication is possible as well as fiber optic lines so a computer network is possible (salvage government fiber optic cables and equipment)
-transportation: a variety of gasoline, diesel, wood gas and steam vehicles.
-safety: here in America people own guns. Every time after a threat to gun ownership happens people go out and stockpile guns and ammunition. I saw first hand of such in 2008 following the obama election. I can tell you chances are there’s at least 10 people in my city with ashed packed full of guns and ammo for the day when the G-man comes to their door and they’ll claim all of their guns and ammo fell into a lake a few days before (or all got stolen) and they have no guns left. It shouldn’t be too hard to get armed and be well armed against dangerous animals and thieves (raiders).
-goods: good thing we haven’t gone paperless (like we’re supposed to by 1980) . raid the local library and there’ll be dozens of books on making soap, hunting/trapping animals, farming, making clothes, all kinds of things.
-waste management: city landfill and outhouses.
we might actually end up in better luxury than we were before the disaster. I’ve always wanted an Audi but can’t afford one. I’ve wanted a fancy Japanese toilet seat but $2,200 is just way too much. I want a 3D TV, but can’t afford the equipment. I want to live in downtown with a 200 acre lot and a grand art-deco era 20,000 sq foot, 14 story house, that’s impossible and outrageously expensive, with everyone dead i can just pick some land and a building I like. no money involved, no laws, zoning, city regulations.
this post-disaster world already sounds better than real life.