Hypothetical Post-Apocalypse: best strategies for survival?

hmm, I never read the postman book. it too is now on the list. Anyone know of any practical literature on the subject? I've seen things by ragnar benson but the books look to be outdated and perhaps not well written.
 
Ragnar Benson is a great author and well worth picking up just for entertainment value.
I have a suspicion he is Max Brooks. Lots of useful stuff most of which is updated.
I have his shelters book and it was written in the 80's nuke era but was added to since 9/11 to be more pertinent.

I live near a HUGE bush area ,probably the largest ,least populated space in the world.
While I would love my own compound and someday god willing i will have it ,if need be I will use one of the hundreds of fly in/canoe in , luxury fishing lodges.

If I can I would take out the John Deifenbaker bridge as it is the only bridge north for hundreds of miles and would really cut down on the refugees.
 
Interestingly different emphasis here than from the other thread which was much more about individual survival.

As said it comes down to where you are, or can get to, when SHTF. For those of us in the cities the option of getting out rapidly and having somewhere to go to is problematical - especially for thosw like me with young families.

I agree - I think moving will be exceptionally dangerous - you are always putting yourself in somone elses territory, preparation, and hence power. Avoid it if you can - there are reasons why we moved from a nomadic lifestyle to a settled one and they still exist.

For us movement would be driven by necessity not choice - if we could not sustain oursleves where we are.

The first choice would be to hunker down and work with our neighbours to mutual benefit (the community we already have). Life is likely to get tribal - and the trib I have is my local group -- moving puts me and the family in the power of tribes of which I am not part. And reduces the resources to what we can carry and not have taken from us by any nasty tribes (of which there will of couse be some). Getting to the next tribe 150miles would be challenging - though here in OZ our natural food/people ratio is overall better than in the US

Also if there is relief it is likely to come to the cities first.

on a micro levle A .22lr would be a good tool - a shot would scare away most nasties and could be used to grab any bird - seagull/duck etc that came near. I can see some big soup parties with my neighbours - anything remotely edible goes in the pot

P.s My book group - which just discussed The Road (which we generally disliked). One of the members is head of emergency responses for Red Cross Australia (gave us a copy of his the survival preparedness booklet ). He indicated that analysis of the stories of deaths and rapes in Katrina were unfounded - including the refuge area. They were well within the norms of such a group of people together. For example there were three dead bodies at the centre - one was brought in dead, one had a heart attack and I forget the other.

The clear message is that even in distress the most disadvantaged fragmented group of ethnically mixed americans put in a highly stressed situation essentially co-operated to a reasonable level for a rasonable amount of time - without direct external pressure to do so. Not what some would think. Gives a glimmer of hope doesn't it?
 
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