If money was no object,...

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skorgu

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...what would you do if you wanted to prepare for the End of the World, Armageddon, Zombies, World Wars III-XV, whatever?

I don't mean a few million, I mean Bill Gates sold Microsoft and left it to you. I mean you bought Norway and still have a few billion in the bank. What would you do to make absolutely sure you and a small group of people (let's just go with 20 for sh!ts and giggles) were protected from fecal matter in close proximity to air circulation devices.

Its a fun thing to think about, like winning the lottery but paranoid style.

So, to start it off, I'd have:

A medium sized mountain in Vermont with a house on top, and a good chunk of the mountain hollowed out.
A Land Rover Defender or two, fully kitted out with diff locks and all the fun stuff.
A vegetable oil to bio-diesel converter, and a few acres of soybeans.

OK, What would YOU do?
 
First I'd buy tens of thousands of acres of forested land with several lakes, a river, and a variety of terrain. Then I'd build the subterranean stronghold along with a rustic comfy cabin as well as some houses for the other 20 people. It's all be off grid of course with 10 or 15 years worth of food, supplies of all kinds, a lot of ammo. A lot of seeds in a wide variety of strains, preferably UV resistant. Lots of passive defensive measures, surveillance, etc... Floatplanes, boats, 4x4s. you name it.

Realistically though, I'd buy out my neighbors here for a few miles in each direction, modify the house a bit, close a road or two, and buy loads of solar panels...
 
How about a small island in the South Pacific? It would have the advantage of having a natural source of food, such as fish and coconuts.

And, with a bit of luck...further from large clouds of fallout and all the post-nuclear holocaust flesh eating mutant zombies.
 
I don't know that I would want to be as isolated as a South Pacific island, but perhaps a Pacific Northwest island would be nice. Lots of rain, relatively mild winters, plenty of food nearby, close enough to the continent to make supply runs if you need to, but far enough to make the zombies less of an issue. :D

It would have to be big enough to provide growing space to feed these 20 folks (of course, 19 of them would be supermodels, and they don't eat much). Also be big enough to build some sort of compound/house set up, probably out of reinforced poured-in-place concrete for longevity and strength.

What would fill the storage areas? Well, seeds of course, along with fertilizer, and raw materials that would be hard to find... sheet aluminum, copper wire, vitamins, salt. Oh, and books. LOTS and LOTS of books. The entire Foxfire series, along with just about every book on primitive living I could find. Several complete sets of textbooks about the sciences, math, languages, history. Encyclopedias, atlases.. probably as many nautical charts as I could get my hands on.

Seems to me that what you're really asking is "What would it take to rebuild a decent level of civilization relatively quickly?" That's a big question.
 
Buy Australia... export everyone on it to the USA...

Dig out a good section and build a nice solid bunker, complete with a couple decades of supplies. Build another bunker with books(if everyone's evicted, there's plenty to chose from laying around). Possibly another bunker of cold storage meat and food depending on disaster.

Build a 50 metre wall around the island with parimeter defenses about 20 meters inside that wall, incuding SAM sites.

Gives you the wildlife and plant variety on the surface if the disaster isn't airborne... if it is you can get your *ss underground and wait it out.
 
Even supermodels have to eat something. Crackers maybe.

Another thing I was thinking of was an underground bunker in the middle of the desert. Nothing to nuke there, and hard for anyone not properly equipped to get to. Not someplace you'd want to live, but a good stockpile for Stuff, a la Terminator 2. Maybe in Australia or the middle of the Sahara or on the Baja peninsula. Then you could stop by Tijuana for a post-apocalypse Mezcal (That's what I'd drink while the bombs were falling, anyway).

Speaking of, does anyone know anything about keeping a structure find- and usable in the middle of the desert? I mean the bloody pyramids got buried and were only discovered by accident. How do you keep something accessable where winds move dunes hundreds of miles a day?

I like the south pacific/northwest island idea. I think the San Juan islands off of Washington would be sweet.

Also, what about information that isn't in book form? How would you keep computer data accessable for a long-term?
 
If Money Was No Object.....

I would buy up Bill Gates just to know how it feels like.

kee :D
 
ZOMBIES=FUN :cool: i would have rmj forge to name his price for a eagle talon and go hunting :D
 
Every play the game Fallout for the PC? That type of idea.
I hope the Link works.

http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=21[/IMG]
 
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