What is your plan for the end times?

As much fun as it is to prepare for zombies or "Red Dawn" or The Road-Book of Eli-Road Warrior type situations there are lot more realistic and more probable reasons to be prepared. What if you lose your job? What if your spouse is the breadwinner and he/she dies? What if your water heater or furnace breaks? Being prepared is more than just "worst case".

1. Get out of debt. This will help you more than anything else. I know I don't want to owe anyone anything, especially during hard times.

2. Stay out of debt. There's this SNL skit that jokes about debt... basically if you can't afford it, don't buy it.

3. Save money. I know that if the monetary system fails your saving account is useless. But until that happens I know my mechanic won't let me pay for a new A/C in boxes of ammo.

4. Food storage. There is a lot of info and philosophy out there but I'll tell you this: gather three months worth of food you'll actually eat. My dad had cans of wheat in his garage and no mill to grind them. What would he do with just plain flour anyway?

5. Knowledge. Shotgunner's got it right, learn some skills that will be helpful to your family (like medical training).

Please know that all these things (as well as others) I'm working on as well but it's important to remember that even if there's no world wide disaster there may be a personal one that affects you or your family that will sure feel like one.

...and a machete will outreach a knife. Just saying. ;)
 
texastonydobbs said:
True but they do not have the same reach advantage either... :D

Gun 1st... ammo depleted or last ditch weapon is knife :thumbup:
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tomahawk-very natural to throw and easy to learn, a relatively cheap tool that you can keep talking and has alot more range than a knife
 
Joe, that's true. This winter there were problems with gas supply from Ukraine (which makes 80% of all our gas in the Czech and 100% in Slovakia and Hungary). The supply of the Czech households wasn't affected, although the gas company had to use gas from its reserve tanks for 3 weeks (there is a total reserve of 3 months demand). It only takes one smaller town to be out of gas for a week in the winter, and sure one could use much of his survival skills, and I'm sure there would be casaulties among those who couldn't. Unaware people freeze to death here each year even when everything's working!
 
Mc_Graber said:
Unaware people freeze to death here each year even when everything's working!
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Bingo. Like I said, your life could be in shambles while the rest of the world sleeps peacefully.

Take care of yourselves and your families, brothers (and sisters!) :)
 
Boats said:
My plan is to eat light, fast moving, and soft armored prey shot from rifle distances. With fava beans and a nice chianti.
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Watch out for those shaking hands :D

My neighbors are uncomfortable with my own rather similar plan.
 
When the end of the world comes I plan on somehow spending the rest of my time with Catherine Zeta Jones.
 
MikePerrin said:
When the end of the world comes I plan on somehow spending the rest of my time with Catherine Zeta Jones.
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No problem, Mike. You are more than welcome to stop by any time. If I'm not here, Shakira, Jessica Biel or Salma Hayek will let you in. (On second thought, if they're all here, why would I be somewhere else? :confused::confused:)
 
I stated earlier I agreed with shotgunner11. I also feel the best way to survive some great global catastrophe will be to live like a redneck off the land. I have all the military gear mostly to hook up with my family. Also, I spent 5 years as a navy gunner's mate on a vbss crew so being militaristic is natural for me. I live in a pretty semi-rural area, but know enough when the shit goes down to stay off the roads. I would have to hoof my way to my in-laws who live on a farm about 40 miles away, but the entire trek would be in the woodlands with scattered homes throughout. I believe I'd have enough food/ammo, to make the trek. Biggest thing is always water. More than likely if it gets that bad water/power will be turned off. I have water treatment tablets, and the ability to boil water(at last resort because a fire will draw attention to yourself) I would prob look for a spring being in the woods, or scope out hot water heaters in homes that always have a usual 40 gallons in them, or toilet tanks.

My greatest fear would be in homegrown snipers. You have every yahoo around me with hunting rifles, so stealth would be key imo for making the trek. At least my in-laws have farm land & a well, so holding up their would be best, but really in any case it'll be just living on borrowed time especially if it's a pandemic. Hope to really never have to find out, since I have kids.
 
Parker said:
Watch out for those shaking hands :D

My neighbors are uncomfortable with my own rather similar plan.
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Brains are for the dog.:cool:

The "long pig" will be in big supply when the four horsemen swing through.:D
 
Joe Fowler said:
As much fun as it is to prepare for zombies or "Red Dawn" or The Road-Book of Eli-Road Warrior type situations there are lot more realistic and more probable reasons to be prepared. What if you lose your job? What if your spouse is the breadwinner and he/she dies? What if your water heater or furnace breaks? Being prepared is more than just "worst case".

1. Get out of debt. This will help you more than anything else. I know I don't want to owe anyone anything, especially during hard times.

2. Stay out of debt. There's this SNL skit that jokes about debt... basically if you can't afford it, don't buy it.

3. Save money. I know that if the monetary system fails your saving account is useless. But until that happens I know my mechanic won't let me pay for a new A/C in boxes of ammo.

4. Food storage. There is a lot of info and philosophy out there but I'll tell you this: gather three months worth of food you'll actually eat. My dad had cans of wheat in his garage and no mill to grind them. What would he do with just plain flour anyway?

5. Knowledge. Shotgunner's got it right, learn some skills that will be helpful to your family (like medical training).

Please know that all these things (as well as others) I'm working on as well but it's important to remember that even if there's no world wide disaster there may be a personal one that affects you or your family that will sure feel like one.

...and a machete will outreach a knife. Just saying. ;)
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+1 on the above sans the machete
 
I'm thinking a good topless bar the last few days before the meteor hits Yellowstone.

Here's a happy thought, it's only a matter of time before they're grabbing small asteroids and aiming them very carefully.
 
I am completely ready for the end times. I owe close to 200k in student loans. I don't care if zombies eat my brains, at least I won't have to pay that money back!
 
I'm just going to ask Al Gore when/what is going to happen so I can know what to do.

Slugger
 
I am reasonably certain that my end time will occur long before the end of the earth. There will be some hard times for sure. Been through some of them in years past. I could do somewhat better in survival prep for any civil disorder, but I don't worry about the end times. Unless I watch Nostradamus on the Hitler (History) Channel too much. I'm not worried about dead Nazis much either.
 
Horn Dog said:
I am reasonably certain that my end time will occur long before the end of the earth. There will be some hard times for sure. Been through some of them in years past. I could do somewhat better in survival prep for any civil disorder, but I don't worry about the end times. Unless I watch Nostradamus on the Hitler (History) Channel too much. I'm not worried about dead Nazis much either.
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I think the history channel does very well stroking everyones fears about the future. It's almost like a cable tabloid:jerkit:
 
Guys guys guys... newton doesn't predict the end of the world until 2060! It was on discovery (or history channel? I was drunk) the other night so it must be true...

In any event, I would sit tight in my house as a stronghold. There are 3 dozen 10 gallon containers of water in our basement and we have a flowing creek behind our house so we should be ok on that front. If we can keep out freezer running with our generator, there is probably 6-8 months worth of meat, cheese and bread to sustain us... then I'd use some sort of engineering crap to reinforce the house with whatever we salvage... hmm I'll have to give this a lot more thought now





:D
 
I got baldes, I got b.o.b, I got basic survival skills and me and my friends have agreed to team up for getting firepower when situation or if it ever rises. So only thing I lack now is firepower.


If the feces hit the fan, there's two or three places I could get upgrade in firepower. I got whole bunch army training received nut cases like me in small friend circles. I think we get bit fire power, enough so we can actually use skill to get more :D

I count following things:

1) Emergency bail out bag: Check
2) Basic know-how of survival: Check
3) Enough trusty friends: Check
4) Rudimentary plan and knowledge of terrain: Check
5) After ganging up, getting fire power and all: Move to northern woods where's wildlife for hunting and rivers to fish!: Check if we ever get that far ;)
Other than that, I try to keep my realtions to upstairs in good condition :D
 
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