Do you have stored away ?
 

A survival kit, something for a catastrophic event that could last for a week or two, maybe into a month.

Let's list the things one would need to have on hand, things maybe not listed on the basic survivor's list.

I don't have a damned thing and I'm in a major metro area.

If society collapsed, I would be truly ****ed.

Hand lotion, old nudie magazines and Kleenex tissues.

I think even if you had some kind of stores put away….you’d be ****ed. To many people and to much chaos in a concentrated area would do you in.

If society collapses, I'm not sure I really care to be around to experience the aftermath.

25 cases of bottled water, 8 weeks food supply, a couple month's food for my pets, 1000 ounces of silver, an FN 509 Tactical, and ten 50-round boxes of ammo. I'd consider that the bare minimum. If things go completely to shit, I've at least got a couple months to figure things out.

Yeah I have a bugout bag, its a Fox Tactical backpack

Tarp
Huge hank 550 cord
4 tent stakes
Sleeping bag
Fire kit with two flint steels and a 5 pack of Bics
Ziploc bag full of vaseline soaked cotton balls and a few tea candles
Sawyer mini water filter
Army canteen with fitted metal cup
Vietnam era mess kit
Fully stocked fishing kit
Fully stocked first aid kit
5 Mountain House freeze dried meals, with plenty of room for more food
Hatchet
Folding saw
Handheld flashlight and headband light with spare batteries for both
Bug spray
And one change of clothes, actually need to get in there and replace the summer clothes with something warm

And thats it, off the top of my head

Yep. Got a "bugout bag" for each of us, 1-3 months of food, depending on how much you eat each day, for 3 people, plenty of ammo and firearms. Emergency shelter, A.K.A. a tent, first aid kits, emergency water purification, A.K.A. pot to boil water......

That would last us long enough to get to our lake property on foot if we had too....

The bug spray made me laugh.

I got a shotgun, a rifle and a 4 wheel drive.

I could probably make it a while.

Plenty of guns and ammo, we have ample food, but have some survival food buckets

If gas and electric was out, I'd just head home. My Dad have been waiting for that moment for decades now.

Heh, gotta have it

Agreed. Even when there’s a hurricane coming, which we know about a whole week prior to its arrival, the store shelves look barren and highways out of the city are jammed.

It wouldn’t matter what sort of disaster: domestic attack, civil war, weather cataclysm, zombie apocalypse.. I probably wouldn’t last long.

Agreed here as well. I’m pretty much all in on this civilization thing we’ve got going on. If it goes down, I’m most likely going down with it. At present, I think I’m OK with that.

Though I do wonder what sort of post-apocalyptic survivor I’d be. Would I be a part of the mass deaths in the first wave? Would I hang on for a few months before the marauders or disease caught me? Would I totally kick ass and become the new King of a rebuilt society?

Hopefully I never find out!

1000 gallon water tank + well that I can use
500 gallon propane tank that I only use to fuel my 22kw generator
Enough ammo
Multiple freezers full of mostly meat.
A lot of canned food too.
Deer and elk in my yard everyday.. I think I could outlive a few.

Deberg can survive.

I used to keep a bug out bag ready with a water filter straw a few thousand rounds of .22lr a papoose break down .22lr rifle and a few other misc. things. Plus my bow would go.

Society collapses but be damned if E6 has a skeeter on him

Wouldn't be able to sleep worth a damn without it :D

You got to have toilet paper on hand,over the counter medications, people who take prescriptions, you need to have somethings stocked up. There are just so many things that you need to get by with.

We have infinite water and at least 6 months food stored.

When we run out of that I will put down one of thousands of cattle surrounding our farm.

I’ll visit Bueh’s house when I want to eat gourmet.

I’m buying one of the Swiss Suicide Pods and recoding the nitrogen levels. I’ll just wait it out in one of those with some twinkies and beef jerky nearby if I need some nourishment. If some murderous cretin or zombie comes by hopefully they think I’m dead, but even if they do end up opening up and killing me, at least with the nitrogen I’ll probably see it as getting eaten by a dragon or something cooler than my actual death.

A week or two?? A month!!!?? I’m dead…

Think what if we have a geomagnetic storm from the Sun hit the Earth. It's going to take out all communication plus our power grid. Trillions of dollars going to be lost, credit & debit cards are useless, Icould easily see us losing a month or more in Communications. Our overseas communication is going to be destroyed because of the underwater cables going to be fried.

Graveyards have plenty of underground bunkers if you're not near a Missouri cave.

I have enough ammo to get what I need

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You see, this approach will become the norm of people that have nothing! When people are desperate, they will retort to whatever means they can to survive.

People who have planned will become a target for people who do not have.

May I have your address, please? You saved me shopping.

All I need Is my brain and my hands baby

Tons of 'survival' equipment. 4WD vehicle and access to rural land that is easily defendable and full of furry animals and water.

A geomagnetic storm is going to wipe out solar panels for anybody that has her house rigged up so that's something to think about.

If one was heading our way from the sun we would have a day's notice to properly unhook all powered supply items in your house. If you have generators you can run for a while providing you have the fuel supplies to last.

Do you want to know what I have in my house, truck, car, wife’s car, work shop, barn, parent’s house, farm house, barn at the farm house?


I also have stuff in deer blinds too, but it is mostly just a supplement to my other kits I have

Many country folk could survive but the urban area would not. They do not have access to everything or the knowledge to do so. In this world of convenience, people have gotten lazy and would not know how to survive.

You can get EMP-hardened solar power systems. Or the more fun way to prevent this would be to build a Faraday cage around your house. :D

Nothing but stuff for 3 or 4 days to handle a power outage or bad snow.

I figure if everything really does goes into the dump i don't want to prolong the pain. I'm not a guy who could really help rebuild the world. I could crank out some kids if the population is gone, but that's about it.

Even more reason to go as remote as you can if this were to happen. Being around highly populated areas is a death sentence for most.

Just shoot me in the face I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT THE CHIEFS

Nah, no big deal. I’ll just stay inside and hang out on Chiefs Planet all day!!!

You're the perfect candidate for this thread, lets start with what do you keep in the truck?

Anyone interested in this subject would do well to check out all of this dudes videos

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5th wheel toy hauler always stocked

I used to have other things but they fell out of my boat in the middle of some lake somewhere

Love the feel, very comfortable. Grip is stubby though, 15 extended makes it perfect for my hand size.

Aren't you worried about the striker long term?

I live in an area with earthquakes and extreme weather. I freely admit I don’t have everything I need but I am also in a more rural area with several acres of property. I should get a generator to run my well but I have a couple of wood burning stoves for heat. They help lower the gas bill.

I have grocery staples for roughly 2 weeks, plenty of firearms and ammunition, tarps, ropes, gasoline and other equipment. There are some good books on Amazon about disaster prep and I am slowly accumulating/acquiring what I would need for an earthquake that would mess things up for a couple of weeks.

I don’t really have a bug out bag because in my situation, what’s the point? I’m far enough away from the mainland that political upheaval is not as likely to reach us. If it does, I think I’m better off staying put than trying to go somewhere. My state has the lowest population density in the US and one of the lowest population densities in the world so there’s room but it would be really tough to live off the land here. On the other hand, I have a good network of friends. We can support one another and trade for things we need. As one example, I usually get a cord of wood delivered each fall. The guy comes by in mid October usually. This year he’s super busy and way behind. This year we’ve had severe cold quite early so my wife and I put the word out and very quickly friends came through.

Yep, in most situations people are better off bugging IN not OUT

Meh. You could be sitting on decades of supplies, but it's still going to require a shitload of luck just to survive if it really does hit the fan. You can't really properly prepare for something that unexpected. Odds get exponentially worse the more family you have to protect and provide for. Bug out bag and weapons be damned, you're still probably gonna die soon.

Yeah I like the feel of it with a 15, I have 4 15s and 2 12s. Nice to move out of a city where they were illegal into a city where they're legal.

I replaced the striker with an Apex, though I never had a problem with the original.

This store lived close to you?

Yeah... my theory would be that people vastly underestimate what would have to happen to require one week of food, much less a month or more, ammo, etc.

My source would be grocery store shelves whenever it's supposed to snow.

I mean, maybe you are preparing for a nuclear bomb, in which case good luck!

Forget it. I’m too old to kill people for food. Don’t think I’d have the Will to live in a post nuclear world. Maybe survival instinct will take over? But since I live by 2 major DOD bases. I’m sure they have multiple nukes targeted in my backyard.

What about a zombie apocalypse? Think you’d survive?

I don't like the stippling on the FNs. I don't mind aggressive grip texture, but to me the FN feels like shooting a porcupine.

Just go to the dump and get as many discarded microwaves as you can find, bring them back, take the doors off, and liquid nail them together around your house. Cheaper. And you would have a bunch of transformers that you could do some cool wood burning stuff with, should the EMP never go off.

This (plus plate carrier) :evil:

That's the part i like. ROFL

When we lived in Hollywood Hills the plan was to have two enduro bikes and backpacks with the necessary things to get out of the LA area in case of massive earthquake or a dirty bomb, etc.

In Santa Monica it was similar but with a Zodiac type inflatable (much easier to escape by sea than through the freeway system)

Now in the suburbs elsewhere in CA, it's not as much for me about guns riots etc, it's earthquakes, blackouts, and fires. So, water and food, a generator, but also simple backpack with water and MREs and the small stuff. Mountainbikes. A camper.

Closet full to the top with toilet paper

The smartest thing to have on hand is fishing supplies. You can always feed yourself from a river/lake/pond. Thinking you're going to go out and harvest meat is insane. If you kill a deer you're going to eat for a couple days and then you have a pile of rotting meat.

and having gold and silver is ****ing stupid. In a true survival mode who in the hell is going to give you food for a silver coin.

A dick in need deserves puffs plus indeed.

I should. Especially living in Area Minneapolis.

Crime is out of ****ing control.

Smoke that deer meat, all you need is a blanket

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Well in a post apocalyptic world it's nice to know you'd be good at something. :thumb:

For centuries, probably millennia, people have been predicting or preparing for the end of the world.

It just keeps turning.

Here ya go. Reality check:

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Truck


First aid kit, one big enough to treat 4 people
2 tarps
2 space blankets
Lots of 550 cord
Some bungee cords
Camp knife with striker for fire starting
Bag of cotton balls covered in petroleum jelly
Water filter straw
canteen
Camping cookware set
Compass
Solar charger and battery pack
Headlamp with extra batteries
Extra socks
Gloves




All of this fits in a small 24 hour pack that fits in the tool box. Might be missing some stuff. This pack is a supplement my bigger kit/will get my by until I get my bigger kit. I also have a couple pouches attached to it that is for ammo, 9mm for my pistol I always carry, and 5.56 for my rifle

Save your dryer lint guys for fire starter

Also having a hand torch and a shit load of those green camping propane bottles they sell at walmart

Shelter, fire, water, light... yep, you're all set for a short term event with that kit

Can't say enough good things about a simple cotton ball covered in vaseline, there are sooo many fire starting products out there but none can touch them for effectiveness or price... just one burns like hell for about 5 minutes with just a few sparks

Nope. I’m dead in the first wave of chewing. My son is in pretty good shape. He is good with tools and making stuff. He might make it.

I used to work with a guy who was a bit of a white power type. His plan was to wait out the race war in his neighbor's basement because they were Mormon (the neighbor) and he knew they'd have what he needed.

living on the water is a threat. We are ready for hurricanes. Have important bug out papers and what really matters to us in one place. We ride it out, we have coolers, water, TP ready to go. Can go at least two weeks without power. We live in a highly established flood zone. Everybody knows what to do if one’s coming for you.

Only time we bugged out was when a cat 1 hurricane hit our house straight on. The total “damage”was a bunch of palm tree frawns in the pool. Got $500 from FEMA to refill the refrigerator.

Sounds like a horrible plan

I have about 300 LEGO sets!!

We'll build a fort with' em!

Plenty of ammo, if push comes to shove, I’ll become a modern day alchemist and turn that lead into gold as needed.

Fatties gonna die first. Just remember that too. Some weekly cardio now would probably better your odds more than what's in your bag..

It cracks me up people saying ammo. You gonna shoot someone to take their shit???

Guns and ammo are for self defense and harvesting meat.

Think just about all the people on life supporting meds. My wife can't survive without her seizure medication as well as her COPD shit. I take meds for Heart failure that can't be just quit.

What good is gold going to do you?

Are you going to eat it, burn it for a fire, build a shelter out of gold?


If things really turn to shit, people will trade useable stuff, not worthless money etc.

No mention of masks or hand sanitizer smh

I assumed he was alluding that he's just shoot people and take what he needed. Hence, use lead bullets to take instead of using gold to buy. :shrug:

This is the smart person’s answer.

I’ve seen The Road. No ****ing thanks.