If all electric and water services were wiped out and you had to live off of what you have and the land you own. This means no gas to put in your car. Nothing from the grocery store. No google machine to look up “how to survive”. How many of you think you could make it one year?
Could you survive for one year?
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Not a lot of people, myself included, own a lot of land. Nor do I have some sort of bunker with food in it. So if I can’t get food from a grocery store I’m thinking not particularly long.
I could maybe last a month, based on stored food and drink I have on hand. My survival skills such as hunting, trapping, fishing, foraging, are nonexistent. Once the food is gone I’d likely do my best to consume the 20+ bottles of wine I have in the basement before taking my own life. Beats starving to death!
And Glen
will make certain no one else survives either.
Yes, as long as I had enough gas to get about 2.5 hrs from home would be just fine. Have another place off the beaten path where we would be just fine.
Yea, I sleep 25 yards away from a 5G super tower. When the time comes, I will basically transform into the Hulk and do whatever the hell I please.
6 months for sure then possibly more with a lake about a mile and a quarter down the road. Have enough water to last about 6 months and can goods plus emergency storage foods packed in 5 gallons buckets you can buy online that could help last longer once purification of lake water happens. Big problem would be keeping others from trying to get what you have. I have a lot of ammo but not knowing how many looters would come this way makes it difficult to gauge.
Luckier than most. Own and live on about 8 acres, mostly woods. Not many people know where I'm at. Have a good well and a wood stove. Food stored ahead. See deer in my front yard a couple of times a week. Weapons and ammo, but like Warrior said, you just don't know how many people will come after you. I could last awhile.
Live on a farm, with local water, wood heat available aplenty . . . and have a LOT of guns. It would still be a challenge, and a huge change of lifestyle.
With my wife...it would be real difficult. By myself...I think I could at the lake. When you're hungry you'll eat stuff that you would never think about. I know how to fish and I can hunt.
Was fishing last night with my neighbor and the question came up. As long as nobody tried to steel my **** I could survive for many years. It wouldn’t be fun but it’s doable. I already use wood to heat my home. Have had a garden for 20 years. Can hunt. Have a 2 acre lake and my land joins thousands of acres of land. But man a cold beer and AC is a hell of a reward for working hard.
If I could get to the family farm an hour+ away ... probably. Enough beef, fish, fruit, and vegetables for a long time. You would have to fend off all of the people wanting to get your food which could be a problem. Then you would have to find a way to keep enough water from springs/rainwater free of bacteria. Then, of course, you have to deal with the potential isolation if you didn’t have other people around that are all on the same page vs. resorting to shooting one another.
Oh yeah, not a problem. Wouldn't be as pleasant as life now, (or would it?), but yes, I could make it.
My rules and you would have to help me fend off predators.:uzi:
By myself? Yes. But I’ve got the wife and kids. Right now we have about 3 months of food supplies.......and I could always hunt/fish/grow food. Plus we live next to a creek. I think we could do it. I worry about my 4 yr old though. He pretty much lives off plain cheeseburger kids meals and pizza.
Not me in suburban Atlanta! But you're basically talking about the way many people lived a hundred years ago.
Small farm with well. Growing crops, breeding livestock, cows for milk, hens, a few roosters.
Before the REA started in 1936, almost 90% of farms in the USA were without electricity. By 1950 around 80% were wired. There were still pockets in Eastern Kentucky without power into the 1960s.
Small farm with well. Growing crops, breeding livestock, cows for milk, hens, a few roosters.
Before the REA started in 1936, almost 90% of farms in the USA were without electricity. By 1950 around 80% were wired. There were still pockets in Eastern Kentucky without power into the 1960s.
I could last longer in the winter than in the summer. I have to have air conditioning. Even if I had months of food available I would shoot myself in week three of a summer without AC...maybe week 2.
I’d actually prefer this way of life. Farming and murder. Ahhhh, the good days
Yeah. You just have to learn how to farm and you’re all set.
There’s a lot of wildlife at my place and I was taught how to fish, hunt and skin most animals. I’d make it but it would be more difficult than most think. You have to catch fresh food every single day unless you saw the shortages coming and had a garden ready to be canned. There’s no freezer or a way to store unused meat outside of curing it with salt.
Even the best fishermen don’t catch them every time. It would be best to catch small game such as frogs, turtles, squirrels, rabbits and such that you could finish off. Kill a deer and you might as well share the meat with others before it spoils.
Even the best fishermen don’t catch them every time. It would be best to catch small game such as frogs, turtles, squirrels, rabbits and such that you could finish off. Kill a deer and you might as well share the meat with others before it spoils.
A better question is for how long could you defend yourself? Very, very unlikely, impossible even, that small numbers of people who have prepared for themselves already an ability to hold out over a long term could expect to go without being confronted. Groups would form, quickly they would be organized under their similar needs for subsistence. They would naturally assess their own resources to plot, and do so. It would occur quickly. Not only out of means to survive but out of pure malice.
First thing is I have to get some gas cans (or something to transport ~20 gal of gas). Next, get to either my family place in KY. Once I'm there, it will be tough but possible. Enough land, timber, water, game, and warmer climate.
My current location has enough water for a few months (assuming everyone is using the same pond). The problem is purifying it. There is very little firewood available around here for making fire to boil the water. Also, the winters are very cold and long. My property is adjacent to farm ground, so maybe I could grow a garden on it, but that takes months to produce, and only works in the summer. So a lot depends on when this starts.
My current location has enough water for a few months (assuming everyone is using the same pond). The problem is purifying it. There is very little firewood available around here for making fire to boil the water. Also, the winters are very cold and long. My property is adjacent to farm ground, so maybe I could grow a garden on it, but that takes months to produce, and only works in the summer. So a lot depends on when this starts.
I could survive. It’s be tough. But being an outdoorsman and raised in these old hills we’re pretty self reliant. That said storage of goods would be vastly different. Back to salt curing meat, smoking meat, and raising a garden for survival rather than hobby. But then you’d have to figure out how to store the vegetables. Certainly would be tough.
Just taking notes on who has what. Surviving wont be about what you have but how easily you can take from others....i do live in the country. Have a spring water well and a creek. Both drinkable when boiled. Water isnt a problem. The rest is just a matter of will. And im meaner than most. So im not too worried. Im taking in gassy for sure. He only eats grass and *** and will murder on the spot. We good
I'm pretty lucky , 20 acres with a ton of fish in my pond , so there is water and food , lots of deer , rabbit , turtle , squirrel . And I've got plenty of guns and ammo .. wouldnt be fun but I think I could handle it , got a bunch of books I've been meaning to read . Long as my legs hold up and I can walk to get things I need . My poor old body is about shot at 53 . Autoimmune muscle disease of some unknown sort . Changing my approach today at 1pm , going all in on different Rx's .. been holding off til recently .
Plenty of game to hunt in the hills here. My parents can go to a spring water course with the flip of a switch. Very big cave and creek less than fifty yards from their house So keeping stuff cool wouldn’t be a problem. We already can veggies from the garden
Sounds good except you can’t flip the switch without electricity to pump the water. Easy enough to use a manual pump tho
We have a big spring water storage. If it got too bad we would be dipping buckets I guess
Would be hard having a 2 year old, but I could do it. I live in the woods and have no problem obtaining the food we’d need. As others have mentioned, the only real problem would be people trying to get what you have, although I live in a fairly secluded location. I have two pistols, two rifles, and two shotguns (.22 and .38 pistol, 12 gauge double barrel and 20 gauge shotguns, and a .30-06 and .22 rifle) , and most around here would laugh at how few guns I own. All that being said, I don’t believe it will get to that point, though.