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Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
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Re: Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
#92I've been in a number of major natural disasters at this point. Fukushima, Ike, Colorado's 2013 floods. I've also been in two shooting incidents (where fortunately only the shooter was hurt). My point is, I've been lucky so far because none of these posed a major problem for me. I made it out with manageable inconvenience. However, I can only get lucky like that so many times. So now I keep the following at home: * 5…
That will get you thru a week. But a week will get you thru everything but society collapsing, and if it does collapse I am not sure I want to continue.
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Re: Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a 2m radio model that you would recommend?
We like the Beofeng 8 watt https://goo.gl/q8nSvA It's only about $60 and there are some nice accessories like better antennas and batteries.
I could be wrong, but I thought that you needed a license only to broadcast, and you could own a ham radio and listen without a license. You can certainly buy all sorts or radio gear without a license.
Re: Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
#94The major thing overlooked here is mindset. After 14 years in the military and experience with several armed conflicts and humanitarian disasters, I have seen that pretty much all your plans and preparation will go out the window, so you need to learn to move adapt and improvise. If you're going to survive any contingency scenario you need to be resilient, excruciatingly innovative and mentally tough. Think more like…
This is great advice. My entire military career has instilled one important value: don't panic, everything can always get worse.
Re: Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
#95The major thing overlooked here is mindset. After 14 years in the military and experience with several armed conflicts and humanitarian disasters, I have seen that pretty much all your plans and preparation will go out the window, so you need to learn to move adapt and improvise. If you're going to survive any contingency scenario you need to be resilient, excruciatingly innovative and mentally tough. Think more like…
but "foraging" for water in an urban environment probably means stealing it
Find a low elevation place and bring your shovel, water is there for the taking. While you're at it, bring your iodine tablets or water filter with you...because while water is everywhere, so is disease.
Re: Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
#96The major thing overlooked here is mindset. After 14 years in the military and experience with several armed conflicts and humanitarian disasters, I have seen that pretty much all your plans and preparation will go out the window, so you need to learn to move adapt and improvise. If you're going to survive any contingency scenario you need to be resilient, excruciatingly innovative and mentally tough. Think more like…
StutterSpeaker, your comment is dead. I don't think it ought to be, might want to check with the mods.
Re: Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
#97I've been in a number of major natural disasters at this point. Fukushima, Ike, Colorado's 2013 floods. I've also been in two shooting incidents (where fortunately only the shooter was hurt). My point is, I've been lucky so far because none of these posed a major problem for me. I made it out with manageable inconvenience. However, I can only get lucky like that so many times. So now I keep the following at home: * 5…
That will get you thru a week. But a week will get you thru everything but society collapsing, and if it does collapse I am not sure I want to continue.
If you have family depending on you, unfortunately you don't have a choice. Can't throw in the towel for other people(well I guess you can...but that's not gonna happen).
Getting ourselves through a week might not be bad, but throw in family and [young?] children to the mix, and things get dicey and really complex.
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#98I'm an exited valley founder who just launched an emergency preparedness site for the rational crowd: https://theprepared.com Have been prepping in the SF / startup community for almost 10 years and teaching other techies how to prep for a long time, but historically was face to face because of stigma, etc. We started The Prepared because prepping is very rational and it's gone mainstream enough to have threads like…
That site seems great but it's still a tough sell when the "welcome to rational prepping" guide includes AI and CRISPR as causes.
Why? Elon just said AI is a bigger threat than North Korea.
Re: Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
#99The major thing overlooked here is mindset. After 14 years in the military and experience with several armed conflicts and humanitarian disasters, I have seen that pretty much all your plans and preparation will go out the window, so you need to learn to move adapt and improvise. If you're going to survive any contingency scenario you need to be resilient, excruciatingly innovative and mentally tough. Think more like…
StutterSpeaker, your comment is dead. I don't think it ought to be, might want to check with the mods.
If you click on the timestamp and go to the comment page you can "vouch" for such comments, undeading them.
Re: Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Possibly, but if that's what you need to do to survive you will. Finding and maintaining access to (aka defending) a water source is one of the most challenging parts of survival. Primarily because it locks you into a location if you let it and a quality source is a huge draw for populations - obviously. In scenarios where you're out of municipal water a few days like is happening right now in Houston (Myself and my…
I've got 40 gallons of potable water in the garage that I can tap into in an emergency. In fact, most of us do...
Are you talking about hot water heaters?
I wonder if there are more in garages or more in basements. Hmm.