Walk around and observe everything happening all at once.
I don't really want to die, but survival doesn't seem to be as important as bearing witness to it all.
You’ll likely outlive most the horde, but you won’t likely survive. Too much reliance on an unknown you may not even make it to, or be challenged getting there or there. Then you won’t have supplies or a self reliant food system to sustain you. Some teenager with a .22 squirrel gun will pick you off as you scrounge for food knowing if he didn’t you’ll eventually end up a threat to the, because you aren’t prepared.
Get out now, get set up. Load a basement with food and supplies. Find good neighbors that will work with you to defend your neighborhood. Get animals that eat grass (not bagged food). Have a water source that requires no electricity.
When I was in the service as soon as I experienced real violence I understood that soldiers were being used for something very wrong. I realized that there was almost no justification for what I was seeing and doing. The way I mentally coped with what I was feeling was by thinking of war as nothing more than a deadly game. I thought my chances of survival weren't great but I would play the game to the best of my ability and see what happens. I suspect if SHTF I would simply play the game again and see how long I could survive.
I was good at the game too, but there is danger in thinking of it only as a game, no second chance. I want the odds stacked soo far in my favor it’s not even funny.
A sad reality for me is that I will not be able to get to any of the people I love as they are all across the country.
I have 4 tough as fuck dogs. My property is fenced in and easy to secure. I have 30k rds of ammo. Millions of Calories. I will have the wife in the attic on overwatch with a .270 bolt gun and AR with cases of ammo to man the corner of our two streets and radio anything she sees. Nothing is going to want to fuck with my house when they fuck around. I have a sick DMR, an AK a combat shotgun, pistols, ARs and training. I am ready to fucking war. I have tons of bottled water. The 2nd floor of my house is insurmountable unless you want to go zerg and waste a lot of life getting through my drum mags. 4 dogs and my AK are not a fun welcome through my front door. This assumes loss of power. If power is on I have 4 cameras as well as tons of lighting. All the niggers around me are already scared shitless of me. They’re not scared of me calling the police. They’re scared that the police won’t save them from me. I doubt anyone seriously will fuck with my house. And when they fuck around they will likely not be as ready as me. I have guns hidden all over and will always have two guns on me at all times in the house. I even have toilet gats. My best guard dog is Husky pitbull and will fucking kill niggers without hesitation.My hunting dogs have it in them too. I also have a crossbow and bow if I need to be quiet. Not having a Plan B makes you make Plan A work no matter what. Stay well regulated mofos.
What to do if a group men at each corner of your house attack you with Molotov cocktails to burn you out? How about 20 men? Power will 100% be out and not coming back on. A house will be impossible to defend with two people and some dogs. Dogs are very easy to kill and a horde of starving / bad people cannot be stopped without a small army. You will only be able to hold out for a very short period of time in a sever collapse, as in society is permanently gone. This is the type of situation I am referring to. Not trying to frighten you but you need to be prepared for a harsh reality. You will need an escape and evade plan in place.
If you read the survival literature short term leaving can be better in the early chaos which is the worst of it. But long term you are fucked and have zero advantages left. Long term the people who made it past the first 30 days become the threat and have major advantages. Usually their only problem is needing to leave for something and exposing themselves. When you do need to finally leave you are physically way better off than had you left in the beginning. But will be threatened way more by what you describe than if you still had a position to hold.
Holding a position in any city will be impossible.
They have to get close enough to my house to hit it. They won’t. Only two sides are even approachable by layout and the two exposed sides are covered by my neighbors who are also heavily armed and not leaving. The perimeter will extend far off my property. Guy across the street and two people on either side of me are well-supplied and tactical. We are all on the same page. 20 people ain’t gonna make it inside or live long enough. The layout is 100% against them and there are too many guns. They have no cover, no concealment, and can be seen long before they can hit the house. We won’t let people use the road anywhere near us in the first place. Mofos will have to go around. The most vulnerable direction for me is uphill and wide wide open with other houses. Weak desperate people have many better choices. Strong people have weaker prey. People trying to live another day don’t fuck around. Dogs are easy to kill IF they get inside. And having to fight my dogs makes them easier for me to kill. Won’t happen anyways. If you saw my position you’d get it. The longer it goes on the weaker the threats get. 30 days in people who have slept like shit with little food and need medical who aren’t trained in the first place will be very weak. 30 days out I will be one of them.
It’s way more dangerous to leave in my situation. Completely open and exposed with all the chaos and other mofos preying on those people. With nowhere to go. Already have everything I need here with barriers and obstacles and advantages. After a few weeks my position gets even better with less people around even if more of them are threats. Keep in mind people who are threats will know the ‘burbs will be softer targets with great payoff.
Not to mention burning the house in theory defeats the point of getting my supplies. The main reason to attack me. Not that they will pull it off. I live on a big property.
We have hidden caves fully stocked, years worth of food and ammo, furnished, and not so far away.
This is the best plan so far.
shit hits the fan every day
My plan is to drink and watch shit burn. I can defend my house for a little while. Best case scenario is that I survive longer than the utter retards, in which case the remaining people will begin to reestablish some sort of civilization. Worst case.. I die drunk with sword in hand, in my castle(house).
People have spent their lives preparing for the apocalypse only to never see the day.
Not a bad plan. I would feel honored to witness the end of the world. I have always felt I will, I bet you have also always had that feeling.
Humanity once had the potential to do great things, I fear that time has passed.
History shows that many (most) of those who headed alone into seclusion ended up hunted and killed by roving gangs for their supplies. (Argentina, others.) When it's you against an armed mob, you lose unless you have a bunker or equivalent secured hard point. Just something to consider.
Also, you're assuming you're heading towards empty ground. If it gets bad enough there will already be people there who know the terrain better than you do. (Even if they don't belong there.) So, you're just a dude on the road with a backpack full of supplies they need. That would be my absolute last resort.
Stay home, unless you absolutely have to - and get to know your neighbors. There is safety in numbers, provided you can control who is in those numbers.
But, you know your situation best. I'll be the grey man with the house full of supplies - right up until the moment we have to run. If it comes to that, we have a place to go well out of the city.
I live in the center of a bad city, staying in place will mean certain and fast death. When I say the cities will burn I mean that in the most literal sense. All cities will be burnt to the ground and it will happen fast. Neighborhoods will fall next and the chaos will expand outwards.
I am pretty familiar with the area I will head to. I have done a fair amount of backpacking and climbing in the area and already have topo maps. I am an expert at land navigation and a combat veteran. My weakness is I don't know anything about hunting so the fact that I have excellent survival skills will be hindered. I suspect I could feed myself off of the land to a point using common sense. The ultimate goal would be to find a group to join after I get far away from all nearby cities.
Chances are I will still die within 6 months.
Ah - that's different then.
Have you considered a foraging course? Around me you can do weekend courses and they are fine-tuned to your environment. Not going to fill you up, but it will supplement what you can carry/scrounge. I'm not much of a hunter either. It's a skill I've been meaning to develop.
Finding a group is a good plan. And you obviously have skills that would be valuable.
great idea
Most likely it will start with rolling blackouts before full grid shut down. The news media and radio will reassure the masses that it is a glitch and it will come back in a few days so not to cause mass panic. Yes hordes will rush the grocery stores and shops to get a new tv and some nikes at no price but they're unlikely to notice someone walking away from the crowds toward an exit. so we would have a few days to a week to make tracks before the troglodytes figure they've been had.
At my age survival is a low priority. My plan would be to unleash Mr. Hyde, and see if the HAMC was right about me being a "dandy serial killer". When SHTF there will be plenty of deserving targets that need dusting.
If you selected deserving targets, you may receive some help by sympathetic people. Random targets just gets people angry and seeking justice.
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