"After Armageddon" on the History Channel

[PA5COR]

Let s see, ham radio operator, with independant energy sources check.
Own guns with plenty ammo reloading myself, check.
Mostly enough fuel in supply, house extremely isolated and secure check.
Food, own garden with veggies, potato's etc, check.
Can repair lots of electronic and mechanic thingies, check.
Have a bundle of tools including angle grinder and welder check.
Live in a small city, good neighbours in the small street check.
Have some savings in my account, no debts so if i see the sh*t hit the proverbial fan i can aqquire needed stuff soon and plenty.check.
Have a few good friends living on the land in farms. check.
Don't need medicines yet except over the counter painkillers for my back, enough to be had or can do without check.
Can build a woodstove with materials at hand, enough wood to be found next to my house, check.
Have a 60 gallon watertank with fresh water ( normally for watering plants) check.
Alternative lighting through LED's solar panel and car battery, check.
4 bycicles for 2 persons here, check.
several LED torches with rechargeble batteries check.
Food for one week in supply all the time, chck.
Lamp petrol 20 gallons and petrol lamps, check.
Petrol heater check.
Petrol cooker, check.
Inverter 12 volt to 230 volt 50 Hz 1000 watt check.
etc etc etc, check.

[WX7P]

Let s see, ham radio operator, with independant energy sources check.
Own guns with plenty ammo reloading myself, check.
Mostly enough fuel in supply, house extremely isolated and secure check.
Food, own garden with veggies, potato's etc, check.
Can repair lots of electronic and mechanic thingies, check.
Have a bundle of tools including angle grinder and welder check.
Live in a small city, good neighbours in the small street check.
Have some savings in my account, no debts so if i see the sh*t hit the proverbial fan i can aqquire needed stuff soon and plenty.check.
Have a few good friends living on the land in farms. check.
Don't need medicines yet except over the counter painkillers for my back, enough to be had or can do without check.
Can build a woodstove with materials at hand, enough wood to be found next to my house, check.
Have a 60 gallon watertank with fresh water ( normally for watering plants) check.
Alternative lighting through LED's solar panel and car battery, check.
4 bycicles for 2 persons here, check.
several LED torches with rechargeble batteries check.
Food for one week in supply all the time, chck.
Lamp petrol 20 gallons and petrol lamps, check.
Petrol heater check.
Petrol cooker, check.
Inverter 12 volt to 230 volt 50 Hz 1000 watt check.
etc etc etc, check.

COR! You're a right wing survivalist!

Glenn Beck and Alex Jones would be proud...

[kb2vxa]

You forgot one thing, almost all of the old windmills were replaced by electric pumps powered by city mains. I suggest you get a military surplus gunboat and refit it. The USS New Jersey would fill the bill nicely since it was restored including the radio room but you might have some trouble getting it home from Camden before the gangsters take it over and become pirates. Then you could nab the USS Ling and paint it yellow but you again may have trouble trying to leave Hackensack since the accumulation of silt in the river affords navigation only for small boats. We have quite a few Navy vessels in mothballs in San Diego, you might look into shopping there.

[NQ6U]

We have quite a few Navy vessels in mothballs in San Diego, you might look into shopping there.

In fact, no we don't—San Diego Bay is too small for that. The Navy mothball fleet is in Suisun Bay between San Francisco and Sacramento.



What's left of it, anyhow. They're slowing scrapping the whole lot of them.

[N2NH]

Personally this reeks of mental masturbation (if I can speak plainly).

Most people can not live in the country with electricity roughing it just a bit.

Most cities are already FUBAR'd, they are losing control. Look at all the shootouts. All of them nuts of course.

But walking around killing unarmed peopleis about as anarchistic as it gets. Of course they're mad.

I doubt if there will be any warning and if there is it will give people enough time to bend over and kiss their ass goodbye. Pretty much like when NYC got it in Watchmen. Most convincing end of Gotham (among other places) I've ever seen.

Survival will be a crap shoot in my very humble opinion. As bad as we think it can get, we are likely undersetimating things.

[KG4NEL]

Camus got it right.

IMHO...

[KK4AMI]

Camus got it right.

IMHO...

You are referring to his book "The Plague"? Yeah, I think he was writing from personal experience in Algeria.

[KK4AMI]

In watching "After Armageddon", I got the opinion that hunkering down in your home or farm would likely not be an option. Even though the US population was decimated by 50%, roving bands of citizens scrounging for food would be a constant threat. Yeah, you can have a gun to defend yourself, but that will be a 24/7 job guarding your property and possessions. The odds of survival in one spot would be against you. Things like generator noise, antennas, lights and gardens would attract trouble.

I was going to stay right where I am, but now I'm revising my "plan". Moving up north where it is really cold in the winter might be a good idea. The roving bands of citizens will likely remain where it is warm, so I get a whole season of not having to remain "on guard". Maybe moving into the middle of Detroit would be a great place to hide with plenty of Great Lakes water and abandoned houses to live in.

[KC2UGV]

In watching "After Armageddon", I got the opinion that hunkering down in your home or farm would likely not be an option. Even though the US population was decimated by 50%, roving bands of citizens scrounging for food would be a constant threat. Yeah, you can have a gun to defend yourself, but that will be a 24/7 job guarding your property and possessions. The odds of survival in one spot would be against you. Things like generator noise, antennas, lights and gardens would attract trouble.

I was going to stay right where I am, but now I'm revising my "plan". Moving up north where it is really cold in the winter might be a good idea. The roving bands of citizens will likely remain where it is warm, so I get a whole season of not having to remain "on guard". Maybe moving into the middle of Detroit would be a great place to hide with plenty of Great Lakes water and abandoned houses to live in.

Which is why, quite quickly, communities will reform, and law and order restored. It's the natural way of humans. It's just what we do. Which is why the whole "I'm a man of my own means, and nothing I have wasn't built by me" fails.

[PA5COR]

http://globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm

Have a nice read up.