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Any preppers here?

Agent Orange said:
everyone talks about keeping a bug out bag.

wtf are you gonna go? "Oh hey lets just take hwy 80 and head up to... oh shit look at all this traffic."
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You don't have to bug out very far or for very long. You just need to assume that your previous residence will no longer be habitable, and be prepared to sleep elsewhere for a few days until the fires are out, water is running, and Safeway is open.

That's the scenario I'm prepared for, anyway. Zombie Apocalypse etc. is a whole other story...
 
Chill, George, you sound reasonable and quite far from a "prepper."
I would suggest though that if you ever get a chance to be without running water for a few weeks, it relativises the survival importance of toothpaste and fleecie blankies. Unless you really take to heart survival lesson #8. :teeth
 
This thread is killing me. Peeps in SF are the ones who should be stocking up on paracord. You can either use it to hang yourself when you realize help isn't coming, or use it to trap the bums and panhandlers for a tasty snack. In the best case, when the Big One slides SF right into the Pacific, you can weave it into a survival raft.
 
planegray said:
I'm amassing a huge inventory of toilet paper, and betting that it will be the currency in a post apocalypse world :banana
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Haven't you seen Book of Eli? A canteen of water for a tube of chapstick and a bottle of shampoo :laughing
 
jeepjockey said:
if you ever get a chance to be without running water for a few weeks, it relativises the survival importance of toothpaste and fleecie blankies.
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I totally agree...but given that I'm making some level of preparation, I don't see why I should have to go without proper dental hygiene for any length of time. See these teeth? :teeth I want to keep them that way...

And the blanky is to avoid dying of hypothermia, should I have to sleep on the bare ground for more than a night :thumbup

If you don't live in SF, you may not be familiar with just how cold it can get at night here.
 
dmaxAl said:
This thread is killing me. Peeps in SF are the ones who should be stocking up on paracord. You can either use it to hang yourself when you realize help isn't coming, or use it to trap the bums and panhandlers for a tasty snack. In the best case, when the Big One slides SF right into the Pacific, you can weave it into a survival raft.
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:rofl :rofl :rofl
 
BLU_G.6K said:
Of course none of that matters if you don't have a way to protect what you have. Having firearms isn't enough because those trying to take your shit will also have firearms and you will likely be outnumbered at some point. You need to form alliances with others because humans can better survive together than alone. These so called preppers will be easy pickings for the mobs should it all go down.
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World War Z made some good points about group environments. Simple diseases can wipe out a community without proper medicine and sanitation.

As an ex-New Orleanian, you needed your clothes and documents for several weeks because you weren't coming home in a while. The people who stayed needed boats, but most were able to survive for a week or so without any special supplies.

If you want to go all fantasy and imagine a continental-wide disaster, assuming I survived and my home was intact, I would board up all the windows and doors and hide.

The first few weeks would probably be mellow, supplies are scroungable, law and order still exist.

After the next few months, then it becomes an issue. I believe my community could ban together, but as one of the more militant people, I would demand we prepare for the worst, because other neighborhoods would not be as humane as I would, and they may want to take what we have.

But that assumes there wouldn't be fires all across the city. People would start fires, and with no fire department...

I really liked The Road by Cormac McCarthy. About seven years after the disaster, the man and his son were pushing around a shopping cart. Food was gone and people were eating each other. It was chaos on a level which is unimaginable, what you do when there is no hope.
 
The term prepper has kind of taken on an ominous meaning i probably shouldnt have used that term. I do feel if i ever felt the need to go as far overboard as some of the people on the prepper tv show have Id just eat my 45 and get it over with. the bunker building and storing food for years of subsistance doesnt appeal to me. having enough food and water and misc suppleis for a few weeks seems to make sense to me any way. but when i lived in the bay area i always kept spare suppies just incase of an earthquake and temporaryu loss of services. oh one thing for sure got to stock up on TP! very important i hadnt even thought of that. I do also have a pool about 16k gallons of nicley clorinated water that probably is cleaner than what comes out our taps in SAC. i got filtration equipment so thats not a problem.in reading further i realized im way ahead of the curve here ive got lots of paracord! my intent was actually to use it to hang looters with once they are done in kind of like hanging dead Coyotes from your fence to keep the others away like they do in Texas. Now using TP as currency i guess its time to stop by food for less and buy a couple carts full and all this time i thought we needed to Hoard gold and silver. Barf is a real learning experience every day.
 
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You know, I just realized that the spaghetti in my Alpine Aire freeze-dried Spaghetti and Marinara is actually made out of paracord. :|
 
5 gallons water
1 case bottled water
7 tubes toothpaste
4 toothbrushes
4 packs moist wipes
8 rolls toilet paper
2 cans beans
4 cans raviolis
.5 pound rice
5 gal pump 87
3 gal premix
x rounds 175 gr BTHP
x rounds 147 gr FMJ
x rounds 77 gr BTHP
x rounds 69 gr BTHP
x rounds 62 gr M855
x rounds 55 gr M193
x rounds 185 gr LRN
x rounds 180 gr JHP
x rounds 180 gr FMJTC
x rounds 180 gr LTC
x rounds 170 gr LRN
x rounds 160 gr LRN
x rounds 147 gr JHP
x rounds 147 gr FMJTC
x rounds 124 gr JHP
x rounds 121 gr JFP
x rounds 40 gr RN
x rounds 12 pellet #00B
x rounds 9 pellet #00B
x rounds 16 pellet #1B
x rounds 1 1/8 oz #8
x rounds 1 1/8 oz #7.5
x rounds 1 1/8 oz #4
x rounds 1 oz slug
x pounds gunpowder
x large rifle primers
x small rifle primers
x small pistol primers
x empty cases
x bullets

I suck at prepping, but at least I'll starve or die of kidney failure with a clean ass and clean teeth.
 
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