Some time after Nov 3

If it really gets bad many will die. If you have a place with food out in the country and think you can defend it, you’re going to be surprised when about 100 to 200 heavily armed show up as a horde working together. That’s after watching you from long distance a day or two and then sniping the head of the household. They will just take everything you have and move on.

I also never understood the fear of not having toilet paper. There are ok alternatives just using soap and water.

Well not a box set, it just asked me to add all three to my cart at the same time LOL.


But here are the links in order.

One Second After
One Year After
The Final Day

Lights Out

Yep. We'll make it. I hope there are no intruders but we'll make it.

Thanks, i'm stacking hay so you and janie have separate spaces to house your family's during the zombie apocalypse

rc it's easy to stock those in calm times same with generators and fuel

Im not thinking about making it through a month without, im thinking the end of the world as we know it.

Most on here cant get their lawnmower to run after it sat with gas in it for a month lol yeah wonder how stock piling gas and a generator is going to work out. Hope yall like grasshopers.

True enough and you must be capable of defending your declared hunting land.....

Good advice here. Read the book, it will be life changing

An EMP would likely result in a 90+ percent die rate here in America

Most will die from drinking impure water

Most will not make it long enough to starve to death

Water. Water. Water and multiple ways to purify it.

JMHO

Walmart, obviously.

To be honest, I am buried so deep in the city getting out would be a challenge. I do have a trailer and could live off the grid for awhile. I know how to survive. Problem is 98% of the land is privately owned in Texas. It would be difficult to find a place to "squat" without getting shot at or asked to get off the property. Do need natural resources, living in far west Texas or New Mexico with little water or much game would not be smart move.

Does make me wonder.

Exactly why I tell my wife we will not sell my place in the country. I have some pristine well water that is so cold you can fill a pool with it and have to wait 2 days before it's warm enough to get in it. We got water and a green house that I'm working on. There is plenty of game for the time being. Grandma showed us how to live off the land even when she lived 2 miles from the city limits.

Bugging out or bunkering in place will be a tough decision for many folks.
Just look what a hurricane does to the roadways as folks try to evacuate.
In a grid down scenario (non EMP) the roads will be a vary dangerous place I do believe.

you might want to think about that first month, most people won't make it that long if it truly hits the fan.

no one has a fool proof plan after that, that's when you start to adapt to your new world.

Payne is right. After a month, most of population is gone, and you will have groups getting together for common defense and survival, and then other groups getting together to take what the first groups have. Just have to survive the first month...

TXHOGSLAYER is going to be a real life Leeroy Jenkins..

The idea of living off the land sounds good, but in reality won’t work so well. Back when my Mom was alive, she loaned me a book that was written by a woman in the 1930’s. She lived near us in a big run-down plantation home, and I knew her when she was a very old woman. The book was memoirs of her life in the 30’s, before WWII. Since I knew her, the book was particularly interesting, but there were parts that were a shock to me. The shock was about food. They hunted and fished hard, and ate what they could get. Squirrels, turtles, deer, the occasional rabbit. The place where they were trying to survive was where I grew up, along the Mississippi River in NE Louisiana. When I grew up, game was extremely plentiful, but it had been hunted to near extinction during the Great Depression. Reading the book clarified something my Grandfather had told me, which was his helping to reintroduce deer to the area, since there were none at that time due to food demands. I don’t know when the reintroduction happened, and I didn’t know at the time why deer needed to be brought in.

When I was a teenager, I remember a compliment that an old black lady (Blanche Johnson) used to use. She worked for the family for over 50 years, and helped raise me. We loved her and she was family. The compliment was, and I can still hear her say it, “Lawd, you so fat and fine”. She had lived through the Depression, and there were no fat people apparently. Being fat and fine, to her, was the best possible way to be. When I was older, and brought my wife-to-be home to meet my family, Blanche really liked her and told her “Lawd, you so fat and fine”, and my girlfriend took it to mean she was fat. That didn’t go so well, but we got past it.

So, if the hard times come again, you won’t need to diet.

How many will be able to last a week without their phone?

They'll probably last longer than than it takes for the billion-posters heads to explode because their computers are shut down.

Good stuff sir.

We recently had a thread on THF about your momma's cooking. Most wouldn't even eat liver and onions.

'Can't remember where I read it, but it was a lengthy description of a Texas hill country woman's life before electricity. It made the man's job working in the field look like a walk in the park. I've been in a German homestead kitchen, without a/c, with the wood stove going...in August; getting ready to cook what we cut off the lambs. (You sheep farmers correct me if August is too late to cut. It's been 50 years, but I do know it was hotter'n hell.) I heard my momma callin' (our place was next door).

That article made me realize why, although he was as crooked as a dog's hind leg, LBJ was considered a god to some, ushering in the rural electric cooperatives.

Wonder if you can still buy C-Rats?

a lot of good reading in this topic ... and I can relate to some of it. Both of my parents were raised thru the depression and knew exactly what hard times were. I grew up hearing about some of the hard ships they lived thru during their earlier years.

Water would be likely my biggest concern ... glad I have artisan springs on my place. Several haven't been dry since the late 1800s when the earliest records reflect a stage coach stop about 3 days ride outside of Austin heading towards Abilene.