Beyond the Apocalypse; Surviving in the next Dark Age, page 7

Originally posted by whatukno
Ah yes, you can prepare for SIT X all you like but unless you have a long term strategy beyond survival in the upcoming new dark ages your preparedness is all for naught. What happens when you use up the supplies you stored in your BOB? What happens when you run out of ammo? Can you take wheat and make bread? Can you distill your own Biofuels? Can you make your own penicillin? Do you know how to forge steel? Do you know how to rebuild your own civilization?

These questions must be asked because without the necessary knowledge one can only prepare so much. The aftermath of the end of our civilization isn’t necessarily the end of humanity. Humanity will survive, the question is, who knows enough about survival in order to survive the end of this age and the beginning of the new dark age?

So what’s your answer? Do you know?

Let us break down the questions posed here and see what we can collectively learn for ourselves, and collectively know what to do after TSHTF.

1. What happens when you use up the supplies you stored in your BOB?

Depends on how bad SITX gets. learn how to search homes or other buildings for what you need.
You may be able to get weapons and ammo from the criminal element if you can waste them. This is where a bow and arrows come in handy.
Also you have military bases. police evidence lockers. gun stores.
gun owners that did not make it.
searching homes and building of those people that did not survive should be your first priority. get what you can and hide it near by where you can retrieve it later.
The first place you want to check is your local fire department for tools that you can use to enter building or weapons and ammo storage lockers.
They have all the fancy tools for rescue that are just what you will need.

2. What happens when you run out of ammo?

if you start early in looking for the weapons of those that did not survive it should give you a large supply of ammo and weapons.

4. Can you distill your own Biofuels?

Do you know how to make grain alcohol to use as a fuel? Do you know how to make a generator out of a lawnmower engine? Can you make a small hydroelectric dam? Do you know how to make a light bulb?

Find a diesel car or truck, You can if you have to run it on many more types of fuel the a gasoline car or truck.
diesels can be run on crankcase draining that have been filtered transmission fluids, kerosene, jet fuel. plus diesel and these other "fuels" store longer then gasoline.
Also learn how to get fuel from underground tanks.
Many you can get the fuel by putting water in the tank. remember gasoline and diesel fuel float on water.

5. Can you make your own penicillin?

Remember when you are searching the home and building of the dead to look for medications of those that did not survive and stockpile these for your own use or as trade items.
Even OTC drugs will become good trade items in a short time.

6. Do you know how to forge steel?

Or more easily, do you know how to recycle steel into weapons, tools, armor, and the myriad of other conveniences that this base alloy provides?

I worked in the small mining busness making equipment and forging steel was a needed skill.

7. Do you know how to rebuild your own civilization?

Do you know how to make a basic shelter, an advanced shelter, a house? Do you know how to dig a well? Raise livestock? Grow food?

Learn how to build a fortified shelter in a SITX there will be "bad people" out there.