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Originally posted by stikkinikki
How many will be killed by the very trees they are chopping down or hit by widow makers as they fall?
Originally posted by stikkinikki
Just imagine making a fire. Knowing what wood to use and what wood not to use (mountain laurel) and how to make a small fire that will not attract attention or use up all resources.
Originally posted by Nirgal
Just imagine making a fire. Knowing what wood to use and what wood not to use (mountain laurel) and how to make a small fire that will not attract attention or use up all resources.
Originally posted by stikkinikki
Originally posted by Cariaddi
I'm gonna create a dug-out or something in my back yard to store food and figure out some water source and then hid it
Originally posted by exile1981
I live on the Canadian Prairies and here is how I have thought out about the issue of the hoards.
Assume a city of 1 million (ease of math)
Assume it's summer time
54% of the people in that city will be out of food and water in 3 days, of those over half will sit and wait until it's too late. So 25% of the city will be looking to flee and find food if they don't see gov't help coming shortly.
So you have a group of about 250k leaving the city after 3 days till about 1 week. Of those about 50k will be on foot as they have no access to a vehicle. of the remaining 200k they will get on average about 50km to 150km from the city before running out of gas.
The ones on foot will drink from ditches and any other water source they find, at first most will beg for food but as time goes on they will get desperate and start stealing and looting/murdering to get what they need.
Assuming this group spreads out evenly from the city that means about 12k heading each cardinal direction. The smart ones will follow rivers out of the city as it means access to water. They will start out in small family groups and then join up for protection but as time goes on will break up over food access and the speed indivuals are walking. These people will be lucky to make 15km per day. It will take them at least a week to walk 100km and unless they have been lucky they will be weak when they get there. Also by the time they get out to the 100km mark they will have spread out a fair bit and will be in small groups again.
The the larger group in vehicles will have to start walking at the 100km (average) point depending on how much fuel they keep in there vehicles. They will also head out of the city pretty equally, so 50k heading any one direction. They will stick to the major highways at first but as traffic backs up will spread out onto smaller roads etc. They will be in one or two car caravans (mostly extended families). As the run out of fuel they will stop at small towns and isolated farms along the highways to try and get more fuel. If that fails they will start walking, given the fact many of hese people are not used to long distance walks they will try and take everything they stuffed into there vehicles with them and will be lucky to make 5-10 km/day. Within a few days they will be eating grass and drinking from ditches. They will already be short on food when they left and will be desperately trying to beg/borrow or steal what they need to survive. Unless they find food many will not make it more than 50km from the point they started walking.
So given this logic I figure the best place to be is not on a major river leading from a city (or at least 150km away), plus you should be at least 5km off of a major highway to avoid the worst of the drive by types and still be 100km or more from a city.
Originally posted by funny_pom
Just to re-inform the readers, there are no electronic devices period. No means of government preparedness can be put to use without communication equipment
Thank you FP
But you are right about food and water being separate Penguin, it is something i have approached that way too (take a look at the food thread, link is in OP)
Thats not valid upon further investigation
although there might be plenty of water in a city, especially one in a temperate or cool climate, access to it will be limited. if there are no working water mains, one might have to travel some distance to find a running water source, i.e. a stream, river, lake or whatever the case might be.
That wont be a problem.
food will also spoil if all measures of preservation have failed, so that will reduce available stocks dramatically. See here for the thread on this topic
It will happen in waves if you walk two days your by a lake or a cow or a wheat field.
As for large population movement, it will not happen on a grand scale until a month after zero hour at the minimum. Movement within an urban area will occur constantly however, particulary out of the central, high density regions of an urban centre into the surrounding suburban sprawl.
for more in such movements, there is this topic: www.abovetopsecret.com...