The Best Building, page 1

reply to post by 2Resistance

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I'm surprised you haven't gotten any responses yet, so I will offer my 2 cents. There are far better military minds on here than me though!

The building will depend on a lot of factors. This is true even in a rural setting.

Elevation gives you a good vantage point, easily defensible position, with good range, but it also makes you vulnerable to air strikes and prevailing winds in the case of radiation.

Basements or underground give you a highly defensible position and a lot of protection from weather, radiation, aerial searches, etc., but you are vulnerable to floods, and it is a difficult position to mount an offensive from.

It's going to be necessary to make do with whatever is available. Each location has its pros and cons. You want to be aware of the entrances and exits and be able to secure or restrict them as much as possible. You want to be near resources if possible. You want to be undetectable if possible. You want to have several possible avenues of retreat.

In "The Day After Tomorrow," a movie which I did not like, but the library made a great stronghold! A lot of government buildings probably would make good locations. The older Churches with basements and bell towers have some obvious qualities, but a new-age church is probably not secure at all.

If you live in a small apartment in a large building, you should probably plan on leaving that building, because the people around you will be dangerous, and your apartment will be difficult to secure, and it won't have any good escapes!

“Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man”

-General George S. Patton

Of course it’s best to be mobile in case a greater force happens to come upon you, but if you don’t have the recourses to be mobile then a monolithic dome is probably your best bet. If I had the scratch I’d have one of these baby’s up in the mountains of eastern OK. Preferably with one underground dome secreted away.

www.monolithic.com...

reply to post by T_Clem

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Precisely. So why are people running around like some Action movie when you can poop at home? All your stuff is there.

To abandon everything and take refuge someplace else when it is unnecessary, with the minimal -or even engaging in the logistics nightmare of moving everything- seems a little ridiculous.

Besides you also encounter the possibility of some other slightly psychotic individuals with more firepower running into you. Malls, Grocery stores, Wal-Marts are all places with which the unprepared flock to -and chances are some of them are armed.

Schools, Hospitals, Churches are places where the government likes to put the displaced. When I'm worried about eating, the last group I want to encounter are angry, displaced, poor people who have nothing to lose when the government abandons them. Succinctly, they're dead if they don't rob you.

Office buildings and high-rises don't sound too nice either as water must be pumped to the top floors, and what will you eat after the vending machines are gone?

So really, unless your neighborhood is being burned down, what's the point of leaving? Get the neighbors together, sit tight, and make the best of the situation.

reply to post by T_Clem

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The very fact that you are on this board indicates you shouldn't be going to the supermarket when SHTF.

If you really want to get into it, Supermarkets have always been the model of 'lean manufacturing' or "just-in-time inventory", so much so that they have very little on-hand inventory. Hence you always see those tractor-trailers pulling into them to make deliveries. When the deliveries cease to be made the shelves go empty.

More to the point, and I cannot emphasize this enough, is you will be competing with others for the same goods. Meaning that the stores are going to be empty of consumables within a few days anyway as people rush in, grab whatever is on the shelves and make their way to wherever they're going.

Trying to barricade yourself in and assume the inventory isn't a very good strategy as you are now the obstacle (read: target) between their survival and death.

You might be able to hold people off for some time, but eventually you will be breached and your loved ones will be raped and murdered.

Or you can stay home, let the unprepared kill each other as they compete for the places and resources available, and work your viable community plan.

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