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reply posted on 4-2-2010 @ 07:12 PM by lilwolf
first off... you breach a very good point... Now after you have crawled out from under the rubble or whatever, there is a normal part of all humans that needs companionship... okay making whoopee is later on but it would eventually happen.... on to other things:

You are going to always need food, shelter, water and weapons... If you actually know what to look for there is an abundance of each of those around...

safety is always (would be) going to be an issue that demands the utmost in attention from you...

when you do meet up with other people..remember that the dregs of society have survived as well... choosing the right people to be around or to have in your newly founded group is going to be left up to you... what are you going to be striving for? A sense of normalacy? perhaps, but it is going to take work and hard effort to bring anything back to a sense of "what once was".

It will not be a simple thing of waiting on the government to come and take care of you..you and your happy new found friends are all on your own... you will have to kill or die where you are.

setting up a safe community means that whatever comes your way, ...if hostile...it dies on the spot, ask questions later. All of the so called compassion people have will be basically by the way side, and it will literally be survival of the fittest..

never consider it an easy chore and do not think that just because you and your band of followers have staked out a piece of ground that it is always going to be safe...it won't!!!
While you are rebuilding, the criminal element and the scum of the earth will be growing out side of your area, and like it or not you will either fight them off or die where you are...

nuff said.... think hard and start prepping for a bumpy ride because i believe it is not to far off..


reply posted on 4-2-2010 @ 08:23 PM by gwydionblack
Well... first things first, leave the mating to the others would be my prerogative. I have never had desires or will for procreation, call me weird, but that is just how I am.

Instead, my focus will be on preserving what humanity there is left, starting with my family and known locals. My town has a population of 6-10k people and for the most part I know the populace. I would prepare them already, however, it is a sad truth that the people I have met in my area are so close minded they would need a nuke to land in their back yard for their "situation" to change.

So sadly, my first focus, will be rounding up the people I know who will be beneficial to building society and help form a lasting society. I wouldn't be too picky, as long as you are willing to pull your weight, keep complaining to a minimum, and don't think yourself above anyone else, then you are alright with me.

Mating at this point would be be something I would forbid. Not only would reproducing in a small, depleted society put one helpful individual out of action for 9+ months, but it would add another mouth to feed and take care of, and at such a young age in such conditions, that is no simple task. If the people are too animalistic to forgo their usual mating rituals then they can accomplish that on their own time in their own group.


Once a group is arranged and people are assigned tasks, security becomes the mail detail. There is no off time for security, there is no lax in the guard patrol, security is the MOST important aspect of maintaining the civility of the group. Every single person must be armed, and nobody ever leaves our borders by themselves or they do it at their own risk.

Everyone who isn't securing our defined "area", will be left to work on establishing a compound consisting of however many buildings it takes. There is so much to think about and establish, however, it would be mostly more of the same as the survival techniques that have been discussed on here countless times.


reply posted on 4-2-2010 @ 08:26 PM by calcoastseeker
Depends how you describe survived.

The day after,the week after,a year?

It is like the Haiti earthquake.A lot died from it but thousands more will die from it and its after effects.

How long will they count the victims?

Read this book if just for the entertainment value.
Earth Abides

It is still in print and you should be able to pick it up as a paperback.

Earth Abides, a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Berkeley English professor George R. Stewart, tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. Beginning in the United States in the 1940s, it deals with Isherwood (Ish) Williams, Emma, and the community they founded. The survivors live off the remains of the old world, while learning to adapt to the new. Along the way they are forced to make tough decisions and choose what kind of civilization they will rebuild.






[edit on 4-2-2010 by calcoastseeker]


reply posted on 11-2-2010 @ 01:43 PM by lilwolf
reply to post by redgy



actually after the first initial blow of any magnitude... MP's and cops are going to be leaving the area very quickly... they (many do) have families to look after and they are in the very same boat as all the rest... door to door stuff would not be started at first... that would initially be committed by the urchins of the city. All cities have that element of people..

Oh they might try a mass evac, but the chances of it being pulled off with any amount of success because of people already leaving would be very slim... and very dangerous.

but once you do make it out... then we as survivors would be pretty much on our own... to struggle, reform law abiding communities, set up common sense laws and actually enforce them...
and hope against all hope that the government could eventually get on its feet again... but remember that if it is a serious enough SHTF scenario... there will be no govt. for a very long time.... so in that context people who are armed will fight to stay alive... All the people that refuse to handle a gun for what ever reason are going to be the first to go... religious people better make peace before it all starts, especially if they are of the frame of mind that "God will provide"..... Those people I actually feel somewhat sorry for because they are pure food for the criminal ellement...

The situation would be like nothing any of us can imagine... the criminal element will have guns (as they always do) and they will rob, pillage, rape, loot and kill...

As bad as it sounds a beautiful woman will be prime merchandise...and they will be hunted down... slave markets will open up again...and worse.

Now the best part of it is this... from all of that millions will rise up and they will get together in small bands and later into larger ones and the shortest trials in history will take place...

but america will rebuild, it might not be the same as it was.... but it will be smarter and wiser and one hell of alot tougher on a great many things...and perhaps that is way over due...
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