Any "Preppers" Out There?

[IrishBryan77]

Bug out bags always make me wonder, where is everyone bugging out to??

I live in Michigan and have several secret spots in the deep woods of Northern michigan. That's my "plan" as of now. lol.

But I definitely don't have stockpiles of food laying around. Plenty of "MRE'S" though.

 

[OhioIrish]

I don’t have much to add, but this is definitely my new favorite thread. However, I was looking recently at maps simulating how nuclear fallout would progress across the continent, the takeaway is that you do not want to move north, definitely head south.

 

[NDRock]

I don’t have much to add, but this is definitely my new favorite thread. However, I was looking recently at maps simulating how nuclear fallout would progress across the continent, the takeaway is that you do not want to move north, definitely head south.

Oh great, more weirdos from the north moving down here. Just what we need.

 

[Henges24]

I live in a small close-knit semi-isolated town. People consist of farmers, energy, auto, and mostly hunters, each plot with a decent size of land, however very fuel dependent. Four ways in and out of town. I’d have to imagine in an apocalyptic time (barring nuclear fallout) we would stay pretty self efficient with some obvious issues within the population eventually. I picture walls and night watches like its Game of Thrones if we would make it. Of course, you never know how things play out would.

Something that has crossed my mind numerous times. Interesting stuff.

 

[ND87]

I don’t have much to add, but this is definitely my new favorite thread. However, I was looking recently at maps simulating how nuclear fallout would progress across the continent, the takeaway is that you do not want to move north, definitely head south.

Try it live ...

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.

nuclearsecrecy.com

 

[ND87]

When living in Utah, on a fault line, and on the fringe of blast radius... we did a minor bit of "prepping":
At least a week's worth of freeze dried meals (we hiked & camped so no bother), plus various canned goods, at least 10 gallons of potable water plus various juices, sodas etc., several cases of 1.5L Vodka, and a bugout bag with passports, credit cards, between 5-10k cash, some gold, copies of important papers (printed & on thumb drive) and another with water & first aid supplies. Never let the car's tank < 1/2 full. Have a plan of where to meet if something goes down while separated. Thought about guns at one point, but never uhmmm pulled the trigger.

 

[stlnd01]

Try it live ...

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.

nuclearsecrecy.com

Awesome. I live in a dense urban neighborhood within the "moderate blast radius" of a mid-sized nuke hitting downtown. I don't think prepping would do much good. Frankly my house is too small for much of that anyway. I'll just try and enjoy my life day-to-day.

 

[Punky]

My dad was Army G2 back in the 50s. He worked with the CIA guys on the U2 overflight programs and helped develop the bombing encyclopedias of what targets to hit, to be used in event of nuclear war. He said at that time, the US had enough warheads to hit something like the 300 largest cities in the Soviet Union, plus basically any major factory the made war material, rail hubs, hydro electric sites, etc. The Soviets had even more warheads than we did. When I was a kid, we lived in a small town with a big Caterpillar plant that made earth moving equipment, it was a couple miles away. He said if a war ever started, the Russkies probably had a warhead for that very factory, and we would be vaporized before we had a chance to do anything. So I don't prep.

 

[ND87]

My dad was Army G2 back in the 50s. He worked with the CIA guys on the U2 overflight programs and helped develop the bombing encyclopedias of what targets to hit, to be used in event of nuclear war. He said at that time, the US had enough warheads to hit something like the 300 largest cities in the Soviet Union, plus basically any major factory the made war material, rail hubs, hydro electric sites, etc. The Soviets had even more warheads than we did. When I was a kid, we lived in a small town with a big Caterpillar plant that made earth moving equipment, it was a couple miles away. He said if a war ever started, the Russkies probably had a warhead for that very factory, and we would be vaporized before we had a chance to do anything. So I don't prep.

Sure nukes are pretty much a no-won. But fire, flood, earthquake, civil unrest, yadda yadda...

 

[IrishBryan77]

My dad was Army G2 back in the 50s. He worked with the CIA guys on the U2 overflight programs and helped develop the bombing encyclopedias of what targets to hit, to be used in event of nuclear war. He said at that time, the US had enough warheads to hit something like the 300 largest cities in the Soviet Union, plus basically any major factory the made war material, rail hubs, hydro electric sites, etc. The Soviets had even more warheads than we did. When I was a kid, we lived in a small town with a big Caterpillar plant that made earth moving equipment, it was a couple miles away. He said if a war ever started, the Russkies probably had a warhead for that very factory, and we would be vaporized before we had a chance to do anything. So I don't prep.

What a cool story. Thank you for sharing and thanks to your pops for his service.

 

[IrishBryan77]

A majority of people will die within the first week of fear/panic.

Then the people that rely on GPS for EVERYTHING will die next most likely.

I'm lucky and fortunate in this type of situation as I have no wife/girlfriend/kids (YES all by choice). So I have no baggage.

My survival rating just skyrocketed. 🤣

 

[IrishBryan77]

I don’t have much to add, but this is definitely my new favorite thread. However, I was looking recently at maps simulating how nuclear fallout would progress across the continent, the takeaway is that you do not want to move north, definitely head south.

The people moving south is the whole reason I'm headed north. lmfao

 

[SDIrishFan]

The people moving south is the whole reason I'm headed north. lmfao

Kinda what I was thinking. I’m staying north. Unless it’s Yellowstone that blows, but I’m probably too close to do anything about that.

 

[Punky]

Sure nukes are pretty much a no-won. But fire, flood, earthquake, civil unrest, yadda yadda...

That is true. We had a big flood here about 30 years ago, no power for 72 hours, roads blocked. I don't remember it being a fearful time, we had bottled water, soda, cans of soup etc. Waited it out and things returned to normal after a time. The thing about most events are that they are localized. If there is a flood, fire or earthquake, you can usually go somewhere to shelter, you may not have a house, but you can go 40 miles in a direction somewhere to get assistance. Back for Y2K we got a Katadyn filter and a butane camp stove, never used it, still in the basement. Civil unrest, I don't know, you would never really know whom to trust, so that would be difficult to get through. I guess I would worry most about something like a solar flare/EMP pulse knocking out the power grid, or a meteor impact bringing a massive change in weather patterns.

 

[Bluto]

Sure nukes are pretty much a no-won. But fire, flood, earthquake, civil unrest, yadda yadda...

That’s kind of my prospective. Nobody on this board is gonna survive a major nuclear exchange and after watching one season of Alone I would put money on none of us surviving societal collapse on our own.

Having lived in California my entire life I’ve seen/lived through some pretty crazy wildfires, particularly in the last 5-10 years and my home is in the urban wildland interface. So yeah, I’m more about disaster preparedness.

Say all you want about the climate “hoax” or whatever but the impacts are already here and will be accelerating in the future.

One of the things the Midwest will begin to have to deal with on a much larger scale is an increased risk of wildfires due to drought and or tree die off.