Ever since the nuclear meltdown in Japan last year I've begun taking the numerous threats we face by man and nature more seriously. I'm not as prepared as I'd like to be but I am working on it, I'm also really getting a kick out of that "Doomsday Prepper" show on National Geographic.
So I am curious. How many of our bullshidoas are ready for the **** to hit the fan? Do you have an emergency survival kit? A bug out plan? How will you fare in a disaster than upends society and life as we know it? Will you survive the zombie apocalypse?
Tex
2/09/2012 3:02am,
Ever since the nuclear meltdown in Japan last year I've begun taking the numerous threats we face by man and nature more seriously. I'm not as prepared as I'd like to be but I am working on it, I'm also really getting a kick out of that "Doomsday Prepper" show on National Geographic.
So I am curious. How many of our bullshidoas are ready for the **** to hit the fan? Do you have an emergency survival kit? A bug out plan? How will you fare in a disaster than upends society and life as we know it? Will you survive the zombie apocalypse?
I have guns, knives, survival know-how, supplies, and gear... BUT... You cannot really defend against Mother Nature. You can only really run away and hide IF you happen to see it coming. Everything else you mentioned is trivial IMO.
Prone
2/09/2012 3:08am,
Yeah, exactly. Nature is the highest ranking predator and if **** hits the fan, mankind asked for it for ages. Mother nature > any survival kit.
WoodyCorpus
2/09/2012 3:25am,
When said **** **** hits said fan survival chances are mostly dictated by your location and the general scope of the event IMO. So all one can do is stock non-perishables and hope for the best.
jedtex88
2/09/2012 4:11am,
I do have a plan, but that really doesn't matter since I live in the oil refinery capital of the United States and we'll probably be the first to go up in smoke. I really hope it's in the initial blast. Radiation poisoning doesn't seem too pleasant.
sweepthelej
2/09/2012 5:30am,
Ever since the nuclear meltdown in Japan last year
Ok, first of all, there was a nuclear meltdown, yes. But not one single person died. There will in all likelihood be zero measurable long-term health effects of the disaster.
The earthquake/ tsunami that caused the crisis at the plant, however, killed between 15 and 20,000 people. Inside a nuclear power plant can therefore in all seriousness be said to be one of the safest places to be during a natural disaster or zombie apocalypse.
Seriously though, take off the tinfoil hat, chill out and enjoy your life. If Mother Nature does have it in for you there is pretty much **** all you can do about it.
Prone
2/09/2012 5:37am,
No one died from radiation, Sweep? Really? Long-term health effects will be there (radiation has always caused a lot of ****, remember Tschernobyl?). Also: The workers who tried to prevent more **** from happening are on death row now. So inside a plant for the Apokalypse? Naw...
Tranquil Suit
2/09/2012 5:57am,
Lava running through the living room?
Pull your feet up and drink a cold one.
LIKE A BOSS
Also this: http://www.tarusov.blogspot.com/2012/01/apocalypse-tomorrow-2012-calendar.html
(someone posted this last week)
gregaquaman
2/09/2012 6:11am,
As we tend to have natrual disasters. Yes I do take them seriously. I have even joined these guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oaKtovw_5I
jedtex88
2/09/2012 7:05am,
No one died from radiation, Sweep? Really? Long-term health effects will be there (radiation has always caused a lot of ****, remember Tschernobyl?). Also: The workers who tried to prevent more **** from happening are on death row now. So inside a plant for the Apokalypse? Naw...
Here's a little food for thought on Fukshima.
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/01/24/fukushima-update-why-we-should-still-be-worried/
Chili Pepper
2/09/2012 9:27am,
I've been slowly working on pocket-sized/Altoid tin first-aid kits and survival kits, as well as a bug out bag, partly as a mental exercise in preparedness, but also because it's just a Damn Good Idea.
Even if it's something as simple as there's a fire in your apartment building, and you're forced to evacuate but will be able to return in a day or so, you should be prepared. Do you really want to have to grab spare contact lenses, medications and clean underwear while listening to a blaring fire alarm?
"In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway."
Devil
2/09/2012 9:38am,
I have mixed feelings about the whole prepping thing.
I have extra food stored. I have guns. I have LOTS of ammo, lots of camping supplies, pretty solid survival skills, etc. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about "doomsday" though.
Just a word to the prepping nutters out there....Focus on food preservation and farming capabilities. Everybody thinks they're going to survive by hunting. That's unrealistic. First of all, if a situation arises where everyone has to hunt, game will become scarce. Secondly, if you can't preserve the meat it will rot before you can eat it all so you'd need to have a successful hunt every few days.
I can't really justify spending gobs of my life worrying about some future catastrophic event that most likely won't happen. However, I do admit there is a slim chance something extreme enough could happen where only the most well prepared, obsessed preppers could survive.
So, I won't knock you crazy motherfuckers since there's a slight possibility you bastards could be the future of mankind. I just can't be one of you.
Bneterasedmynam
2/09/2012 10:30am,
Ok, first of all, there was a nuclear meltdown, yes. But not one single person died. There will in all likelihood be zero measurable long-term health effects of the disaster.
The earthquake/ tsunami that caused the crisis at the plant, however, killed between 15 and 20,000 people. Inside a nuclear power plant can therefore in all seriousness be said to be one of the safest places to be during a natural disaster or zombie apocalypse.
Seriously though, take off the tinfoil hat, chill out and enjoy your life. If Mother Nature does have it in for you there is pretty much **** all you can do about it.
I think we can all agree nothing good can come of a radioactive meltdown in Japan: http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news/19827/_1280162644.jpg In all seriousness though if the people running that plant had bothered to maintain it or follow the safety protocols a good number of problems could have been prevented. To those fucktards I offer this advise: http://renaissanceronin.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/hari-kari.jpg
Bad Apple
2/09/2012 10:43am,
Location location location. My principle threat would be tornadoes where I live and provided you survive the initial hit there isn't much to worry about as far as life and limb goes.
I like my chances in the necropocalypse too. If you're anywhere near a high population area evacuation is hard to accomplish and you face a bigger threat from other survivors that want your stuff.
For the people who stockpile their own houses I would remind you of an old Richard Pryor joke about white people that built bomb shelters during the Cold War :
"That's great and all but ...what if you ain't home when they drop the bomb ? What if you're on vacation ? Standing there on the hotel balcony with everyone else looking at a big mushroom cloud thinking 'Ain't that some **** ?' "
The only true measure of preparedness is the skill set you carry around at all times. How can you obtain or fabricate the necessary gear with whatever junk happens to be on hand. Disaster is unlikely to strike while you're shopping at Cabela's.
Devil
2/09/2012 11:17am,
Location location location. My principle threat would be tornadoes where I live and provided you survive the initial hit there isn't much to worry about as far as life and limb goes.
I like my chances in the necropocalypse too. If you're anywhere near a high population area evacuation is hard to accomplish and you face a bigger threat from other survivors that want your stuff.
For the people who stockpile their own houses I would remind you of an old Richard Pryor joke about white people that built bomb shelters during the Cold War :
"That's great and all but ...what if you ain't home when they drop the bomb ? What if you're on vacation ? Standing there on the hotel balcony with everyone else looking at a big mushroom cloud thinking 'Ain't that some **** ?' "
The only true measure of preparedness is the skill set you carry around at all times. How can you obtain or fabricate the necessary gear with whatever junk happens to be on hand. Disaster is unlikely to strike while you're shopping at Cabela's.
To be fair, I think you underestimate the serious prepper and the lengths some of them go to in order to be prepared at all times. It's borderline insane, but there are people who really are "prepared at all times" for any forseeable event.
sweepthelej
2/09/2012 11:18am,
No one died from radiation, Sweep? Really? Long-term health effects will be there (radiation has always caused a lot of ****, remember Tschernobyl?). Also: The workers who tried to prevent more **** from happening are on death row now. So inside a plant for the Apokalypse? Naw...
Yes I remember Chernobyl. I have visited the site (the other reactors were in operation until 2000). Around 50 people killed. Large numbers of children affected with thyroid cancer (not nice but normally easily treatable)
