silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

Survival.......have you ever given any consideration about what you would or could do????
Here's links with information others have provided you might want to peruse.


http://astore.amazon.com/citysurvi-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=60

http://www.survivaloutdoorskills.com/

How To Start Prepping: Top Ten List
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXSV5LXVrqE&feature=related


10 Survival Tips that will Get you Killed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db6v7YGizPk&feature=related

Bug-Out Bag - Run for the Hills and Survive!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1H7fo6zUTE&feature=related

Complete Preparedness Guide For a Get Home or Bug Out Vehicle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JpEa-E02oI&feature=related


Ranger Rick's Budget Survival Kit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMjP5wltARo&feature=related
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Life Gear's Life Pack Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd_pCXZWATE&feature=fvwrel

Life Gear's Life Pack Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVobogTrUCo&feature=relmfu

Life Gear's Life Pack Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GwZXshanpE&feature=relmfu
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Life Gear Bottle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDaSrwant8Y&feature=relmfu
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THE 10 ESSENTIAL ITEMS TO SURVIVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYo4HdTNZ80&feature=relmfu
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Web Gear Kit-Minimal Survival Kit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2NqhJY6pE&feature=related
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Bug Out Bag, Get Home Bag, Survival Bag: My first attempt at a BOB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWwK40DmBKI&feature=related
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Ultimate Survival Get Out of Dodge BOB Bug Out Bag NOT the bare minimum 72 hour kit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxNBwd9W_ck&feature=related
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Modern Day Survivalist EDC and First YouTube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4_xj8Q2GyY&feature=related

ward5311 Loc: Georgia

I'm always amazed by these "survivalists" that think these tactics will work and seem to forget the most important thing. Yes you can store goods or grow a remote garden, but that will succumb to one thing. The animal instinct to survive by others. If faced with starvation have you ever considered what a mother or father would do to feed their children? Yes you can arm yourself and kill some but they will keep coming until you run out of ammo or you will be overrun. Would you really shoot someone begging for food? You will eventually become the food. There are a lot of moral issues to consider. You are also making the assumption that some would care to survive. You cannot hide from an apocalypse. No movie I know has shown the reality of the issue.

silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

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You're 100% correct....I was just perusing these links and thought it would be "food-for-thought" and to show how some of these folks really think....this link, which is included above, had some good "pointers".....

10 Survival Tips that will Get you Killed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db6v7YGizPk&feature=related

Artsmith Loc: Grayson, Georgia

There was a very interesting book by
William R. Forstchen named "One Second After" which poses the question of what would happen if a EMF attack succeeded against the US. In the book all electronic devices were disabled and the chaos thet followed. Story takes place outside Ashville,NC in the foothills. Great read couldn't put it down. No communications, no power,only vehicles that worked were made before the 70's. No banking, food supply was shut down. awsome read.

Roger Hicks Loc: Aquitaine

See also "Malevil" by Robert Merle. All the more interesting for not being set in the United States. See http://www.amazon.com/Malevil-Robert-Merle/dp/0446796859

Cheers,

R.

xseabee Loc: Northern California; Northern, Colorado

This all reminds me of the TV series "Jericho"(canceled), which ran from 2006 t0 2008. I thought that was a fairly good account of what would happen in the US in the event of a nuclear attack. Any one remember that show?

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

God took care of his "First Survival Family" (Noah's). Does anyone think they can out-survive what is coming?

Artsmith Loc: Grayson, Georgia

Actually no! I will already have met my God by then and hope he finds me worthy.

gym Loc: Athens, Georgia

If such a thing were to occur, we have only two choices.

"Try not. Do or do not, there is no try."
Yoda

twowindsbear

Read "Alas Babylon"

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

I am satisfied with handling day to day, no time for the other foolishness.

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

How about #11
Come in my house without an invitation.

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

Just let us know before it gets here.

AUminer Loc: Brandon, Ms

Good Read.Makes you look at yourself and judge how you would react.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

There's a show on cable called "Doomsday Preppers" and sometimes the ideas so-called survivalists have are so stupid you can't believe they can't see how stupid. Somebody puts a garden, or piled up survival packaged foods under a tarp, in their drained swimming pool and thinks they're ready. Somebody has a rented storage space several blocks from their city apartment and thinks they're going to drive the family there and stock up to leave town if something bad happens. Where are they going? Isn't everybody else going to be doing the same thing? No plan...

Yet there are some who buy underground missile silos that were abandoned by the government and build 6,000 square foot luxury homes full of years of supplies 40 stories below the ground surface and have built in generation, plumbing, wells, etc. that could literally sustain them in a invasion-proof environment for years. Others are having custom-built underground steel homes built that can withstand virtually any intrusion attempt. But they put their generator and other utilities like water pump above ground where they can be stolen easily.

The question though is still - how long will the bad event you survived continue making ground level uninhabitable and when you run out of stuff, then what?

My brother has semi-prepared for about 6 months of off-grid isolation in case of economic collapse with packaged foods and some water and a low rpm diesel generator with additional solar panels connected to a digital control system to store power in a batch of marine batteries and run major appliances, the water pump, TV and radio, a few lights, etc. He has plenty of diesel fuel and feels he could exist with no outside contact for 6 months or so. He also has an array of guns for self-protection.