To be a bit jealous of the Doomsday Preppers?

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Watching a show about it on National Geographic.

They are SO prepared.

I want a secret Doomsday Shelter in the country, with stockpiles of food and water.

I am seriously considering stockpiling tinned beans and bottled water when the next offer comes on in Sainsburys...

The problem with preparing for an Apocalypse is that you really need to know what sort of collapse of civilisation is on the cards.

There's buggerall point in relying on the garden/hedgerows/fields for food if there's been a nuclear war - or at least if you live in the fallout zone.

Equally, it's pointless to assume you are going to drive yourself to safety from an urban area since everyone else will have the same idea and the roads will be jammed and impassable.

I still think stockpiling skills is the most useful option. I can shoot, skin animals and start fires to cook them over. I've also got a Very Heavy Shovel in the garage to bash Zombie brains out.

Although in truth, not allowing yourself to be panicked by the paranoid Doomsday Preppers (many of whom are utterly bonkers) is probably the best course of action.

I'm secretly quite jealous of preppers as well. We have enough food in our flat for about a week, I reckon, if we ate every single last thing in the freezer and in tins/ packets but I haven't specifically prepped. We do have a lot of camping gear including about three of those plastic water carriers so I could stockpile tap water fairly quickly. Would need water purifying tablets though.

But, as others have said, what are you prepping for?

In the majority of doomsday scenarios and even with an energy crisis there would very quickly be no pumped water, I think, so it would be a good idea to stockpile carrier bags or small receptacles in which to hygienically deal with bodily waste.

Much as I think it'd be difficult to escape from an urban area in any sort of motorised vehicle, there's no doubt that when civilisation collapses the safest (so far as disease is concerned) place to be is in the countryside.

There's likely to be fresh water and certainly, in the absence of organised waste disposal, you can dig latrine trenches and burn rubbish. You only need to see the aftermath of natural disasters to realise that once water supplies and sewage systems stop functioning, very nasty (and often fatal) illnesses quickly establish themselves.

I think if you're in an urban area,the best bet is to move before the hordes have put two and two together.
Either that or time your bug out for in between the initial evacuation of urban areas and the second wave when hunger,disease and lack of food forces the remaining population out.

People who live in the more ideal circumstances need to think about either defending what they have or bugging out to an even better location......

I meant violence,disease and lack of food....

Does anyone remember those terrifying Protect and Survive nuclear war public information films from the '80s? The ones where they brilliantly advised that propping a door up against a wall in your house would protect you against fallout? They terrified me. And don't even get me started on Threads.

Am now sitting in the corner, rocking back and forth and muttering to myself.

Oh my. Oh me oh my. I have become COMPLETELY distracted reading prepper stuff today, mainly on UK Prepppers.

I have done almost zero work and have pretty much got myself into a state of wibbling PANIC that I AM SIMPLY NOT PREPARED FOR ANYTHING!!!

WAH!

ChairmanWow Yes! And I saw the BBC 80's film Threads a few weeks ago for the first time.. utterly terrifying

i have both those 80's films on vhs, the US version 'the day after' and 'threads'. threads is far more hard hitting whilst the american equivelent is equally terrifying really although for me NOTHING beats the fear of The Road.

Oh god, The Road. I've seen it not read it. Couldn't speak for some time after coming out of the cinema. On the basis of my reaction to that film it's the voddy and pills option for me.