Why You Should Always Be Prepared For A Survival Situation

Since the dawn of time there have always been rites of passage for men. In ancient times it may have been to hunt your first animal, or survive in the wilderness on your own. Generally they all meant the same thing: to be a man meant you are now able to provide and care for yourself. To acquire your own food, shelter, and handle your own problems. Nowadays this rite is often the moment your parents decide they can leave you at home by yourself without you burning the house down. And our first hunt for food by picking up a phone and ordering pizza.

Why Survivalism Is Needed

Now that we’re adults and have jobs and can just buy our food, we don’t see the need for learning the ancient arts of surviving in the wild. But to be a man you must be able to always fend for yourself and your family even during a disaster or national emergency. To be a man you can’t rely on the government or anyone else to come save you when a large-scale disaster strikes. And they don’t have the best track record when it comes to responding to large disasters.

How You Can Benefit

Survivalism isn’t all about living like the world is going to end any day, like a lot of mainstream media would have you believe. It’s the ability to bend nature to your will and make it work for you. It can be a very healthy lifestyle for modern men. Most men have, and still do, go camping. But next time you go, consider backpacking—putting everything you need for camping in one back pack and hike with it to your campsite. It’s a more fun workout than going to the gym, and you’ll have to plan out everything you’ll need on your trip. It also teaches you to be resourceful and innovative. If you backpack ten miles from your vehicle and then realize you left your fork and spoon in the car, you’ll have to improvise.

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Also, learning how to prioritize essentials is a skill that is useful in all aspects of our life. Taking only what is essential and not carrying any dead weight. The extreme backpackers even shave down their toothbrushes to 3 inches to save on weight and space in their pack. If everything you need for camping fits into one backpack it would save a lot of space in your garage, too.

There’s a sense of security in knowing that if you travel into the wilderness, far away from any other human being, you can survive on your own. Of course becoming a modern caveman doesn’t happen overnight. And Hollywood is full of examples of when it goes wrong (127 Hours, Into The Wild). Learning the basics of fire starting, water sanitizing, first aid, and trip planning are a must.

Survivalists prepare for dozens of different scenarios ranging from zombies to asteroids to if the Cubs lost the World Series and Chicago descended into anarchy—I know several people who canceled business trips or bunkered down during the series to avoid that scenario. And I don’t advocate for preparing for the end of the world or zombies. I advocate that men should know how to provide for themselves in the case of a devastating disaster. Near where I live a city the size of 160,000 people was hit by more than 3 inches of freezing rain one winter, knocking down power lines and trees and making roads dangerous. They didn’t descend into anarchy but they were without power for a week or more. Power was restored to the stores and you could buy necessities, for twice the price they were the week before. But power to most of the houses was off for a week or more.

A man should be able to know what to do when the water doesn’t flow out of the tap or the power doesn’t come back on for a week. How do you sterilize water if there’s a blackout during a boil order? And society is not as strong as we think. We all live in a trucking distribution economy. If the trucks stop moving the cities don’t have food. The trucking industry has been falling on hard times. If an oil crisis or economic crisis occurs and the trucks stop moving then the cities go without food. It’s been said that all cities are 3 days from bread lines and 7 days from cannibalism. Just look to the mess Venezuela is currently in. The people there resorted to eating feral dogs and pigeons.

Where You Can Start

Don’t go turning your Man Cave in to a prepper bunker by any means. I can’t understand why people buy a year’s worth of baked beans and hide them in their spare bedroom. Any situation involving a complete collapse of society necessitating you to rely on a years worth of baked beans means you have more serious problems to deal with than finding food. Who puts out the fires if society collapses? And how are you going to carry a pallet of baked beans? Keeping a week of extra food and supplies is all you need for most disasters and emergencies. And some basic camping gear. But most of all, learning skills and practicing them is required. Once you learn skills you never have to worry about leaving them in the car that’s at the bottom of the mountain you just climbed.

Food for thought

A lot of us living in the cities don’t have a lot of spare room in our apartments. To start being more prepared you don’t need much. A week of extra food, an independent cooker for food and sterilizing water (a barbecue grill works), extra hygiene products, and a few supplies. A food stash doesn’t have to be complex or exotic. A good rule would be ten cans each of vegetables, fruits, and meat, as well as carbs such as crackers and rice.

You can find a small water filter for backpackers that is smaller and cheaper than a flashlight for your drinking needs. And having extra toiletries such as toothpaste and soap also saves you from late night drives to the store for one item. Extra batteries for flashlights, radios, or other gadgets can be a lifesaver in an emergency as well as good bartering items.

By the way, the first items that are bartered for in an emergency are toilet paper, toothpaste and batteries. So if you don’t have something you can trade for it. Duct tape, a roll of gauze, and a small bottle of isopropyl alcohol can get you through basic medical needs, but you really need to know what you’re doing for the more advanced medical stuff. And lastly, you will need the skill and the will to defend your stash if the need arises. Remember you are prepping for yourself and not the looters.

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So as responsible adults, aka Men, we should take an interest in the survivalist movement and learn the skills of survival. With the way society is headed they may become useful.

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120 thoughts on “Why You Should Always Be Prepared For A Survival Situation”

  1. Remember: despite being weaker than us, women can always spread their legs for survival. This is why women don’t understand nor need ethnicities and nations. Men’s lives are much tougher than theirs. Each masculine man should have its own local tribe to better survive any disaster, invasion or political conflict. Roosh should set up global meetups ASAP.

    1. Its more about men working together. A society that is composed of men who have that concept ingrained as the most important virtue, is a society that cannot be broken.
      A society without any such concept, is a society that cannot be saved.
      Anyway, I agree. Having a group of like minded men who consider it important to create such groups for the social good, would be a huge step forward.

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      2. At the end of the day we are still competing for the most beautiful girls though so I think unless we could breed girls as cattle and that every man is entitled to his own harem of beautiful females I think total unconditional camaraderie is but a pipe dream.

        1. Yeah, I agree. It’s all good and well until a guy tries to poach my woman. And worse yet it he is a “friend”. Basically, trying to poach a guy’s woman in any way is saying “I don’t have to respect you”; and it’s grounds for immediate fisticuffs.

        2. We are also competing for air, water, and food. We dont see people hoarding vasts sums of water.
          When men work together to create a system that protects the rights of all men and looks out for the weaker members, things go ok.
          If you absolutely have to stick your dick in every woman you see, then eventualky a system that tolerates your behavior will either collapse, or it will choose to stop tolerating said behavior. The same as if you absolutely have to dump waste from your manufacturing plant in every source of clean water, or if you insist on cut throat monopolistic business practices, or the other extreme of using government to regulate everything, etc.
          Either you can work as brothers or you will eat each other up alive, and some other group of men who can figure it out will succeed.

        3. ” We dont see people hoarding vasts sums of water.”
          In dry countries people actually do exactly that.

        4. Attacking a man fo flirting with your fuckhole shows insecurity, that you think she will waver. You put her on a pedestol being willing to fight over glances. Guys should unite to beat down jealous BFs who start fights.

        5. It’s not about insecurity. It’s about respect. You don’t want to respect me, we box. End of story. Find your own fuckhole. However, after I’m done pounding your face in for being a disrespectful prick; she’s more than welcome to leave with you and help you put strips of steak on your black eyes… if she so chooses.

    2. “Remember: despite being weaker than us, women can always spread their legs for survival. This is why women don’t understand nor need ethnicities and nations. Men’s lives are much tougher than theirs.”
      Indeed. Women i.e. tits and ass are a mere commodity in the human existance. In any major conflict among men, team VAGINA steps back and lets them fight it out – and the group who is victorious is the one women assimilate and sleep with.
      Rarely do women die for their beliefs – aside from rare exceptions (Josef Goebbles wife for example) women just want to survive – and will do whatever it takes.

      1. ” In any major conflict among men, team VAGINA steps back and lets them fight it out – and the group who is victorious is the one women assimilate and sleep with.”
        It seems like this has been the case for every tribe or ethnicity that has ever existed, but only white men fight wars after which there’s no female loot for the taking, coz human rights, Geneva convention blahblahblah. I really wish we would wipe out muslim men and keep their females to replace the feminazi skanks with but a man can only dream.

        1. Yes I hear ya. Whites are too respectful of females. After conquest, men have to impose patriatchal system in order to survive.

        2. its the mens fault in the us if their women are arogant, stuborn, feminazi and all of that, if they replace them those same women that replaced the last ones will become exactly like them, women nature in work here, cause women are like water they adapt to the receptacle they are inside and become exactly like that receptacle in form

        3. I agree and we gotta change that but the existing feminazis are beyond repairs so we need fresh blood.

      2. for survival?, are you kidding me?
        In any conflict women just get raped and killed, that’s not survival at all.

    3. this is why the assault rifle should NOT be banned. Everyone should have a pistol and a rifle of some sort and the modern assault rifle is a great compromise for both defense and hunting. it’s more easily wielded than a traditional hunting rifle, has more rapid fire and far more useful in a defense situation. it’s the same reason people by SUVs instead of regular cars… sure you don’t need to be driving about in that tractor, but the day you need it in a flood or bad weather etc. you damn well need it.

        1. Yep. An SUV is just a glorified minivan. The “higher end SUVs” (like Mercedes and Lexus) literally ARE minivans with fatter tires.They are designed to look rugged, but they’re about as rugged as Brokeback Mountain. They wouldn’t be worth a shit off a paved road. You’d be much better off in a Subaru.

      1. It is okay to ban the assault rifle.
        What you need is long range semi auto hunting rifle.
        You want to take out potential invaders as far from your camp as possible.
        If you have a small kill zone around your camp then an assault

        1. Disagree…30+1 beats 5+1 almost every time, unless your talking about ranges > 300 meters. Unlike hunting, most combat takes place in the 50-150 meter range. Being able to put a lot of lead downrange is more important than accuracy and stopping power. There is a reason EVERY military has dropped full sized rifle cartridge weapons (like 7.62×51) from average use and have gone to an intermediate rounds like 5.56×45 or 7.62×39.

      1. the word you are looking for is spoils of war and it’s a lot different from being a wife

  2. Two courses that I’ve been to that were great crash courses in basic skills and survival were Midwest Native Skills Institute in Ohio and Jack Mountain Bushcraft School in New Hampshire. Both courses were very different but were excellent in learning survival skills.

    1. Ive considered taking a knife or gun course, but the chances I will ever get in a knife or gunfight are far lower than the chances I will have to use some survival skill. I do have good training from the BSA but I may look into these. Seems like rather useful info to have.

      1. I was a scout and learned a lot of valuable things despite the fact I never made eagle status.
        Many of their merit badge training books are availble in pdf – gratis. First Aid merit Badge and Emergency Preparedness merit badge – good basic knowledge everyone can use.

        1. Scouting was a great organization for helping turn boys into men and teaching countless practical skills. Too bad that the gay lobby felt it necessary to agitate for open fag acceptance. The Boy Scouts of America fought for a while until they eventually caved. Damn fag lobby ruins everything it touches.

        2. Proud scout here as well. Very good learning experience despite almost dying once. But it was almost shameful to be around all the betas that joined it.

    2. US army FM 21-76. I would recommed everyone keep a copy in their private library and I think you can even download the PDF for free.

      1. I have a book around here somewhere about hiking/camping/bushcraft that was written in the late 50s/early60s. It’s written from a standpoint of recreation or hunting than survival however it covers long term trips of weeks or more. One of the most interesting things I’ve ever read, unfortunately I can’t find it or recall the title and author at the moment. Most everything I can think of for getting by in the woods is talked about from cooking,campsite selection,jerky making,knot tying, trapping and more.

        1. Back in the those “mean, old patriachral 50’s” where some fathers would actually take their sons on hunting and fishing trips– no doubt there is definitely alot of literature out there. I would highly recommend spending some time with guys who know what they are doing and learn from them.
          I am not a prepper, but I know the drill on how to keep alive. Water pureification and basic medicine is something everyone should familiarize themselves with as dysentery is going to kill more people more than anything else.

        2. “Water pureification and basic medicine is something everyone should familiarize themselves with”
          100x yes.

        1. Keep in mind, it was compiled for soldiers in a tight spot. Saying that, your attitude and drive is important to keep you going. If you don’t have it, you will not last long once the going gets tough. From what I have seen, most people are fucked either way.

  3. If the trucks stop running….LOLKnee will starve. There won’t be any Fois gras to be had.

    1. Knowing him, he has spot at fancy fallout shelter filled with beautiful women, fine food, and liquor until the world corrects itself.

    2. Such types of men are the product of this decadent world. They don’t want a better world, they only want to enjoy the decline, because the decline and they are the same.
      When the shit hits the fan they’re going to realise that the real world is not an episode of Game of Thrones, and they will be the first ones to go. You can’t fight hordes of somalis armed with machetes with nihilism, The Simpsons, good wine and talk about how the ‘Natsies’ are ignorant rednecks.

    3. If the end of the world means no more fois gras, then bring it on! 🙂
      I’d miss crepes and pommes frites though….

      1. You could probably hook up some pomme frites, post-apocalypse, only it wont be vegetable oil you’re using….
        I will miss bread stuff in general.

  4. Learn civilized survival skills. We’re not cavemen. That tent up there is missing a proper kitchen and bathroom (with hot running water)!!
    😀

    1. I don’t think I could tote all the stuff in that picture in a backpack. Lol

      1. That’s what horses are for. (Assuming no freaking MOTORIZED VEHICLE is present.) 😀 😀

        1. The thing is, I really don’t like horses. You gotta take care of those eating machines every day, whether you ride them or not. I will just have to have a stash of diesel fuel I guess.

        2. OK, but then you’d miss the chance to ride off into the sunset on some awesome looking horse. Can’t do that with a mule. 😉

  5. I always figured if civilization fell apart I could get by, I’ve got ammo I can find something to eat but, sooner or later I would run out of shit paper,then…… I don’t know.

      1. The day I run out if TP would probably be me last day. That’s one modern convenience I couldn’t live without.

        1. Agreed. Spending my last days scooting across the grass like a menstruating poodle is not how I’d like to be remembered….

  6. Thanks for the article on survivalism. Now that Trump is going to be president, you might also want to prepare for a recession before the apocalyptic nuclear war will happen or when a combination of environmental pollution and natural disaster wrecks havoc on human civilization.
    http://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/2016-11-10/5-reasons-donald-trumps-presidency-will-include-a-recession
    http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Recession
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/us-money-blog/2016/nov/07/investors-fear-president-donald-trump-economy-volatility-recession

      1. After 8 years of Obama, Im sorry to say that Trump is going to be limited in what he can do.
        Hopefully he will will MAGA. But realize that we are facing a complete economic collapse on a global scale, and you want the best man in the pilots seat for that.

        1. I’ve been hearing the “complete economic collapse” and all that jazz for most part of my teen years. Usually the Christian Evangelist and nutty old farts will predict this doomsday bullshit. How far do you believe in your own words? Haven’t the so called economic experts predict the economic downfall for ages now. Well they were proved wrong time and time again.

      2. A couple of years before the financial meltdown of 2008 and 2009 at the end of the Bush presidency, Trump was hoping that the housing market would crash so that he could buy up property: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/19/politics/donald-trump-2006-hopes-real-estate-market-crashes/. According to another politician, Trump was actually gloating about the financial disaster: http://www.newsmax.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-mocks-trump-hillary/2016/06/27/id/735841/.
        Another thing to consider, this Frank-Dodd act that was put in place to prevent another financial meltdown caused by the banks

      3. A couple of years before the financial meltdown of 2008 and 2009 at
        the end of the Bush presidency, Trump was hoping that the housing market
        would crash so that he could buy up property: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/19/politics/donald-trump-2006-hopes-real-estate-market-crashes/ According to another politician, Trump was actually gloating about the financial disaster, he was gloating because he could benefit from people losing their homes: http://www.newsmax.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-mocks-trump-hillary/2016/06/27/id/735841/
        Another thing to consider, this Frank-Dodd act that was put in place to prevent another financial meltdown caused by the banks, Trump wants to get rid of it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/11/12/trump-should-repeal-frank-dodd-and-replace-it-with-obama-and-clintons-sensible-alternative/#5e599f824c54 and http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/10/501610842/trump-team-promises-to-dismantle-dodd-frank-bank-regulations. I think both the articles say that the Dodd-Frank act has a bunch a problems with it, but in the Forbes article, Clinton and Obama both wanted to replace the Dodd-Frank act with something new, something about taxing the rich people of the banks, or something like that. You could read the articles even if they are by the mainstream media. However, since people like you don’t trust the mainstream media and their investigative journalism where they have to read and do interviews and all that other stuff, because you believe it’s all fake, you don’t have to read it.

    1. Relax, fuckwad. That’s already built in. Everyone here already knows it. The insane propping up of the markets by the inflationary money printing the Fed has been engaging in over the last eight years hasn’t gone unnoticed.
      The bubble will pop. I promise. It’s going to be hard on you, because you haven’t adequately prepared. It might crash hard, and quite honestly, it should. I hope Trump can ease it down gently, but we need to return to some sort of fiscal sanity, realistic valuations of business and property, and just a little transparency in the way government handles the economy would be nice. That little bit of transparency would silence (or kill) the likes of you.

    2. Guessing from your remarks, you assume everything would be okay if Hillary won? Riiiiigghhtt.

      1. I gave this same reply to John1, but I feel I should repost it so you’ll be aware of it in your e-mail inbox:
        A couple of years before the financial meltdown of 2008 and 2009 at the end of the Bush presidency, Trump was hoping that the housing market would crash so that he could buy up property: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/19/politics/donald-trump-2006-hopes-real-estate-market-crashes/.
        According to another politician, Trump was actually gloating about the financial disaster, he was gloating because he could benefit from people losing their homes: http://www.newsmax.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-mocks-trump-hillary/2016/06/27/id/735841/
        Another thing to consider, this Frank-Dodd act that was put in place to prevent another financial meltdown caused by the banks, Trump wants to get rid of it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/11/12/trump-should-repeal-frank-dodd-and-replace-it-with-obama-and-clintons-sensible-alternative/#5e599f824c54 and http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/10/501610842/trump-team-promises-to-dismantle-dodd-frank-bank-regulations. I think both the articles say that the Dodd-Frank act has a bunch a problems with it, but in the Forbes article, Clinton and Obama both wanted to replace the Dodd-Frank act with something new, something about taxing the rich people of the banks, or something like that. You could read the articles even if they are by the mainstream media. However, since people like you don’t trust the mainstream media and their investigative journalism where they have to read and do interviews and all that other stuff, because you believe it’s all fake, you don’t have to read it.

        1. I’ve never said it was fake however, I’ve said they report the truth in such a way as to have one form the opinion they would like one to form.

    3. You should find another site where people don’t actually loathe you, to post on.

      1. You guys hate me, but dudes, I’m like one of you guys. We drink the same kind of beer. Whatever kind of beer you drink, I drink. Hey, how do I reply to multiple people with one post?

      2. C’mon….a dissenting opinion now and then is healthy! Not to mention good sport for some of you more seasoned debaters.
        Besides, why should anyone give a fuk who loathes them?

    4. I almost stopped being a prepper when Trump won. The economy will still go down but he will make things better. But now that I see how die hard these liberals are still fighting to destroy our country I have a renewed spirit to keep doing what I can to stop them but still prepare for recession or natural disaster.

      1. Yeah, dude, Trump’s economic policies are going to cause a recession, not prevent a recession. Also they say that Trump will probably take credit for the healthy economy that President Obama and the Democrats helped to bring about: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/11/29/donald_trump_is_going_to_coast_on_obama_s_economic_success.html.
        That article on the 5 reasons why a Trump presidency could cause a recession: http://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/2016-11-10/5-reasons-donald-trumps-presidency-will-include-a-recession, well here is another article that goes a bit more in depth on one of the reasons: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-policy-lead-to-global-recession-2016-11.
        Here’s another article that talks about a lot more stuff, a lot of it I don’t understand: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2016/11/global-economy. There were some things that I could grasp, like if Trump goes through with efforts to deport undocumented immigrants, that will add to government spending. Also, Trump is going around saying that illegal immigrants wreck havoc on the United States by committing crime, however, undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/criminalization-immigration-united-states?utm_content=buffercf974&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer. I just found this article and haven’t finished reading it, but I’ve listened to some podcasts, Vox’s The Weeds podcast and a Buzzfeed podcast (I forgot the title of the podcast), one or both of them said that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. I think even Samantha Bee’s television show said the same thing, that immigrants don’t commit crimes. Latino USA, a NPR podcast, did have a podcast that had a feature on a few cases where undocumented immigrants did commit horrendous crimes, but those are very few cases. For the most part, immigrants don’t commit crimes.
        Oh, and people will end up losing their medical insurance if Trump repeals Obamacare. I listened to a pilot episode of a new podcast from vox.com and it features a woman who pays hundreds of dollars just for some insulin that’ll keep her alive since she has Type 1 Diabetes, not the Type 2 Diabetes that could be prevented or reversed with healthy eating and exercise, but she has Type 1 Diabetes, I think that’s the one where people are genetically predisposed to, or are born with the disability. Check it out, it’s less than half an hour long: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/21/13664188/vox-policy-podcast. You can listen to it while you’re sorting and rearranging your stock of canned foods or MREs, or purifying your water supply, or making sure your bug out bag is properly prepared, or if that emergency kit that FEMA asks people to prepare in the event of some natural disaster has at least the minimum requirements, I don’t know, it’s been a while since I’ve listened to a podcast by preppers.

        1. The economy has been artificially propped up for too long. It needs to correct. Government interference makes everything worse. Or is it just coincidence that healthcare, mortgages, tuition, have all bubbled after? A crash will occur. Especially since the fed has kept interest rates suppressed. It is inevitable whether Trump was elected or not. I’d post links to sources and facts but you would call that all fake news.
          And dont ever quote Slate to me.

  7. Make sure you have enough firearms, in good working order, and enough ammo. Each man should have a rifle and sidearm. Every woman should have a revolver. You will need around 2000 rounds of ammo per firearm.

  8. I got slighltly different opinion.
    Surviving any catastrophy is essential. But the point of surviving is to stop surviving as soon as possible, and to beguin to live as soon as possible.
    For that, you need to join a community, or to create a community.
    There is nothing wrong about bushcraft, first aid etc. It’s essential.
    But to join a (worthy) community, you need to things:
    – The ability to socialize, to gain trust, to judge peoples.
    – A practical skill (security, mechanics etc) (they may help you, but if you’re not an asset, they won’t integrate you)
    I don’t mean: be the bitch of a band of looters. But history shows than even in the worst moment, there re still good people out there.
    The ability to find them and to join them (if it is the right group at the right moment) is essenial to keep living.
    Because srong non deluded groups makes you stronger, gives you a purpose ,and grant acces to essential ressources.
    * By practical skills, i mean. It’s unlikely you’ll survive in deep preserved nature. Try to know how to make tech and old tech working.
    Being able to fix a bike is a superpower in a scarce ressource economy…

    1. Good points but I don’t see a complete collapse as a likely scenario unless multiple disasters strike at once. Like a new pandemic in the middle of a depression during a solar storm that fries all electronics. Or nuclear war. I prepare mostly for natural disasters like tornado, flood, wildfire, earthquake – all possible where I’m at. You see in TN cities being evacuated. Or that big city in Canada earlier this year that burned to a wildfire. A good bug out bag woulf have you’re toiletries and cash and ID if you have to grab and go real quick.

  9. A nice reminder. Many years ago I moved to a central mid west city and the first things I bought with my paycheck was a kerosene stove, kerosene, another flashlight, a water bag or two. MRE’s are not bad but you should try a couple to see what you like. They are better and less salty than the canned soups and stews but keep some hot sauce around. Granola, beans, rice are cheap.

  10. The power went out in your city and when they restored power to the stores they thought it just fine to double their prices on groceries? That just screams “loot me!”. All this talk about society being based on “cooperation” rings a bit hollow in your city.

    1. I wasnt there my brother was, he said things like batteries and such were real expensive, but that saves from people who buy more than they need also. Idk if food was price gouged as well or not.

      1. I suppose I can understand about the batteries maybe a little. Maybe. If the reasoning is like you said. I just don’t see the logic behind screwing your neighbors in a disaster. I mean… It was just a rainstorm so clearly the supplies would be replenished soon. What does it say about one’s ethics when they are willing to take advantage of their neighbors at the drop of a hat?

        1. It was not just a rainstorm. It took days just to reopen the grocery stores due to power outages. Not to mention that freezing rain would require some salting to get rid of the ice, and you have a logistical nightmare building up.
          And no, they are not taking advantage of their neighbors. Their costs went way up and they need to stay profitable to keep the food coming in.

        2. I get what you’re saying, but my original point still stands. The salting of the roads is the city/county’s responsibility. It is not part of the cost of deliveries for the stores. Deliveries may have been impeded and there may have been a temporarily short supply, at which point there would be empty shelves and perhaps workers may have to be sent home. That still has nothing to do with the cost of goods to the stores themselves. It’s not like there was long term damage to the supply chain or huge swaths of crops were lost resulting in a general market shortage. I have to call a spade a spade. Sorry.

        3. Or, the stores could have raised prices temporarily, and kept the shelves from being empty. This way, there are no empty shelves even though the food isn’t coming in. So if you are really desperate, you can still get the goods you need. Why should the store take in less profit AND make their customers worse off? There is no justification for that. Besides, they need more income to keep paying their employees, with the decreased sales and all that, so its quite likely that they will become less profitable for the duration of the crisis.

        4. Yeah, that makes sense. Raise prices so they can take comfort in the fact that their shelves aren’t empty. Very sensible logic there.

        5. I can see your point about making enough money to pay their employees (provided the employees can actually GET to work in the weather damaged conditions). If a delivery truck can’t get there, I have my doubts that an employee can (since they probably have to commute in from somewhere nowadays, since that’s how the jackass city planners and real estate industry have decided it needs to be. But I digress). At any rate, you’re never doing your customers any favors by raising prices “so you can keep your shelves stocked”. If there were some kind of disaster and a local store gouged prices, I simply wouldn’t shop there then or ever again. And if people did get pissed off and decide to loot the place, I would have no pity.

        6. Look, it is impossible for a single store to gouge prices in a city of 160,000. It would take a coordinated effort between at least 20 stores to gouge prices, because people can still get around in a crisis. And as to the looting, since when have looters cared about prices? There is no difference between looting a store that gouged prices and a store that didn’t, because in the end you’re paying the same price ($0) for the same goods.

    2. It’s rational behavior. People rushing in and destroying the JIT supply chain naturally would cause prices to rise. If you hate it that much then here’s a thought: Be ready *before* a disaster hits. See how easy that is?

      1. Except I doubt it had anything to do with people rushing in and destroying a supply chain. It was a rainstorm with a power outage. Basic stuff. I’m sure it had more to do with someone being an opportunistic prick. Like that asshole gas station owner in Ohio that raised his prices to $5 a gallon right after 9/11 happened. Fuck people like that. If they get looted and their property gets destroyed, I have no sympathy.

        1. In a city of 160,000 the level of collusion needed to manipulate prices like that would be insane. Not to mention that people would remember who jacked up prices for the next ten years.

  11. Interesting article, and a topic that I’ve been thinking about for the last several years though. I have a question though, and I’m not just trolling: Why the emphasis on keeping on the move? Maybe it’s just a city thing. But I live in the suburbs, and the part about only keeping a week’s worth of food cause you can’t carry a pallet of baked beans I thought, “But why couldn’t I just hunker down in my house and stay with the pallet?” I realize that’s not always going to be feasible, but it seems like just as good a plan as any other.

    1. makes sense to me.
      plan A – hunker down with beans and water.
      plan B – runaway, with travel kit

    2. Are you thinking about preparing for a complete collapse of society? If so I think the looters would come knocking unless you had a good hiding spot. The other threat is fire. If all you have is food you can only take so much if the house next to you catches and spreads. Plus you can go weeks without food if you have to. If you are planning for total collapse (which I see as very unlikely) you need a very good water supply firstmost. All else is second

    1. If the municipal water is contaminated, like a filter broke or didnt put enough chlorine in the water, they ask the people to boil their water before they consume it

  12. If you live your life exposed to counter party risk, well.
    If things are real bad, sex isn’t gonna save a bitch. It would be a waste of water just to clean her ass up.

      1. worthless without primers and powder, which will be in short supply just like cartridges.

  13. Survivalism is not just to train your adaptation and resourcefulness (though they are imperative too). It is for something that not even working out can give you: it can toughen you against extremes, it can actually raise your body’s adaptation level to extreme changes. Many people (especially women, coddled and sheltered as they tend to be) die just because their body can’t take the stress from the sheer change, from eating beef from domesticated cattle and vegetables from
    farms, to eating wild animals and herbs (not just identifying them, but actually eating them, can be an even greater challenge, until the body adapts).
    This is something that can only be learnt through experience. And something I highly recommend. It will be hard, and sometimes even dangerous (don’t try it alone). But sometimes it’s best to make mistakes when you can afford them, to learn not to make them when you can’t.

  14. You’re leaving out the main item: weaponry, specifically guns
    If TSHTF and you are willing to go Lord Humungous, you can take what you need from the skinny jean wearing snark effeminate snark boys who were sneering at you last week for learning such anachronistic things like changing a tire or starting a fire with a wooden stick and shoe lace.
    If you’re feeling your humanity rather than your Lord Humungous, you can always swap ammo for supplies. I have currently stocked 1500 rounds of .223, 2000 rounds of 5.56, 250 rounds of .38 +P, and 100 rounds of .32 acp. It doesn’t get stale or rot.
    Obviously you’ll need a firearm too, and that’s where living on the West Coast or in the Aceala Corrider blows. Best for survival situation is the .22 in my opinion, though I like AR’s.

    1. Insane. I live in NYC, and it’s hard to store anything. Currently with over 300 rounds of .45 acp and 9×19. I think I need to stock over 1,000 rounds.

      1. You’ll that that much just to fight your way through the hordes of ravenous metrosexuals. Stunned by the loss of wifi, these useless mouths won’t be able to feed themselves with no bodegas and won’t be able to escape on their single speed bikes since all the bridges and tunnels will be sealed shut.

  15. For most men the difficult part is the last section; aka a defense system. Martial arts and tactical response training require discipline and hard physical drilling. Firearms require beaucratic and legal navigating. Get those squared away first.
    Oh and water filter system; a high quality lifestraw water bottle that filters fluorine and bacteria/viruses

  16. You want women to become good again? All you need is a country that has war + hungry women who need man to feed them. He give her food and she must give him sex in return. I bet they will stop acting like bitches once they realize they need us men to survive.

  17. IMO, a few things to add under a worst-case scenario:
    If you live in a city, shelter in place as long as you can before “bugging out.” When you do need to depart the city, pack a gun — most metro people will absolutely be unprepared and will revert to primal survival and unchecked violence in panic mode..this is when regular folk flip out and WILL rob you or try to kill you for your stuff. If cornered, you immediately shoot those people right in the face.
    Don’t forget to check the expiration(s) on your food stash — I keep a lot of dehydrated backpacker meals with multiyear shelf lives, but other things (food bars, foil packs with fish/meat in them, etc) need to be checked every 6 months. Eat that stuff in your kitchen and replace it. Yum..bug-out food 😉
    PRACTICE your bug-out scenario…next time you hit a national park, get a wilderness permit and go into the backcountry for 2-3 days. Use it as a dry run to check your gear, your skills and your mental fortitude. This is a terrific test!
    BRING BUT DON’T RELY ON GPS or electronics…they fail, satellites go down, etc….test old-school orienteering, use “analog” equipment and primitive survival skills a la Bear Grylls and “Man vs. Wild.” That’s the real deal, not surrounding yourself with technology. KEEP PAPER MAPS in case your electronics quit. Get ready to abandon your vehicle in case of fuel shortages, mechanical failure or EMP.
    I keep a full-loaded backpack as a bugout bag…can go 7 days in the wilderness if need be. I also have extra stuff for barter or long-term survival scenario (traps,snares, fishing gear, etc). I hope against — but am ready for–disaster and chaos.

  18. Two things left off the barter list: Cigarettes and whiskey. After Katrina in my town toilet paper was gone and everyone smoked em if they had em and all the whiskey and liquor was drank. The next day reality set in. I had Toilet paper, cigs and lots of cheap whiskey in storage up high so there was no water damage. Got lots of help redoing my house for those items over the next two weeks. I couldn’t have ripped out all the drywall and redone the electrical as fast without those barter items.

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