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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: glock22 on February 12, 2003, 09:13:09 AM
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checking my survival kit:
25 kgs of pasta ( I'm Italian :)
sauce for the pasta
froozen empanadas
tons of coffee
25 bottles of wine
10 bottles of rhum ( can't live w/out Mojito )
coke if i want a Cuba Libre
some tuna cans
black beans ( you cannot live in Miami w/out BB)
that strange green stuff sold on the corners
ammo for my guns
food for my dog
duct tape for my wife
did I forget something?
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Anti anxiety pills
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Originally posted by glock22
duct tape for my wife
LOL :D
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LOL bounder! Good one!
I've always had 6 weeks water, food, and fuel(generator) since I was married simply because we live 25 miles from a volcano and considering I was in the Pacific Northwest when St. Helens erupted, it only makes sense to be well prepared in the event of a diaster such as an earthquake or such.
Good thing for this latest world crisis though, maybe a few more folks will do what glock is doing so the US doesn't have to come bail yer tulips out everytime you have a natural diaster. ;)
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Anti anxiety pills
for what already got the green stuff:D
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right now my house would run just fine for about 3 days (mid winter) with no sevices.
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Rip, we got a dusting in Seattle when the MT blew it's top..the cars got a little dirty but we were lucky and didn't get it like Eastern WA with the nuclear winter conditions!
my survival kit has the requisit several cases of bottled water, a case of MRE and a several sacks of canned food. not to mention all flavors of ammo for the guns.
It always amazes me how helpless people get when they have to endure life with no power ..the news had a blackout in one neighborhood and the people were flipping out cause they couldn't use their microwaves or tvs.. what would happen to these people if there were a monster earthquake or alien invasion.
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Originally posted by hawk220
It always amazes me how helpless people get when they have to endure life with no power ..the news had a blackout in one neighborhood and the people were flipping out cause they couldn't use their microwaves or tvs.. what would happen to these people if there were a monster earthquake or alien invasion.
Yep! I have a generator and if I conserve the fuel long enough I could get 6 weeks out of it, but I assume that it would be run 6 hours a day, so thats about 1 month of power that I'm prepared for.
I have a variety of food stuffs, 2 cases of MRE's, canned food, water, dry stuffs, and alot of first aid stuff (wifes a nurse ;) )
One can never be TOO prepared.
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MRE's yech
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
MRE's yech
Thats why I have "Multiple Food Source" type planning ;)
You're forcing me to quote my father:
"If you're hungry enough, you'll eat boot leather..."
;)
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Incidently, I figure that if I was a terrorist, the best way to affect everyone and create panic is some sort of bio-terrorism on the food industry, farms, agriculture.
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yup..like an attack on public foods..open markets, salad bars, farmed stuff..and then people would be freaked out to eat stuff. putting toxins in the water supply is really too tough to affect a large number of people..
some years back some group put botulism or e coli in an Oregon salad bar chain and got lots of people sick.. Capt A, you would know more about this Oregon story.
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Oh, I forgot, ammunition for both wild game to supplement the food (we have plenty of it out where I live) and to keep the begging neighbors away who did not prepare. :D
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Ah yes, the Rajnishis! :)
SOB
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and to keep the begging neighbors away who did not prepare.
hahaha. no chit.. many of my friends call me nuts for having lots food/guns/supplies...I tell them to speak loudly and clearly when approching my door in an emergency as I have a hard time hearing while wearing a gas mask and holding a battle rifle.
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a bunch of books
ramen noodles
chef boyardee
pornography
ky gel
gatorade
10x 1gallon bottles of Stolichnaya
binoculars
bunch of AA batteries
first aid kit
Yeah I'm ready
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My neighbors are all fat. Me an my dog will eat them.
xBAT
Batdog
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Originally posted by batdog
My neighbors are all fat. Me an my dog will eat them.
xBAT
Batdog
I knew this story somehow was related to you, Mr.CPP! :D
http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/nationworld/MGB63EC2QAD.html
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1 Gerbil
1 box of matches
1 cardboard tube
1 gay lover
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Picture this:
Only one guy in the entire town is really prepared for the day the mountain blows. Lets call him.... Rapsnout... just a hypothetical name.
Rapsnout smuggly watches the news of rumblings from the mountain feeling much like the ant instead of the grasshopper, while his poorly prepared neighbors sweat out the impending disaster.
Finally it blows. Paraclastic flows cover the region. Dust blocks out the Sun. Power is out and the grocery store is demolished.
And one house-sized rock is thrown skyward....
:cool:
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Picture this:
Only one guy in the entire town is really prepared for the day the mountain blows. Lets call him.... Rapsnout... just a hypothetical name.
Rapsnout smuggly watches the news of rumblings from the mountain feeling much like the ant instead of the grasshopper, while his poorly prepared neighbors sweat out the impending disaster.
Finally it blows. Paraclastic flows cover the region. Dust blocks out the Sun. Power is out and the grocery store is demolished.
And one house-sized rock is thrown skyward....
:cool:
LOL, thats like the story of the Vegetarian that took very good care of his body only to step out in front of a bus one day...;)
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I'd add a radio transmitter/reciever.
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Jagr's very reasonable post in AGW:
Bio Chem Agents are very sensitive to the environment in general (with some excecptions) Most things do poorly in cold/wind due to dispersal and dilution combined with a high decay rate.
Rule of thumb is get indoors, upwind, shut off vents and furnaces (they bring IN lots of exterior air) and isolate airflow until you can get information on what is necessary (evacuation etc.)
Keep vehicles tanks full, and keep your supplies in bags (backpacks work very well) so if you need to evacuate, you can throw everything in a vehicle and move out ASAP.
Is it insane to be worried about this stuff.. not at all at this point.. in fact if we DO NOT suffer a bio/chem/toxic/radiological attack somewhere in the world I would be shocked.. Its that serious..
The Brits recovered residue from a ricin lab..not the product.. where did it go? Heathrow was expecting an attack yesterday on good intel.. MANPADS are everywhere and our large level of commerce makes keeping even large devices out almost impossible..
At some point it will happen, and with a little bit of preparation, it can be a relatively minor incident.
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Have always had:
Ammo, lots and lots of ammo.
Good dog
duct tape, good for lots of things
more ammo
lots of food
keep track of the local mule deer herd (food source, that would be hard to tamper with)
lots of first aid and advanced life support stuff (I'm a medic, wifes an RN)
Only thing I'm worried about is how am I going to play AH if the power is out for weeks on end?
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That would be tragic if they attacked the salad bars.
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Learned about this in a weapons of mass destruction class put on by an FBI special agent. Happend in a town called The Dalles, Or. Neat little town right on the Wa border (Columbia River). Great coffe shop right on the river, good breakfast, anyway it was the first recorded incident of domestic terrorism involving a biological agent. Something like 30-40 people got sick, a few (2 kids I think) died.
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sounds good
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The salad bar incident
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if I remember right that was the Rashneeshees (sp?). another rag wearing cult. who had a commune in the town of antelope in central Oregon
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Anyone care to explain what happened at the infamous salad bar?
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Originally posted by Hortlund
Anyone care to explain what happened at the infamous salad bar?
Here's the whole scoop, Hortlund.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v278n5/ffull/joc71206.html
dh
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:D yer bucking for signature material mister.
Originally posted by funkedup
That would be tragic if they attacked the salad bars.
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somehow it makes sense that AH players would be crazy survivalists :)
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Originally posted by udet
somehow it makes sense that AH players would be crazy survivalists :)
I did a poll on a Yuppie automotive forum and believe it or not, quite a few are prepared for emergencies...survival is our prime function in its rudimentary form of the primitive brain stem. ;)
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you'd think more people would be prepare ahead of time for disasters. seems reasonable that the unprepared could have been weeded out over the last few thousand years.
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2 weeks of food/water - First Aid Kit - batteries - 2 way radio - making the story short the usual stuff that I already have at home for the Hurricane season ( from May to October in South Florida) - ammo for my Fal/AR/Mossberg if Army doesn't show up in 3/5 days -
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you know somebody had to say it eventually-
Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
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Originally posted by Hortlund
Anyone care to explain what happened at the infamous salad bar?
A group of religious wackos were planning to get most of the town sick on election day so their candidate could win the election. They put Salmonella in the salad bars at several restaurants. A bunch of people got sick; nobody died.
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We're Americans and we're SOOOOOO scared!
Geez, we've become a nation of paranoid sniveling crybabys waiting for the shoe to drop.
Osamas laughing at you.
But buck up......Ned Flanders will give you a spot in his Doomsday shelter.
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Originally posted by weazel
We're Americans and we're SOOOOOO scared!
Geez, we've become a nation of paranoid sniveling crybabys waiting for the shoe to drop.
Osamas laughing at you.
But buck up......Ned Flanders will give you a spot in his Doomsday shelter.
Wheres that link to the theory that the weak die off? ;)
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
you know somebody had to say it eventually-
Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
Dr Strangelove!! Col Kong, running the crew of his B-52 thru the emergency checklist... fediddlein great movie!
Survival supplies?? Loaded.. aboard my 34' sloop, tied up and in the water, ready to go 1/2 mile from where I sit right now. With food and supplies aboard right now, I can cross an ocean.. or check in on Curval in the Bahamas.
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MREs might taste like s**t, but one of them is supposed to sustain you for one day in a combat situation(i.e. burning a lot of calories). They've gotten better since they first came out. I remember the first one I ever had was the pork cube that was as hard as a rock. Why do you think they put Tabasco sauce in there? "To give it some taste"!
:p
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I ever had was the pork cube that was as hard as a rock.
LOL, In laboratory conditions with hot water they improved 300 percent. They were still about 700 percent short of tasty though :)
I never could eat the frickin scrambled eggs. Some of it wasn't horrible though, even when not hungry. Then there was Ckicken a la king.
Charon
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I've always had 6 weeks water, food, and fuel(generator) since I was married simply because we live 25 miles from a volcano and considering I was in the Pacific Northwest when St. Helens erupted, it only makes sense to be well prepared in the event of a diaster such as an earthquake or such.
Good thing for this latest world crisis though, maybe a few more folks will do what glock is doing so the US doesn't have to come bail yer tulips out everytime you have a natural diaster. ;)
Yep! I have a generator and if I conserve the fuel long enough I could get 6 weeks out of it, but I assume that it would be run 6 hours a day, so thats about 1 month of power that I'm prepared for.
I have a variety of food stuffs, 2 cases of MRE's, canned food, water, dry stuffs, and alot of first aid stuff (wifes a nurse )
One can never be TOO prepared.
Oh, I forgot, ammunition for both wild game to supplement the food (we have plenty of it out where I live) and to keep the begging neighbors away who did not prepare.
Anyone else see a striking resemblance between Rip and Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) in the movie "Tremors"?
Here is a quote from Burt in the movie:
[Burt Gummer looks at his bomb shelter for perhaps the last time] Burt Gummer: Food for five years, a thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration, Geiger counter. Bomb shelter! Underground... Golly-geen monsters.
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Along w/ you're survival goods y'all should have a plan for meeting your family at some location, mines a remote location on private property where I have a bunch of survival gear buried.
Most of my family thought I was a bit 'touched' when I distributed a map of the area showing where SOME of the goods are stored...now they don't joke about it anymore.
Learn how to 'shelter in place', have the tools and knowledge to seal yourself in safely incase of an airborne bio or chemical event.
Those that have the money should consider having level 'b' survival gear handy, level 'a' would be nice but very expensive.
Most people living in earthquake country should already have a basic survival kit ready to go, it would be wise for all to do the same.
I'm afraid that those that don't prepare are going to be the ones demanding a government teat, good luck suckers!
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I get the impression that y'all don't believe that we're going to be safer after Dubya's done threatening the planet.
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No, hell; no.
In fact, I expect that a year from now we'll be lamenting the 'good old days'.
Hope for the best..
but, plan for the worst.
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ham slice was the worst...comes outta that huge glop of snot...
spaghetti was okay after heated tho.
I've got a first aid kit but that's about it, I can't imagine what traffic would be like here if people were trying to evacuate, just getting to work and back is an ordeal.
motorcycles would probably have an easier time getting out but it'd be risky if people in cars are panicking.
The boat idea sounds good.
Originally posted by Charon
LOL, In laboratory conditions with hot water they improved 300 percent. They were still about 700 percent short of tasty though :)
I never could eat the frickin scrambled eggs. Some of it wasn't horrible though, even when not hungry. Then there was Ckicken a la king.
Charon
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Rip, a couple of questions- You live next to a volcano so you keep survival gear that will help you survive in the event of an eruption. Isn't that like living next door to crocidiles so you keep plenty of Band-Aids on hand?
You say you'll have enough gas and provisions to last for six weeks. OK, so the volcano blows, all your neighbors are left without food and power...What do you think your starving neighbors will do when they see the lights are on and hear you having a cocktail party?
And finally, You won't let your kids play X-Box but you'll arm them with assault rifles and instruct to shoot at the neighbors if they walk on your yard. Don't you think that'll make you a bad parent??
Sorry, but I'm not going to prepare at all- if there's a catastrophe of that magnitude then I'll be the guy organizing all the other people who didn't prepare into mobs to sieze all weapons and foodstuffs from those who did prepare.
What's your address Rip? :)
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Originally posted by Airhead
Sorry, but I'm not going to prepare at all- if there's a catastrophe of that magnitude then I'll be the guy organizing all the other people who didn't prepare into mobs to sieze all weapons and foodstuffs from those who did prepare.
What's your address Rip? :)
Reminds me of that survey in Jagged Alliance 2.
I pick 4 :D
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A huge 50 pound bag of rice would be a good choice BUT rice takes so long to cook a person would expend all their generator energy just cooking 1 meal.
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I have a 6 pack of Shiner Bock and some Vienna Sausages in my pantry. Should last me a few hours. After that I'll just walk up to the store and use my cinder block key to get in through the window.