What if the SHTF and I'm 12 hours from home????

[Wheeler]

The problem with a generator when the SHTF and the power goes out, is that people can hear it. They see that your house is the only one with the lights on... Makes it pretty obvious who has a working freezer and food, people will see it and come looking...

And I know that some will have their battle plans drawn up and their property equipped with sniper nests and traps they learned in The Nam... But I highly doubt that most of the people saying that, are really prepared to slaughter their neighbors that are just trying to feed their kids...

I listen to people talk about these things, and its kind of a morbid version of the "what would you do if you won the mega millions" discussion, where you fantasize and plan out all the things you would do, knowing that it's all academic and almost certain to never happen anyway...

It's amusing, and in some ways alarming, listening to people talk about how they have all their plans for the various ways they would kill people who are just trying to survive... You wonder if a few of them aren't walking the line between sanity or insanity, almost wanting such times to come...

The problem with a generator is it's a short term solution. Gensets are expensive to run, regardless of the fuel used. I'd be more worries about running out of fuel than the neighbors massing at my front door with torches and pitchforks demanding I share my frozen tater tots.

 

[Miatadude]

The problem with a generator is it's a short term solution. Gensets are expensive to run, regardless of the fuel used. I'd be more worries about running out of fuel than the neighbors massing at my front door with torches and pitchforks demanding I share my frozen tater tots.

You have tater tots? Please PM me your address.

 

[Tony2X]

Had 50 chickens in the freezer for Y2K and a generator installed to keep them frozen.
And we ate every damn one of them 5 dollar chickens that next year, lol.
Barely had a power outage in the last 20 years, but I did get to use the generator a couple of times...
I'd put 50 of those $5 chickens in the freezer right now, if I knew where to find them.

 

[Wheeler]

You have tater tots? Please PM me your address.

You can have my tater tots when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!

 

[sweathogger273]

Y yall post this kinda bs?? Smh

 

[SirBannedAlot]

Y yall post this kinda bs?? Smh

There is nothing "BS" about tater tots, thank you.

 

[Inatree]

There is truth in that... It never hurts to be prepared, but constantly prepping and preparing for the end of the world... Just seems like an exercise in futility. Most of the people that think they are prepped, might buy themselves a couple weeks of time over the average person, but if society really broke down for any length of time, in the end 99% of them will be just as F'd as everyone else...

Unless you really have a remote place, out in the wilderness, wood for fire, shelter, and you are far enough away from roving groups of hungry people being reduced to savagery... You are up a creek.

If you have a nice well equipped cabin like 15 miles into the woods, fresh stream for water, wood for winter heat... Place to fish and hunt, grow some veggies... You might be fine longer term, although your life expectancy without power, medicine and medical treatment would be greatly reduced...

First off, Why would someone prepare for the end of the world ? I prepare to keep my world from ending.
If someone is "constantly " prepping then they are not constantly prepared.
My prepping is exactly as you describe in your last paragraph. Sustenance !
Screw all that Mad Max crap !

 

[SirBannedAlot]

Screw all that Mad Max crap !

Make no mistake... there is no shortage of tacticool mall ninjas just itching for the day that society collapses...

(Hanging up their pottery barn apron) "Today is the day I have been preparing for all my life. It's my time to shine. Wait, what do you mean Starbucks is closed?? F*(&!!!"

 

[Radar363]

You can have my tater tots when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!

Everyone in front of your house during the apocalypse

 

[Paxdad]

Rand McNally road Atlas.