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20 July 2014, 18:59
Don't get me wrong guys, I understand the need for prepping . I enjoy it, and will continue to do so. It has a lot in common with a simpler, back-to-the-land lifestyle that is worth pursuing even with a guarantee of total safety. It is also very useful in the numerous possible personal and local mini-SHTF scenarios. I've said before, I want to survive. I want to survive even an OTT The Road style scenario, with no nature left.
What I am asking is, in a full blown lights-out-forever scenario, with the unique set of challenges set by living in the UK, is how you will make it through the initial period of chaos? How will you prevent everything you have being taken? Lets be real here. When desperate people are combing each house looking for stuff, how will you hide your preps or stay safe? What about things like livestock? Or children? I'm trying to think outside of the box.
For example, I realize that I will almost certainly not make it as I am now. I'm in the process of getting some shotguns and getting the neighbours to consider prepping (thinly veiled as transition community stuff.) It just seems rare to acknowledge that even with a fully developed plan, and total preps, that we have conditions outside our control that could make it very, very hard. I just don't see how even if I was fully prepared as I could legally be in the UK I would be able to deal with thousands of desperate people combing the countryside, short of setting up on an island off the coast, because of the relatively short distance from large urban centres to our equivalent of "wilderness" or rural areas where the retreat or sensibly placed home is.
What I am asking is, in a full blown lights-out-forever scenario, with the unique set of challenges set by living in the UK, is how you will make it through the initial period of chaos? How will you prevent everything you have being taken? Lets be real here. When desperate people are combing each house looking for stuff, how will you hide your preps or stay safe? What about things like livestock? Or children? I'm trying to think outside of the box.
For example, I realize that I will almost certainly not make it as I am now. I'm in the process of getting some shotguns and getting the neighbours to consider prepping (thinly veiled as transition community stuff.) It just seems rare to acknowledge that even with a fully developed plan, and total preps, that we have conditions outside our control that could make it very, very hard. I just don't see how even if I was fully prepared as I could legally be in the UK I would be able to deal with thousands of desperate people combing the countryside, short of setting up on an island off the coast, because of the relatively short distance from large urban centres to our equivalent of "wilderness" or rural areas where the retreat or sensibly placed home is.
Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
Isaiah 5:8
Isaiah 5:8