apocalypse/crisis/survival/preparation Options

[FORSAKENR320]

i am curious, how many of you share some level of paranoia about anything? doesn't matter what it might be that you fear, but what steps have you taken to protect yourself in the event of your fear happening? i'm not talking about zombies, or something laughable, i mean something real. tornado plan? those near the south, hurricanes, floods, etc?


(i ask because i saw a news article on yahoo, that was talking about how people are "preparing" more, as a whole, globally)

[FORSAKENR320]

"good probabilities" i feel are subjective. no matter how random an incident might be, surely someone might be preparing for it.

what about you impala? anything you do? do you always stock a certain amount of food, keep empty water jugs, or have a emergency plan formulated? i ask honestly btw, i know how the internets can give people the wrong vibe.


for myself, i don't ever think i have prepared enough. though i have the basic plans for natural disasters (preparing for those is pretty much all the same) i tend to go for the more "out there" scenarios, but mostly be cause i am 90% convinced that something may actually happen. i've always felt that it's "better to have something, and never need it, than need it, and not have it"

i suppose that my number 1 paranoia is that the mechanisms that support our law will fail. thats pretty broad spectrum, but essentially what i get at is that i fear the point where my safety can no longer be ensured by the society that insists it's there to protect me.

[impala454]

what about you impala? anything you do? do you always stock a certain amount of food, keep empty water jugs, or have a emergency plan formulated? i ask honestly btw, i know how the internets can give people the wrong vibe.

I read about some things that this administration has done that bother me second amendment wise. Like the military now has orders to shred their old 5.56 brass and sell it for scrap rather than sell the casings to the ammo reloading companies (which is also a huge drop in profits for the military).

I have to say that the ammo shortages that have been occuring ever since Obama took office do bother me, and that whenever I'm at walmart or drive by an academy I will stop and check and see if they have my calibers in stock and pick up a few boxes if they do. So I typically have a pretty decent amount of ammo laying around. I'll go to the range and shoot a few boxes, then buy 5-6 boxes to replace them whenever I find em. Right now at a quick glance I have:

1,100 .22
1,000 .45
500 .38 (though about 200 of these are old, dirty ammo. nice black cloud when I shoot them lol. last resort heh)
300 .357
300 .223

as far as food... I usually have a lot of canned beans, corn, soup, tuna, chicken, etc around, but that's just normal, not for any disaster preparation or anything. I also have three 5 gallon jugs for my water cooler that I usually keep full, but again that's just normal, not for any kind of disaster preparation, though it would come in handy. I have a few 5 gallon fuel jugs, but keep those at my dad's storage with his generator for now until I get a house down here. I think once I own a house down here I'll probably do more for storm/disaster preparation.

one thing you might say is kind of a disaster prep that actually came in very handy during Ike, was having large, powerful battery backups. I have an APC 1500XS that my PC, server, u-verse box, and one monitor are connected to. I can completely lose power but not lose internet. I actually had internet all during Ike and on through about 10am the next morning, and only lost it then because the neighborhood VRAD finally lost its battery backup. I could have tethered my sprint phone to continue getting it, but sprint had shut off internet service due to the large call volume and emergency useage of their towers. I also used the battery backup to run my TV with antenna for a few minutes a few times to check the news and weather.

the other reason this setup comes in mega handy is it allows me to use some software/webcam I developed to monitor my place. it's motion activated and will take video in one minute increments as long as there is motion. every time a file is finished it gets uploaded to my remote web server. so if someone breaks into my place, even if they completely destroy the computer or shut off power before going in, I'd still have them on video. I even have the software set up in such a way that it will text me when a new motion video is created and I can watch the video from my phone. It has come in handy to monitor the maintenance people when they have come in to fix stuff while I was at work to make sure they were messing with my stuff.

I know you're into weapons and stuff... I have a couple of large swords and some other misc weapons, but for the most part they're just for show. The swords are very real, made by united cutlery, 420 stainless and very well made, but have a false edge. I'm sure I could have an edge put on them, but if someone is breakin into my place I'm reaching for the .357 not the sword . Besides, they'd be very bulky to carry in your "apocolypse" type scenario anyhow. I have been wanting this one as kinda a final piece to my LOTR collection, but it's really hard to find now. That one, with an edge put on it, would probably be a pretty nice little people cutter. since I've already rambled on for a long post, here's a pic of my "wall 'o movie weapons"



As I said, mostly these are for fun/decoration, but the swords would probably be pretty nasty if I had a real edge put on them. And those nunchucks are definitely real and could easily crack skulls. Basically two solid wood beatsticks connected with a rope lol. The whip I guess could do something in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing with it (not me). Obviously the lightsabers are worthless for combat, but when I was in Lubbock me and my roommates would scare the shit outta each other in the middle of the night with them (very bright).

here's a pic of all the guns again, if yall haven't seen em:


left to right, colt defender .45, springfield 1911 mil-spec .45, smith .357 7 shot, ruger mkIII hunter .22, bushmaster M4A3