US and UK Preppers

[paulus 26]

If lawlessness did break out, My idea would be to get a good few people you can trust to take over a high rise building, Preferably one without a lift. Barricade yourselves in there, It would be far easier to defend a stairwell from an elevated position than to try to protect a house. 

[Lenmcharristar 9,811]

3 minutes ago, mackem said:

It was an interesting experience to say the least.

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You sure those broken trees arent big foot calling cards lol

[low plains drifter 10,599]

7 minutes ago, mackem said:

It was an interesting experience to say the least.

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[Greyman 28,509]

3 minutes ago, paulus said:

If lawlessness did break out, My idea would be to get a good few people you can trust to take over a high rise building, Preferably one without a lift. Barricade yourselves in there, It would be far easier to defend a stairwell from an elevated position than to try to protect a house. 

You,ll be burnt or starved out mate better off heading down the channel to the Holmes islands to join my private army place is full of old military bunkers and lifting with wildlife on land and in the sea around it, will have to get a thl  password sorted out though as I,ll be shooting on sight lol 

[paulus 26]

Just now, Greyman said:

You,ll be burnt or starved out mate better off heading down the channel to the Holmes islands to join my private army place is full of old military bunkers and lifting with wildlife on land and in the sea around it, will have to get a thl  password sorted out though as I,ll be shooting on sight lol 

I would take fireman Sam and half of ALDI in with me Lol

[forest of dean redneck 11,614]

11 minutes ago, Greyman said:

You,ll be burnt or starved out mate better off heading down the channel to the Holmes islands to join my private army place is full of old military bunkers and lifting with wildlife on land and in the sea around it, will have to get a thl  password sorted out though as I,ll be shooting on sight lol 

What about those old sea fortress places are they to unsafe now ? 
 

There’s plenty of places tucked away if your quiet like maintenance tunnels etc on railways /subways etc 

[Wolfdog91 7,102]

Depends. 

Down here what most would consider prepping isn't really considered prepping just common sense . Because there's certain time did the year, mainly hurricane season where it's a yearly deal and you my end up not having water electricity and similar form a few days in average to a few months in more extreme cases. Two to three weeks being about average.  So just about eveyone worth a shit has 6-12 cases of bottled water , a generator of some sort ( me I just have a little tail gater generator that can charge my devices and run some lights on an extension cord) power banks ,small solar panels , a decent stock of non perishable food , some way to boil water ( why most houses down here still run gas stoves and most if us have our own propane tanks attached to our houses ). Eveyone has extra gas cans you keep full all year, never wait till shits about to happen to try and get 50gal of gas. Also all the gear for your chainsaws and the like. O an having extra, because down here helping out your neighbor is a big thing. 

Also most have bug out bags , not really prepper stuff but more like " hay it might flood we need to leave here's all our important documents and a few days worth of cloths and what not"

Just about eveyone also has some type of half decent fishing set up because we have learned relying on super markets and stuff isn't the best idea. I know when Katrina hit and we where fishing and catching what we ate for a few days because the stores couldn't get anything in due to the roads being messed up and other stuff.

There's also little stuff like keeping bags of ice and water bottles frozen in your deep freezers at all times. Why ? Power goes out those keep stuff cold  for days.

 

Now the doomsdays guys ...egh alot of them basically have a fetish with that stuff. No real world experience just a half assed plan and a lot of spare money. Got a friend who was a big pepper , big on the whole bug out thought process. Decided to see how prepared he was one day so me and one of my army friends invited him on a lil ruck march around campus. Nothing much only 5 miles. Our rucks had everything we needed for a 1 week FTX about where about 45lbs. His was like 30 something. 2miles in he about passed out because he never actually rucked like that. His drop leg holder kept getting caught up and we kept having to stop. His gear made too much noise ect. And don't get me started on food gathering with these people. Will put away a roll of 550 cord and say that's for their snaring and stuff when shit hits the fan but look at you like your crazy when you show them a modern snare set up and how easy it is to set up. Had one guy get so mad it wasn't even funny. Had five snares set and ready to go without breaking a sweat buy the time he was done with his first spring snare .  Extension cables , pre made supports and camo painted snares.

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[low plains drifter 10,599]

51 minutes ago, paulus said:

If lawlessness did break out, My idea would be to get a good few people you can trust to take over a high rise building, Preferably one without a lift. Barricade yourselves in there, It would be far easier to defend a stairwell from an elevated position than to try to protect a house. 

We used to hire this from Leos video hire Circa 1987, if Leo wasn't about his son Peter would serve us, it was the six week holidays and we were 10 

 

[king 11,972]

1 hour ago, Greyman said:

Steep Holme and flatholme are a days chug from me ain’t no fecker swimming there 

The only man in history of mankind to swim the straights of johor..could swim it..

 

[mackem 26,683]

2 minutes ago, king said:

The only man in history of mankind to swim the straights of johor..could swim it..

 

Didn't do him any good, died a penniless alcoholic and both his kids are doing life for murder. 

[king 11,972]

35 minutes ago, mackem said:

Didn't do him any good, died a penniless alcoholic and both his kids are doing life for murder. 

It's some fight he had against John Gardner..

 

[Daniel cain 45,558]

2 hours ago, paulus said:

If lawlessness did break out, My idea would be to get a good few people you can trust to take over a high rise building, Preferably one without a lift. Barricade yourselves in there, It would be far easier to defend a stairwell from an elevated position than to try to protect a house. 

28 days later?   Silly cnuts left its safety

[ditchman 2,843]

buy shares in "soylent green"

[mC HULL 12,694]

4 hours ago, forest of dean redneck said:

If you sit down and think about it realistically 

if you barricade yourself in how long could you last with food no flushing toilets drinking water etc And then there is being targeted by others who may have access to  construction tools to breach your defences a vehicle as a battering ram and fire to burn you out ?

if you decide to (bug out) you could be seen as a walking target with fancy gear and if your not on your own they could use loved ones like your kids /girlfriend /wife against you and also would they hold you back travelling ? 
 

best case scenario is somewhere remote or hard to access tucked away with provisions   Buried in caches nearby ?? 
 

 

your toilets  would just back up lol no pumping stations working so your house fills up with shit so you’d need to bug out 

 

[forest of dean redneck 11,614]

21 minutes ago, mC HULL said:

your toilets  would just back up lol no pumping stations working so your house fills up with shit so you’d need to bug out 

 

Yes that’s the point I was making it’s going to get nasty and unhygienic pretty quickly .lol