"POST APOCALYPSE, where would you head to and why?" Topic

So as a side question to this TMP link where in the world would you want to experience the whole joy of the post apocalypse and why. Where do you think would be contested areas that would be fought over and why.

I would head to Pool in Dorset, it has a huge natural harbour but is very shallow. I reckon fishing will be the way to survive, and shallow means less big nasty radioactive beasties trying to eat me back!!

I'd head home. Equivalent of running to the hills considering where I live. Presuming Finland doesn't get totally nuked (obviously assuming it's a nucler apocalypse in the 1st place), I have a good well and a house with fireplaces and there's plenty of arable land if I can find anything to plant. Already have a head start on building palisades, even.

I'd head home too. More guns and stuff like that there.

Totnes. They're already planning for a milder end of the world, are sorting out food and energy production, and if all else fails have a walled hill fort….

Where I live would probably be destroyed, but if I were lucky enough to survive, I would take my wife and head back to my home town. My dad and my wife's step-father both have houses in the area and both are avid outdoorsmen. So we would be well armed and have plenty of food from gardens, fish, birds, rabbits, deer, etc. The I grew up in is near Cooperstown, NY. I'm sure my wife's uncle and his family in Colorado would also head our way, since he likes the region and considers moving there, but I imagine it would be an ordeal to cross the continent like that.

To tell the truth, I would worry most about my wife. Her biological father, sister, brothers, and cousins are 9000 miles away in the Philippines. Without phones, email, chat, snail-mail, airplanes, etc she would never hear from them again. Hmmm maybe we could all head for the west coast and try and find a passage across the Pacific-sounds a little unrealistic.

Considering where I live, if it's a nuclear strike, I'm SCREWED!

Though if it does happen, first place I'm going is the gun shop on Fleet Street, here in Swindon.

The atomic fall out zombie hordes will have a fight on their thrice rotted hands with the number of shotguns I'll have gotten hold of!

Actually, all of you people living in USA and similar countries with less barbaric weapon restriction laws are better off then most of us in Europe.
How can we, upstanding and good citizens, protect ourselves from those evil and nasty Mad Max style gangs… with bows and arrows ? :D

I'd head north, for Vancouver BC. However, I rather expect that they'd be glowing, and I'd be such a mess when I got there, that it really wouldn't matter.

Hmmm…presuming Nuclear, I don't know that we'd
survive, being roughly 40 miles W of and 40 miles
E of prime targets (population, administrative and
commerical centers, government, transportation hubs).

But there is game here, potable water (not too far to
dig a new well), arable land (if fall-out doesn't
contaminate it), running water (broad stream about
125 M from the house, and down-hill from us, too)

I know a lake in New York far from any city. Full of fish, deep and there is a floating platform in the center with several buidings on it with it's own generator power.

That's were I'm going and I'm not telling you where it is!

Pack up the MREs and ammo, we're moving out!

If it where a survivable issue…I would go where the work was.

With an extensive experience background, multi-certified training, and the ability to work on anything from a hand held radio to a 700' ship would make me a wanted man.

I would take my pick of the best place to live.

Where I am now I would say the prime picking would be off shore on one of the near by oil rigs picture . I know a fair share of the oil execs (as I have worked on the big boats and worked the oil field as an electronics tech) so I would know where to start. Some of the rigs are empty so even better as these have vast sealife attached to them…just a few miles away as the bird flies or the fish swims.

Being close to the shore we could make runs inland to hunt for giant mutant pig picture , the giant gators that eat those giant pigs picture , havalina picture , and giant chickens picture . And then there is the fishing picture , picture , picture .

Depends on your apocalypse, I do live and work withing 5km of a navy base.

With my afflictions, I'd probably tell the kids to head for the Annapolis Valley and try to find a way to be useful. Then I would set down and read while staving to death.

Texas is a big country, though I have a feeling that most ranchers will band together to avoid city-folks from trespassing.

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Lentulus..you take all the fun out of the romantic images of a PA world ruined by (insert your poison) :)

I think I'd head for the Wichita Mountains & join the ghost dance. :)

The highlands of Scotland for me!
There is good haggis hunting if you know where to look

I doubt New Orleans would change much, so I'd just stay home.

LT

"(insert your poison)"

Well, if the PA is brought on by a virus that cures (and reverses the damage caused by) arthritis and type 2 diabetes and kills everyone who does not have both, then I am on my way to the nearest ice cream stand when I will step over the bodies to get at the good stuff before it melts.

After I have gorged, I will develop phase II plans.

LOL

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The hills.

It's traditional.

Its gonna get crowded in them there hills…

You think I am telling you jokers!???? It's a secret!

Find a defensible location, close to water, like this . . .

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And send out scavenging parties to gather food.

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I would head home. I considered this when house hunting last year. We are far enough away and protected by a range of hills when Atlanta gets nuked. We are not downwind of the fall out. Far enough away that the survivors probably can't walk to the area. Inaccessable enough that they probably couldn't find it anyway, especially if we blow the bridge over the river at the end of the road. Horses for transportation. Garden in the back yard. Lots of local livestock and game. Fish in the river. 2 good spots for digging wells, with the water table less than 10 feet down. House is hard to see from the road and in a good defensible position, well stocked with appropriate resources. Few neighbors, who have already agreed to pool our resources. Eventually, we plan on being off the electrical grid when the wind turbine and solar panels are in.

I'm already there

If I selected any specific haven it would likely be the first place destroyed or overrun. I'm all about keeping my options open.

brass1 said:

I doubt New Orleans would change much, so I'd just stay home.

Best answer ever! LOL

My crazy friends actually started a Yahoo group detailing our planned post-apocalyptic enclave – including convoy routes to the planned enclave, a list of skills provided by each member, and a list of "things to appropriate while in convoy on the way to the enclave". For security reasons, I cannot share the exact location with you – but let me look through the group and see if I can find our reasoning:

1. Factories built for the production of steel or heavy industrials are extremely robust structures. This should help for both ease of maintenance and for defensibility.
2. Factories should have their own backup utilities that we might be able to restore. There should also be a variety of heavy equipment that can be converted to other purposes.
3. Depending on the type of catastrophe, Rust Belt factory towns could be abandoned as a depressed economy will force people from those towns, dependent on those factories, to search for other employment. Thus, acquisition of said town should be fairly easy.
4. Since they tend to be in the middle of nowhere, there should be plenty of rural acreage for acquisition of natural resources needed to supply the requirements of the community.

I volunteered to lead the Morale Group, which I promptly renamed the Orgy Party.

Well, after I drag myself out of the bank vault, I'm going to the library to make giant stacks of books that I plan to read over the coming years. Paradise!

OH CRAP, MY GLASSES!

*despairs*

Depends entirely on the nature of the Apocalypse.

If we're talking nuclear war, I won't be around (far too close to several priority targets).

Asteroidal impact? depends on where the rock landed in the first place, but I probably wouldn't have to move at all. We'd have to do some land re-development, consisting of ripping out the new neighborhoods and putting farmland back in, but that's a minor detail. Actually, an asteroidal impact-'nuclear winter' would be the easiest apocalypse for me to survive. lots of wild game in the area, 3 large dams for hydropower and irrigation, and lots of stupid people to panic and remove themselves from the 'how do we feed all these people?' equation.

Frankly, except for the loss of citrus fruit, I'm not sure we'd even notice an asteroidal impact in Asia or the Pacific Ocean.

I intend to elbow Dick Cheney out of the way and get into the man-sized safe first. I'm younger and fitter, but he's meaner, so I need to get the door slammed before he can get the shotgun levelled at me.

The world will end with a virus of some sort. Its only a matter of time before some flu like virus jumps species a couple of times and gets a bunch of mixed up genes and it is all over. It would only need a mortality rate of 5-10%, maybe less, and the wheels of civilization will come undone.

Who will go to work if there is a chance if you will catch something that will kill you or your family. Who will send their kids to school. Who will go to work at a hospital when health care workers have a higher risk factor then anyone else, dont believe me look at who dies when ever Ebola or other African viruses get unleashed.

With store shelves empty of food, with no gas at the gas station, no shows on the TV except for the Government alerts. Tell me what happens next. When the governors call out the National Guard and hardly anyone turns up you know it is all over. That will be the key indicator if the gov. will fall or not.

Well, as noted depends on what happens – we are mid-way between two major urban centres (100 or so miles, 180 km) so we might not get hit – right away – and if so, I am off to the eastern shore of Lake Huron – good fishing, lots of agriculture, and small towns that could use a rusty old sawbones like me

I remember that Twilight Zone episode Darthfozzywig. A classic. :)

And… personally I'm not sure I'd want to survive. If the apocalypse happens I think I'd rather go with the bang, so to speak, than endure the slow death to follow. We're not all made of survivalist stuff.

The future looks grim . . . in the film The Road:

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Since there wouldn't be much difference I would just stay where I live now.

Hate to sound morbid, but I hope I'm at ground zero.

Don't have any survival training skills to speak of, bad heart, out of shape, no weapons, can't hit the side of a barn if I was two feet from it, etc.

On the other hand, I might learn quickly if I had too.

WELL, seeing as i am now physically "challenged" in my old age, with generally bad heath that requires medications to continue to survive, if i survived round one, and folks started to boogie, i think i would have to stay behind.

the rear guard is where you will find me and my powerchair/walker/crutches, full belly, well armed and itching to take some scumbag with me since i know i am already as good as dead. no since trying to bs myself or anyone else about it.

however 10 years ago it would have been head away from population centers, avoid fellow refugees, and establish a base camp in a very rural or wilderness area near running water, trees, with abundant fish/fowl/game, and an area where i could plant a low maintenance food crop of some sort. scout around to see what i can see.

probably dig out a bunkerhouse in a hill side , with overhead cover and sod over that. this can make a very efficient place to survive for an indefinate length of time.

and of course i would have take my squeeze with me, but, she would be bummed by the lack of modern amenities and have to adapt to the new life. fortunately she is very adaptable

DAWGIE

"POST APOCALYPSE, where would you head to and why?"

I would head to pre-apocalypse, because its pre-apocalypse.

Stew,

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I would stay right where I am, I'm on a small farm already growing my own food, have goats, rabbits, and chickens, so meat, milk and eggs are covered too. Have a deep well and a generator, neighboring farm has two wind generators, or in this case had, cause you know I will move them here, have wood heat so lots a trees around, and have a log splitter. Have a bow and arrows, mini 14 and 45 auto and 12 gage pump, lots and lots of ammo, plus food in storage. So I think I'm sitting good right now. I would get shipping containers from the rail yard down the road and surround the farm with them and set up a gate of sorts, more like a moat with a draw bridge. with a large front-in-loader just dig a wide and deep trench stack containers two high on the outer side and three high on my side then back fill a little, so a deep wide trench reinforced with containers, so you could really only apraoch the gate and aroud the rest I would have gun ports and the like so it would be defendable and I would help those whom deem worthy this is just a basic idea that would continue to improve as time would go on. I know I suck.

Mil Dot,

Very cool. Glad to see you are thinking ahead.

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