Are YOU Ready?

[Neo Arcad]

Yeah, none will end the world, but what if that natural disaster was in your area?

What natural disaster? Be specific.

Viruses? More lethal.

The more lethal a virus is the slower it spreads and the more likely it can be safely contained.

I don't think it's paranoid to be prepared for the inevitable.

Global apocalypse is inevitable? Ookay dear.

Natural disasters? That's inevitable.

Packing away a few soup cans, drinking water and extra batteries for a flashlight in a cupboard somewhere is a reasonable precaution for such things. Stockpiling ammunition, 10 months of food and buying a biohazard suit is not. Hence the paranoia internet diagnosis.

Pandemics? Yeah. That's also a major concern for people who aren't clinically deceased.

No, not really.

A lot of this comes from my experiences during Hurricane Sandy, among other such disasters, so I'm speaking firsthand when I say that being caught with your pants down in that kind of situation is not fun.

And, again, there are reasonable precautions to take and there are unreasonable precautions. You crossed the border into Crazytown a while back there.

Ok.
I hope for your sake that you never have to deal with a major disaster. Because you'll die in the first week. If you even make it that long, lol.

[Esternial]

Ok.
I hope for your sake that you never have to deal with a major disaster. Because you'll die in the first week. If you even make it that long, lol.

I doubt the majority cares.

I'd rather go out banging, and not your kind of banging.

[Sidhae]

Personally, I don't plan on surviving an apocalyptic event to begin with. I see no point in staying alive just to prolong my existence by a short, brutish while in miserable conditions, only to ultimately die anyway - most likely in a slow, miserable way from starvation, infection, violence or any combination thereof.

So if I do happen to live through the apocalypse of whatever kind, it's going to be purely by luck (or rather lack of it) than by my deliberate preparation. Hopefully, though, it won't happen - the world is shitty as it is, I don't want to live to see it when it's shittiness has gone up by several orders of magnitude.

Rest assured, apocalypse only looks like something you'd want to survive when viewed through a TV or PC screen from a comfy chair in a warm room and a bag of warm popcorn to your right. The reality, however, would have most survivors envy the dead and regret being alive.

[Avenio]

Ok.
I hope for your sake that you never have to deal with a major disaster. Because you'll die in the first week. If you even make it that long, lol.

Is that really all you've got? 'lol, when the zombie apocalypse comes you'll die in the first week'?

How sad.

[Zottistan]

When the world ends, I intend on standing dramatically on my tower and laughing maniacally.

[Ifreann]

Try and join the Brotherhood of Steel, those guys are the bomb.

They don't tend to be open to new members, unless you're a PC.

[Esternial]

Try and join the Brotherhood of Steel, those guys are the bomb.

They don't tend to be open to new members, unless you're a PC.

I'll just bring some unmarked pills and call it the cure for mutation.

[Neo Art]

Ok.
I hope for your sake that you never have to deal with a major disaster. Because you'll die in the first week. If you even make it that long, lol.

Is that really all you've got? 'lol, when the zombie apocalypse comes you'll die in the first week'?

How sad.

but, zombies!

[Neo Arcad]

Ok.
I hope for your sake that you never have to deal with a major disaster. Because you'll die in the first week. If you even make it that long, lol.

Is that really all you've got? 'lol, when the zombie apocalypse comes you'll die in the first week'?

How sad.

What zombie apocalypse?! That's inane fiction! Have you been listening at all?
My statement stands regardless.

[Camarador]

I will take a flight to La Paz (Bolivia) and gonna hide in the slums between trash and banana peels.

[Neo Art]

Is that really all you've got? 'lol, when the zombie apocalypse comes you'll die in the first week'?

How sad.

What zombie apocalypse?! That's inane fiction! Have you been listening at all?
My statement stands regardless.

Yeah, all those other apocalypses though, totally plausable

[Esternial]

What zombie apocalypse?! That's inane fiction! Have you been listening at all?
My statement stands regardless.

Yeah, all those other apocalypses though, totally plausable

The Chinese are going to bomb us!

MARK MY WORDS!

[Neo Art]

Yeah, all those other apocalypses though, totally plausable

The Chinese are going to bomb us!

MARK MY WORDS!

Taking down their own economy in the process! Those slanty eyed bastards, I knew they were vicious, but not THAT vicious!

[Esternial]

The Chinese are going to bomb us!

MARK MY WORDS!

Taking down their own economy in the process! Those slanty eyed bastards, I knew they were vicious, but not THAT vicious!

The self-destructive urges are a Chinese thing.

Ke$ha injects it on a regular basis.

[Priory Academy USSR]

What zombie apocalypse?! That's inane fiction! Have you been listening at all?
My statement stands regardless.

Yeah, all those other apocalypses though, totally plausable

I don't know, there's always a chance of an uncharted asteroid hitting us. Mind you, there's nothing we can do to prepare for that, so there's no real point worrying.

[Neo Art]

Yeah, all those other apocalypses though, totally plausable

I don't know, there's always a chance of an uncharted asteroid hitting us. Mind you, there's nothing we can do to prepare for that, so there's no real point worrying.

Sure. "A chance". But we have a pretty good idea of how often that kind of thing happens, and how long it's been since the last one, and are pretty comfortable in the fact that we aren't due for the next one in at least 2-3 million years.

I mean, those are for the big "civilization threatening" rocks. The smaller ones, yeah, we're far more likely to be smacked by something between 200 and 500 meters, and that can do a crap ton of damage if you happen to be nearby.

IF.

And there's no way to prepare for a football stadium sized chunk of rock landing in your back yard. ANd even if it's "not completely terrible odds" that earth might be smacked by a few of them in our lifetimes, the odds of it landing within a mile from you are exceedingly small.

[Conscentia]

It occurs to me that, although the Mayan calendar ended a while ago,

That's not true. It did not end.
It counted over onto the 13th Baktun. That's equivalent to us counting over to the next millennium. (Well sort of. A Baktun is 144000 days long, not a thousand 365-day long years.)

[Esternial]

I don't know, there's always a chance of an uncharted asteroid hitting us. Mind you, there's nothing we can do to prepare for that, so there's no real point worrying.

Sure. "A chance". But we have a pretty good idea of how often that kind of thing happens, and how long it's been since the last one, and are pretty comfortable in the fact that we aren't due for the next one in at least 20-30 million years.

That's a worrying prospect if you're immortal.

[Kahlenberg]

It occurs to me that, although the Mayan calendar ended a while ago, we're not really out of hot water yet. There's still quite a lot of ways that the world as we know it could come crashing to a halt, from the outlandish (zombies, alien invasions, the Second Coming) to the terrifying (meteor impacts, nuclear warfare, nuclear terrorism) to the inevitable (supervolcanoes, pandemics). So here's what I'd like to know, concerning your potential survival:

-Have you ever put any serious thought/preparation into an apocalyptic scenario?
-What manner of defenses, if any, do you have against looters, raiders, and zombies?
-How much non-perishable food do you have, in terms of time?
-Do you have any method of establishing a quarantine in the event of an NBC-compromised environment?
-What is your long-term plan, if you have one, in a situation like the ones above?

Don't forget to do the poll as well! I'll have my stuff up in a moment.

- Nopes
- Nothing at all. Well, one of my roommates has a samurai sword. I guess we could use that.
- I'm a happy man if I have non-perishable food on the shelf, most of the time I buy what I need for that particular day.
- Nopes, nothing remotely close to anything like that.
- Dying. I don't like the idea of surviving anything that kills over 95% of the population. I don't fear death, and I don't think life would be very pleasant in post-apocalyptic conditions. In the future, I might accrue some materials for smaller disasters, but right now my simple student budget doesn't give me the financial space to do so.

[Neo Art]

The Chinese are going to bomb us!

MARK MY WORDS!

Taking down their own economy in the process! Those slanty eyed bastards, I knew they were vicious, but not THAT vicious!

This was my 9,000th post? Everything I've said here and I reach this milestone with ironic racism?

[Esternial]

Taking down their own economy in the process! Those slanty eyed bastards, I knew they were vicious, but not THAT vicious!

This was my 9,000th post? Everything I've said here and I reach this milestone with ironic racism?

Stop complaining, you pansy

[Alford]

I'm not exactly ready, but I've hashed out a plan with my buddy.

1. Meet up at the place we work. Bust into the gun store down the street and secure the area.

2. After we've fortified our work place, go to the local Lowes. Using our trucks, we would get all the building materials possible.

3. Convert our workplace (which is a Dairy Queen) into a fort. Rename it Ft. Dairy Queen.

4. Using the local radio station up the street, advertise our new fort. Gather other survivors and start a new civilization, with myself and my buddy as the de facto leaders.

We spent an entire 7 hour shift thinking about this. Yes, we are losers

[Uawc]

Anyone who says that disaster won't happen is kidding themselves and has never opened a history book.

I'm prepared enough to survive, I carry disaster/emergency supplies wherever I go. I'll feel better once I get myself a Mosin and a Mossberg.

Anyone who isn't prepared but wants to be should start by carrying a strong, relatively large pocket knife or small fixed blade. In my opinion, ESEE currently makes the best small fixed blades for hard use, and Cold Steel makes the strongest folding knives. The knife was humanity's first tool, and to this day it is still one of our most useful and widely used tools. If you're not carrying one, you aren't prepared for shit.

[Genivaria]

I AM FENRIS REBORN! COME TO DEVOUR THE WORLD AND YOUR SOULS!
I AM READY! ARE YOU!?

[Multiflow]

I got my sail boat ready.