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I'm curious what kind of SHTF disaster are you concerned about that your current home could not withstand?
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I'm curious what kind of SHTF disaster are you concerned about that your current home could not withstand?
The Richter Scales! Rockin' folk, them! I give 'em an 8.. to die for!People we don't know.
Must be nice... Base Camp is far enough out in the foothills to be a nuisance for everyday, close enough to be a nightmare when the Urban Zombie Horde comes a-Walking Dead-ing.Welcome to the Forum NW Mike. I lived/worked in Morton for about 3-4 years. Still have friends there. I'd go slow with the wife and prepping, but highlight the SHTF natural disasters like the 9.0 RIP earthquake, or the unpredictability of wildfires....look at Alberta! I'd follow advice of previous poster Keep both, use the one place for a redoubt but live comfortably in town. To me prepping is like car insurance....I don't hope to have to use it, but if I do. Plus a lot of our preps are natural canning and we consume and then next harvest can again.
As time permits do a little rehab on the redoubt in the country so if you do have to go there...it's mostly GTG. SHTF I'd be happy to survive sleeping in a shop with a woodstove...anything better than a bivvy in the cold down pour is the HILTON after SHTF, IMHO.
I'd be thrilled to have your options. Where I am, only about 5,000 zombies to deal with in 60 sq. miles if SHTF. Others would have to swim to rain on my parade.
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Indeed. Many people in the know tout "The thick of it" modality.. whereby you'll be a fat little chomper trapped down and all competing with the rats (mmm!) under the collapsed skyscrapers.Must be nice... Base Camp is far enough out in the foothills to be a nuisance for everyday, close enough to be a nightmare when the Urban Zombie Horde comes a-Walking Dead-ing.
I mean, it's a nuisance for *me* getting around, but still close enough that I'll have to fight off the horde of Walking (Brain-) Dead. Worst of both worlds...Indeed. Many people in the know tout "The thick of it" modality.. whereby you'll be a fat little chomper trapped down and all competing with the rats (mmm!) under the collapsed skyscrapers.
Interesting idea... if I were doing a new build in a more semi-rural area I might actually consider deliberately building and then half-trashing such an "outer shell".Can you build a small habitable structure inside the ruins of the un-inhabitable one? (camo)...
...nothin' says "nothin' worth your life here! Move on." like a collapsed burnt building.
Can you build a small habitable structure inside the ruins of the un-inhabitable one? (camo)...
...nothin' says, "nothin' worth your life here! Move on." like a collapsed burnt building (with what seem to be desperate idiots shooting at you)
That was (is) my idea for over here. Find an OK building and make the insides nice and livableCan you build a small habitable structure inside the ruins of the un-inhabitable one? (camo)...
...nothin' says, "nothin' worth your life here! Move on." like a collapsed burnt building (with what seem to be desperate idiots shooting at you)
Kinda like a converted ICBM silo or LCC?How a building you can't see at all see very little of?
Like mostly underground?
Kinda like a converted ICBM silo or LCC?