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Assuming you've got 24 hrs to prepare and 12 of those you and only you know about the impending doom. You have 12 hrs to prepare before mass hysteria breaks out and you have 12 hrs before everything resembling government crumbles into disarray. Along with your government collapsing electricity, water and phone systems all go on the blink. What would your preparations be?

Get a lot of canned food and head a little northwest of where I am. I live in GA btw. Kill someone in a small cabin near the rivers there. Knock knock "Hello sir, could I int- excuse me what's that?" point behind him, he turns around, pull gun and shoot. I'm set.

If the government collapses it's all about survival, beg, borrow and steal.

My approach would be:
12 hrs of normal life/24 hrs of government
First I'd call up my immediate family while the phone systems are still up and as briefly as possible fill them in and tell them my initial rendezvous. Then I'd quickly call 2-3 of my friends that have the skill sets neccessary to establish a fresh start.
11 hrs of normal life/23 hrs of government
After phone calls are done, hopefully there will be 11 hrs left until all hell starts breaking loose as the public goes mad. I'd load up everything that anyone outside the "know" would find valuable.. tv's, computers, stereos, etc. And take them to the pawn shop. Then, I'd take me and my wife's credit cards and head out to load up on as much ammunition and gas as possible.
7 hrs of normal life/19 hrs of government
I'm going to assume that will take 4 hrs, leaving 7 hrs before widespread panic. I'd then pack up as much clothing, medical supplies and dry foods as I can from the house., while taking an inventory of what we have. Then it's to wal-mart. Me and my wife will split responsibilities in the store, each loading a cart with medical supplies, canned and dried food, alcohol, camouflage clothing, hunting and fishing gear, batteries, flashlights, an up to date road atlas, compass and binoculars. Then we'll walk out of wal-mart without paying. Anyone tries to stop us from shoplifting I'll draw my pistol and force them to help us load the vehicle. As quickly as we can, we'll dump the carts into the vehicle and our travel trailer and make our escape. (it'll take our local law enforcement 20-30 minutes to arrive and it won't matter once 0 hour hits as they'll have bigger fish to fry than us)
5 hrsof normal life/17 hrs of government
After our first major morally objectionable act out of the way, it's onto the back roads with a full tank and our travel trailer. We'll do our best to make it beyond most urban areas and make our way north west to whereeversville (our first rendezvous). We'll wait 12 hrs for others to arrive, sleeping in shifts. The rest will knowthe general outline of the plan and we'll be sure to leave a note for the next rendezvous point. The ultimate goal being the sparsely populated portions of North Dakota.
5 hrs of government
The government has it's hands trying to restrain riots and regain what tenuous amount of control it has a chance at. Our caravan will travel to North Dakota, stopping only to raid remote gas stations and service stations. Once we've found a place suitably distant from public, near water and with fertile soil we'll move onto restarting America.
Tasks will be given to everyone dependent upon their skill sets. Rationing of supplies will begin until we have established a hunting/foraging/farming arrangement that can easily feed everyone. A latrine would be dug, down stream from the living and farming area. Temporary shelter will be everyone's vehicles while construction for permanent shelter is underway. Beyond that, I'm sure there would be other projects to help re-establish what was lost, but I don't feel like spending forever blabbing about it.

Go Georgia!
Yeah, same as typeline, get food and move away, but I would try to go to get a group of people with me. Mostly cause I wouldn't want to be bored and alone in the woods. But I would also get some things like atv's, guns, and recreation items(like board games) for entertainment purposes.

mcfly wrote:Go Georgia!
Yeah, same as typeline, get food and move away, but I would try to go to get a group of people with me. Mostly cause I wouldn't want to be bored and alone in the woods. But I would also get some things like atv's, guns, and recreation items(like board games) for entertainment purposes.

Yay GA! I live right by Amicolola state park, I'm talking about the cabins near there on the mountain.

I forgot about the friends and such. I'd take people I don't know very well. Like a few people I've only had brief conversations with. Be more interesting to talk to over a long period of time. As for recreation items, porn, lots of it.

After the initial collapse tons of people will die, then all you have to do is scavenge every now and then. Be unnoticeable.

Hasnt this already long since happened?

I'm just across the Savanna river from ya'll.. It's a twenty minute drive to Augusta. I'm surprised there's actually Dakkaites in semi-close proximity to me..

Deadshane1 wrote:Hasnt this already long since happened?

long enough that I wasn't aware of it having happened..

Join the riots and enjoy the looting. Your screwed in the long run anyway (ie the toilet paper runs out).

That's when you scrub your butthole on the ground like a dog..

Lord Bingo has the right of it.

Hands on Cricket Bat asap, go and teach the Chavs who the Daddy is, thus landing myself a significant amount of manpower, and then take over my Town.

Well I'd probably take the day off work. Then maybe sit around the house play xbox, and figure it out when it happens.

I doubt much would happen to be perfectly honest.

And lets face it, for a Government to collapse, things would have been heading distinctly south for a long old time.

Drive to Canada.

It's less than 12 hours away.

Like above, change countries.

M.

Try to convince my wife that the only way to stave off the collapse is if she starts to swallow.


*edited mispelling of convince

Open up a wal-mart charge account, go nuts on survival equipment and guns, borrow a truck and head towards the mountains.

Oh, and I'd buy a Boy Scout Handbook.

First, I would break into any unguarded houses in my neighborhood, steal booze and canned/dry food and bottled water, blowing out their pilot lights and cranking open all sources of natural gas just for the hell of it. When my car is full, I'll drive around running over everyone in my way until I find a roving gang that I like the looks of and kill the leaders, thus demonstrating my ruthlessness. We would then go on some more organized and productive raiding and establish a stronghold somewhere in the city. Once the initial rioting is over we would ambush a national guard unit to get ahold of better weapons and vehicles, recruiting like-minded scum until we are strong enough to create our own techno-barbarian city-state that will become the basis for one of the post apocalyptic nations.

Meet up with Typeline and McFly. They live nearby and seem to have a plan.

BloodofOrks wrote:Meet up with Typeline and McFly. They live nearby and seem to have a plan.

Well...even though I also live in GA. I'd more likely than not get in on warpcrafters idea...what can I say, I'm a savage at heart.

I'm cashing out and flying everyone to our overseas relatives.

Failing that, I'm going shopping for firearms, ammo, fuel, water, gold, canned food, medical supplies, etc. and getting the family together at one of our houses. 12-hours of driving doesn't do me much good down here, so we'd have to bunker down.
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Of course, I'd base a lot of my playbook on the experience of someone who's actually been there, done that...

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2008/01/most-important-need-in-first-few-days.html

If it was just the government. I imagine the police, army etc would still be functioning, so things would pretty much stay the same.

But if all the infrastructure was collapsing, I'd head toward the nearest police station, if that didn't help the nearest army barrack.

Humorous response: steal all the food from the nearby deli

The bad news is that there isn't going to be one big, dramatic collapse. Things will just gradually crumble until one day we finally admit we're a third world craphole. Which at the rate things are going now should be next Tuesday.

Celebrate that Labor and Krudd are gone...

Lead a ragtag fleet on a lonely quest for a shining place, a place called...Earth.

I would make an island in the middle of a local swimming pool, stock up on food and protect myself with sharks,
SHARKS WITH LAZERS ON THEIR HEADS!

I take over and establish a theocratic society that worships me and gives me offerings of...peppermint ice cream and onion rings, because those are foods that do not suck. I'd also declare war on Heaven, space, the Pacific Ocean and Death. Oh and frog eggs would be an acceptable currency.

Take over, stealing a few ideas from this thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/229824.page

although, I live in Britain, we're used to it

Ask Icelanders what to do.

Well you know what watch the movie the postman,thats the way to live and a good survival guide.