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Read S.M. Stirling's "Dies the Fire" and you'll get an idea of how different survival situations could evolve. There are several roving groups, there's several stay put groups. He writes about an apocalyptic world in a very reasonable manner. There are a variety of different groups and how they all get there, how they evolve and how they interact (or don't) are all handled in a very rational and logical manner. Well, considering they're in the middle of an apocalypse. The premise of the book is there's a big white light and then things that take concentrated energy to run don't work. Eventually, (this is a whole series of books) there is a premise that it was done by aliens who didn't want the humans to destroy the planet but the why doesn't really matter so much as the how they deal with it.
More than likely, though, a surviving group will have a little bit of production as well as scavenging. Eventually, the groups will have to get back to producing their own food in some fashion even if it is hunting wandering herds and then drying the meat. They would still need to gather as they go along as well. This would only work in areas that aren't very populated, though, I'd expect.
there is no such thing as a Zombie-not at least the Hollywood variety "dead man walking" but there will be plenty of Zombies-the unprepared, the diseased and the addicted.
There was a funny photo making the rounds showing a group of teenagers walking to school and they were all staring down at their phones as they went. The caption was something like " Zombies do exist"
a friend visited a few weeks ago and told us the tale of a "news" report he had seen of some teenagers who were challenged to go 24 hours without mobiles, pc,s, Xboxes and such related items, within a couple of hours they were absolute gibbering wrecks without their "fix" of technology, makes you wonder what they would do in an emergency when the power and phone towers were down. and not just teenagers either.
if shtf, so many will be dead, so fast, that the survivors will be able to just pick up a ton of useful stuff. If you know anything about growing sprouts, you'd know that staying fed (well) just is not that big a deal. Some nets, trotlines and fish/turtle/crawdad traps, fish poison, bird lime and you'll have plenty of flesh food, too.
a friend visited a few weeks ago and told us the tale of a "news" report he had seen of some teenagers who were challenged to go 24 hours without mobiles, pc,s, Xboxes and such related items, within a couple of hours they were absolute gibbering wrecks without their "fix" of technology, makes you wonder what they would do in an emergency when the power and phone towers were down. and not just teenagers either.
I do not give my daughters any kind of tech device for their own. they mainly spend their time out of doors like I did when I was a kid.
If you think Zombies aren't real, come to my neighborhood around 11pm...
As for prepping, my plan involves appropriating a Tank! Like the guy said on the Walking Dead, "The apocolypse don't mean skit when you got a tank!"
Or maybe a battleship with some tomahawks.
I hope you've got a ton of fuel put back for it.
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