Comments on: Mutant Zombie Bikers? It begins…

By: Prepper

Prepper — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:21:57 +0000

Thanks for chiming in on this guys! Some times the whole, I have a BOL and so I won’t have to deal with the neighbors thing can get in the way of the real threat that the unprepared pose. While I have been pondering this subject a lot lately, I wonder if I should be setting my sights higher across the board… More food, more food production supplies, etc. I’m not real concerned about enough armament as anything I lack in this area will be made up for by feeding my hungry friends!

Prepper

By: Garry

Garry — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:53:39 +0000

Prepper, This brings a bit of a chilling thought but one I also care to follow through on. I live in an urban area and would have already drilled my family on security measures from the beginning (ex. house will always be secured with defensive posture in case someone tried to “appropiate” supplies. While I am not on a personal level with many of my neighbors, I would suggest ways to acquire food but at this point in time I do not feel I would be able to start loaning out food as I believe this would be an never ending course of action. I do believe in charity but my approach would be to try to show others how to provide for oneself. While this may not be a perfect remedy I do not see how I could do otherwise. I greatly appreciate the scenario you have posed as I definetly see how this situation could come to pass in my area and I will make contigencies for this in my planning. We are fortunate where we live where there are woods in walking distance where critters dwell but in a case of SHTF there will be many people out there trying to secure food, and then probably the prosepect of getting this food back to the homestead. As I mentioned this is chilling but is a situation that I will be doing more planning on. THANK YOU for this fore-ward thinking mental excercise.

By: JeSter

JeSter — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:31:23 +0000

Prepper,

Thanks for this mental exercise. I have been thinking a lot about this kind of scenario since finishing One Second After. We’ve already discussed what we think about EMP, so I won’t get bogged down with that.

Personally I do not have a BOL yet. I’m actively looking and there are certainly financial considerations. As a result, if the lights go out tomorrow I will be living your hypothetical scenario.

Here’s two initial thoughts. First, I think it’s important to be proactive! I have experience and have thought these things through to some degree. I’m no expert, but I would guess I am more prepared than 99% of my neighbors (yikes!). Thus, I would actively rally the neighborhood to band together and “hunt squirrels” very early. This would do two things; keep folks busy and take the focus off of my house and family.

Secondly, I have done a lot of thinking lately. I’ve even started to discuss this with my wife. We’ve reached no solid conclusions, but we agree on two things (in theory). First, we want to survive and care for our family. Second, and most important, we want to remain “human”. Neither one of want to become a MZBs! I believe our Great Nation was founded by men who risked everything and were selfless. Frankly, I’d rather be remembered like that than busting in my neighbor’s house to steal their last box of Cheerios.

JeSter