RG - we have gas hobs (bottled) and electric ovens after suffering several brown outs and a couple of blackouts in our first home in Belgium. No town gas in the country so always bottled. PV panels and heat exchangers so we'd have light and basic warmth and log burners for when it's really cold. Lots of candles, just in case. Our water comes from a nearby reservoir so I assume would be OK but that would be my only concern.
Still don't want to live beyond an apocalypse tho and would be happy to share a good boozy ending after eating all the goodies in the fridge, freezer and pantry.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Think this may be one of those instances where if the op had included their location it would have helped others understand the question a bit better. If you live in an area where you are likely to be cut off for whatever reason this is probably a far more pertinent and serious discussion than those of us living in cushy British suburbia may appreciate. Most of us probably leapt to the nuclear apocalypse presumption on first reading.
A university in Brazil concluded that in the event of a zombie outbreak the most likely country to survive would be North Korea, due to their high rate of military personnel per capita and their closed borders. That's one for the gammons to mull over. I heard that on the "No Such Thing as a Fish" podcast, which is great by the way.
For my part I've got a usb charger for my bicycle, so that I could ride around in circles during the day and listen to my ipod at night, though whether podcasts would still be available for download during a zombie outbreak is less certain.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
Lol... I've got it covered. Come the Zombie apocalypse I'm heading over to my sisters house where my brother in law for reasons I cant fathom has 3 stand up freezers in his garage which are packed to the gunnels and tins on every shelf in his garage. There are only two of them for Pete's sake.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
I lived near a group of Apocalyptics for a while in remote parts of Canada. The mix of frontier-mindedness, rural isolation, anti-gub'ment stances and waaaay too much smoking of special cigarettes didn't help them one bit. It all bit a bit swivel-eyed. When people start talking about aliens controlling phone satellites you know it has gone too far. Growing your own veg is one thing, literal tin foil hats is another.
PV panels and heat exchangers so we'd have light and basic warmth
Our PV doesn't work if the mains power drops out (it's 'grid tied'). We have to get an independent earth installed, a second inverter and some batteries to be able to run off grid. It's on the list, just after the wood fired oven
Tin foil hats always make me think of pastafarians for some reason.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Is this saving up for the apocalypse thing solely American? I've never heard of it over here. When you think of the useful types that would end up in the bunkers, I'm sure we have nothing to worry about.
Apocalypse prep is very American.. at least, rural American. I thought everyone did it, before traveling abroad. My town when's crazy for Y2K.. weekly local meetings, town committees, tutorials on changing money to gold and apocalypse preparations. Even before and after that, though, the apocalypse is never far from mind.
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Still don't want to live beyond an apocalypse tho and would be happy to share a good boozy ending after eating all the goodies in the fridge, freezer and pantry.
I found the entire conversation stimulating, as a child of rural America and an avid reader of science fiction and post-apocalyptic genres.
Come the Zombie apocalypse I'm heading over to my sisters house where my brother in law for reasons I cant fathom has 3 stand up freezers in his garage which are packed to the gunnels and tins on every shelf in his garage. There are only two of them for Pete's sake.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Tin foil hats always make me think of pastafarians for some reason.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
When you think of the useful types that would end up in the bunkers, I'm sure we have nothing to worry about.