Apocalypse Happened would you?

I'd head to the local libraries/colleges and try and get hold of any books on how to grow my own food and other survival skills. The food in the supermarkets will only last for so long before running out so at some point you will have to grow your own.

I'd then scout out a suitable place to live, should be plenty enough near me and once found, see if there is any way of securing the immediate area just in case. Once a place is found I'd start driving to the nearest helphire type place, steal a truck and start filling it with all the tools I think I may need and see if I can get hold of some generators, although saying that, while electricity would be nice the house I found would hopefully have an actual wood burning fire which should help keep me warm.

I don't know if I would actively go looking for people, but possibly do an I Am Legend with a shortwave radio letting people know that someone else is alive.
 
I'd say it depends exactly on what the details of the Apocalypse event are.

Personally though, I think you'd be an idiot to be putting Weapons as the first priority on the list.

Food & Water should be the priority.

To be getting weapons to go around killing or robbing people seems a bit silly. I also believe that the majority of people in society would not descend to this level until food supplies were really running low. That's certainly what's been theorized.
 
I'd use my 2 other wishes I have left over from the genie to wish myself a million dollars!!! and then use my other one to wish for more wishes
 
Nexus said:
I'd say it depends exactly on what the details of the Apocalypse event are.

Personally though, I think you'd be an idiot to be putting Weapons as the first priority on the list.

Food & Water should be the priority.

To be getting weapons to go around killing or robbing people seems a bit silly. I also believe that the majority of people in society would not descend to this level until food supplies were really running low. That's certainly what's been theorized.
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I must admit i disagree, I very much doubt that everyone raiding a specific food outlet will think to themselves "i will only take the food and water i need and leave some for other people" or they will be unlikely to form an orderly line whilst small rations are handed out to them.

I know i wouldn't which is why if i have a gun and no one else does, I get to take what i want and the people who didn't get weapons get to starve.

Survival of the fittest.
 
Water would be fairly important, but I think water purification tablets would do if I had to fill up from a dirty water source (I have a load around the house), but long term drinking from cleaner sources would be OK, and humans can get used to drinking dirty water if we have to. Boiling it all would be nice, but getting a fire going might be impractical in terms of fuel after all the gas cannisters/convenient wood sheds have been emptied.

Food - tins etc would be good, but longer term, hunting would be important, and growing veg, potatoes etc in several locations (so you don't die if a thief finds your crop location) would help. I'm sure there are books about food sources in Great Britain in outdoor shops up for grabs.

Shelter - Warm clothes would be important, luckily I have plenty of them, and a trip to an outdoor shop would fill in any needs. A house would be nice, but either danger from humans or need for food may need temporary accomodation, so I'd bring my 2man tent along.

Weapons - for protection from humans, and also hunting animals. an axe and machete from the garage plus a rifle stolen from my school cadet armoury (plus javelins for reusable hunting!) would suffice.

Transport - I'd try to get a big 4X4 plus spares, plenty of petrol for it (getting it out of a powered down petrol station my be rather difficult though), load that up and camouflage it, cover windows with metal bars - don't want anyone driving off with it when I'm out. Would be important to be able to initially get around quickly to grab supplies, and later to move on in search of better prospects.

Communication - Useful for if there is any coordinated government action, finding 2-way radio bits might be fairly hard, but nicking some from a police station might be an option, but maybe building your own analogue radio may be quicker than searching for another one.. No idea how I'd go about this though - may just have to stick to shouting at people.
 
It would probably be better to head for the rural countryside near some kind of water source, either that or form a large group for defense purposes.
 
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Nexus said:
To be getting weapons to go around killing or robbing people seems a bit silly. I also believe that the majority of people in society would not descend to this level until food supplies were really running low. That's certainly what's been theorized.
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You do realise that even without the obvious looting which would happen in such circumstances your average supermarket would be empty within 48 hours if it did not get its daily deliveries. So, if deliveries had stopped and and people were looting them they would probably be empty within 4-6 hours of the apocalypse.

Even the massive supermarket supply warehouses which are dotted around the country only hold a few days supply of most non-perishable foods (e.g. tins/packets etc). They have gone to great lengths to reduce the cost of stock in their supply chain.

I don't think it would be very long at all until things turned nasty :(
 
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