Not really.
There's **** loads of food, water and plenty of warm clothes + buildings + power and heating.
First few winters wouldn't be a problem at all.
What would you do if everyone just dissapeared?
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Not really.
There's **** loads of food, water and plenty of warm clothes + buildings + power and heating.
First few winters wouldn't be a problem at all.
You would be by ditching city for the wild. I would be living in luxury securing long term sources.
Remind me what people did before central heating? Oh yeah, used wood and coal to heat houses.
Or you would be able to hook up multiple electric fires to the power generator - it's not hard!
Most buildings are very easy to maintain and why would you maintain a city
which was my original point about moving to a small holding away from the cities and towns, which you questioned.
Maintain your Airport alone by all means, although I dont think you have any idea just what that entails. You would have to maintain all the structures yourself, you would be running power so the risk of fire is there, weather would begin to attack any unmaintained building soon enough. Just a small fire in one part of any built-up area will spread without attention, its just not worth the risk. A single hole in the roof will spread damp and crumble brickwork in a short period of time, who is going to hold a ladder or help you patch it. Nature itself will soon start to encroach on you, destroying buildings and roads you no longer can maintain.
You are setting up largescale windturbines and solar panels ALONE, it isnt practical. Even a small fire in an ajoining building will spread, you would be powerless to stop it. You are thinking too big.
Like I said a small farm or small holding away from any urbanisation is the safest bet.
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and dying from dysentry, or cholera or any number of airborne diseases from rotting food, rubbish, dead animals and such like. Rats would be overrunning you within weeks, feral dog packs likewise. Cities are not a safe place in this scenario.
Back to basics, small scale survival. No-one is saying eschewing luxuries is neccessary, but the basic tenets of survival would take time to set up. Protection and securing food and fuel sources to take priority. Learning to fly is not one of these.
I agree, but you need to do this in the right environment, an airport or city is not it. I was speaking specifically about acid2hells airport idea. There are all sorts of risks with staying in a city environment that would make it unfeasible for long-term survival.
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could always shack up at a military airbase, stay at the survival equipment building, loads of ration pack goodness there.
Not so much risk of fire, all buildings isolated from one and other.
Ridiculous amounts of fuel, batterys of all sizes, generators available.
Got yourself a runway, aircraft, cooking facilitys, firearms, abundance of clothing, navigation aids, flight manuals. Pick somewhere that has grobs first though, start with the basics
Not so much risk of fire, all buildings isolated from one and other.
Ridiculous amounts of fuel, batterys of all sizes, generators available.
Got yourself a runway, aircraft, cooking facilitys, firearms, abundance of clothing, navigation aids, flight manuals. Pick somewhere that has grobs first though, start with the basics
could always shack up at a military airbase, stay at the survival equipment building, loads of ration pack goodness there.
Not so much risk of fire, all buildings isolated from one and other.
Ridiculous amounts of fuel, batterys of all sizes, generators available.
Got yourself a runway, aircraft, cooking facilitys, firearms, abundance of clothing, navigation aids, flight manuals. Pick somewhere that has grobs first though, start with the basics
What on earth is a grob?
Comercial properties are far easier to maintain than housing. They are concrete, metal and glass. Not wood with tilled roofs which are easily damaged in high winds and hard to fix. I would have everything I need close to hand for short, medium and long-term survival. Animals are not a problem I don't know why you thing dogs would be a threat. They would be low risk anyway and in a secured area we are talking next to no risk.
How is a fire going to brake out in a metal and concrete structure with no flammable materials. Even if it does you move. you have the whole world full of resources and equipment.
Maintaining commercial buildings is as simple as keeping vegetation away. And as the area around them is tarmacked or concrete is easy. And using a industrial paint sprayer to paint metal once every decade.
Fire is not a risk.
Nor is setting up wind turbines over a few years. Or solar panels. they are not complicated, heavy or hard to use, with low maintence.
Structures and roads will last decades probably longer than a few lifetimes. We are not talking about maintaining roads with no potholes or anything of the sort.
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Small lightweight tutor aircraft.
No, thinking logically.
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Surely you'd be trying to find out of you were alone or not? Wouldn't travelling as far as you could be useful to see if you came across anyone?
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gaidin's alone world doesn't sound like much fun, I'd personally find the fastest car I could and shack up at a military base and experiment with all the equipment and then accidentally end up killing myself.
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Probably have to base myself around mountains for fresh spring water and rich soil for growing crops really.
Always fancied having a go at growing some vegetables and fruit so it might be a good opportunity.
So maybe take a boat across to America and just find a mountainous state, and live in a mansion there for a bit.
In reality i'd probably last a week and then go insane, unless my dog survived too
Always fancied having a go at growing some vegetables and fruit so it might be a good opportunity.
So maybe take a boat across to America and just find a mountainous state, and live in a mansion there for a bit.
In reality i'd probably last a week and then go insane, unless my dog survived too
there is nothing logical in your thinking.
How many pet dogs do you think there are in any given urban area?, what about the rats, they far outnumber humans now, with no control you will be over run in months.
Tarmac and Concrete is notoriously bad at keeping nature at bay. Are you going to clear the roads of abandoned rush-hour traffic, or deal with the aircraft that fell out of the sky when the people disappeared, or the electrical appliances left running for weeks, ovens left on or fires left on causing widespread wildfire or the gas leaks from non repair when the people disappeared or the animals that escape from safari parks and suchlike, then breed wild. Cities are a haven for such things.
What are you going to do with the miasma caused by tonnes and tonnes of rotting rubbish citywide causing pestilence and disease. The spread of insects due to the rubbish and standing water. Local problems like the thames tidal bore, the thames barrier doesnt work without people for long.
You havent taken any of the minutae of problems that we deal with on a daily basis in maintaining any urban area, these small insignificant problems will become huge ones without the people to maintain and repair them.
I thought the OP was clear on the fact there is no-one else. If there is the chance of other survivors then that changes the entire thing completely. A more mobile survival strategy is required. Short wave radio etc..