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Anyone interested in survival?

I really highly recommend a water purifier of some kind (tablets, straw). Toledo, Ohio, had some problems with their water supply last week. The straws I have are said to be 99.99997% (or something like that) effective so if need be you could drink pond water or (God forbid) even toilet water. :eek:

Sportster is right about preparing for tornados here in the Midwest. We had an F5 come through here several years back and actually came several seconds to hitting the hospital where i work before it shifted. I wasn't at work at the time, but they have a picture of it coming at the hospital (they were watching it from a window and they said this one nurse just started screaming like crazy and a doctor had to get her under control). Miraculously no one was killed from that tornado.

If I remember correctly, several people were held up in their houses needing food and water after Hurricane Katrina. It's always a good idea to be prepared. I try to get a few extra supplies for my family as well, because they tend to believe the opposite of me by thinking that nothing could ever really happen.
 
I am, over the last few months I've started compiling items for my bug-out bag. Fortunately I have some backpacking experience so in addition to the tips I've found online I know what will be useful for me personally, and what it's like to just be out in the middle of nowhere with just what I have on me.
 
Mattymatt said:
I have neither anything to sell nor am I extreme in my views. I have a curiosity about living a simpler, freer life. The Mountain Men television show is remarkable in that it does not have an extremist agenda, it just talks about living a freer life. If you are able to separate the fear and paranoia from Doomsday Preppers, there is actually some pretty educational information.
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I have nothing against people discussing how to live like a mountain man or survive disasters (in fact, I will now offer a useful survival tip: don't use potentially dangerous quack "cures" instead of real medicine!), and I'm not saying that anyone who has posted here so far has racist views, I just felt like mentioning that discussion of the "stockpiling guns for the coming race war" type of "prepping" won't be tolerated here (and yes, I have had experience with dealing with people on this forum who posted stuff that would be more suited to a white supremacist forum or another similar cesspit).
 
Yeah. I did a semester long Outward Bound years ago. I love knowing what rock lichen etc I could survive on if I had to...
 
Mattymatt said:
Also, I'm a licensed Ham Radio operator ... It dovetails with my interests. Ham radio makes a great source of communication if the cell network and telephone network goes down.
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Matt, when the sh!t hits the fan, I doubt whether there will be any radio inspectors tracking down an illicit Yagi!
 
I love survival/prepping and read and watch what I can. for me, it;s about living the best life that you can if times get tough or even if they don't.
I practice what I can and educate my family. I also review prepper books.
 
Mattymatt said:
Also, I'm a licensed Ham Radio operator ... It dovetails with my interests. Ham radio makes a great source of communication if the cell network and telephone network goes down.
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What is the test like for a ham operator? (Types of questions)
And where do you take the test? Do you have to reaffirm the test? What happens if you use a ham radio without a license? After licensed, is there a class on how to broadcast on it?
 
The test grants you the license to operate a radio on the amateur radio spectrum. I should tell you that ham and amateur terms are used interchangeably.It consists of multiple choice questions about operating procedure, safety, etiquette, etc. There are three classes of licenses: Technician (entry level), General, and Extra. Each class of license above Technician level entitles the licensee to certain more restricted bands. The tests to upgrade classes are progressively harder. I'm a General class and I'm still studying for the Extra.

If you are interested, go to Callsign Database by QRZ.COM sign-up, and take some free study tests. Another good website is Home You can find Ham radio operator groups and testing locations.
 
nurseangela said:
Yes, but what happens if I use a ham radio without a license? (Not that I would ever do such a thing - I'm a model citizen.) :rolleyes:
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HA HA! I'm most certainly not a model citizen but I'm a good guy. I take issue with stupid laws like speed limits.
 
Oh. Good thing I know how to do a prison cell push up, huh? Might come in handy.

That could be a good way for someone to find you if you were trapped somewhere and needed to be rescued. Just get on and say a few "oddball" things and see what happens!
 
nurseangela said:
Can you elaborate on what this Outward Bound consisted of?
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It consisted of learning outdoor leadership skills and outdoor technical and survival skills. We just had backpacks, tarps, shovel, small stove, some dried foods, etc. We would be in the woods for weeks at a time, interspersed with projects and trips white water canoeing, caving miles deep into caves, etc. We did rock climbing and rappelling. Then for the last month, we were in Costa Rica and helped cut trail for preservation projects in the Guanacaste National Rain Forest. We each were taught to use a machete. We had a lot of problems with snakes, ticks and other things there. We ran out of food and got fevers. Then we went home. This was back in the day when you could take a machete home in your carry-on luggage as long as it was in the overhead bins. I was pretty attached to living out of a back pack. I like the whole thing of having everything I need with me. The transition back from any suitcase or backpack living is always a little rough, to me.
 
A little rough? I wanna be stuck on a deserted island with you! That reminded me of that survivalist show on either the History channel or Discover (I can't remember), but according to a scenario the world was overcome by some virus killing off most humans except for a specific few and they had to start from the bottom up finding food and water, shelter and electricity (but it was in a large city). The group consisted of an ER doctor, nurse, handyman, scientist, and some others. Let me tell you, you think you'd want to have the ER doctor and nurse there for sure, but they didn't really know a whole lot because they were used to working in a more "controlled" environment with all their drugs and machines. I would definitely want to be with the handyman and a man who knew how to hunt. They even had to learn how to make weapons from scratch as there were gangs that would show up and take their food supplies. Believe it or not - the tv program was put out by Homeland Security.

An important "girlie" question -
What did you use for toilet paper?
 
If it all goes belly-up then I want half a dozen aspies with me. The one thing they are good at when it goes wrong is surviving, after all, we do it all the while.

I have always loved going off and living rough, my holidays tend to be like that, and since I was diagnosed I've had the chance to do it with aspies 3-4 times. Totally different that when I've been with NT's, aspies just naturally find the rhythm of what needs to be done. The last time the girls 'grabbed' the hunt before we could put a word in so we had the camp ;)

What I enjoyed most was the silence, communication was 'elsewhere' unless we really wanted to say something. It was a great week.

I have a notion that aspies are the part that genetisists called 'hunters' in hunter/gatherers, The group I was with picked up crossbow use, skinning, and other stuff in one go and were a team within two hours. Best part was that no one wanted a 'leader', everyone just picked something to do and got on with it.

Oh, toilet paper?

We used large leaves, divided the stream into three zones of (going down stream) drinking, bathing and toilet.
 
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