Its Only 365 Days
209/365: THE END OF DAYS IS NIGH
28 JULY 14
I made this mistake of watching the History Channel today, and on it they were discussing what life after an apocalyptic event would really be like for the survivors. It "started" with, there will be dead bodies everywhere which carry with them pathogens, so you'd do best to bury them or burn them as soon as possible to help prevent the spread of disease. Violence will be an immediate danger. In order to protect and defend themselves people will use their guns, knives, axes, whatever to take what's yours if it will help them. The power will be gone, gas and transportation will quickly run out and once workers abandon their posts, the water from your faucet won't be safe to drink and you should switch to bottled water. There is but a thin veneer that holds our society together, the show said, and once people panic, die, are killed in mass numbers, that veneer will completely disappear. People will be desperate including yourselves to get any supplies they can. The show said, we have only to look to Katrina. 2 Days after the storm hit, most stores had been completely looted of every thing from toys to food to tvs. Looters will come, and people will and should form gangs or band together. Security will be the number one thing you will need to have as opposed to going it alone which won't really help you.
People will not only steal food, but they will loot houses searching for gold, necessities like clothing, and water, even pets for food---anything they can bargain or trade for with other gangs. If you stay in the city its best to make it look like your house has been sacked by tossing out trash and needless belongings on your lawn and not turning on your lights to attract unwanted persons from the street. Eventually heat, hunger, danger, lack of water, stress, will force you out of the city. A lot of animals will be roaming wild including those from your local zoos. We would also forget that it's not just regular folks out on the street, the prisons will be released into general population. There will be no real law system that can be upheld, and add to that the normal every day sociopaths that you arent' aware of that work with you, live near you, attend your church...without therapy, medications, monitoring, these will also be in the mix. Once you are forced out of the city, survival depends on your ability to be discrete, knowledge of how to survive in the wilderness without cars and everyday necessities, and location of clean water supply and food....
...and that's when I stopped watching. I saw the movie, "The Road," and it is the most terrifying and I do believe accurate portrayal of what would happen if disease, nature, or war crippled our society. The history channel show touched on how dumb it is to think that people will still be neighborly and help each other and build this sort of utopian society out of the rubble, and you can do that in perhaps smaller communities away from the big cities, but desperation for food and water are the biggest factors of people turning on one another. When your kids are starving or you are starving, pleasantries, the law, every thing goes out of the window because we all know we will do anything for our own families. It was crazy. I immediately wanted to go and take some survival courses, not that I'm too sure I'd survive the chaos of living in a city which I already hear sirens going off every night and day in!
Scary to think. IN other news, Jelly Flops, love them. Jelly Belly sells their bags of the beans that are not the right weight, shape, doubled up, or stuck together at a really cheap price, but they taste obviously the exact same. My favorite flavor has got to be buttered popcorn. It is insane how it just tastes like movie popcorn. It makes me think of Willy Wonka, where they were in the process of creating a 4 course meal in a gum, and Violet Beauregarde snatches up the gum and begins tasting it, and when she gets to the dessert, she swells up like a blueberry b/c Wonka had tried to warn her that the recipe wasn't ready yet. Love that movie. The original that is. I refuse to speak of the Johnny Depp abomination because I fear it will ruin my happy candy loving thoughts of my childhood.
209/365: THE END OF DAYS IS NIGH
28 JULY 14
I made this mistake of watching the History Channel today, and on it they were discussing what life after an apocalyptic event would really be like for the survivors. It "started" with, there will be dead bodies everywhere which carry with them pathogens, so you'd do best to bury them or burn them as soon as possible to help prevent the spread of disease. Violence will be an immediate danger. In order to protect and defend themselves people will use their guns, knives, axes, whatever to take what's yours if it will help them. The power will be gone, gas and transportation will quickly run out and once workers abandon their posts, the water from your faucet won't be safe to drink and you should switch to bottled water. There is but a thin veneer that holds our society together, the show said, and once people panic, die, are killed in mass numbers, that veneer will completely disappear. People will be desperate including yourselves to get any supplies they can. The show said, we have only to look to Katrina. 2 Days after the storm hit, most stores had been completely looted of every thing from toys to food to tvs. Looters will come, and people will and should form gangs or band together. Security will be the number one thing you will need to have as opposed to going it alone which won't really help you.
People will not only steal food, but they will loot houses searching for gold, necessities like clothing, and water, even pets for food---anything they can bargain or trade for with other gangs. If you stay in the city its best to make it look like your house has been sacked by tossing out trash and needless belongings on your lawn and not turning on your lights to attract unwanted persons from the street. Eventually heat, hunger, danger, lack of water, stress, will force you out of the city. A lot of animals will be roaming wild including those from your local zoos. We would also forget that it's not just regular folks out on the street, the prisons will be released into general population. There will be no real law system that can be upheld, and add to that the normal every day sociopaths that you arent' aware of that work with you, live near you, attend your church...without therapy, medications, monitoring, these will also be in the mix. Once you are forced out of the city, survival depends on your ability to be discrete, knowledge of how to survive in the wilderness without cars and everyday necessities, and location of clean water supply and food....
...and that's when I stopped watching. I saw the movie, "The Road," and it is the most terrifying and I do believe accurate portrayal of what would happen if disease, nature, or war crippled our society. The history channel show touched on how dumb it is to think that people will still be neighborly and help each other and build this sort of utopian society out of the rubble, and you can do that in perhaps smaller communities away from the big cities, but desperation for food and water are the biggest factors of people turning on one another. When your kids are starving or you are starving, pleasantries, the law, every thing goes out of the window because we all know we will do anything for our own families. It was crazy. I immediately wanted to go and take some survival courses, not that I'm too sure I'd survive the chaos of living in a city which I already hear sirens going off every night and day in!
Scary to think. IN other news, Jelly Flops, love them. Jelly Belly sells their bags of the beans that are not the right weight, shape, doubled up, or stuck together at a really cheap price, but they taste obviously the exact same. My favorite flavor has got to be buttered popcorn. It is insane how it just tastes like movie popcorn. It makes me think of Willy Wonka, where they were in the process of creating a 4 course meal in a gum, and Violet Beauregarde snatches up the gum and begins tasting it, and when she gets to the dessert, she swells up like a blueberry b/c Wonka had tried to warn her that the recipe wasn't ready yet. Love that movie. The original that is. I refuse to speak of the Johnny Depp abomination because I fear it will ruin my happy candy loving thoughts of my childhood.