How to Survive the First 90 Days After the Collapse

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[Nintendo]

My dad is is 67 years old and he said "son, ive been hearing the world was going to end tomorrow since i was in 3rd grade. Just live."

[marcoosvald]

The first 48 hours after Katrina, All was quiet. The 3rd nite, all the riff raff came out to loot. My buddy and I sat at the entrance to my neighborhood. I was the third house on the block with only one road in. We were armed to the teeth but we both had shotguns in our laps. We watched the looters make their way to our neighborhood. They never saw us sitting there still as rocks. As they reached the middle of the street in front of us, we both racked our 12 gauges... Never seen people levitate like that before! They flew out of there in a space of a heartbeat. Never had another problem through the recovery.

[christianstadler]

Small piece of advice but shouldn’t go overlooked. Get books people! I’m talking actual real books about gardening, hunting, land navigation, medicine, anything remotely important to survival. In a situation like this, there is no google or internet

[garymiller]

Better to be prepared 10 years to soon, than one day too late. In other words be ready.

[reyzizr]

I've survived for 2 weeks without power twice. It was miserable. But we knew it would be restored. Knowing it will not be restored is a whole different ballgame.

[flintsky]

During the 2021 freeze in Texas, we were without power for +48hrs, some were without for much longer. In the first 24hrs, every gas station had run out of gasoline. There were lines of cars a mile long waiting to get gas at the few places that had it. People began fighting in line, no regard for each other. You could feel the tension. Every grocery store like HEB was empty. The shelves had nothing. When they restocked, people could only get one gallon of milk and one pack of meat per purchase. People began fighting over the food. It’s astounding that in such a short amount of time, society here was on the brink of collapse. This was 2 days of no power. Imagine a week?

[jackriddell]

I love how the takeaway from this is community. Expected a lot more of the “stockpile ammo! Do shooting drills!” When in reality, the idea of strength in numbers and maintaining supplies together takes greater importance.

[mrindia]

If people can run over each other for a sale on black friday. No telling what will happen if SHTF. Prep, pray and hope we don't have to see that day

[d.f.]

My experience: San Francisco earthquake 1989. The panic was immediate. The store shelves were bare within an hour. The earthquake wasn't the scary part. The people's reactions, that was scarey.

[SHAPPENS]

I watched this 3 years ago and im eatching it now. I feel like right now theres more chance than ever

[paddyoak]

I was a convenience store cashier for 10 years. I can remember severe winter storms that shut down the whole area. After several days without power, humans start getting crazy. All I could think of was how bad most would handle a REAL disaster.

[thereforepie]

Never have high expectations and you'll never be disappointed. Simple friends. Also stop guessing just prep in silence.

[Owen]

This keeps referring to police, military and hospital staff continuing to function, even stores being staff post-24 hours. I believe in a critical situation, these workers would almost equally abandon their employment to support their own families.

[alisonvanschoor]

In South Africa, various countrywide prepping groups have formed to protect each other and their fellow citizens in a severe SHTF scenario. Our family is part of such a group and have prepped for years.... yet we cannot get one single member of our friend group to do the same.... it is confounding to me! We have preps for staying at home, preps for leaving and joining our prepping group away from the cities and preps for if we are alone somewhere, living off the land. Our prepping group communication network does radio checks once a week ( across the whole province). We have camping weekends together to use and refine our preps, where we have to find and filter our own water, only eat the kind of food we have in our stockpile and even dig pit latrines. Most of our prepping group have off-road caravans so that we have comfortable, lockable places to sleep....
My friend group on the other hand, say that prepping is too negative to think about, but for me its quite the opposite: the more I prep, the calmer and more in control I feel. So while my friend group have enjoyed travel and fancy toys over the years, we have plowed all our spare time an money into our "ark".
Bear in mind that we in South Africa live with rolling blackouts already, so we are much closer to grid-down than you in America.
Still, despite all this, our ultimate preparation is the strengthening of our Faith. God has placed us here, at this time - I am always mindful of the verse from Esther: "Perhaps you were made for such a time as this".
The writing is on the wall - only the foolish and blind cannot see it or recognise it. God Bless you all in your preparations!

[vincea]

You can have everything prepared perfectly, but if you're out of shape then it means nothing should u find yourself in a situation where you need to run away.

[coryjenkins]

Always prepare and pray you will never need.

[daffybigbear]

i spent 20 yrs in the army and i was a ranger, Our survival training is insane. We are taught to live indefinitely in the wild with little to nothing, even without a knife. I am so thankful for the training i received. you would be surprised at the kind of things we learned to eat. From inner tree bark to bugs. We would do sustained survival training in jungles, cold weather, desert and mountains. Even now i still keep my skills honed just in case. If you could only have one thing, have a good knife. Invest in good equipment or tools because you do NOT want your shit to fail when you need it. There are many ways to test plants to see if they are edible. Some take a bit of time such as cutting open a plant and taping it under your arm by your arm pit for several hours to see if there is a reaction. Yes sounds strange but it works

[BayouCoyote]

Hurricane Katrina was like a test drive of preparedness. No electricity for 5 weeks, no phones for 6 weeks, and no gas for 7 weeks. We made it just fine...many of our neighbors didn't. Some lost all of their stored food in their freezers. Our rural community was isolated due to the sheer number of downed trees. The highlight of the day was loading everyone into my pickup truck to drive the 1 mile to the volunteer fire station to watch the national guard drop cases of MREs from a helicopter 2 weeks into the whole ordeal after locals had cleared a 1-lane path down the highway.

[gilbesm]

One often overlooked aspect are structures and systems that require constant active maintenance to keep them from becoming a problem such as a nuclear power plants that require water cooling to stop meltdown. Once those are unmanned, anyone remotely close is in trouble

[NT-rmjm]

This is so scary because for the first time in my life, I can see it happening. 😪😪