What three items...
 

...would you stock up on if you knew the end of civilization as we know it was about to occur and why?

Mine would be:

ammunition - I'd want to protect myself and my family
good walking boots - I'd be able to manage better if my feet were protected from the elements
tampons - for obvious reasons

Stimpacks, radaway, and power armor.

Bottled water
Matches
Food

Ammo

Food

Water

Pretty self evident.

you live in a warmer place than I do. no way i'd rely on starting a fire with ammo :p

You don't need ammo to start a fire, just two sticks.

But two sticks and some power from an unspent shell really helps.

Well, if you have the ability to light a fire, then you don't really need bottled water. of course, this is coming from the perspective of someone who doesn't agree with all the bottled water crap that goes on these days.

I thought about water, but then decided there'd be water about which I could use, so I wouldn't need to carry it.

Water
aspirin
how-to books on survival skills

Ammo
Seeds
Solar Batteries

chocolate
recreational drugs
a sexy nymphomaniac

You make your choices, I'll make mine. :D

I think I'll just hang out with Zen. Or:

Pierogies
Tequila
Cigarettes

I'll probably die. I figure I'll have fun on the way out.

To clarify: is everyone dead, or are most people dead? Are the people remaining zombies that I need to shoot at or hide from? Are there buildings? Will there be snacks?

I really need more information as to the meaning of the "end of civilization as we know it" to come up with a more precise list of my needs. ;)

Pierogies
Tequila
Cigarettes...

I'll go with Shawnee.

:)

This is a fairly depressing topic for me. Having Crohn's disease at the level I do, I am completely dependent on modern civilization. I'd probably have a month or two pain-free. Then it'd be constant pain for the year or so I'd have left.

Depending on the situation, I'd stock up on propane, canned food, bows and hunting arrows. Arrows can often be recovered. Mrs. Dar and the kids can learn fletching.

I'd try to get them set up as best I can before I became useless.

The interwebz
beer
pizza

If Spexx, Zen, Bri, and I hooked up...we would have the best post-apocalyptic party EVAH.

I actually said Teh intrawebz but changed it to pierogies. I'm expecting the munchies after hitting Zen's stash of recreationals.

and how many of us actually have emergency supplies stored, hmm?

Yeah, right. Like you're going to trick us into telling you where the supplies are. I certainly don't have any.

I've got food, water, drugs, & sanitation covered for 2+months in our emergency stores. I think we're doing okay. Everything but guns. ;)


For the Pockylips, I'd stock up on cyanide pills. Who wants to survive that?

Pete, Lil Pete, and Lil Griff.

Brains will be more dear than stuff in the event of a shit-storm.

Matt Damon
Tequila
1 Power Bar

Ammo
Water
Liquor (for trading, and possibly medicinal use.)

OK well obviously no everyone is dead! You're alive aren't you??? ;)

Anyway, I was thinking of a society overrun by anarchy. Total breakdown of government and law. Every man for himself so to speak.

I don't think there'd be zombies, but there'd probably still be deadshits.

@ Dar, I totally get that. My first thought was: "Shit....no hydrous ointment, or Oilatum, or Ventolin."

I don't think I would want to continue in a world that didn't have well-balanced hydrating creams and ointments. I'd be most likely to end up with some hideous skin infection against which anti-biotics might have been fine but against which I would no longer have a defence. I wouldn't dare wash my face because without cream to put on afterwards the skin stiffens to a mask. I'd have no response to the itch, the pain or the debilitating effects. None.

That scares the shit out of me. Really it does. Probably my worst nightmare. Along with not having an inhaler to hand when asthma flares.

If my loved ones are still about after The Event, then I'd probably hope to have a decent supply of creams and emollients and ventolin.

If they weren't about, then there would be little point in continuing anyway and going through the hell of untreated/able eczema. So I'd just hope I had the guts to go through with killing myself ahead of that.

Cheery huh? You'd never guess I was basically an optimist :P

Geez Dana...it was half tongue in cheek this thread...mainly because I had my period and was thinking about what wonderful inventions tampons are and how it'd really suck if I didn't have them anymore. ;)

I think most people might surprise themselves if the end of civilization did occur. I know I wouldn't be laying down in a heap on the ground regardless of what might happen, and yes, I know all about skin infections thanks to my skin disorders, but I figure there'll be chemist shops I can rip off if I need to. The druggies wont be stealing the stuff I need. ;)

Like I say. My response would depend how many peeps I had left in the world. And dogs, obviously :P



A big pouch of smoke would be an essential I think.

I'd probably end up eating my dogs. lol

Care to join the Zen/Spexx/Bri/Shaw faction? We've got all your aftermath supplies here at Apocalypse Emporium! I'll stock up. I will.

I'm joining the party!
I'll bring hard liquor, brownies and lube!

(I was gonna say condoms, then realized the needlessness of those in the situation)

Sweet! But, uh, lube? Only you, mtp. :lol:

Well, here's a more optimistic way to look at it: for the first few weeks/months, your eczema would probably get worse because the only things to eat at first would be the heavily-processed stuff that survived on the shelf while the retailer was melted by the flesh-eating bacteria (or whatever it is that we're saying everyone else died of.) But then, assuming you lived past that stage, your eczema would probably get much, much better, as food became nothing but raw fruits/vegetables grown in everyone's piddly little hobo gardens, and the occasional stray animal cooked over a campfire. Ain't no sweets and candies after the apocalypse, m'dear. :)

So, you're saying there WON'T be snacks? Hmmph. I'm not coming, then.

I works better for a slip'n'slide than water, thats all.

Will there be slip'n'slides? Hell, I'm back in!

For the first three years I'd be okay, thanks to my contraceptive implant (because of course it would have been renewed the day before - you can just see the movie scene...).

But the rest of you ladies REALLY want to check your priorities! Condoms, condoms, condoms! You do NOT want to be pregnant at the end of the world! Yes, you can get by on blowjobs for a while, but there are going to be horny men out there who aren't used to going without.

The above is mostly tongue in cheek.

Anyway, for me:
A library
A field of dope
Bruce

We do. But we live in a storm prone area that on occasion requires evacuation from the homestead. We left one time for Floyd a Cat 4-5 hurricane that headed up North and hit SC and NC.

We have enough food and water to last 2 weeks without power or any support.

And enough of the other stuff to take care of our own.

Condoms?

We don't need those. :D

Ah, I think I remember now.
But hey - what about the "yours" of "you and yours"?

Yeah I'm smacking that dead pony :)

I've always wondered, when people have supplies, it's usually enough to last two weeks.

What happens after two weeks?

You call Wolf.

:lol:

I think I would feel very safe with wolf, in the event of an apocalypse.

You take your guns and ammo and go get some more from those that don't have any. :D

No, just kidding, I think the estimate is that even in the worst of natural disasters that help should be more available by then. It took them a week to get help to NO after Katrina.

That makes sense. I could see stretching two weeks' supplies to three weeks, though, just in case.

If'n two weeks is good enough for John Wyndham, it's good enough for me.
(Actually, I think his protagonists put away a lot more, but it's not such a good soundbite).

Like I say - I'll take Bruce.
He's a Merkin, so he's bound to be resourceful. And armed.
And I can conceive of at least one thing that Wolf won't manage.

If all of civilization (i.e., society) disappeared tomorrow, all our stuff would still be here, wouldn't it?

I'd probably raid a few stores, haul some 12-gauge ammo, a case of high-end bourbon, and a few cartons of cigs up to the house, scout out some nice cloned pot plants to start my own little bud farm, and then take a nap.

:cool: